US11802390B2
A hydraulic machinery may include: a boom actuator including a large chamber and a small chamber; a tank; and an energy recovery circuit provided between the boom actuator and the tank, wherein the energy recovery circuit includes: a discharge valve provided between the large chamber and the tank to allow or block the flow of fluid from the former to the latter; a regeneration valve connecting the large chamber and the small chamber to allow or block the flow of fluid from the former to the latter; a recovery part for recovering energy; and a first valve provided between the large chamber and the recovery part to allow or block the flow of fluid from the former to the latter.
US11802385B2
A machine for road work for road work, the machine can comprise: a frame, a drive system including a power source carried by the frame, a milling system driven by the power source and a controller. The milling system can comprise: a rotor configured to rotate and remove an amount of material from a working area; a drive member coupling the rotor to be driven by the power source; a tensioner assembly configured to tension the drive member; and a sensor configured to measure the tension of the drive member. The controller can be configured to, in response to a signal received from the sensor, determine if the rotor has encountered an object capable of damaging the rotor.
US11802384B2
The present invention relates to an earth working method for removing earth material by means of a tool (14) rotating around a working axis (R); the rotating tool (14) being carried by a machine frame (20) of an earth working machine (10); the machine frame (20) standing on a substrate (U) by way of a rollable propelling unit (13) and being driven by a propulsion drive apparatus (25, HM) to perform a propelled motion relative to the substrate (U) in a propulsion direction (VR); the propulsion direction (VR) enclosing with the working axis (R) an angle (β) different from 90°; and the present invention further relates to an earth working machine embodied to execute the earth working method.
US11802382B2
A concrete form bracket for holding in place concrete forms. The bracket may have horizontally extendable arms with pivotable concrete form engaging surfaces. One or more of the horizontally extending arms pivot from a central area and are independently extendable/adjustable to engage a concrete form at multiple locations.
US11802371B2
The invention concerns a hoisting cable formed of a steel core coated at its periphery with a textile sheath, wherein said textile sheath is a sheath directly braided on the steel core and made of an abrasion-resistant synthetic material.
US11802366B2
A drying rack includes a base slab and elongated members having a first end and a second end. The second end is bifurcated with a first branch and a second branch. The elongated members have a stored position, with a second end of each of the elongated members inserted into a slot in the base slab with the first branch engaging a first face of the base slab, the second branch engaging a second face of the base slab and the first end of each elongated member maintained in the slot by friction. The elongated members have an operative position, with the elongated members arranged in an upright orientation relative to first face of the base slab. When the elongated members are inserted into openings in the base slab, the bifurcated second end is too large to pass through the openings.
US11802365B2
A laundry treating apparatus may include a main body having a front panel having a laundry inlet port and configured to receive laundry loaded through the laundry inlet port, and a door rotatably coupled to the front panel to open and close the laundry inlet port. The door may include an outer frame provided with an opening and facing an outside of the main body; a front glass coupled to a front surface of the outer frame to cover the opening; and an inner frame coupled to a rear surface of the outer frame and facing an inside of the main body. The outer frame may include an adhesive groove provided on a front surface of the outer frame to receive an adhesive for bonding the front glass to the outer frame; a reinforcing portion provided on a rear surface of the outer frame in correspondence to the adhesive groove to reinforce a rigidity of the outer frame; and a first hook that protrudes from an outer circumference of the outer frame toward an outer circumference of the inner frame. The inner frame may include a second hook that protrudes from an outer circumference of the inner frame toward the outer frame to fasten the outer frame and the inner frame to each other by an interference fit between the first hook and the second hook, thereby enhancing a fastening force between the outer frame and the inner frame.
US11802361B2
A laundry treating apparatus having a horizontally rotatable drum with a plurality of variable lifter blades protruding from the drum inner cylindrical surface toward drum inner space and in parallel to the axis of drum rotation. The variable lifter blade is rotatably mounted on a hinge rod which is attached to the drum inner cylindrical wall such that the lifter blade is predisposed to tilt to a variable angle in relation to the drum circumference by different directions and speeds of drum rotation and influence from the laundry mass.
US11802352B2
A yarn making method includes a raw-material yarn; first rollers pulling the raw-material yarn; an entangling point generator subjecting the yarn to jet-forming of entangling points; a cleansing chamber cleansing the yarn that has generated the entangling points; a material chamber provided with a graphene-containing attachment material to be attached to the yarn that has generated the entangling points and has been cleansed; second rollers pulling the yarn that has past the entangling point generator, the cleansing chamber, and the material chamber; a heating chamber having the attachment material secured to the yarn by means of heat-setting; third rollers controlling a heating time of the yarn in the heating chamber; and fourth rollers winding and shaping the processing-completed yarn so as to have the graphene-containing attachment material long preserved in clothing.
US11802350B2
The present invention relates to: layered gallium arsenide (GaAs), which is more particularly layered GaAs, which, unlike the conventional bulk GaAs, has a two-dimensional crystal structure, has the ability to be easily exfoliated into nanosheets, and exhibits excellent electrical properties by having a structure that enables easy charge transport in the in-plane direction; a method of preparing the same; and a GaAs nanosheet exfoliated from the same.
US11802343B2
The present invention relates to an oxygenated water manufacturing device, which can be used in various fields because it can be applied to and used for not only mineral water or purified water, but also other various drinks such as tap water, barley tea, green tea, corn silk tea, and soju by using a specific configuration, which allows use of only high-purity oxygen from which ozone, which is produced with oxygen when mineral water is electrolyzed, and various inorganic substances and organic substances such as calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), and silicon (Si) contained in the mineral water are completely filtered out, and which completely prevents a phenomenon in which oxygen is not generated by deformation of an ion resin membrane disposed between an anode (+) and a cathode (−) in the oxygen generator due to a water-drying phenomenon in the hydrogen outlet.
US11802340B2
A cooling chamber comprising a support plate connected to a cryo pump and turbo pump, a clamp ring with a plurality of clamp pads on the bottom thereof where each clamp pad has a beveled surface directed downward and a lift plate to move the clamp ring from a clamp position to a loading position are described. Cluster tools incorporating the cooling chamber and methods of using the cooling chamber are also described.
US11802335B1
An aerosol-assisted chemical vapor-deposition (AACVD) method of making NiPd nano-alloy electrocatalyst. The method includes subjecting a mixture including Pd(II)acetylacetonate Pd(C5H7O2)2, Ni(II)acetylacetonate Ni(C5H7O2)2 and a solvent to AACVD, to form a NiPd nano-alloy electrocatalyst. The NiPd nano-alloy electrocatalyst is formed on a surface of a porous metallic substrate in a single-step. The electrocatalyst of the present disclosure exhibits excellent OER activity, demonstrates excellent durability during prolonged water electrolysis experiments and imposing kinetics for OER.
US11802332B2
A method for manufacturing a near-infrared sensor cover includes arranging a mask in a region of an undercoating layer formed on a rear surface of a base, the region being different from a heater formation region in which a heater is to be formed and different from a belt-shaped separation region extending along an edge of the heater formation region, forming a heat-generating film on the mask and the undercoating layer, the heat-generating film being made of the conductive heat-generating material, peeling, using a laser, the heat-generating film formed in the separation region, and removing the mask and the heat-generating film formed on the mask. The separation region has a width that is set to be smaller than a beam diameter of each of near-infrared rays transmitted from the transmitting portion.
US11802329B2
Provided is a method of producing a hot-dip metal coated steel strip with which a hot-dip metal coated steel strip of high quality can be produced by sufficiently suppressing edge overcoating. The method comprises spraying gas from a pair of gas wiping nozzles 20A and 20B onto a steel strip S while being pulled up from a molten metal bath 14, to adjust a coating weight of molten metal on both sides of the steel strip S, wherein a pair of baffle plates 40 and 42 are respectively placed outside of both transverse edges of the steel strip, and a height B of a lower end of each of the pair of baffle plates 40 and 42 with respect to a bath surface of the molten metal bath is set to +50 mm or less, where an upper side in a vertical direction is positive.
US11802326B2
An anisotropic bonded magnet and a preparation method thereof are provided. By stacking magnets having different magnetic properties and/or densities, the magnets in the middle have high properties and the magnets at two ends and/or the periphery have low properties, thereby compensating for a property deviation caused by a difference in pressing densities during a pressing process, and improving the property uniformity of the magnets in an axial direction. The method solves the problem of “low in the middle and high at two ends” caused by the phenomenon of non-uniform magnetic field orientation and density along a height direction during orientation and densification.
US11802324B2
An nitrogen solid solution titanium sintered compact includes a matrix made of a titanium component having an α-phase, nitrogen atoms dissolved as a solute of solid solution in a crystal lattice of the titanium component, and metal atoms dissolved as a solute of solid solution in the crystal lattice of the titanium component.
US11802320B2
A method for the manufacturing of an object. The method includes receiving a desired alloy composition for the object, depositing a plurality of foils in a stack to form the object, applying heat to the stack at a first temperature to bond the plurality of foils to each other, and applying heat to the stack at a second temperature to homogenize the composition of the stack. The homogenized stack has the desired alloy composition.
US11802318B2
Provided herein are synthetic nucleic acid molecules known as loop-mediated riboregulators that have single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sensitivity and ultralow OFF state signal levels. Loop-mediated riboregulators can activate or repress gene expression in response to trigger RNAs bearing completely arbitrary sequences. Also provided herein are methods of using such synthetic nucleic acid molecules for detecting the presence or absence of a particular target RNA in, for example, a biological sample.
US11802311B2
This disclosure provides methods and compositions for analyzing nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA, and including determination of absolute numbers of such nucleic acids and/or detection and localization of lesions or other modifications on such nucleic acids.
US11802309B2
A heating mechanism for use in DNA applications such as DNA amplification, extraction and sterilization is provided. Nanoparticles having photo-thermal properties are put in contact with a reaction mixture and irradiated with an activation light beam to activate these photo-thermal properties, thereby releasing heat. Nanoparticles of several types may be used. Use of the same nanoparticles or of different one to monitor the reaction using a different light beam is also presented.
US11802307B2
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are polynucleotides, supports, kits, and methods of use thereof for amplifying, immobilizing, and sequencing polynucleotides.
US11802300B2
A genetically engineered strain having high-yield of L-valine is disclosed. Starting from Escherichia coli W3110, an acetolactate synthase gene alsS of Bacillus subtilis is inserted into a genome thereof and overexpressed; a ppGpp 3′-pyrophosphate hydrolase mutant R290E/K292D gene spoTM of Escherichia coli is inserted into the genome and overexpressed; a lactate dehydrogenase gene ldhA, a pyruvate formate lyase I gene pflB, and genes frdA, frdB, frdC, frdD of four subunits of fumaric acid reductase are deleted from the genome; a leucine dehydrogenase gene bcd of Bacillus subtilis replaces a branched chain amino acid transaminase gene ilvE of Escherichia coli; and an acetohydroxy acid isomeroreductase mutant L67E/R68F/K75E gene ilvCM replaces the native acetohydroxy acid isomeroreductase gene ilvC of Escherichia coli. Furthermore, the L-valine fermentation method is improved by using a two-stage dissolved oxygen control. The L-valine titer and the sugar-acid conversion rate are increased.
US11802297B2
The present invention relates to an improved method for cell line development (CLD) which is generally applicable to production of any therapeutic protein that can be produced using mammalian Cell lines and in particular Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells. The method combines site-directed integration (SDI), expression construct components improving the post-transcriptional processing of the gene of interest (GOI) and the introduction of a onetime pre-CLD host cell line selection workflow to generate a production competent cell line that can then be used in multiple CLD efforts using SDI from that point on.
US11802273B2
The disclosure provides for an isolated recombinant influenza virus having at least one of: a PA gene segment encoding PA with a residue at position 443 that is not arginine, a PB1 gene segment encoding PB1 with a residue at position 737 that is not lysine, a PB2 gene segment encoding PB2 with a residue at position 25 that is not valine or a residue at position 712 that is not glutamic acid, a NS gene segment encoding a NS1 with a residue at position 167 that is not proline, a HA gene segment encoding a HA with a residue at position 380 that is not threonine, or any combination thereof, and methods of making and using the virus.
US11802269B2
The disclosure provides a method of producing modified stem memory T cells (e.g. CAR-T cells) for administration to a subject as, for example an adoptive cell therapy.
US11802263B2
The present invention relates to a culture vessel for three-dimensional cell cultivation and a three-dimensional cell co-cultivation method using the same. The culture vessel comprises a well formed by a column positioned thereon and at least one support protruding from the column within the well. In contrast to conventional techniques, the present invention allows cells to be cultured at a position spaced from a culture vessel, thus enjoying the advantage of smoothly supplying oxygen necessary for three-dimensional cell culture structures.
US11802262B2
The present invention provides a system for accelerating the food oxidation rate, comprising a control unit, a baseband circuit, a radio-frequency circuit and an array of antennas. The control unit is used to generate a digital control signal of a spectrum waveform. The baseband and radio-frequency circuits generate analog signal of millimeter-wave according to the control signal of a spectrum waveform. The baseband circuit and the array of antennas emit the analog signal of millimeter-wave toward the food, wherein the analog signal of millimeter-wave has a plurality of first frequency signals and a plurality of second frequency signals, and the first frequency signals and the second frequency signals are alternately arranged and spaced from each other and comprise a plurality of sinusoidal waveforms.
US11802255B2
Disclosed herein are improved lubricating compositions effective to prevent or reduce low speed pre-ignition in an engine, as well as to prevent or reduce corrosion of engine components. The lubricating compositions include a base oil combined with a calcium chelate complex, optionally in further combination with additional additives.
US11802242B2
A quantum rod includes a nanoparticle, and at least one ligand linked to the surface of the nanoparticle and represented by Formula 1. R1-(L1)b1-(A1)a1-(L2)b2-(A2)a2-(L3)b3-T1. Formula 1 A light-emitting device, an optical member, and an apparatus, each includes the quantum rod.
US11802234B2
Formulations and methods for stimulating the production from wells in nano-darcy shale formations. In one embodiment, the method includes injecting a treatment mixture containing a metal complexing agent into a nano-darcy shale formation adjacent to a well at a pressure below the fracture pressure of the formation. A sufficient contact time is allowed and then the treatment mixture is pumped from the subsurface. This has been shown to stimulate well production in shale formations. Without being held to a particular theory it appears that the metal complexing agent is binding with naturally occurring metals in the shale formation, and particularly divalent metal ions, which are then extracted with the spent fluid. This removal of naturally occurring metals may be increasing the permeability of the formation in the contact region adjacent to the well, thereby causing the observed increased production.
US11802223B2
The present disclosure provides for aqueous, curable binder compositions, as well as articles and products comprising assemblies of matter comprising mineral fibers, synthetic fibers, natural fibers, cellulosic particles and sheet materials comprising the binder compositions disclosed herein.
US11802213B2
A viscosity regulating composition and its method of manufacture. The composition comprises a mixture of (a) a branched polymer having the formula [M]-[(A1O)-L1-(A1O)—R1]n, wherein M is polybranched hydrophobe; A1O is a polyoxyalkylene unit; L1 is an aliphatic linking segment or an aromatic linking segment each having at least two hydroxyl reactive linking groups; and R1 is an aliphatic end unit or aromatic end unit having 6 to 32 carbon atoms; n ranges from 3 to 6; and (b) a polymer having the formula R2-(A2O)-L2-(A2O)—R2, wherein (A2O) is a polyoxyalkylene unit, L2 is a aliphatic linking segment or an aromatic linking segment, and R2 is a aliphatic unit or an aromatic unit each having 6 to 32 carbon atoms.
US11802210B2
A thin film structure including a reflector layer; and a hybrid layer including an organic colored material and at least one of an organic filler and an inorganic filler; wherein a concentration of the at least one of an organic filler or an inorganic filler is in a range of from about 3 wt. % to about 30 wt. %. A method of making a thin film structure is also disclosed.
US11802209B2
The present application relates to an adhesive composition, an adhesive film, an adhesive optical filter and a display device.
US11802207B2
Methods of preparing a lignocellulosic biomass-based thermoplastic composition are described. In some embodiments, the method comprises: (a) preparing a mixture of solids comprising lignocellulosic biomass, a meltable solvent and a polyester; and (b) melt-compounding said mixture of solids; thereby preparing a lignocellulosic biomass-based thermoplastic composition. Fibers produced by the methods are also described, as are yarns and fabrics comprising the fibers.
US11802204B2
The disclosure relates to a thermoset omniphobic composition (such as an omniphobic polyurethane or epoxy composition) which includes a thermoset polymer with first, second, and third backbone segments. The first, second, and third backbone segments can correspond to urethane or urea reaction products of polyisocyanate(s), amine-functional omniphobic polymer(s), and polyol(s), respectively, for omniphobic polyurethanes. Similarly, the first, second, and third backbone segments can correspond to urea or beta-hydroxy amine reaction products of polyamine(s), isocyanate-functional omniphobic polymer(s), and polyepoxide(s), respectively, for omniphobic epoxies. The thermoset omniphobic composition has favorable omniphobic properties, for example as characterized by water and/or oil contact and/or sliding angles. The thermoset omniphobic composition further has favorable barrier properties, for example with respect to water vapor and oxygen transmission as well as water absorption. The thermoset omniphobic composition can be used as a coating on any of a variety of substrates to provide omniphobic properties to a surface of the substrate. Such omniphobic coatings can be scratch resistant, ink/paint resistant, and optically clear.
US11802201B2
A curable green epoxy resin composition is described. More particularly, the curable green epoxy resin composition includes a biobinder isolated from bio-oil produced from animal waste, such as from swine manure. The biobinder can act as a curing agent for an epoxy resin component in the resin composition. Cured green epoxy resins, prepregs containing the curable green epoxy resin, and related composite materials are described. In addition, methods of preparing the curable green epoxy resin composition and of curing the curable green epoxy resin.
US11802195B2
In a first aspect, the present invention is directed to a rubber composition comprising, based on 100 parts by weight of elastomer (phr), 70 phr to 95 phr of diene based elastomer, wherein said diene based elastomer comprises 25 phr to 60 phr of a first diene based elastomer having a glass transition temperature within a range of −49° C. to −15° C., and 10 phr to 45 phr of a second diene based elastomer having a glass transition temperature within a range of −50° C. to −110° C., 5 phr to 30 phr of one or more of natural rubber and synthetic polyisoprene rubber, 40 phr to 70 phr of silica, and 10 phr to 40 phr of at least one terpene resin having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of at least 900 g/mol. In another aspect, the present invention is directed to tire comprising a tire tread with aforementioned rubber composition.
US11802190B2
A method for recycling polyester from a polyester textile. The method comprises the steps of: providing said polyester textile soaked in a mixture comprising a solvent and a catalyst, providing and maintaining a temperature of said mixture comprising said polyester textile within a range of 80-240° C. during depolymerization of polyester in said polyester textile and wherein, in said step of providing said polyester textile soaked in said mixture, said catalyst of said mixture comprises calcium hydroxide. A catalyst may be used for depolymerization of polyester in a polyester textile, wherein the catalyst comprises calcium hydroxide. Natural fibers may b e recovered from a textile comprising polyester and natural fibers.
US11802189B2
Components for articles of footwear and athletic equipment are provided including a foam. A variety of foams and foam components are provided. The articles include a composition having a foam structure, wherein the composition includes an ionomeric polymer and a plurality of cations, wherein the ionomeric copolymer is crosslinked by the cations. The crosslinks are ionic, so in some aspects the composition is free or essentially free of any covalent crosslinks between the ionomers. In particular, midsoles including the foams are provided for use in an article of footwear. Methods of making the compositions and foams are provided, as well as methods of making an article of footwear including one of the foam components. In some aspects, the foams and foam components can be made by injection molding or injection molding followed by compression molding.
US11802188B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a coated film structure including a substrate layer, an overcoat layer, and at least one intermediate layer disposed between the substrate layer and the overcoat layer. The substrate layer includes a polymer film substrate, the overcoat layer includes an acid-functional copolymer, and the at least one intermediate layer includes aluminum oxide. The coated film structure has an oxygen transmission rate of less than about 3.00 cm3/m2/day at 50% relative humidity and 23° C. as measured in accordance with ASTM D3985. Further, the coated film structure has a water vapor transmission rate of less than 2.50 g/m2/day at 90% relative humidity and 37.8° C. as measured in accordance with ASTM E-398.
US11802187B2
Described herein are anionic phenylene oligomers and polymers, and devices including these materials. The oligomers and polymers can be prepared in a convenient and well-controlled manner, and can be used in cation exchange 5 membranes. Also described is the controlled synthesis of anionic phenylene monomers and their use in synthesizing anionic oligomers and polymers, with precise control of the position and number of anionic groups.
US11802185B2
The present invention relates to a masterbatch composition comprising high concentration of biological entities having a polymer-degrading activity and uses thereof for manufacturing biodegradable plastic articles.
US11802181B2
The present invention relates to a novel di-amine compound, a heat-resistant resin using the di-amine compound, and a resin composition using the heat-resistant resin, and a cured film excellent in chemical resistance and film properties even by a thermal treatment at a low temperature of 200° C. or less can be obtained. The novel di-amine compound is represented by the general formula (1). The heat-resistant resin composition of the present invention or the resin composition can be suitably used in a surface protective film and an interlayer dielectric film of a semiconductor device, a dielectric layer or a planarizing layer of an organic electroluminescent element (organic EL), or the like. (In the general formula (1), R1 and R2 each are a divalent aliphatic group, R3 and R4 each are a divalent aliphatic group, aliphatic ring group, aromatic group, a divalent organic group bonded to an aromatic group by —O—, —CO—, —SO2—, —CH2—, —C(CH3)2— or —C(CF3)2— (wherein F is fluorine), a divalent organic group in which two or more aromatic groups are bonded by a single bond, or a divalent organic group in which two or more aromatic groups are bonded by —O—, —CO—, —SO2—, —CH2—, —C(CH3)2— or —C(CF3)2— (wherein F is fluorine), R5 and R6 each are an organic group having any of a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a nitro group, a cyano group, an aliphatic group, an aromatic group, an acetyl group, a carboxyl group, an ester group, an amide group, an imide group, and a urea group, A is a divalent aliphatic group, aliphatic ring group, aromatic group, a divalent organic group in which two or more aromatic groups are bonded by a single bond, or a divalent organic group in which two or more aromatic groups are bonded by —O—, —S—, —CO—, —SO2—, —CH2—, —C(CH3)2— or —C(CF3)2— (wherein F is fluorine), p and q each are an integer number in the range of 0 to 3).
US11802178B2
A liquid crystal polyester resin for laminate, wherein, in a molecular weight distribution of an absolute molecular weight measured by a gel permeation chromatograph/light scattering method, an area fraction of a portion having an absolute molecular weight of 10,000 or less is 10 to 40%, and an area fraction of a portion having an absolute molecular weight of 50,000 or more is 3 to 20%, relative to 100% of the total peak area.
US11802176B2
A bio-based epoxy resin obtained from a reaction mixture comprising a glycidyl ether component and a bio-based component comprising a fatty acid and a rosin acid, wherein the glycidyl ether component comprises at least two epoxide groups.
US11802174B2
Provided is a polymer particle comprising (a) a core polymer comprising (i) polymerized units of one or more Si-containing monomers; (ii) polymerized units of one or more monovinyl acrylic monomers (ii); and (iii) polymerized units of one or more graftlinkers that have no silicon atoms; (b) a shell polymer comprising polymerized units of one or more acrylic monomers. Also provided is a composition comprising polyvinyl chloride and a plurality of the polyer particles.
US11802173B2
The wet adhesion of a coating composition may be improved through the use of voided latex particles as opacifying agents which contain a hollow interior as well as an outer shell of a polymer containing functional groups such as amino, 1,3-diketo, urea or ureido. Other types of functional groups may be introduced to the outer shell polymer in order to vary other desired characteristics of the coating. The voided latex particles are non-film-forming.
US11802170B2
A catalyst compound and process for olefin polymerization. The catalyst can be represented by Formula (I): wherein: M is a transition metal selected from group 3, 4, or 5 of the Periodic Table of Elements; L is a linking group selected from any one or more difunctional C1-C20 hydrocarbyl, aryl or substituted aryl groups; T is an optional bridging group; each X is a univalent anionic ligand, or two Xs are joined and bound to the metal atom to form a metallocycle ring, or two Xs are joined to form a chelating ligand, a diene ligand, or an alkylidene ligand; R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 hydrocarbyl group; R3, R5, R6 and R7 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C20 hydrocarbyl group, and, optionally, any two of R5, R6, and R7 can be joined to form a cyclic structure; R4 is a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group; and R8, R9, R10, and R11 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted C1 to C6 hydrocarbyl group and, optionally, R9 and R10 are joined to form a cyclic structure.
US11802167B2
A method for producing a cold-water-soluble starch. The method includes: 1) adding a starch and 3-45 wt. % of an ethanol aqueous solution to a container, and stirring a mixture of the starch and the ethanol aqueous solution in the container, thus yielding a starch-ethanol-water; 2) introducing the starch-ethanol-water to an extruder and producing a noodle extrudate, where the extruder comprises 3 continuous temperature control areas: a first area having a temperature of 50° C., a second area having a temperature of between 95 and 120° C., and a third area having a temperature of 60° C.; a rotation speed of the extruder is 70-150 rpm; and the noodle extrudate has a diameter of 0.2-0.5 cm; 3) pressing and roll slitting the noodle extrudate, thus yielding a plurality of slices; and 4) drying the plurality of slices in a microwave vacuum oven, cooling, and pulverizing the plurality of slices.
US11802165B2
The present application relates to methods of producing a protein in fucosylated and afucosylated forms at a predetermined ratio.
