US11803049B2
Systems and methods are provided for acquiring images of objects using an imaging device and a controllable mirror. The controllable mirror can be controlled to change a field of view for the imaging device, including so as to acquire images of different locations, of different parts of an object, or with different degrees of zoom.
US11803042B2
A zoom lens consists of, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit having a positive refractive power, and a rear unit that includes a plurality of lens units. All lens units move during zooming, and a distance between adjacent lens units changes. The third lens unit includes, in order from the object side to the image side, a first subunit having a positive refractive power, a second subunit having a positive refractive power, and a third subunit having a positive refractive power. The second subunit includes a negative lens and a positive lens. The second subunit moves in a direction having a component orthogonal to an optical axis during an image stabilization. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
US11803039B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical lens and discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens with a negative refractive power, a second lens with a positive refractive power, a third lens with a positive refractive power, a fourth lens with a negative refractive power, a fifth lens with a positive refractive power, and a sixth lens with a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies: 65.00≤v3≤95.00; R2/R1≤−2.00; −10.00≤f4/f5≤−2.00; wherein, v3 denotes an abbe number of the third lens; f4 denotes a focal length of the fourth lens; f5 denotes a focal length of the fifth lens; R1 denotes a central curvature radius of an object-side surface of the first lens; and R2 denotes a central curvature radius of an image-side surface of the first lens.
US11803029B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention relates to a lens driving device, comprising: a base including a support part upwardly protruded; a movable unit spaced from the base and movably disposed at an upper side of the base; and a damper contacted with the support part and the movable unit.
US11803017B2
A light receiving device includes a semiconductor optical amplifier formed on a principal surface of a first substrate. The semiconductor optical amplifier has a first reflection portion that is formed by an end face at one end thereof, the end face being formed to be oblique to the principal surface of the first substrate. The semiconductor optical amplifier also has a second reflection portion that is formed by an end face at the other end thereof, the end face being formed to be oblique to the principal surface of the first substrate. The light receiving device further includes a second substrate having a back surface bonded to a back surface of the first substrate, and a photodiode formed on a principal surface of the second substrate.
US11803014B2
Optical system comprising two optical fibres which are configured to define between them a Fabry-Perot cavity, and a connecting element bonded to each of the two optical fibres, the connecting element defining a through-passage, at least one of the two optical fibres comprising an end portion arranged in the through-passage and bonded to the connecting element, the two optical fibres extending along an axis and being separated from one another by a distance Le parallel to the axis, one of the optical fibres being bonded to the connecting element at a first bonding zone, and the other optical fibre being bonded to the connecting element at a second bonding zone separated from the first bonding zone by distance parallel to the axis.
US11803001B1
The present invention relates to broadband and tunable infrared (IR)-blocking optical filters for millimeter and sub-millimeter astronomy composed of small diffusely scattered particles embedded in an aerogel substrate. The size of the scattering particles included in the aerogel filters can be tuned to give variable cutoff frequencies. In one embodiment, the aerogel scattering optical filters of the present invention have ultra-low density and index of refraction (typically n<1.15), removing the need for anti-reflection coatings that limit bandwidth and increase filter complexity, and allowing for high transmission across an ultra-broad band from zero frequency to above 1 THz, and as much as 10 THz.
US11803000B2
An optical filter includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel areas spaced apart from each other and a light-blocking area between the plurality of pixel areas, a plurality of color filters arranged on a first surface of the substrate and corresponding to the plurality of pixel areas, and a plurality of conversion layers arranged on the first surface of the substrate and corresponding to the plurality of color filters. Each of the conversion layers includes inclined side surfaces. The optical filter further includes a reflective layer on the inclined side surfaces of each of the plurality of conversion layers. The reflective layer extends to the light-blocking area and is arranged consecutively on two adjacent inclined side surfaces from among the inclined side surfaces of the plurality of conversion layers and the light-blocking area between the two adjacent inclined side surfaces.
US11802990B2
An optical system that obtains characteristics of a transmission path in atmosphere, when laser light propagates through this transmission path, at a place separated from this transmission path and before the propagation, and corrects wavefront of the laser light based on the obtained characteristics, is provided. The optical system is provided with an irradiation device and an atmospheric characteristics obtaining system. The irradiation device irradiates an external target with light via a first optical path. The atmospheric characteristics obtaining system is arranged in a second optical path separated from the first optical path and obtains characteristics of atmospheric environment in the first optical path with respect to the irradiated light. The irradiation device is provided with wavefront correction optics. The wavefront correction optics correct wavefront of the irradiated light based on the obtained characteristics.
US11802987B2
A system and a method for determining infrastructure risk zones is disclosed. The system and method may include: receiving, from a radiofrequency (RF) radiation sensor, a first scan of an area, wherein the area at least partially comprises the infrastructure; receiving additional data; filtering electromagnetic noise from the first scan using the additional data; receiving infrastructure location in the area; determining an examination zone around the infrastructure; estimating the amount of clay in soil included in the examination zone, from the filtered scan; calculating soil moisture content at locations in the examination zone, from the filtered scan; and determining location at risk having soil moisture content above a predetermined threshold, wherein the threshold may be determined based on the estimated clay amount.
US11802981B2
A method of manufacturing a radiation detector includes: forming a substrate in which a flexible base material is provided via a peeling layer on a support body and plural pixels that accumulate electric charges generated in response to light converted from radiation are provided in a pixel region of the base material; forming a conversion layer for converting the radiation into light on a surface of the base material; providing a first reinforcing substrate on a surface of the conversion layer opposite to a surface on the substrate side; peeling the substrate provided with the conversion layer and the first reinforcing substrate from the support body; providing a second reinforcing substrate on a surface of the substrate peeled from the support body; and peeling the first reinforcing substrate from the substrate provided with the conversion layer after providing the second reinforcing substrate.
US11802978B2
A software-defined receiver (SDR) using real long term evolution (LTE) signals may be used for navigation. The LTE SDR leverages the structure of the downlink LTE signal, and provides signal acquisition, navigation-relevant high-level system information extraction, and signal tracking. The LTE SDR also provides the ability to obtain a time-of-arrival (TOA) estimate from received LTE signals, which provides a navigation solution comparable to a GPS-only navigation solution.
US11802974B2
A GNSS receiver receives GNSS signals from satellites of a plurality of Global Navigation Satellite Systems, and a front end section thereof outputs corresponding navigation signals. A plurality of baseband processing channels receive and process the navigation signals so as to output navigation measurements which are divided and grouped into a plurality of sets. Each of a plurality of first application processing blocks receives a respective set of the navigation measurements and calculates a navigation solution. A general application processing block receives and compares the navigation solutions from the plurality of first application processing blocks, determines if there is a faulty navigation solution which is inconsistent or substantially different from other navigation solutions, discards the faulty navigation solution, produces a common navigation solution based on the remaining or non-faulty navigation solutions, and suspends, for a predetermined time period, use of the navigation measurements corresponding to the faulty navigation solution.
US11802972B2
Disclosed is a method of enhancing RTK position resolution using an RTK-enabled GNSS positioning receiver, including receiving an RTK base station signal for differential position calculation, and receiving a forecast assured navigation signal that includes data identifying line-of-sight availability of satellites generating GNSS signals at a position of the GNSS positioning receiver. Also included is excluding from, or reducing the weighting of, GNSS position calculation satellites not identified as line-of-sight available in the forecast assured navigation signal, and computing the GNSS position calculation combining the knowledge of line of sight, or not line of sight, satellites with the RTK base station signal to perform the differential position calculation and to determine an improved calculated position of the GNSS positioning receiver. Further included is unpacking from the forecast navigation signal receiver the data identifying line-of-sight availability of satellites based on an initially calculated location of the GNSS positioning receiver.
US11802971B2
An Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) and/or Differential GNSS (DGNSS) system is disclosed in which correction data from a plurality of reference stations is provided to the mobile device. A selection of reference stations (from which correction data is provided to the mobile device) can be made based on factors such as the approximate location of the mobile device, geometry of the reference stations, and/or other factors. The mobile device can combine the correction data from the plurality of reference stations in different ways to determine an accurate position fix for the mobile device, without interpolating correction data from the plurality of reference stations.
US11802967B2
A sensor data fusion system for a vehicle with multiple sensors includes a first-sensor, a second-sensor, and a controller-circuit. The first-sensor is configured to output a first-frame of data and a subsequent-frame of data indicative of objects present in a first-field-of-view. The first-frame is characterized by a first-time-stamp, the subsequent-frame of data characterized by a subsequent-time-stamp different from the first-time-stamp. The second-sensor is configured to output a second-frame of data indicative of objects present in a second-field-of-view that overlaps the first-field-of-view. The second-frame is characterized by a second-time-stamp temporally located between the first-time-stamp and the subsequent-time-stamp. The controller-circuit is configured to synthesize an interpolated-frame from the first-frame and the subsequent-frame. The interpolated-frame is characterized by an interpolated-time-stamp that corresponds to the second-time-stamp. The controller-circuit fuses the interpolated-frame with the second-frame to provide a fused-frame of data characterized by the interpolated-time-stamp, and operates the host-vehicle in accordance with the fused-frame.
US11802955B2
A fin-type planar antenna and a deployable dipole antenna are combined into a probabilistic system as a co-located orthogonal diversity fin antenna to reduce or eliminate cross polarization fades and cancellation dropouts common to wireless audio systems used in theaters, churches and convention centers over coaxial wired connections. Additionally, an optical line may connect the diversity fin antenna to a further circuit. The antenna system features broad bandwidth, resistance to deep nulls or fades caused by cross polarization, resistance to destructive interference, and an air space dielectric covering provides resistance to detuning in the presence of rain, or touching objects.
US11802949B2
An underwater information visualization device, which is installed on a moving body such as a ship traveling near a water surface and visualizes and displays information about fish in the water and the seabed using an ultrasonic wave, includes circuitry that generates a pseudo noise sequence signal and a modulation circuit that modulates a carrier signal to form a transmission signal, emits a transmission signal as an ultrasonic wave into the water, receives an echo of an ultrasonic wave, determines an echo corresponding to a transmission signal by subjecting the echo to correlation processing with a pseudo noise sequence signal, displays an output signal. The display simultaneously displays multiple reception signals on a screen, and a period of transmission signals is (2D/Vu) or less when an underwater sonic wave speed is Vu and a distance to the seabed is D.
US11802948B2
A process for calibrating a distance and range measurement device coupled to an industrial vehicle comprises taking a first measurement of an emission from the device at a first yaw angle relative to a roll axis of the device. A second measurement of the emission at a second yaw angle relative to the roll axis is taken. The second yaw angle is within an angular tolerance of the first yaw angle but in an opposite direction. The device is calibrated relative to the roll axis when the first and second measurements are within a tolerance of each other. A third measurement of the distance and range measurement device beam emitted from the distance and range measurement device at a pitch angle is taken. If the third measurement and a virtual emission length are within a tolerance, then the device is calibrated with respect to the pitch axis.
US11802946B2
To dynamically control power in a lidar system, a controller identifies a triggering event and provides a control signal to a light source in the lidar system adjusting the power of light pulses provided by the light source. Triggering events may include exceeding a threshold speed, being within a threshold distance of a person or other object, an atmospheric condition, identifying residue on a surface of a window of the lidar system, etc. In some scenarios, the power is adjusted to address eye-safety concerns.
US11802945B2
Methods and apparatus for a controlling a stimulus source to direct photons to a pixel in a pixel array contained in a detector system, analyzing a response of the pixel in the pixel array; and generating an alert based on the response of the pixel in the pixel array. Example stimulus sources include a conductive trace, a PN junction, and a current source.
US11802941B2
A sensor device for detecting an object with the aid of light of at least one wavelength, including a transmitting unit for emitting light using at least one light source and a receiving unit for receiving light, the light emitted by the transmitting unit in the plane perpendicular to the transmit path having the form of a circumferential surface, which includes an inner area to which light is not applied, an optical element being situated in a shared part of the transmit and receive paths, in such a way that the cross-section surface of the optical element in the plane perpendicular to the transmit path essentially completely overlaps with its cross-section surface the inner area to which light is not applied.
US11802940B2
An apparatus, system, and method for deployment of an electronic warfare (EW) asset are provided. The system includes a projectile launching device capable of launching a projectile round. An EW asset is detachably carried by the projectile round. A deployable parachute is attached to the EW asset, wherein the EW asset is configured to be suspended from the parachute when the EW asset is detached from the projectile round. The related method is used for suppression or obscuration of enemy counterfire radar (CFR) system by initiating an EW effect by the EW asset as the EW asset floats towards a ground surface.
US11802939B2
A radar signal processing method includes: extracting a first chirp sequence signal of a first carrier frequency and a second chirp sequence signal of a second carrier frequency from a radar signal received through an array antenna in a radar sensor; generating a first range-Doppler map by performing frequency conversion on the first chirp sequence signal; detecting a first target cell corresponding to a first target in the first range-Doppler map; determining a first ambiguous Doppler velocity of the first target based on first frequency information of the first target cell; determining a first range of an unambiguously measurable Doppler velocity through the first chirp sequence signal; estimating second ambiguous Doppler velocities based on the first ambiguous Doppler velocity and the first range; and determining a Doppler velocity of the first target by performing partial frequency conversion on the second chirp sequence signal based on the second ambiguous Doppler velocities.
US11802937B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to reconfigurable circuits and systems for a radar system enabling both short-range and long-range operation. A reconfiguration module enables the various configuration changes for operation. The multi-range operation may be used to adjust transmission parameters of other modules including wireless communications.
US11802932B2
A transmission source position estimation system includes a sensor and a position estimation apparatus. The sensor is provided with a characteristic vector classification part and an attribute data extraction part. The characteristic vector classification part classifies a set of characteristic vectors obtained from received signal data of a transmitted wave, into subsets in a feature space. The attribute data extraction part extracts attribute data for each of the subsets and outputs the extracted data as an attribute data sequence. The position estimation apparatus is provided with a data combination part and a position estimation part. The data combination part combines attribute data that match or are similar to at least one attribute for a plurality of attribute data sequences. The position estimation part estimates the position of the transmission source from the combined attribute data and the position of the sensor that receives the transmitted wave.
US11802931B2
A system and a method for tracking mobile assets, in which a tracking device is coupled to the mobile asset, the location thereof being determined by a mobile device entering the operating radius of a wave emitted by the tracking device (and/or vice versa), the mobile device having and running at least one computer program for this purpose. The position of the tracking device is refined by detecting a data packet emitted by more than one mobile device within the operating radius of the tracking device, in which communication is established between the tracking device and a server of the system over a network including all of the mobile devices having the computer program for this purpose. A set of first notices of loss that characterize the action situations of the method according to the invention, and finally a corresponding tracking device.
US11802927B2
Quantitative susceptibility mapping methods, systems and computer-accessible medium include generating images of tissue magnetism property from complex magnetic resonance imaging data using the Bayesian inference approach. The tissue magnetism images is then used to monitor remyelination, such as remyelination in multiple sclerosis patients in response to therapy. Multiple sclerosis lesions defined on magnetic resonance imaging are further characterized on tissue magnetism images into hyperintense, isointense and hypointense parts for measuring remyelination. Thus, magnetic susceptibility information and other tissue properties associated with at least one structure are determined.
US11802922B2
A magnetic field sensor can be are based upon three element vertical Hall element building blocks, e.g., three element or six element vertical Hall element arrangements, all arranged in a circle. In some embodiments, the circle of vertical Hall elements can be arranged as a CVH sensing element.
US11802919B2
Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative systems for remotely testing continuity of electrical wiring, electrical vehicle charging systems, and charge couplers for electrical vehicle charging systems. In an illustrative embodiment, a system for remotely testing continuity of electrical wiring includes a signal generator configured to generate a signal having a predetermined frequency. A controlled impedance network is configured to attenuate the signal. The controlled impedance network is electrically connectable toward a first end of electrical wiring that terminates at a termination at the first end and that is electrically connectable at a second end to the signal generator to carry the signal. A signal detector is configured to detect the signal.
US11802918B2
A thermal runaway detecting device for a battery system including a plurality of cells, including: a first measuring module for measuring temperature values of the plurality of cells via at least one temperature sensor; a second measuring module for measuring an output voltage value of the battery system; and a controller for determining validity of a temperature-based detection of thermal runaway by monitoring data received from the first measuring module, and detecting a thermal runaway of the battery system by selectively monitoring the temperature values or the output voltage value according to a result of the determining of validity of the temperature-based detection of thermal runaway.
US11802917B1
A process for determining an impedance of a battery cell may comprise delivering an excitation current to the battery cell; performing, via an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), one or more first measurements associated with the battery cell in the presence of the excitation current, wherein the one or more first measurements comprise one or more current measurements; performing, via the ADC, one or more second measurements associated with the battery cell in the presence of the excitation current, wherein the one or more second measurements comprise one or more voltage measurements; and determining the impedance of the battery cell based on the one or more first measurements and the one or more second measurements.
US11802916B2
An electrochemical storage diagnostic system is configured to perform an electrical test to measure energy storage device parameters. The diagnostic system includes a charge management controller, electrically coupled to a power multiplexer, a power converter circuit, and an isolated converter circuit. The charge management controller is programmed with instructions to identify a device under test, selected from at least one member of the plurality of energy storage devices to perform an electrical test. Then, adjust a charge in the secondary energy storage device to a target voltage through the power multiplexer by transferring energy between the secondary energy storage device and a support device, selected from at least one member of the plurality energy storage devices. After that, transfer electrical power through the power multiplexer and power converter circuit to the device under test in order to perform the electrical test. Finally, complete the electrical test.
US11802912B2
An output module comprising an output circuit and a control unit and an industrial control device including the output module are provided. The output circuit includes switches connected in parallel with each other, a specific power supply provided for each switch, and a current detection unit that is provided for each switch and, in response to an application of a function diagnosis voltage from the specific power supply, outputs a current signal indicating whether an applied current has flowed through the switch, to the control unit. The control unit determines a diagnosis target switch, and based on the current signal from the current detection unit, conducts the function diagnosis including determination as to whether opening control is normally active for at least the diagnosis target switch, while leaving at least any one switch other than the diagnosis target switch in a closed state.
US11802909B2
A compliant ground block for a testing system for testing integrated circuit devices is disclosed. The compliant ground block includes a plurality of electrically conductive blade pairs in a side by side generally parallel relationship. Blades in the plurality of blade pairs are configured to be longitudinally slidable with respect to each other. The block also includes at least one elastomer configured to retain the plurality of blade pairs. Each blade pair of the plurality of blade pairs includes a first blade (or a first blade assembly) and a second blade. The first blade (or the first blade assembly) and the second blade are configured to generate scrubbing motions when the device under test is being pressed down on the compliant ground block or is being released from the compliant ground block.
US11802908B2
An alignment mechanism is disclosed which includes a mount, a beam having a first end affixed to the mount and a second end. The beam is an order of magnitude more rigid along its longitudinal axis than along an axis orthogonal to its longitudinal axis. The second end of the beam is affixed to a first device having a surface configured to contact a second device. The beam applies a normal force component to the second device through the first device and allows movement at the second end in directions orthogonal to the normal force component.
US11802907B2
The present disclosure related to a stacker of an electric device test hander comprising an upper stacker and a lower stacker. Stacker modules provided in the upper stacker can be opened and closed by being moved horizontally from the frame, and each of stacker modules can give and receive a plurality of user trays to and from the lower stacker in closed position. According to present disclosure when goods are being transferred to and from the outside, the user trays can move freely between the loading parts disposed on the upper and lower sides. Thus, the dependence on the visitation cycle of an external robot and the replacement amounts of the user trays can be lowered to improve ease of operation.
US11802905B2
A memory module system level tester device provides contact between the motherboard and the memory modules by using a test tray, thereby minimizing a time required for attaching and detaching the memory modules and omitting an additional configuration for attaching and detaching the memory modules. Accordingly, space limitations can be minimized, and as a result, test units can be arranged in two or more stages in the vertical direction to configure a compact layout to thereby increase space efficiency.
US11802901B2
A partial discharge (PD) transducer that includes a PD sensor configured to sense a PD event of an electrical system. At least one light emitting device (LED) is arranged in series with the PD sensor. The LED is configured to receive the electrical sensor signal from the PD sensor and to generate a light signal in response to the electrical sensor signal.
US11802895B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of aviation electrics and electric power, and provides an aircraft grid phase angle tracker based on nonlinear active disturbance rejection, which is used to estimate the grid phase angle on AC side of an aircraft grid. A embedded generator in the aircraft grid is arranged inside a compressor of an aviation gas turbine engine, and the embedded generator is directly coupled with the aviation gas turbine engine so that the AC frequency of the embedded generator varies with the speed of the aviation gas turbine engine. The present invention applies the nonlinear active disturbance rejection technology to the phase angle tracking of the more electric aircraft grid, is simple in operation and high in accuracy, and can realize high-accuracy tracking of the grid phase angle. The method has certain extensibility and can be extended to other fields.
US11802894B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a sensor to sense real world information; a digitizer coupled to the sensor to digitize the real world information into digitized information; a signal processor coupled to the digitizer to process the digitized information into a spectrogram; a neural engine coupled to the signal processor, the neural engine comprising an autoencoder to compress the spectrogram into a compressed spectrogram; and a wireless circuit coupled to the neural engine to send the compressed spectrogram to a remote destination, to enable the remote destination to process the compressed spectrogram.
US11802890B2
A method for automatically calibrating a rocker-type sensor module having a position or acceleration sensor involves measuring a position of the sensor module as an angle relative to a fixed spatial direction, and outputting an output signal that depends on whether the measured angle is less than or greater than a switching angle. The output signal is set to a first output value if the measured angle exceeds the switching angle. The switching angle is set to a value corresponding to the measured angle minus an “off” free pivot angle, as long as the value of the measured angle continues to increase. The output signal is set to a second output value if the measured angle falls below the switching angle. The switching angle is set to a value corresponding to the measured angle plus an “on” free pivot angle, as long as the value of the measured angle continues to fall.
US11802887B2
In one embodiment, a probe includes a first facet associated with a first pressure port operable to measure a first wind pressure, a second facet associated with a second pressure port operable to measure a second wind pressure, and a third facet associated with a third pressure port operable to measure a third wind pressure. The second facet is adjacent to the first facet and the third facet adjacent to the second facet. The probe further includes a fourth facet adjacent to the third facet and a fifth facet adjacent to the fourth facet and to the first facet. The first facet, the second facet, the third facet, the fourth facet, and the fifth facet are located between a first end portion and a second end portion of the probe.
US11802880B2
A detection device and associated systems and methods for detecting analytes from a multiplex reaction are described. In particular, a device for conducting at least one detection reaction using a modified ELISA method including a surface with a detection region and a reference region, a detection sensor, and a light source. The detection device may include a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor. The device may be used to measure and report discrete quantities or combinations of discrete analytes, providing information to aid in the prognosis and/or diagnosis of altered states of health in vertebrates.
US11802879B2
The present disclosure relates to a streamlined, complete workflow for the qualitative and the quantitative analysis of conjugated peptides from antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) compounds.
US11802874B2
The present invention corresponds to the field of cancer and is related to predicting cancer detection, diagnosis, monitoring and prediction of response to treatment, in particular platelet derived-endothelial cell growth factor (PD-ECGF) levels for their use as a potential value in monitoring disease evolution and predicting response to anti-angiogenic treatment.
US11802868B2
A method for providing variable function medical tests, comprising providing by a mobile device application a plurality of selectable medical test functions, receiving information from the mobile device application regarding test results from a test performed using a testing device, wherein the testing device includes an alignment target disposed on the testing device and a plurality of immunoassay test strips receiving at the server an image of the testing device from the mobile device application, determining by the server RGB values for a plurality of pixels of the image, normalizing by the server the RGB values into a single value, comparing by the server the single value to a control value stored on the server, and providing by the server a risk indicator, wherein the risk indicator indicates a likelihood of a presence of a medical condition.
US11802862B2
The disclosure relates to an electronic device and a method for determining the kind and the state of a food stored therein. The electronic device includes a storage container in which the food is stored, a gas detecting device for detecting a gas included in air in the storage container, and at least one processor that identifies a time point, at which the gases included in the air in the storage container are extracted, on the basis of at least one temperature profile of the gas detecting device, and identifies a time point at which the gases included in the air in the storage container are extracted, on the basis of a configuration of at least one adsorption material included in the gas detecting device.
US11802861B2
A verification method of an allelopathic inhibition mechanism based on ecological stoichiometric equilibrium interference is disclosed. By taking ecological stoichiometric characteristics and growth characteristics of Phalaris arundinacea under an equilibrium state as a control, a relative coefficient of variation (RCv) is used to characterize an interference intensity of different intensities of allelopathic stress on ecological stoichiometric equilibrium of the P. arundinacea and an inhibitory intensity of different intensities of allelopathic stress on growth of the P. arundinacea. Then, through correlation analysis among parameters including the intensity of the allelopathic stress, the ecological stoichiometric equilibrium interference, and growth inhibition, a method is provided to verify whether a new mechanism of allelopathic inhibition based on the ecological stoichiometric equilibrium interference exists.
US11802860B1
In one illustrative configuration, a method of locating an emission source of a target substance at a site is disclosed. The method may include obtaining predicted substance concentrations of the target substance from a prediction model to generate a mapping of a weighted mean of the plurality of the predicted substance concentrations grouped in a predetermined number of feature groups. A simulated plume model is generated for each emission source present at the site to calculate representative circular normal distributions for each air quality monitor. By performing an analysis of the plurality of representative circular normal distributions in relation to the mapping, a target emission source is identified.
US11802859B2
The disclosure relates to a wireless self-powered gas sensor based on electromagnetic oscillations triggered by external forces and its fabrication method. The sensor includes a gas test chamber, a first friction layer, a second friction layer, an interdigital electrode, a gas-sensitive material, an air inlet, an air outlet and leads. The gas sensor of the disclosure is an integrated detection system of “environmental energy collection—wireless energy transmission—active spontaneous detection” that can be driven simultaneously only by external mechanical movement, and can work independently without external power supply. The first friction layer and the second friction layer are arranged outside the gas test chamber. The frictional motion will not interfere with the flow field of the test chamber and the gas molecule absorption and desorption, which ensures the stability of gas detection to the greatest extent.
US11802855B2
A plug unit for connecting capillary tubes includes a plug housing that has an axial borehole, a plug capillary tube that projects through the axial borehole, and a sealing element that surrounds the plug capillary tube. The front end of the plug capillary tube is sealed by an elastic and/or plastic deformation of the sealing element against the capillary tube receptacle opening of a bushing unit. A hollow cylindrical pressure piece is provided that surrounds the sealing element in an axial region facing away from the end surface of the plug capillary tube, and the pressure piece has a rearward end side that faces away from the end surface of the plug capillary tube and that can be loaded by the plug housing with an axial pressure force when the plug unit and bushing unit are connected.
US11802853B2
A sample injection device is provided with a syringe for injecting a sample and an arrangement unit in which plural kinds of cleaning solvents are arranged to clean the syringe. The device is configured to be able to set a cleaning order of the syringe by the plural kinds of cleaning solvents.
US11802852B2
A method for testing solid acid hydrolysis in a formation. The method includes introducing a test sample into a test cell, where the test sample includes an upper structure, a lower structure, and a solid acid disposed between the upper and lower structures. The pressure and temperature of the test cell are increased to simulate downhole conditions. A velocity of an acoustic p-wave and/or acoustic s-wave is through the test sample is measured while the temperature is increasing from an initial temperature to a final temperature. A temperature of onset of solid acid hydrolysis based on the measured velocity is determined.
US11802843B1
A method of operating a sensor system for detecting one or more analytes in a target includes preparing for an analyte scan of the target, generating an analyte scan that includes one or more frequencies in a radio or microwave range of the electromagnetic spectrum, and controlling a non-invasive sensor to implement the analyte scan of the target using. One or more of implementing a warm-up preparatory scan and/or detecting for external signal interference and the analyte scan being generated based on the detection for the external signal interference. A sensor system includes a non-invasive sensor and a controller for the non-invasive sensor. A sensor system includes a non-invasive sensor and one or more auxiliary sensors communicatively connected to the non-invasive sensor.
US11802842B2
Provided is the technique that allows an operator or the like to grasp a failure of a mold to be worked in the work area. An inspecting device inspects each of a plurality of molds conveyed along a conveyance path with use of image data generated by a sensor that captures an image of each of the plurality of molds. A display control device is configured to carry out: a storage process in which inspection results of the individual molds are stored in a memory; a determination process in which one or more molds satisfying a predetermined condition of a positional relation to a display are determined from among the plurality of molds conveyed along the conveyance path; and a display control process in which one or more inspection results of the respective one or more molds having been determined in the determination process are displayed on the display.
US11802836B2
A process for detecting the sensitivity of one or more polymers and/or of one or more, mixtures of polymers to a compound, including the steps of exposing at least one lens-shaped micro-deposit, including the polymer(s) and/or the mixture(s) of polymers, to the compound, and detecting, by illuminating the surface of this micro-deposit, a change in the spatial distribution of the intensity of the light reflected or transmitted by this micro-deposit, linked to a variation in the dimensions and/or refractive index of this micro-deposit, under the effect of an interaction between the polymer(s) and/or the mixture(s) of polymers and the compound.
US11802833B2
The invention relates to a microbial test standard for use in infrared spectrometry which has at least two resealable vessels which are liquid-tight when closed, each of which contains a predefined amount of dried biomass of a microorganism. The microorganisms in the different vessels differ in at least one characteristic, which is selected in particular from the group comprising species, subspecies, strain, serovar, pathovar, toxivar and variety, and the difference manifests itself in a predefined intermicrobial spectral distance. The disclosure furthermore comprises a method of using the microbial test standard.
US11802831B1
A light detection and ranging device associated with an autonomous vehicle scans through a scanning zone while emitting light pulses and receives reflected signals corresponding to the light pulses. The reflected signals indicate a three-dimensional point map of the distribution of reflective points in the scanning zone. A hyperspectral sensor images a region of the scanning zone corresponding to a reflective feature indicated by the three-dimensional point map. The output from the hyperspectral sensor includes spectral information characterizing a spectral distribution of radiation received from the reflective feature. The spectral characteristics of the reflective feature allow for distinguishing solid objects from non-solid reflective features, and a map of solid objects is provided to inform real time navigation decisions.
US11802826B2
A measurement apparatus includes: a flow path device including a first flow path in which first liquid including particles to be measured is flowed, and which includes a measurement region measured with an optical sensor, a second flow path in which second liquid for comparison is flowed, and which includes a comparison region measured with the optical sensor, and a calibration region for calibrating the optical sensor; an arm-like member in which the optical sensor is disposed in a first end, and in which a drive shaft is disposed in a second end; and a rotary drive actuator configured to rotationally drive the arm-like member in a predetermined range, wherein each of the measurement region, the comparison region, and the calibration region is disposed as a region including a position on a circumference along which the optical sensor moves in accordance with a rotary drive of the arm-like member.
US11802821B2
An article comprising: a planar base having a first surface and an opposing second surface and an outer peripheral edge, wherein the second surface includes an area comprising a plurality of protuberances and configured to attach and maintain orientation of a frozen tissue specimen block; and a removable lid having a first side and a second side, wherein the first side defines a continuous planar surface and the second side defines a recessed portion configured to cover a frozen tissue specimen block and an outer rim configured to engage with the outer peripheral edge of the base, wherein the outer rim does not form part of the recessed portion, wherein the area of the base and the recessed portion of the lid are aligned.
US11802815B2
A vehicle is received in a stationary controlled area of a controlled testing environment. Simulation inputs corresponding to a simulated scene are generated and transmitted to the vehicle. The vehicle applies torque in response. A vehicle control mechanism of the controlled testing environment, such as a chassis dynamometer, a motorized treadmill, or a lift, keeps the vehicle within the stationary controlled area during the test despite the torque applied by the vehicle. A path of the vehicle within the simulated scene is determined based on the applied torque, based upon which the vehicle's navigation system is calibrated.
US11802813B2
A device for testing a needle roller bearing of a planet gear set consists of two identical helical planet gear sets, a piston, an end cover, a spindle, and can simulate the actual operating condition of a needle roller bearing of the planet gear set; the rotating speed difference between an inner raceway and an outer raceway of the needle roller bearing is determined by adjusting the rotating speed of a sun gear and a planet carrier; the load on the needle roller bearing includes a centrifugal load and a radial load, and the centrifugal acceleration and the centrifugal load are determined by adjusting the rotating speed of the planet carrier; a method of determining the radial load by adjusting the hydraulic pressure difference of hydraulic chambers at both ends of the piston, generating a tangential force to load the planet gear, and balancing the radial load of the bearing.
US11802807B2
A leak inhibition/detection device includes an absorbent material, a leak sensor in contact with the absorbent material, and an enclosure surrounding the absorbent material. The leak inhibition/detection device is configured to surround a joint between tubing and a cold plate/evaporator or a radiator/condenser of a liquid cooling module of an information handling system.
US11802804B2
Header construction and techniques are disclosed that utilize header layers that provide support for electrical interconnections. A sensor header assembly includes: an upper header layer having upper through holes arranged in a first configuration; a lower header layer having lower through holes arranged in a second configuration axially offset relative to the first configuration; depressions extending from the lower header layer top surface and partially through the lower header layer, each depression defining a footprint corresponding to the first configuration of the corresponding upper through holes of the upper header layer; upper header pins extending through the corresponding upper through holes and at least partially into the corresponding lower level depressions; and lower header pins extending through the corresponding lower through holes and in electrical communication with the corresponding upper header pins. The depressions form support surfaces for supporting at least the corresponding upper header pins during high-pressure operation.
US11802802B2
An apparatus for measuring pressure within a fluid path includes a housing defining the structure of the apparatus. The housing includes a fluid path that extends through the housing and allows a fluid to pass through the housing. The apparatus also includes a first volume chamber that is in fluid communication with the fluid path and has a first volume chamber opening, and a second volume chamber with a second volume chamber opening that is less than the first volume chamber opening. A diaphragm separates the first volume chamber from the second volume chamber and fluidly disconnects the second volume chamber from the fluid path. The diaphragm deforms based upon the pressure within the fluid path. The apparatus also includes an interface that is connectable to a pressure sensor, and the second volume chamber is in fluid communication with the interface.
US11802800B2
A temperature-sensing device configured to monitor a temperature is disclosed. The temperature-sensing device includes: a first capacitor comprising a first oxide layer with a first thickness; a second capacitor comprising a second oxide layer with a second thickness, wherein the second thickness of the second oxide layer is different from the first thickness of the first oxide layer; and a control logic circuit, coupled to the first and second capacitors, and configured to determine whether the monitored temperature is equal to or greater than a threshold temperature based on whether at least one of the first and second oxide layers breaks down.
US11802792B2
A technique of determining the presence of a species in a sample may include passing light through an optical filter. In an example, the optical filter may include a spatially variant microreplicated layer optically coupled to a wavelength selective filter. The wavelength selective filter may have a light incidence angle-dependent optical band. The spatially variant microreplicated layer may be configured to transmit light to a first optical region of the wavelength selective filter at a first predetermined incidence angle and to a second optical region of the wavelength selective filter at a second predetermined incidence angle.
US11802788B2
Systems include a floating device disposed on a top of a column of drilling fluid in an annulus of a wellbore. The floating device includes a capsule. A transmitter or a reflector may be coupled to the capsule. The floating device may transmit signals to a surface region from the annulus or receive signals from the surface region and reflect at least a portion of the received signals. A receiver in the surface region receives transmitted signals or reflected signals from the floating device and determines a distance between the floating device and a reference point in the surface region. The distance indicates a level of the drilling fluid in the annulus.
US11802787B2
In one aspect the present disclosure relates to a sensor for measuring at least one physical or chemical parameter of a cartridge or syringe filled with a liquid substance. In further aspects the disclosure relates to a cartridge equipped with such a sensor as well as to a drug delivery device equipped with such a cartridge, wherein the sensor comprises: a planar flexible foil arrangeable to an outer circumference of a barrel of the cartridge or syringe, at least a first and a second measuring electrode arranged on said foil, and at least a first and a second contact electrode arranged on said foil, wherein the first contact electrode is connected to the first measuring electrode and wherein the second contact electrode is connected to the second measuring electrode.
US11802784B1
A Wheatstone bridge flowmeter is formed on a base substrate with a fluid passageway formed over or through a top surface of the base substrate. Resistors forming the Wheatstone bridge and a heater are arranged in a linear physical arrangement along the passageway, such that two resistors on one side of the Wheatstone bridge are sequentially upstream of the heater and two resistors on the other side of the Wheatstone bridge are sequentially downstream of the heater, establishing a sequential arrangement along the fluid passageway of two of the resistors, the heater and the other two resistors. Heating of the fluid by the heater creates a differential in the temperatures of the resistors, thereby changing the output sensing voltages across the Wheatstone bridge.
US11802777B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for intelligent grouping of travel data for review through a user interface. In one example, a method for providing grouped travel data to a user interface of an application includes receiving travel data from an application running on a remote device; generating one or more travel data-based features from the travel data thereby creating featurized travel data; applying a pattern mining technique to the featurized travel data to detect a plurality of patterns in the featurized travel data; for each trip record in the featurized travel data: determining a plurality of trip record groups in which the trip record falls based on the plurality of patterns; and adding the trip record to a trip record group of the plurality of trip record groups according to a prioritization scheme; and transmitting the trip record group to the application running on the remote device.
US11802771B2
This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for standard-definition (SD) to high-definition (HD) navigation route determination. An example route builder receives a navigation route generated for a host vehicle. The navigation route includes a list of waypoints generated by an SD map database. The route builder matches the list of waypoints to lane geometry data maintained in an HD map database and outputs HD navigation route to a vehicle controller. The HD navigation route includes the list of waypoints, additional waypoints, and lane geometry data. The vehicle controller can then operate the host vehicle in a roadway environment along the HD navigation route. In this way, the described techniques and systems can provide HD navigation routes required by some assisted-driving and autonomous-driving systems based on SD navigation routes.
US11802766B2
A method (50) of acquiring images of a terrestrial region Z using a spacecraft (10) in non-geostationary orbit around the Earth (30), the spacecraft includes an observation instrument associated with a ground footprint of length L along the direction of travel, the method includes: a step (51) of observing a portion P1 of the terrestrial region Z, including a step of controlling the attitude of the spacecraft (10) during which the ground footprint is kept stationary during the entirety of the step of observing portion P1, and a step of acquiring an image of portion P1, a step (52) of modifying the pitch attitude of the spacecraft (10) so as to place the ground footprint over a portion P2 of the terrestrial region Z, and a step (53) of observing portion P2 of the terrestrial region.
US11802760B2
A method measures an object using a CMM having a CMM accuracy. To that end, the method provides a jogbox with a 3D scanner having a scanner accuracy, positions the object on the CMM, and scans, using the 3D scanner, the object to produce scan data of the object. The method also measures a first portion of the object using the scan data, and a second portion of the object using the CMM. The CMM accuracy is more accurate than the scanner accuracy.
US11802752B2
The disclosure relates to a viewing optic. In one embodiment, the viewing optic has a direction sensor to capture the direction of wind. In one embodiment, the viewing optic has a ranging system to determine the distance to a target. In one embodiment, the viewing optic has a processor with a ballistics program that can use the distance and the wind direction to determine a ballistics trajectory. Further, the disclosure relates to methods for capturing wind direction.
US11802748B1
The structure discloses a crossbow head assembly structure, comprising a main bracket, crossbow pieces, pulleys, a main string, and auxiliary strings. The invention improves the assembling method of the crossbow piece and the hanging method of the crossbow string, and is equipped with a string adjusting device. Advantageous effects: 1. the forward speed of the pulley when the arrow is shot is superimposed on the forward speed of the main string; 2. the weight of the pulley can be reduced, so that the shooting speed of the crossbow arrow can be increased, and the impact of the pulley on the crossbow string can be reduced by the sudden stop of the pulley; no matter which crossbow string is broken, the other crossbow strings will be completely relaxed; 3. the crossbow string can be assembled without a bow opener; moreover, the accuracy of shooting can be adjusted very conveniently.
US11802746B2
A safety device arrangement for a firearm with a magazine well comprising an insert (3A) adapted to the dimensions and shape of the magazine well and being lockable therein and a rack element (4A) for carrying the firearm, the body of the insert (5A) exposed from the magazine well being adapted in dimensions and shape to fit against the carrier part (17) of the rack element, is characterised in that the carrier part of the rack element is provided with an opening, slot or equivalent (18) and the body of the insert exposed from the magazine well provided with a hollow protrusion (7) adapted to fit to said opening, slot or equivalent and extended through and outside of the carrier part, and on the other hand opening inside the body, and that in the locking mechanism between the insert and the magazine well essential bar or equivalent (9) with its accessories (10, 11, 12) extending inside the insert is implemented to depart from and being lockable in said protrusion. In a preferred embodiment the base part (10) of said bar or equivalent (9) is fitted to pivot in the protrusion (7) and rotate the bar with its accessories between a position locking the insert to the magazine well, and a position releasing the locking, the protrusion and the base part comprising an arrangement (8, 14) for securing the locking position with a lock (22, 23).
US11802743B2
A method by a controller of a cooling system includes calculating a difference between a first temperature of ambient air and a second temperature of pre-cooled air. The pre-cooled air is ambient air that has been cooled by water from a water distribution system before it enters one or more condenser coils. The method further includes determining that the difference between the first and second temperatures is less than or equal to a predetermined temperature difference, and in response, determining that the first temperature is greater than or equal to a minimum temperature. The method further includes, if the first temperature is greater than or equal to the minimum temperature, instructing the water distribution system to distribute the water to pre-cool the ambient air for a predetermined length of time and to disable the distribution of the water after the predetermined amount of time has elapsed.
US11802730B2
A remote system for monitoring and controlling one or more devices for use in the cryogenic processing of a sample is provided. A remote server capable of transmitting freezing profile data to one or more freezers, transmitting transportation profile data to one or more transportation devices, and transmitting thawing profile data to one or more thawing devices. The remote server is also capable of receiving detected data from the one or more freezers relating to the freezing of a sample in accordance with the freezing profile data, receiving detected data from the one or more transportation devices relating to the transportation of a sample in accordance with the transportation profile data, and receiving detected data from the one or more thawing machines relating to the thawing of a sample in accordance with the thawing profile data.
US11802728B2
A refrigerator including an inner case, an outer case, and a vacuum space provided between the inner case and the outer case to insulate the inner case from the outer case. The inner case defines an exterior appearance of a storage space, with a communication hole formed therein. The outer case is spaced apart a predetermined distance from the inner case, and a communication is formed at a position corresponding to the communication hole of the inner case. A connection pipe passes through the vacuum space to connect the communication hole of the inner case and the communication hole of the outer case with each other.
US11802718B2
A system includes a flash tank and a thermal storage tank. The flash tank is configured to store refrigerant and discharge a flash gas. The thermal storage tank is fluidically coupled to the flash tank and configured, when a power outage is determined to be occurring, to receive at least a portion of the flash gas from the flash tank, and remove heat from the flash gas. When a power outage is determined not to be occurring, the thermal storage tank directs refrigerant to a compressor.
US11802717B2
A cavitation boiler segment includes a rotor to be coupled with a rotating inner drum and a stator surrounding the rotor segment. The rotor and the stator each include drums with two banks of annular apertures, which overlap to define two cavitation regions. The rotor includes a web bifurcating the rotor between the apertures into an upstream side and a downstream side, each forming a separate fluid passage between a face of the rotor and a bank of apertures. The stator includes a casing enclosing the stator apertures in a fluid passageway. In operation, fluid flows into a first side of the rotor, across a first cavitation region and into the stator, then back across the second cavitation region and into the second side of the rotor where the fluid may flow into a first side of an adjacent segment.
US11802704B2
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control device configured to receive a user input for controlling an HVAC system, to determine whether the user input indicates an energy saving occupancy setting, and to identify a first plurality of time entries that are associated with a confidence level for a predicted occupancy status that is less than a predetermined threshold value in the predicted occupancy schedule. The device is further configured to modify the predicted occupancy schedule by setting the first plurality of time entries to an away status when the user input indicates an aggressive energy saving occupancy setting. The device is further configured to modify the predicted occupancy schedule by setting the second plurality of time entries to a present status when the user input indicates a conservative energy saving occupancy setting. The device is further configured to output the modified predicted occupancy schedule.
US11802703B2
A system includes multiple HVAC systems. After receiving a demand request, a multiple-system controller determines a first anticipated power consumption associated with operating a first HVAC system at a first temperature setpoint during a future period of time of the demand response request and a second anticipated power consumption associated with operating a second HVAC system at a second temperature setpoint during the future period of time. Based at least in part on the first and the second anticipated power consumptions, a staging schedule is determined that indicates when to operate the first and second HVAC systems.
US11802701B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes: an outdoor unit including a compressor that compresses and discharges refrigerant to a refrigerant circuit; an indoor unit including a load-side heat exchanger that causes heat exchange to be performed between air in an air-conditioned space and a heat medium subjected to heat exchange with the refrigerant; a flow rate detection unit that detects a flow rate of the heat medium; and an alarm unit provided in the indoor unit. The alarm unit includes a determination unit and an abnormality alarm unit. The determination unit determines whether an abnormality occurs in the indoor unit or not based on the flow rate detected by the flow rate detection unit. The abnormality alarm unit outputs an alarm when the determination unit determines that the abnormality occurs in the indoor unit.
US11802700B2
An air conditioning system is provided and includes a unit receptive of refrigerant having a moderate-to-low global warming potential (GWP) value for thermal interaction with a fluid, an enclosure, a fan disposed and configured for urging a flow of the fluid through the unit, a refrigerant detection sensor and a controller. The refrigerant detection sensor is disposed in the enclosure to be operable in a first mode in which a baseline response is established and a second mode in which refrigerant leak detection is executed based on the baseline response. The refrigerant detection sensor is further configured to generate a binary output of leak and non-leak signals in accordance with a result of the refrigerant leak detection. The controller is configured to control operations of the fan and the vent based on the binary output.
US11802689B2
Improved steamblow commissioning of a steam plant with steam discharged to the condenser and increased use of permanent piping instead of temporary piping with quenching/desuperheating and providing a low back pressure environment to enable aggressive steam blow cleaning.
US11802685B1
Disclosed in the present invention is a light-emitting diode (LED) bulb having connectors that can enable the user to swap the power source or change the light LED bulb without having to cut the wire. LED bulb comprises a power source and a light bulb connected to the power source through a pin and cables. The power source further comprising a wire that has connector piece at end. The light bulb further comprising a wire that has connector piece at end. The electrical construction is designed in such a way that if the wiring has a pin connector, the wires can be separated without having to use a tool or additional parts.
US11802682B1
Apparatus and methods for lighting. The apparatus may include a first jewel and a second jewel. The first jewel may support the second jewel by a first link. The first jewel may support the second jewel by a second link. The first link and second links may be configured for transmission of current between the first jewel and the second jewel. The first and second links may be the only attachments of the second jewel to the first jewel. The first jewel may be configured to selectively emit three different colors of light. The second jewel may be configured to selectively emit three different colors of light. The second jewel may be configured to selectively emit the three different colors of the first jewel. The selection may be performed by a user using a switch.
US11802681B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for a lighting system. The lighting system may include a headguard adapted to be worn on a head of an operator, where the headguard comprising a headguard cavity, as well as an elongated flashlight base comprising a flashlight base cavity. A detachable flashlight head is adapted to be positioned in either of the headguard cavity and the flashlight base cavity. The detachable flashlight is sized and positioned such that, when positioned in the headguard cavity, the detachable flashlight magnetically and electrically couples to the headguard. Similarly, the detachable flashlight is sized and positioned such that, when positioned in the flashlight base cavity, the detachable flashlight magnetically and electrically couples to the elongated flashlight base.
US11802676B1
An art lamp and a lamp string, the art lamp includes a light head, a wire and a light shell. The light head is provided with a power board; the wire passes through a top of the light head to connect with the power board; the light shell filled with a transparent liquid or gel-like medium, at least one decorative piece is disposed in the medium. The lamp string includes a multi-wire conductor and a plurality of art lamps. One end of the multi-wire conductor has multiple wires, the other end thereof has a plug electrically connected to the multiple wires, each of the wires is connected with one of the light heads of the art lamps. The light of the a first LED lamp beads on the power board illuminates the light head, the medium and the decorative piece to present a decorative pattern.
US11802673B2
An intelligent dimming RGB LED spotlight comprises an outer shell, a lamp base and a lampshade. A drive board connects to the lamp base and a light source board. The light source board is provided with dense ordinary-color-temperature lamp beads and RGB color-changing lamp beads, and is connected above to the lampshade corresponding to the RGB color-changing lamp beads. A method for achieving the intelligent dimming RGB LED spotlight includes the lampshade scattering the light emitted by the RGB color-changing lamp beads, so as to reduce the light intensity and make the light-emitting area larger and the emitted light more uniform, while it does not block the light emitted by the ordinary-color-temperature lamp beads, which makes the generated light spot have balanced illumination and a uniform and high-purity color in the color-changing process of a variety of colors, able to achieve the effect of AA level of GB illumination.
US11802668B2
Disclosed herein is a multi-element flexible strap light which includes a plurality of light elements disposed on a flexible chassis. The flexible chassis may include a first flexible layer, a printed circuit board, and a second flexible layer. The flexible chassis may be further contained within a third flexible layer, such as a layer of polycarbonate plastic. Further disclosed is a multi-element flexible strap light system which includes a plurality of light elements disposed on a flexible chassis and a remote battery.
US11802661B2
The present disclosure provides a composite structure, including first and second structure layers which are opposite to each other and adjustment bodies. The first structure layer includes first structure bodies. The second structure layer includes second structure bodies. The first structure bodies and the second structure bodies are staggered. First connecting portions protruding toward the second structure layer are provided at predetermined positions on the first structure bodies where the first structure bodies are staggered relative to the second structure bodies, and second connecting portions protruding toward the first structure layer are provided at predetermined positions on the second structure bodies where the second structure bodies are staggered relative to the first structure bodies, and the first connecting portions and the second connection portions are staggered. The adjustment bodies are connected in a layer direction between the first connecting portions and the second connecting portions.
US11802655B2
A display panel mounting system includes a plate and an adjustment device. The plate includes a plate opening. The adjustment device includes a body, a sleeve, a coupler, and a nut. The body includes a receiver. The body is configured to be received within the plate opening. The sleeve is received within the body. The coupler includes a slot that receives the receiver such that the coupler is coupled to the body. The nut is coupled to the body such that the sleeve is repositionable within the body when the nut is coupled to the body.
US11802653B2
A mounting system capable of mounting objects to support structures is disclosed. The mounting system includes a wall mount including a display bracket configured to hold the object, a fixed support bracket couplable to a vertical support structure, and a linkage assembly. The linkage assembly has a low-profile stowed configuration in which the object is held in a raised position close to the support structure. The linkage assembly moves to another configuration to move the object. The object can be held in a lowered position. A biasing mechanism can facilitate convenient movement of the object.
US11802651B2
The present disclosure provides an accessory for a handheld device. The accessory includes a first base, a second base, a first flexible element and a second flexible element. The first flexible element and the second flexible element are respectively disposed at the first base. The first flexible element has a first track. The second flexible element has a second track. The second base has a fastener for engaging with the first track and the second track. The first flexible element is flexed based on sliding of the fastener along the first track. The second flexible element is flexed based on sliding of the fastener along the second track.
US11802649B2
It is a pig launcher (1) comprising a pig magazine (2), launcher mechanism (3) and a connector (7) being connectable to a fluid flow line. The pig magazine (2) is able to hold a number of pigs arranged side by side, control lines (4) being connected to the pig magazine in such a way that each control line (4) is able to provide control fluid to manipulate a pig. The pig launcher further comprises a pig selector (5) being able to receive source control fluid from one control fluid source line (9) and to channel the control fluid to one of a number of control lines (4) being connected to the pig selector, thereby being able to launch one of the number of pigs by means of the control fluid.
US11802644B2
A hydraulic line coupling, for a hydraulic brake or clutch of handlebar-operated vehicles, having a line connection piece with a hydraulic line extension and a housing with a coupling opening, in which the line connection piece for coupling the line to the housing can be disposed. The connection piece comprises a passage connected to the line. A valve device is disposed in the housing and is configured such that the valve device closes the connection for the connection piece when the connection piece is not in the coupling opening. The line coupling has a seal, with which seal the valve device closes the connection for the connection piece when the connection piece is not in the coupling opening. With the seal, the connection piece seals the passage from the environment when the connection piece is in the coupling opening.
US11802641B2
An arrangement is disclosed having a clamp body configured in a cylindrical shape and having four penetrations that each have a bolt hole penetration with a first side penetration and a second side penetration and at least four jaws, each of the at least four jaws configured to be inserted into one of the at least four penetrations, each jaw having a first side and a second side.
US11802633B2
This invention relates to apparatus for the monitoring of the condition of a pipeline (8) which is provided to carry a liquid therealong and/or a component (4) fitted to and operable in communication with the pipeline. The apparatus including at least one detecting device fitted on, or adjacent to, the component (4) to detect a change in condition of the component (4) and/or pipeline (8).
US11802629B1
A valve arrangement for inflating an inflatable device includes a valve body comprising an inlet, an outlet, a main fluid channel, a first ball detent, and a second ball detent. A lifter and a sleeve are located in the main fluid channel. A locking ball is disposed at least partially within a locking ball aperture disposed in the sleeve. A piston is coupled to the lifter and fluidly coupled to a command pressure cavity of the valve body. A spring biases the lifter toward a ball locking position whereby the lifter urges the locking ball at least partially into the first ball detent. A valve operation initiator controls a flow of pressurized gas into the command pressure cavity to urge the lifter to a ball releasing position to free the sleeve, as to the locking ball, to translate to an open position to fluidly couple the inlet with the outlet.
US11802624B2
A bypass valve includes a base defining a base sealing surface, the base defining a upstream utility bore, a downstream utility bore, a meter inlet bore, and a meter outlet bore each extending into the base sealing surface; and a selector defining a selector sealing surface positioned in sealing engagement with the base sealing surface, the selector defining a primary passage and a secondary passage, the selector defining at least one primary passage bore extending into the selector sealing surface and connecting in fluid communication with the primary passage, the selector defining at least one secondary passage bore extending into the selector sealing surface and connecting in fluid communication with the secondary passage, the selector being rotatable relative to the base about and between a meter position and a bypass position, the selector connecting the upstream utility bore in fluid communication with the meter inlet bore in the meter position.
US11802615B1
A cam roller pin is rotationally fixed and defines a pin axis around which a cam roller is configured to rotate and apply a load at a load zone at a radially outer and lower end of the pin. The pin includes a reservoir configured to receive lubricant for lubrication of the cam roller rotating on the pin, a first lubricant path extending radially inward from the reservoir, a second lubricant path extending from the first lubricant path to a second lubricant path outlet, and a third lubricant path extending from the first lubricant path to a third lubricant path outlet.
US11802614B2
A vehicle drive device is provided that can suppress the increase in dimension in the radial direction while ensuring a sufficient speed reduction ratio. Two driving force sources are arranged on a first axis, two output members are arranged on a second axis, two counter gear mechanisms are arranged on a third axis. A planetary gear mechanism is configured to transmit rotation from the two counter gear mechanisms to the output members, and is disposed so as to overlap with both of the two counter gear mechanisms as seen in an axial direction along and axial direction.
US11802613B1
A work vehicle locking differential energy management system includes axle speed sensors for monitoring the rotational speeds of axle half-shafts. The axle half-shafts are coupled through a locking differential, which contains a differential clutch mechanism. A processing subsystem is configured to: (i) when the locking differential is placed in a locked state, calculate a differential lock force applied to the clutch mechanism, and calculate a differential slip speed from a disparity in the rotational speeds of the axle half-shafts; (ii) estimate an internal temperature of the clutch mechanism based, at least in part, on the differential lock force and the differential slip speed; (iii) detect differential overtemperature events during which the internal temperature of the clutch mechanism exceeds a first critical temperature threshold; and (iv) perform at least one differential overtemperature action in response to detection of a differential overtemperature event.
US11802611B2
An actuator assembly may comprise a screw shaft having a shaft axis; a drive arrangement pivotally supported about the screw shaft axis for driving the screw shaft, e.g., about the shaft axis or along the shaft axis, and a rod mounted to the drive arrangement at a location off the shaft axis for providing a primary function of reacting torque about the shaft axis on the drive arrangement. The rod may comprise a rod axis and provide a load path along the rod axis for reacting torque. The rod may also comprise a device for which provides a secondary function for the actuator assembly based on the load experienced along the load path provided by the rod.
US11802610B2
Disclosed are a continuously variable transmission including a plurality of input links integrated into one input link, a plurality of coupler links integrated into one coupler disk, and at least four even-numbered output gears circumscribed about at least four even-numbered output links via a clutch, wherein, even if two output gears of the at least four even-numbered output gears are put into a slip state by the clutch, the other two output gears rotate in a direction of forcibly transmitting power.
US11802608B2
A flexible thermoplastic conveyor belt constructed of one or more belt segments having corrugated sidewalls. The one or more segments are joined end to end at one or more joints. The ends of the sidewalls at or near the joints are fastened together by fasteners to form a continuous sidewall along the length of the belt. The fasteners are toolless fasteners requiring no tools; they can be fastened and unfastened by hand alone.
US11802603B2
A heat shield for an aircraft wheel assembly is made of a heat shield material evenly distributed across the heat shield along both the circumferential and the axial directions. The heat shield material has a high thermal conductivity greater than 30 W/mK. In various embodiments, the thermal conductivity is greater than 85 W/mK. In this manner, thermal flux is maximized throughout the heat shield to distribute heat evenly across the heat shield in both circumferential and axial directions.
US11802586B2
A device for releasably retaining a carabiner, said device includes: an elongate body with a jaw member hingedly attached at a first position thereto, said jaw member being movable towards and away from the elongate body in a first plane; a first projecting member and a second projecting member extending outwardly from a first side of the elongate body and away from the first plane; a third projecting member extending outwardly from a first side of the jaw member and away from the first plane, wherein the first projecting member and the second projecting member are configured to receive a spine of a carabiner inserted therebetween and whereupon third projecting member is configured to urge a gate of the carabiner toward the spine of the carabiner.
US11802584B2
A foreign material exclusion plug is disclosed. The foreign material plug includes a cylindrical body, a slot, and a breakaway tab. The cylindrical body includes an externally-threaded cylindrical structure. The slot is formed in the cylindrical body extending into the cylindrical body from a top surface of the cylindrical body. The breakaway tab is connected to the cylindrical body and extends outwards from the top surface.
US11802576B1
A fan device includes a fan frame and a fan impeller. The fan frame includes a frame and a shaft seat. The shaft seat includes a shaft tube and a buffer. At least a part of the buffer is clamped between the shaft tube and the frame. The fan impeller is rotably disposed on the shaft tube of the shaft seat. An elastic coefficient of the buffer is larger than an elastic coefficient of the shaft tube.
US11802575B2
With an electric compressor including a rotational shaft, a compressor wheel disposed on the rotational shaft, and an electric motor for applying a rotational force to the rotational shaft including a rotor fixed to the rotational shaft, and a stator disposed around the rotor, for applying the rotational force to the rotor by an electromagnetic force, a vibration/noise reduction device includes a detector for detecting a frequency related to a vibration of the stator, and a signal generator for generating a vibration signal that has a frequency of a predetermined integral multiple of an electrical angle frequency, which is obtained from the frequency detected by the detector, and has a signal wave attenuating the vibration of the stator, and a vibrator for vibrating the electric compressor based on the vibration signal.
US11802565B2
An electric water pump with a control panel mounted in the middle of the water pump is disclosed, including a water pump volute casing, a water pump impeller, a pump cover, a water pump control panel, a rotor, a rotor cover, a housing, a rear bearing, a stator, a thrust ring, and a front bearing. The water pump volute casing is mounted on a surface at a front end of the pump cover. The water pump control panel is mounted on a surface at a rear end of the pump cover. An end opening of the rotor cover is sleeved on an outer circumference of a boss at the rear end of the pump cover.
US11802561B1
A cantilever vertical screw vacuum pump is provided. The vacuum pump has a lubrication system, in the system, an oil splashing sleeve splashes lubricating oil in an oil chamber, the lubricating oil is splashed to the oil guide plates and enters two inner shaft sleeves through oil inlet holes, the lubricating oil is splashed by rotations of lower bearings to lubricate upper bearings and bearing gland oil seal assemblies. A fit between an oil baffle and a lower cover shaft sleeve is a clearance fit, and the oil baffle prevents the lubricating oil from entering a vertical motor. A pressure difference between screw rods is used to output reflux air from a near exhaust end of the screw rods, the reflux air is cooled in a coolant by a reflux cooling pipe, and the cooled reflux air is delivered to the screw rods to reduce an air temperature of the pump chamber.
US11802555B2
A piezoelectric pump includes a first faceplate, a second faceplate, a diaphragm, a first peripheral wall, and a second peripheral wall. The diaphragm includes a vibrating portion to which a piezoelectric device is attached, a frame portion, and a connecting portion. The connecting portion defines a third opening that allows a first pump chamber and a second pump chamber to communicate with each other. The first pump chamber is provided with an annular first valve surrounding a first opening at a distance from the first opening in plan view from a major surface of the first faceplate toward a major surface of the diaphragm.
US11802548B2
Variable-porosity panel systems and associated methods. A variable-porosity panel system includes a panel assembly with an exterior layer defining a plurality of exterior layer pores and a sliding layer adjacent to the exterior layer and defining a plurality of sliding layer pores. The variable-porosity panel system additionally includes a shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator configured to translate the sliding layer relative to the exterior layer to modulate a porosity of the panel assembly. The SMA actuator includes an SMA element configured to exert an actuation force on the sliding layer and at least partially received within an SMA element receiver of the sliding layer. The SMA element extends out of the sliding layer only at a sliding layer first end. A method of operating the variable-porosity panel system includes assembling the variable-porosity panel system and/or transitioning the panel assembly of the variable-porosity panel system among the plurality of panel configurations.
US11802542B2
A rotor blade for a wind turbine includes a first blade segment and a second blade segment extending in opposite directions from a chord-wise joint. Each of the first and second blade segments includes at least one shell member defining an airfoil surface. The rotor blade also includes one or more pin joints for connecting the first and second blade segments at the chord-wise joint. The pin joint(s) includes one or more pin joint tubes received within the pin joint slot(s). The pin joint slot(s) are secured within a bearing block. Further, a gap is defined between the pin joint slot(s) and the bearing block. Moreover, the rotor blade includes a shim within the gap between the pin joint slot(s) and the bearing block so as to retain the pin joint slot(s) within the bearing block. In addition, the shim is constructed of a liquid material that hardens after being poured into the gap.