US11802164B2
Methods and compositions are provided for assessing, treating, and preventing diseases, especially cancer, using cancer-associated targets (CAT). Methods and compositions are also provided for determining or predicting the effectiveness of a treatment for these diseases or for selecting a treatment, using CAT. Methods and compositions are further provided for modulating cell function using CAT. Also provided are compositions that modulate CAT (e.g., antagonists or agonists), such as antibodies, proteins, small molecule compounds, and nucleic acid agents (e.g., RNAi and antisense agents), as well as pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Further provided are methods of screening for agents that modulate CAT, and agents identified by these screening methods.
US11802157B2
Disclosed herein are engineered cells and/or hypoimmunogenic cells including engineered and/or hypoimmunogenic stem cells, engineered and/or hypoimmunogenic cells differentiated therefrom, engineered and/or hypoimmunogenic CAR-T cells (primary or differentiated from engineered and/or hypoimmunogenic stem cells) and related methods of their use and generation. Provided herein are engineered and/or hypoimmunogenic cells exhibiting reduced expression of MHC class I and/or MHC class II human leukocyte antigens and T-cell receptors. In some embodiments, such cells also exogenously express one or more tolerogenic factors such as CD47 and one or more chimeric antigen receptors (CAR)s.
US11802153B2
Methods, kits, and compositions are provided herein that can be used to treat ovarian cancer using an anti-CD47 antibody. The anti-CD47 antibody can be used alone or in combination with one or more additional agent such as chemotherapy.
US11802151B2
The present disclosure provides an antibody that binds human Adhesion G Protein-Coupled Receptor B1 (BAI1) protein, compositions comprising the same, and use thereof in methods of detection, methods of diagnosis, and methods of treatment.
US11802147B2
Amatoxins (AMAs) are lethal toxins found in a variety of mushroom species. Detection methods are needed to determine the occurrence of AMAs in mushroom species, often suspected in mushroom poisonings. Provided herein are novel, sensitive monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) detection and purification techniques utilizing the mAbs that show selectivity for α-amanitin (α-AMA), β-amanitin (β-AMA) and γ-amanitin (γ-AMA).
US11802135B2
The present invention aims to provide a compound acting as a specific agonist for LPA4 receptors, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound. The present invention relates to a novel lysophosphatidic acid derivative having an agonistic action on LPA4 receptors and useful for the prophylaxis and/or treatment of diseases associated with angiogenesis abnormalities involving LPA4 receptors, diseases associated with vascular disorders, or the symptoms associated therewith, and a pharmaceutical composition containing the derivative.
US11802117B2
Methods of converting CBD to Δ8-THC to Δ10-THC to Δ6a10a-THC are described and the products disclosed. Various adjustments can be made to the reactions resulting in increased or decreased product and by-product.
US11802115B2
The invention relates to a pharmaceutical formulation, e.g. a paediatric formulation, of odevixibat, which comprises a plurality of small particles. The formulation may be used in the treatment of liver diseases such as bile acid-dependent liver diseases, and particularly cholestatic liver diseases such as biliary atresia, progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC), Alagille syndrome (ALGS) and paediatric cholestatic pruritus. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of the pharmaceutical formulation.
US11802107B2
The present invention provides compounds useful in treating or preventing inflammation, acne, bacterial conditions and promoting the appearance of healthy skin and compositions including these compounds.
US11802097B2
Fertilizer particles with urease inhibitors and nitrification inhibitors are described herein. The fertilizer particles can include a core particle comprising a urease inhibitor and an outer layer comprising a nitrification inhibitor.
US11802095B2
The disclosure relates to a composting device including a housing defining an interior with an access opening providing access to the interior, a composter bin located within the interior and in communication with the access opening, and a door mounted to the housing and electrically powered to automatically slide along a sliding path between opened and closed position.
US11802094B2
A particle is provided for delivery of humics, and biochar that is water-dispersible into constituent granules. The resulting particles are amenable to broadcast application, for example via rotary or drop spreader. As a result, a dust-free particle is formed that simultaneously addresses the prior art problems of the friable nature of humics and the sooty dusting property of biochar to facilitate ease of handling, broadcast field spreading, and gain the synergistic effects of dosing soil with both humics and biochar. The particle provides improved storage capabilities for materials improving the quality of the delivered material and decreasing negative storage consequences such as odor emanation or degradation. The resulting particles upon dispersion have a pH of between 3.3 and 8.1.
US11802079B2
A material includes one or more transparent substrates including two main faces, wherein one of the faces of one of the substrates is coated with a functional coating which can have an effect on solar radiation and/or infrared radiation, and a face not coated with the functional coating of one of the substrates includes an absorbent color-adjustment coating including an absorbent layer which absorbs solar radiation in the visible part of the spectrum.
US11802077B2
A method for processing into an aspheric lens, includes: a preprocessing step of performing preprocessing on a glass substrate; and an etching step of performing wet etching on the glass substrate subjected to the preprocessing. The preprocessing step includes a step of irradiating a certain position of the glass substrate with a pulsed laser beam such that a partial region inside the glass substrate is modified, thereby generating a density distribution in a thickness direction at the position irradiated with the pulsed laser beam, or a step of forming a predetermined wedge-shaped concave portion in a surface of the glass substrate by use of a chemical or physical processing method.
US11802070B2
A method of processing an optical fiber includes drawing the optical fiber from an optical fiber preform within a draw furnace, the optical fiber extending from the draw furnace along a process pathway, the optical fiber comprising at least one halogen-doped core; and drawing the optical fiber through at least one slow cooling device positioned downstream from the draw furnace at a draw speed. The at least one slow cooling device exposes the optical fiber to a slow cooling device process temperature greater than or equal to 800° C. and less than or equal to 1600° C. The draw speed is such that the optical fiber has a residence time of at least 0.1 s in the at least one slow cooling device. An optical fiber made by such a process is also disclosed.
US11802069B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods for processing a glass ribbon (22). A glass ribbon is supplied to an upstream side of a conveying apparatus (32) comprising a conveyor device and a pulling device (72). The conveyor device establishes a primary plane of travel (P) from the upstream side to a downstream side. The pulling device (72) is located at the downstream side and applies a pulling force on the glass ribbon (22) to convey the glass ribbon along a travel path that includes first, second and third bends (100, 102, 104), and into the primary plane of travel from a location downstream of the third bend and to the pulling device (72). At least one of the first, second, and third bends imparts a stress into a surface of the glass ribbon to flatten the glass ribbon. A viscosity of the glass ribbon at the third bend is greater than a viscosity of the glass ribbon at the first bend.
US11802066B2
A system and method for removing contaminates from greywater that uses carbon dioxide (CO2) and a system that adjusts the pH between 6 and 9. The filtration system is cost effective, quick, and easy to use, resulting in purified water.
US11802058B2
The present invention relates to a distributed energy source system utilizing waste heat deeply. The distributed energy source system utilizing waste heat deeply comprises a primary waste heat recycling module, a membrane distillation type seawater desalination module and a membrane type thermoosmosis power generation module. The distributed energy source system utilizing waste heat deeply provided by the present invention can recycle and deeply utilize waste heat and moisture in flue gas by means of the primary waste heat recycling module, the membrane distillation type seawater desalination module and the membrane type thermoosmosis power generation module to realize functions of seawater desalination and low-temperature power generation, has high energy utilization ratio and improves the waste heat utilization efficiency.
US11802051B2
An improved method of lithium recovery from borax dilute solution is provided. In this method, boron in the borax dilute solution is removed from the medium as borax decahydrate and while this removal process is carried out, liquid-liquid extraction with organic sedimentary chemicals or ion exchange resins are not used.
US11802043B2
Nanoassembly methods for producing quasi-3D plasmonic films with periodic nanoarrays of nano-sized surface features. A sacrificial layer is deposited on a surface of a donor substrate having periodic nanoarrays of nanopattern features formed thereon. A plasmon film is deposited onto the sacrificial layer and a dielectric spacer is deposited on the plasmon film. The donor substrate having the sacrificial layer, plasmon film, and dielectric spacer thereon is immersed in a bath of etchant to selectively remove the sacrificial layer such that the plasmon film and the dielectric spacer thereon adhere to the surface of the donor substrate. The dielectric spacer and the plasmon film are mechanically separated from the donor substrate to define a quasi-three dimensional (3D) plasmonic film having periodic nanoarrays of nano-sized surface features defined by the nanopattern features of the donor substrate surface. The quasi-3D plasmonic film is then applied to a receiver substrate.
US11802042B2
A method of operating a MEMS device includes generating a MEMS drive signal, and generating and modifying the MEMS drive signal based upon a control signal to produce a modified drive signal. The method further includes generating the control signal by determining when a feedback signal from the MEMS device is at its peak value, comparing the peak value to a desired value when the feedback signal is as its peak, and generating the control signal depending upon whether the peak value is at least equal to a desired value. The modification of the MEMS drive signal based upon the control signal to produce the modified drive signal includes skipping generation of a next pulse of the modified drive signal when the control signal indicates the peak value is at least equal to the desired value.
US11802041B2
An exemplary microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device comprises a plurality of stacked layers, including at least one layer that includes micromechanical components that respond to a force to be measured. Two of the layers may include respective first and second external electrical connection points. A plurality of conductive paths may be disposed in a continuous manner over an external surface of each of the plurality of layers between the first and second external electrical connection points.
US11802037B2
A liquid dispensing system having a handheld liquid dispense device with a body portion and a dispensing head. The dispensing system includes an ingredient system located remotely from the handheld liquid dispense device, piping extending from the ingredient system to the handheld liquid dispense device, the ingredient system having a plurality of beverage ingredient sources and configured to supply beverage ingredients to the piping for the dispensing of a beverage from the handheld liquid dispense device. The dispensing system may also include a user interface device configured to receive a first user selection for a beverage and a second user selection for an ingredient modifying the beverage.
US11802032B2
A processing device includes: a calculation unit that is configured to detect a position of an object that is a possible obstacle to a vehicle; a first detection unit that is configured to detect a direction of a line of sight of a driver of the vehicle; a decision unit that is configured to decide an aspect of an alarm on the basis of the position and the direction of the line of sight of the driver; and a control unit that is configured to control a speaker corresponding to the position such that a sound of the aspect is output.
US11802028B2
The present disclosure relates to a telescopic boom for a crane, wherein the telescopic sections of the telescopic boom each comprise at least one main telescopic part and at least one additional telescopic part and wherein the main telescopic part and the additional telescopic part are arranged above one another. The disclosure further relates to a crane having a corresponding telescopic boom.
US11802026B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of container handling, and more particular to a container side loader. The container side loader includes a base, a combined gantry, a sling, and a plurality of control mechanisms such as lifting, rotation, inclination, control mechanisms and the like. The loader can directly perform container side handling on various freight platforms of an electrical railway line, and has the functions of moving and conveying a heavy container, overturning and unloading an inverted container, overturning and loading a vertical container, and stacking two layers of heavy containers.
US11802023B2
An attachment unit is configured to secure to an object, such as cargo. The attachment unit includes one or more portions that are configured to secure to the object. The one or more portions are further configured to one or both of mechanically or magnetically removably couple to a clasp assembly.
US11802009B2
A trolley device is used to convey laminar elements. The trolley device includes at least one belt that defines a closed loop, a plurality of pulleys, at least one drive pulley being configured to act on the belt, the pulleys being mounted on a frame with a supporting region over which a section of the belt can be slid and wherein suction means linked to the belt are provided. The belt includes at least on the outer face thereof a projecting section of predetermined length that protrudes in height with respect to the rest of the belt, the projecting section being provided with a plurality of through holes aligned in position with through holes made in the belt.
US11802008B2
A cross-conveyor sorter with a clearing apparatus for removing misplaced items (Sd) is described, wherein the cross-conveyor sorter has a plurality of carriages which are connected to one another on an endless conveying track, the carriages are provided with a cross-conveyor device, which is oriented transversely to the transportation direction (x) and on which the items (Sp) can be transported and unloaded at predetermined unloading locations. The cross-conveyor sorter clearing apparatus enables the risk-free removal of misplaced items (Sd) during operation. The clearing apparatus is a blow-off device which is arranged on a first side alongside the conveying track.
US11802007B2
Additional automation in the form of a profile singulator for singulating profiles is proposed which includes: a first conveying device for feeding the profiles in a disorderly state over a first conveying section, a conveyor roller for unraveling the large quantity of fed profiles into individual profiles, wherein the conveyor roller is situated downstream from the first conveying device in the direction of transport. The profiles can be limp, flexible, or semi-flexible; moreover, they can have or not have a carrier.
US11801999B2
A bin holding device includes two side elements vertically spaced to accommodate a storage bin between the two side elements. Each side element is provided with a bin supporting assembly comprising a bin support. The bin support comprises an upper bin interacting part configured to interact with the storage bin when the storage bin is accommodated in the bin holding device, such that a top edge of the accommodated storage bin is held at a predetermined level.
US11801994B2
A receptacle is provided for holding a quantity of solid material. The receptacle includes a container having an open end, and a gate operably connected to the container so as to be rotatable to a closed position structured to prevent solid material from exiting the container through the open end. The gate includes a locking arm mounted thereon. A latching mechanism is operably connected to the container and includes a latch rotatable to a latched orientation structured to contact the locking arm to prevent the gate from being rotated out of the closed position. The locking arm is structured to move rearwardly and upwardly during rotation of the gate out of the closed position. The latch is structured so that contact between the latch and the locking arm when the latch is in the latched orientation prevents rearward and upward movement of the locking arm.
US11801989B2
The disclosure pertains to a container (100, 300) for storing medical and/or pharmaceutical products. The container includes a plastic container body (102) comprising a side wall (202), a base (204) and an opening (206) defining a storage volume (108), a flange (104) formed on the container body (102) and configured to receive a connecting element (312) of a cap (310) provided with a tamper-evident mechanism (414), and an active insert (106) placed within the container body (102). This container is an improved container for the storage of products. The disclosure also pertains to a sealed package comprising this container.
US11801985B2
A package for dairy products, in particular solid or semi-solid dairy products, including a bag provided with at least one pair of lateral walls reciprocally joined by means of first welding lines and at least one bottom wall, so as to define a housing compartment. A dairy product is housed in the compartment defined inside the bag. The bag includes second welding lines made in correspondence with top parts of the bag and positioned on opposite sides of the bottom wall. The second welding lines are disposed diagonally with respect to the first welding lines and with respect to the bottom wall and configured and oriented so as to progressively narrow the housing compartment toward the bottom wall of the bag. The dairy product includes at least a central support zone on the bottom wall and the bag includes at least lateral support zones defined by the opposite top parts.
US11801978B2
A container lid assembly outfits a container includes a lower lid construction and a slider element. The slider element is received in the lower lid construction and is linearly displaceable in a back and forth manner relative to the lower lid construction for opening and closing the container lid. The lower lid construction includes concave surfacing and the slider element includes convex surfacing. The slider element seats atop the lower lid construction such that the convex surfacing and concave surfacing form a spherical surface-to-surface seal and enabling slidable open-close functionality. The slider element is resiliently actuable when seated atop the lower lid construction for enhancing seated engagement therebetween. The slider element includes a step-down formation cooperable with resilient actuation thereof for further enhancing seated engagement between the slider element and the lower lid construction. The container lid further locks to the container when in an actuated lower lid configuration.
US11801968B2
The disclosure provides a container including a reseal-able closure mechanism having a rocker arm and a pull tab or actuator button.
US11801966B2
A cylindrical cardboard container comprising: a circular bottom wall having an outer bottom wall edge; a cylindrical sidewall extending upwardly from the bottom wall edge, the circular bottom wall and the cylindrical sidewall delimiting a receiving cavity sized and shaped to receive a plurality of items; a plurality of item holders for holding the items relative to each other within the receiving cavity, each item holder being configured for holding at least one of the items, the item holders being stackable to form a plurality of item layers within the receiving cavity.
US11801965B2
A container includes a bottom wall and a side wall. Multiple vertically-crushable units are formed in the side wall, each unit of the multiple units includes mountain fold lines formed by sides of parallelograms and valley fold lines formed by diagonal lines of the parallelograms, and the multiple units are stacked in tiers such that each pair of the parallelograms in upper and lower tiers have a common lower/upper side and the parallelograms in the upper and lower tiers alternately become line-symmetrical with respect to the common lower/upper side.
US11801964B2
This disclosure provides new containers, preforms, methods, and designs for small and light-weight carbonated beverage packaging that provide surprisingly improved carbonation retention and greater shelf life, while still achieving light weight. This disclosure is particularly drawn to small PET containers for carbonated beverages, for example less than or about 400 mL, and methods and designs for their fabrication that attain unexpectedly good carbonation retention and shelf life.
US11801963B2
The invention relates to a container (30), in particular a bottle (30), for storing and optionally applying a liquid, solvent-containing compositions, having a multi-layer wall (20) comprising at least one side wall of the bottle, the bottom of the bottle and optionally a discharge region at the opening of the bottle, the multi-layer wall (20) comprising at least an inner layer (21), a barrier layer (22) and an outer layer (23), the barrier layer (22) being adapted to form a barrier for oxygen and/or water vapour, the inner layer (21) and/or the outer layer (23) having a microcellular structure (24), the microcellular structure (24) having fluid bubbles (25), and the fluid bubbles (25) being product of a physically and/or chemically introduced blowing agent. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for producing a container, in particular a bottle (30) for storing and optionally applying a liquid, solvent-containing composition, having a multi-layer wall (20), as well as use of a multi-layer wall (20) for producing the container (30).
US11801962B2
Systems and methods include an assembly for a label wrapper to adhere a label to an elongated object, such as a wire. The assembly includes a support structure defining a receiving space. One or more resilient members are positioned within the receiving space and define one or more channels. One or more flexible sheets are disposed over the resilient members and within the channels. The first and second flexible sheets may provide a substantially uniform pressure on the label being applied to the wire regardless of the size of the wire and the label. In some instances, the label is configured to fold around the wire and have first and second opposing end segments that couple with one another remotely from the wire thereby forming a flag label.
US11801953B2
A method of wrapping a palletized load includes forming at least two composite stretch films, wrapping each of the composite stretch films around the palletized load, and leaving a gap between the first composite stretch film and the second composite stretch film as the composite stretch films are wrapped around the palletized load. Forming the composite stretch films includes narrowing stretch film from a first spool to create a first banded stretch film with a first width, narrowing stretch film from a second spool to create a second banded stretch film with a second width smaller than the first width, and overlaying the second banded stretch film on the first banded stretch film, with the second banded stretch film positioned between the top edge and bottom edges of the first banded stretch film. The gap may have a width that is equal to or larger than the first width.
US11801949B2
A field emission propulsion system for a spacecraft includes a control unit, a propulsion assembly, and a plurality of extractor electrode voltage sources. The propulsion assembly comprises a plurality of field emission propulsion units having an ion source with a plurality of ion emitters and extractor electrodes associated with the ion emitters and disposed in a field arrangement. The plurality of extractor electrode voltage sources, each associated with the extractor electrodes to control the same, are controlled by the control unit using an individual extractor electrode voltage.
US11801947B2
A space launch system includes a launch track and an elevating platform for horizontally launching aerospace vehicles at a takeoff velocity. The launch track includes a first portion horizontally oriented with respect to the horizon, a second portion positioned after the first portion and horizontally oriented with respect to the horizon, and a third curved transition portion disposed between the first portion and the second portion. The elevating platform is coupled to the launch track and is configured to receive and position an aerospace vehicle upon the launch track. A magnetic accelerator is disposed along the launch track for propelling the aerospace vehicle down the launch track to reach the takeoff velocity. The magnetic accelerator includes magnetic levitation trains, each comprising a respective plurality of carriers that couple to the aerospace vehicle.
US11801944B1
A system and method for monitoring and mitigating pilot actions in an electric aircraft is shown. The system comprises a computing device configured to detect at least a first flight datum, determine, as a function of the at least a flight datum, a current flight context, receive a pilot input command, identify, as a function of the current flight context and the pilot input command, a triggering event, and perform a mitigating response as a function of the triggering event.
US11801939B2
A vehicle includes a first rotor system having a rotor blade having an axis of rotation, a rotatable inboard drive component, and a rotatable outboard drive component. The first rotor system further includes a flexible closed loop component associated with each of the inboard drive component and the outboard drive component. Movement of the closed loop component can selectively cause at least one of rotation of the rotor blade about the axis of rotation and movement of the axis of rotation.
US11801937B2
Systems and methods for autonomously herding birds in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes an autonomous flock herding system, including a bird location sensor, a drone; and a control system, including a processor, and a memory, the memory containing a flock herding application, where the application directs the processor to obtain bird position data from the at least one bird location sensor, where the bird position data describes the location of birds in a flock of birds, determine if the flock of birds will enter a protected zone, generate a set of waypoints using a flock dynamics model, instruct the unmanned aerial vehicle to navigate to at least one waypoint in the set of waypoints such that the flock of birds will, in response to the presence of the unmanned aerial vehicle at the at least one waypoint, change trajectory away from the protected zone.
US11801926B2
A device for supporting a propulsor on a marine vessel. The device includes a base that is fixable to the marine vessel and a pivot arm for coupling the propulsor to the base. An actuator is configured to pivot the pivot arm relative to the base into and between a retracted position and a deployed position. A fastener is engageable to couple the actuator to the pivot arm, where when the fastener is engaged the pivot arm is prevented from pivoting other than by the actuator, and where applying a predetermined force on the pivot arm disengages the fastener to allow the pivot arm to pivot other than by the actuator.
US11801925B1
A field configurable autonomous vehicle includes modular elements and attachable components. The vehicle can be assembled from these modular elements and components to meet desired mission and performance characteristics without the need to purchase specially designed vehicles for each mission. The vehicle can include a modular propulsion system with magnetic drive.
US11801915B2
A dual axes connection device for use with a mooring line, a line guide and pulling means for connecting a floating body and a fixed body is provided. The connecting device comprises a dual axes hinge unit, with orthogonal rotational axes x and y, comprising means for fastening the unit to the floating or fixed body, a connecting link fastened to the hinge unit comprising two parallel arms, a funnel connected to the two parallel arms enveloping the mooring line, and locking means for locking the mooring line to the funnel. The mooring line, the line guide and connection device are positioned in one plane.
US11801907B2
A three-wheeler including two front wheels and a rear wheel, left and right seats, a steering mechanism steering the front wheels, an electric motor generating a torque by electrical energy, a power transmission mechanism transmitting the torque to the front wheels, and a body frame. A center of gravity of the three-wheeler is more frontward than a front end of the two seats and than a middle point of the wheelbase, and is more rearward than a front end of the electric energy storage device. The seats is, in a top view, partially in a triangle area that has a center of each of the front wheels and the rear wheel as vertices. The electric energy storage device, in the top view, overlaps a foot-resting area and is partially in the triangle area. The electric energy storage device is between the two front wheels.
US11801901B2
The present disclosure relates to a body and doors protection assembly for a vehicle, a hood assembly comprising such a body and doors protection assembly, a vehicle comprising such a hood assembly and a manufacturing method for such a body and doors protection assembly. The body and doors protection assembly comprises a first protecting member, a second protecting member and a sliding member. The first protecting member is attachable on an inner surface of a vehicle hood at a rear edge of the vehicle hood. The second protecting member is attachable in a front side portion of a vehicle body facing the rear edge of the vehicle hood in a closed position of the vehicle hood. The sliding member is at least partially enclosed in the second protecting member and configured to contact the first protecting member in the closed position of the vehicle hood. The sliding member is movable in a lateral direction relative to the vehicle hood in the closed position of the vehicle hood.
US11801899B2
A system for a vehicle roof, the system includes a roof structure defining a roof opening and a functional type roof assembly, the functional type roof assembly including a functional type panel and an intermediate frame supporting the functional type panel, the intermediate frame having an outer peripheral edge configured to be mounted to the roof structure such that the roof opening is watertightly sealed by the functional type roof assembly, the outer peripheral edge of the intermediate frame having contour features consistent with those of an outer peripheral edge of a standard type panel, the outer peripheral edge of the standard type panel being configured to be mounted to the roof structure when the roof opening is watertightly sealed by the standard type panel in place of the functional type roof assembly.
US11801897B2
In a frame member, the hardness of a sheet-thickness-direction central section in a portion where a softening layer is provided is greater than or equal to 400 Hv, the softening layer has hardness smaller by at least 10 Hv than the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section in the portion where the softening layer is provided, the thickness of the softening layer is greater than or equal to 2% of the sheet thickness but smaller than 20% of the sheet thickness, the hardness of the softening layer at the surface is greater than or equal to 0.5 times the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section but smaller than 0.9 times the hardness of the sheet-thickness-direction central section, the softening layer has a first hardness changing area and a second hardness changing area, an absolute value ΔHv1 of a change in hardness of the first hardness changing area in the sheet thickness direction is greater than an absolute value ΔHv2 of a change in hardness of the second hardness changing area in the sheet thickness direction, and R/t≤2.5 is satisfied, where R represents the bending radius of the corner section, and t represents the sheet thickness of the corner section.
US11801894B2
A method for determining an orientation of a trailer, the trailer being configured to be coupled to a towing vehicle, includes detecting a relation of movements of at least two wheels of the trailer, upon moving the trailer, with at least one sensor arranged at the trailer for detecting a respective state of the at least two wheels. The method further includes calculating an orientation of a coupling device of the trailer based on the relation of the at least two wheels.
US11801893B2
A method and system are described for controlled supplemental steering, by actuating a supplemental steering element, of a trailing implement connectable via a hitch to a pulling source, and wherein the trailing implement includes a pair of parallel wheels, a controller, a position sensing system that generates a hitch position history comprising a stored set of recent positions of the hitch point, and a steering angle actuator. The method carried out by the system includes maintaining a history of positions of the hitch, determining a target steering angle for the supplemental steering element, and actuating the steering angle actuator in accordance with the target steering angle. During the maintaining the history of positions of the hitch, the history of positions of the hitch is updated by performing a rotation operation and a translation operation on a set of coordinates of the history corresponding to previous hitch positions.
US11801890B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for controlling a motor driven power steering system. The apparatus may include an MDPS basic logic unit configured to determine a first auxiliary command current in a manual driving mode of a vehicle, an autonomous driving steering control unit configured to determine a second auxiliary command current in an autonomous driving mode, a filter unit configured to filter the column torque so that noise torque is removed, and a control unit configured to control whether to activate the filter unit according to whether a predefined sudden steering condition is satisfied, to determine a driver's steering intervention based on selectively filtered column torque, to determine a final auxiliary command current by applying a weight to the first and second auxiliary command currents, and to control switching from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode.
US11801887B2
A connector portion includes a first system connector that holds a first power supply terminal and a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal that holds a second power supply terminal and a second system connector. An insertion/removal direction of the first system connector is the same as the insertion/removal direction of the second system connector. The first system connector and the second system connector are arranged close to each other such that the interval between the connectors is smaller than the width in a short length direction of both connectors. The first power supply terminal is arranged closer to the second system connector than the first signal terminals in a frontage of the first system connector. The second power supply terminal is arranged closer to the first system connector than the second signal terminal in a frontage of the second system connector.
US11801879B2
A system for modeling risk of rail buckling in railroad infrastructure is presented. The system can receive a myriad of data related to railroad tracks and/or railroad operations, and weight the data using specially-designed weighting factors that can be unique to each data type. The weighted data can be transformed via specialized algorithms to generate location scores reflective of a risk isolated to a particular area. The system can further utilize additional specialized algorithms to elucidate how such isolated risk can be extrapolated from one location to another. The system can implement a multilayer approach, formulating one or more layers of risk models and aggregating such models into an overarching risk model that can more-accurately forecast risk of rail buckling in a railroad track.
US11801874B2
A vehicle tilting device for tilting a delivery vehicle for increasing access to items from a storage container transported on the delivery vehicle. The vehicle tilting device comprises a base structure and a tiltable platform connected to the base structure, wherein the tiltable platform comprises guiding features adapted to guide the delivery vehicle onto the tiltable platform. The tiltable platform is arranged to be connected to a delivery grid cell of a delivery rail system such that that there is a path to and/or from the tiltable platform for the delivery vehicle via the delivery grid cell. The invention is also related to an access station, a delivery system and a method of accessing a storage container.
US11801860B2
A system for mapping traffic lights and for determining traffic light relevancy for use in autonomous vehicle navigation. The system may include at least one processor programmed to: receive at least one location identifier associated with a traffic light; receive a state identifier associated with the traffic light; receive navigational information indicative of one or more aspects of motion of the first vehicle along the road segment, and determine, based on the navigational information, a lane of travel traversed by the first vehicle along the road segment. The processor may also determine whether the traffic light is relevant to the lane of travel traversed by the first vehicle; update an autonomous vehicle road navigation model relative to the road segment; and distribute the updated autonomous vehicle road navigation model to a plurality of autonomous vehicles.
US11801855B2
An exit warning system and a control method thereof are proposed to prevent a malfunction of a SEA system by distinguishing a person approaching a host vehicle from another vehicle, where the warning system includes a target detection sensor configured to detect a target approaching a host vehicle, and a controller configured to control not to transmit a warning signal of a safety exit assist system, in response to a speed of the target is less than or equal to a threshold speed and a position of the target is positioned within a distance from a vehicle door of the host vehicle.
US11801850B2
A method for synchronizing signals of a plurality of participants. A relationship between the signals is given by a physical relation. The signals are each filtered with a first filter in order to determine a shift between the signals. The determined shift is a measure of the phase shift between the signals. The shift is subsequently eliminated by filtering the signals respectively with a second filter.
US11801841B2
An engine start controller for a hybrid vehicle and a method thereof are provided. The engine start controller includes a hybrid starter generator (HSG) that is connected to an engine by a belt, a sensor that is configured to measure an HSG speed, and a processor that applies a starting torque to the HSG. When starting the engine, the processor calculates an HSG speed estimated based on the applied starting torque and calculates an amount of slip of the belt using the HSG speed. In addition, the processor calculates a torque change rate correction value based on the calculated amount of slip, and corrects a rate of change rate in the starting torque based on the torque change rate correction value.
US11801838B2
A vehicle control device performs first control for causing a vehicle to perform lane change to a fourth lane adjacent to a third lane by causing the vehicle to pass through an area between a first other vehicle and a second other vehicle in a traveling direction and an area between a third other vehicle and a fourth other vehicle in the traveling direction, when it is determined that a relationship between the first other vehicle and the vehicle satisfies a first condition, a relationship between the second other vehicle and the vehicle satisfies a second condition stricter than the first condition, a relationship between the third other vehicle and the vehicle satisfies a third condition stricter than the first condition, and a relationship between the fourth other vehicle and the vehicle satisfies a fourth condition stricter than the second condition and the third condition.
US11801837B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of vehicles, and particularly to a vehicle control method and apparatus, a storage medium and a vehicle. The method includes: acquiring a pressure of a brake master cylinder and an opening degree of an accelerator pedal; when the pressure of the brake master cylinder is greater than a first preset pressure threshold, the opening degree of the accelerator pedal is no less than a first preset opening degree threshold, and a moment when the pressure of the brake master cylinder is greater than the first preset pressure threshold is earlier than a moment when the opening degree of the accelerator pedal is no less than the first preset opening degree threshold, controlling the vehicle to enter an activated state of a launch starting function; and when the vehicle is in the activated state, controlling an engine of the vehicle to output a target torque. Thus, a driver enables the vehicle to enter the activated state of the launch starting function before starting by operating a brake pedal and the accelerator pedal at the same time, and also enables the vehicle to provide a torque output according to a state of the accelerator pedal while being in a brake state, thus enabling the vehicle to start quickly with greater power, reducing an acceleration time and realizing launch starting.
US11801834B2
A vehicle positioning method via data fusion and a system using the same are disclosed. The method is performed in a processor electrically connected to a self-driving-vehicle controller and multiple electronic systems. The method is to perform a delay correction according to a first real-time coordinate, a second real-time coordinate, real-time lane recognition data, multiple vehicle dynamic parameters, and multiple vehicle information received from the multiple electronic systems with their weigh values, to generate a fusion positioning coordinate, and to determine confidence indexes. Then, the method is to output the first real-time coordinate, the second real-time coordinate, and the real-time lane recognition data that are processed by the delay correction, the fusion positioning coordinate, and the confidence indexes to the self-driving-vehicle controller for a self-driving operation.
US11801832B2
An example operation may include one or more of detecting, by a parking processing node, a parking of a transport at an event location, accessing, by the parking processing node, a device of a transport occupant to determine a transport pickup location and a pickup time based on a conclusion of an event, detecting, by the parking processing node, from the device of the transport occupant at least one modification of the pickup location and the pickup time made based on an updated conclusion of the event, and sending a command to move the transport to a location proximate to the event based on the modified pickup location and the modified pickup time.
US11801831B2
A parking control apparatus and a parking control method are provided. According to at least one aspect, the present disclosure provides a parking control apparatus including a signal processor, a determinator, and a controller. the signal processor is configured to receive first to Nth radar signals reflected from first to Nth regions of a ground surface from one or more radars disposed in a vehicle and to calculate information about the first to Nth regions, wherein N is a natural number. the determinator is configured to determine whether the ground surface is a slope based on the information about the first to Nth regions and to determine whether parking the vehicle is possible. the controller is configured to generates control information for controlling parking of the vehicle according to a determination result of the determinator.
US11801807B1
This disclosure is an end cap assembly structure. The elastic arms are inserted in the guiding shield. The wiper strip is inserted between the elastic arms. The end cap is adapted to sheathe the ends of the guiding shield and the elastic arms, and the wiper strip is exposed from the end cap. The end cap includes a shell, posts and blocks. The posts are disposed in the shell. The blocks are disposed on two sides of the shell. The elastic arms are combined with the guiding shield and the wiper strip, and inserted in the end cap. The posts clamp the clamping slots of the elastic arms, and the blocks snap the snapping holes of the elastic arms.
US11801802B2
Provided is a rear side airbag device that can be mounted with ease. A rear side airbag device is located between a vehicle body and a rear seat, and includes an airbag, an inflator configured to supply gas into the airbag, and a mounting bracket to which the inflator is fixed. The mounting bracket includes an inflator mount portion to which the inflator is fixed, and a first anchor portion and a second anchor portion that are to be fixed to other members, whereas the first anchor portion and the second anchor portion are located on a laterally inner side with respect to the inflator mount portion.
US11801791B2
Systems and methods for receiving a video feed from a trailer control module disposed in a vehicle trailer are described. One method includes aggregating a trailer front view, a trailer rear view, a trailer left view, and a trailer right view into an aggregated birds-eye view at a first control module disposed on the trailer, and sending the aggregated view to a vehicle towing the trailer via a single auxiliary video channel integrated into a trailer hitch wiring harness. The method further includes receiving the feed of the birds-eye view at the second control module disposed in the vehicle via the single auxiliary camera input channel, and displaying the trailer birds-eye view video feed at an output display disposed in a cabin of the towing vehicle. The birds-eye view may be output on a split screen in conjunction with a rear-view of the trailer, obtained from a vehicle camera system.
US11801790B2
A display device may comprise a transmittance control structure having a variable transmittance and a mirror type display panel disposed on a rear surface of the transmittance control structure. The mirror type display panel may comprise a substrate, a display member disposed on the substrate, the display member including a light emission region, a first transmission region, and a peripheral region surrounding the light emission region and the first transmission region, and a reflective member facing the substrate with respect to the display member, the reflective member including an opening region corresponding to the light emission region, a second transmission region corresponding to the first transmission region, and a reflective region surrounding the opening region and the second transmission region.
US11801786B2
A bunkhouse trailer is provided that includes a plurality of bunk bed assemblies. The trailer has a plurality of interior barrier walls defining isolated living spaces between the lower and upper beds in each of the bunk bed assemblies. The individual accommodations for each user eliminates shared spaces where surface contamination may lead to disease transmission. In some embodiments, the air handling within each individual accommodation is configured to reduce the risk of cross-contamination between users.
US11801778B2
A child safety seat includes a seat portion, and a backrest assembly configured to connect with the seat portion. The backrest assembly includes a backrest portion and a headrest portion, the headrest portion including a headrest mounting part adapted to connect with the backrest portion so that the headrest portion is held with the backrest portion via the headrest mounting part, and a head support that is adapted to provide support for a child's head and is installable on and removable from the headrest mounting part.
US11801774B2
A radar sensor system and method for ascertaining whether an unattended child is present within an automotive vehicle. The radar sensor system carries out the method and includes a transmitter, at least one sensor, and processing circuitry. The method includes the steps of: illuminating at least one occupiable position within the vehicle with radiation of multiple frequencies; generating radar sensor signals from reflections of the transmitted radiation, a plurality of the radar sensor signals corresponding to different frequencies; and operating the processing circuitry for generating and determining if a first indicator value indicative of motion in the occupiable position satisfies a first predetermined criteria and, if so, generating and determining a second indicator value indicating a degree of repetitive pattern within the radar sensor signals, and determining presence of an unattended child in the vehicle if the second indicator value satisfies a second predetermined criteria.
US11801768B2
An example operation includes one or more of sensing that a transport in a group is performing at an efficiency below a threshold and modifying at least one other transport in the group to perform at an efficiency above the threshold, wherein the efficiency above the threshold is similar to efficiency below the threshold, wherein the modification occurs at a final portion of a route of the at least one other transport.
US11801761B2
A charging system for electric vehicles is disclosed, which includes at least one charging port with an interface for power exchange with at least one electric vehicle, and at least one power converter for converting power from a power source such as a power grid to a suitable format for charging the vehicle. The power converter can be at a remote location from the charging port, such as a separate room, and/or a separate building.
US11801753B2
A battery system for an electric vehicle includes a high voltage battery including a plurality of battery cells interconnected with one another configured to provide a high voltage output at battery system terminals and a battery disconnecting element powered by the high voltage battery and configured to disconnect the high voltage battery from at least one of the battery system terminals in the event of a malfunction or crash.
US11801752B2
A motor vehicle control device, comprising an outer housing part, a control unit including a control surface and a printed circuit board which is carried by a circuit board carrier that is at least partly accommodated and floatingly mounted in the outer housing part.
US11801749B2
A system, such as a driver assistance system, arranged to form images of outside a vehicle for viewing from an eye box region within the vehicle. The system comprises an image capture device, a picture generating unit and an optical element. The image capture device is arranged to be mounted to the vehicle. The image capture device is arranged to capture images outside the vehicle. The optical element is disposed in front of the replay plane. The optical element has a focal length. The distance between the replay plane and the optical element is less that the focal length of the optical element such that the optical element forms a virtual image of each picture for viewing from the eye box region. The picture generating unit may be a holographic projector. The holographic projector may be arranged to form pictures on a replay plane. Each picture may correspond to an image captured by the image capture device.
US11801747B1
Provided is a powertrain of a vehicle comprising an electric motor, a final drive, a gearing system with two-degrees-of-freedom configured to transfer power from the electric motor to the final drive, the gearing system comprising a one-way mechanism, and a mechanical friction brake connected to the gearing system. The powertrain further comprises a control system. The powertrain enables power driving, coasting without motor drag and braking with regenerative braking. Further provided is a method for controlling braking mode in a vehicle that comprises such a powertrain.
US11801746B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for controlling shut-off of a fuel gun in a filler pipe of a fuel tank which inhibits early shut-off of the fuel gun before the fuel tank is fully filled with fuel while refueling. The apparatus includes: a retainer mounted in a filler neck of the fuel tank; a partition disposed in a space between an inner circumferential surface of the filler neck and an outer circumferential surface of the retainer and having a fuel intake hole formed in a lower end of the partition; and an early shut-off prevention valve disposed in the partition. The early shut-off prevention valve closes the fuel intake hole before the fuel tank is fully filled with fuel, and opens the fuel intake hole by fuel flowing to the filler neck from the fuel tank when the fuel tank is fully filled with the fuel.
US11801739B2
A vehicle system, includes an upper liftgate of a split liftgate assembly, a lower liftgate of the split liftgate assembly, and a privacy panel assembly that extends between the upper liftgate and the lower liftgate. Another vehicle system includes a hanger bracket assembly configured to engage at least one hinge assembly of a vehicle, a liftgate assembly pivotably connected to the vehicle, and a privacy panel that is coupled to the hanger bracket assembly and the liftgate. A shielding method includes securing a privacy panel assembly to an upper liftgate of a split liftgate assembly of a vehicle, and securing the privacy panel assembly to a lower liftgate of the split liftgate assembly.
US11801736B2
Disclosed is door visor mounted on a vehicle having a door without an upper frame, the door visor including a body portion which includes: a molding portion mounted on a vehicle body of the vehicle; and a visor portion connected to the molding portion and covering a portion of an upper portion of a door window in a state of being spaced apart from the door window based on a state where the door of the vehicle is closed and the door window of the door is closed.
US11801735B2
On an outer circumferential edge of the closing plate, an elastic fitting portion protruding to the outer side of the inner circumferential edge of the service hole and fitting with the inner circumferential edge projects with a thickness larger than the plate thickness of the closing plate and extends in the circumferential direction of the outer circumferential edge. The elastic fitting portion is provided with an inner circumferential edge accommodating recessed groove that opens in the center of a protruding end surface of the elastic fitting portion and extends in the circumferential direction to accommodate the inner circumferential edge of the service hole, and the inner circumferential edge of the service hole is clamped between a pair of elastic clamping pieces that face each other with the inner circumferential edge accommodating recessed groove interposed between the pair of elastic clamping pieces.
US11801734B2
A guiding device for a sliding glass of a side door of a motor-vehicle comprises a sealing and guiding gasket guiding the sliding glass, secured to the structure of the door, and having a part extending along a door upright and into the lower structure of the door. This gasket part comprises two separate portions, namely an upper gasket portion, which extends along the door upright and is secured within a space defined between the door upright and an aesthetic panel of plastic material; and a lower gasket portion, which is arranged within the lower door structure and is assembled within a channel element of plastic material mounted within the lower door structure. The channel element of plastic material has an upper end portion protruding above the upper end of the lower gasket portion, and having inclined inner surfaces configured to guide the insertion of the glass into the lower gasket portion during assembly of the door.
US11801725B2
A control device for an oscillating axle suspension, in particular a front axle suspension, includes at least of one hydraulic accumulator device (10), a suspension device (12) and a proportional valve (14) having a valve piston (26). The proportional valve (14) is connected to the accumulator and suspension devices (10, 12) via fluid ports (16, 18, 20, 22). The valve piston (26) is actuatable by an electric motor (28), is longitudinally guided in a valve housing (24) of the proportional valve (14) and controls the fluid ports (16, 18, 20, 22) such that, in at least one functional position of the valve piston (26), the axle oscillation is provided while the suspension is blocked and, in at least one further second functional position of the valve piston (26), the suspension is provided while the axle oscillation is blocked.
US11801724B2
An air supply device control system may include a sensor configured to detect a trailer to be provided in an eco-friendly commercial vehicle, an air supply device configured to compress and supply air, and a controller electrically connected to the air supply device and configured to control rotation speed of the air supply device to control the air of the air supply device, wherein the controller increases the rotation speed of the air supply device based on whether the trailer is provided in the eco-friendly commercial vehicle, which is detected by the sensor.
US11801719B2
A weight distribution system used with a hitch on a vehicle and a trailer, the weight distribution system comprising a jack with a foot attached to and configured to raise and lower a front portion of the trailer; a moment bar with a forward end attached to the hitch so as to pivot about a generally vertical axis, and a rearward portion, the moment bar configured to exert a forward moment on the vehicle in response to an upward force on the rearward portion; an engagement member positioned between the jack and the rearward portion, whereby the jack can exert the upward force on the rearward portion; wherein the engagement member comprises at least one arced surface whereby the engagement member maintains the upward force on the rearward portion despite vertical or horizontal pivoting between the vehicle and the trailer is disclosed.
US11801716B2
Each sipe wall surface of a sipe in a tread portion of a pneumatic tire includes, along a sipe depth direction, multiple ridge portions and at least one valley portion bending like waves. Where viewed along the sipe depth direction, a recess depth of the valley portion with respect to the ridge portion on one wall surface varies depending on a position in the extension direction, the valley portion extends from a position at which the recess depth is maximized toward a position at which the recess depth is minimized, and the recess depth decreases as the valley portion extends from the side of the maximum-depth valley portion toward the maximum ridge portion. The sipe is provided in at least one of a first half-tread region on a first side or a second half-tread region on a second side in a tire width direction.
US11801707B1
A cement siding tolerance device and measurement tool, which has a main panel having a tab and a ridge, whereby the tab and the ridge perpendicularly extend from the main panel at opposite sides. The main panel has a front face, a rear face, a top edge, a bottom edge, first and second lateral edges, and a plurality of holes. The main panel has ruler-markings adjacent to the first and second lateral edges. The main panel is rectangular in shape. The tab perpendicularly extends from the front face separated a predetermined distance from the bottom edge, and the ridge perpendicularly extends from the bottom edge at the rear face. The tab and the ridge measure clearances and gaps between siding and trim products with solid surfaces building elements.
US11801706B2
A printing system includes a book body printing section including a book body printing machine and outputting book bodies sequentially, and a cover printing section including a cover printing machine and outputting covers sequentially. The book body printing machine and the cover printing machine respectively receive printing order data indicating a printing order with regard to a plurality of jobs from a print control apparatus, and perform printing in the printing order indicated by the printing order data. The print control apparatus generates the printing order data, so that an inserting order in unit of job to a bookbinding machine of the book bodies output from the book body printing section coincides with an inserting order in unit of job to the bookbinding machine of the covers output from the cover printing section.
US11801704B2
The present invention relates to a method and device capable to form a nanomaterial structure (13) on a receiver (14) by transfer of nanomaterial from a donor film. In some embodiment, the transfer can be provided by laser induced forward transfer, more preferably by blister based laser induced forward transfer. The method further comprises a simultaneous scanning of the donor film (12) or the receiver (14) so that, a computer driven means for moving the receiver (14) and the donor film (12) can form high precision nanomaterial structure (13). In a preferred embodiment, the simultaneous scanning can be provided by an imaging laser generating high harmonic waves which are detected by a detector. In yet another embodiment, the receiver (14) and/or donor film (12) can be further scanned by a broadband light source(s). In a preferred embodiment, imaging laser and/or light source(s) are emitting polarized light to determine orientation of the nanoparticle deposited on the receiver (14) and forming the nanomaterial structure (13).
US11801701B2
The invention relates to a transfer paper (4) for use for transferring a print of ink onto a fabric, said transfer paper comprising: i) a base paper (2); ii) an additive (8) comprising a starch component, and a binding agent; wherein said starch component being a starch selected from the group comprising: unmodified starch or a modified starch or a mixture thereof; and wherein said binding agent being a binding agent selected from the group comprising: an alkyl ketene dimer, a tall oil/fumaric acid copolymer, a styrene/acrylate copolymer and an alkenyl succinic anhydride and a mixture thereof; wherein said base paper (2) comprises an amount of said additive by being impregnated therewith; and wherein said base paper (2) having a water uptake as defined by a Cobb-45 value of 10-100 g/m2 and a having a Gurley porosity of 10-140 seconds. The present invention furthermore relates to uses of the transfer paper (4).
US11801698B2
An information processing device includes an attached-cartridge information obtainer configured to, for a plurality of tape printing apparatuses with which the information processing device is able to communicate, obtain attached-cartridge information indicating types of tape cartridges respectively attached to the tape printing apparatuses, a target tape information obtainer configured to obtain target tape information indicating a type of a target tape desired as a printing target by a user, a first determiner configured to determine, based on the attached-cartridge information for the plurality of tape printing apparatuses and the target tape information, whether the plurality of tape printing apparatuses include an attached-tape printing apparatus to which a target tape cartridge containing the target tape is attached, and a display controller configured to, when it is determined that the plurality of tape printing apparatuses include the attached-tape printing apparatus, cause attached-apparatus information indicating the attached-tape printing apparatus to be displayed.
US11801695B2
An inkjet printing machine for printing individual sheets comprises at least one printing station and a transport system (100) for transporting the individual sheets through the printing station, along a transport direction. The transport system (100) comprises at least one gripper conveyor (150) movable along the transport direction, for gripping one of the individual sheets defining a sheet position in transport direction. The transport system (100) further comprises at least one support conveyor (190) movable along the transport direction for supporting a region of the individual sheet, wherein the supported individual sheet and the support conveyor (190) are movable along the transport direction with respect to each other. The printing machine allows for efficient and flexible handling of individual sheets, in particular large format sheets of materials such as corrugated cardboard or other materials that have a certain degree of inherent stability.
US11801686B2
A printer includes an ink tank; a print head performing printing by using ink in the ink tank; a light source irradiating an inside of the ink tank with light; a sensor detecting light of a plurality of colors incident from the ink tank during a period in which the light source emits light; and a processing section estimating an ink type of the ink in the ink tank based on an output of the sensor at a position corresponding to a meniscus portion of the ink.
US11801675B2
A controller may detect an elevation of a recording medium that is to be printed to, the elevation may result in the printing element of a printing device being negatively affected. The controller may automatically produce a time-limited printing pause of the printing element in which the printing gap between the printing element and the recording medium is temporarily enlarged in order to direct the detected elevation past the printing element. A negative effect on the printing device given the presence of a damaged recording medium may thus be efficiently and reliably avoided or reduced.
US11801671B2
This present invention relates to a method for making a two-layered product (3) comprising a hydrophilic first material (1) made from electrospun fibers connected to a hydrophobic second material (2) made from electrospun fibers, and wherein said first material (1) contains a drug substance, characterized in that —said method comprises using a press (5) comprising a first surface (100) and a second surface (200), and wherein said second surface (200) has a temperature being higher than the temperature of said first surface (100), —said first (1) and second material (2) being arranged in a layered combination between the first (100) and second surface (200) of the press (5), wherein a pressure is provided towards said layered combination from said first (100) and second surface (200) of said press (5), and whereby said first material (1) comes into contact with said first surface (100) of said press (5), —wherein the combination of pressure between the first (100) and second surface (200) and the temperature of said second material (2) connects said first (1) and second material (2) into said two-layered product (3).
US11801667B2
A thermoplastic film 10 is a thermoplastic film comprising a light-emitting layer 11, wherein the light-emitting layer 11 comprises a thermoplastic resin and a light-emitting material that emits light by being irradiated with excitation light, and when laminated glass obtained by bonding two sheets of clear glass in accordance with JIS R 3211(1998) having a thickness of 2.5 mm with the thermoplastic film interposed therebetween is irradiated, from one surface, with excitation light, which the light-emitting material is capable of absorbing, in a quantity of light of 7 mW/cm2, a difference between luminance A observed on a side of the one surface and luminance B observed on a side of the other surface, (A−B), is 5 cd/m2 or more. According to the present invention, a thermoplastic film such that when laminated glass is made using the thermoplastic film, information is displayed relatively strongly on one surface, and the information is displayed relatively weakly on the other surface, and a laminated glass comprising this thermoplastic film can be provided.
US11801664B2
Provided is a steel sheet for a hot press formed member having excellent resistance to hydrogen delayed fracture, and a method for manufacturing the same. A steel sheet for a hot press formed member comprises: a base steel sheet; an aluminum alloy plating layer on a surface of the base steel sheet; and an oxide layer which is formed on a surface of the plating layer and has a thickness of 0.05 μm or more.
US11801661B2
A paint substitute film comprises a base film, a colored layer, and a hard coat layer, wherein the base film, the colored layer, and the hard coat layer are laminated in this order. The base film contains thermoplastic resin and concealing material. Refractive index of the concealing material is not less than 1.70. Scattering coefficient from wavelength 400 nm to 700 nm of the base film is not less than 0.20 μm−1. Contrast ratio of the base film when at 20% elongation is not less than 0.70.