US11802535B2
Power can be efficiently generated in accordance with the amount of water in a channel by including: a first headrace channel positioned on an upstream side; a second headrace channel positioned on a downstream side; a water wheel on a most downstream side of the first headrace channel and the second headrace channel, the water wheel having a rotation shaft in a direction orthogonally intersecting with a water flow; a lateral movement apparatus that enables the second headrace channel to be moved in an upstream direction or a downstream direction; and a vertical movement apparatus that enables the water wheel to be moved in a vertical direction.
US11802525B2
An unducted single fan engine includes a housing having one or more fan blades coupled to the housing and configured to rotate circumferentially. The engine has one or more outlet guide vanes coupled to the housing. Each of the one or more guide vanes has a leading edge portion having a variable leading edge. The engine has one or more actuation devices coupled to each of the one or more outlet guide vanes. The one or more actuation devices are configured to control the variable leading edge of the respective outlet guide vane. The variable leading edge is controllable to vary the pitch, camber, lean angle, or sweep of the respective outlet guide vane.
US11802512B2
The invention relates to a combustion chamber for a gas turbine engine, in which two openings extend through a metal wall (58) and a wall made of a refractory material (16). A device (76) guides a spark plug (48) in said two orifices, the guiding device comprising a metal flange (80) and a floating ring (82), the flange being shrunk onto or welded to the metal wall (58).
US11802500B2
When a temperature increasing process is performed, a CPU sets a target temperature of a catalyst to be lower when a coolant temperature is low than when the coolant temperature is high. The CPU decreases an increase coefficient of fuel in the temperature increasing process when a value obtained by subtracting an estimated value of a temperature of the catalyst from the target temperature is equal to or less than a first prescribed value.
US11802498B2
Oil distribution blocks and oil distribution systems equipped therewith. Such an oil distribution block includes a rigid block body configured to be secured to a cylinder head of an engine, an oil inlet, and an oil outlet. The oil inlet is configured to be releasably coupled to a first oil distribution line or a fitting therebetween, receive a flow of oil therefrom, and route the oil to an inlet of a cooling passage of the cylinder head. The oil outlet is configured to be releasably coupled to a second oil distribution line or a fitting therebetween, receive a flow of oil from an outlet of the cooling passage of the cylinder head, and route the oil to the second oil distribution line. The oil inlet and the oil outlet are configured to threadably couple with the first and second oil distribution lines, respectively, or the fittings therebetween.
US11802490B2
A fan assembly includes a fan duct, an inlet fan, and an outlet guide vane assembly. The inlet fan includes blades adapted to force fan exit air toward an aft end of the fan duct. The outlet guide vane assembly is located in the fan duct downstream of the inlet fan and is configured to adjust a direction of the fan exit air received from the blades. The outlet guide vane assembly includes a first plurality of outlet guide vanes including a first outlet guide vane configured to rotate to a first angle so as to redirect the fan exit air in a first direction and a second outlet guide vane configured to rotate to a second angle so as to redirect the fan exit air in a second direction. The second outlet guide vane is located at a different circumferential position than the first outlet guide vane.
US11802489B1
In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a system includes a turbine configured to fluidly connect to a heat engine to be driven by exhaust from the heat engine, the turbine including a turbine shaft, and a generator operatively coupled to the turbine shaft to be driven by the turbine configured to receive rotational input power from turbine shaft and to convert the rotational input power to output power to generate electrical energy.
US11802487B1
A stator vane formed of CMC has a radially outer platform and a radially inner platform attached to an airfoil. There are a pair of flanges on a side of each of the radially inner platform and radially outer platform which is remote from the airfoil. A first of the pair of flanges is associated with the suction side of the airfoil and a second of the pair of flanges is associated with the pressure side of the airfoil. The flanges extend in a generally axial direction. The first of the pair of flanges extend over at least a majority of the suction side measured between the leading and trailing edge of the airfoil and the second of the pair of flanges extend over at least a majority of the pressure side measured between the leading and trailing edges of the airfoil.
US11802485B2
A propulsor fan array having reduced noise emission is disclosed. The propulsor fan array includes a plurality of propulsor fans that collectively generate thrust. Each of the propulsor fans include a blade fan having a plurality of blades. The plurality of blades are tensioned at tips of the plurality of blade fans such that a pitch of the blades during thrust generation is substantially the same as a pitch of the blades at rest. By tensioning the tips of the blades, an angle of the blades is maintained during operation of the propulsor fan thereby reducing noise that may result from changes in the angle of the blades.
US11802483B2
Embodiments of bladed rotors and methods for manufacturing bladed rotors are provided herein. The method for manufacturing bladed rotors includes providing a workpiece including a first rotor blade segment. The first rotor blade segment includes a first platform portion on a radially outward end portion of the first rotor blade segment. Further, the method includes forming a second rotor blade segment, by additive manufacturing, removing a side portion of the first platform portion, and removing a side portion of the second rotor blade segment, whereby a second platform portion remains on a radially outward end portion of the second rotor blade segment.
US11802479B2
A telemetry system includes a downhole device configured to generate modulated pressure pulses in drilling fluid within a drill string, first and second transducers configured provide first and second telemetry signals, respectively, responsive to pressure variations in the drilling fluid, and a telemetry computer coupled to the transducers. The telemetry computer includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory contains instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the telemetry computer to be configured to transform the first and second telemetry signals to a time-frequency domain representation to provide first and second time-frequency telemetry signals, respectively; and apply an unmixing filter to the first and second time-frequency telemetry signals to provide an enhanced signal in the time-frequency domain. The enhanced signal has a source signal component separated from a noise component, and the first and second telemetry signals are mixed source-noise signals.
US11802477B2
An underground transmitter can be configured for use with a drill head and configured for wireless communication. The underground transmitter can include a control circuitry and a multi-coil antenna assembly. The control circuitry is configured for transmitting data associated with an operation of the drill head. The multi-core antenna can include an antenna core and a plurality of distinct wire coils. The plurality of distinct wire coils can be positioned proximate (e.g., around) the antenna core, with the distinct wire coils each having a different inductance associated therewith and thereby capable of transmitting in a separate frequency range. The control circuitry can be selectably coupled with the distinct wire coils to control which of the distinct wire coils are activated and thereby generating data signals at a given time.
US11802458B2
A release device for a jarring tool includes a collet positioned between the mandrel of the jarring tool and a trigger sleeve. At least one end of the collet is in contact with a precompressed spring via a bushing. In order for the jarring tool to operate, a force greater than the precompressed force of the spring must be applied to the mandrel so that the collet can move in axial direction against the spring thereby releasing the mandrel.
US11802442B2
A door assembly for an animal enclosure includes a door frame and a door each having a plurality of interconnected horizontal and vertical wires. The door frame defines an opening for an animal to pass therethrough, and the door is slidably coupled to the door frame such that it moves between an open position and a closed position relative to the door frame to allow egress and ingress through the opening. A catch member is coupled to the door frame. A latch includes a base member, a bolt, and a lever portion. A first vertical wire and a second vertical wire of the door are spaced from one another such that the first vertical wire is at a first end of the door and the second vertical wire is at a second end of the door. In the closed position, the bolt is coupled to the first vertical wire.
US11802441B2
A mounting element for mounting an architectural covering between two opposing mounting surfaces includes an elongate mounting member having a first end, a second end, and a guide surface. The mounting element also includes an extension mechanism arranged at the first end and operable between: i) a retracted state, and ii) an extended state, and a telescopic extender arranged at the second end and operable between a retracted configuration and an extended configuration. The telescopic extender includes a slidable body to slide along the guide surface so as to lengthen the mounting element, and a locking member configured: i) to allow the slidable body to slide in the first translation direction, and ii) to prevent the slidable body from sliding in a second translation direction opposite the first translation direction.
US11802431B2
A document cover closer and office equipment using the same are disclosed. The document cover closer includes an attaching part, which includes an attaching base and two side plates. The attaching part is attached to a main body. A supporting part includes a back plate and two side plates. The side plates of the supporting part are rotatably coupled via a hinge shaft to the side plates of the attaching part. A lift part includes a back plate and two side plates. The side plates of the lift part are pivotally attached via a coupling shaft to the free end side of the side plates of the supporting member. An actuating part is provided on the pivotally attaching portion of the lift part so as to rotate about the coupling shaft when the lift part rotates.
US11802412B2
A plank has a first portion with at least three layers. The first layer is of a plant material, and has an inner surface that includes a nonwoven fabric or a fiberglass mesh. The second layer is of an adhesive paper material that includes a macromolecular glue where the macromolecular glue is 50-55% melamine, 35-40% plasticizer, and 3-5% formaldehyde. The third layer is one of bamboo, wood, or paper. The plank has a second portion, which may be of a plastic composite base material or a magnesium oxide composite base material. When the second portion is of a plastic composite material, the first portion is fused to the second portion by cold pressing or a polyurethane reactive adhesive. When the second material is of a magnesium oxide composite base material, the first portion is thermally pressed to the second portion by cold pressing, hot pressing or a polyurethane reactive adhesive.
US11802410B2
A rackable railing assembly including a rail having a hollow interior. A series of picket slots are disposed in the rail. A tab strip is carried in the rail. A series of tab slots are laterally spaced along the tab strip. A tab is secured at one end of each of the tab slots and extends partially across the tab slots so that the tabs are bendable in the tab slots. A series of pickets are included having a distal end portion extending through the picket slots in the rail and having an end surface secured against one of the tabs. The pickets pivot in the picket slots causing the tabs to bend relative to the plain of the tab strip to allow the pickets and rail to rack to an angle.
US11802407B2
A support member for a suspended drywall ceiling grid system includes a central web formed of two layers of sheet metal having first and second ends, a reinforcement bulb extending from an upper portion of the central web between the first and second ends, opposed flanges extending from a lower portion of the central web between the first and second ends, first and second end connectors integral with the central web and extending from the first and second ends of the central web, respectively, past the flanges, each of the opposed flanges having an upper surface and a knurled lower surface between the central web and a rolled edge portion, and each rolled edge portion having an initial region tilted downward and outward and extending into a curved region, wherein the curved region is rolled upward and inward and terminates in an outer edge toward the initial region.
US11802403B2
The invention provides a method of forming a concrete floor of a multistorey building, the method including: installing a first building module having a first precast concrete floor slab adjacently spaced from a second building module having a second precast concrete floor slab, at least the first precast concrete floor slab supporting an upstanding support member for supporting an upper floor; forming a channel between the spaced first and second precast concrete floor slabs by providing supporting formwork between the floor slabs for supporting poured concrete; and pouring concrete into the channel to form a concrete connection between the first and second precast slabs, thereby forming a concrete floor of a building.
US11802400B2
A connector for joining concrete structures such as double tee beams to one another. The connector includes a curved bolt that is formed with a shape memory alloy. Through utilization of the bolt, a joint can be post-tensioned following assembly through application of heat to the joint. Post-tensioning can be reapplied following loosening of the joint through application of heat. When considering a super elastic shape memory alloy, the bolt can be a smart bolt that can self-correct following deformation due to excessive load.
US11802398B2
A drain assembly includes a drain body and an expanding assembly. The drain body includes a first flange and a second flange that each extend away from an inner surface of the drain body towards a center of the drain body. The expanding assembly is positionable within the drain body between the first flange and the second flange. The expanding assembly includes a lattice body. The lattice body can be adjusted relative to the drain body such that the expanding assembly applies an axial force to the first flange and the second flange.
US11802393B2
A shovel includes a lower traveling body that runs; an upper rotating body that is rotatably mounted on the lower traveling body; an attachment attached to the upper rotating body; a display device; and a processor that obtains a current shape of a target ground, calculates a recommended line that is suitable to excavate, with the attachment, the target ground having the obtained current shape, and displays the current shape of the target ground and the recommended line on the display device.
US11802386B2
A brace for supporting a bollard panel in a vertical position includes a linear structural member having a panel connector to secure adjacent bollard panels to the linear structural member.
US11802381B2
Non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method comprising: obtaining asphalt shingle waste (ASW) and performing grinding, screening, and separating steps on the ASW. In some embodiments, granules are removed from the ASW. In some embodiments, the method transforms ASW into ASW powder. In some embodiments, the ASW powder is formed into a plurality of briquettes. In some embodiments, at least one of: the ASW powder, the plurality of briquettes, or any combination thereof is fed into a mixing process that results in an ASW powder filled coating.
US11802367B2
An air filtration system for a laundry apparatus includes an air-lint inlet forming an interior volume configured to fluidically couple to a tumbler of the laundry apparatus and extending to an end portion. The system further includes a lint-collection reservoir coupled to the air-lint inlet configured to hold a liquid at a level, wherein the air-lint inlet extends into the lint-collection reservoir. The system further includes an outlet conduit in fluid connection with the air-lint collection reservoir. The outlet conduit is configured to expel filter air from the air-lint collection reservoir.
US11802364B2
A fluid condensing system for a combination washer/dryer appliance includes a metal condenser coil positioned within a condenser. Water liquid pulses through the metal condenser coil for maintaining the metal condenser coil at a cold temperature as water vapor in the hot exhaust air from the combination washer/dryer appliance condenses on the surface of the condenser coil. A common sump collects the water condensate from the condenser, the cooling fluid exiting the condenser coil, and wash water from the combination washer/dryer appliance. The water condensate, cooling fluid, and wash water is reclaimed and recycled through both a condenser coil recirculation loop and a wash water dispenser system.
US11802363B2
A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to an automatic cycle of operation includes a cabinet defining an interior. A treating chamber is located within the interior. A dispenser is fluidly coupled to the treating chamber. The dispenser includes first and second drawers slidable along a slide path relative to the cabinet between opened and closed positions and having one or more treating chemistry chambers.
US11802362B2
A laundry appliance having a cabinet accommodating a laundry treatment chamber, a storage drawer comprising at least one compartment adapted to contain multiple doses of a respective laundry treatment agent for performing multiple washing cycles, and a drawer seat provided in the cabinet for slidingly housing the storage drawer through a guide system. The guide system is adapted to guide the sliding of the storage drawer with respect to the drawer seat along a sliding direction which is slanted with respect to a resting surface on which the laundry appliance is resting during operation.
US11802360B2
A fluid flow system for a laundry appliance includes a blower that delivers process air along an airflow path having a heat exchanger. A drain channel receives condensate from the heat exchanger and fluid spray from a spray nozzle for directing lint particles to the drain channel and on to a sump for collecting fluid, including the condensate. A pump seat and a fluid outlet are integrally formed in a sump cover. A pump directs the fluid from the sump to the fluid outlet. A fluid level sensor detects at least minimum and maximum capacities of the fluid in the sump. When the fluid is below the minimum capacity, the pump defines an idle state. When the fluid reaches the minimum capacity, the pump defines an active state. When the fluid exceeds the maximum capacity, the pump directs the fluid to the fluid outlet.
US11802345B2
A metal material having thermodynamic anisotropy has an X-axis hardness of 160-180 HV, an X-axis hardness thermal expansion coefficient of 5×10−6-100×10−6 K−1; a Y-axis hardness of 160-180 HV, a Y-axis hardness thermal expansion coefficient of 5×10−6-100×10−6 K−1; and a Z-axis hardness of 180-250 HV, a Z-axis hardness thermal expansion coefficient of 50×10−6-1000×10−6 K−1. A method for preparing a metal material having thermodynamic anisotropy is also disclosed.
US11802338B2
The disclosure relates to a chemical deposition, treatment and/or infiltration apparatus for providing a chemical reaction on and/or in a surface of a substrate. The apparatus may have a top and a bottom reaction chamber part forming together a closable reaction chamber and an actuator constructed and arranged for moving the top and bottom reaction chamber parts with respect to each other from a closed position to an open position so as to allow access to an interior of the reaction chamber. A top substrate holder is connected to the top reaction chamber part to hold a substrate at least when the reaction chamber is in the open position and a bottom substrate holder is connected to the bottom reaction chamber part to hold the substrate when the reaction chamber is in the closed position.
US11802331B2
The disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for preventing oxidation or contamination during a circuit printing operation. The circuit printing operation can be directed to OLED-type printing. In an exemplary embodiment, the printing process is conducted at a load-locked printer housing having one or more of chambers. Each chamber is partitioned from the other chambers by physical gates or fluidic curtains. A controller coordinates transportation of a substrate through the system and purges the system by timely opening appropriate gates. The controller may also control the printing operation by energizing the print-head at a time when the substrate is positioned substantially thereunder.
US11802328B2
An Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon reduced in an iron loss in a condition of a magnetic flux density of 1.45 T is provided. One aspect of the present disclosure provides an Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon. The Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon has continuous linear laser irradiation marks on at least one surface. The linear laser irradiation marks are formed along a direction orthogonal to a casting direction of the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon. Each linear laser irradiation mark has unevenness on its surface. When the unevenness is evaluated in the casting direction, a difference HL between a highest point and a lowest point in the thickness direction of the Fe-based amorphous alloy ribbon is 0.25 μm to 2.0 μm.
US11802321B2
An additive manufacturing method of producing a metal alloy article may involve: Providing a supply of a metal alloy in powder form; providing a supply of a nucleant material, the nucleant material lowering the nucleation energy required to crystallize the metal alloy; blending the supply of metal alloy powder and nucleant material to form a blended mixture; forming the blended mixture into a first layer; subjecting at least a portion of the first layer to energy sufficient to raise the temperature of the first layer to at least the liquidus temperature of the metal alloy; allowing at least a portion of the first layer to cool to a temperature sufficient to allow the metal alloy to recrystallize; forming a second layer of the blended mixture on the first layer; and repeating the subjecting and allowing steps on the second layer to form an additional portion of the metal alloy article.
US11802312B2
A method of tracking proximity relationships is disclosed, comprising: (a) introducing a body into a solution of bio-molecule(s), said body comprising at least two capture probes, wherein each capture probe comprises a barcode and a capture domain, and at least one capture probe is a releasable capture probe, connected to the body via at least one cleavable linker; (b) allowing at least two capture probes to bind to their respective target bio-molecule(s) via their respective capture domains; and (c) releasing the at least one releasable capture probe from the body by cleaving its at least one cleavable linker.
US11802306B2
Methods of detecting unknown genetic modifications in a DNA sample from an organism are disclosed.
US11802299B2
An enzyme-catalyzed method of synthesizing (2S,3R)-2-substituted aminomethyl-3-hydroxybutyrate, including: preparing engineered bacteria containing a carbonyl reductase SsCR-encoding gene; preparing a resting cell suspension of the engineered bacteria; preparing a culture containing carbonyl reductase; and mixing the culture containing carbonyl reductase with substrate 2-substituted aminomethyl-3-one butyrate, glucose dehydrogenase, a cosolvent, glucose and a cofactor followed by asymmetric carbonyl reduction to obtain (2S,3R)-2-substituted aminomethyl-3-hydroxybutyrate. The amino acid sequence of the carbonyl reductase is shown in SEQ ID NO.1.
US11802293B2
Disclosed herein is a recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector comprising (a) a variant AAV2 capsid protein, wherein the variant AAV2 capsid protein comprises at least four amino acid substitutions with respect to a wild type AAV2 capsid protein; wherein the at least four amino acid substitutions are present at the following positions in an AAV2 capsid protein sequence: 457, 492, 499 and 533; and (b) a heterologous nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a gene product.
US11802290B2
The present invention relates to methods and means for producing nitrogenase polypeptides in the mitochondria of plant cells. The present disclosure provides plant cells that express one or more MTP-Nif fusions and/or translational NifD-NifK and NifE-NifN fusions. The present disclosure also provides nucleic acid constructs encoding these fusions as well as expression constructs for expression and targeting of the fusions to the mitochondria of plant cells. The present disclosure also provides transgenic plants comprising the plant cells of the invention and products obtained therefrom.
US11802281B2
According to a first aspect of the invention, a method for the generation of a cell line is provided, comprising the steps of (a) providing a plurality of mammalian B cells, wherein each of the plurality of B cells comprises a transgenic genomic DNA sequence encoding a marker protein inserted into an endogenous immunoglobulin locus comprised in said B cell, and wherein the transgenic genomic DNA sequence is amenable to cleavage by a site directed nuclease, particularly Cas9; (b) replacing the transgenic genomic DNA sequence encoding a marker protein with a second transgenic DNA sequence encoding a protein of interest; (c) sorting B cells based on the presence or absence of the marker protein; and (d) collecting B cells in which the marker protein is absent.
US11802275B2
Reactions are disclosed herein comprising water, alpha-glucose-1-phosphate (alpha-G1P), an acceptor molecule, and an alpha-1,4-glucan phosphorylase. Novel alpha-1,4-glucan phosphorylase enzymes are also disclosed. Additional disclosures herein regard sucrose phosphorylase enzymes and methods of use thereof to produce alpha-G1P.
US11802270B2
The present invention provides, among other things, methods for producing platelets including the steps of providing a silk membrane about 2 μm and 100 μm thick, inclusive, contacting the silk membrane with a porogen to form a porous silk membrane comprising at least one silk wall defining a lumen, associating the porous silk membrane with stromal derived factor-1? and at least one functionalizing agent, forming a three dimensional silk matrix comprising interconnected pores wherein the pores have a diameter of between about 5 and 500 μm, inclusive, wherein the silk matrix is formed around at least a portion of the porous silk membrane, introducing a plurality of megakaryocytes to the silk matrix such that the megakaryocytes are located at least partially within the porous silk matrix, and stimulating the plurality of megakaryocytes to produce platelets. Also provided are various new compositions and methods of making those compositions.
US11802265B2
Described is an apparatus for culturing cells or tissue, the apparatus comprising a container comprising a bottom and at least one sidewall, wherein at least a part of the bottom comprises a gas permeable material or is adapted to engage with a gas permeable material and is perforated to allow gaseous exchange; a detachable top adapted to engage with the container to define a chamber, wherein at least a part of the top comprises a gas permeable material or is adapted to engage with a gas permeable material and is perforated to allow gaseous exchange; and a scaffold adapted to receive a substrate for cells to reside upon. The apparatus is configurable between (a) a first mode in which the substrate is not disposed in gaseous communication with a gas permeable material, and (b) a second mode in which the substrate is disposed in gaseous communication with a gas permeable material.
US11802260B2
The disclosure provides compositions and methods for making a colorized solution of an aqueous disinfectant that is both stable in bulk solution and will fade to clear within a predetermined period of time after being applied to a surface, for example as a spray or film. The compositions and methods described here allow an end user to visualize both the extent of coverage and the duration of contact of the disinfectant with the surface, thereby providing more efficient disinfection of the surface.
US11802249B2
A method for desulfurizing crude oil and sulfur rich petroleum refinery fractions is disclosed. The method includes feeding the crude oil and sulfur rich petroleum refinery fractions to a reactor. An oxidation catalyst is added to the crude oil and sulfur rich petroleum refinery fractions. The crude oil and sulfur rich petroleum refinery fractions and the oxidation catalyst are stirred to form co-polymers of sulfur-containing heterocyclic compounds. The co-polymers of sulfur-containing heterocyclic compounds are separated by filtration or by centrifugation.
US11802246B2
A combination of at least one basic compound, such as potassium hydroxide, together with at least one aldehyde donor can synergistically scavenge mercaptans from organic fluids, such as hydrocarbons, where “synergistically effective” is defined as the amount of mercaptans scavenged is greater as compared with a combination where either the basic compound or the reaction product is absent, used in the same total amount.
US11802241B2
Methods of increasing soil water content are described. The methods may include applying a soil enhancement agent to the soil, where the soil enhancement agent includes one or both of (i) lactobionic acid and (ii) at least one salt of lactobionic acid. Treated soils with increased soil water content are also described. The treated soils may include a soil enhancement agent absorbed into the soil. The soil enhancement agent may include at least one salt of a lactobionic acid. Cations from the at least one salt of a lactobionic acid may aggregate at least a portion of the particles in the soil.
US11802233B2
A permeability-enhancing flooding system for tight oil reservoirs and preparation and use thereof are disclosed. The permeability-enhancing flooding system is present in a state of oil-in-water droplet and composed of a surfactant, an oil-soluble substance and water, and has an outer phase that is an aqueous solution containing the surfactant, and an inner phase that is the oil-soluble substance; and the surfactant comprises one of nonionic gemini surfactants and anionic gemini surfactants, or a combination of two or more thereof. The preparation process for the permeability-enhancing flooding system is simple to operate, suitable for industrialized production, and low in overall cost, and has obvious application prospects in the field of tight oil reservoirs for an enhanced oil recovery.
US11802231B2
Accordingly, this disclosure describes systems, compositions, and methods that may use pelletized diverting agent particulates for diversion, fluid loss control, and/or other subterranean treatments for controlling fluid flow in subterranean formations. In an embodiment, a method comprising: introducing a treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation wherein the treatment fluid comprises: a base fluid; a pelletized diverting agent comprising a degradable polymer, wherein the pelletized diverting agent at least partially plugs a zone in the subterranean formation; and diverting at least a portion of the treatment fluid and/or a subsequently introduced fluid away from the zone. In an embodiment, a treatment fluid comprising: a base fluid; and a pelletized diverting agent comprising a degradable polymer.
US11802229B2
A low-modulus high-adhesion silane-modified polyether sealant for prefabricated buildings is provided by including a composition A and a composition B, wherein the composition A includes silane-modified polyether, plasticizer, hydroxy-terminated branched polyether, branched polyether epoxy resin, coupling agent, thixotropic agent, silica, reinforcing filler A, hollow glass microspheres and toner, and the composition B includes plasticizer, hydroxy-terminated branched polyether, light stabilizer, reinforcing filler B, organotin catalyst and amine curing agent. The present disclosure also optimized the various ingredients in the silane-modified polyether sealant, and a formulation of sealant having the best bonding effect was obtained. The two-composition polyether sealant system has good compatibility, greatly improves the adhesive properties thereof, achieves a good adhesion and waterproofing effect without needing to be used with a priming coating, and also avoids the risk of water leakage caused by misoperation in the applying of the priming coating existing in the prior art.
US11802226B2
A thin self-supporting adhesive film is claimed that includes a first polyurethane and a solid surface-deactivated isocyanate.
US11802219B2
A method comprises obtaining a virgin asphalt and obtaining an asphalt shingle waste. The asphalt shingle waste comprises 5 wt. % to 40 wt. % of asphalt based on the total weight of the asphalt shingle waste. The asphalt shingle waste comprises 60 wt. % to 95 wt. % of limestone, granules, and/or impurities based on the total weight of the asphalt shingle waste. The method comprises obtaining a phase modifier. The method comprises mixing the virgin asphalt, the asphalt shingle waste, and the phase modifier to form an asphalt mixture. The phase modifier is present in an amount of 0.25 wt. % to 25 wt. % based on the total weight of the asphalt mixture. The asphalt mixture is configured to be applied to a roof substrate to obtain a roofing shingle.
US11802212B2
A method for producing pigments comprises the steps of creating a first layer on a substrate, structuring the first layer and detaching the pigments from the substrate. In the present case, the first layer is a crack-forming layer, so that the first layer is structured by the arising of cracks. Prior to detaching the pigments, a pigment layer is applied onto the first layer structured by the cracks.
US11802211B2
Disclosed herein are polymeric dyes, their preparation, and their uses. Some embodiments relate to their use for detecting biological activity in samples, such as the presence of bacteria in blood.
US11802206B2
A nonlimiting example method of forming polyamide polymer particles having pigments therein may comprising: mixing a mixture comprising a polyamide having a pigment pendent from a backbone of the polyamide (PP-polyamide), a carrier fluid that is immiscible with the PP-polyamide, and optionally an emulsion stabilizer at a temperature greater than a melting point or softening temperature of the PP-polyamide and at a shear rate sufficiently high to disperse the PP-polyamide in the carrier fluid; and cooling the mixture to below the melting point or softening temperature of the PP-polyamide to form solidified particles comprising the PP-polyamide and, when present, the emulsion stabilizer associated with an outer surface of the solidified particles. Said solidified particles may be used in additive manufacturing to make a variety of objects like containers, toys, furniture parts and decorative home goods, plastic gears, automotive parts, medical items, and the like.
US11802205B2
An aqueous polyurethane resin dispersion includes a cationic group and a polyalkylene oxide in a side chain thereof. The polyurethane resin is obtainable by reacting a polyester polyol, a polyether diol, a polyol containing a quaternary N-atom or tertiary amino group, and a polyisocyanate. The polyester polyol is obtained by reacting an aromatic polycarboxylic acid and a polyol. The polyurethane resin is suitable as a resin in treatment liquids of substrates and images made by inkjet printing.
US11802202B2
A modified thermoplastic polyester elastomer and a breathable and waterproof membrane are provided. The modified thermoplastic polyester elastomer is formed from a thermoplastic polyester elastomer, a regenerated polyethylene terephthalate, and a compatibilizer. Based on a total weight of the modified thermoplastic polyester elastomer being 100 phr, a content of the regenerated polyethylene terephthalate is greater than 0 phr and up to 50 phr. Based on a total weight of the thermoplastic polyester elastomer being 100 wt %, the thermoplastic polyester elastomer includes 25 wt % to 75 wt % of hard segments and 25 wt % to 75 wt % of soft segments.
US11802197B2
A composition for a food product storage container includes a polypropylene co-polymer, a tie additive, a color concentrate, and Ethylene vinyl alcohol. The ethylene vinyl alcohol may be between 3 and 10% by weight of the food product storage container. The composition further comprises small particle talc. The composition may be configured to be co-injection molded to form the food product storage container which may reduce an ingress of moisture and/or oxygen.
US11802183B2
The present relates to a process for the depolymerization of lignin using chemicals recoverable by the soda or kraft mill recovery cycles. The process involves the use of sodium hydroxide or white liquor to depolymerize lignin in black liquor or other lignins (e.g. hydrolysis lignin, kraft lignin) by conducting the reaction at 170-250° C. for up to 3 hours in the presence or absence of a co-solvent and a capping agent. The depolymerized lignin is then obtained by acidifying the reaction products to a low pH to precipitate the de-polymerized lignin, followed by particle coagulation, cake filtration and washing with acid and water to obtain a purified depolymerized lignin product.
US11802182B2
The present invention generally relates to inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses having relatively high oxygen permeability, relatively high equilibrium water content and relatively low elastic modulus. The present invention is also related to a method for making such inherently wettable silicone hydrogel contact lenses.
US11802158B2
The invention relates generally to antibodies, activatable antibodies, multispecific antibodies, and multispecific activatable antibodies that specifically bind to at least CD3, as well as to methods of making and using these antibodies, activatable antibodies, multispecific antibodies, and/or multispecific activatable antibodies in a variety of therapeutic, diagnostic and prophylactic indications.
US11802155B2
The present disclosure provides binding agents, such as antibodies, that specifically bind ILT2, ILT4, or both ILT2 and ILT4, as well as compositions comprising the binding agents, and methods of their use. The disclosure also provides related polynucleotides and vectors encoding the binding agents and cells comprising the binding agents.
US11802149B2
The present inventive concept is related to antibodies, such as recombinant humanized and monoclonal antibodies, methods of making antibodies, and methods of using antibodies, such as antibodies directed toward and capable of specifically binding to and clearing amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques in the brain that are suitable for use in the treatment of disorders such as Alzheimer's Disease (AD).