US11801646B2
Techniques for evaluating support for an object to be fabricated via an additive fabrication device are provided. In some embodiments, a three-dimensional representation of the object is obtained and a plurality of voxels corresponding to the representation of the object is generated. A first supportedness value may be assigned to a first voxel of the plurality of voxels based on an amount of support provided by a support structure to the first voxel, and a second supportedness value determined for a second voxel of the plurality of voxels, wherein the second voxel neighbors the first voxel, and wherein the second supportedness value is determined based on the first supportedness value of the first voxel and a weight value representing a transmission rate of supportedness through voxels of the plurality of voxels.
US11801639B2
An electronic device includes a carriage to move along an axis relative to a platform. In addition, the electronic device includes a print head disposed within the carriage to move with the carriage and to deliver a print agent to the platform. Further, the electronic device includes a cooling system. The cooling system includes an air source to deliver air to the print head within the carriage to cool the print head. The cooling system also includes a pressure sensor to measure a pressure of a first zone within the carriage. Moreover, the cooling system includes a controller to control a flow rate of the air into the first zone or from the first zone in response to the measured pressure to maintain the first zone at a positive pressure with respect to a second zone outside the carriage.
US11801638B2
Printers are disclosed. An example printer includes a build controller to access metrics of a layer on a work area and to select a dosing profile from a plurality of dosing profiles to fuse the layer based on the metrics.
US11801634B2
The invention relates to a disposable 3D printer cartridge for inserting into an exposure device for producing an object which is constructed in additive layers, wherein the cartridge contains at least one polymerizable liquid, or a polymerizable liquid can be filled into the cartridge. The cartridge comprises: a first lower housing part, a second upper housing part which can be removed from the first housing part, a support platform which forms the lower face of the second housing part, the object constructed in additive layers being arrangeable on the exterior of the support platform during the construction of the object, and a construction element which corresponds to the base of the first housing part. The layers of the object can be polymerized on the inner face of the construction element, and the inner face of the construction element has a non-stick coating.
US11801632B2
The present disclosure provides a multi-material photocuring 3D printer and a 3D printing method, wherein multi-material photocuring 3D printer comprises: a frame; a printing platform, arranged on frame; a lifting device, arranged on printing platform; a rotary motor, arranged on lifting device; a printing plate, arranged on rotary motor; wherein a bottom surface of printing plate is a printing plane; a plurality of resin slots, arranged on frame and located below printing plate; an optical engine, arranged on frame and located below printing plate. The present disclosure connects printing plate with rotary motor, after finishing printing with one material, it is possible to remove residual liquid resin on printed piece and printing plane by a method of high-speed centrifugation, to avoid any contaminations to printed piece, thereby ensuring printed piece in multi-material having a high precision and a high resolution.
US11801631B2
In an example, a three-dimensional (3D) printed part comprises a plurality of fused build material layers including exterior layers and interior layers. At least some of the interior layers include a composite portion having a miscible solid physically bonded to an amide functionality or an amine functionality of the build material. The miscible solid is a solid at a room temperature ranging from about 18° C. to about 25° C.
US11801628B2
A method for producing hollow bodies made of plastics by blow molding or deep drawing using a deep-drawing tool or a blow-molding tool, comprising the extrusion of preforms from thermoplastics, the method comprising a wall thickness control of the preforms, wherein a measurement of the wall thickness of the preforms takes place within the tool on the mold cavity side on at least one reference point of a preform, the measured value obtained is compared as an actual value with a predetermined target value and the wall thickness control is triggered to change the wall thickness of the preform during extrusion or between extrusion cycles depending on the deviation between the actual value and the target value.
US11801627B2
A method and apparatus for forming extruded shapes having at least a hollow portion using a hydrodynamic nozzle, a curable fluid, and a core fluid.
US11801626B2
A resin part includes a plate-shaped molded main body that is constituted of an injection-molded product. Of plate surfaces of the molded main body, a surface on an opposite side to a surface requiring surface accuracy constitutes a pressure-application surface to which pressure is applied by a movable insert. A parting line is formed on the pressure-application surface by the movable insert to satisfy the following relationship: (t/4)≤x≤(3t/2), where x is a distance from an end edge part of the molded main body to the parting line and t is a thickness of the molded main body.
US11801623B2
A method of manufacturing a wood-based board. The method includes applying at least one first fibre mat including a first mix comprising lignocellulosic particles and a binder on a carrier, applying a second fibre mat including a second mix including cellulosic particles and a binder on said at least one first fibre mat, and pressing said at least one first fibre mat into a base layer and the second fibre mat into a surface layer simultaneously, thereby forming a wood-based board. Also, to such a wood-based board.
US11801617B2
Optical absorber-containing thermoplastic polymer particles (OACTP particles) may be produced by methods that comprise: mixing a mixture comprising a thermoplastic polymer, a carrier fluid that is immiscible with the thermoplastic polymer, and optionally an emulsion stabilizer at a temperature greater than a melting point or softening temperature of the thermoplastic polymer and at a shear rate sufficiently high to disperse the thermoplastic polymer in the carrier fluid; cooling the mixture to below the melting point or softening temperature of the thermoplastic polymer to form solidified particles comprising the thermoplastic polymer; separating the solidified particles from the carrier fluid; and exposing the solidified particles to an optical absorber to produce the OACTP particles.
US11801616B2
An inference system for monitoring a cementitious mixture for three-dimensional printing is provided. The inference system includes an ambient condition sensor, a temperature sensor, a moisture sensor and an image capturing device. The inference system also includes a controller coupled to the ambient condition sensor, the temperature sensor, the moisture sensor, and the image capturing device. The controller receives sensed ambient conditions, a temperature signal, and a moisture content signal. The controller receives an image feed of a portion of a cementitious mixture. The controller also receives signals indicative of a motor speed and a motor torque associated with a mixing container. The controller builds a model and determines a material suitability of the cementitious mixture using the model based on the received ambient conditions, the temperature signal, the moisture content signal, the image feed, the motor speed, and the motor torque and determines one or more corrective actions.
US11801615B2
A method and device for removal of a molded sample from a mold with minimal or no damage to the molded sample. The device includes a drill configured for perforating a wall of the mold with the formation of a through aperture, a shroud passageway through or adjacent the drill, and a passageway from a source for pressurized fluid leading to the shroud passageway. The shroud passageway is configured whereby fluid such as air is applied therethrough simultaneously with perforation operation of the drill. Air directed through the aperture is pressurized and comes into effective contact with the molded sample whereby the molded sample is prevented from being more than minimally contacted with the drill and caused to be removed from the mold.
US11801607B2
The present disclosure is related to methods and systems for controlling a snake-arm robot. The method includes receiving real-time image data associated with an operating environment or a location of a workpiece from optical sensor(s) mounted on a robot head of the robot; receiving input data describing a desired pose of the robot head; computing and translating a desired displacement of the robot head; computing a position of each of the links of the snake-arm robot to follow motion of the robot head, a current position of each the links, and data required to move joints connecting the links to move the robot to the desired pose; generating movement instructions; and transmitting the movement instructions to a drive motor associated with an introduction device or controllers associated with servo-motors operably connected to joints connecting the links of the snake-arm causing the robot head to move to the desired pose.
US11801606B2
In some examples, an autonomous robotic welding system comprises a workspace including a part having a seam, a sensor configured to capture multiple images within the workspace, a robot configured to lay weld along the seam, and a controller. The controller is configured to identify the seam on the part in the workspace based on the multiple images, plan a path for the robot to follow when welding the seam, the path including multiple different configurations of the robot, and instruct the robot to weld the seam according to the planned path.
US11801604B2
The present invention relates to a robot and method for estimating an orientation on the basis of a vanishing point in a low-luminance image, and the robot for estimating an orientation on the basis of a vanishing point in a low-luminance image according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a camera unit configured to capture an image of at least one of a forward area and an upward area of the robot and an image processor configured to extract line segments from a first image captured by the camera unit by applying histogram equalization and a rolling guidance filter to the first image, calculate a vanishing point on the basis of the line segments, and estimate a global angle of the robot corresponding to the vanishing point.
US11801602B2
Provided are a mobile robot and a method of driving the same. A method in which the mobile robot moves along with a user includes photographing surroundings of the mobile robot, detecting the user from an image captured by the photographing, tracking a location of the user within the image as the user moves, predicting a movement direction of the user, based on a last location of the user within the image, when the tracking of the location of the user is stopped, and determining a traveling path of the mobile robot, based on the predicted movement direction of the user.
US11801600B1
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a terminal force soft-sensing method of a hydraulic manipulator. The method includes: establishing a dynamic model of the hydraulic manipulator, performing linearization processing on the dynamic model, and establishing a minimum inertial parameter set of the hydraulic manipulator and a linear model of a regression matrix corresponding to the minimum inertial parameter set; generating an excitation trajectory by solving a finite Fourier series coefficient; determining a hydraulic driving torque by collected values of pressure sensors of two chambers of hydraulic cylinders when controlling the hydraulic manipulator to operate the excitation trajectory under a no-load condition; determining a total regression matrix by bringing joint angles, joint angular velocities, and joint angular accelerations at each moment into the regression matrix; and determining dynamic parameters of the hydraulic manipulator based on the hydraulic driving torque and the regression matrix.
US11801575B2
A method for manufacturing a high-torque hexagonal drill shank includes: firstly producing an air module, wherein the lower end of the air module is inserted into a molding cavity of a mold, a high-pressure air is injected into the air module, and the surface of the air module is provided with a plurality of air outlets; evenly mixing metal powder and an organic binder together; injecting obtained particulates in a heating-plasticizing state into the molding cavity by an injection molding machine to solidify and form a hexagonal drill shank blank; forming a non-cylindrical cavity inside the hexagonal drill shank blank under the action of the air module; removing the binder in the hexagonal drill shank blank by thermal decomposition; and, finally, obtaining a high-torque hexagonal drill shank by sintering and densifying.
US11801565B2
A saw blade including a body, a plurality of cutting teeth, and a plurality of gullets. The plurality of cutting teeth formed on the body. Each cutting tooth includes a first end and a second end. The plurality of gullets is formed between the plurality of cutting teeth. Each gullet having an opening defined between the first end of one tooth of the plurality of cutting teeth and the second end of an adjacent tooth of the plurality of cutting teeth. Each opening has an opening width and a gullet width. A ratio between he gullet width over the opening width is greater than or equal to 1.2:1.
US11801561B2
A tool turret, in particular provided for the use for a machine tool, has a pivotable tool disk (10), which has on its outer circumference a plurality of receptacles (14) for holders (18) provided with working tools. The holders (18) are attached to the tool disk (10) in a changeable manner by a fixing device (20). Each holder (18) can be swiveled into a working position to permit the assigned working tool to be driven by a drive (22). For this purpose, the working tool can be coupled to an output shaft (16) of the respective holder (18) by a coupling device (26). The fixing device (20) can be actuated by the drive (22) when this drive (22) is uncoupled while stopping the working tool.
US11801559B2
A portable apparatus for configuring a wheel associated with a track is provided. The apparatus is in a fixed position with respect to a rail associated with the track when in operation. The apparatus includes a tool configured to engage the wheel, a position system for positioning the cutting tool in at least two axis, and a computer control. The computer control is coupled to control the positioning system. The positioning system is controlled so that the wheel is configured in accordance with a profile.
US11801557B2
Provided is a laminate molding method for additionally manufacturing a molded object on a table by use of metal powder. The laminate molding method includes: a metal powder layer forming step of forming a metal powder layer by supplying metal powder onto a table; a melting step of melting the metal powder layer by applying, to the metal powder layer, electromagnetic energy emitted from an electromagnetic energy source; a rotating step of rotating the electromagnetic energy source and the table relative to each other; and a table vertically moving step of vertically moving the table relative to the electromagnetic energy source. Gas is emitted from a gas emission port toward an outer side of the table, the gas emission portion being provided in generally a center of the table.
US11801556B2
A metal particle aggregate includes metal particles and an organic substance. The metal particles include first particles that contain one or both of silver and copper in an amount of 70% by mass or more relative to 100% by mass of all metals and have a particle diameter of 100 nm or more and less than 500 nm at a ratio of 20 to 30% by number, and include second particles that have a particle diameter of 50 nm or more and less than 100 nm, and third particles that have a particle diameter of less than 50 nm at a ratio of 80 to 70% by number in total. Surfaces of the first to third particles are covered with the same protective film.
US11801555B2
Methods are disclosed for producing core-shell particles having a uniform size using a microwave plasma process. More particularly, methods of the present technology are used to manufacture core-shell particles having a core at least partially surrounded by a shell. The core and shell of the core-shell particles are chemically distinct. Methods of the present technology occur within a plasma chamber of a microwave plasma reactor and a microwave formed plasma is utilized to vaporize core precursor material.
US11801550B2
The present invention relates to a feeder system for use in metal casting operations utilising casting moulds and to a feeder sleeve for use in the feeder system. There is provided a feeder system for metal casting, the feeder system comprising a feeder sleeve mounted on a breaker core, the feeder sleeve having a first end and an opposite second end, a longitudinal axis extending between the first and second ends, and a continuous sidewall extending generally around the longitudinal axis between the first and second ends, the sidewall defining a cavity for receiving molten metal during casting, and the breaker core defining an open bore therethrough for connecting the cavity to the casting, wherein the first end of the feeder sleeve is mounted on the breaker core, and the feeder sleeve comprises at least one protrusion extending from an exterior surface of the sidewall at the second end of the feeder sleeve.
US11801548B2
A machine for making a knotted wire fence, including a machine frame, at least one knot box, at least one drive shaft, and a drive shaft driving means, wherein the machine can be switched between a first configuration in which the machine can be used to produce a knotted wire fence incorporating a first knot type, and a second configuration in which the machine can be used to produce a knotted wire fence incorporating a second knot type.
US11801545B2
Press brake control device, press brake control method, tool, and data structure of tool information
When a sheet metal is sandwiched between a punch held by a punch holder and a die held by a die holder to bend the sheet metal at a set bending angle by moving the punch toward the die, a stroke calculation unit calculates a stroke of the punch for bending the sheet metal at the bending angle in consideration of a spring back amount of the bent sheet metal. A bending load calculation unit calculates a bending load required to bend the sheet metal at the bending angle. A punch deflection amount calculation unit calculates a punch deflection amount according to the bending load. A punch holder deflection amount calculation unit calculates a punch holder deflection amount according to the bending load. A depth value calculation unit calculates a depth value by adding at least the punch deflection amount and the punch holder deflection amount to the stroke.
US11801519B2
Disclosed is a noise suppressor for use inside a nozzle and adjacent a nozzle liner. The suppressor can include an inlet with a cross-sectional area larger than that of the nozzle liner outlet. The suppressor can also have an entrance length with a diverging cross-sectional area, and an exit length extending from the entrance length. By incorporating this geometry, the noise suppressor reduces noise and improves performance of the apparatus in which the suppressor is used.
US11801514B1
A particle size reducing method using a ball mill, a vortexer, a Taylor-Couette flow-inducing device (TCFID), a homogenizer, and a dryer. A feedstock with a first particle size is provided to the processing system. In the ball mill, the particle size of the feedstock is reduced to a second particle size. The feedstock is mixed with a carrier fluid to create a working fluid, wherein particles of the feedstock are suspended within the carrier fluid. The particle size is reduced to a third particle size in the vortexer, producing a second reduced working fluid. The third particle size is reduced with the TCFID to a fourth particle size, producing a third reduced working fluid. Using the homogenizer, the distribution of particles in the third reduced working fluid is normalized. In the dryer, the carrier fluid of the working fluid is separated from the particles to produce a granular material.
US11801510B2
An electrowetting system is disclosed. The system includes electrodes configured to manipulate droplets of fluid in a microfluidic space. Each electrode is coupled to circuitry operative to selectively apply a driving voltage to the electrode. The system includes a dielectric stack including a first dielectric pair comprising a first layer having a first dielectric constant and a second layer having a second dielectric constant. The second dielectric constant is larger than the first dielectric constant. The dielectric stack includes a second dielectric pair comprising a third layer having a third dielectric constant and a fourth layer having a fourth dielectric constant. The fourth dielectric constant is larger than the third dielectric constant. A ratio of a thickness of the fourth layer to a thickness of the third layer (T4:T3) is in the range from about 2:1 to about 8:1. The second dielectric pair is thinner than the first dielectric pair.
US11801502B2
Methods for modifying a catalyst system component are disclosed in which a feed mixture containing a fluid and from 1 to 15 wt. % of a catalyst system component is introduced into an inlet of a hydrocyclone, an overflow stream containing from 0.1 to 5 wt. % solids and an underflow stream containing from 10 to 40 wt. % solids are discharged from the hydrocyclone, and the underflow stream is spray dried to form a modified catalyst component. Often, from 4 to 20 wt. % of the catalyst system component in the feed mixture has a particle size of less than or equal to 20 μm, or less than or equal to 10 μm.
US11801494B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a single-atom catalyst supported on a carbon support, including treating a mixture of a precursor of a carbon support and a precursor of a hetero element other than carbon through a dry vapor phase process, thereby supporting, on a carbon support, a single-atom catalyst containing a hetero element other than carbon.
US11801491B1
A three-way catalyst for reduced palladium loading is provided. The catalyst includes an inert substrate and a palladium catalyst material coating the substrate. The palladium catalyst material includes a support material formed from one of 10% CeO2/Al2O3, 20% CeO2—Al2O3 (20CeAlOy), 30% CeO2—Al2O3 (30CeAlOy), Al2O3, and MOx-Al2O3, wherein M is one of copper, iron, manganese, titanium, zirconium, magnesium, strontium, and barium. The palladium catalyst material includes a layer of CeO2 material disposed upon the support material, wherein the layer of CeO2 material is dispersed on a surface of the support material. The palladium catalyst material includes an active component including a layer of praseodymium oxide particles dispersed across the surface of the layer of CeO2 material and a layer of palladium particles disposed upon and dispersed across the surface of the layer of CeO2 material at locations each corresponding to a respective location of each of the praseodymium particles.
US11801488B2
A method of preparing an alumina catalyst including: performing primary calcination of an alumina precursor at a primary calcination temperature to form a mixed-phase alumina including 1% to 15% by weight of alpha-alumina, 60% to 95% by weight of theta-alumina, and 4% to 25% by weight of delta-alumina; steam-treating the mixed-phase alumina with water vapor at a steam-treating temperature lower than the primary calcination temperature to form activated mixed-phase alumina; and performing secondary calcination of the activated mixed-phase alumina at a secondary calcination temperature higher than the steam treatment temperature and lower than the primary calcination temperature after step S2. An alumina catalyst prepared using the method, and a method of preparing propylene using the alumina catalyst.
US11801485B2
The process and apparatus according to the invention allow the production of chemical compounds without the use of catalysts. For this purpose, the reactants necessary for the desired products are fed to compression reactors. In addition, the reaction conditions are controlled by means of an electronic control device. For this purpose, among other things, the compression reactors are combined with an electric motor, thereby influencing the residence time in the reactors. In addition, it is planned to raise the reactant pressures with the help of a compressor. In addition, the operating conditions are recorded with suitable sensors and/or analysers.
US11801483B2
An internal mixer includes a mixing chamber enclosed by a housing, a feeding neck in which a ram is guided, a closable discharge door, and an intermeshing rotor system, composed of a pair of rotors that can each be rotated about a rotor longitudinal axis, each rotor comprising a rotor main body on which at least one respective rotor blade is arranged, and the rotor blades of the two rotors meshing with one another, is to be refined in such a way that an improved, that is, faster, pull-in behavior is achieved, while optimizing the dispersion and distribution of the introduced materials. To this end, it is provided that in the case of at least one of the rotors, the rotor main body, at least in sub-regions, is non-cylindrical and has a non-circular cross-section, in the surface sections in which no rotor blades are arranged on the rotor main body.
US11801468B2
A two-stage separator system having a housing extending between a first end and a second end. The housing defines a housing inlet, a separator outlet towards the second end, and a filtration outlet on the first end. A filter assembly has a first sheet of filter media coupled to a second sheet of filter media mutually defining a plurality of flutes extending in an axial direction. The filter assembly defines an inlet flow face and an outlet flow face. The filter assembly is disposed in the housing and coupled to the housing about the filtration outlet such that the outlet flow face is in fluid communication with the filtration outlet. The inlet flow face of the filter assembly has an axial flow face length.
US11801465B2
The present disclosure is directed towards a filter arrangement for a reductant supply system of a selective catalytic reduction system. The reductant supply system comprises a tank and a suction tube mounted at least partially in the tank for receiving reductant liquid from the tank. The filter arrangement comprises a restraining body, a filter at least partially forming a filter chamber, a filter outlet from the filter chamber formed through the restraining body and/or filter and a filter mount mounted to the restraining body and/or filter. The restraining body extends radially outwardly from the filter mount and is configured to restrain the filter such that, under the effect of buoyancy in the tank in use, gas in the filter chamber is directed towards the filter outlet.
US11801460B2
A filtering unit includes a filtering component having a pre-filter chamber circumferentially compartmented in sectors, a filtering medium and a post-filtering chamber, a divider arranged coaxially with the filtering component and having distinct distribution columns, a cover and a rotary backwashing distributor having a shutter provided with a discharge opening. The rotary backwashing distributor is mounted to rotate so that the discharge opening is periodically and selectively put into communication with each distribution column. Each distribution column periodically and selectively establishes communication between the discharge opening and respective ones of the sectors. The filtering unit further includes a dividing plate arranged between the cover and the rotary backwashing distributor, the dividing plate being detachably secured with respect to the cover and having apertures opening into the distribution columns. The shutter abuts the dividing plate at least around the discharge opening.
US11801446B2
A method for training a character for a game is described. The method includes facilitating a display of one or more scenes of the game. The one or more scenes include the character and virtual objects. The method further includes receiving input data for controlling the character by a user to interact with the virtual objects and analyzing the input data to identify interaction patterns for the character in the one or more scenes. The interaction patterns define inputs to train an artificial intelligence (AI) model associated with a user account of the user. The method includes enabling the character to interact with a new scene based on the AI model. The method includes tracking the interaction with the new scene by the character to perform additional training of the AI model.
US11801444B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has a memory to store instructions and a processor coupled to the memory, wherein responsive to executing the instructions, the processor performs operations that include defining a group of perspectives around an avatar controlled by a player of a video game, detecting a current trigger during the video game, recording a trigger clip of game content for each perspective in the group of perspectives resulting in a group of trigger clips, wherein each trigger clip of the group of trigger clips is a portion of game content that includes the current trigger from each perspective of the group of perspectives, and providing the group of trigger clips over a communication network to a gaming device utilized by the player. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US11801441B2
A server-side gaming method performed by a framework for delivering remotely-rendered content. The framework comprises a provisioning server for generating impression content, a remote server for generating frames of the remotely-rendered content comprising gaming content and the impression content; and an API for sending and receiving. The method comprises requesting from the provisioning server, a media asset associated with the impression content; and storing the media asset in storage of the remote server. On receipt of a request from the first user device, generating, a first instance of remotely-rendered content, where the impression content comprises the stored media asset. On receipt of a request from the second user device. generating a second, different, instance of remotely-rendered content, where the impression content comprises the stored media asset. Transmitting, to the first user device, the first instance and transmitting to the second user device, the second instance.
US11801422B2
A wearable positioning device includes an inertial sensor, a storage device and a processor. The inertial sensor senses an acceleration signal and an angular velocity signal. The storage device stores a previous positioning signal and a current coordinate. The processor is electrically connected to the inertial sensor and the storage device. A wearable positioning method is executed by the processor, which includes: determining whether the wearable positioning device is in one of an under-water mode and an above-water mode according to a pressure sensing signal; calculating, when in the under-water mode, a current acceleration and a current direction according to the acceleration signal, the angular velocity signal, and a swimming posture signal representing a swimming posture; and calculating a current positioning signal according to the current acceleration, the current direction and the previous positioning signal, and updating the current coordinate with the current positioning signal.
US11801421B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for data analytics for a sports activity are disclosed. A multiplicity of sensors tracks a multiplicity of world objects related to the sports activity, collects and communicates tracking data to a server platform in real time or near real time. The server platform integrates the tracking data from the multiplicity of sensors and scoring data for the sports activity, and correlates the tracking data and the scoring data with a corresponding UTC timecode based on rules related to the sports activity, thereby creating a multiplicity of UTC-coded data sets. The server platform synchronizes the multiplicity of UTC-coded data sets, thereby creating a time-synchronized data set. The server platform provides analytics based on the time-synchronized data set, thereby creating analyzed data. The multiplicity of user devices displays the analyzed data based on at least one application program.
US11801403B2
The present disclosure provides a method for reducing the inhalation of microorganisms, a washable mask for reducing the inhalation of microorganisms, applications of the mask and a method for manufacturing the same. The method for reducing the inhalation of microorganisms includes the steps of: providing a mask with a breathing zone, the breathing zone being used for covering a breathing part of a user; arranging two or more magnets around the breathing zone of the mask, the magnets generating a three-dimensional magnetic field, so as to change the moving trajectories of charged microorganisms in gas to be inhaled thereby increasing the probability of the microorganisms being captured by the filtering material.
US11801401B2
When planning magnetic resonance (MR) guided high intensity focused ultrasonic (HIFU) therapy, HIFU transducer element parameters are optimized as a function of 3D MR data describing a size, shape, and position of a region of interest (ROI) (146) and any obstructions (144) between the HIFU transducer elements and the ROI (146). Transducer element phases and amplitudes are adjusted to maximize HIFU radiation delivery to the ROI (146) while minimizing delivery to the obstruction (144). Additionally or alternatively, transducer elements are selectively deactivated if the obstruction (144) is positioned between the ROI (146) and a given transducer element.
US11801400B2
A therapy apparatus for treating tissue by emission of focused ultrasound waves, including: a creation surface of a pressure field of focused ultrasound waves divided into at least N sectors having segments of asymmetrical concave curve with centres of curvature; centres of curvature asymmetrical to the extent where the centres of curvature are situated at different distances from the plane of symmetry or from at least one of the axis of symmetry and at different depths taken according to the axis of symmetry; the individual axes intersecting between the focal zones and the creation surface or beyond the focal zones such that the beams originating from the sectors intersect to create a focal coverage zone which is off-axis relative to the plane of symmetry or to the axis of symmetry; the sectors of this creation surface creating energy deposit zones with profiles corresponding to the focal coverage zones.
US11801392B2
An automated external defibrillator (AED) and AED Monitoring system made up of an AED, the AED having a self-diagnostic subroutine and performing said subroutine at regular intervals, the AED having at least an audio indicator that indicates the results of the self-diagnostic when the diagnosis is that the AED is in need of maintenance and a remote AED monitoring system, the AED monitoring system having an electromagnetic coil, microphone, battery, microprocessor, and wireless communication device, wherein the microprocessor selectively powers up the AED monitoring system prior to the AED's self-diagnostic subroutine and utilizes the electromagnetic coil and microphone to monitor for the AED's audio indicator that the AED is in need of maintenance, and the microprocessor transmitting a wireless signal through the wireless communication device indicating whether the AED is in need of maintenance; the microprocessor selectively powering down the AED monitoring system after transmitting the wireless signal.
US11801390B2
An implantable medical device system and method for delivering cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) pacing that includes determining capture associated with the delivered CRT pacing is ineffective in response to the delivered CRT pacing. A reason for capture being ineffective is determined and a safety margin is adjusted if the determined reason for capture being ineffective is loss of capture and a left ventricle (LV) pre-excitation is adjusted if the determined reason for capture being ineffective is delayed LV depolarization. Monitoring for a change in effective cardiac resynchronization therapy is used to confirm that the adjustment of the CRT pacing was effective in resolving the ineffective capture.
US11801387B2
A system for omni-orientational wireless energy transfer is described. A transmitter unit has a transmitter resonator with a coil that is configured to be coupled to a power supply to wirelessly transmit power to a receiver unit. A receiver unit has a receiver resonator with a coil coupled to a device load. At least one of the resonators is a non-planar resonator that spans a non-degenerate two-dimensional surface having at least one concave portion.
US11801380B2
Nerve stimulation devices and methods for performing non-invasive nerve stimulation are provided that are particularly well suited for performing non-invasive stimulation of one or both of the great auricular nerve and auricular branch of the vagus nerve through a target nerve junction in the neck of the subject. The nerve stimulation devices use dry electrolyte electrodes that (1) are comfortable to use, (2) suitable for long-term use, (3) avoid delivering painful shocks to the subject, (4) do not require soaking of the electrodes in saline solutions or covering them in sticky or wet gels, (5) do not require skin preparation, and (6) avoid causing muscle contraction in areas outside of the target nerve junction containing the great auricular nerve and the auricular branch of the vagus nerve during use.
US11801368B2
A guidewire comprising a hydrophilic surface coating encasing a core and a metal coil along a longitudinal length of the hydrophilic surface coating to form a distal closed tip, the metal coil circumscribing the core along a predetermined length, the core extending longitudinally beyond the metal coil in both a proximal direction and a distal direction, wherein a proximal section of the guidewire includes a hydrophobic surface coating.
US11801367B2
A vascular access device may be an integrated catheter. The vascular access device includes a catheter and catheter adapter having a catheter hub and side port. The contact angle of a probe is greater than 90 degrees. The entrance angle of a probe entering the catheter hub from the side port may be less than 45 degrees. The vascular access device may include a component configured to direct the path of a probe towards the catheter opening. The component may be a protrusion extending into the lumen of the side port, internal fluid passageway, and/or extension tube, or a septum within the catheter hub. The vascular access device includes an access adapter in fluid communication with the side port and permitting insertion of a probe into the catheter through the side port with or without a separate luer adapter. Methods of using a vascular access device are further disclosed.
US11801357B2
The present invention provides an oral device that is inserted into the mouth of a patient during sedation to minimize the risk of airway obstruction and method of use. The oral device comprises a mouthpiece. A gas inlet conduit, a gas outlet conduit, and a fluid outlet conduit are adjacent to the vestibular portion of the mouthpiece. The gas inlet conduit may be used to provide oxygen to the mouth of a patient. The gas outlet conduit may be used to remove end-tidal carbon dioxide from the mouth of a patient. The fluid outlet conduit may be used to remove fluid from the mouth of a patient. The oral device may also include a tongue stabilizer to minimize movement of the tongue. The mouthpiece may include fluid outlet ports to remove fluid from the mouth of a patient and an instrument passage to allow medical instruments to pass through the oral device.
US11801348B2
A glass syringe barrel is provided that has an at least partially conically shaped upper portion and a longitudinal axis. The glass syringe barrel has a top end through which a liquid can be ejected and a bottom end into which a plunger stopper can be pushed. The glass syringe barrel includes, in a direction from the top end to the bottom end, a cone, a shoulder region, and a body region. The shoulder region has and outer contour that has a concave and substantially circular arc-shaped area c1 with an outer radius r1. The outer contour of the glass syringe barrel in the shoulder region is defined by a certain minimum value the radius of curvature.
US11801347B2
A cartridge carrier assembly for a medicament delivery device comprises a cartridge carrier adapted to receive a cartridge defining a cavity containing a dose of a medicament, a needle hub being part of the cartridge carrier or coupled to the cartridge carrier such that the needle hub is fixed relative to the cartridge carrier, the needle hub adapted to receive a distal end or part of the cartridge, an injection needle having a tipped proximal needle section adapted to pierce a sealing element distally arranged on the cartridge, and a removable needle cap attachable to a distal end of the cartridge carrier. The needle hub comprises a cartridge retention feature adapted to abut the cartridge or a part thereof to limit axial movement of the cartridge in the distal direction such that the proximal needle section is spaced from the sealing element.
US11801345B2
An injector device includes a housing having a slot with a locking portion and a needle unit that has a needle and a slot engagement portion that extends through the slot in the housing to an external side of the housing. The needle unit is movably mounted in the housing such that movement of the needle unit relative to the housing is restricted by the slot. The injector device also includes a cartridge that is mounted in the housing, the cartridge having a reservoir for medicament. Prior to use of the injector device, the reservoir is sealed from the needle. The slot in the housing is arranged such that the needle unit can be rotated to move the slot engagement portion out of the locking portion such that the needle unit can be moved into engagement with the cartridge to place the needle in fluid communication with the reservoir.
US11801334B2
The present invention discloses a sterile PRP separation kit that has compartmentalized container having a cover that allows for a stage-specific exposure of sterile components of the sterile PRP separation kit housed within stage-specific compartments to a non-sterile environment commensurate with a specific stage of operation of a separation process of PRP. The sterile PRP separation kit includes a PRP tube with segregated portals for injection of blood into the PRP tube, aspiration of PRP from the PRP tube, and for maintaining an interior pressure of the PRP tube at equilibrium with ambient pressure during both injection and aspiration.
US11801332B2
A medical device for cooperating with a body surface of a patient includes an elastically deformable substrate having a first surface, a second surface, and a plurality of pores extending from the first surface towards the second surface to define a plurality of spaced-apart projections. A lubricant is provided in the pores. Applying a compressive force to the substrate with the body surface elastically deforms the projections to displace the lubricant out of the pores and provide hydrodynamic lubrication between the medical device and the body surface.
US11801331B2
The present invention provides a cartilage regenerating composition including a fetal cartilage tissue-derived cell and an extracellular matrix derived from a fetal cartilage tissue, and a preparing method thereof. According to the present invention, the cartilage-regenerating composition may produce a three-dimensional tissue of a size suitable for use as a cartilage without a scaffold, may be easily transplantable regardless of the size and shape of the cartilage defect at the site of administration since it can be administered in the form of a gel, but has high application and adhesion, may exhibit a high binding ability to the host tissue, and may have a phenotype of mature cartilage tissue, thereby exhibiting an excellent cartilage regeneration effect.
US11801326B2
Polymeric compositions are described comprising a biocompatible polymer including a biodegradable linkage to a visualization agent and a non-physiological solution; wherein the biocompatible polymer is soluble in the non-physiological solution and insoluble in a physiological solution. Methods of forming the solutions and polymers are disclosed as well as methods of therapeutic use.
US11801324B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing a haemostatic composition comprising thrombin, the method comprising the step of reconstituting a dry thrombin directly in a paste, such as a paste comprising a biocompatible polymer. The haemostatic composition comprising thrombin may be prepared from a dry thrombin composition and a paste in a single step operation and be used for treatment of a wound.
US11801318B2
A UV sterilization system for a vehicle includes a sterilization housing in which a sterilizing object is accommodated, an LED module emitting ultraviolet rays to the sterilizing object, and a controller configured to control an operation of the LED module.
US11801309B2
The present disclosure relates to carbohydrate-functionalized nanoparticles and methods of treating cardiovascular disease (for example, atherosclerosis).
US11801299B2
The compositions and methods are described for generating an immune response to a hepatitis B virus. The compositions and methods described herein relate to a modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) vector encoding one or more viral antigens for generating a protective immune response to a hepatitis B virus, in the subject to which the vector is administered. The compositions and methods of the present invention are useful both prophylactically and therapeutically and may be used to prevent and/or treat an infection caused by hepatitis B virus.
US11801297B2
The present invention relates to novel nucleic acid molecules encoding a pre-fusion RSV F protein or immunologically active part thereof, wherein the pre-fusion RSV F protein comprises the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2. The invention further relates to the use of the nucleic acid molecules, or vectors comprising said nucleic acid molecules, as a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
US11801294B2
The invention relates to arenaviruses for use in the treatment and/or prevention of tumors and also a method for preparing arenaviruses with (improved) tumor-regressive properties.
US11801290B2
Compositions and methods for preventing, treating and detecting leprosy are disclosed. The compositions generally comprise polypeptides comprising one or more Mycobacterium leprae antigens as well as polynucleotides encoding such polypeptides.
US11801286B2
Recombinant intravenous immunoglobulin (RIVIG) compositions and methods for their production and use
Compositions of recombinant intravenous immunoglobulin (rIVIG) proteins and methods for purification and use of rIVIG proteins. The compositions comprise oligomeric Fc molecules which bind to Fc receptors with high avidity. The rIVIG proteins are useful as immunomodulatory molecules for the treatment of immune disorders including autoimmune diseases, such as refractory immune thrombocytopenia, chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, multiple sclerosis, lupus, Graves Disease, Kawasaki disease, dermatomyositis, myasthenia gravis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and other immune and inflammatory conditions. The rIVIG proteins can also be used as immunomodulators in patients to reduce the immune rejection of organ transplants, stem cell transplants and bone marrow transplantation. Additionally, the present invention provides rIVIG proteins of non-human origin, for use in veterinary immune disorders, such as canine rIVIG proteins for the treatment of dogs suffering from autoimmune hemolytic anemia, immune thrombocytopenia purpura, rheumatoid arthritis, or other canine immune disorder.
US11801274B2
Disclosed herein is a method for alleviating atopic dermatitis using a composition containing at least one lactic acid bacterial strain. The at least one lactic acid bacterial strain is selected from the group consisting of Lactobacillus salivarius subsp. salicinius AP-32 which is deposited at the China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) under an accession number CCTCC M 2011127, and Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis CP-9 which is deposited at the CCTCC under an accession number CCTCC M 2014588.
US11801251B2
The present invention relates to small molecule compounds based on benzopyrimido- or benzoimidazo-thiazin-imine as well as their (synthesis) intermediates and their use as HDAC inhibitors, in particular HDAC8 inhibitors. The present invention also relates to the use of said compounds in the treatment of cancer and as therapeutic agents for eukaryotic parasites and respective methods of treatment.
US11801240B2
The present disclosure relates to combination therapies containing one or more PARP inhibitors and one or more angiogenesis inhibitor. Also described herein are therapeutic uses of such combination therapies for treating various disorders and conditions. The combination therapies and uses thereof can be useful for preventing tumor cell growth, preventing tumor metastasis, inducing an immune response or enhancing an immune response.
US11801229B2
The present invention provides novel nanostructures comprising solution of PPSU20. Methods of preparing the novel PPSU nanostructures, and applications of such nanostructures are also provided.
US11801228B2
The subject invention provides materials and methods for intracellular deliver of molecules and/or therapeutic agents. The subject invention also provides methods for synthesizing polymeric systems and nanomaterials that enhance or assist the passage of molecules and/or therapeutic agents across biological membranes. The compound, polymer or nanoparticle of the subject invention comprises a modified guanidine moiety in a plurality of repeating units of a polymer or on the surface of a nanoparticle where the guanidine moiety comprises, for example, a carbamoyl or thiourea modification. The polymer or nanoparticle can be used in a cancer treatment formulation.
US11801227B2
The invention relates to mRNA therapy for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. mRNAs for use in the invention, when administered in vivo, encode cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), isoforms thereof, functional fragments thereof, and fusion proteins comprising CFTR. mRNAs of the invention are preferably encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to effect efficient delivery to cells and/or tissues in subjects, when administered thereto. mRNA therapies of the invention increase and/or restore deficient levels of CFTR expression and/or activity in subjects. mRNA therapies of the invention further decrease levels of toxic metabolites associated with deficient CFTR activity in subjects.
US11801213B2
The present invention is directed to a hair care composition having an effective amount of a 2-pyridinol-N-oxide material and an effective amount of an iron chelator; wherein the combination of the iron chelator and the 2-pyridinol-N-oxide material provides high anti-fungal efficacy.
US11801212B2
A composition for reducing unpleasant odor, the composition includes betaine; musk; and N-Soya-N-ethyl morpholinium ethosulfate.
US11801208B2
A method of providing topical protection against atmospheric pollutant molecules and against ultraviolet (UV) radiation, said method comprising the steps of: a) forming a polymer matrix that is both repellent and antiadhesive to atmospheric pollutant molecules, by means of a first biocompatible polymer (BP1); b) under the effect of UV radiation, photocatalytically degrading the pollutant molecules that have penetrated into the polymer matrix by means of first semiconductor colloids (Col-1) grafted covalently with a second biocompatible polymer (BP2), thereby leading to formation of free radicals; c) neutralizing said free radicals by means of at least 2 antioxidants, namely: a first antioxidant in the form of second semiconductor colloids (Col-2) grafted covalently with said first antioxidant (AntiOx-1); the second grafted colloids (Col-2) self-regenerating under the action of the UV radiation; and a second antioxidant (AntiOx-2) that is not in the form of colloids grafted with an antioxidant; and d) stabilizing the polymer matrix by means of the second antioxidant (AntiOx-2).
US11801207B2
The object is providing a water-in-oil emulsion sunscreen cosmetic having a property not present in the prior art, in which UV protection ability improve upon contact with water, sweat and the like in comparison with that directly after application, and also having pleasant texture and easy to wash off. The present invention provides a water-in-oil emulsion sunscreen cosmetic comprising (A) 6 to 40 mass % of a UV protective agent; (B) an organic-modified clay mineral; (C) an oil-phase-thickening agent, other than (B) and (D) a silicone-based surfactant having an HLB of less than 8, wherein the ratio, [total quantity of component (B) and component (C)]/[total quantity of (E) non-volatile liquid oils except silicone oils], is 0.04 or more and less than 0.68.
US11801193B2
Example ambulation aid apparatus and associated methods of manufacture are disclosed and described herein. An example ambulation aid apparatus includes an ambulation aid body formed as an integral part, the integral part formed in monocoque construction to provide support for mobility of a user through the integral part, the integral part providing a plurality of grippable areas to facilitate user movement and support through the integral part. Another example ambulation aid apparatus includes a primary panel formed in monocoque construction to provide support for and assist in mobility of a user through the skin of the monocoque primary panel, the primary panel formed to interrelate with one or more subassemblies to provide an integrated monocoque part to assist in providing support for and improved mobility of the user through the integrated monocoque part. Example methods of manufacture are also disclosed and described.
US11801191B2
An inner assembly and an outer assembly of a hypotrochoid apparatus with a spindle located inside the inner assembly where a spindle proximate end and a spindle distal end each employ at least one mechanical interface. An eccentric hub provides a central throughbore for receiving a spindle, where the spindle is rotatably engaged with the eccentric hub and the inner bore which enhances vibration when the spindle is rotating and the eccentric hub is engaged.
US11801187B2
A surgical patient interface including a base; a platform coupled to the base and including a first end and a second end, the platform configured to transition between a first position and a second position about a pivotable axis stationary relative to the base; a first abutment and a second abutment each adjustably coupled to the platform. In the first position, the platform extends between the first end and the second end in a substantially horizontal direction relative to the base, and the first abutment and the second abutment are separated by a first distance along the substantially horizontal direction. In the second position, the platform extends between the first end and the second end in a substantially vertical direction such that a torso of a patient extends in the substantially vertical direction, and the first abutment and the second abutment are separated by a second, different distance along the substantially vertical direction.
US11801182B2
A person support apparatus, such as a bed, cot, stretcher, chair, or the like, includes a frame, a support surface supported by the frame, a plurality of load cells that detect weight supported on the support surface, at least one A/D converter, and a controller. The load cells output analog signals that are converted to digital by the A/D converters. The controller switches a sampling rate of the A/D converters between at least first and second rates. The outputs from the load cells are forwarded to a plurality of signal acquisition nodes that include the A/D converters. The nodes are positioned at locations that minimize the length of travel of the analog signals, thereby reducing noise interference. Shivering, occupant absence/presence, vital signs, occupant movement, and/or other parameters are detected by the load cells.
US11801181B2
A person support apparatus includes a first transceiver adapted to wirelessly communicate with a second transceiver of a headwall interface that is positioned off of the person support apparatus. A communication link is automatically established between the first and second transceivers without requiring a user of the person support apparatus to activate a designated control and without requiring the user to identify the headwall interface. The first transceiver includes a unique identifier assigned to the headwall interface in its messages to the headwall interface. The first transceiver may also automatically transmit a disconnect signal to the headwall interface indicating the termination of the communication link is not accidental. The disconnect signal is sent based on one or more of the following: (1) a brake being off, (2) an A/C power cord being unplugged; and/or (3) a signal strength between the transceivers decreasing.
US11801179B2
A patient support system comprises a patient support apparatus for patients. The patient support apparatus comprises a base and a patient support surface supported by the base. The patient support apparatus also comprises powered devices that perform one or more predetermined functions on the patient support apparatus. Multiple input devices are employed to control the powered devices. The input devices are designed to enable caregivers to cause operation of the powered devices, as needed, while freeing the caregivers to perform other tasks.
US11801177B2
A patient support apparatus includes a litter frame, a support deck, an actuator, a user interface, a transceiver, and a controller. The controller is adapted to limit the movement of the actuator to a first range of motion in the absence of receiving a motion limit message from an off-board device via the transceiver or from a local user interface on the patient support apparatus. The controller is further adapted to limit the movement of the actuator to a second and different range of motion after receiving and implementing a motion limit message. The off-board device may be a local server positioned in a healthcare facility, a remote server, or another device. In some embodiments, the patient support apparatus includes a memory with stored data defining the multiple ranges of motion and the controller selects one of the ranges of motion in response to the motion limit message.
US11801176B2
A patient assisting system includes a frame having a sling assembly attachment point and a lifting arm which is movable relative to the frame and which includes a receptacle. When the sling assembly is attached to the attachment point and extends through the receptacle, a portion of the sling travels through the receptacle as the lifting arm moves relative to the frame. Another embodiment includes exactly one four bar linkage comprised of a frame having an attachment point for a sling assembly, a lifting arm having a receptacle, a lower cross arm and an upper cross arm. The lifting arm is adapted to be movable between a person-seated position and a person-standing position. The receptacle is located along the lifting arm so that motion of the lifting arm causes the receptacle to move along a curved path having a concave side which is person-facing.
US11801174B2
A patient transport apparatus transports a patient over a floor surface. The patient transport apparatus comprises a support structure and support wheels coupled to the support structure. An auxiliary wheel is coupled to the support frame to influence motion of the patient transport apparatus over a floor surface. The auxiliary wheel is movable to a deployed position with the auxiliary wheel engaging the floor surface and a stowed position with the auxiliary wheel spaced a distance from the floor surface. An actuator assembly including a lift actuator a biasing device, and a biasing load adjustment assembly. The lift actuator is operable to move the auxiliary wheel to the deployed position and to the stowed position. The biasing device configured to bias the auxiliary wheel towards the deployed position. The biasing load adjustment assembly configured to adjust a biasing force being applied by the biasing device to the auxiliary wheel.
US11801163B2
A medical device for removing lens tissue from inside a capsular bag of an eye including a cam assembly operatively coupled to a vacuum generation source positioned within the housing. A first portion is operatively coupled to the vacuum generation source and a second portion is operatively coupled to the first portion and to the shaft. The first portion is capable of rotating about an axis to cause the vacuum generation source to generate vacuum through the lumen. The second portion is capable of rotating about the axis with the first portion to cause the shaft to oscillate. A first degree of actuation of a trigger causes the vacuum generation source to generate vacuum within the lumen of the shaft, and a second degree of actuation of the trigger causes the shaft to oscillate as the second portion rotates. Related systems, devices, and methods are provided.
US11801157B2
The present invention relates to an ostomy device for contacting a stoma. The present invention also relates to the use of an ostomy device for contacting a stoma and a kit of parts for preparing an ostomy assembly or system.
US11801151B2
A trial template for visualizing the placement of a bone screw includes a bone facing side, a visualization side opposite the bone facing side, a trial periphery defining an outer perimeter of the trial, and first and second support members positioned within the trial periphery and each having a length extending in a direction transverse to an axis that extends through the bone facing and visualization sides The first and second support members define a viewing window therebetween that extends through the second component from the visualization side to the bone facing side. The trial template also includes a visualization member extending between the first and second support members and across the viewing window. The visualization member includes a position within the second component periphery that corresponds with a desired bone screw location in a bone.
US11801150B2
This disclosure relates to a graft preparation station and methods for repairing bone defects. The station described herein may be utilized for dimensioning a graft prior to positioning the shaped graft at a surgical site.
US11801142B2
The invention herein described is an endoprosthesis intended to replace a resected portion of bone and joint. The invention can be non-invasively, manually operated to lengthen a patient's limb both intraoperatively and postoperatively. It includes bone anchoring components for anchoring to a first and second long bone, a joint to replace the function of an orthopedic joint, and a purely mechanical lengthening mechanism which can be located and operated manually by an operator by pressing on skin of a patient without requiring a surgical incision. An alternative embodiment of the invention describes a similar extendable endoprosthesis which is unlocked by an operator by pressing on skin of a patient and the limb is subsequently pulled or pushed by the operator to change its length. The invention does not need or include any magnets, electric motors, electric current, application of heat or a fluid displacement (hydraulic) system.
US11801136B2
Embodiments hereof relate to a delivery system for a transcatheter valve prosthesis, the delivery system having an integral centering mechanism to circumferentially center both the delivery system and the valve prosthesis within a vessel at the target implantation site. The centering mechanism may include expandable wings that may be selectively aligned with openings formed through a sidewall of an outer shaft of the delivery system, a coiled wing that may be selectively exposed through an opening formed through a sidewall of an outer shaft of the delivery system, a plurality of elongated filaments extending through a plurality of lumens of an outermost shaft of the delivery system that may be selectively deployed or expanded, an outer shaft that includes at least one pre-formed deflection segment formed thereon, a tool having a deployable lever arm, and/or a plurality of loops deployable via simultaneous longitudinal and rotational movement.
US11801122B1
A method and electronic device for determining a T-marking of a given tooth of a subject are provided. The method comprises: obtaining a 3D digital model representative of a surface of a plurality of subject's teeth including the given tooth; obtaining a reference plane extending along an occlusal surface of the given tooth; generating groupings of the mesh elements along a surface of the given tooth; identifying normals at vertices defining each grouping, and projecting the normals onto the reference plane; determining a labiolingual line of the T-marking as a line of best fit of ends of the projected normals with starts in plane origin; determining, a mesiodistal line of the T-marking as a line extending in the reference plane through the reference plane origin and perpendicular to the labiolingual line; and determining the T-marking of the given tooth as the labiolingual line intersecting the mesiodistal line.
US11801115B2
An imaging system, including a head-mounted display worn by a system operator. A marker defines a plane when attached to a human subject. Optically reflective elements are disposed on the marker and on opposing sides of the plane in a non-symmetrical arrangement with respect to the plane. A memory stores a graphical representation of a tool used in a procedure performed on the human subject, and an image of anatomy of the human subject. A camera attached to the display acquires an image of the marker and the tool. A processor analyzes the image to identify the plane and to identify a side of the plane wherein the camera is located, and to render to the display the image of the anatomy of the human subject with the graphical representation of the tool superimposed thereon from a point of view in the identified side of the plane.
US11801110B2
This disclosure relates generally to a device for measuring the volume of a female breast. The disclosure is more particularly comprising of a cup-like template of variable size to embrace a breast to be measured and having an interior wall located in proximity to a breast to be measured and the cup-like template further comprises openings permit passage of excess fluid out of the space between said interior wall and the patient's breast as fluid is injected into said space, a sealing means all around periphery thereof for contact with a patient's skin of the breast to be measured, connector means in said template for passage of a fluid into the space formed between said interior wall and the breast to be measured when the template is sealed against the patient's skin by said sealing means, and a container for measuring the volume of fluid.
US11801082B2
A catheter comprises an expandable spline structure defining a distal tip portion of the catheter. The spline structure comprises a plurality of individual splines, and each spline is configured to support a plurality of energy transfer elements and/or temperature sensors. An expandable balloon configured to be associated with the spline structure is unattached to the spline structure along its length.
US11801076B2
The present invention relates to an improved orthopaedic device for athrodesis, in particular for the arthrodesis or fusion of a joint, for example an ankle joint, of the type comprising of a nail having head and tip ends opposed to each other; at least a first portion of the nail having an axis of symmetry; a single circular first transverse hole made in the first portion near the head of the nail and extended according to its own axis perpendicularly to the axis of symmetry; a slotted second transverse hole still made in the first portion of the nail and extended perpendicular to both the first axis of symmetry; and to the axis of the first transverse hole; and the slotted second transverse hole being made at a greater distance with respect to the head of the nail than the distance from the head of the first transverse hole.