US11802145B2
A recombinant fusion protein comprising 1) TGFβR2, or a fragment thereof, capable of binding to TGFβ, and 2) an antibody, or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, that binds to PD-1. Also disclosed are a polynucleotide encoding the recombinant fusion protein, an expression vector containing the polynucleotide, a method for producing the recombinant protein and a method for treating a disease caused by over expression of TGFβ and/or PD-1 using the recombinant protein.
US11802131B2
The present invention provides selected glutarimides which bind to the ubiquitously expressed E3 ligase protein cereblon (CRBN) and alter the substrate specificity of the CRBN E3 ubiquitin ligase complex, resulting in breakdown of intrinsic downstream proteins. The disclosed compounds are useful for the treatment of cancer.
US11802128B2
Described herein are azetidine and pyrrolidine PARP1 inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said inhibitors. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of cancer and are of Formula I(b)
US11802127B2
The invention relates to a compound of Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 are as defined herein. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and salts, and to methods and uses of such compounds, salts and compositions for the treatment of abnormal cell growth, including cancer, in a subject in need thereof. The invention further relates to solid forms of 8-((2-fluoro-4-(methylthio)phenyl)amino)-2-(2-hydroxyethoxy)-7-methyl-3,4-dihydro-2,7-naphthyridine-1,6(2H,7H)-dione.
US11802125B2
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, thereof: which inhibit the protein(s) encoded by hepatitis B virus (HBV) or interfere with the function of the HBV life cycle of the hepatitis B virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HBV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HBV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention.
US11802124B2
A compound of Chemical Formula 1, and an organic light emitting device including the same.
US11802123B2
The present invention relates to a novel heterocyclic compound and an organic light emitting device comprising the same.
US11802119B2
Provided is a novel production method capable of easily producing a cyclic disulfonic acid ester compound. This method for producing a cyclic disulfonic acid ester compound comprises reacting a specific sulfonic acid compound with a specific sulfuric acid ester compound.
US11802114B2
Disclosed herein are compounds that can be used to selectively detect superoxide in samples. Also disclosed herein are compositions comprising the compounds and methods of detecting superoxide using the compounds.
US11802109B2
The invention relates to a method for the purification of acrylamido-2-methyl-2-propanesulphonic acid comprising the following successive steps: 1) preparation of a suspension of acrylamido-2-methyl-2-propanesulphonic acid crystals by distillation of an aqueous solution of acrylamido-2-methyl-2-propanesulphonic acid in order to obtain a suspension of acrylamido-2-methyl-2-propanesulphonic acid crystals, 2) isolation of the acrylamido-2-methyl-2-propanesulphonic acid crystals generally by solid/liquid separation from said suspension in order to isolate said acrylamido-2-methyl-2-propanesulphonic acid crystals, characterised in that the distillation step is carried out continuously and at a pressure below atmospheric pressure. The invention also relates to a polymer obtained from acrylamido-2-methyl-2-propanesulphonic acid crystals or its salts, obtained according to such a method, and to the use of said polymer in oil and gas recovery, in water treatment, in sludge treatment, in manufacturing paper, in construction, in mining, in cosmetic formulation, in detergent formulation, in textile making, or in agriculture.
US11802099B2
Energetic materials comprising active components, a polymer binder matrix and a tackifying resin are useful as propellants; fuels, pyrotechnic materials and explosives; the tackifying resin improves the adhesion and dispersion of the active components throughout the binder resin.
US11802091B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed towards a system and method relating to depositing vapor in a sample. For example, a device includes a vapor source chamber configured to contain a vapor source material to generate vapor. An activation chamber is configured to contain a sample. The activation chamber is in fluid communication with the vapor source chamber to receive the vapor. A permeable separator divides the vapor source chamber and the activation chamber, and isolates the sample in the activation chamber while allowing vapor to pass between the vapor source chamber and the activation chamber. The device is sealable and configured to apply vacuum to the vapor and sample, to cause deposition of the vapor into the pumice stone samples.
US11802090B2
A thermally-insulating composite material with co-shrinkage in the form of an insulating material formed by the inclusion of microballoons in a matrix material such that the microballoons and the matrix material exhibit co-shrinkage upon processing. The thermally-insulating composite material can be formed by a variety of microballoon-matrix material combinations such as polymer microballoons in a preceramic matrix material. The matrix materials generally contain fine rigid fillers.
US11802083B2
The current invention is a novel addition to the field and comprises a self-sensing high performance fiber reinforced Geopolymer composite (HPFR-GPC) with self-sensing ability. In one or more embodiment, the self-sensing abilities are created by the addition of high performance fibers into a Geopolymer composites. The HPFR-GPC exhibits smart, high performance, energy efficient, and sustainability characteristics including: enhanced tensile ductility, toughness, and strain hardening (including crack width control); improved piezoresistive effects; utilization of industrial by-product; high resistance to acid attacks; and lightweight, low density. When compared to current available embedded or attachable sensors, the current invention offers lower cost, higher durability, and a larger sensing volume.
US11802081B2
A plurality of granules comprising ceramic particles bound together with an inorganic binder, the inorganic binder comprising reaction product of at least alkali silicate and hardener, wherein the ceramic particles are present as at least 50 percent by weight of each granule, based on the total weight of the respective granule, wherein each granule has a total porosity in a range from greater than 0 to 50 percent by volume, based on the total volume of the respective granule, and wherein the granule has a minimum Total Solar Reflectance of at least 0.7. The granules are useful, for example, as roofing granules.
US11802080B2
A glass substrate 10 has a mark provided on a surface 10A of the glass substrate 10, the mark including plural dots 104, a depth H of each of the dots 104 is 0.5 μm or larger and 7.0 μm or smaller, and an inclination angle of a side surface 104B of each of the dots 104 is 5° or larger and 56° or smaller.
US11802076B2
A lead-free glass paste, a chip resistor and a method for producing the same are provided. The lead-free glass paste includes 6-7 parts by mass of borosilicate oil, 12-21 parts by mass of aluminum oxide powder, 2-3 parts by mass of glass fiber powder, and 0.1-0.5 parts by mass of a curing agent.
US11802074B2
A high-tension busbar silver paste applied to the N-type solar cell is prepared by mixing a silver powder (a mixture of a spherical silver powder A having a median particle size of 700-900 nm and a tapped density of 5-6 g/mL and a spherical silver powder B having a medium particle size of 280-450 nm and a tapped density of 4-5 g/mL), an organic vehicle (a mixture of 3-5 wt % of polyvinyl butyral resin and 5-10 wt % of acrylic resin as a main resin) and a glass powder (copper-bismuth-manganese-tellurium series glass powder having a medium particle size of 0.7-1 μm and a softening temperature of 600-800° C.); the silver paste has large welding tension, in which the welding tension of the front busbar line is 4 N or more.
US11802071B2
A fiber optic imaging element includes medium-expansion and a fabrication method including: (1) matching a core glass rod with a cladding glass tube to perform mono fiber drawing; (2) arranging the mono fibers into a mono fiber bundle rod, and then drawing the mono fiber bundle rod into a multi fiber; (3) arranging the multi fiber into a multi fiber bundle rod, and then drawing the multi fiber bundle rod into a multi-multi fiber; (4) cutting the multi-multi fiber, and then arranging the multi-multi fiber into a fiber assembly buddle, then putting the fiber assembly buddle into a mold of heat press fusion process, and performing the heat press fusion process to prepare a block of the fiber optic imaging element with medium-expansion; and (5) edged rounding, cutting and slicing, face grinding and polishing the prepared medium-expansion block into a billet.
US11802060B2
The present invention provides a method for reducing the concentration of aluminum and nickel cations in a brine comprising aluminum and nickel cations. The treated brine can be used as a feedstock to membrane cell chlor-alkali process.
US11802056B2
The present disclosure relates to water environment governance technology, and particularly discloses an urban river/lake water environment multi-interface governance and restoration method. The method is a multi-interface coordinated governance and restoration method based on “control for bottom, regulation for middle and governance for top”, including: “control for bottom”—controlling the emission of sediment nutritive salts and the dormancy and recovery of algae; “regulation for middle”—regulating primary productivity in a water body to inhibit the recovery of the algae; and “governance for top”—reducing nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients of an air-water interface to control the reproduction and growth of the algae. In the present disclosure, the water body governance and restoration technology based on interface coordination can effectively inhibit the outbreak of cyanobacteria and avoid extreme conditions in the ecosystem.
US11802054B2
Disclosed is an apparatus, system, and method, by which a plentiful supply of carbon dioxide may be provided to a fuel-conversion process operated in the deep sea far from shore thereby permitting a conversion of electrolysis-generated hydrogen gas into a carbonaceous liquid fuel. Because the cost and complexity of storing and transporting liquid fuels by ship is substantially simpler and less costly than is transporting gases, the present invention is expected to promote the extraction and distribution of energy harvested from the deep sea by permitting it to be accomplished with reasonable logistical complexity and at a reasonable and low cost.
US11802052B2
Apparatus and method are disclosed for plasma synthesis of graphitic products including graphene. A plasma nozzle is coupled to a reaction chamber. A process gas is supplied to the plasma nozzle, the process gas comprising a carbon-containing species. Radio frequency radiation is supplied to the process gas within the plasma nozzle, so as to produce a plasma within the nozzle in use, and thereby cause cracking of the carbon-containing species. The plasma nozzle is arranged such that an afterglow of the plasma extends into the reaction chamber. The cracked carbon-containing species also passes into the reaction chamber, and the cracked carbon-containing species recombines within the afterglow, so as to form the graphitic products including graphene.
US11802039B2
A system and method for dispensing a beverage includes the detection of a presence of a cup underneath a nozzle, and in response to the detected presence of the cup, a target fill height is calculated. The controller operates to begin a dispense of a beverage into the cup. A beverage fill height determined and compared to a target fill height. When the beverage fill height exceeds the target fill height, the controller operates to stop dispensing the beverage into the cup.
US11802038B2
A method and apparatus for configuring and maintaining a beverage dispenser (10) are provided in which an array of flow control icons (60) is presented on the same page as functional sections (62-68). The functional sections (62-68) allow assignment of a beverage component to a flow control element corresponding to a selected flow control icon, and other functions to be performed in connection with the assigned beverage component or flow control element.
US11802033B2
A capping and de-capping apparatus for capping and de-capping tubes disposed in a tube holding rack having a two-dimensional array of apertures for holding the tubes. The apparatus comprises a rack support for supporting the tube holding rack, a head unit adapted for carrying a cartridge comprising at least one capping and de-capping gripper, a drive system for moving the rack support and the head unit relatively towards and away from one another, in order to cause engagement or disengagement of the capping and de-capping gripper with or from a cap of at least one tube, and a drive system for rotating the capping and de-capping gripper, wherein rotation in one direction causes attachment of the cap to the tube and rotation in the opposite direction causes detachment of the cap from said tube.
US11802029B1
An aluminum boat hoist carrier is configured to lift a vessel above a ground surface. The boat hoist carrier has a first aluminum c-channel having a first plurality of block attachment openings, at least one first channel grease opening, a first plurality of structure attachment openings, and a second plurality of structure attachment openings. Two billet aluminum pillow blocks are attached to the first and second plurality of structure attachment openings. A second c-aluminum channel has a second plurality of block attachment openings, at least one second aluminum channel grease opening, a third plurality of structure attachment openings attached to the first billet aluminum pillow block, and a fourth plurality of structure attachment openings attached to the second billet aluminum pillow block.
US11802027B2
Provided is a hoist arm structure having top and bottom ends, and an attachment element to releasable attach the bottom end of the hoist arm structure to an attachment location of a utility vehicle whereby the hoist arm is able to pivot relative to said attachment location, the hoist system further comprising an adjustment winch having an adjustment cable extending therefrom with adjustment cable having a distal end opposite the crank, and such distal and adjustment winch adapted for securing to respective structural elements of a structural frame system, wherein such structural elements are located on opposite lateral side of the utility vehicle.
US11802019B2
A post-processing device includes a processing tray on which a medium on which recording was performed by a recording unit is loaded, a rear end alignment unit that aligns a rear end (an example of an end portion) of the medium on the processing tray, a post-processing unit that performs post-processing on the medium aligned by the rear end alignment unit, and a pressing member that presses the rear end of the medium. The post-processing unit is configured to be movable. The pressing member is provided to be rotatable in conjunction with movement of the post-processing unit, in a state in which the pressing member is in contact with the medium aligned by the rear end alignment unit.
US11802016B2
A sheet guide comprising a first straight portion in an upstream end of the sheet guide in a conveyance direction of a sheet, a curved portion having a curvature, the curved portion continued from the first straight portion in the conveyance direction, and a second straight portion continued from the curved portion in a downstream end of the sheet guide in the conveyance direction. The curved portion includes a pair of guide plates defining a conveyance path through which the sheet is guided, and a shape retention member retaining a part of the pair of guide plates in a curved shape, the shape retention member holding each end of the pair of guide plates in a direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction.
US11802015B2
An image forming apparatus includes: as a conveyance to convey an object formed with an image, an upstream-side conveyance path; an intermediate conveyance path connected to a downstream end part of the upstream-side conveyance path via a first bent part; and a downstream-side conveyance path connected to the intermediate conveyance path via a second bent part, wherein the second bent part is bent to a side opposite to the first bent part, on an inner side of a bend of the first bent part, a friction reducing part capable of abutting with the object conveyed in the first bent part is provided, and the intermediate conveyance path includes: a pair of guide parts forming the intermediate conveyance path; and a friction reducing part that is provided on both a pair of the guide parts and is capable of abutting with the object conveyed between a pair of the guide parts.
US11801996B2
Various trash can assembly embodiments are disclosed. In some embodiments, the trash can assembly includes a body and a lid assembly. The lid assembly can include a lid, and a multicomponent trim ring. The lid assembly can be rotatably connected with the body via a hinge unit. In certain embodiments, a flange of the trim ring is guided into and/or received into the hinge unit. A translating pin of the hinge unit can engage into the flange, thereby providing a rotatable connection between the trim ring and the body. In various embodiments, the translating pin is coupled with a handle to facilitate movement of the pin by a user during engagement of the trim ring and the hinge unit. A positioner can help to position the trash can against or adjacent to a wall or other structure. The movement of both the trim ring and the lid can be dampened.
US11801995B1
Trash container assembly has interior container wall structure with upper edge structure, a bottom, and an upper opening and interior and exterior surfaces. The assembly has an exterior container with front, rear and side walls connected to a collapsible bottom, with the side walls connected to the front and rear walls so that the walls fold inwardly with the side walls positioned between the front and rear walls, and the bottom collapsed within the walls. In the open position the exterior container walls upper opening receives the interior container. When interior container is inserted with the exterior container, a retention member associated with the exterior container wall structure engages the interior container to resist it moving away from the exterior container. Structural supports are between side walls layers with a fold line located in between, and between front and rear wall layers, and above the bottom.
US11801993B1
The present disclosure generally pertains to a dispensing system comprising an upper chamber capable of receiving a bulk material to be dispensed, a first set of finned shafts positioned within the upper chamber and capable of feeding bulk material into a lower chamber, and a second set of finned shafts positioned within the lower chamber and capable of dispensing a controlled dose of bulk material from the lower chamber.
US11801983B2
A re-useable, washable two-piece four and six bottle carrier comprising a base with partitions to store one beverage per partition, and a detachable cover. The base comprises four vertical outer walls and a middle handle extending vertically through a cover slit; and is made of a re-useable silicone material manufactured from a one-piece mold. The detachable slip-on cover comprises a plurality of circular openings aligned with the base partitions for inserting a beverage, each opening comprising a plurality of radially concavity flexible grips that may bend downward at about 45 degrees after insertion of a beverage into the opening. These flexible grips permit beverages of different sizes and weights to be used in the carrier while being held in position. Method of use comprises attaching the cover to the base with the base handle extending through the cover, then inserting and removing the beverages through the cover openings.
US11801980B1
Systems and methods including a container assembly configured to maintain a controlled environment for storing a product therein are disclosed. Controlled environmental parameters may include at least one of the following: temperature, humidity, payload moisture content, solar radiation, magnetism, microwave, or light illumination. In certain implementations, the system includes a payload chamber and a self-contained lid-integrated environmental control unit (ECU) that may be coupled to the payload chamber using a substantially airtight seal. In certain embodiments, the ECU may include a condenser, a humidity controller, a liquid tank and a power source. Certain embodiments may include a warmer, temperature and/or humidity sensors, and/or a lock. Various combinations of the foregoing components and features may be incorporated, depending on the requirements of each particular implementation.
US11801974B2
A dispenser has a product chamber and an applicator tip. The product chamber has at least two walls, connected by at least one seal and having an applicator tip. The dispenser is configured so that it can be stood on one end, with the applicator tip at the opposite end.
US11801972B2
A console for storing personal items has a tub defining an inner volume onto which tub a windowed spacer guide frame defining at least a first window and a second window is removably installed. A tray is removably held within the first window, and defines at least one slot to hold an electronic device. A self-centering cup holder is removably held within the second window. Optionally, a snack cup is held within the second window, spaced apart from the self-centering cup holder by a spacer guide. The spacer guide has flaps that splay open to cover a greater portion of the second window as desired. Optionally, a cover for the tub forms a tray table surface, with portions of the cover tray slidably extendable away from one another to enlarge the tray table surface when the cover is separated from the tub.
US11801970B2
Disclosed is a foldable container. The container comprises a base (5) and two pairs of side plates (1, 2, 3, 4). The side plates are connected to the base in a manner such that the side plates can be folded relative to the base. Each of the side plates is provided with at least one first reinforcement member (6). Where the side plates are in an upright state, the first reinforcement members of the adjacent side plates are mutually connected so as to form an annular integral body. By means of the structure of the reinforcement member, the strength of the side plates of the foldable container is improved, and the defect where the side plates turn white, and even bulge, deform and fail when the foldable container bears a heavy load is overcome.
US11801967B2
Packaging box for fruit, berries and vegetables comprising four side walls, a top side, and a bottom side. A portion of a side wall or the top side comprises a pour opening for tamper evident opening and pouring of content stored inside the packaging box. The pour opening comprises tear lines for opening the pour opening and means for accessing a tear grip of the opening portion.
US11801956B2
A filling unit to fill a container, in particular a cartridge, with a liquid product of the pharmaceutical industry having: a dosing head, which is arranged in a filling station and is designed to feed a quantity of product into the container through an open upper end of the container; a capping device, which is arranged in a capping station and is designed to insert a closing element into the container and through the open upper end of the container; and a sucking device which is arranged in a degasification station located between the filling station and the capping station, is designed to engage the open upper end of the container in a sealing manner, and is designed to generate a depression inside the container in an upper volume, which is not occupied by the product.
US11801955B2
The present invention relates to a device for the production of bags (8) filled with infusible material having a base plate (50) which separates a drive side (54) from an operating side (52), where a bag-production device is provided on the operating side (52) in which a batch of the infusible material is placed onto the bag material (25) which is shaped into a tube and the tube sections are processed to form closed bags (8), where the bag production device is provided in a work space (68) between the base plate (50) and at least one protective door (56). In order to improve the cleanliness within the work space, the present invention proposes a ventilation device (74) for generating an air flow in the work space (68).
US11801943B2
A method of and a system for detecting a fuel leak in an aircraft, the aircraft comprising a first engine and a second engine. The method comprises upon determining that the aircraft has reached a first mode of operation: acquiring a first baseline fuel flow of the first engine; acquiring a second baseline fuel flow of the second engine. The method further comprises monitoring a first current fuel flow measured at the first engine and a second current fuel flow measured at the second engine; and triggering a fuel leak detection based on an analysis of the first baseline fuel flow, the first current fuel flow, the second baseline fuel flow and the second current fuel flow.
US11801929B2
An actuating system for an actuatable door and to an actuatable door having such an actuating system. The actuating system comprises first and second rotatable latching shafts, a coupling link, first and second pivotable mechanical transmission elements that are mounted onto first and second rotatable latching shafts, respectively, and first and second latching members. First and second latching members are non-rotatably mounted to the second rotatable latching shaft and adapted for latching the actuatable door in a closed position. A first rotation of the first rotatable latching shaft results in pivoting of the first and second mechanical transmission elements and a second rotation of the second rotatable latching shaft, which causes a third rotation of first and second latching members.
US11801922B2
A gyroscopic stabiliser for stabilising motion of an object includes a support for attaching to the object, a gimbal rotatably supported by the support to be rotatable around a first axis, a flywheel rotatably supported by the gimbal to be rotatable around a second axis relative to the gimbal, orthogonal to the first axis, and a rotary damper. The rotary damper has a chamber containing a damping fluid a vane that is rotatable within the chamber and that is coupled to the gimbal and a flow passage allowing flow of the damping fluid from the chamber on one side of the vane to the chamber on the other side of the vane when the vane is rotated.
US11801918B2
The present invention provides a method for handling the content of a catch from a fishing boat comprising the steps of providing a sorting table having crate handling platforms and installing crates on these platforms. The method also has the step of replacing a full crate with an empty crate and placing the full crates on a crate handling frame which frame can be secured within vertical storage containers.
US11801917B2
A mixed rope used for oceanographic buoy mooring system, comprises mixed core rope of metal and fiber and cover rope, wherein, the mixed core rope of metal and fiber comprises metal coil spring and fiber supporting core inside the metal coil spring; the cover rope is woven of several number of twisted strand; the mass content of the mixed core rope of metal and fiber is not greater than 20% of the mass of mixed rope, the mass content of the cover rope is not less than 80% of the mass of the mixed rope. Mixed rope used for oceanographic mooring system disclosed in present embodiments has small linear density and high fracture strength, may be used as data communication channel from under-water sensor to the over-water receiver, being soft, light and easy to deploy, the mixed rope can be used as the upper part of the oceanographic buoy mooring system with prospective application.
US11801905B2
The technology relates to enhancing the operation of autonomous vehicles. Extendible sensors are deployed based on detected or predicted conditions around a vehicle while operating in a self-driving mode. When not needed, the sensors are fully retracted into the vehicle to reduce drag and increase fuel economy. When the onboard system determines that there is a need for a deployable sensor, such as to enhance the field of view of the perception system, the sensor is extended in a predetermined manner. The deployment may depend on one or more operating conditions and/or particular driving scenarios. These and other sensors of the vehicle may be protected with a rugged housing, for instance to protect against damage from the elements. And in other situations, deployable foils may extend from the vehicle's chassis to increase drag and enhance braking. This may be helpful for large trucks in steep descent situations.
US11801902B2
An aerodynamic mud flap includes a body having a first lateral side, an opposite second lateral side, an upper end, an opposite lower end, a front face, and an opposite rear face. The body extends in a horizontal, vertical, and transverse directions. The body has a generally planar upper portion extending vertically from the upper end to a horizontal transition line, and an arcuate lower portion extending vertically from the transition line to the lower end. The lower portion is curved along the vertical direction such that the lower end of the body is offset from the upper end in the transverse direction and is disposed rearward of the upper end. A plurality of octagonal openings in the body extend from the front face to the rear face to allow for air flow through the mud flap from the front side to the rear side.
US11801900B2
A hood latch release system includes, among other things, a release member within a compartment covered by a hood, a hood latch assembly, and a release assembly having an electrically powered actuator and a mechanical actuator. The electrically powered actuator and the mechanical actuator are each configured to move one or more latches of the hood latch assembly from the latched position to the unlatched position. The system further includes a selector assembly. When a coupling member of the selector assembly is in a decoupling position, actuating the release member causes the electrically powered actuator to unlatch the primary latch, the secondary latch, or both. When the coupling member of the selector assembly is in a coupling position, actuating the release member causes the mechanical actuator to unlatch the primary latch, the secondary latch, or both.
US11801898B2
A system for reducing risk of fuel leakage of a vehicle during a collision includes a vehicle main body configured to support and at least partially enclose a passenger. The system further includes a fuel inlet box configured to house a fuel inlet. The system further includes a rear bracket coupled to the vehicle main body at a location aft of the fuel inlet box. The system further includes a center shaft coupled to the rear bracket and extending forward from the rear bracket. The system further includes a forward bracket coupled to the vehicle main body at a location forward relative to the rear bracket and coupled to the center shaft, the forward bracket configured to deform in response to a rear collision of the vehicle to actuate the fuel inlet box in order to reduce the likelihood of a fuel leak from the fuel inlet.
US11801895B2
A control device includes a processor and a storage device storing a program for controlling an operation of the processor. The processor determines whether a vehicle is in a straight-ahead traveling state, based on a vehicle speed detected by a vehicle speed sensor, a steering wheel torque applied to a steering wheel, and a steering wheel angle as a rotation angle of an input shaft. The processor stores the steering wheel angle in the memory when determining that the vehicle is in the straight-ahead traveling state. The processor stores the steering wheel angle in the memory multiple times when determining that the vehicle is in the straight-ahead traveling state. The processor calculates a corrected steering angle amount from a weighted average of the steering wheel angles stored in the memory.
US11801876B2
According to some embodiments, an articulated railcar comprises a first railcar and a second railcar coupled via an articulated railcar truck. The first railcar and the second railcar each comprise a first end, a second end, and a first longitudinal side and a second longitudinal side disposed between the first end and the second end. The first longitudinal side comprises a center panel and an intermediate panel. The center panel is disposed between a center of the railcar and the intermediate panel. The intermediate panel is disposed between the center panel and the first end or the second end. A width of the railcar at the intermediate panel is greater than a width of the railcar at the center panel.
US11801872B2
A vehicle control apparatus includes a driving-assist control unit and a remote control unit. The driving-assist control unit is configured to perform an automatic driving control of stopping a vehicle in accordance with detection of an abnormal state of a driver of the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling. The remote control unit is configured to perform a control of transmitting remote control permission notification after the vehicle is stopped by the automatic driving control. The remote control permission notification permits a remote control of the vehicle.
US11801869B2
A method for controlling an autonomous vehicle is provided. While the vehicle is at a commanded destination the method may be responsive to an absence of an ingress/egress of a passenger for a predetermined period. The predetermined period may depend on whether the vehicle is in arrival mode or departure mode. The method may include commanding the vehicle to travel to a predetermined location selected to have measures of cellular-wireless signal strength that are greater than a predetermined threshold.
US11801868B2
A hybrid vehicle, a control method therefor, and a storage medium which are capable of suppressing changes in an engine sound and vibration even when acceleration is performed at the time of increasing a required driving force are provided. In a hybrid vehicle capable of performing automated driving control for automatically controlling at least acceleration and deceleration of a vehicle, a rotational speed of the engine is gradually increased by a predetermined increase step while maintaining or decelerating a vehicle speed of the hybrid vehicle until an increase timing of a required driving force in a case where it is predicted that the required driving force is required to be increased while the automated driving control is performed, and at least the power generated by the generator is supplied to the motor at the increase timing of the required driving force.
US11801866B2
A method includes identifying a desired path for an ego vehicle. The method also includes determining how to apply steering control and torque vectoring control to cause the ego vehicle to follow the desired path. The determination is based on actuator delays associated with the steering control and the torque vectoring control and one or more limits of the ego vehicle. The method further includes applying at least one of the steering control and the torque vectoring control to create lateral movement of the ego vehicle during travel. Determining how to apply the steering control and the torque vectoring control may include using a state-space model that incorporates first-order time delays associated with the steering control and the torque vectoring control and using a linear quadratic regulator to determine how to control the ego vehicle based on the state-space model and the one or more limits of the ego vehicle.
US11801865B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for creating a velocity grid of a simulated object in a simulated environment for use by an autonomous vehicle. The method may include simulating a road scenario with simulated objects. The method may also include tracking a point representative of a portion of one of the simulated objects in the simulated road scenario, wherein the point representative of the portion of one of the simulated objects moves from a first location to a second location in a time period, wherein the velocity of the point is generated from the first location to the second location. The method may further include storing the velocity of the point representative of the portion of one of the simulated objects in a velocity grid for the simulated objects in a memory device in an electrical communication with a processor.
US11801858B1
System and methods that utilize driver facing cameras to monitor a neck size of a driver and to modify vehicle operations as an increase in neck size is detected are disclosed. In one form, a system includes a memory; an imaging device configured; and at least one processor in communication with the memory and the imaging device. The at least one processor is configured to receive an image of the interior of the vehicle captured by the imaging device; analyze the image and determine a parameter associated with a neck size of a driver of the vehicle that is present in the image; determine that the parameter associated with the neck size of the driver present in the image has increased more than a predetermined value; and modify an operation of the vehicle based on the parameter associated with the neck size of the driver present in the image increasing more than the predetermined value.
US11801856B2
An electronic control device is mounted on a vehicle having a sensor, and includes: a storage unit that stores a control history in which a vehicle control condition and an actual number of measurement times of the vehicle control condition are associated with each other, the vehicle control condition being a condition for performing an arbitrary vehicle control operation for each position; a position specifying unit that specifies a position of the vehicle; a determination unit that determines a current sensor capability that is a current capability of the sensor; and a selection unit that selects, from the storage unit, the vehicle control condition having the largest actual number among the vehicle control conditions that have a position within a predetermined distance from the position specified by the position specifying unit and that can be determined by the current sensor capability.
US11801854B2
A load weight notification device includes a weight sensor configured to detect a load weight of a vehicle as a detection weight, an output device configured to at least notify a passenger in the vehicle of information, and a controller configured to, in a case where the detection weight obtained during an opening period of a door of the vehicle exceeds a prescribed first threshold value, instruct the output device to notify the passenger of information indicating overweight, in which the controller is configured to, until completion of an initial closing operation that is a closing operation of the door performed after the vehicle is activated until the vehicle starts traveling, not instruct the output device to notify the passenger in the vehicle of the information indicating the overweight even when the detection weight exceeds the first threshold value.
US11801852B2
A method performed by an autonomous vehicle includes identifying a condition preventing the autonomous vehicle from proceeding along an intended route. The method also includes prompting a passenger of the autonomous vehicle to interact with a driver of a first vehicle in response to identifying the condition. The method further includes receiving, from the passenger, an input at an interface of the autonomous vehicle indicating a successful interaction or an unsuccessful interaction with the driver. The method also includes controlling the autonomous vehicle to proceed along the intended route based on the input indicating the successful interaction with the driver.
US11801847B1
Described is a system for analyzing time series data. A sequence of symbols is generated from a set of time series input data related to a moving vehicle using automatic segmentation. A grammar is extracted from the sequence of symbols, and the grammar is a subset of a probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG). Using the grammar, time series input data can be analyzed, and a prediction of the vehicle's movement can be made. Vehicle operations for an autonomous vehicle are determined using the prediction.
US11801843B2
A method determines safety-critical traffic scenarios for driver assistance systems and highly automated driving functions for a motor vehicle. A safety-critical traffic scenario has a scenario type, a location determined geographic coordinates, and a safety value. The method includes: recording first data of a vehicle while driving along a route, assigning geographic coordinates to the first data in each case; recording second data for capturing physiological and physical reactions of a driver of a vehicle while driving along the route, assigning geographic coordinates to the second data in each case; transmitting the first and second data to a data evaluation unit; combining the first data and the second data having the same geographic coordinates so that they represent data at a specific geographic location; identifying a scenario for the specific geographic location based on the first and second data; classifying the identified scenario with a difficulty value.
US11801836B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to collect operation data of one or more components of a vehicle, input the collected operation data and previously stored operation data to a first machine learning program that assigns the collected operation data to one of a plurality of previously determined paths and outputs a target fuel consumption rate of the vehicle based on the assigned path, input the target fuel consumption rate and the collected operation data to a second machine learning program that outputs a plurality of operation settings of the one or more components to attain the target fuel consumption rate, and actuate the one or more components to attain the plurality of operation settings.