US11801067B2
A cutting balloon catheter including a balloon mounted on a distal portion of a catheter shaft. An expandable frame may be disposed over the balloon. The expandable frame may include a plurality of struts extending from a proximal end region to a distal end region. One or more cutting members may be secured to the expandable frame.
US11801066B2
Various embodiments of the systems, methods and devices are provided for breaking up calcified lesions in an anatomical conduit More specifically, an electrical arc is generated between two spaced-apart electrodes disposed within a fluid-filled balloon, creating a subsonic pressure wave. In some embodiments, the electrodes comprise a plurality of points that allow the electrical arc to form at any one of the plurality of points to, among other things, extend the electrode life.
US11801057B2
An occlusion assembly and its uses in a REBOA procedure is disclosed. The occlusion assembly includes a single elongate shaft having an inflatable balloon, a proximal neck portion, a distal neck portion. The shaft defines a single lumen through which a wire is positioned for support of the shaft and through which an inflation fluid is also passed to inflate the balloon.
US11801055B2
A powered surgical stapler includes a motor unit, a movable member, a controller, a sensor assembly, an anvil, and an opposing deck surface. A method of operating the stapler includes controlling the motor unit to actuate the movable member to move from the open position towards the closed position. The method also includes sensing closure data using the sensor assembly. The closure data includes an initial tissue contact position, a gap formed between the anvil and the opposing deck surface, and an axial force on the anvil. The method also includes communicating the closure data to the controller. The method also includes determining at least one of an adjusted closure rate or an adjusted closure stroke using the closure data. The method also includes controlling the motor unit using at least one of the adjusted closure rate or the adjusted closure stroke.
US11801054B2
A surgical stapling device includes a tool assembly for performing anastomoses procedures. The tool assembly includes a reload assembly and an anvil assembly that have oval configurations to facilitate passage of the tool assembly into a body cavity of a patient with minimal trauma.
US11801053B2
A surgical stapling apparatus includes a handle assembly, an elongate tubular body, a loading unit including an anvil assembly and a staple cartridge assembly, and a reload assembly. The reload assembly includes a staple cartridge releasably disposed within the staple cartridge assembly of the loading unit, a cartridge buttress releasably secured to the staple cartridge, and an anvil buttress including a proximal portion releasably secured to the staple cartridge and a distal portion releasably coupled to the anvil assembly of the loading unit.
US11801045B2
A suture passing device has a curved, slotted shaft with a piercing end and an integral suture grasper, allowing the surgeon to pierce through a first tissue portion with the device and extend a looped portion of monofilament loaded within the shaft into the repair site. The shaft is then rotated so that the monofilament is allowed to fall out of the shaft through the slot. The surgeon then pierces a second tissue portion with the device and extends the suture grasper to capture the looped portion of monofilament. The monofilament is retrieved through the second tissue portion and a suture is passed through the looped portion of the monofilament. Finally, the flexible member is used to pull the suture through the tissue and the suture can be tensioned to close the hip capsule.
US11801041B2
An apparatus for transferring mechanical energy in a handle to a cartridge to manipulate tissue or anatomical structures within the body of a human or animal subject for the purpose of treating diseases or disorders. The handle and cartridge contain safety interlocks.
US11801032B2
An ultrasound probe (10) is disclosed comprising a plurality of transducer elements (66) within a housing (60) and arranged proximal to a subject contact surface (65) of the probe; a plurality of individually addressable light sources (72) mounted in said housing, each of said individually addressable light sources indicating a position of a subset of the plurality of transducer elements relative to said subject contact surface; and a controller (80) arranged to control said plurality of individually addressable light sources in response to a light source selection signal from an ultrasound user console (3). Also disclosed is such an ultrasound user console (3), an ultrasound imaging system (1) comprising the ultrasound probe (10) and the ultrasound user console (3) as well as a method (100) of marking the location of an anatomical feature (7) within a subject with such an ultrasound imaging system (1).
US11801031B2
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: a transmission and reception circuitry configured to perform, via an ultrasound probe, a first ultrasound scan on a first region in a subject who has a contrast agent injected and a second ultrasound scan on at least a part of a second region in the subject overlapping with the first region, the second ultrasound scan including transmitting and receiving two types of ultrasound waves of which one or both of amplitude levels and phases are different from each other; and processing circuitry configured to generate a blood flow image corresponding to one frame by implementing a Doppler method on the basis of a data sequence including reception data obtained from the first ultrasound scan performed multiple times in mutually the same position within the first region to have the second ultrasound scan performed in-between and to generate a contrast-enhanced image based on a result of the second ultrasound scan performed at least one time.
US11801030B2
Predicting gastrointestinal impairment may involve obtaining intestinal sounds of a patient to generate audio data, identifying predefined spectral events in the audio data that are predictive of subsequent gastrointestinal impairment, the spectral events being defined by predefined parameters, and predicting the likelihood of subsequent gastrointestinal impairment relative to the identified spectral events.
US11801022B2
A medical imaging system includes a movable station and a gantry. The movable station includes a gantry mount rotatably attached to the gantry. The gantry includes an outer C-arm slidably mounted to and operable to slide relative to the gantry mount, an inner C-arm slidably coupled to the outer C-arm and, an imaging signal transmitter and sensor attached to the C-arms. The two C-arms work together to provide a full 360 degree rotation of the imaging signal transmitter.
US11801021B2
Interstitial brachytherapy is a cancer treatment in which radioactive material is placed closely to the target tissue of the affected site using an afterloader (HDR-brachytherapy) or manually (LDR- and PDR-brachytherapy). For HDR-brachytherapy, the accuracy of this placement is calibrated using an external reference system that locates the radioactive material according to the radiation levels measured at locations around the source. At each of these locations, a scintillator produces light when irradiated by the radioactive material. This light is proportional to the level of radiation at each location. The light produced by each scintillator is converted to an electrical signal that is proportional to the light and the radiation level at each location. The radioactive material is located according to the plurality of electrical signals.
US11800979B2
An aspect of some embodiments of the present invention relates to a method for determining one or more characteristics of a region of interest. The method includes providing stimulation for exciting the region of interest for a first selected time period; monitoring mechanical response of the region of interest for at least a second time period after said first time period; processing data indicative of said mechanical response, and determining data on one or more measures of motion of the region of interest; utilizing data on one or more measures of motion for yielding at least one damping parameter indicative of damping of the mechanical response of the region of interest, and determining at least one characteristic of the region of interest in accordance with at least one damping parameter.
US11800977B2
A system for obtaining optical coherence tomography of the optical system of a person, comprising: an eyepiece customized for alignment and positioning to contact a person's eye socket and having a lens pocket for receiving a refractive lens customized for the person's eye refraction characteristics; a condensing system for receiving light from the eyepiece; a scanning module optically connected to the condensing system and having a mirror tiltable in two directions for obtaining optical scanning data from the person's optical system; and a spectrometer and camera module optically connected to the scanning module for obtaining and storing the optical scanning data, wherein the eyepiece, condensing system and scanning module are arranged to provide an optical path for delivering a light beam to the person's eye, and receive reflected light to be directed to the scanning module.
US11800964B2
A turbidity sensor for a water-bearing domestic appliance includes a sensor housing having a housing main part and two housing projections protruding from the housing main part side by side and at a distance from one another, where the two housing projections delimit between them a measuring channel for a liquid to be measured. One of the housing projections emits a measuring light beam along a measuring path which runs transversely through the measuring channel to the other housing projection. The measuring path crosses the measuring channel in the channel longitudinal direction remote from a point of smallest channel width of the measuring channel or the measuring channel has a constriction at a longitudinal distance from its longitudinal midpoint, at which constriction the channel width is smaller than in a region of a longitudinal midpoint.
US11800957B2
An air-assisted, gravity feed amenity fluid dispensing system suitable for use with personal care fluids. The system may be embodied in a fluid dispenser including a support structure attachable to a support surface such as a wall and an openable canister supported by the support structure. The canister defines an internal cavity configured for inserting a recyclable container pre-packaged with the personal care fluid, and a fluid dispensing mechanism including an air pump configured to pressurize and dispense the fluid from the container through a dispensing hole in the canister. The air pump may be manually-operated in one embodiment to pump air into the container and dispense fluid each time a user depresses an actuator button. The personal care fluid may alternatively be filled directly into the canister without use of an insertable fluid container. Plural canisters each containing different fluids may be supported by the support structure.
US11800950B2
A multi spout pitcher, each spout having differing physical characteristics allows a user/barista to control the flow stream and energy transfer in mixing liquids to create a mixed beverage and produce a visual design on the beverage surface.
US11800944B2
A clothes hanger is provided that has a fixed or attached support with clips attached which allow a user to slip the collar leaves of a button-down or other shirt into the clips.
US11800935B2
A seating arrangement includes a seat portion, a back portion, a support member caused to move between first and second positions, and a back recline lock arrangement that includes an actuator, a lock member caused to move between a locked position when the actuator is in an engaged position where the lock member prevents the support member from moving from the first position toward the second position, and an unlocked position when the actuator is in a disengaged position, and wherein the actuator is configured to move from the disengaged position to the engaged position when the chair back is in the reclined position, and the lock member is prevented from moving from the unlocked position to the locked position until the back assembly is moved from the reclined position to the upright position.
US11800931B1
The present disclosure relates to a folding chair framework, including a connecting seat, a guide rod, a guide sleeve, several chair legs, several supporting rods, several connecting rods, a first spring, a second spring, and wedge-shaped blocks; upper ends of the chair legs are all hinged with the connecting seat; the guide rod is vertically arranged and connected to the connecting seat; the guide sleeve is slidably connected to the guide rod; each connecting rod is hinged with the guide sleeve and one chair leg respectively; upper and lower ends of the first spring are respectively connected to the connecting seat and the guide sleeve; the wedge-shaped blocks are slidably connected into first grooves of the guide rod; two ends of the second spring are respectively connected to the first grooves and the wedge-shaped blocks; the guide sleeve includes an inner sleeve and an outer sleeve.
US11800927B1
A desktop workspace that adjusts vertically includes a work surface platform, a base configured to sit on an existing platform, such as a desk, a height adjustable mechanism including at least one set of arms that connect at a pivot point(s) creating a scissoring motion to raise and lower the said work surface platform to various heights. A locking and unlocking mechanism may connect to the height adjustable mechanism. In some cases, the apparatus includes an adjustable mechanism to support items such as a keyboard. In some cases, the apparatus includes elements to raise items such as a monitor to an additional height.
US11800925B2
Systems, methods, and devices for efficient and user-friendly transport of materials from a first substrate to a second substrate are described. Systems can include a first substrate vessel configured to hold a first substrate to be cleaned or extracted, a transport media delivery system in fluid communication with the first substrate vessel, and a catchment system. The transport media delivery system delivers a fluid transport medium, which may include a fluid in a supercritical phase, to the first substrate vessel. The fluid transport medium removes particles from the first substrate and carries the particles to the catchment system, where the particles can be exhausted to the atmosphere or deposited onto a second substrate such as a filter or disposal tray.
US11800915B2
This invention relates to portable heating systems that utilize a portable fuel source. Portable heating systems of the invention generally include a regulator that is configured to vaporize fuel released from a cartridge and to transfer the vaporized fuel to a burner for ignition.
US11800914B2
An apparatus for carrying foldable footwear that comprises a drawstring pouch having a side pocket that reversibly adjusts between undrawn and drawn states. When undrawn, the pouch is characterized by an opening at the top of the pouch that is dimensioned and configured for receiving a pair of foldable shoes in an interior of the pouch. When drawn, the pouch is characterized by a drawstring arranged on the upper portion sealing off the opening, thereby concealing the interior of the pouch. The apparatus further comprises a collapsible tote bag removably inserted in the side pocket, where the tote bag is configured to reversibly convert between unfolded and folded states. When unfolded, the tote bag is characterized by an interior portion that receives a pair of unfolded shoes, where the interior portion further includes a storage pocket. When folded, the tote bag is completely contained within the second pocket.
US11800908B2
A protection device that provides improved protection against damage to the underlying product. The protection device includes silk impact pillows that absorb energy from low or high impacts. The present disclosure provides the ability to adjust a plurality of attributes: 1) pillow stiffness, 2) cocoon density; and 3) cocoon height, to construct a pillow of a desired impact resistance.
US11800906B2
An athletic glove is disclosed having a high-grip surface on the palm side of the glove. The high-grip surface is formed from a panel of high-adherence material and comprises an embossed pattern that is configured to provide a high-grip surface while maintaining high tactile feedback or “feel” of the item being grasped, while maintaining maximum flexibility in the hand so as to not impede the wearer's ability to conform their hand to the intended shape when varying their grip on the item being grasped. The high-grip or high-adherence surface is formed of a high friction flexible polymer, such as silicone. To further aid in providing a high-grip configuration that maintains maximum tactile feedback and flexibility for the wearer, the embossed pattern provided on the palm side of the glove employs separate, thin (preferably about 0.35 mm in thickness) pads that are separated from one another by a small distance to maximize flexibility of the high-grip surface and to provide moisture flow channels along the palm surface of the glove. The top side of the glove (i.e., the side opposite the palm) is preferably formed of a stretchable fabric for comfort of the wearer.
US11800901B2
A brassiere and associated method of manufacture is presented. A graticulate support member is producible by additive printing. The graticulate support member may be positioned between each of a first cup cover and a second cup cover of the brassiere. The graticulate support member may include a thickness gradient devised to maintain rigidity of the formed cup from a maximum thickness medially centered at a first edge of the graticulate support member towards a minimum thickness realized at the extremity of a second edge.
US11800900B2
An e-vaping case includes a housing, a guide structure, a cartridge receiving portion connected to the guide structure, and an electronics system in the housing. The cartridge receiving portion is configured to be moved along the guide structure between a first surface and a second surface of the housing. The electronics system includes a power supply that is configured to initiate a transfer of power to an electrical contact structure if the cartridge receiving portion is moved towards the first surface of the housing to at least a first position of the housing. The electronics system is configured to interrupt the transfer of power to the electrical contact structure if the cartridge receiving portion is moved towards the second surface of the housing. An electronic vaping device may include a cartridge detachably coupled to the cartridge receiving portion.
US11800899B2
An aerosol generating apparatus comprises: a power source; a load configured to have an electric resistance value that varies according to a temperature and atomize an aerosol source or heat a flavor source when supplied with power from the power source; a feed circuit that is electrically connected to the power source and the load and includes a voltage conversion unit capable of converting an output voltage of the power source and outputting the converted output voltage to the load; and a control unit configured to acquire a measurement value corresponding to a current value of a current flowing through the load and control power supply to the load, wherein, in accordance with the measurement value, the control unit controls the feed circuit such that the measurement value becomes smaller than the target value or values included in the target range.
US11800897B2
A sublimation device with an actuator body to enable modulated vapor production and including a heating bowl and a heating tip with complementary shapes.
US11800888B2
Improvements to a juice extraction machine, particularly a commercial-scale fruit juice extraction machine that is extremely light and compact for very easy handling and transportation, which is noteworthy for its unusual construction configuration that includes, among other items, a swing-lidded waste-bin on its front whose walls are close to the peeler cups when closed, allowing easy removal of wastes such as pith, pulp and peel when open. The invention comprises a fruit-rack sub-set (1) with a curved concave cross-section whose movement is synchronized with the axle (51) that powers the mobile peeler (2), such fruit-rack (1) being attached to the mobile peeler sub-set (2) through slots (3) and with the machine including a cross-spring (4) attached at the bottom of the feeder/dispenser pipe (5), with such cross-spring (4) having a means of activation (6) located on the fruit-rack sub-set (1); the improved machine (M) comprises a swing-lidded waste-bin (7) on its front part, with such swing-lidded waste-bin (7) having substantially semi-circular sides (8) close to the mobile (2) and fixed (2B) peelers and with the mobile peeler (2) connected to a gear-motor sub-set (31) and the fixed peeler (2B) concatenate with the filter and piston sub-set (67) assembled in the fixed peeler (2B).
US11800887B2
Provided herein are compositions with enhanced protein content, proteins with high solubility, protein combinations and methods for the preparation thereof.
US11800873B2
The invention relates to the use of a crushed material obtained from at least one part of rocket plants, for example of the genera Eruca (Eruca Eruca vesicaria, etc.), Diplotaxis (Diplotaxis erucoides, Diplotaxis tenuifolia, Diplotaxis muralis, etc.), Bunias (Bunias erucago, Bunias orientalis, etc.), Erucastrum (Erucastrum nasturtiifolium, Erucastrum incanum, etc.) or Cakile, in order to promote plant growth or root growth.
US11800871B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel strain for inhibiting a Chinese cabbage soft rot disease from microorganisms isolated from samples of a bacillus source of soil polluted with a soft-rot disease, a culture medium and crude extract using the culture medium, an environmentally friendly plant disease control agent using same, and a method for utilizing same as an environment-friendly preparation biopesticide by using same as a raw material. The present disclosure also relates to a control method for treating soils or plants using an environmentally friendly Chinese cabbage soft-rot disease control agent through various formulation methods by using the strain, a culture medium thereof, and a crude extract thereof.
US11800869B2
6-oxo-1,4,5,6 tetrahydropyridazine-3-carboxylic acid or its salts or 1-methyl 6-oxo-1,4,5,6-tetrahydropyridizin-3-carboxylic acid or its salts, to plants can cause an increase in parameters such as germination, seedling emergence, growth, drought tolerance and recovery, yield, rhizobia induced root nodulation as compared to untreated wild type plants. 1-Methyl 6-oxo-1,4,5,6 tetrahydropyridazine-3-carboxylic acid or its salts is chemically the simplest 1-alkyl 6-oxo-1,4,5,6-tetrahydropyridazine-3-carboxylic acid and as such is an example showing the effectiveness of a 1-alkyl 6-oxo-1,4,5,6 tetrahydropyridazine-3-carboxylic acid. Higher series derivatives such as 1-alkyl 6-oxo-1,4,5,6 tetrahydropyridazine-3-carboxylic acids also induce beneficial effects on treated plants.
US11800863B2
Pest-management apparatuses and related methods. At least some of the present pest-management apparatuses comprise: a base, a lid coupled to the base such that the lid is movable between open and closed positions, where the base and lid define a chamber when the lid is in the closed position; a pest-capture device disposable within the chamber and having a capture element that is movable between set and capture positions; and an elongated indicator configured to extend through an opening in the lid when the lid is in the closed position.
US11800858B2
The present invention relates to: A schizophrenia animal model wherein the model is a mouse in which an anoctamin 1 (ANO1) gene is knocked out in cholinergic neurons of a medial habenula; and a preparation method therefor and the like. The schizophrenia animal model according to the present invention targets the medial habenula which is brain tissue playing a major role in the pathogenesis of schizophrenia, and it has been confirmed that when the ANO1 gene is specifically knocked out in the cholinergic neurons of the medial habenula, positive, negative and cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia are observed, thereby confirming that schizophrenia has been induced. Therefore, the animal model of the present invention is expected to be effectively useful in schizophrenia pathogenesis research and therapeutic agent development and screening.
US11800853B2
A pet toy includes a first ring section and a second ring section. The first ring section includes a first body with an outer peripheral surface, and a connector. The first body is rigid and includes a groove. The second ring section includes a second body connected to the first body by the connector. The second body is at least partially elastic and sized and configured to be removably positioned within at least a portion of the groove.
US11800849B2
One variation of a method for selectively serving primary reinforcers to an animal includes: accessing a set of characteristics of an animal and estimating a target caloric intake of the animal based on the set of characteristics; identifying a type of primary reinforcer loaded into a training apparatus configured to dispense units of the primary reinforcer based on behaviors performed by the animal responsive to commands output by the training apparatus; in response to identifying the type of primary reinforcer as a first primary reinforcer, loading a first nutrient profile for the first primary reinforcer; and, in response to the first nutrient profile specifying a first caloric density of units of the first primary reinforcer, loading a first training protocol for a first training session for the animal onto the training apparatus based on the target caloric intake of the animal.
US11800846B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011170. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011170, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011170 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011170.
US11800841B1
A gardening appliance includes a liner positioned within a cabinet and defining a grow chamber, a grow tower rotatably mounted within the liner and defining a root chamber, a hydration system comprising a water supply tank for storing water, a supply conduit fluidly coupling the water supply tank to a discharge nozzle, a supply pump for selectively urging the water through the discharge nozzle and a water level sensor operably coupled to the water supply tank. A controller obtains a water level of the water in the water supply tank using the water level sensor, determines a conservative water supply schedule based at least in part on the water level, and operates the hydration system to provide the water in accordance with the conservative water supply schedule, the conservative water supply schedule providing the water at a slower average hydration rate relative to the standard water supply schedule.
US11800840B2
An alignment control system for controlling an alignment of a plurality of mobile towers, each mobile tower supporting a section of conduit in an irrigation system comprises a plurality of tower angle measurement devices and a control processing element. Each tower angle measurement device is associated with a successive one of the mobile towers and is configured to measure an angle value which varies according to a rotation angle of the associated mobile tower relative to one or more of the other mobile towers. The control processing element is configured or programmed to receive the angle value from each tower angle measurement device, compare the angle value to a threshold angle value, and generate and transmit control signals, data, or both that include an activation hysteresis value to a drive motor associated with each mobile tower that has an angle value greater than the threshold angle value.
US11800837B2
A new turfgrass APMT 005 (ATCC Accession No. PTA-126634). A method of over-seeding dormant warm season grasses, including over-seeding the warm season grass with Turf Type Festulolium (American Ryegrass) such that the American Ryegrass will provide a green cover during the winter months but will die out when the temperatures increase to the point which allow the warm-season grass to regrow. A method to maintain green coverage of turf year-round including planting a warm season grass, and over-seeding the warm season grass with American Ryegrass. The method where the American Ryegrass is APMT005.
US11800836B2
A device and a method for bagging a fruit or a vegetable on a tree, the device includes two arms of a hoop shape profile to which are provided spaced apart fasteners on inner surfaces thereof. A bag at its opening periphery can be releasably mounted to the two arms through the fasteners. The bag has a drawstring with a lock, wherein the lock is immobilized in a cutout provided in the device and a leading end of the drawstring passing through the lock can extend further. A loop of the leading end of the drawstring is hooked to a hook that is coupled to a cord. The cord can be pulled to tighten the drawstring and thus the opening of the bag.
US11805715B2
A photoconductive switch that uses materials that support negative differential mobility, whose operation leverages the pulse compression of a charge could to generate the “on” time of the pulse in combination with the speed of light to generate the “off” time of the pulse, is described. In one example, a method of operating a photoconductive switch, which includes two electrodes and a light absorbing material positioned therebetween, includes selecting a value for one or more parameters comprising a voltage for generation of an electric field, a spot size of a laser pulse, a temporal pulse width of the laser pulse, or an intensity of the laser pulse, wherein the selected value(s) for the one or more parameters enable the switch to operate in a region where the light absorbing material exhibits negative differential mobility, and illuminating the light absorbing material with the laser pulse to generate a charge cloud within the light absorbing material.
US11805706B2
A magnetoresistance effect element includes: a laminate body including a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a non-magnetic layer located between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer; and a spin-orbit torque wiring connected to the laminate body. A second surface opposite to a first surface of the spin-orbit torque wiring in contact with the laminate body is curved in a first direction orthogonal to a direction in which the laminate body is laminated.
US11805698B2
According to one embodiment, a power generation element, includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a crystal member. A direction from the second conductive layer toward the first conductive layer is along a first direction. The crystal member is provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive member. The crystal member includes a crystal pair. The crystal pair includes a first crystal part and a second crystal part. A second direction from the first crystal part toward the second crystal part crosses the first direction. A gap is provided between the first crystal part and the second crystal part. The first conductive layer is electrically connected to the first crystal part. The second conductive layer is electrically connected to the second crystal part.
US11805695B2
An organic electroluminescence device of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the emission layer includes a polycyclic compound represented by Formula 1, and long-life device characteristics may be shown.
US11805690B2
A display device includes: a first substrate including a first region, a second region adjacent to the first region, and a third region adjacent to the second region; a plurality of emission layers on the first substrate; a first anti-reflection layer on the plurality of emission layers, and to transmit a first colored light; a second anti-reflection layer on the plurality of emission layers, and to transmit a second colored light and a third colored light that are different from the first colored light; and a second substrate on the first anti-reflection layer and the second anti-reflection layer.
US11805684B2
A display device includes: a base layer having a first area and a second area adjacent to the first area; a plurality of pixels on the first area of the base layer; a power line configured to supply the plurality of pixels with power; a power pattern on the second area and electrically connected to the power line; and a protrusion on the second area, the protrusion surrounding at least a portion of the first area and including a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion on the first protruding portion, wherein the power pattern includes an overlapping portion between the first protruding portion and the second protruding portion, the overlapping portion having an opening.
US11805683B2
A display device including a partition wall disposed on a substrate between a first electrode and a second electrode. The partition wall has an opening. A light emitting layer is disposed in the opening. An auxiliary layer having lyophobicity is disposed between the partition wall and the second electrode.
US11805680B2
A light-emitting diode display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and an organic light-emitting diode display device are provided. The light-emitting diode display panel includes: a base substrate including a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region; a plurality of sub-pixels located in the display region and located at a side of the base substrate; a color-resistance layer located at a side of a second electrode in the sub-pixel away from the base substrate; and a light-blocking structure located in the peripheral region and being an annular structure surrounding the plurality of sub-pixels. The light-blocking structure includes a first light-blocking structure and a second light-blocking structure. The first light-blocking structure includes at least one interval extending in a direction from the display region pointing to the peripheral region. The second light-blocking structure at least fully fills the interval.
US11805677B2
A display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a first electrode, a light-emitting functional layer, and a second electrode. The light-emitting functional layer includes a first functional layer and a second functional layer, an orthographic projection of an edge of the second functional layer on the base substrate is within an orthographic projection of an edge of the first functional layer on the base substrate, and an area of an orthographic projection of the second functional layer on the base substrate is smaller than an area of an orthographic projection of the first functional layer on the base substrate; and the second electrode covers and is in contact with at least one side surface of the light-emitting functional layer and a portion of a surface of the light-emitting functional layer away from the base substrate.
US11805670B2
This disclosure provides a packaging structure for a display substrate, a packaging method and a display device. The packaging structure for the display substrate includes a base substrate, a light-emitting device arranged on the base substrate, and a packaging thin film covering the light-emitting device. The packaging thin film includes an inorganic thin film and an organic thin film that are laminated, and the organic thin film is arranged on a surface of the inorganic thin film away from the base substrate. The packaging thin film includes a central region and a peripheral region surrounding the central region, the inorganic thin film located in the central region has surface energy greater than that of the inorganic thin film in the peripheral region, and the organic thin film in the central region has a thickness less than that of the organic thin film in the peripheral region.
US11805668B2
A display substrate is provided. The display substrate has a display region and a non-display region disposed around the display region and the display substrate includes a base substrate and a barrier structure disposed on a side of the base substrate. The barrier structure is disposed in the non-display region, and the barrier structure includes a metal structure and a protective layer which are arranged on the substrate in sequence and the protective layer covers the metal structure.
US11805659B2
Disclosed is a magnetic memory device including a first magnetic pattern that extends in a first direction and has a magnetization direction fixed in one direction, and a plurality of second magnetic patterns that extend across the first magnetic pattern. The second magnetic patterns extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction and are spaced apart from each other in the first direction. Each of the second magnetic patterns includes a plurality of magnetic domains that are spaced apart from each other in the second direction.
US11805645B2
Some embodiments include a structure having an opening extending into an integrated configuration. A first material is within the opening, and is configured to create an undulating topography relative to a sidewall of the opening. The undulating topography has a surface roughness characterized by a mean roughness parameter Rmean which is the mean peak-to-valley distance along the undulating topography. The Rmean is at least about 4 nm. A second material is within the opening and along at least a portion of the undulating topography. The first and second materials are compositionally different from one another. Some embodiments include integrated assemblies. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US11805638B2
Apparatuses including a first-in first-out circuit are described. An example apparatus includes: a first-in first-out circuit including a first latch, a second latch and a logic circuit coupled in series. The first latch receives first data and latches the first data responsive to a first input pointer signal. The second latch receives the latched first data from the first latch and latches the received first data responsive to a second input pointer signal that has a different phase from the first input pointer signal and thus provides a second data. The logic circuit receives the second data and an output pointer signal and further provides an output data responsive to the output pointer signal.
US11805637B2
The memory capacity of a DRAM is enhanced. A semiconductor memory device includes a driver circuit including part of a single crystal semiconductor substrate, a multilayer wiring layer provided over the driver circuit, and a memory cell array layer provided over the multilayer wiring layer. That is, the memory cell array overlaps with the driver circuit. Accordingly, the integration degree of the semiconductor memory device can be increased as compared to the case where a driver circuit and a memory cell array are provided in the same plane of a substrate containing a singe crystal semiconductor material.
US11805633B2
According to various embodiments, provided is an electrical element transfer apparatus comprising: a fixing jig in which each of a plurality of electrical elements is arranged at a predetermined interval; a movement jig movably arranged at an upper part of the fixing jig, and including a plurality of first accommodating grooves for accommodating at least a part of each of the plurality of electrical elements; and an attraction device arranged around the movable jig and attaching each of the plurality of electrical elements through the movable jig to the first accommodating groove of the movable jig through magnetic force. Additional various embodiments are possible.
US11805630B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate, including: a display area and a bonding area positioned on a side of the display area, the bonding area includes a plurality of bonding sub-areas arranged at intervals, the bonding sub-areas are arranged along a direction in which an edge of the display area extends and configured for bonding a chip-on-film, where a first antistatic layer is further arranged on the bonding area, at least a part of the first antistatic layer is positioned between adjacent ones of the bonding sub-areas, and the first antistatic layer is electrically coupled to a reference signal terminal. The present disclosure further provides a display device.
US11805611B2
An electronic device of the present invention comprises: an exterior housing including a first surface facing a first direction, and a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction; a display of which at least a part is exposed through the first surface; and a polymer plate which forms at least a part of the second surface of the housing. The polymer plate comprises: at least one opaque layer; at least one polymer layer that is translucent or transparent and is disposed on the at least one opaque layer; and a coating layer that is disposed on the at least one polymer layer and has a hardness greater than or equal to a selected hardness. Each of the at least one opaque layer, the at least one polymer layer, and the coating layer may comprise a first surface, and a second surface extending from the first surface so that at least a part thereof is bent. Other embodiments are also possible.
US11805590B2
Remote control devices may control electrical loads and/or load control devices of a load control system without accessing electrical wiring. The remote control device may be mounted over a mechanical switch that is installed in a wallbox. The remote control device may include a control unit and a faceplate assembly. The faceplate assembly may include a mounting frame, an adapter plate, and a faceplate. The mounting frame may be configured to abut a bezel of the mechanical switch such that that the faceplate is spaced away from the bezel of the mechanical switch to enable the mounting ring to extend through respective openings in the adapter plate and the faceplate.
US11805588B1
Systems and methods for producing a lighting design for an event at a venue. One system includes a lighting fixture configured to project a light beam, an input device configured to receive a user input, and a controller including an electronic processor and a memory. The controller is configured to determine a path of the light beam, receive a first user input indicating a target of interest, and receive a second user input assigning a characteristic to the target of interest. The controller is configured to detect a collision between the path of the light beam and the target of interest, determine, in response to the collision, whether to project light onto the target of interest based on the characteristic, and control the lighting fixture to project the light beam on the target of interest.
US11805578B2
The disclosure discloses a microwave processing equipment for continuous flow liquids, and belongs to the technical field of microwave processing. The microwave processing equipment includes a feed preheating section, a microwave heating section and a cooling section. The microwave heating section includes a microwave generation system, a waveguide system, tuners, and a microwave absorption cavity. The waveguide system includes at least two waveguides. Each waveguide is installed at the microwave feed port formed in the outer wall of the microwave absorption cavity according to a predetermined angle greater than or equal to 15° and less than 90°.
US11805577B2
An induction cooker includes a first coil, a second coil, a third coil, and a controller. Responsive to determining that a heating target placed above a first coil is formed of a magnetic material, a heating target placed above a second coil is formed of a magnetic material or a composite containing a magnetic material and a non-magnetic material, and a heating target placed above a third coil is formed of a non-magnetic material, the controller stops an operation of a first inverter circuit, causes a second inverter circuit and a third inverter circuit to operate, and sets a frequency of a third high-frequency current to be higher than a frequency of a second high-frequency current.
US11805558B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for synchronized channel access. Some implementations more specifically relate to facilitating coexistence among wireless communication devices that support synchronized channel access and those that do not. A group of access points may schedule periodically recurring, synchronized channel access periods by periodically transmitting quiet elements. The quiet elements establish recurring quiet periods during which legacy devices are not permitted to transmit. In some implementations, an access point may transmit one or more quiet override elements each associated with a respective quiet element and indicating to other access points supporting synchronized channel access that they are permitted to contend for access during the respective quiet period. In some other implementations of synchronized channel access, an access point supporting synchronized channel access that wins contention after one or more consecutive synchronized channel access periods during which no other synchronized access points won contention, may be entitled to an extended TXOP.
US11805551B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for providing energy detection based resolution in radio access technologies. In one aspect, a wireless communication device may include a first energy detection threshold (EDT) to identify a transmission opportunity in an unlicensed frequency band. The wireless communication device may detect a second wireless communication device having a second EDT to identify the transmission opportunity, the second EDT being greater than the first EDT. The wireless communication device may, based on detection of the second wireless communication device having the second EDT, modify a transmission configuration of the first wireless communication device.
US11805545B2
A network node is configured for transmitting a mobile-terminated early data transmission during a random-access procedure. The network node transmits a page having a contention-free preamble corresponding to an identity associated with a wireless device to be paged. The identity may be a Serving Temporary Mobile Subscriber Identity, S-TMSI, or a resume identity that identifies a suspended Radio Resource Control, RRC, connection. The network node then receives, as part of the random-access procedure, a Msg1 transmission that includes the contention-free preamble. The network node next transmits, as part of the random-access procedure, a Msg2 transmission to the wireless device associated with the identity corresponding to the contention-free preamble. The Msg2 transmission includes a signaling message and downlink data.
US11805539B2
Provided are a method for operating user equipment (UE) having multiple serving cells set therefor in a wireless communication system and UE using the method. The method comprises: receiving a higher-level signal indicating a mapping between the values of the serving cell index (ServingCellID) of a serving cell and a carrier index field (CIF); and identifying the serving cell on the basis of the higher-level signal.
US11805537B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for multiple resource allocation mode configurations. One method includes receiving information indicating a plurality of resource allocation mode configurations. Each resource allocation mode configuration corresponds to a logical channel of a plurality of logical channels. The method includes determining a plurality of data transmission scheduling modes for the plurality of logical channels. Each data transmission scheduling mode corresponds to a logical channel of the plurality of logical channels based a resource allocation mode configuration of the logical channel, and each data transmission scheduling mode comprises: a first scheduling mode; a second scheduling mode different from the first scheduling mode; or a third scheduling mode comprising the first scheduling mode and the second scheduling mode. The method includes transmitting a buffer status report based on the plurality of the data transmission scheduling modes.
US11805534B2
Provided is random access method, performed by terminal for uplink data transmission during random access process between cellular based machine communication terminal and base station. The method includes performing random access process between cellular based machine communication terminal and base station, and the random access process includes selecting random access resource by considering coverage level and whether to support multi-tone transmission or not. Terminal can perform efficient random access process in response to coverage level, subcarrier spacing configuration, multi-tone configuration when machine communication terminal or machine communication device which operates in cellular based IoT system perform random access, number of repetition may be increased, when coverage level is changed, by minimizing the change in coverage level, and operation time of the terminal, due to standing by up to PRACH resource corresponding to the coverage level, may be reduced to reduce energy consumption and to enhance delay time performance.
US11805532B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and device performing input bit allocation that includes receiving broadcasting information bits, generating timing related bits for the broadcasting information bits, and selecting a portion of the generated timing related bits. The method and device can further include allocating each of the selected timing related bits to selected input bits of an encoder, so that each of the selected timing related bits is allocated to an input bit of the encoder corresponding to an available bit channel of the encoder where the selected inputs bits of the encoder correspond to encoded bits that are located in a front portion of the encoded bits.
US11805527B2
According to certain embodiments, a method by a wireless device is provided for performing logical channel prioritization (LCP) by a wireless device. The method includes selecting a set of logical channels based on one or more logical channel restrictions. The method further includes determining at least one logical channel of the set of logical channels to serve.
US11805526B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to multiplexing uplink control channel signals from different users are provided. A first wireless communication device obtains an uplink control channel multiplex configuration indicating a first frequency spreading sequence and at least one of a second frequency spreading sequence or a first spatial direction. The first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, a first uplink control channel signal including a first reference signal and a first uplink control information signal in a frequency spectrum based on the uplink control channel multiplex configuration. The first reference signal is based on the first frequency spreading sequence and the first uplink control information signal is based on at least one of the second frequency spreading sequence or the first spatial direction.
US11805517B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) or a base station may be configured to indicate that a transmission occasion is empty while operating in a full-duplex mode. In some examples, the UE may transmit, to the base station, an indication that an uplink transmission occasion (for example, a configured grant transmission occasion) will not be used by the UE for transmitting an uplink communication. In some other examples, the base station may transmit, to the UE, an indication a downlink transmission occasion (for example, semi-persistent scheduling transmission occasion) will not be used by the base station for transmitting a downlink communication. If uplink or downlink transmission occasions are empty, the UE and the base station may each update parameters to operate in a half-duplex mode.
US11805514B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for autonomous uplink (UL) cancellation. A method that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving one or more configurations scheduling a communication with at least one base station (BS), wherein the one or more configurations schedule a UL transmission and a DL transmission such that the UL transmission and the DL transmission overlap in a time domain, determining whether to cancel at least a portion of the UL transmission based on one or more conditions associated with the UL transmission or the DL transmission, wherein the determination of whether to cancel at least the portion of the UL transmission is in response to the UL transmission and the DL transmission overlapping in the time domain, and performing the communication based on the determination, in accordance with aspects of the present disclosure.
US11805503B2
Proposed herein is a method and device for setting limited RUs and MRUs in a WLAN system. More specifically, a receiving STA receives a PPDU from a transmitting STA through a preset frequency band, and decodes the PPDU. The receiving STA is an STA operating only in a 20 MHz band. The PPDU includes a preamble and a data field. The data field is received through resources other than the first RU and the first MRU among the preset frequency band.
US11805502B2
Aspects described herein relate to receiving, from a base station on a first subband of an unlicensed frequency band, control information that includes a resource allocation of an uplink transmission associated with the first UE and a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) configuration of a downlink transmission associated with a second UE. The apparatus also may obtain one or more measurements of a DMRS within channel activity on a second subband of the unlicensed frequency band using a listen-before-talk (LBT) operation based on the DMRS configuration. The apparatus also may determine whether the channel activity corresponds to the downlink transmission associated with the second UE based on the one or more measurements of the DMRS within the channel activity. The apparatus also may communicate, with the base station on the second subband, the uplink transmission when the channel activity corresponds to the downlink transmission associated with the second UE.
US11805501B2
A method in a radio device of radio resource allocation for transmitting data on a plurality of communication carriers is provided. The method includes sensing on a first carrier and obtaining a first set of candidate radio resources for a first transmission on the first carrier, performing a first selection of one or a plurality of the candidate radio resources from the first set to be used for the first transmission, sensing on a second carrier and obtaining a second set of candidate radio resources for a second transmission on the second carrier, performing a second selection of one or a plurality of the candidate radio resources from the second set to be used for the second transmission, and performing the first selection and the second selection in dependency to each other.
US11805499B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for increasing diversity of transmissions with slot aggregation using slot-specific cyclic delay diversity (CDD). A method that may be performed by a transmitting device includes determining to transmit a signal using cyclic delay diversity (CDD) in a plurality of slots; and transmitting the signal using a different cyclic delay in each slot of the plurality of slots.
US11805487B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a wireless communication method and device, capable of performing appropriate power control of a sounding reference signal (SRS). The method comprises: according to a first uplink signal, a first downlink signal, a first beam or a first beam pair corresponding to an SRS resource group, determining a target path loss value for an SRS resource of the SRS resource group; according to the target path loss value, determining a target transmission power for the SRS resource of the SRS resource group; and according to the target transmission power, transmitting an SRS to a network device on the SRS resource of the SRS resource group.
US11805478B2
One example method includes receiving, by a network slice selection function network element, a first message from a mobility management network element, where the first message includes network slice selection assistance information (NSSAI) subscribed to by a terminal and slice subscription information of n third-party service providers (SPs) corresponding to the NSSAI subscribed to by the terminal, and slice subscription information of a third-party SP comprises a first identifier. The network slice selection function network element can obtain, based on the first identifier, first mapping information corresponding to each third-party SP. The network slice selection function network element can determine allowed NSSAI for the terminal based on the NSSAI subscribed to by the terminal and the first mapping information, where the allowed NSSAI is used to indicate one or more network slices that the terminal is allowed to access in a visited network of the terminal.
US11805477B2
A method of wireless communication at a user equipment (UE), including: generating a first set of frequencies to search for signals from at least one candidate cell from which the UE may receive wireless service with respect to a first subscriber identity module (SIM); generating a second set of frequencies to search for signals from the at least one candidate cell from which the UE may receive wireless service with respect to the first SIM; scanning for one or more signals from the at least one candidate cell including tuning a first transceiver configured to operate in accordance with the first SIM to one or more of the first set frequencies; and scanning for one or more signals from the at least one candidate cell including tuning a second transceiver configured to operate in accordance with a second SIM to one or more of the second set of frequencies.
US11805468B2
A probe request sent by at least one second router is received. A router to be networked is determined from the at least one second router according to the probe request. A networking request carrying networking matching information is returned to the router to be networked. Wireless access of the first router is enabled. The networking matching information is provided to the router to be networked for networking matching. After the router to be networked has enabled wireless access of the router to be networked based on the networking request, networking is completed by establishing, based on wireless access of the first router and wireless access of the router to be networked, a connection with the router to be networked.
US11805459B2
Some aspects described herein relate to determining to fallback from a first radio access technology (RAT) to a second RAT to perform an emergency call, and deprioritizing, based on the determining to fallback, access to the first RAT to continue to use the second RAT for at least a period of time after the emergency call.
US11805455B2
Embodiments include methods for a first node, configured to provide a serving cell to a user equipment (UE) in a radio access network, to determine core network types supported by a second node configured to provide neighbor cell(s) of the serving cell. Such embodiments include determining that a first cell identifier associated with a particular one of the neighbor cells is not included in a neighbor relations table maintained by the first node. Such embodiments also include sending, to the UE, a request to report a second cell identifier associated with the particular neighbor cell, the request including the first cell identifier. Such embodiments also include determining one or more core network types supported by the particular neighbor cell based on the content of a report from the UE. Other embodiments include complementary methods performed by a UE, as well as network nodes and UEs configured to perform such methods.
US11805444B2
Systems and methods relate to a Self-Organizing Network (SON) that makes changes to operating parameters for the purpose of load balancing, to increase data communication throughput and capacity. A device may determine load balancing ratios and unused throughput for a first frequency band and a second frequency band for a cell site. The device may also determine, based on the load balancing ratios and the unused throughputs, whether a load balancing procedure for the cell site should be performed to increase a traffic throughput at the cell site.
US11805441B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a group communication method, system, group server, and group member device. A group server receives notification messages sent by a group member device, aggregates, according to an address of a subscription device, the notification messages destined for the same subscription device, and sends a notification message obtained after aggregation to the subscription device.
US11805437B2
A frequency measurement method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is provided. The frequency measurement method includes: receiving a radio resource control (RRC) release message or system information including first frequency measurement configuration information for frequency measurement in an RRC inactive mode; performing frequency measurement in the RRC inactive mode based on the first frequency measurement configuration information; receiving first RRC resume message including an indicator requesting a measurement report in the RRC inactive mode; and transmitting an RRC resume complete message including the measurement report based on the indicator.
US11805432B2
Technology for a user equipment (UE), operable for monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is disclosed. The UE can monitor a downlink (DL) control channel for DL control information (DCI) at a predetermined monitoring occasion, wherein the predetermined monitoring occasion has a periodicity of P slots or P symbols with an offset Os. The UE can monitor a downlink (DL) control channel for DL control information (DCI) at a predetermined monitoring occasion, wherein Os has an offset with respect to a first slot in subframe number zero (SFN #0). The UE can monitor a downlink (DL) control channel for DL control information (DCI) at a predetermined monitoring occasion, wherein P is a positive integer greater than zero.
US11805431B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for link adaptation in wireless communications. Some implementations more specifically relate to transmitter-based modulation and coding scheme (MCS) selection. A transmitting device transmits a test packet, over a wireless channel, to a receiving device. The receiving device generates one or more signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) estimates for the wireless channel based on the received sounding packet. In some aspects, each SINR estimate may be associated with a particular modulation order. In some other aspects, each SINR estimate may be generated based on a transmitter configuration or a receiver type to be used for subsequent communications between the transmitting device and the receiving device. The receiving device transmits feedback, including the SINR estimates, to the transmitting device. The transmitting device then selects an MCS to be used for subsequent communications with the receiving device based on the SINR estimates and associated modulation orders.
US11805424B2
One or more systems and methods for wireless equipment deployment are provided herein. Imagery of locations depicting structures within a list of structures is analyzed to identify features of the structures within the locations. Ranks may be calculated for the structures based upon structure scores and installation scores calculated from the features. In response to a rank for a structure exceeding a threshold, wireless equipment deployment of a communication device may be triggered so that the communication device is controlled to exchange communication signals with devices proximate the structure.
US11805421B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US11805412B2
In some implementations, a user equipment may provide an authentication request, including a detection code associated with a subscriber identification and an authentication identifier, to a subscription manager. The user equipment may receive, via a mobile network operator, an authentication response that includes an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) identifier (EID) based on providing the authentication request. The user equipment may generate, based on an activation code generated based on the authentication response, an activation request that includes the EID. The user equipment may provide the activation request to activate a wireless communication service that is provided by the mobile network operator.
US11805405B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first data, determining, based on the obtaining, a likelihood that the first data will be selected for use, and storing, based on the determining indicating that the likelihood is less than a first threshold, the first data in a storage device, wherein the storage device stores a plurality of data, and wherein the plurality of data is accessed from the storage device in an amount that is less than a second threshold, the second threshold being less than 5%. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11805391B2
Embodiments described herein relate to anonymizing of trajectories of mobile devices. Methods may include: receiving an input chunk of probe data points, where the input chunk includes probe data points spanning an input duration, where the input chunk represents at least a first input portion of a trajectory; generating, based at least in part on the input chunk, an output chunk of one or more probe data points, where the output chunk includes one or more probe data points spanning an output duration, where the output duration is different from the input duration, where the output chunk represents at least an output portion of the trajectory, where the first input portion of the trajectory and the output portion of the trajectory share at least a common portion of the trajectory; and providing the output chunk of one or more probe data points to a location-based service provider.
US11805388B2
Locations for mobile computers may be adaptively determined in a system which includes a server, a set of mobile computers, and an administrator computer. In such a system, the set of mobile computers may each be programmed with instructions operable to, when executed, transmit multiple forms of location information to the server. Additionally, the server may be programmed with a set of location determination routines and these routines may be used in determining a location for each of the mobile computers from the set of mobile computers. These locations may then be used to populate an interface of the administrator computer with icons at positions corresponding to the mobile computers' locations.
US11805387B2
In order to perform location-specific services of a broadcasting unit, virtual cells for the location-specific services are set up so that cell data, which define a local cell area, are transmitted to a mobile receiving device via the broadcasting unit. The cell data are stored in the mobile receiving device. The mobile receiving device establishes its current position and determines whether it is located in the cell area. In the event the mobile receiving device is located in the cell area, the receiving device performs a service assigned to the cell data. The setting up of cells for local-specific services by the broadcasting unit in a multitude of mobile receiving devices in the service area of the broadcasting unit enables geographical areas inside and outside the service area to be slit up into smaller, interactive and virtual service cells and cell clusters in a dynamic and optimal manner according to need and geographical and/or service-specific parameter.
US11805379B2
The present invention is directed to methods and apparatus for translating a first plurality of audio input channels to a second plurality of audio output channels. This includes determining that there is pair-wise coding among any of the first plurality of audio input channels, determining an input/output-mapping matrix for mapping at least a first set of the first plurality of audio input channels to at least a second set of the second plurality of audio output channels; and deriving the second plurality of audio output channels based on first plurality of audio input channels, the input/output-mapping matrix and the determined pair-wise coding. The first plurality of audio input channels represent the same soundfield represented by the second plurality of audio output channels.
US11805366B2
The present invention provides a multifunctional electromagnetic transducer including: a housing providing with an accommodation space; a speaker received in the accommodation space, the speaker including: a first vibration system with a voice diaphragm, and a first magnetic circuit system fixed to the housing driving the voice diaphragm to vibrate along a first direction and generate sounds; a vibrator received in the accommodation space driving the multifunctional electromagnetic transducer to vibrate along a second direction, the vibrator including: a second vibration system with a vibration diaphragm, and a second magnetic circuit system flexible suspending on the housing driving the voice diaphragm to vibrate; wherein the voice diaphragm, the voice diaphragm and a housing enclosed a rear chamber.
US11805364B2
Disclosed is a method and a hearing device for audio transmission. The hearing device is configured to be worn by a user. The hearing device comprises a first earphone comprising a first speaker. The hearing device comprises a second earphone comprising a second speaker. The hearing device comprises a virtual sound processing unit connected to the first earphone and the second earphone. The virtual sound processing unit is configured for receiving and processing an audio sound signal for generating a virtual audio sound signal. The virtual audio sound signal is forwarded to the first and second speakers, where the virtual audio sound appears to the user as audio sound coming from two virtual speakers in front of the user. The hearing device further comprises a first primary microphone for capturing surrounding sounds to provide a first surrounding sound signal based on a first primary input signal from the first primary microphone. The first primary microphone being arranged in the first earphone for providing a first rear facing sensitivity pattern towards the rear direction. The hearing device further comprises a first secondary microphone for capturing surrounding sounds to provide a second surrounding sound signal based on a first secondary input signal from the first secondary microphone. The first secondary microphone being arranged in the second earphone for providing a second rear facing sensitivity pattern towards the rear direction. The hearing device is configured for transmitting the first surrounding sound signal to the first speaker. The hearing device is configured for transmitting the second surrounding sound signal to the second speaker. Thereby the user receives the surrounding sound from the rear direction, while the surrounding sound from the front direction is attenuated compared to the surrounding sound from the rear direction.
US11805361B2
Method for automatably or automated tuning at least one operational parameter of an engine-order-cancellation (“EOC”) apparatus, the EOC apparatus being operable on the basis of a number of operational parameters, comprising the steps of: providing a defined tuning rule for automatably or automated tuning at least one operational parameter of an EOC apparatus, and automatably or automated tuning the at least one operational parameter of the EOC apparatus on basis of the provided tuning rule.
US11805353B2
The present invention provides a headphone, comprising: a casing in which a hole portion leading to the inside and outside is formed; a diaphragm; a support for supporting the diaphragm; and an air flow path for air taken from the outside of the casing to the inside through the hole portion, wherein a plurality of the air flow paths are provided, and extension directions of axes set on an open end surface on one side of the air flow paths intersect.