US11801833B2
One variation of a method for influencing entities proximal a road surface includes, at an autonomous vehicle: over a first period of time, detecting a pedestrian proximal a road surface; predicting an initial path of the pedestrian an initial confidence score for the initial path of the pedestrian based on and motion of the pedestrian during the first period of time; in response to the initial confidence score falling below a threshold confidence, replaying an audio track audible to the pedestrian and calculating a revised path of the pedestrian and a revised confidence score for the revised path based on motion of the pedestrian following replay of the audio track; and autonomously navigating across the road surface according to a planned route in response to the revised path of the pedestrian falling outside of the planned route and the revised confidence score exceeding the threshold confidence.
US11801815B2
The present invention provides a brake hydraulic pressure controller capable of suppressing retention of air bubbles on a release side of a pump. The brake hydraulic pressure controller includes: a housing; a motor attached to the housing; and plural pump elements, each of which is attached to a recess formed on a side surface of the housing and driven by a motor. Each of the pump elements includes: a suction valve suctioning a brake fluid into a pump chamber; a release valve releasing the brake fluid from the pump chamber; and a channel forming member arranged on a release side of the release valve. The channel forming member includes: a spring chamber accommodating a spring for urging a valve body of the release valve in a closing direction; and a passage communicating between the spring chamber and an outer surface of the channel forming member. The passage in the channel forming member of each of the plural pump elements extends upward from a position including a top portion of the spring chamber in a vertical direction and is connected to the outer surface.
US11801813B2
A stably braking system and a method using the same control wheels on a single axle of a ground vehicle. Firstly, at least one of a wheel deceleration and an actual slip of each of the wheels is calculated. Hydraulic control commands are generated when a braking operation is performed in response to a braking indication signal and it is detected that the wheel deceleration or the actual slip is higher. The hydraulic control commands are configured to control a hydraulic braking system to adjust the wheel speed. When the ground vehicle drives in a straight line or turns with a first pose physical quantity, the hydraulic control command with a low priority is replaced by the hydraulic control command with a high priority and the hydraulic braking system is controlled to adjust the wheel speeds based on the identical hydraulic control commands.
US11801812B2
A vehicle control apparatus and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The vehicle control apparatus includes an inputter, a determiner, and a controller. The inputter receives an automatic vehicle hold (AVH) switch operation signal from an AVH device, and receives a current vehicle movement value sensed by a sensing device and a current vehicle brake force value of a brake device that generates brake force in response to activation of the AVH device. The determiner determines whether the received AVH switch operation signal transitions from an ON state to an AVH entry state, determines whether vehicle movement occurs on the basis of the received current vehicle movement value during an AVH retention time in the AVH entry state, and determines that the current vehicle brake force value is in an abnormal state when vehicle movement occurs. The controller receives the current vehicle movement value and the current vehicle brake force value, and transmits a command for judgment to the determiner.
US11801811B2
A wheel chock including a wedge-shaped body defined by at least one substantially flat wall for resting against a ground and at the top, at least one wall for bearing against a wheel, inclined with respect to the wall for resting against the ground, the wall for bearing against the wheel adjoining the wall for resting against the ground at a tip of the wedge-shaped body, the wall for bearing against the wheel including a blocking portion distal from the tip, configured to block a movement of the wheel, and a wheel receiving portion proximal to the tip, further including at least one breakage element constrained to the wedge-shaped body to interfere with a wheel engaged against the blocking portion of the wall for bearing against the wheel, the at least one breakage element configured to partially irreversibly deform when a wheel engages the blocking portion of the wedge-shaped body.
US11801808B2
The present disclosure provides a sensor cleaning system that cleans one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle. Each sensor can have one or more corresponding sensor cleaning units that are configured to clean such sensor using a fluid (e.g., a gas or a liquid). Thus, the sensor cleaning system can include both a gas cleaning system and a liquid cleaning system. According to one aspect, the sensor cleaning system can provide individualized cleaning of the autonomous vehicle sensors. According to another aspect, a liquid cleaning system can be pressurized or otherwise powered by the gas cleaning system or other gas system.
US11801804B1
A secure locking hub system for locking a wheel hub of a vehicle to an axle is provided. The system has a locking ring that may be manually inserted and removed by a user to switch the system between locked and unlocked configurations. When in the locked configuration, the hub is in a rotationally fixed position relative to the axle on which the hub is mounted. With the hub locked to the axle, the wheel will not rotate and the vehicle thus cannot be moved. The system additionally has a security lock that prevents any unauthorized individual from removing the locking ring, thereby preventing theft of the vehicle.
US11801803B2
In a method of folding a curtain-type side airbag to form an elongate airbag package which defines a longitudinal direction, in one folding step at least portions of the side airbag are rolled around a first winding axis. In another folding step, at least portions of the side airbag are rolled around a second winding axis which is at an angle between 0° and 180° with the first winding axis.
US11801792B2
An article of manufacture for providing a universal auto step for a vehicle hitch has an attachable step, and a hitch drawbar having a shaft and a lock to a hitch receiver. The attachable step includes a top surface having a front edge, a rear edge, a left-side edge and a right-side edge, a set of side members coupled to the front side edge, the left-side edge, and the right-side edge, the set of side members oriented perpendicular and downward from the top surface, and an attachment tab coupled to the rear edge and extending downward. The top surface rests upon a top surface of the hitch drawbar when coupled to the hitch drawbar.
US11801771B2
An example operation includes one or more of receiving a first energy, at a target transport, from a charging station at a first value during a first amount of time, and the target transport and the charging station are physically connected, and receiving a second energy, at the target transport, from a providing transport at a second value greater than the first value during a second amount of time less than the first amount of time, and the target transport and the providing transport are wirelessly connected.
US11801758B2
A hierarchical vehicle control system for a vehicle powered by a distributed propulsion system (DPS) comprising plurality of propelling axles driven by plurality of motors and powered by a battery system comprising plurality of battery packs. Said hierarchical vehicle control system comprising a first controller, a second controller that generates axle command signals for operation of the propelling axles, and a third controller that generates motor command signals for operation of the electric motors wherein said third controller further comprising a DPS diagnosis/prognosis module, a DPS fault tolerance module and a power distribution management module.
US11801757B2
A control method for an electric vehicle in which a motor is used as a traveling drive source and deceleration is performed by a regenerative braking force of the motor, the electric vehicle including a towing unit configured to tow a separate object, the method including: acquiring an accelerator operation amount; acquiring a total mass of the electric vehicle; estimating a disturbance torque acting on the electric vehicle; acquiring an angular velocity of a rotary body; estimating a vehicle body speed of the electric vehicle; calculating a torque command value for the motor; measuring a load applied to the towing unit; correcting the total mass of the electric vehicle based on the measured load applied to the towing unit and the torque command value; controlling a torque generated in the motor based on the torque command value; and converging the torque command value to the disturbance torque.
US11801756B2
A permanent magnet electrodynamic suspension system includes a conductor track and a suspension and guidance device. The conductor track is disposed on a roadbed, and the suspension and guidance device is disposed above the conductor track. The suspension and guidance device includes a first permanent magnet array and a second permanent magnet array. The first permanent magnet array and the second permanent magnet array are the same in the magnetization direction arrangement. The first permanent magnet array and the second permanent magnet array are arranged perpendicular to each other. A guidance method for the permanent magnet electrodynamic suspension system is further provided.
US11801754B1
Example methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, as techniques to transition between and/or among safety states of an electric motor driver unit (EMDU).
US11801750B2
Methods and apparatus for detecting hazardous vehicle events and encouraging usage of driving optimized application features to mitigate occurrence of the hazardous vehicle events. The driving optimized application features can address unsafe driving events that are determined to be correlated with certain distracting application features. For example, an application of a computing device can determine that a user is occupying a vehicle and is driving toward a destination. While driving, data available to the application can indicate that an unsafe driving event, such as a hard braking event, has occurred while the user was interacting with another application. Thereafter, and based on this data, the application can render an output characterizing the correlation between the hard braking event and the other application, and/or provide the user with an option to interact with the other application via driving optimized feature(s).
US11801740B1
A flexible cover system includes a sheet of flexible material having a first face and a second face. Each receptacle from a set of receptacles has walls coupled to the sheet's first face that extend to an opening of the receptacle. The walls associated with each receptacle are separated from the walls associated with adjacent ones of the receptacles by an air-filled gap. Each body from a set of bodies is configured for retention in one of the receptacles by the walls associated therewith.
US11801738B2
The invention relates to a panel joining arrangement for a vehicle canopy. The vehicle canopy includes at least one three panel join where a side panel, roof panel and end panel of the vehicle canopy meet. The panel joining arrangement comprises first and second lip portions formed in the side panel of the vehicle canopy and a third lip portion formed in the roof panel. The first and second lip portions are longitudinally offset and transversely overlapping in relation to a length of the side panel. The third lip portion is configured to mate with the second lip portion at the three panel join of the vehicle canopy such that the third lip portion is located adjacent to and substantially flush with the first lip portion.
US11801733B2
In one embodiment, an autonomous driving system to autonomously drive an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) includes one or more processors, a perception module executed by the processors to perceive a driving environment surrounding the ADV, and a planning module executed by the processors to plan a path based on perception data of the driving environment to navigate through the driving environment. The processors are mounted on one or more cold plates coupled to a vehicle cooling system of the ADV, the vehicle cooling system having a first radiator and a first coolant distribution loop coupled to a vehicle engine of the ADV to provide liquid cooling to the vehicle engine. The cold plates are coupled to the first radiator via a second coolant distribution loop to receive a portion of the coolant from the first radiator to extract heat from the cold plates.
US11801722B2
A suspension device includes a leaf spring and a buffer. The leaf spring applies an elastic force for relatively moving an unsprung member in a predetermined direction with respect to a body (sprung member) of a vehicle. The buffer includes a first expansion/contraction member, a second expansion/contraction member, an intermediate member, and a damping passage. The first and second expansion/contraction members form first and second gas chambers filled with gas therein and are expandable and contractible. An upper end and a lower end of the first and second expansion/contraction members are connected to the body. The intermediate member couples the first and second expansion/contraction members and is connected to the leaf spring. The damping passage allows the first and second gas chambers to communicate with each other, and applies resistance to flow of flowing gas. When one of the first and second expansion/contraction members expands, the other contracts.
US11801721B2
Described is a fixing device for fixing together a first and a second structure, each of said structures having at least a first and a second cavity, the device comprising a first and a second fixing element, each fixing element having a body comprising a seat and a pin, wherein: the pin of the first fixing element is configured to be inserted, freely passing through, in the first cavities of the first and of the second structure and to be reversibly coupled to the seat of the second fixing element, and the pin of the second fixing element is configured to be inserted, freely passing through, in the second cavities of the first and of the second structure and to be reversibly coupled to the seat of the first fixing element.
US11801712B2
The present invention relates to an improvement in caster swivel restriction structure. The present invention is characterized in that a swivel brake plate has a body piece having a plurality of through holes arranged therein and latch pieces bent downward from the body piece, a support base has latch hole portions for fitting the latch pieces in a vertical slidable manner, a gap portion provided at a location corresponding to below the group of through holes formed in the swivel brake plate, and cushioning members or biasing members which are disposed in the gap portion and supports the swivel brake plate aloft and which is repulsively compressed when downward force is applied to the swivel brake plate.
US11801708B2
A chalk reel is provided that includes a handgrip on housing supporting a chalk line extending from a nozzle of the housing that extends from the chalk reel to mark a straight line. The chalk reel may further include a rotatable handle that rotates to extend or retract (“pay out”) the chalk line. A hook is secured to the end of the chalk line to facilitate extension of the chalk line and prevent retraction of the chalk line end into the housing nozzle. The chalk reel may further include a transmission system with gearing and a selector to lock the gearing at locations around the handle rotation. The chalk reel may also include a large removable cap to facilitate refilling the chalk or other marking material.
US11801705B2
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a sheet processing device, and control circuitry. The image forming apparatus forms an image on a sheet. The sheet processing device performs post-processing on the sheet. The sheet processing device includes a first conveyance path through which the sheet is conveyed and subjected to the post-processing and a second conveyance path through which the sheet is conveyed without the post-processing. In response to an instruction of print jobs including both a print job of one or N copies subjected to the post-processing and a print job not subjected to the post-processing, the circuitry executes the job not subjected to the post-processing during execution of an M-th copy of the job subjected to the post-processing and causes the sheet to be conveyed through the second conveyance path, where N is two or greater and M satisfies 1≤M
US11801699B2
Example implementations relate to emulating 3D texture patterns in a printer system. One example implementation receives an image having a number of image pixels and selects from a plurality of digital substrates which each correspond to a physical substrate. Each digital substrate has luminance change data corresponding to heights of a 3D texture pattern at respective locations of the physical substrate. An image having emulated 3D texture is generated by adjusting the luminance of the image pixels corresponding to respective locations of the physical substrate and according to the corresponding luminance change data.
US11801684B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for circulating a liquid mixture of substances between a container and a pressure-sensitive component which is supplied from the container, including apparatus for circulating an ink between an ink storage container and a print head of a printing system, comprising a pump, which allows the liquid mixture of substances to circulate in the container through an external conduit circuit, a Venturi tube, the main conduit of which is connected into the external conduit circuit, and also a conduit which connects the output connection of the pressure-sensitive component to the suction connection of the Venturi tube.
US11801683B2
A liquid ejecting head includes a nozzle configured to eject ink, a filter chamber accommodating a filter, and a nozzle introduction port through which the ink flows out of the filter chamber. The filter chamber includes a first side and a second side that extend toward the nozzle introduction port in plan view in a direction perpendicular to the filter, and the nozzle introduction port is elongated along the first side in plan view in the direction perpendicular to the filter.
US11801676B2
A piezoelectric element includes an upper electrode, a lower electrode, and a piezoelectric body disposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode. The piezoelectic body contains lead zirconate titanate. The piezoelectric element also includes a seed layer containing lead disposed between the lower electrode and the piezoelectric body. The seed layer has an amorphous structure at least over an entire surface layer portion on the piezoelectric body side.
US11801668B2
The invention relates to multilayer oxide ceramic bodies and in particular presintered multilayer oxide ceramic blanks and oxide ceramic green bodies, which comprise at least two different layers and are suitable for dental applications, wherein at least one layer contains La2O3 and the at least two different layers differ in their content of La2O3. These bodies can be thermally densified by further sintering without distortion and are therefore particularly suitable for the production of dental restorations. The invention also relates to a process for the production of such multilayer oxide ceramic bodies as well as a process for the production of dental restorations using the multilayer oxide ceramic bodies.
US11801648B2
A sheet-shaped insulating member including a thermoplastic resin fiber and an inorganic fiber is arranged on a surface of a magnet body. The insulating member is compressed while being heated to a temperature higher than or equal to a glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic resin fiber, so that the insulating member is thermocompression-bonded to the magnet body in a state in which the inorganic fiber is elastically compressed. A magnet is thus formed. With the magnet arranged in a slot of a rotor core, the magnet is heated to a temperature higher than or equal to the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic resin fiber. This causes the inorganic fiber to restore elasticity, so that the magnet is fixed to the rotor core.
US11801642B2
In some embodiments, a method of determining the fill level of a resin pool in a bottom-up additive manufacturing apparatus includes the steps of: (a) providing an additive manufacturing apparatus including a build platform and a light transmissive window (12), the build platform (15) and the window (12) defining a build region therebetween, with the window (12) carrying a resin pool, the pool having a resin top surface portion; (b) advancing the build platform (15) and the window (12) towards one another until the build platform (15) contacts the resin top surface portion; (c) detecting the impact of the build platform (15) with the resin top surface portion; and (d) determining the fill level of the resin pool from the detected impact.
US11801636B2
A method and an apparatus for additive manufacturing pertaining to high efficiency, energy beam patterning and beam steering to effectively and efficiently utilize the source energy. In one embodiment recycling and reuse of unwanted light includes a source of multiple light patterns produced by one or more light valves, with at least one of the multiple light patterns being formed from rejected patterned light. An image relay is used to direct the multiple light patterns, and a beam routing system receives the multiple light patterns and respectively directs them toward defined areas on a powder bed.
US11801635B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for additively manufacturing a product in a layer-by-layer sequence, wherein the product is formed using powder particles deposited on an interface layer of a substrate. A laser generates first and second beam components. The second beam component has a higher power level and a shorter duration than the first beam component. A mask creates a 2D optical pattern in which only select portions of the second beam components can irradiate the powder particles. The first beam component heats the powder particles close to a melting point, where the particles experience surface tension forces relative to the interface layer. While the particles are heated, the second beam component further heats the particles and also melts the interface layer before the surface tension forces can act on and distort the particles, enabling the particles and the interface layer are able to bond together.
US11801621B2
A system for curing a thermoset composite may include a tooling die configured to receive and support an uncured thermoset composite part and to heat the uncured thermoset composite part; a pressure media bag configured to be placed over the uncured thermoset composite part disposed on the tooling die and including a pressure media; and a mechanical press configured to apply a consolidation pressure to the uncured thermoset composite part disposed on the tooling die, the pressure media bag may be configured to distribute the consolidation pressure applied by the mechanical press to the uncured thermoset composite part disposed on the tooling die.
US11801611B2
A package opening knife has a body part, a blade part, a gripping part that extends in an elongated shape in a prescribed first direction, and a guide part provided with a guide surface that slides in a surface direction of the package in a state of contacting the package to guide movement of the blade part. When a surface direction of the guide is defined as a second direction, the first direction and the second direction become substantially parallel to each other.
US11801609B2
The present invention discloses a shafting structure of an integrated joint for a collaborative robot, wherein two ends of a long input shaft are respectively a motor rear end and a flexspline end, and a harmonic gear drive is installed on the flexspline end; the motor rear end is coaxially provided with a motor rear end bearing set, a motor rear end inner race pressing ring, a motor rear end outer race pressing ring, a motor rear end outer race seat and a motor rear end angle encoder mounting seat; and the flexspline end is provided coaxially with a flexspline end bearing set, a flexspline end inner race pressing ring and the harmonic gear drive. In the present invention high-precision position feedback and control can be realized.
US11801608B2
A robot configured to use a gripper to grasp one or more tools is disclosed. In various embodiments, the robot comprises a robotic arm having a gripper disposed at a free moving end of the robotic arm, and a set of two or more tools configured to grasped or otherwise engaged by the gripper. Each tool in the set of two or more tools may be disposed in a corresponding tool holder, optionally attached to the robot or situated near the robot. The robot is configured to use the gripper to retrieve a selected tool from its tool holder to perform a task; use the tool to perform the task; and return the tool to its tool holder.
US11801605B2
Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for preparing a robotic system for surgery. In one aspect, the method includes a robotic arm, a sensor configured to generate information indicative of a location of the robotic arm, a processor, and at least one computer-readable memory in communication with the processor and having stored thereon computer-executable instructions. The instructions are configured to cause the processor to receive the information from the sensor, determine that the robotic arm is located at a first position in which a first axis associated with the robotic arm is not in alignment with a second axis associated with a port installed in a patient, and provide a command to move the robotic arm to a second position in which the first axis associated with the robotic arm is in alignment with the second axis.
US11801597B2
A box handling system is disclosed for use in an object processing system. The box handling system includes a box tray including a recessed area for receiving a box, and the recessed area includes a plurality of floor and edge portions for receiving the box that contains objects to be processed.
US11801596B2
A system for assisting an operator in exerting efforts comprises a garment that can be worn by the operator, which is to engage, when worn, the mutually mobile parts of a joint of the operator. The system defines at least one axis of rotation that is to assume a position corresponding to the joint of the operator. A device is carried by the garment and designed to operate so as to compensate the resistive moments that act on the joint during the effort exerted by the operator. A compensation device is provided equipped with a rotational assembly, which has a neutral position and is able to determine a pre-set plot of the assisting torque that is a function of the angle of rotation of the joint. The compensation device may include a tension regulation device to regulate a moment obtained about the joint of the operator.
US11801593B2
The invention refers to a hand-held power tool (10), comprising a tool housing (12), a working element (30) protruding from the tool housing (12) and designed to perform a working movement (34) during an intended use of the power tool (10), and a motor (28) located inside the tool housing (12) and designed to drive the working element (30) to perform the working movement (34) during the intended use of the power tool (10). In order to provide the user of the power tool (10) with a clear and immediately visible optical information on the current operation status of the power tool (10), the power tool (10) further comprises at least one elongated light emitting device (56) having a longitudinal extension (58) and located at least partially on an external surface of the tool housing (12), wherein the at least one elongated light emitting device (56) is designed to emit light along at least part of its longitudinal extension (58) in a direction (86; 96) that is essentially perpendicular to the longitudinal extension (58) of the elongated light emitting device (56).
US11801589B1
An expansion tool structure for a steering knuckle of a vehicle contains: a body, a multiple-section positioning set, and a rotatable connector. The body includes a receiving orifice, a first rotation portion, a recess, a second rotation portion, a stopped face, two retainers, a holding protrusion, a notch, a hollow accommodation section, and a threaded orifice. The multiple-section positioning set includes a locating ball, a resilient element, and a threaded post. The rotatable connector includes a holder, four slots, a first rotatable coupling section, a second rotatable coupling section, a stepped edge, an extension, a C-shaped ring, and a non-circular joining portion. The rotatable connector further includes an actuation projection, and the actuation projection has two opposite elongated faces and two opposite short faces. Preferably, a width of a respective one short face is equal to or is less than a width of a respective one retainer.
US11801587B2
The invention is an electric commutating ratchet tool comprising: a head; a ratchet mechanism with a rotating member and a latch member; the rotating member is capable of rotating, the latch member is capable of displacing and controlling rotation direction of the rotating member; and a commutating device with a commutating member, a magnetic driving member and a magnetic actuating unit; the commutating member is capable of displacing to abut against the latch member; the magnetic actuating unit is opposite to the magnetic driving member, either the magnetic actuating unit or the magnetic driving member is disposed on the commutating member; the magnetic actuating unit is at least one electromagnet; magnetic direction is changed through each of the electromagnets, so that the magnetic driving member is magnetically driven to change a position of the latch member.
US11801577B2
A 5-axis processing machine includes a mounting table on which a tool and a work piece are placed; and a control unit; wherein the mounting table is moved relatively by three linear axes and two rotation axes based on NC data, the two rotation axes include a first axis and a second axis, when the control unit calculates a rotation angle of the two rotation axes, the control unit acquires an axis vector Na that specifies an actual first axis direction and an axis vector Nc that specifies an actual second axis direction, the control unit calculates a posture vector K that specifies a posture at a time of processing the work piece with respect to the tool from the NC data, the control unit calculates, as a solution of a following equation (4), an actual rotation angle θ around the first axis of the tool.
US11801569B2
Stopping electroslag strip cladding operations feeding multiple strips includes detecting, during a welding phase of an electroslag welding operation feeding a first strip and a second strip towards a molten slag pool formed on a work piece, initiation of a stop phase. Upon detection the feeding of the first strip towards the molten slag pool is stopped. Additionally, a feed direction of the feeding of the second strip is reversed to retract the second strip away from the molten slag pool.
US11801564B2
A perforating apparatus for a cylindrical workpiece, including: a cradle having a groove extending in one direction horizontally from one end to another end; a stopper provided at the one end of the groove; a drill disposed vertically above the groove and movable at least in vertical direction, having a drill bit that extends vertically; and a chuck having a pair of opposing grippers movable toward each other in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the direction in which the groove extends, and symmetrically with respect to a rotation axis of the drill bit, each of the grippers further having a pair of vertically symmetric inclined surfaces expanding upwards and downwards.
US11801563B2
A tool for engaging drive flanks of a threaded nut has a tool body with a central cavity. Cam surfaces are formed in an inner wall of the central cavity. A retainer secured within the central cavity has an outward-facing slot. A jaw for each of the cam surfaces has a curved outer side in contact with one of the cam surfaces and a drive surface on an inner side for engaging one of the drive flanks of the nut. A foot extends inward from a lower end of each of the jaws into the slot to retain the jaws within the central cavity. Rotating the tool body relative to the jaws moves the drive surfaces of the jaws from a retracted position to a gripping position in engagement with the drive flanks of the nut.
US11801551B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure includes a method of forming a body of an earth-boring downhole tool. A mold is formed that has at least one interior surface defining a mold cavity within the mold. The mold cavity has a shape corresponding to a shape of the body of the earth-boring downhole tool to be formed therein. At least one insert is formed that includes particles of hard-phase material and a binder material using an additive manufacturing process. The at least one insert is positioned within the mold cavity. Additional particles of hard-phase material are provided within the mold cavity, and the additional particles of hard-phase material are infiltrated with molten metal, thus sintering and/or infiltrating the at least one insert to form the body of the earth-boring downhole tool. The resulting body of the earth-boring downhole tool includes the sintered and/or infiltrated at least one insert.
US11801544B2
Method and Apparatus for fabricating a spacer frame for use in an insulating glass unit. One of a multiple number of possible spacer frame materials is chosen for the spacer frame. An elongated strip of the material is moved to a notching station where notches are formed at corner locations. The character of the notches is adjusted based on the selection of the metal strip material and more particularly to achieve bending of the material in an repeatable, straightforward manner. Better control over the notching process is also achieved by exhaust flow control of a double acting cylinder. A positioning spacer achieve very accurate side to side positioning of a die and anvil to precisely notch and deform the metal strip. Downstream from the notching station the metal strip is bent into a channel shaped elongated frame member having side walls. Further downstream a leading strip of channel shaped material is severed or separated from succeeding material still passing through the notching and bending station.
US11801540B2
A device for stabilizing of working rollers and back-up rollers of a mill stand that has, for each bending block, first hydraulic pressing units being arranged upstream of the working roller, each first hydraulic pressing unit having a piston with a piston rod and a pressure plate, the piston and the piston rod being integrated in the bending block and the pressure plate being pressable against a working roller chock, and for each stand column, at least one second hydraulic pressing unit, the second hydraulic pressing unit being arranged downstream of the back-up roller and having a piston with a piston rod and a pressure plate, the piston and the piston rod being integrated in the stand column and the pressure plate being pressable against the back-up roller chock, and a first hydraulic pressing unit containing a first oscillation absorber.
US11801538B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus are described which can safely reduce a laboratory fume hood's minimum airflow and energy consumption when it is determined that the fume hood is not in active use, based on a condition monitoring approach. The condition monitoring approach may incorporate a combination of setback criteria to reliably determine if the fume hood is or is not in use. When a determination has been made that a fume hood is not in use, energy reduction is achieved via automatic methods of hood minimum airflow setback. Fume hood minimum flow reductions are automatically disabled when it is determined that the hood is in active use.
US11801534B2
Provided is a fruit quality inspecting and sorting appliance. The fruit quality inspecting and sorting appliance includes: a conveying module; a weighing module, which cooperates with the conveying module to convey weighed fruits through the conveying module; an internal quality inspection module, which cooperates with the conveying module and performs an internal quality inspection to the weighed fruits; an external quality inspection module, which cooperates with the conveying module and performs an external quality inspection to the fruits after the internal quality inspection; a sorting module, which cooperates with the conveying module, and sorts the fruits passing through the weighing module, the internal quality inspection module and the external quality inspection module; and a control module electrically connected with the conveying module, the weighing module, the internal quality inspection module, the external quality inspection module and the sorting module.
US11801532B2
The present invention discloses a sorting control method, apparatus, platform and system, and an unmanned sorting device. The sorting control method comprises controlling an unmanned sorting device to load a plurality of packages; obtaining package list information, and sending the package list information to a sorting control platform; receiving a sorting route planned by the sorting control platform; and controlling the unmanned sorting device to traverse a package list in order to travel according to the sorting route, and sequentially unloading the plurality of packages to corresponding destination sorting ports.
US11801525B1
A vehicle axle galvanizing device is disclosed. A driving clamping unit having a hydraulic chuck installed therein and a driven clamping unit clamp an axle. A dust collection case, configured to accommodate a part to be galvanized of the axle, and cooling cases, configured to accommodate heat-treated bearing joints, are closed. The axle is rotated by a motor in the driving clamping unit, and cold air generated by a cooling unit is continuously sprayed on the heat-treated bearing joints through cooling guns respectively fixed to the cooling cases. Further, in this state, an industrial robot is operated to allow a spray gun in a zinc spray unit to enter the inside of the dust collection case, and zinc melted by the zinc spray unit is sprayed on the part to be galvanized, thereby forming a galvanized layer thereon.
US11801523B2
A fluid dispensing gun for 1K-polyurethane foam includes a dispensing tube with a dosing nozzle at its outlet, a spring-loaded needle co-axially moveable in the dispensing tube for opening and closing the dosing nozzle, a trigger actuating the needle to open the nozzle and to dispense the fluid, a regulator regulating the degree of opening of the nozzle outlet and a coupler coupling a pressurized can to the gun. It also concerns a method for dispensing 1K-polyurethane foam. The fluid dispensing gun includes a delivery device delivering a curing fluid essentially parallel to the nozzle outlet that includes a curing fluid reservoir, a curing fluid outlet situated near the nozzle and a curing fluid line connecting the curing fluid reservoir and the curing fluid outlet, the trigger activating the delivery device. The curing fluid delivered in the same direction as the 1K-polyurethane foam and separately therefrom makes the foam cure more rapidly.
US11801520B2
A cable driven irrigation device has a frame that acts as a manifold to supply a sprinkler head and a separate spray nozzle. The frame is supplied with an externally triggered latching valve. The valve is held in the open position by a spring and has an internal flap that enters the flow of water through the valve when the external trigger is moved. The water flow moves the flap to the closed position and holds it there until the water pressure is removed. The spray nozzle dispenses water onto an exposed turbine which drives a gearbox. The gearbox is coupled to a spool which can wind up a cord. The spool being wound is what pulls the sprinkler along. A knot near the end of the cord engages the external trigger to stop the flow of water into the frame.
US11801515B2
A paper scrap pushing structure of a paper shredder, having a paper pushing unit, with a spindle having a longitudinal axis, a spindle flap coupled along the longitudinal axis to the spindle; and a paddle pushing segment, coupled to the spindle flap. The spindle is arranged under a paper outlet of the paper shredder and is in linkage with a paper shredder cutter shaft through a synchronous transmission device. When the rotating shaft rotates, the rotating shaft drives the paddle pushing segment to move in the circumferential direction along with the spindle flap, removing paper scraps at the top of a paper scrap pile in a shredded paper waste bin.
US11801501B2
Provided are a composite in which metal nanoparticles are evenly dispersed and adsorbed to pores of a support, and a method of preparing the same. An amorphous nanostructure formed of inorganic polymers having a transition metal and a halogen element as a main chain via hydrogen bonding is used as a chemical template for forming the metal nanoparticles. The formed metal nanoparticles are evenly dispersed and adsorbed to the support with pores.
US11801495B2
Nickel-based catalysts comprising silicon modified nickel (nickel silicate) are provided, as are methods for using the catalysts to i) convert methane to CO and H2 (e.g. for use in synthetic chemical compound production); or to ii) convert methane to oxygenated hydrocarbons e.g. one or more of methanol, acetone, formaldehyde, and dimethyl ether. The catalysts are bifunctional and comprise both Ni metallic catalytic sites and acidic nickel-silicon catalytic sites, and the conversions are performed under moderate reaction conditions.
US11801475B2
The present invention provides a system for microalgae carbon fixation regulated based on natural environmental changes, which includes the following units: a microalgae cultivation unit; a light condensing unit configured to receive sunlight and increase light power density, the light condensing unit including one or more angle-adjustable light-condensing reflective panels; a light splitting unit configured to receive and split light transmitted from the light condensing unit, the light splitting unit including one or more angle-adjustable light splitting panels, the light splitting panel being capable of transmitting light within a spectral band in which microalgae has highest photosynthetic efficiency to thus allow the light to irradiate the microalgae cultivation unit, while being capable of reflecting light within other spectral bands; and a thermosiphon temperature control unit configured to control a temperature of the microalgae cultivation unit by controlling an opening degree of an air regulating valve above the microalgae cultivation unit.
US11801470B2
A carbon capture system includes two carbon capture plates. A first carbon capture plate collects carbon dioxide from a flow of ambient air. A second carbon capture plate releases carbon dioxide upon application of heat from a heat exchanger. The heat is exhaust heat from a data center. The first carbon capture plate and the second carbon capture plate are rotatable between the capture and release positions. The carbon capture system uses the waste heat from a data center to collect and store atmospheric carbon dioxide, thereby reducing the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide.
US11801466B2
According to the present disclosure, air cleaner assemblies, components, features, and methods relating thereto, are described. These features, in part, relate to configuration of a preferred seal arrangement and seal surface of the cartridge. Particular arrangements are shown, in which: the filter cartridge includes a seal arrangement having a axial pinch seal surface with a projection/recess contour including at least one projection thereon; and, the cartridge includes a seal contour projection stabilizing portion at a location in perimeter alignment with the portion of the seal pinch arrangement including the first housing engagement projection. Additional features are included that relate to clean air separator section tubes of a precleaner arrangement secured to a cartridge. These features can be used in cartridges including features outlined above, or in alternative cartridges. Additional features of air cleaner arrangements and filter cartridges in accord with the above are described.
US11801463B2
A filter apparatus (10) has a plurality of filter elements (20) in a filter housing (12) having a filter inlet (50) for a fluid to be filtered and a filter outlet (52) for the filtered fluid. A pressure control device (42) has at least one control plate (58) located inside a connection chamber (14). The control plate laterally passes over individual upper element openings (54) of the filter element to be backwashed (20), in a predefinable sequence, covering the opening to an increasing degree and then exposing the opening again. A discharge opening (46) of the backwash device (44) is, at least in part, fluidically connected to a lower element opening (56) of the filter element (20) to be backwashed, as the pressure control device (42) moves towards the upper element opening (54).
US11801461B2
A filter element has a pleated filter mat (3). The terminal axial ends (7, 8) of the mat are connected to end caps (9, 11). The mat has a main structural layer (15) having filtering properties and a first additional structural layer and a second additional structural layer (17,19). The surface area of each of the additional structural layers (17, 19) is smaller than the surface area of the main structural layer (15). The axial ends (12, 14) of one additional structural layer (17) is located at an axial distance from the axial ends (16, 18) of the other additional structural layer (19) on the filter mat (3).
US11801458B2
A filtering system capable of removing particulates from a water slurry is disclosed. The filtering system comprises a base plate, the base plate comprising a sealing surface and a slurry inlet. A flexible vessel is configured to seal to the sealing surface, and an interior cavity, wherein the flexible vessel is formed of a flexible filtering material capable of retaining particulates. The flexible vessel permits liquid entering through the slurry inlet to pass through the filtering material and is capable of withstanding an internal pressure sufficient to form a particulate cake without rupturing the flexible vessel. A sealing system is provided for retaining an upper portion of the flexible vessel against the sealing surface. The filtering system may be part of a portable system that includes a cart, hoses, piping, a pneumatic pump and a control panel.
US11801457B2
Embodiments described herein provide a method of tuning an electrical liquid separator, comprising providing a liquid mixture to a separator; electrically coupling a power unit to the liquid mixture inside the separator; applying a time-varying voltage from the power unit to the liquid mixture; increasing a voltage applied to the liquid mixture from the power unit from a first voltage to a second voltage; detecting an inflection point in a current from the power unit; setting a voltage output range of the power unit to encompass a voltage at which the inflection point was detected.
US11801439B2
The present invention provides a gaming device for playing a game of laser tag. The gaming device includes a controller configured to control and coordinate functions between various components thereof. The gaming device includes an aiming unit configured to generate infrared light signals and a receiver configured to detect the generated infrared light signals. The gaming device includes a targeting unit configured to generate a vibration when the receiver in the targeting unit detects infrared light signals. The gaming device further includes one or more lights configured to indicate one or more states of the aiming unit and targeting unit. The controller is configured to engage the aiming unit and targeting unit in a stealth mode in which the one or more lights are switched off.
US11801438B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide an electronic gaming machine, systems and methods with a wheel feature mode dependent on base game outcomes. Specifically, a gaming machine comprises a user interface, a display device, and a game controller. The wheel feature mode is triggered during a base game based on wheel feature mode trigger conditions. The wheel feature mode animates a graphical user interface to present a spinning feature wheel that provides credit value awards, dependent on base game outcomes (e.g., one or more base game bingo pattern outcomes), through a sequence of player-initiated feature wheel spins. If one or more winning base game outcomes remain in the base game, the wheel feature mode continues with each wheel slice value reset, such that the minimum wheel slice value is equal to or greater than the previous spinning feature wheel credit value award which continues until no winning base game outcomes remain.
US11801435B2
Protector for an American football player, including, as impact absorption device, an inflatable element defining an inner chamber adapted to receive an inflation fluid and adapted to assume an active inflated condition. Use of an inflatable element as a protector for an American football player and a method for protecting an American football player are also described.
US11801432B2
A golf tracking system including a tag coupled to a golf club. The tag includes a plurality of sensors, each which output a signal based on a detected movement of the golf club, a microcontroller that compares each of the plurality of sensor outputs to stored reference sensor output values, and a transceiver that transmits data corresponding to the sensor outputs to a device remote from the tag based on the comparison performed by the microcontroller. The location-aware device then processes the information received from the tag to determine whether a shot should be registered.
US11801428B2
A golf club head including a striking face, a periphery portion, and a support arm spaced from the rear surface of the striking face, a first damping element residing between the support arm and the rear surface of the striking face, wherein the first damping element comprises a front surface in contact with the rear surface of the striking face and a rear surface in contact with the support arm, wherein the periphery portion comprises a sole, and a second damping element located between the first damping element and the sole, a front portion of the second damping element in contact with the rear surface of the striking face, a rear surface of the second damping element in contact with the support arm.
US11801427B2
An iron-type golf club head is provided with a body having a volume less than 120 cc. The body can include a sole portion with two or more slots extending upwardly into the body through the sole portion into a cavity behind a face portion. A damper can be included in the cavity and in contact with a rear surface of the face portion. The club head can have a maximum CT proximate to the ideal striking location and a CT dropoff of no more than 110 μs at a point located between a first and second scoreline proximate to the sole portion. The club head can also have a CG along the y-axis (CG-y) between 0.25 mm and 20 mm and a CG along a positive z-up axis (CG-z) between 12 mm and 25 mm.
US11801423B2
A method is disclosed for using an artificial intelligence engine to interact with a user of an exercise device during an exercise session. The method includes generating, by the artificial intelligence engine, a machine learning model trained to receive data as input, and based on the data, providing an output. While a user performs an exercise using the exercise device, the method includes receiving the data from an input peripheral of a computing device associated with the user. Based on the data being received from the input peripheral, the method includes determining, via the machine learning model, the output to control an aspect of the exercise device.
US11801416B2
An integrated fitness system including a slidable unit that is slidably attached to a column vertical to the ground and that has exercise units mounted thereon. The exercise units are disposable in any of a plurality of configurations and have arms that are rotatable in any of a plurality of planes. The exercise units can be positioned along the column at any of a plurality of heights by sliding the slidable unit along the column to allow a user to use the exercise units for both arm and leg exercises.
US11801415B2
An adjustable dumbbell system may include a base, two or more weights, a handle assembly, an additional weight, and selection assembly. The two or more weights may be supported by the base and grouped into a first set of weights associated with one end of the dumbbell system and a second set of weights associated with an opposing end of the dumbbell system. The handle assembly may be selectively fixedly joined to the first and second set of weights. The additional weight may be disposed distally of the handle assembly. The selection assembly may be secured to the additional weight. The selection assembly may include a selection member that may be linearly moveable between a selected position where the additional weight is operatively secured to the handle assembly and an unselected position where the additional weight is disengaged from the handle assembly.
US11801414B2
A moveable rack mount apparatus for use with an exercise rack constructed of at least one rack tube configured with at least one rack hole, comprising: a tube passage sized and shaped for slidable passage therethrough of the rack tube; a reversible locking mechanism configured to engage the at least one rack hole of the rack tube when the rack tube is in the tube passage; at least one attachment hole for securing at least one of a plurality of interchangeable exercise-related attachments to the moveable rack mount apparatus.
US11801412B2
An exercise device with controllable training modes includes a base, a first exercise mechanism, a second exercise mechanism, and an operating mechanism. The first exercise mechanism has a first gear member. The second exercise mechanism has a second gear member. The operating mechanism has a third gear member. When the third gear member is at a first position, the third gear member meshes with the first gear member and the second gear member to form a linked state, so that the first exercise mechanism and the second exercise mechanism are operatively linked and coupled and swing in opposite directions. When the third gear member is at a second position, the third gear member is disengaged from either the first gear member or the second gear member or both to form a free state, so that the first exercise mechanism and the second exercise mechanism individually swing.
US11801408B2
Disclosed is a gymnastics beam including a rigid profile, a layer of a flexible material arranged on an upper surface of the profile, and a coating covering the layer of flexible material. The beam included a lower part including a lower part of the profile that bears against an upper part including an upper part of the profile, and a connector to secure or separate the lower part and the upper part. This permits rapid renovation of the beam by changing only the upper part. Moreover, characteristics of the beam such as the width and the hardness of its bearing surface can be adapted by changing the upper part or, where relevant, segments of the upper part, such that the beam can be modulated. Also disclosed is an assembly including multiple upper parts.
US11801397B2
A wearable photobiomodulation device comprises a shell portion and an illumination module and is configured to deliver light to a photoresponsive tissue of an individual. In some embodiments, the illumination module provides red and/or infrared light to a photoresponsive tissue on an individual at a dose of between about 5-50 mJ/cm2 over a target illumination area of about 100-200 cm2. Exemplary devices may be configured as a wearable sports cup with an integral or detachable illumination module that provides effective amounts of light to a target are to so effect photobiomodulation in an individual wearing the device.
US11801396B1
A wearable device includes a support structure wearable by an individual and a UVC light source mounted on the support structure. When the support structure is worn by the individual the UVC light source is directed at oral and nasal cavities of the individual. The wearable device can be eyeglasses.
US11801393B2
This document presents a system for managing treatment for an emergency cardiac event. The system includes memory, one or more electronic ports for receiving ECG signals, and a treatment module executable on one or more processing devices. The module is configured to generate transform values for a time segment of ECG, obtain one or more previous values derived from one or more earlier time segments of the ECG, and determine, based on the generated transform values, and the one or more previous values, at least one of: a) a future therapeutic action for treating the emergency cardiac event, or b) a phase of the cardiac event. The module is further configured to cause one or more output devices to present an indication of at least one of the therapeutic action or the phase of the cardiac event.
US11801388B2
Systems and methods that automatically adjust, or adapt, stimulation waveforms delivered to brain structures. Closed loop system embodiments can automatically be reconfigured into a more suitable closed loop control system in response to measures of control system performance. Measures can be internal performance characteristics of the adaptive control system or external inputs provided by another subsystem. As these measures change in time, the robust adaptive system changes in response.
US11801385B2
A medical device is configured to determine time intervals between consecutive cardiac events sensed from a cardiac electrical signal, increase a value of a tachyarrhythmia interval count in response to each of the determine time intervals detected as a tachyarrhythmia interval. The device is further configured to detect normal sinus rhythm events and the decrease the value of the tachyarrhythmia interval count in response to a threshold number of detected normal sinus rhythm events.
US11801384B2
Method for calibrating a nerve stimulation device comprising (a) providing the user with an initial stimulus at a sub-sensory level and obtaining feedback regarding whether the stimulus is felt; (b) if it is not felt, increasing the stimulation level by a first level variation and again obtaining feedback; (c) repeating the previous step until feeling the stimulus is reported; (d) reducing stimulus by the initial level variation; (e) repeating the process from the previously established level while using a second level variation is used which is smaller than the first level variation; (f) once stimulus feeling is reported, the level is again reduced by the second level variation; (g) this level, achieved after the second “crossing” of the threshold, can be used as the sensory threshold value; (h) additional calibration rounds can be conducted using ever-lower level variations for each subsequent round to more accurately the sensory threshold is determined.
US11801381B2
The present disclosure relates to a modular system for deep brain stimulation (DBS) and electrocorticography (ECoG). The system may have an implantable neuromodulator for generating electrical stimulation signals adapted to be applied to a desired region of a brain via an attached electrode array. An aggregator module may be used for collecting and aggregating electrical signals and transmitting the electrical signals to the neuromodulator. A control module may be used which is in communication with the aggregator module for controlling generation of the electrical signals and transmitting the electrical signals to the aggregator.
US11801375B2
A medical device comprising an access port locater configured to locate a subcutaneous access port located beneath a skin surface of a host, the access port locator including at least one annular ring having first and second opposing ends and a longitudinal access, the annular ring positionable on the skin surface of the host with the first end of the annular ring in contact with the skin surface and the longitudinal axis of the annular ring substantially perpendicular to the skin surface; at least one stabilizing flange configured to stabilize the access port locater on the skin surface, the stabilizing flange extending outward from the annular ring substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal access of the annular ring; and at least one need needle guard configured to shield a hand of a user of the access port locator when the hand is positioned on the stabilizing flange.
US11801366B2
A robotic catheter system includes a base and a robotic mechanism having a longitudinal axis and being movable relative to the base along the longitudinal axis. A flexible track is releasably secured to the base and includes an outer surface having a longitudinal opening slit extending therethrough to an inner channel. A rigid guide has a non-linear portion fixed relative to the robotic mechanism. A portion of the flexible track moves along the non-linear portion of the rigid guide away from the longitudinal axis when the robotic mechanism moves along the longitudinal axis.
US11801364B2
An apparatus includes a catheter, and an electrode and methods of delivering molecules to eukaryotic cells using such an apparatus. The catheter defines a fluidic channel and has a distal opening. The electrode is within the fluidic channel and is spaced a distance from the distal opening of the catheter. The catheter is arranged to prevent direct contact between any electrode of the apparatus and tissue. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US11801358B2
New medical circuit components and methods for forming such components are disclosed. These components include microstructures for humidification and/or condensate management. The disclosed microstructures can be incorporated into a variety of components, including tubes (e.g., inspiratory breathing tubes and expiratory breathing tubes and other tubing between various elements of a breathing circuit, such as ventilators, humidifiers, filters, water traps, sample lines, connectors, gas analyzers, and the like), Y-connectors, catheter mounts, humidifiers, and patient interfaces (e.g., masks for covering the nose and face, nasal masks, cannulas, nasal pillows, etc.), floats, probes, and sensors in a variety of medical circuits.
US11801353B2
Aspects of the instant disclosure relate to electronic cigarettes. More particularly, to electronic cigarettes including a circumferential light guide that distributes light transmitted by a light source, and controller circuitry that variably illuminates the circumferential light guide of the electronic cigarette based on a user's draw strength.
US11801322B2
This disclosure relates to a method for sanitizing a space. The method includes applying a composition containing triethylene glycol into a space containing a pathogen (e.g., a Staphylococcus, a Pseudomonas, a Listeria, Salmonella, Klebsiella, a Mycobacterium, a mold, or a spore) in an amount effective to inactivate the pathogen.
US11801315B2
A radioligand for labeling myelin includes a fluorescent trans-stilbene derivative.
US11801307B2
Disclosed herein, are antibody-polymer-drug conjugates. The conjugate comprises a targeting moiety, one or more polymers, and one or more therapeutic agents. Also described herein, are compositions comprising the conjugates, methods of their preparation, and methods of treating various disorders with the conjugates or their compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US11801304B2
Formulated and/or co-formulated liposomes (LNP) and solid-lipid nanoparticles (SLNP) comprising TB Prodrugs and methods of making the LNPs and SLNPs are disclosed herein. The TB prodrug compositions comprise a drug moiety, a lipid moiety, and linkage unit that inhibit ALK5. The TB Prodrugs can be formulated and/or co-formulated into a liposome or solid-lipid nanoparticle to provide a method of treating cancer, immunological disorders, and other disease by utilizing a targeted drug delivery vehicle.
US11801303B2
Preparations and formulations capable of crossing and incorporating into a membrane of a cell or an organelle or an exosome are described. Methods of treatments utilizing the preparations and formulations are also described.
US11801301B2
The present disclosure provides variant light-responsive polypeptides, and nucleic acids comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the light-responsive polypeptides. The present disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for controlling the activity of a cell expressing a variant light-responsive polypeptide of the present disclosure.
US11801298B2
Disclosed herein is a vaccine comprising a Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) antigen. The antigen can be a consensus antigen. The consensus antigen can be a consensus spike antigen. Also disclosed herein is a method of treating a subject in need thereof, by administering the vaccine to the subject.
US11801288B2
The invention provides a vaccine comprising a nucleic acid molecule that encodes a dog telomerase reverse transcriptase (dTERT) antigen, as well as methods of using the vaccine to induce an immune response against a TERT and to treat cancer in a mammal.
US11801287B2
The present invention provides materials and methods for making a subject non-responsive to an antigen. Methods of the invention may comprise contacting the subject with the antigen and a compound that induces anergy. In some embodiments, the antigen may be an autoimmune antigen, examples of which include, but are not limited to acetylcholine receptor for myasthenia gravis, glutamic acid decarboxylase for type I diabetes mellitus and rheumatoid factor in rheumatoid arthritis. In some embodiments, the present invention provides a method of transplanting an organ, tissue, or cells into a subject (e.g. a mammal such as a human).
US11801284B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods of treating motor neuron diseases, including spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A modulator of a heat shock protein, such as an Hsp70 family member protein, may be used in the present method. Alternatively, a mutant heat shock protein may be used.
US11801280B2
The present invention relates to a drug for treating leukopenia, its preparation method and use thereof. The drug of the invention is prepared from 200-30 parts by weight of Folium Epimedii, 100-160 parts by weight of Fructus Psoraleae, 60-120 parts by weight of Radix Aconiti Lateralis Preparata (Processed), 200-300 parts by weight of Fructus Lycii, 200-300 parts by weight of Radix Astragali, 200-300 parts by weight of Caulis Spatholobi, 200-300 parts by weight of Radix Rubiae, 100-160 parts by weight of Radix Angelicae Sinensis, 200-300 parts by weight of Rhizoma Phragmitis, 100-160 parts by weight of Radix Ophiopogonis and 100-160 parts by weight of Radix et Rhizoma Glycyrrhizae. The drug of the invention comprises chemical substances with weight ratios as follows: Leucine:guanosine:psoralenoside:isopsoralenoside:calycosin-7-glucoside:liquiritin:icariin A:1,3-dihydroxyl-2-hydroxymethylanthraquinone:epimedin A:epimedin B:epimedin C:icariin:1,3,6-trihydroxy-2-methylanthraquinone:glycyrrhizic acid=(0.13-0.27):(0.04-0.11):(0.11-0.34):(0.09-0.34):(0.05-0.11):(0.16-0.26):(0.09-0.12):(0.17-0.35):(0.11-0.16):(0.17-0.26):(0.49-0.59):1.00:(0.16-0.24):(0.08-0.14).
US11801279B2
A method of extracting a C. Yanhusuo plant comprising the steps of harvesting and drying the plant; extracting the alkaloids from the plant in a solvent; filtering the solvent-C. Yanhusuo plant mixture to remove the solvent and extracted alkaloids from a spent plant matter; drying the spent plant matter; purifying and separating the extracted alkaloids from the solvent; and mixing the purified alkaloids back into the dried spent plant matter. Also, products of the method include vaporizing liquids, medicinal compositions, kief compositions, rolling papers, and filters for tobacco and vaporizing equipment comprising the mixture of the purified alkaloids and the dried spent plant matter produced according to the method. Further, a C. Yanhusuo plant having a total alkaloid content of about 3%, of which 97% of the total alkaloid content is bulbocapnine and tetrahydropalmatine (THP).
US11801271B2
The present invention relates to novel stable bacterial extract preparations having substantial increased stability over time, novel methods of preparation thereof, pharmaceutical formulations based on these novel stabilized bacterial extracts, as well as novel routes of administration and delivery devices for treating and/or preventing acute and chronic immunological disorders resulting from infections and/or inflammation and/or neoplasms and/or dysbiosis.
US11801267B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a cardiac cell culture material which specifically acts on cardiac cells. In addition, another purpose of the present invention is to provide artificial organ material obtained by culturing by using said cardiac cell culture material, and a method for producing the same. Thus, provided is a cardiac cell culture, wherein functional cardiac tissue is favorably built by using a cardiac cell culture material containing VCAM-1.
US11801265B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing NK cells and an application thereof in treatment of a cancer. The present disclosure provides a pharmaceutical composition prepared from NK cells and a monoclonal antibody of CD105, which can be used for the treatment of colorectal cancer and has a good application prospect.
US11801262B2
Disclosed herein are antibiotic compositions, for example compositions that comprise a metal-containing agent and an organoselenium agent, and uses thereof.
US11801259B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for treating cancers using antisense (AS) nucleic acids directed against Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Receptor (IGF-1R). The AS may be administered to the patients systemically, or may be used to produce an autologous cancer cell vaccine. In embodiments, the AS are provided in an implantable irradiated biodiffusion chamber comprising tumor cells and an effective amount of the AS. The chambers are irradiated and implanted in the abdomen of subjects and stimulate an immune response that attacks tumors distally. The compositions and methods disclosed herein may be used to treat many different kinds of cancer, for example glioblastoma.
US11801247B1
Methods of treating trypanosomiasis and, particularly, to methods of treating trypanosomiasis using raltitrexed. Such methods of treatment are useful in, for example, animals selected from the group consisting of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats, horses, and camels.
US11801239B2
A powder injection of a donepezil semi palmoxiric acid salt, a composition containing the same and a preparation method therefor. The powder injection contains donepezil semi palmoxiric acid salt crystals having an average particle size of 2-52 μm.
US11801236B2
The present invention provides a method for improving the stability of pramipexole or its salt preparation, and further provides a pramipexole hydrochloride oral liquid with excellent stability and oral absorption effect. The pramipexole hydrochloride oral liquid of the present invention is prepared through a simple process, and shows bioequivalence with the tablet containing pramipexole hydrochloride. The invention perfectly realizes multi-dose administration of pramipexole hydrochloride and improves the compliance and accessibility of medication for patients.
US11801235B2
Certain exemplary embodiments are directed to a biologically active composition of matter (and uses thereof) configured for targeted delivery of biotin to mitochondria, the composition comprising a first D-biotin conjugated to a water-soluble, cell-permeable, peptide sequence, wherein the peptide sequence is selected from a polypeptide group with an alternating aromatic-cationic motif.
US11801233B2
The present disclosure relates to an oral eliglustat transmucosal delivery system. More specifically, the present disclosure is related to an oral transmucosal dosage form comprising a non-disintegrating solid mass comprising (a) a hydrophilic viscosity modifying agent selected from a natural or a synthetic gum with a molecular weight of 10,000 Daltons or greater, (b) a low molecular weight water soluble component with a molecular weight of less than 10,000 Daltons and (c) not more than 70 mg eliglustat, wherein the dosage form is 500 mg or less and provides an oral cavity residence time of at least about 5 minutes, and wherein the dosage form generates a microenvironment inside the oral cavity exhibiting a thixotropic behavior with viscosities of at least 50 poises at 1/sec shear rate and at least 10 poises at 10/sec share rate. The dosage forms of as described herein have at least 30% dose reduction as compared to commercially available eliglustat capsules. In addition, unlike the dosing prerequisite for commercially available eliglustat capsules, the oral eliglustat transmucosal dosage form described herein can be administered to patients with Gaucher disease type 1 without pre-determination of patients' CYP2D6 genotype.
US11801232B2
This application relates to methods and kits for treating ARID1A-mutant tumors, cancers, or aberrantly proliferating cells and subjects harboring the tumors, cancers, or aberrantly proliferating cells. In particular, the methods provided include administering to the subject or cell an effective amount of a pyrimidine synthesis inhibitor and administering to the subject or cell an effective amount of a DNA repair inhibitor. The kits include a) a composition comprising a pyrimidine synthesis inhibitor and b) a composition comprising a DNA repair inhibitor.
US11801222B2
A method for producing granules of a uniform size includes preparing an organic member solution, uniformly dispersing an inorganic member in the organic member solution at a weight ratio of 1 to 10 based on an organic member to form an organic-inorganic composite solution, spraying the organic-inorganic composite solution in an electrostatic charge manner, and polymerizing the sprayed organic-inorganic composite solution to form a hydrogel phase. The granules having a uniform size may be mass-produced in a short time and may be produced at a high yield. The method may be applied to a variety of fields, such as a pharmaceutical field, a medical field, a cosmetics field, and a food field and may replace a conventional spray drying method.
US11801220B2
The present invention relates to the use of pomegranate oil and fractions thereof for preventing and treating neurodegenerative diseases. Particularly, the present invention relates to emulsions of the pomegranate oil or fractions thereof for the prevention and treatment of brain diseases, including Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD) and multiple sclerosis (MS).
US11801215B2
Methods and compositions for preventing or reducing hair frizz. The compositions are anhydrous and comprise at least one polysiloxane fluid component selected from an amodimethicone and a polysiloxane component comprising a plurality of hindered amine side chains. The compositions also comprise a silicone-compatible, volatile liquid carrier component, preferably selected from a low molecular weight, volatile siloxy component; a hydrocarbon; and an alcohol. The compositions are preferably serums or fluids, and are suitable for use in a conditioner, as a “leave-in” hair care product, or as a touch-up hair care product suitable for use during the day.
US11801209B2
The various aspects presented herein relate to the cooling and flavor boosting compositions, and their use thereof.
US11801202B2
A medicine dispensing apparatus includes: a hopper that receives a medicine and causes the medicine to proceed to a guiding port; a holding section that is provided to the hopper and holds the medicine; and a delivering section that is provided to the hopper and delivers the medicine held by the holding section to the guiding port.
US11801200B2
A vial adaptor (1010) may comprise a body portion (1020). The body portion includes a vial connection port (1022), a syringe connection port (1024), an access passageway (1026) between the vial connection port and the syringe connection port, and a regulation passageway (1028). The vial adaptor may further comprise an expandable and/or contractible chamber (1040) impermeable to gas and/or liquid, the regulation passageway being between the vial connection port and the chamber, and an expandable housing (1050) casing the chamber. Such a vial adaptor constitutes an improved vial adaptor.
US11801189B2
The invention is a patient positioner assembly, system, article of manufacture, kit, and method of a positioning a patient useful in surgical procedures to secure and hold a patient on a support table. The patient positioner comprises a sheet assembly, a pad assembly, a film for protecting a patient-facing surface of the pad assembly, and straps for a patient's limb(s) that operably connects to a support table pad having hook portions configured to operably connect to a loop base of the sheet assembly thereby operably connecting the support table pad to the sheet assembly. The sheet assembly can be configured as a cover, sheet and/or drape from suitable materials impermeable or that otherwise do not permit the passage of a fluid through its substance to the table pad and/or the split-pad assembly.
US11801185B2
Apparatus and methods for providing therapeutic treatment for symptoms associated with GERD and/or other digestive disorders and/or other medical conditions are described herein. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a support element and a conformable riser element adjacent the support element. The riser element and the support element collectively form a body support member configured to support a user and define a receiving portion configured to receive a portion of the user's arm. The riser element and the support element are each disposed within a casing formed at least in part with a stretch material. In some embodiments, the riser element includes a polyester filler material and the stretch material includes a four-way stretch material. The four-way stretch material in combination with the polyester filler material enables the riser element to be conformable.
US11801183B2
Introduced here are pressure-mitigation systems able to mitigate the pressure applied to a human body by the surface of an object. A system can include a pressure-mitigation device with chambers whose pressure can be varied by a controller that regulates the flow of fluid produced by a pump. The controller may be deployed as part of a closed loop system that autonomously infers information related to the health of a patient based on data related to the pressure of these chambers. For example, the data may be examined to determine whether the values indicate the patient is properly situated. A notification may be presented responsive to determining that the patient is not situated on the pressure-mitigation device, the patient has been improperly situated on the pressure-mitigation device for a certain amount of time, etc. Thus, real-time feedback may be provided to those responsible for monitoring the patient.
US11801180B2
A patient transport apparatus comprises support structure. The support structure comprises a base, a support frame, and a patient support deck. A headboard and a footboard are coupled to the support structure. The support frame comprises a head section and a body section, the body section coupled to the patient support deck. The patient support deck comprises a patient support surface capable of articulating relative to the support frame. The head section is movable relative to the body section to define first and second configurations of the support frame, the support frame having a first footprint in the first configuration and a second footprint, smaller than the first footprint, in the second configuration.
US11801178B2
A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, recliner, cot, stretcher, operating table, or the like, includes battery-powered circuitry whose functions are reduced, but not eliminated, as the battery charge level falls below a threshold. Electrical power may be cut off to one or more components of the battery-powered circuitry while still providing battery-supplied electrical power to the other components of the circuitry. A user interface provides battery status data, including a replacement status of a rechargeable battery, and allows a user to select different formats for displaying battery status data. Such formats include displays of battery charge level information not only in manners specific to the battery, but also in manners relative to the patient support apparatus, such as displays of how many, or how much of, one or more functions the patient support apparatus is able to perform based on the battery's current charge level.
US11801175B2
A multi-position airflow control assembly includes a valve housing, a valve body received by the valve housing, a plurality of connectors coupled to the valve body, each connector configured to fluidly connect to an inflation zone of a cellular cushion, and a control assembly partially received by the valve body. The control assembly includes a seal member, and an actuation assembly operably connected to the seal member and configured to rotate the seal member relative to the valve body. The seal member is configured to rotate between a first position and a second position.
US11801173B2
An absorbent hygienic article for absorbing body fluids, the article including a liquid absorbent top layer and a backing layer, the top layer and the backing layer being made from roll materials and being joined together. The top layer is constituted by a cellulosic fibrous web, the fibres in the cellulosic fibrous web being constituted by a mixture of cellulose fibres, the mixture including regenerated cellulose fibres or natural cellulose staple fibres and cellulose pulp fibres, the cellulosic fibrous web being a foam-formed, hydroentangled cellulosic fibrous web.
US11801170B2
A tampon applicator, including: a vaginal insertion tube intended to house the tampon to be used, and a plunger which is mounted coaxially in one end of the tube and which is used to push and release the tampon through a second end of the tube. According to tan embodiment, the applicator can be re-used and the insertion tube includes a side window through which a tampon can be inserted into the tube, before each use of the applicator by the user.
US11801167B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for generating and releasing iodine are described. Some embodiments may include a dressing member including a plurality of iodine-forming reagents and a water-swellable material. In some embodiments, the dressing member may include water-swellable fibers. The water-swellable fibers may each include a water-swellable material in which iodine-forming reagents are dispersed. As liquid comes into contact with and is absorbed by the water-swellable material, the iodine-forming reagents may come into contact with each other, causing an iodine-forming reaction to occur, producing iodine.
US11801161B2
A reinforcing clinical wrap is provided with integral thermal management. The clinical wrap includes a fluid circuit for a heat transfer medium to circulate between a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. A shape conforming medium is disposed within a portion of the clinical wrap providing selective reinforcement support of the portion of the clinical wrap to conform to a surface of a patient. Non-limiting examples of the shape conforming medium may include a magnetorheological elastomer, a magnetorheological elastomer, a magnetorheological foam, a UV curable resin, and a phase change material.
US11801153B2
Disclosed are powered gait assistance systems that include a controller, sensors, and a motor coupled to a patient's thigh and lower leg and operable to apply assistive torque to the patient's knee joint to assist the patient's volitional knee pivoting muscle output during selected stages of the patient's gait cycle, such that the assistive torque applied by the motor improves the patient's leg posture, muscle output, range of motion, and/or other parameters over the gait cycle. The sensors can include a torque sensor that measures torque applied by the motor, a knee angle sensor, a foot sensor that measures ground contact of the patient's foot, and/or other sensors. The controller can determine what stage of the patient's gait cycle the patient's leg is in based on sensor signals and cause the motor to apply corresponding assistive torque to the knee based on the gait cycle stage, sensor inputs, and known patient characteristics.
US11801148B2
The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. In one embodiment, the fusion device includes a body portion, a first endplate, and a second endplate, the first and second endplates capable of being moved in a direction away from the body portion into an expanded configuration or capable of being moved towards the body portion into an unexpanded configuration. The fusion device is capable of being deployed and installed in both configurations.
US11801143B2
Provided herein are biomimetic osteochondral implants that are generally useful for the at least partial resurfacing of damaged cartilage within a joint. The implants are constructed to have a modular, layered structure in which the physical properties (e.g., stiffness and lubricity) or dimensions of each layer can be adjusted (e.g., by using the appropriate material and controlling the thickness thereof) based on the anatomy to be replaced. For example, the material and or thicknesses of the layers can be selected to approximate the physical properties and/or dimensions of cartilage (and, optionally, chondral and subchondral bone). Also provided herein are methods of treatment involving the use of said biomimetic osteochondral implants to repair an osteochondral defect in a joint.
US11801134B2
Valve delivery catheter assemblies including components that limit trauma to the expanded prosthetic valve and body channels as the distal tip of the catheter is withdrawn through the expanded valve and thereafter from the body. Catheter assemblies according to the present invention can include a handle assembly, an introducer sheath, and a distal tip assembly. The handle assembly can include a fixed main handle and two or more rotating handles that allow a user to control the distal tip assembly of the catheter. A safety button can be included on the handle assembly to allow for precise and consistent positioning of the prosthetic valve in the body. A valve retaining mechanism can be included to assist in retaining the prosthetic valve prior to deployment.
US11801133B2
Docking devices for docking a prosthetic valve at a native valve of a heart can include a coiled docking anchor and a retrieval suture. The docking device and retrieval suture can be configured for improved retention and retrieval of the docking device after deployment. The docking devices can have an end portion with a central axis. The retrieval suture can be connected to the end portion such that a line of force applied by applying tension to the retrieval suture is substantially aligned with the central axis.
US11801132B2
A prosthetic heart valve can include a stent and a leaflet assembly mounted to the stent. The stent is formed by a plurality of struts and includes an inflow end and an outflow end. The stent is deformable from a radially compressed configuration to a radially expanded configuration. The plurality of struts forms a plurality of rows of cells. The plurality of rows of cells includes a row of inflow cells at the inflow end, a row of outflow cells at the outflow end, and a row of intermediate cells that follows the row of outflow cells towards the inflow end. Each inflow cell comprises an inflow free apex. Each outflow cell comprises an outflow free apex and extends along an axial direction of the stent up to an end of said row of intermediate cells that points towards the inflow end of the stent.
US11801129B2
The vascular prosthesis includes a luminal graft component having at least one fenestration. At least one fenestration ring borders the at least one fenestration and is fixed to the luminal graft component. The fenestration ring includes a main component with two opposing ends and a connecting component. The diameter of the fenestration ring can expand upon insertion of a branch prosthesis through the fenestration ring during implantation at a surgical site. The vascular prosthesis can be implanted in a patient to thereby treat, for example, an arterial aneurysm, spanning a region of an aneurysm that includes at least one arterial branch.
US11801123B2
In a preferred embodiment of the disclosure, tooth attachment placement (TAP) device or for assisting a user in placing one or more appliances or attachments on one or more teeth is disclosed. The TAP device comprises single tooth jigs connected through splines. The geometry of the device is automatically designed in the treatment planning unified workstation, thereby generating a digital STL file. Then the device is created from a non-flexible biocompatible material by a 3D printer in accordance with the digital STL file. Appliance, for example, may be a bracket or a bracket shim; and the attachment may be an aligner attachment or a pad. Different embodiments of the TAP device are disclosed. Methods for verifying the accuracy of the placements of the brackets on the teeth using the TAP device are disclosed.
US11801121B2
Methods and systems for generating composite images of a patient and models of the patient's dentition are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes generating a plurality of 3D models, each comprising a virtual representation of the patient's dentition at different treatment stages of a treatment plan and obtaining an image of the patient's face and dentition. The method can include projecting the obtained image into a 3D space to create a projected 3D model of the patient's face and dentition. The method can also include generating a plurality of modified images, each representing the patient in a treatment stage of the treatment plan and formed by combining the patient's dentition of one of the 3D models with the patient's face of the projected 3D model. A modified image corresponding to a selected treatment stage and a corresponding 3D model can be provided for display.
US11801114B2
Devices and methods for performing an interventional vascular procedure with visual guidance using one or more optical head mounted displays are disclosed. Devices and methods for compensating the display of an optical head mounted display for cardiac and/or respiratory motion are disclosed.
US11801113B2
A system and method for enhanced surgical navigation and graphical user interfaces associated therewith. The system includes a 3D endoscope and a computing device including a display for displaying the graphical user interfaces. The 3D endoscope includes a camera source and a scan source and is utilized to generate a 3D spatial map of a surgical site. A position of a surgical tool is detected in the 3D spatial map, a distance between the position of the surgical tool in the 3D spatial map and a location of an anatomy is detected, and a warning is generated when it is determined that the distance between the position of the surgical tool in the 3D spatial map and the location of the anatomy is equal to or not greater than a threshold minimum distance.
US11801111B2
The invention involves a system and method for quickly retracting a tool from a surgical site. The system is generally constructed and arranged for attachment to a robotic arm for manipulation of the tool to perform an in-vivo surgery. The tool is constructed to retract from the surgical site upon a predetermined condition. The system and the robot can be reset when the condition has cleared so that the surgery can continue.
US11801107B1
A sterilized glove dispenser assembly includes a package which includes a panel and a pair of hand holes each extending into an interior of the package. A pair of gloves is contained within the package to insertably receive a respective one of the user's hands when the user pushes their hands through the hand holes for donning the gloves in a touch-less manner. A box is included which has a pair of hand holes each extending through the box and a pair of guides is each integrated into the box. Each of the guides slidably engages the panel of the package when the package is positioned in the box such that each of the hand holes in the panel of the package is aligned with a respective one of the hand holes in the box.
US11801104B2
Robotic system and method are described for performing latency managed telesurgery. The system comprises drone(s) to create a wireless network in one or more geographic areas between a surgical site and a remote surgeon. The system further comprises a computer that is configured to: receive a request that indicates that a telesurgery is to be performed between the first location and the second location at a scheduled time; determine that one or more equipment is available for use at the surgical site for the telesurgery at the scheduled time; send a first instruction that triggers measurement of a latency of the wireless network; determine, during the telesurgery, whether the latency of the wireless network is acceptable; and send a first message that indicates that the latency is not acceptable, where an operation of the drone(s) is adjusted or an additional drone is deployed in the one or more geographic areas.
US11801094B2
The invention relates to a method of determining the sagittal rotation of a patient's pelvis based on a standard anterior posterior X-ray-image with known image parameters and a calibration of the image, for example by using at least one King-Mark calibration object. The angle of the pelvic rotation is determined between a pelvic plane which is orthogonal to the midsagittal plane of the pelvis, and the image plane of the X-ray-image. Assuming the patient's position shown on the X-ray-image represents a standard neutral position, the X-ray-image plane can be used as a functional reference plane for further calculations, for example during hip-replacement surgery. The present invention further relates to a corresponding computer program and system.
US11801087B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for puncturing tissue, including a surgical introducer with a stiff main body and a flexible tip which can be used with a puncture device to gain epicardial access. The surgical introducer comprises an introducer shaft having a rigid portion and a flexible tip portion. The rigid portion has a metal tube extending to the rigid portion distal end. The flexible tip portion is distal of the metal tube distal end. The flexible tip portion includes a first polymer and a second polymer, wherein the second polymer is more flexible than the first polymer. The second polymer extends distally from the metal tube distal end to define a second polymer flexible tip segment. The first polymer extends distally from the second polymer flexible tip segment end to define a flexible tip portion cap.
US11801083B2
Provided are a method for adjusting an in-tank pressure of a working medium storage tank and an apparatus for the same. The method includes: acquiring a backflow temperature collected by each of first thermocouples; counting the number of target backflow paths whose backflow temperature reaches a preset temperature; and adjusting an in-tank pressure of the working medium storage tank to a target in-tank pressure corresponding to the number of the target backflow paths according to the number of the target backflow paths and a corresponding relationship between a preset number of backflow paths and the in-tank pressure. The control box determines the target in-tank pressure corresponding to the number of the target backflow paths to realize automatic adjustment of the in-tank pressure of the working medium storage tank.
US11801072B2
A needle having a first end, a second end, and a lumen extending within an interior of the needle, between the first end and the second end. A sleeve is engageable within an interior diameter or interior surface of the lumen. The sleeve includes a first end and a second end that are sized to reside within the first end of the lumen and the second end of the lumen, respectively. Ports extend between the first end and the second end of the sleeve. The ports have an inlet and an outlet sized to receive and route stimulator wires to areas within the epidural space of a spine.
US11801071B2
Various devices are provided for allowing multiple surgical instruments to be inserted through a single surgical access device at variable angles of insertion, allowing for ease of manipulation within a patient's body while maintaining insufflation. Safety shields and release mechanisms are also provided for use with various surgical access devices.
US11801051B2
A process and system are disclosed for downloading sensor data, stored in a memory device of a surgical cutting and fastening instrument, to an external or remote computer device. The process may involve storing data from one or more sensors of a surgical cutting and fastening instrument in a memory device of a control unit of the surgical cutting and fastening instrument during a surgical procedure involving the surgical cutting and fastening instrument. Next, after the surgical procedure, a data link between the control unit and the remote computer device is established. Then, the sensor data can be downloaded from the control unit to the remote computer device.
US11801039B2
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus 1 includes a bladder pattern storage unit 22, a reference pattern setting unit 21, a bladder extraction unit 18 that extracts a bladder region from an ultrasound image, a bladder extraction success/failure determination unit 19 that determines whether the bladder region represents a bladder having the reference pattern, and an image quality adjustment unit 20 that adjusts the image quality of the ultrasound image in a case where determination is made that the bladder region does not represent the bladder having the reference pattern, in which in a case where the determination is made that the bladder region does not represent the bladder having the reference pattern even in an ultrasound image of which the image quality is adjusted, the bladder extraction success/failure determination unit 19 determines whether the bladder region represents the bladder having the abnormal bladder pattern.
US11801036B2
Systems and methods for stroke detection in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a system for detecting strokes, including a processor, a first ultrasound transmitter located on a patient's head in communication with the processor, a first ultrasound receiver located on the patient's head in communication with the processor, a memory in communication with the processor, including a stroke diagnostics application, where the stroke diagnostics application directs the processor to transmit a first ultrasound signal from the first ultrasound transmitter across a patient's brain, the brain comprising a first and second hemisphere, receive the first ultrasound signal using the first ultrasound receiver, where the ultrasound signal is affected during transit by harmonics generated by microbubbles in the blood of the patient stimulated by the first ultrasound signal, and detect that a stroke has occurred based on the harmonic effects on the first received ultrasound signal.
US11801029B2
A deep learning (DL) convolution neural network (CNN) reduces noise in positron emission tomography (PET) images, and is trained using a range of noise levels for the low-quality images having high noise in the training dataset to produce uniform high-quality images having low noise, independently of the noise level of the input image. The DL-CNN network can be implemented by slicing a three-dimensional (3D) PET image into 2D slices along transaxial, coronal, and sagittal planes, using three separate 2D CNN networks for each respective plane, and averaging the outputs from these three separate 2D CNN networks. Feature-oriented training can be implemented by segmenting each training image into lesion and background regions, and, in the loss function, applying greater weights to voxels in the lesion region. Other medical images (e.g. MRI and CT) can be used to enhance resolution of the PET images and provide partial volume corrections.
US11801028B2
A method for imaging may include directing a PET scanner to perform scans of a subject injected with a tracer during a first time period. The method may also include generating PET images by reconstructing the PET data that are generated by the PET scanner based on the scans of the subject. The method may also include determining a first portion of a blood input function of the tracer in the subject based on the PET images. The method may also include determining an integral of a second portion of the blood input function based on a kinetic model, the PET data, and the first portion of the blood input function. The method may also include determining kinetic parameters of the kinetic model based on the PET data, the first portion of the blood input function, and the integral of the second portion of the blood input function.
US11801025B2
A system for processing breast tissue images includes an image processing computer and a user interface operatively coupled to the image processing computer, wherein the image processing computer is configured to obtain image data of breast tissue, processing the image data to generate a set of reconstructed image slices, the reconstructed image slices collectively depicting the breast tissue, process respective subsets of the reconstructed image slices to generate a set of image slabs, each image slab comprising a synthesized 2D image of a portion of the breast tissue obtained from a respective subset of the set of reconstructed image slices.
US11801024B2
A system including initialization, imaging, alignment, processing, and setting modules. The initialization module obtains patient parameters for a patient and procedure and surgeon parameters. The initialization module selects first settings for an x-ray source based on the patient, procedure, and surgeon parameters. The image module obtains a first sample set of images of a region-of-interest of the patient and a master sample set of images. The first sample set was acquired as a result of the x-ray source operating according to the first settings. The alignment module aligns the first sample set to the master sample set. The processing module processes pixel data corresponding to a result of the alignment based on a pixel parameter or one of the patient parameters. The setting module adjusts the first settings to provide updated settings. X-ray dosage associated with the updated settings is less than x-ray dosage associated with the first settings.
US11801009B2
Methods and apparatus monitor health by detection of sleep stage. For example, a sleep stage monitor (100) may access sensor data signals related to bodily movement and/or respiration movements. At least a portion of the detected signals may be analyzed to calculate respiration variability. The respiration variability may include one or more of variability of respiration rate and variability of respiration amplitude. A processor may then determine a sleep stage based on one or more of respiration variability and bodily movement, such as with a combination of both. The determination of sleep stages may distinguish between deep sleep and other stages of sleep, or may differentiate between deep sleep, light sleep and REM sleep. The bodily movement and respiration movement signals may be derived from one or more sensors, such as non-invasive sensor (e.g., a non-contact radio-frequency motion sensor or a pressure sensitive mattress).
US11801007B2
A method, comprising receiving at least one of a signal relating to a first cardiac activity and a signal relating to a first body movement from a patient; triggering at least one of a test of the patient's responsiveness, awareness, a second cardiac activity, a second body movement, a spectral analysis test of the second cardiac activity, and a spectral analysis test of the second body movement, based on at least one of the signal relating to the first cardiac activity and the signal relating to the first body movement; determining an occurrence of an epileptic event based at least in part on said one or more triggered tests; and performing a further action in response to said determination of said occurrence of said epileptic event. Further methods allow classification of epileptic events. Apparatus and systems capable of implementing the method.
US11801005B2
A sensor including electrodes, a control module and a physical layer module. The electrodes are configured to (i) attach to a patient, and (ii) receive a first electromyographic signal from the patient. The control module is connected to the electrodes. The control module is configured to (i) detect the first electromyographic signal, and (ii) generate a first voltage signal. The physical layer module is configured to: receive a payload request from a console interface module or a nerve integrity monitoring device; and based on the payload request, (i) upconvert the first voltage signal to a first radio frequency signal, and (ii) wirelessly transmit the first radio frequency signal from the sensor to the console interface module or the nerve integrity monitoring device.
US11800997B2
A caregiver assistance system is disclosed for assisting a caregiver to ensure the beds of high fall risk patients are in desired states for reducing the likelihood of a patient falling. The system may also help the caregiver to perform rounding tasks. The system comprises a server in communication with the patients' beds and one or more mobile electronic devices (e.g. smart phones). The mobile devices receive answers to a plurality of fall risk questions and forward them to the server. The server generates a patient fall risk assessment from the answers, determines a desired state for fall-risk components of the bed if the patient fall risk assessment indicates the patient has a high risk of falling, compares the states of the fall-risk components to corresponding desired states, and issues an alert at the mobile device if any of the fall-risk components are not in their desired state.
US11800987B2
An implantable intravascular device for deployment inside a human or animal, the apparatus comprising a body of crystalline material and a membrane of crystalline material fixed to the body by a hermetic bond an assembly of components carried on said crystalline material and arranged for responding to electrical signals wherein the body and the membrane at least partially encapsulate the assembly.
US11800986B2
A non-pressure continuous blood pressure measuring device, comprises: a radar sensing module, an electro-cardiac sensing module and a microprocessor. The radar sensing module includes at least a transmitter and a receiver, the transmitter continuously provides a pulse wave signal to an artery, the receiver receives a reflected pulse wave signal. The electro-cardiac sensing module includes at least an electrode; the electro-cardiac sensing module receives an electro-cardiac signal through the electrode. The microprocessor is in signal transmittable connection with the radar sensing module and the electro-cardiac sensing module. The microprocessor controls the radar sensing module and the electro-cardiac sensing module, and simultaneously receives the reflected pulse wave signal and the electro-cardiac signal. The microprocessor determines a blood pressure parameter of the artery according to the reflected pulse wave signal and the electrocardiography signal.
US11800982B2
An optoacoustic sensor is configured to emit electromagnetic radiation and to detect acoustic waves, and a contact element is configured to be brought into contact with the object, the contact element being spaced from the optoacoustic sensor and being transparent to the electromagnetic radiation and the acoustic waves. Further, a scanning unit is configured to cause a movement of the optoacoustic sensor relative to the contact element, and a sealing element is configured to seal a space between the contact element and the optoacoustic sensor. The sealed space contains an acoustic coupling medium. At least a part of the sealing element is flexible to allow for the movement of the optoacoustic sensor relative to the contact element. Further, the optoacoustic sensor comprises a focused ultrasonic transducer configured to detect the acoustic waves generated in the object, the ultrasonic transducer having an axis of symmetry, and a light-emitting element configured to emit the electromagnetic radiation.
US11800978B2
A computer-implemented method of performing deep learning based isocenter positioning includes acquiring a plurality of slabs covering an anatomical area of interest that comprises a patient's heart. For each slab, one or more deep learning models are used to determine a likelihood score for the slab indicating a probability that the slab includes at least a portion of the patient's heart. A center position of the patient's heart may then be determined based on the likelihood scores determined for the plurality of slabs.
US11800974B2
A system for measuring eye tracking may include a chassis, which may include a main column and a head rest assembly. The head rest assembly may include a stimulus screen for displaying a video to the patient, an optical mirror, an eye tracking camera, and at least one head rest member for stabilizing the patient's head, relative to the stimulus screen. The system may also include: a base attached to a bottom of the main column to support the main column; an arm extending from the main column to support the head rest assembly; a touchscreen interface attached to the main column and configured to provide control of the system to a user; a camera computer housed in the main column for controlling the eye tracking camera; and a system computer housed in the main column for controlling the stimulus screen, data processing and other functions.
US11800970B2
A system (11) includes a medical probe (36) for insertion into a cavity of an organ, which includes a position and direction sensor (60) and a camera (45), both operating in a sensor coordinate system (62). The system further includes a processor (44) configured to: receive, from an imaging system (21) operating in an image coordinate system (28), a three-dimensional image of the cavity including open space and tissue; receive, from the medical probe, signals indicating positions and respective directions of the medical probe inside the cavity; receive, from the camera, respective visualized locations inside the cavity; register the image coordinate system with the sensor coordinate system so as to identify one or more voxels in the image at the visualized locations, and when the identified voxels have density values in the received image that do not correspond to the open space, to update the density values of the identified voxels to correspond to the open space.
US11800963B2
A method and dishwasher utilize one or more tubular spray elements that are both rotatable about longitudinal axes thereof and discretely directable by one or more tubular spray element drives between a plurality of rotational positions about the longitudinal axes thereof. Thus, through the provision of discretely directable tubular spray elements, fluid such as wash fluid and/or pressurized air may be focused in a wash tub, in many cases providing more efficient resource usage in the dishwasher.
US11800956B1
A shower seat assembly comprising a first mounting bracket with a front side and a back side, a second mounting bracket with a front side and a back side, a first support rod hingedly connected to the first mounting bracket, a first tube stop secured to the first mounting bracket, a second support rod hingedly connected to the second mounting bracket, a second tube stop secured to the second mounting bracket, a first spring operationally associated with the first mounting bracket and the first support rod, a second spring operationally associated with the second mounting bracket and the second support rod, and a seat with an upper surface and a lower surface secured by its lower surface to the first support rod and the second support rod; wherein the back side of the first mounting bracket and second mounting bracket are each engaged to a vertical or near vertical surface.
US11800955B2
A cleaning apparatus holder assembly comprising in one example: a mounting pad configured to be attached to a work surface of a sink; the mounting pad comprising a first pivot component having a first axis of rotation; a swivel removably mounted to the mounting pad at the first pivot component and configured to rotate relative to the mounting pad about the first axis of rotation; the swivel comprising a second pivot component having a second axis of rotation not parallel to the first axis of rotation; and a resting arm mounted to the swivel at the second pivot component, configured to rotate relative to the swivel about the second axis of rotation; the second axis of rotation defining a lifting plane orthogonal to the second axis of rotation.
US11800954B2
Embodiments of a griddle of the type for an outdoor cooking station is provided herein. The griddle includes a flat cooking surface with a splash guard extending along a periphery of the flat cooking surface. The flat cooking surface defines a trough positioned adjacent a rear end of the cooking surface such that the trough includes a sloping surface extending downward toward a rear opening defined in the splash guard along and adjacent the rear end of the flat cooking surface. With this arrangement, as a user cooks food on the griddle, unwanted grease may be pushed to the rear of the griddle and into the trough so that the grease funnels down the sloped surface and through the rear opening and into a grease container centered below the rear opening.
US11800949B1
The present invention provides improved spectral signature strategies for use in a wide range of product and service applications. The present invention encodes spectral signature features into one or more optical brightener compounds and/or one or more infrared absorbing compounds. Equipment is modified with appropriate ultraviolet/violet or infrared LED illumination sources and corresponding detectors, optionally optical filters, and optionally mask elements, in order to read the spectral responses. These features desirably are used in combination with one or more other luminescent taggant compounds.
US11800942B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for a heated body pillow are described. The pillow may receive, from a user device, one or more commands for adjusting an operating temperature of a heating element located inside an outer covering of the pillow. A power cord coupled to the heating element may be at least partially enclosed by a tubular shroud external to and coupled to the outer covering. The pillow may adjust the operating temperature of the heating element based on receiving the one or more commands.
US11800940B2
A method for reducing sweating in a temperature-controlled display device includes receiving values of an ambient temperature, a door frame temperature, and relative humidity. The method can also include estimating a value of a dewpoint temperature using the values of the ambient temperature and the relative humidity. The method can also include determining control decisions for a door frame heater of the temperature-controlled display device using the value of the dewpoint temperature and the door frame temperature, and transitioning the door frame heater between an on-state and an off-state using the control decisions to maintain the value of the door frame temperature at or above the value of the dewpoint temperature.
US11800936B2
An apparatus for mounting an attachment to a seat assembly including a seat mounted on a base includes a substantially planar, substantially rigid mounting plate configured to mount between the seat and the base, a first portion of the mounting plate engaging a plurality of threaded fasteners between the seat and the base, a second portion of the mounting plate extending beyond a perimeter of the seat, and an attachment attached to the second portion of the mounting plate such that the attachment does not interfere with a movement of the seat.
US11800934B2
A piece of furniture, in particular a piece of seating furniture, has a base part on which a movable furniture part is pivotably mounted via at least one pivot fitting, wherein the at least one pivot fitting is fixed to the base part by means of a first lever and is fixed to the movable furniture part by means of a second lever which is arranged pivotably with respect to the first lever, and a method for assembling a piece of furniture.
US11800932B1
A chair is provided with a seat support frame which may be comprised of at least two tubes spaced apart by a polymer connector. The seat support frame supports a foam cushion and the frame may be embedded in the foam and may include flexible supports across the support frame also embedded in the foam. A rigid panel has a cavity and the rigid panel is arranged adjacent an outer surface of said foam cushion with at least part of said foam cushion positioned within the cavity, wherein said rigid panel is affixed to said support frame and an inner surface of said rigid panel faces the outer surface of said foam cushion.
US11800917B2
The present disclosure relates to hair-treatment compositions, typically in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion, comprising: (a) one or more monosaccharides with amine group(s); (b) one or more polysaccharides with amine group(s); wherein (a) and (b) are solubilized in an aqueous phase of the oil-in-water emulsion; (c) one or more oils; (d) one or more nonionic emulsifiers; and (e) water. The compositions strengthen hair fibers and provide additional cosmetic improvements to the hair such as conditioning, detangling, softness, suppleness, moisturizing, and manageability. Methods of treating hair with the compositions are also described. The methods include applying the composition to wet or damp hair, drying the hair (for example, with a blow dryer) and treating the hair with heat (for example, with a hot iron).
US11800898B2
Described is an aerosol provision device for generating aerosol from a plurality of aerosol generating areas each configured to receive an aerosol precursor material, wherein the aerosol provision device includes a power source for providing power to a first atomizing element configured to generate aerosol from a first aerosol precursor material present in the first aerosol generating area and to a second atomizing element configured to generate aerosol from a second aerosol precursor material present in a second aerosol generating area; and power distribution circuitry configured to distribute power between the first and second atomizing elements based on at least one parameter of aerosol precursor material currently present in the first and second aerosol generating areas respectively.
US11800895B2
A vaporizer comprises an absorber and a heating element. The absorber is configured to absorb the material to be vaporized and comprises a plurality of first pores of a 100-500 nm diameter and a plurality of second pores of a 20-100 nm diameter. A ratio of the number of the second pores N2 to the number of the first pores N1 in a unit area, i.e., N2/N1, is 10-50%. The heating element heats and vaporizes the material to be vaporized in the absorber.
US11800883B2
D-psicose/erythritol compositions comprise, in combination, D-psicose and erythritol as sweeteners together with one or more other edible ingredients. Comestibles are provided, including beverage products and other food products, comprising the novel D-psicose/erythritol compositions. D-psicose and erythritol may each be present in a comestible in a concentration sufficient independently of the other to perceptibly sweeten the composition. An additional sweetener component and other ingredients may be included in the formulation.
US11800878B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing a filled bakery product, the method comprising: providing a filling composition comprising at least one powdered food ingredient and a fat blend comprising from 15 to 67 wt. % of a temper hard fat and from 85 to 33 wt. % of a liquid oil, tempering the filling composition to form a tempered filling composition, depositing the tempered filling composition on to at least one surface of a bakery product to form a filled bakery product, wherein the surface of the bakery product has a temperature of less than 36° C., and actively cooling the deposited filling composition, wherein in the step of depositing the tempered filling composition, the tempered filling composition is deposited at a deposition temperature of from 20 to 33° C. and, in the step of actively cooling the deposited filling composition, the deposited filling composition is cooled to a temperature of at least 4° C. below the deposition temperature, wherein the temper hard fat has a solid fat content of at least 60 wt. % at 20° C., wherein the liquid oil has a solid fat content of less than 15 wt. % at 20° C., and wherein the fat blend has a saturated fatty acid residue content of from 16 to 42 wt. % and a polyunsaturated fatty acid residue content of less than 40 wt. %, based on the total weight of fatty acid residues of the fat blend.
US11800877B2
The present invention relates to a method of inactivation of plasmin enzyme in a milk-based product, wherein casein and whey protein are separated from a milk raw material by microfiltration to provide a casein concentrate as a microfiltration retentate having a whey protein content of less than 20 wt. %, based on the total protein content of the concentrate, and a whey protein concentrate as a microfiltration permeate; the casein concentrate is subjected to a thermal treatment at a temperature in the range of about 72° C. to about 95° C. to provide a thermally treated casein concentrate; and a milk-based product with a reduced plasmin activity comprising the thermally treated casein concentrate is provided. The milk-based products prepared by the method retain flawless organoleptic properties at different storage temperatures even under prolonged storage periods.
US11800865B2
Disclosed is a device and a method for storing and transporting at least one human or animal tissue with a view to transplantation or ex vivo experimentation. The device can store such tissue in a specific storage medium until the transplantation or the ex vivo experimentation, and in particular to storing a sample of human or animal cornea, such as a corneal graft. This device for storing at least one human or animal tissue comprises at least one chamber which is suitable for receiving and storing the tissue in a liquid storage medium and which comprises means for continuous renewal of the medium in said at least one chamber. The device additionally comprises means for adjusting at least one physicochemical parameter of said medium, including its pH, by continuous circulation of a buffer gas in said at least one chamber outside of and in contact with said medium.
US11800862B2
Various embodiments of an apparatus, methods, systems and computer program products described herein are directed to an agricultural observation and treatment system and method of operation. The system uses a pump in combination with a fluid regulator to obtain and disperse fluid from the fluid tanks. The fluid regulator includes a fluid input port, a fluid output port and a fluid control valve. A first tube fluidly coupled from the fluid pump to the fluid input port. The system includes a moveable treatment head having one or more spraying tips, including a first spraying tip. A second tube is fluidly coupled from the fluid output port to the moveable treatment head. A system includes a controller configured to provide to the fluid regulator to open and close the fluid control valve to release an amount of the first fluid.
US11800861B2
The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for providing variable rate application of applicants to discrete field locations. According to a first preferred embodiment, the present invention includes a control device having software modules to allow for the execution of irrigation and chemical spray patterns according to specific prescriptions for each crop being sprayed. According to further preferred embodiments, the control device may use data from a variety of image sensors to create a selective, variable rate application of applicants. Using the imaging data, the system of the present invention may use a primary applicant system to broadly deliver a first selected application (e.g. water or the like) and use a separate system to deliver targeted applicants for specific plants or areas of a given field.
US11800857B2
A liver lesion-mouse model which is a liver-specific ISX gene expression and p53 gene knockout transgenic mouse, wherein liver lesion develops after the mouse is fed with a high calorie diet.
US11800852B2
A pet protection system includes a leg portion having a first end having a first cross-section having a flexible opening to insert a pet foot therethrough; an angled portion coupled to the first end and having a second cross-section greater than the first cross-section; and a second end coupled to the angled portion, wherein the second end has a third cross-section greater than the second cross-section; and a body portion coupled to the leg portion, the body portion forming a loop that fits securely on a body of the pet.
US11800843B2
Provided herein are rose plants such as cut roses, garden roses and pot roses having at least two genes providing resistance to a pathogen causing powdery mildew. Specifically, provided herein are rose plants resistant to the powdery mildew causing pathogen Podosphaera pannosa also known as Sphaerotheca pannosa var. rosae. Also provided herein are methods for selecting the present powdery mildew rose plants. The present rose plants are characterized by including in their nuclear genome at least one nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID No. 1 and at least one nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID No. 2 wherein the combined presence of SEQ ID No. 1 and SEQ ID No. 2 provides powdery mildew resistance.
US11800831B1
A control system including a drive system and a blade system; a collision sensor; a main board having a main processor and in communication with the collision sensor, the drive system, and the blade system; the collision sensor, upon sensing a collision, capable of transmitting a collision signal to the main processor; the main board capable of transmitting an adjustment command to the drive system or the blade system; a vision sensor; a vision processor in communication with the vision sensor and the main processor, and capable of determining whether the image data represent an obstacle; the vision sensor capable of transmitting image data to the vision processor; when the vision processor determines the image data represent an obstacle, the vision processor capable of transmitting a collision-replicating signal to the main processor, prompting the main board to transmit the adjustment command to the drive system and/or the blade system.
US11800830B2
An agricultural machine includes a source of a substance to be applied to an agricultural field and a substance outlet through which the substance is configured to pass to be applied to the field. The agricultural machine further includes a controllable piezo-actuated valve and a control signal generator configured to generate a valve control signal. The piezo-actuated valve includes a valve inlet configured to be in fluidic communication with the source of substance to be applied to the field and a valve outlet through which the substance to be applied to the field passes to move through the piezo-actuated valve. The piezo-actuated valve further includes a piezo element configured to move in response to the valve control signal and a flexure, coupled to the piezo element, and configured to amplify the movement of the piezo element to provide a valve driving movement.
US11800826B2
Self-propelled vehicles for forming bales of crop or forage material are disclosed. The self-propelled baling vehicles include independently driven real wheels and front caster wheels that allow the baling vehicle to turn with a counter-steer profile. In some embodiments, the center of mass of the formed bale is toward the rear of the vehicle to improve the weight distribution of the vehicle.
US11805714B2
Methods and structures for fabricating a semiconductor device that includes a reduced programming current phase change memory (PCM) are provided. The method includes forming a bottom electrode. The method further includes forming a PCM and forming a conductive bridge filament in a dielectric to serve as a heater for the PCM. The method also includes forming a top electrode.
US11805709B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for fabricating and operating transistors. In one aspect, a transistor includes: (1) a semiconducting component configured to operate in an on state at temperatures above a semiconducting threshold temperature; and (2) a superconducting component configured to operate in a superconducting state while: (a) a temperature of the superconducting component is below a superconducting threshold temperature; and (b) a first current supplied to the superconducting component is below a current threshold; where: (i) the semiconducting component is located adjacent to the superconducting component; and (ii) in response to a first input voltage, the semiconducting component is configured to generate an electromagnetic field sufficient to lower the current threshold such that the first current exceeds the lowered current threshold, thereby transitioning the superconducting component to a non-superconducting state.
US11805708B2
A quantum device according to an example embodiment includes a quantum chip 10, and an interposer 20 on which the quantum chip 10 is mounted, in which the interposer 20 includes a conductive wiring line CL1 electrically connected to the quantum chip 10, a mounting surface 21 of the interposer 20 on which the quantum chip 10 is mounted or an opposite surface 22 opposite to the mounting surface 21 includes a first area AR11 and a second area AR12 different from the first area AR11 as viewed in a direction perpendicular to the mounting surface 21 or the opposite surface 22, the conductive wiring line CL1 is disposed in the first area AR11 on the mounting surface 21 or the opposite surface 22, and a movable member 60 is in contact with the second area AR12 of the interposer 20.
US11805705B2
A magnetic memory device includes a spin-orbit torque (SOT) induction structure which may be strained and seedless and formed with a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack is disposed over the SOT induction structure. A spacer layer may decouple layers between the SOT induction structure and the MTJ stack or decouple layers within the MTJ stack. One end of the SOT induction structure may be coupled to a first transistor and another end of the SOT induction structure coupled to a second transistor.
US11805702B2
A perpendicular magnetoresistive element comprises (counting from the element bottom): a reference layer having magnetic anisotropy in a direction perpendicular to a film surface and having an invariable magnetization direction; a tunnel barrier layer; a crystalline recording layer having magnetic anisotropy in a direction perpendicular to a film surface and having a variable magnetization direction; an oxide buffer layer; and a cap layer, wherein the crystalline recording layer consists of a CoFe alloy that is substantially free of boron and has BCC (body-centered cubic) CoFe grains having epitaxial growth with (100) plane parallel to a film surface.
US11805699B2
Disclosed herein are doped thermoelectric ceramic oxide compositions comprising a calcium cobaltite ceramic. The doped thermoelectric ceramic oxide compositions can have a formula Ca3-xM2xCo4O9M1y, where M1 represents a first metal dopant, M2 represents a second metal dopant, x is a number having a value of from about 0.00 to about 3.00, and y is a number having a value of from about 0.01 to about 0.50. The doped thermoelectric ceramic oxide compositions have an increased energy conversion efficiency as compared to an undoped or conventional thermoelectric ceramic oxide materials. Also disclosed are methods for making the doped thermoelectric ceramic oxide compositions. Products and devices are disclosed comprising the thermoelectric ceramic oxide compositions, e.g., solid-state conversion devices that can utilize heat to generate electricity. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US11805696B2
An organic light emitting display device is provided. The organic light emitting display device may include at least one light emitting part between an anode and a cathode, and the at least one light emitting part having at least one organic layer and a light emitting layer, wherein the at least one organic layer comprises a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 or 2.
US11805694B1
A display structure comprises pixel areas. At least one side of each of the pixel areas is provided with a viewing angle adjustment area. Each of the pixel areas is provided with light emitting part for emitting light, the viewing angle adjusting part includes a light shielding part and an adjusting electrode. The light shielding part has a narrow viewing angle position for shielding light from light emitting part and a wide viewing angle position for avoiding light from the light emitting part. The adjusting electrode is disposed corresponding to the light shielding part. The adjusting electrode forms an electric field, to drive the light shielding part is driven by the electric to move between the narrow viewing angle position and the wide viewing angle position.
US11805686B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies and, in particular to a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a circuit board assembly, a plurality of sub-pixels, a base substrate, and a plurality of connecting wires. The circuit board assembly includes a plurality of first bonding pads; a plurality of second bonding pads are disposed in the non-display area of the base substrate; the plurality of connecting wires connect the plurality of first bonding pads and the plurality of second bonding pads. Adjacent connecting wires have different maximum stretchable heights in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate.
US11805681B2
An emissive display device includes a polycrystalline semiconductor including a channel, source region, and drain region of a driving transistor disposed on a substrate. The device includes a gate electrode of the driving transistor overlapping the channel of the driving transistor, an oxide semiconductor including a channel, a source region, and a drain region of a second transistor disposed on the substrate, and a first connection electrode. The first connection electrode includes a first connector electrically connected to the gate electrode of the driving transistor, a second connector electrically connected to a second electrode of the second transistor, and a main body disposed between the first connector and the second connector. The device includes an initialization voltage line disposed on the substrate and applying an initialization voltage. The initialization voltage line surrounds at least a part of the second connector of the first connection electrode.
US11805679B2
A substrate and a display device. The substrate includes: a hole region including a plurality of holes penetrating the substrate; and a non-hole region including a plurality of connection portions and a plurality of pixel regions separated from each other. Each connection portion is between adjacent pixel regions to connect the adjacent pixel regions, wherein a straight line in any direction parallel to the substrate passes through the hole region and the plurality of holes include at least two holes having different deformation degrees.
US11805673B2
A light extraction apparatus for an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) includes an OLED emitter (100), a plurality of tapered reflectors (210), and a spacer layer (202). Each tapered reflector includes a first surface (212), a second surface (214) opposite to the first surface and comprising a surface area larger than a surface area of the first surface, and at least one side surface (216) extending between the first surface and the second surface. The spacer layer (202) includes a first surface coupled to the OLED emitter and a second surface coupled to the first surface of each of the plurality of tapered reflectors. Light emitted from the OLED passes through the spacer layer and into the plurality of tapered reflectors. The at least one side surface of each of the plurality of tapered reflectors includes a slope to redirect light into an escape cone and out of the second surface of the corresponding tapered reflector.
US11805669B2
A display panel having a display area and a non-display area at least partially disposed around the display area, and first and second opposing surfaces; and a first stack structure disposed on the first surface of the display panel including a first layer disposed on the first surface of the display panel, a second layer disposed on the first layer, and a third layer, disposed between the first layer and the second layer; the second layer having a larger size than the first layer in a plan view; and a side surface of the second layer extending outwardly beyond a side surface of the first layer.
US11805665B2
A display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a mask plate group are provided. The display panel, from bottom to top, includes a light-sensing device, a substrate, and an anode layer. The anode layer in a display area includes a first light-transmitting layer and a reflective layer, which are stacked. The anode layer in a light-sensing area includes a second light-transmitting layer, and the light-sensing device is disposed in the light-sensing area.
US11805664B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic display device, including a rigid substrate including a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a side surface coupled between the first surface and the second surface, a flexible OLED layer including a first body segment extending over the first surface of the rigid substrate to form a display front surface of the electronic display device, a second body segment extending over the second surface of the rigid substrate to form a back surface of the electronic display device, and a bent segment coupled between the first body segment and the second body segment, and a functional component coupled to the second body segment of the flexible OLED layer to implement a display function of the electronic display device, the functional component being hidden on the back surface of the electronic display device.
US11805660B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a memory region, the memory region includes a first metal line, a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) over the first metal line, a cap, wherein at least a portion of the cap is above the MTJ, a first stop layer above the cap, and a first metal via being disposed over the MTJ and in direct contact with the first stop layer, and a logic region adjacent to the memory region, the logic region includes a second metal line, a third metal line over the second metal line, a second stop layer being disposed over the third metal line, and a second metal via over the third metal line.
US11805653B2
A memory can have a stacked memory array that can have a plurality of levels of memory cells. Each respective level of memory cells can be commonly coupled to a respective access line. A plurality of drivers can be above the stacked memory array. Each respective driver can have a monocrystalline semiconductor with a conductive region coupled to a respective access line.
US11805648B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a stacked body which is provided on a substrate and in which an insulating film and an electrode film are alternately stacked. The semiconductor memory device also includes an insulating member which penetrates the stacked body in a stacking direction of the insulating film and the electrode film to thereby separate the stacked body. The semiconductor memory device also includes a semiconductor pillar which penetrates the stacked body in the stacking direction. A maximum portion of the insulating member where a first distance from a side surface of the insulating member to a central plane of the insulating member becomes maximum and a maximum portion of the semiconductor pillar where a second distance from a side surface of the semiconductor pillar to a center line of the semiconductor pillar becomes maximum being provided in different positions in the stacking direction.
US11805636B2
A memory device is disclosed. The memory device includes a first program line and a second program line. A first portion of the first program line is formed in a first conductive layer, and a second portion of the first program line is formed in a second conductive layer above the first conductive layer. A first portion of the second program line is formed in the first conductive layer, and a second portion of the second program line is formed in a third conductive layer above the second conductive layer. A width of at least one of the second portion of the first program line or the second portion of the second program line is different from a width of at least one of the first portion of the first program line or the first portion of the second program line. A method is also disclosed herein.
US11805631B2
Provided are a magnetic field shield sheet for a wireless charger, a method of manufacturing the sheet, and a receiver for the wireless charger by using the sheet. The sheet includes at least one layer thin magnetic sheet made of an amorphous ribbon separated into a plurality of fine pieces; a protective film that is adhered on one surface of the thin magnetic sheet via a first adhesive layer provided on one side of the protective film; and a double-sided tape that is adhered on the other surface of the thin magnetic sheet via a second adhesive layer provided on one side of the double-sided adhesive tape, wherein gaps among the plurality of fine pieces are filled by some parts of the first and second adhesive layers, to thereby isolate the plurality of fine pieces.
US11805629B2
An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and at least partially defining an internal volume of the electronic device, an electromagnetic radiation emitter and an electromagnetic radiation detector disposed in the internal volume, and an optical component disposed in the aperture. The optical component can include a first and second transparent portions disposed above the electromagnetic radiation detector and the electromagnetic radiation emitter, and an opaque portion disposed between the first and second transparent portions. A conductive component can be in electrical communication with the opaque portion and one or more components of the electronic device.
US11805621B2
A memory auxiliary heat transfer structure is correspondingly assembled with at least one memory unit and a water-cooling assembly. The memory auxiliary heat transfer structure includes a main body. The main body has a first end, a second end and a middle section. The middle section has a heated side and a contact side. The heated side is disposed corresponding to at least one chip disposed on the memory unit. The contact side is attached to and assembled with the water-cooling assembly. The memory auxiliary heat transfer structure serves to reduce the friction between the memory unit and the water-cooling assembly and fill the gap so as to reduce the heat resistance.
US11805617B2
A carrier for a storage device is provided. The carrier includes an accommodation bracket, a panel and an electromagnetic shielding element. The accommodation bracket has an open space. The panel has a handle. The electromagnetic shielding element is disposed between the accommodation bracket and the panel. The electromagnetic shielding element is engaged with the accommodation bracket.
US11805615B2
A method of manufacturing a casing of an electronic device including the following steps is provided. A metallic housing is provided, wherein the metallic housing has an inner surface and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface and includes a back region and at least one side region. At least one gap, a plurality of apertures and a non-conductive layer are formed on the inner surface of the metallic housing, wherein the apertures is formed on a surface of the at least one gap, part of the non-conductive layer is formed in the at least one gap and extended from the back region to the at least one side region, and part of the non-conductive layer is extended into the apertures. Part of the metallic housing is removed for exposing part of the non-conductive layer, thereby forming a plurality of non-conductive spacers located in the at least one gap.
US11805609B2
A display module and display device that may suppress a greenish defect and reduce a bezel area while improving a heat-dissipation performance and a shock absorption function include an integral cushion plate including at least one protrusion protruding from and extending along an edge portion of a body with the cushion plate placed on a lower surface of a display panel, and the protrusion brought into contact with a cover member. Further, the protrusion of the cushion plate is bent to have an inclined part so that the protrusion does not contact the side surface of the display panel and contacts the cover member.
US11805603B2
Applying a solderable surface to conductive ink may include partially curing a conductive ink trace; applying, to the partially cured conductive ink trace, a conductive paste comprising conductive particles; and curing the partially cured conductive ink trace and the conductive paste.
US11805602B2
A chip assembly may include a package substrate that includes one or more pins. The chip assembly may also include one or more pads. The one or more pads may be electrically coupled to the one or more pins. In addition, the chip assembly may include a board that includes one or more board pads. Further, the chip assembly may include an anisotropic layer. The anisotropic layer may be positioned between the board and the one or more pads and between the board and a portion of the package substrate. In addition, the anisotropic layer may mechanically couple the board to the one or more pads and to the portion of the package substrate. Further, the anisotropic layer may electrically couple the one or more pads to the one or more board pads.
US11805599B2
An electronic device (1, and 1A to 1E) according to the present disclosure include a substrate (10, and 10F) made of a ceramic and a housing part (21) including a recessed portion (210) accommodating the substrate. The recessed portion includes a plurality of side wall portions (211) arranged around the substrate along a circumferential direction and respectively facing a plurality of sides (111) of the substrate in a plan view when viewing the substrate from a direction perpendicular to a circuit forming surface (110) of the substrate, and a plurality of gaps (212) each located between two of the plurality of side wall portions adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction. The substrate includes a plurality of corner portions (112) curved toward an inner side of the circuit forming surface in a plan view.
US11805595B2
A printed circuit board includes a plurality of layers including attachment layers and routing layers; and columns of via patterns formed in the plurality of layers, wherein via patterns in adjacent columns are offset in a direction of the columns, each of the via patterns comprising: first and second signal vias forming a differential signal pair, the first and second signal vias extending through at least the attachment layers; and at least one conductive shadow via located between the first and second signal vias of the differential pair. In some embodiments, at least one conductive shadow via is electrically connected to a conductive surface film.
US11805591B2
An emergency lighting system provides testing and reporting functionality in a rapidly repeatable fashion for environments with numerous emergency lighting units. In one or more embodiments, the emergency lighting system comprises a plurality of emergency lighting units capable of conducting one or more tests and reporting their operating condition as test results. One or more terminals receive and aggregate the test results and present the same to a user. Emergency lighting units having an undesirable operating condition can then be readily identified and addressed.
US11805587B2
A vehicle illumination system provided in a vehicle capable of traveling around a corner by inclining a vehicle body toward a turning direction includes: a headlamp mounted on a front portion of the vehicle; a communication lamp disposed on the vehicle body in a region adjacent to the head lamp so as to be visible from ahead of the vehicle; and an illumination control unit configured to change a lighting mode of the communication lamp depending on a state of the vehicle.
US11805586B1
A decorative lighting dimmer switch without influencing charging is provided. The decorative lighting dimmer switch includes a charging module used for providing 12V direct current, wherein the charging module is connected to a charging interface of a light emitting diode (LED) lamp. The decorative lighting dimmer switch further includes a constant current source driving module connected to the charging module, wherein the constant current source driving module is connected to the LED lamp, and the constant current source driving module is a constant current source driving circuit including a PT4115 driving chip. The decorative lighting dimmer switch achieves a charging function and an on-line dimming function at a same time by arranging the constant current source driving module to drive the LED lamp to satisfy requirements of consumers.
US11805568B2
This document describes methods and systems for user equipment (UE) context transfer over radio access network (RAN) paging. A first base station receives from a second base station a first message that includes a context that is associated with a user equipment while the user equipment was in an engaged mode with the second base station. The first base station transmits a second message that is a paging message to the user equipment and in response receives, from the user equipment, a third message that includes a resume message authentication code identifier. After the first base station verifies the third message using the resume message authentication code identifier, the first base station transmits, to the user equipment, a fourth message that enables the user equipment to resume the engaged mode with the first base station in accordance with the context.
US11805565B2
Implementations of the present disclosure provide a wireless communication method and a terminal device. In the case that a duplicate transmission of a first bearer is deactivated, a terminal device can determine an RLC entity of the split transmission. The wireless communication method includes: in the case that a duplicate transmission of a first bearer is deactivated, a terminal device determines, according to cell groups corresponding to a primary RLC entity and a secondary RLC entity in at least three RLC entities configured for the first bearer, an RLC entity that transmits a PDCP PDU, and/or a terminal device determines, according to cell groups corresponding to a primary RLC entity and a secondary RLC entity in at least three RLC entities configured for the first bearer, an MAC entity that maps the data amount of a PDCP to be transmitted.
US11805562B2
The present invention relates to a user device pairing method and apparatus. The method comprises: receiving a pairing request message, carrying a first identity identifier, sent by a first user device, the first user device being an unmanned aerial vehicle or an unmanned aerial vehicle controller; sending a query request message carrying the first identity identifier to an unmanned aerial vehicle traffic management (UTM); receiving a query response message which comprises a query result and is fed back by the UTM; when the query result comprises a second identity identifier of a second user device in a correlation between an unmanned aerial vehicle and an unmanned aerial vehicle controller, sending to the first user device a pairing response message carrying the second identity identifier, wherein when the first user device is an unmanned aerial vehicle, the second user device is an unmanned aerial vehicle controller, and when the first user device is an unmanned aerial vehicle controller, the second user device is an unmanned aerial vehicle.
US11805559B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide a session management method and system, and a terminal. The method includes: when user equipment UE has a first protocol data unit PDU session, sending, by the UE, a service request message to an access and mobility management function AMF entity; receiving, by the UE, a first message sent by the AMF entity; and determining, by the UE based on the first message, to re-establish or modify the first PDU session. In the embodiments of the present invention, the UE sends the service request message to the AMF entity, and then the AMF entity sends, to the UE, the first message used to determine to re-establish or modify the first PDU session.
US11805556B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method and apparatus for handling sidelink communication according to type of handover are provided.
US11805555B2
A method performed by a terminal of a 2-step random access procedure in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a message A (MsgA) for the 2-step random access procedure, starting a window at a symbol for receiving a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of a message B (MsgB), wherein the symbol is identified based on whether a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is transmitted in the MsgA with a physical random access channel (PRACH), and detecting downlink control information on the PDCCH of the MsgB during the window.
US11805549B2
Systems and methods related to switched carrier Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) transmission in unlicensed spectrum are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a User Equipment device (UE) in a wireless system comprises performing uplink Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) on one or more candidate carriers for switched carrier SRS transmission and performing a switched carrier SRS transmission on at least one candidate carrier of the one or more candidate carriers that is determined to be available as a result of performing the uplink LBT on the one or more candidate carriers. In some embodiments, the one or more candidate carriers are carriers other than carriers configured for the UE and on which the UE is scheduled to transmit.
US11805544B2
A method for LBT failure detection performed by a UE is provided. The method includes: receiving, by a MAC entity of the UE, an LBT failure indication from a lower layer for all UL transmissions; increasing an LBT failure counter when the MAC entity receives the LBT failure indication; determining an LBT failure event occurs when the LBT failure counter is greater than or equal to a threshold; and resetting the LBT failure counter after the MAC entity has not received the LBT failure indication for a time period.
US11805540B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may perform a signal measurement. The UE may select, based at least in part on a result of performing the signal measurement, a channel state information (CSI) report parameter, from a plurality of CSI report parameters. The plurality of CSI report parameters may be included in a CSI reporting configuration configured for the UE. The UE may transmit an indication of the selected CSI report parameter in uplink control information (UCI). Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11805533B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a notification of a change to multicast broadcast (MB) control information associated with at least one MB service to which the UE is subscribed, the MB control information being included in an MB control channel (MBCCH) scheduled by a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) communication addressed to an MB radio network temporary identifier (MB-RNTI); and monitor one or more resources of the MBCCH to receive updated MB control information based at least in part on receiving the notification of the change to the MB control information. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11805525B2
The disclosure relates to a communication method and a system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, a smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a higher signal including a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource information, determining a PUCCH format and resource for a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information corresponding to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), and transmitting the HARQ feedback information based on the determined PUCCH format and the resource.
US11805521B2
The present disclosure provides a bearer mapping method of wireless backhaul node, a wireless backhaul node and a donor base station, the bearer mapping method includes: sending bearer configuration information to the wireless backhaul node, wherein the bearer configuration information is used to configure one or more of: a first bearer between the wireless backhaul node and the downstream wireless backhaul node or a UE; the bearer mapping relationship of the first bearer; a second bearer between the wireless backhaul node and the upstream wireless backhaul node or the donor base station; the bearer mapping relationship of the second bearer; and the bearer mapping relationship between the first bearer and the second bearer.
US11805518B2
The disclosure relates to a communication technique that converges a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate after a 4G system with IoT technology, and a system thereof. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security and safety related services, and the like) based on 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. The disclosure discloses a method and device for a terminal to perform satellite communication.
US11805515B2
A system and a method minimize power consumption, signalling overhead, and processing load in blind scheduling in a mobile communication system. A User Equipment (UE) detects a type of an uplink (UL) grant while it is periodically allocated the UL grant. If there is no data to transmit using the UL grant, the UE determines whether to transmit a padding Medium Access Control (MAC) Protocol Data Unit (PDU) to an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) Node B (eNB) using the UL grant according to the type of the UL grant.
US11805513B2
A method that carries out uplink multiple access while reducing complexity in processing accompanying exchange of control information. A terminal device that performs uplink multiple access communication includes a reception unit that receives a frame including uplink multiple access connection information, a first autonomous decentralized control unit that instructs securing time of a wireless resource, and a second autonomous decentralized control unit that instructs securing time of a wireless resource after reception of a frame including the uplink multiple access connection information. The terminal device is instructed securing time of the wireless resource by the first autonomous decentralized control unit in a case that a frame including the uplink multiple access connection information is not received. Securing time of the wireless resource is instructed by the second autonomous decentralized control unit in a case that a frame including the uplink multiple access connection information is received.
US11805511B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support cross-slot scheduling of sidelink transmissions in a wireless communication system. A transmitting user equipment (UE) in communication with a receiving UE over a sidelink transmits cross-slot schedule information to the receiving UE at a time prior to a first slot over which a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmission is to be transmitted to the receiving UE. The cross-slot schedule information includes information that is sufficient to decode the PSSCH transmission received by the receiving UE at the first slot, without requiring the receiving UE to decode a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) transmission including a sidelink control information (SCI) message received during the first slot. In aspects, the PSSCH transmission may be decoded in parallel with the PSCCH transmission received in the first slot.
US11805510B2
An apparatus (e.g., a user equipment (UE)) maps a plurality of mutually orthogonal sequences to each of a plurality of physical resource blocks (PRBs) within an interlace. The apparatus then performs a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission in a New Radio unlicensed spectrum (NR-U). The apparatus also receives an assignment of a set of sequences for each PRB of the plurality of PRBs from a wireless network. In response, the apparatus performs an uplink control information (UCI) transmission via the PUCCH in the NR-U.
US11805509B2
Novel techniques are described for coexistence of multiple radio technologies in a shared frequency band. Techniques described herein enable multiple radiofrequency networks using different radio technologies to coexist on a same carrier frequency by exploiting various frequency- and/or time-domain sharing of scheduled resources. For example, data signals are received for transmission over different radio networks according to different radio technologies (having different respective sub-carrier definitions and timeslot definitions). A coexistence resource schedule is computed from the communication resource grids define an allocation of sub-carrier and/or timeslot resources among the radio technologies. Radio technologies can then be generated from the data signals in accordance with the coexistence resource schedule and the communication resource grids. The radio signals can then be transmitted over the radio networks, with the multiple radio technologies coexisting in orthogonal components of a communication channel.
US11805508B2
A mobile station which communicates with a base station includes a transceiver configured to receive a downlink control channel, and a controller configured to determine whether C-RNTI is included in the downlink control channel. The controller is further configured to determine that resource allocation in the downlink control channel overrides persistent downlink resource allocation for a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) if the C-RNTI is included in the downlink control channel. The transceiver is further configured to receive a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) transmission by using persistent downlink resources.
US11805504B2
The present disclosure is a novel utility of a software defined radio (SDR) based Distributed Antenna System (DAS) that is field reconfigurable and support multi-modulation schemes (modulation-independent), multi-carriers, multi-frequency bands and multi-channels. The present disclosure enables a high degree of flexibility to manage, control, enhance, facilitate the usage and performance of a distributed wireless network such as flexible simulcast, automatic traffic load-balancing, network and radio resource optimization, network calibration, autonomous/assisted commissioning, carrier pooling, automatic frequency selection, frequency carrier placement, traffic monitoring, traffic tagging, pilot beacon, etc.
US11805497B2
A method of a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided. The terminal includes receiving, from a base station, configuration information for a first uplink and configuration information for a second uplink, determining a first maximum number of multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) layers for the first uplink, based on the configuration information for the first uplink, determining a maximum number of layers for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) supported by the terminal to be a second maximum number of MIMO layers for the second uplink, and transmitting, to the base station, the PUSCH by using at least one of the first uplink or the second uplink, based on the determined first maximum number of MIMO layers and the second maximum number of MIMO layers.
US11805492B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a differential UE-specific timing advance (TA) based at least in part on a difference between a first UE-specific TA associated with a current global navigation satellite system (GNSS) position fix and a second UE-specific TA associated with a previous GNSS position fix. The UE may transmit, to a non-terrestrial network (NTN) node, an uplink message at a time that is based at least in part on the differential UE-specific TA. Numerous other aspects are described.
US11805490B2
A time measurement method includes that a first device receives a first packet from a second device using a first antenna. The first device transmits a second packet to the second device using a second antenna. The first device receives an indication for a first transceiving delay from the second device, where the first transceiving delay is a delay from a time at which the second device transmits the first packet to a time at which the second device receives the second packet. The first device determines a round-trip time (RTT) between the first device and the second device based on a calibration delay from the second antenna to the first antenna, a recording moment at which the first device receives the first packet, a recording moment at which the first device transmits the second packet, and the first transceiving delay.
US11805480B2
A wireless access node wirelessly broadcasts System Information Blocks (SIBs) that indicate individual slice characteristics for wireless network slices. A wireless UE wirelessly receives the SIBs, selects one of the slices based on user requirements for a user application and the individual slice characteristics for the slices, and transfers UE capability information that indicates the selected slice to the wireless access node. The wireless access node transfers the UE capability information to an Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF). The AMF authorizes the wireless UE for the selected slice and selects Quality-of-Service (QoS) parameters for the wireless UE that correspond to the individual slice characteristics for the selected slice. The AMF transfers signaling to the wireless access node to serve the wireless UE per the selected QoS parameters. The wireless access node wirelessly exchanges user data with the wireless UE per the selected QoS parameters.
US11805476B2
Systems and methods for admitting new nodes into an existing network, for example a MoCA network. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for adding a new node to an existing network without requiring on-site manual configuration, for example utilizing communication between the new node and a network coordinator of the existing network prior to admission of the new node to the existing network. The network coordinator is able to determine that sufficient bandwidth is available for the new node to transmit a pre-admission discovery request message that comprises a management entity request network information element (MERNIE).
US11805463B2
A wireless UE wirelessly attaches to a network controller over a source RAN. The UE transfers UE capabilities that comprise a Public Land Mobile Network Identifier (PLMN ID) and transfers a slice request for a network slice type to the network controller over the source RAN. The network controller selects a network slice based on the requested network slice type. The network controller selects a mobility profile that comprises handover criteria based on the requested slice type and the PLMN ID. The UE exchanges user data with a user plane over the selected network slice. The UE determines a handover requirement based on the handover criteria and identifies a set of target RANs. The UE selects one of the target RANs based on the handover criteria and hands over to the target RAN. The UE exchanges additional user data with user plane over the network slice and the target RAN.
US11805443B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme and system for the convergence of a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate than a post-4G system and the IoT technology. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security and safety services) based on the 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. One embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for processing data in a wireless communication system.
US11805439B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may compress data, of an uncompressed size, associated with an uplink transmission to a compressed size. The UE may transmit a message based at least in part on the uncompressed size of the data associated with the uplink transmission satisfying a threshold. The UE may transmit the compressed data in the compressed size. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11805433B2
Disclosed are a communication technique for merging, with an IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. A new radio access technology (NR) system, which is novel 5G communication, is designed such that various services can be freely multiplexed in time and frequency resources, thereby enabling channel state information based on an aperiodic CSI-RS or a synchronization signal to be transmitted and received. According to the present invention, a base station in a wireless communication system transmits channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration information to a terminal, transmits channel state information feedback configuration information to the terminal, transmits CSI-RS trigger information to the terminal, aperiodically transmits a CSI-RS to the terminal according to the CSI-RS trigger information, and can receive, from the terminal, channel state information generated on the basis of the transmitted CSI-RS, wherein the CSI-RS is configured according to the CSI-RS configuration information, and at least a part of the configured CSI-RS can be transmitted by the CSI-RS trigger information.
US11805420B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to enhanced feedback for secure mode wireless communications. A device may send a first null data packet (NDP) to a second device, and identify a second NDP received from the second device. The device may identify a location measurement report (LMR) received from the second device, the LMR including a first channel response indicative of a first arrival time of the first NDP at the second device and a first phase shift associated with the first NDP. The device may generate a second channel response indicative of a second arrival time of the second NDP at the device and a second phase shift associated with the second NDP. The device may determine that the first channel response does not match the second channel response, and may identify an attempted attack.