US11805350B2
A point-to-multipoint data transmission method and device, the method including a left earbud and a right earbud of a true wireless stereo (TWS) headset separately performing pairing and service content negotiation with an electronic device. The left earbud receives left configuration information sent by the electronic device, to configure a left ISO channel, and the right earbud receives right configuration information sent by the electronic device, to configure a right ISO channel. The left earbud receives, based on the BLE-based audio profile, audio data that is sent by the electronic device through the left ISO channel, and the right earbud receives, based on the BLE-based audio profile, the audio data that is sent by the electronic device through the right ISO channel. The left earbud and the right earbud play the respectively received audio data based on a first timestamp.
US11805344B2
A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image and a supporting member at a rear surface of the display panel. The display apparatus also includes a sound generator between the display panel and the supporting member, and at least one vibration member between the display panel and the supporting member.
US11805340B2
In an embodiment an apparatus includes a display panel and a speaker module. The panel has a display layer for displaying images and defines a plurality of apertures penetrating through at least the display layer. The speaker module includes a diaphragm arranged substantially parallel to the display layer. Sound from the speaker diaphragm is directed outside a device through the apertures and the display layer is configured for displaying at least one virtual image in relation to generated sound waves wherein the display panel is acoustically transparent.
US11805339B2
A downstream bandwidth transmission method for a passive optical network includes: an optical line terminal (OLT) sends downstream bandwidth allocation information in a downstream frame to a plurality of optical network units (ONUs); where the downstream bandwidth allocation information comprises a plurality of downstream bandwidth entries for the plurality of ONUs, each downstream bandwidth entry in the downstream bandwidth allocation information comprises ONU indication information for a respective ONU and downstream bandwidth feature information for the respective ONU, such that each of the plurality of ONUs receives respective traffic data within a downstream bandwidth allocated to the respective ONU.
US11805337B2
Methods and systems automatically protect radio network equipment in extreme weather conditions such as sand-storms or snow-storms. A pair of phase-shift material grids having different orientations is installed at an air intake of the radio network equipment. One of the grids is powered to open or close the air intake according to a current amount of air-carried particles entering the radio network equipment and a temperature inside the radio network equipment. The current amount of air-carried particles entering the radio network equipment may be detected by a piezoelectric sensor.
US11805325B2
Disclosed is an image sensing device including a plurality of defect detectors each suitable for detecting whether a corresponding target image value is defective, and generating detection information corresponding to a result of the detection, a defect scheduler suitable for sequentially outputting one or more defective image values, which are the target image values detected as defective among the plurality of target image values, based on the detection information, and a defect corrector suitable for correcting the output defective image values.
US11805321B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method of calibrating an imaging system in real-time, comprising: obtaining a first reading by a first sensor; establishing a dynamic link between the first reading and exposure time of a second sensor; using the dynamic link to control the exposure time of the second sensor; obtaining a second reading by the second sensor during the controlled exposure time; wherein the steps are performed by one or more computing devices.
US11805320B2
Provided are an imaging device, an imaging method, and an imaging program capable of easily acquiring a slow moving image with good image quality. In one aspect of the present invention, an imaging device includes an optical system, an imaging element, and a processor, and the processor performs detection processing of detecting a movement of a subject based on an image signal output from the imaging element, frame rate control of increasing a frame rate of a moving image output from the imaging element based on the detected movement, exposure control processing of maintaining a rate of an exposure time per frame of the moving image constant according to the increase in the frame rate, and dimming control processing of changing a degree of dimming of the optical system according to the exposure control processing.
US11805319B1
A camera may a plurality of sensors to measure positions of lenses and/or image sensor for control the positions of the lenses and/or image sensor for various image capturing functions. The camera may include a control circuit for configuring the sensors. The control circuit may include a plurality of conductors arranged in different patterns relative to different sensors installed at different locations. The control circuit may use the conductors to generate magnetic field(s) on the sensors, and use the magnetic field to configure the sensors. Once configured, the control circuit may communicate with the sensors based on the sensors' configuration, to obtain position measurements from the sensors to control the actuators.
US11805316B2
Throughput reduction in autonomous vehicle camera sensors, including: generating, by a camera sensor, a frame; selecting an area of focus for the frame; and generating, by the camera sensor from the frame, a downsampled frame and a cropped frame, wherein the cropped frame is based on the area of focus.
US11805314B2
Imaging-related information such as information regarding the position or orientation of a camera is output in an appropriate manner. A control device according to the present technology includes: a determination unit that determines a usage mode of an imaging device; and a control unit that performs output control of imaging-related information related to the imaging device on the basis of the usage mode determined by the determination unit. Performing the output control of the imaging-related information on the basis of the usage mode of the imaging device makes it possible to perform control so as not to output unnecessary information according to the usage mode of the camera. For example, in a case of a fixed camera that does not move, the imaging-related information as position information of the camera is not output, and in a case of a handy camera that is assumed to move, the imaging-related information as the position information of the camera is output.
US11805307B2
An electronic apparatus which is capable of communicating with an external device mounted thereon, and the external device. An external engagement unit of the external device is capable of being mounted into an apparatus engagement unit of the electronic apparatus. A plurality of apparatus wireless communicators is located in the apparatus engagement unit so as to face respective ones of a plurality of external wireless communicators located in the external engagement unit mounted into the apparatus engagement unit. The plurality of apparatus wireless communicators is arranged in the apparatus engagement unit such that radiation characteristics of all of the plurality of apparatus wireless communicators are at least not parallel. The plurality of external wireless communicators is arranged in the external engagement unit such that radiation characteristics of all of the plurality of external wireless communicators are at least not parallel.
US11805306B2
An image detection unit for a vehicle. The image detection unit includes an objective including an electrical contact surface, a sensor carrier including a detection sensor situated on the sensor carrier and an electrical contact point. The detection sensor and the contact point are situated at a surface of the sensor carrier that faces the objective. The image detection unit further includes a flexible contacting element for an electrical connection between the contact surface of the objective and the contact point of the sensor carrier.
US11805301B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for outputting secondary media assets are disclosed. One or more secondary media assets may be associated with objects already existing within a first media asset. The one or more secondary media assets may be indicated according to a manifest file and may be output during execution of a trick play command during output of the first media asset.
US11805299B2
An information processing device displays a video including an avatar object on a display based on video data received from a server, displays a group to which a distributing user belongs in an identifiable manner in a video view or a video distribution list including images of multiple videos, and sends a display request to display an object in one of the videos to the server.
US11805297B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing media content streaming/downloading and playback, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing video quality optimization based on display capabilities. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive user input from a user indicating a user request for media content. The computing system might autonomously determine characteristics or attributes of a playback device (i.e., a display device and/or audio playback device, etc.). The computing system might send, to a media content source over a network, a request for the media content, the request comprising information regarding presentation characteristics that are based at least in part on the determined characteristics of the playback device. The computing system might receive a version of the media content having the one or more presentation characteristics, and might relay the received version of the media content to the playback device for presentation to the user.
US11805294B2
The present disclosure is intended to enable playback of media data corresponding to a sensibility effect set in advance. A content playback device (91) of the present disclosure includes: a device table production unit (10) holding a device table in which a format of media data that can be played back and a device parameter are determined for each device; a media table production unit (20) configured to acquire metadata including the format and a sensibility effect label of the media data, determine a mapping evaluation scale that is a device parameter corresponding to the sensibility effect label, and produce a media table in which the mapping evaluation scale and the format are determined for each media data; and a mapping determination unit (30) configured to extract, based on the formats, a combination pattern of a device on which media data can be played back and the media data, select, from among extracted combination patterns, a combination pattern for which a relative error between the device parameter and the mapping evaluation scale is minimum, and select a device that is an output destination of the media data.
US11805290B2
A method for managing zapping from a first digital content to a second digital content is disclosed. The first and second digital contents are obtained by HTTP adaptive streaming by a multimedia stream reader terminal and are each associated with a description file comprising a list of time segments of the content, each time segment being associated with multiple encoding rates of the content. The zapping management method involves: receiving a request to zap from the first digital content to the second digital content; obtaining the description file of the second digital content; selecting a rate for encoding a first time segment of the second digital content to be downloaded, on the basis of a resource constraint obtained by the multimedia stream reader terminal and on the basis of a target zapping time; and downloading the first time segment of the second digital content at the selected rate.
US11805278B2
A method of processing image data for transmittal to a display device involves receiving a frame of image data, the frame being divided into tile groups composed of tiles of pixels, each having a number of colour component values of a first colour space. Each tile includes a number of colour component planes of the first colour space having the colour component values for the pixels forming the tile. Each tile group is processed in an execution unit, formed by arithmetic logic units (ALUs) and a local shared memory, where each ALU includes dedicated register space for use solely by the ALU, and each tile of each tile group is processed by a number of the ALUs of the execution unit. Each ALU performs a reversible colour transformation (S1) on the colour component values from the first colour space to a second colour space and discards the remaining colour component values and then performs a discrete wavelet transformation (S2) on the colour component values of one colour component plane of the second colour space to produce wavelet coefficients, which are quantized (S3) and entropy encoded (S4) into variable length codes. The variable length codes for all the tiles of the tile group are assembled together for transmittal to a display device. Each ALU stores the data at each stage of the processing in its dedicated register space but not in the local shared memory of the execution unit.
US11805269B2
Methods, systems and devices for applying pruning in multi-motion model based skip and direct mode coded video blocks are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes applying, to a candidate list for a video block, a pruning operation between a candidate in a first set of candidates derived from previously coded blocks in a decoding order and a candidate in a second set of candidates, and performing, based on the candidate list subsequent to applying the pruning operation, a conversion between the video block and a bitstream representation of the video block.
US11805264B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, a syntax structure and a syntax element may be provided wherein the syntax structure and syntax element enable, on the basis of whether an NAL unit type mixed with a picture is allowed, the existence of signaling-related information of a reference picture list with respect to a slice having a specific NAL unit type in the picture.
US11805244B2
A picture decoding method, performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present disclosure, comprises the steps of: when an intra-prediction mode of a chroma block is a cross-component linear model (CCLM) mode, deriving neighboring chroma reference samples with respect to the chroma block; deriving neighboring luma reference samples of a luma block corresponding to the chroma block and luma samples in the luma block; deriving down-sampled neighboring luma reference samples and downsampled luma samples by down sampling the neighboring luma reference samples and the luma samples, respectively; deriving a linear model parameter on the basis of the down-sampled neighboring luma reference samples and the neighboring chroma reference samples; generating prediction samples with respect to the chroma block on the basis of the linear model parameter and the down-sampled luma samples of the luma block; and reconstructing the chroma block on the basis of the prediction samples with respect to the chroma block.
US11805243B2
Provided are an image encoding method and device. When carrying out image encoding for a block within a slice, at least one block in a restored block of the slice is set as a reference block. When this is done, the encoding parameters of the reference block are distinguished, and the block to be encoded is encoded adaptively based on the encoding parameters.
US11805239B2
A rotary display device includes a display module, a rotating shaft, a transmission apparatus, an acquisition apparatus and a control apparatus. The transmission apparatus is configured to drive the display module to rotate with the rotating shaft. The control apparatus is configured to: receive information of picture(s), acquired by the acquisition apparatus, of an outside of the display module and determine whether a picture includes face figure(s); if no face figure is included in the picture, control the display module to display images in a first condition; if the face figure(s) are included in the picture, control the display module to display images in a second condition. A second refresh rate in the second condition is greater than a first refresh rate in the first condition, and a second color depth in the second condition is greater than a first color depth in the first condition.
US11805236B2
A computer system generates stereo image data from monocular images. The system generates depth maps for single images using a monocular depth estimation method. The system converts the depth maps to disparity maps and uses the disparity maps to generate additional images forming stereo pairs with the monocular images. The stereo pairs can be used to form a stereo image training data set for training various models, including depth estimation models or stereo matching models.
US11805234B2
A stereo camera device includes a plurality of cameras, a distance sensor configured to detect a distance to an object, a holder configured to hold the plurality of cameras and the distance sensor so that the optical axis of the distance sensor and the optical axes of the plurality of cameras are in the same direction, an electronic circuit, and a case in which the plurality of cameras and the distance sensor held by the holder, and the electronic circuit are provided.
US11805233B2
A lens apparatus includes two optical systems each of which includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a negative first lens unit, a first reflective member, an aperture diaphragm, a second reflective member, and a positive second lens unit. Each optical system satisfies following inequalities: 5.9
US11805223B2
Current signals indicative of sensed physical quantities are collected from sensing transistors in an array of sensing transistors. The sensing transistors have respective control nodes and current channel paths therethrough between respective first nodes and a second node common to the sensing transistors. A bias voltage level is applied to the respective first nodes of the sensing transistors in the array and one sensing transistor in the array of sensing transistors is selected. The selected sensing transistor is decoupled from the bias voltage level, while the remaining sensing transistors in the array of sensing transistors maintain coupling to the bias voltage level. The respective first node of the selected sensing transistor in the array of sensing transistors is coupled to an output node, and an output current signal is collected from the output node.
US11805219B2
A method and a device for performing special effect processing on an image, an electronic apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring a video; capturing an image from the video by an image capture unit of a rendering layer when the video is played, and storing the captured image in a data storage layer; acquiring multiple images from the data storage layer by an image acquisition unit of the rendering layer; performing split-screen processing on the multiple images by a special effect unit of the rendering layer; and outputting an image obtained from split-screen processing and displaying the image obtained from split-screen processing on a terminal screen.
US11805216B2
An image processing device reads a plurality of documents selectively attached with a tag, and processes the read document images with a tag. The image processing device includes a tag information extractor that extracts tag information about a tag from the document images with a tag, and an image processor that separately generates, based on the tag information, document images without a tag in which a tag is removed from the document images with a tag, and a tag information image in which the tag information about the document images without a tag is written.
US11805214B2
An image forming apparatus, and a control system and a control method of the image forming apparatus are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a non-transitory memory, a first controller, and a first interface. The first controller, connected to the non-transitory memory, is configured to control read and write of the non-transitory memory; first and second storage regions are configured in the non-transitory memory; the first storage region is configured to store driving programs; and the second storage region is configured to store first firmware files. The first interface is connected to the first controller; an external device accesses the non-transitory memory through the first interface; the driving programs are acquired by the external device through the first interface and installed in the external device; and the external device is capable of exchanging information with the image forming apparatus through an interface different from the first interface.
US11805208B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, at a mobile computing device that is associated with a called user, a call from a calling computing device that is associated with a calling user; in response to receiving the call, determining, by the mobile computing device, that data associated with the called user indicates that the called user will not respond to the call; in response to determining that the called user will not respond to the call, inferring, by the mobile computing device, an informational need of the calling user; and automatically providing, from the mobile computing device to the calling computing device, information associated with the called user and that satisfies the inferred informational need of the calling user.
US11805201B2
A call processing server 10 includes a registration unit 12 that receives a registration request of a suspicious call number from a user receiving a suspicious call to register the suspicious call number in a subscriber information storage unit 22, and a call processing unit 11 that refers to the subscriber information storage unit 22 to control an incoming call, in which the call processing unit 11 transmits, when an outgoing source of a call is the suspicious call number registered in the subscriber information storage unit 22, an alert guidance to an incoming destination terminal 5 before connecting the call, and the suspicious call number registered in the subscriber information storage unit 22 is shared by all users set in the subscriber information storage unit 22.
US11805195B2
A screen protector assembly includes a glass screen protector, a removable film, and an application film. The screen protector is configured to be adhered to a display of an electronic device. The removable film at least partially covers a first adhesive on a rear surface of the screen protector. The application film is removably adhered to the front surface of the screen protector. A first end of the adhered application film extends beyond a first edge of the screen protector and includes a post aperture for the post of an installation tool. A second end of the adhered application film extends beyond a second edge of the screen protector and includes alignment apertures for teeth of the installation tool. The screen protector is aligned with the display of the electronic device when the electronic device is centered in the installation tool and the application film is installed on the tool.
US11805190B2
Systems and methods of identifying infinite call loops using custom tracking headers are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a first instance of a microservice operated by a first network node in a distributed microservice system having instances of one or more microservices operated by network nodes with each instance having a data cache operable to share data between instances of that microservice. The method includes receiving an indication that includes a message to access data that may be available in a data cache of an instance of the microservice, the indication also including one or more tracking identifiers with each tracking identifier corresponding to an instance of the microservice that successively sends or receives the message so as to determine that the message corresponds to a same message previously sent or received by the same instance of the microservice.
US11805186B2
Techniques are provided to facilitate tracking events associated with a user interface display of an application at runtime. In at least one implementation, one or more information structures that associate an event tracking indicator with a view selector are stored, wherein the event tracking indicator indicates an event to be tracked, and the view selector indicates one or more constraints to be matched to select a view of the application. During execution of the application, the view selector is evaluated with views used by the application to determine whether each of the one or more constraints of the view selector matches properties of the views. In response to determining that each of the one or more constraints of the view selector matches the properties of at least one of the views, an occurrence of the event indicated by the event tracking indicator associated with the view selector is tracked.
US11805179B2
A method of intelligent persistent mobile device management connectivity, including establishing a session between a mobile device and a mobile device management provider, directing the mobile device by the mobile device management provider to perform a successive operation, maintaining the established session between the mobile device and the mobile device management provider while the mobile device is online and periodically checking the mobile device management communication at a communication frequency, wherein the communication frequency is based on a performance feedback parameter.
US11805174B2
A computing device may broadcast a first message via a wireless interface while operating according to a first network topology. After broadcasting the first message, the computing device may receive the first message via a wired interface. Based on receiving the first message via the wired interface, the computing device may broadcast a second message indicating a second network topology via the wireless interface. Based on receiving the first message via the wired interface, the computing device may operate according to the second network topology.
US11805170B2
A system for documenting, monitoring, testing, inspecting and maintaining fire equipment located at the property of secondary customers. Secondary customers include people, organizations and properties. The system saves all information collected on a server computer accessible via a computer network. This information is reviewable and editable by primary customers. In a preferred embodiment the server computer is located in the cloud and the computer network is the Internet. In a preferred embodiment, primary customers include fire inspection/repair/monitoring companies and fire departments using mobile computer devices. In another preferred embodiment, the software application has a customer relationship management tool allowing fire equipment, people, properties and organizations to be easily associated with one another. In another preferred embodiment, each piece of fire equipment is geographically mapped to a specific location via GPS or other mapping reference. Additionally, all fire equipment associated with a specific property, building or floor has all relevant information digitally captured and recorded into the cloud database. In another preferred embodiment, a fire department accesses fire equipment information during an exercise or emergency to direct responders. In another preferred embodiment, secondary customers with authorized access receive data and information regarding the status of the fire safety equipment, and receive analysis and recommendations from the service entities. Primary customers receive data and information regarding the status of fire safety equipment from the cloud database, and transmit analysis, records and recommendations to the secondary customers.
US11805165B2
Content items are provided to users and their interactions with the provided content items are recorded in respective user profiles. The users' interactions thus recorded over time are analyzed to determine if the users have a balanced information intake. A reading habit score is determined for a user based various criteria. The user's reading habit score is analyzed to determine if the user's habits indicate a balance in the user's content consumption. If the user's reading habit score indicates an imbalance in the user's content consumption, suggestions are provided to the user for achieving a more balanced reading habit and thereby improving the user's reading habit score.
US11805163B2
A method for providing a media feed to a server. The method includes a client transmitting to the server over a transport layer connection a message comprising a header and a body, wherein the header of the message does not indicate the size of the body of the message. The method also includes the client storing in a transmit buffer media data corresponding to the media feed, wherein an encoding bitrate setting is used to generate the media data. Transmitting the body of the first message to the server over the transport layer connection comprises: 1) before transmitting any media data corresponding to the media feed, the client transmitting to the server over the transport layer connection a movie box comprising information identifying a codec and codec configuration information; 2) after transmitting the movie box, transmitting one or more Common Media Application Format (CMAF) chunks, wherein each CMAF chunk comprises media data corresponding to the media feed; and 3) after transmitting the one or more CMAF chunks, transmitting an end of stream indication, wherein the end of stream indication is i) an end of stream flag or ii) a zero-size chunk.
US11805161B2
Methods and systems for improved data transmission using audio transmissions are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving an audio transmission at. Audio symbols may be identified within the audio transmission, and a magnitude and phase for each of the symbols may be identified. Based on the magnitudes and phases, corresponding data values may be identified for each of the audio symbols and may be combined to form a data payload of the audio transmission.
US11805155B2
Methods and systems of monitoring and managing a facility including a plurality of end point devices. One system includes a first gateway device. The first gateway device includes a first electronic processor configured to receive fixture data from at least one electro-mechanical element of a fixture associated with the facility, the fixture data related to an operation of the fixture, and enable transmission of the fixture data to a remote device for virtual processing. The system also includes a second gateway device communicatively coupled with the first gateway device. The second gateway device includes a second electronic processor configured to receive, from the first gateway device, the processed fixture data. The second electronic processor configured to convert the processed fixture data pursuant to a networking protocol associated with a building management system and transmit the converted fixture data for display via a visual dashboard associated with the building management system.
US11805152B2
The present disclosure describes defending against an attack execution operation. According to one aspect of the subject matter described in this disclosure, a method for generating a domain-specific language (DSL) file is disclosed. The method may comprise determining, a framework based on an attack repository, determining a first primitive based on the framework, and determining a second primitive based on the framework. In one implementation, the first primitive and the second primitive are fundamental structures or constructs within a DSL. The method further comprises combining the first primitive and the second primitive into a DSL file. In one implementation, the DSL file is executed to defend against a first attack execution operation executed by a threat-actor.
US11805146B2
A modified configuration management database (CMDB) system is disclosed in which detected configuration item (CI) vulnerabilities are stored as less-resource-intensive detection objects, rather than as more-resource-intensive vulnerable item (VI) objects. The system includes a vulnerability response (VR) server that enables promotion rules to be created and periodically applied to the stored detections. When the conditions of a detection promotion rule are satisfied by information relating to a stored detection, a new VI may be created and related to the stored detection within the CMDB. The disclosed promotion rules can be configured to ensure that VIs are only automatically created for high-risk or relevant detections, substantially reducing the number of VIs to be created, stored, and managed. As such, the disclosed system substantially reduces resource consumption and improves the efficiency and operation of the CMDB.
US11805131B2
The present invention discloses an intelligent cloud server for cloud storage information management and encryption. In some embodiments, the intelligent cloud server can save and store documents without the need of first saving them in a local drive for upload. Upon storage, the document can be scanned and classified in a security level according to pre-determined settings and parameters. In some embodiments, depending on the classification, the system can encrypt portions of the document in order to facilitate the sharing and access of information in a secure way. Encryption keys and access to the encrypted portions are only provided upon authentication of the user, network, and/or need, according to corresponding protocols for the information.
US11805127B1
Presented herein are systems and methods for processing tokens in identity assertions for access control to resources. A server may receive, via an interface from a gateway, a request to permit a customer device to access a resource associated with the server. The request may include an identifier for the customer device and a first token used to authenticate the customer device at the gateway. The server may generate, responsive to validating the first token, a second token to be used to authorize the customer device at the server for access to the resource. The server may store, on a database, an association identifying the identifier, the first token, and the second token. The server may perform the server, an action to permit the customer device access to the resource associated with the server based on the association maintained on the database.
US11805123B2
A computing device includes a memory and a processor to provide a web application to be accessed by a client device, receive from a camera images of a person at the client device, and analyze the images to determine that security of the web application is being compromised by the person based on the images. The processor provides at least one action to be taken by the client device in response to analysis of the images. The at least one action is to modify access of the client device to the web application.
US11805117B2
In some examples, a cloud-based management system receives information identifying electronic devices to be onboarded for cloud-based management by the cloud-based management system, receives, from a first electronic device, a request to establish a secure connection between the cloud-based management system and the first electronic device, and receives, from the first electronic device, a certificate. The cloud-based management system confirms, based on information in the certificate and the information identifying the electronic devices to be onboarded for cloud-based management, that the cloud-based management system is to perform the cloud-based management of the first electronic device over the secure connection.
US11805116B2
Technologies for securing a virtualization network function (VNF) image includes a security server to generate a wrapping cryptographic key to wrap a private key of the VNF image and replace the private key with the wrapped private key to secure the private key. During operation, the VNF image may be authenticated by a network function virtualization (NFV) server as needed. Additionally, the signature of the VNF image may be updated each time the VNF image is shutdown to ensure the continued authenticity of the VNF image.
US11805104B2
Computing system operational methods and apparatus are described. According to one aspect, a computing system operational method includes accessing user information regarding a user logging onto a computing device of the computing system, processing the user information to determine if the user information is authentic, as a result of the processing determining that the user information is authentic, first enabling the computing device to execute an application segment, and as a result of the processing determining that the user information is authentic, second enabling the application segment to communicate data externally of the computing device via one of a plurality of network segments of the computing system.
US11805098B2
A communication system (1) includes a terminal information acquisition unit configured to acquire version information of an OS of a terminal (10), a comparison unit configured to compare a version of the OS of the terminal (10) acquired by the terminal information acquisition unit with a latest version of the corresponding OS, and a setting unit configured to set, when the version of the OS of the terminal (10) is not the latest version, a path along which traffic of the terminal (10) passes through a security appliance (5), and set, when the version of the OS of the terminal (10) is the latest version, a path along which the traffic of the terminal (10) does not pass through the security appliance (5).
US11805097B2
A network security platform (NSP) device and interaction method are disclosed. The interaction method provides network packet analysis for secure transmission protocols using ephemeral keys or keys that are negotiated dynamically. The NSP may be part of an Intrusion Protection System, or firewall. The disclosed approach does not use man-in-the-middle proxy. Instead, it includes monitoring connections ends: client and/or server, to intercept the required data or negotiated (or changed) encryption keys. Decrypted data may be sent to an NSP sensor in a secure manner for analysis. Alternatively, intercepted keys used for the encrypt/decrypt operations may be sent to an NSP sensor in a secure manner every time they are changed. The NSP sensor may then use the obtained keys to decrypt traffic prior to providing it to the inspection engines. Embodiments focused on inbound traffic to a web server may coordinate between a web server and an NSP.
US11805094B2
Some embodiments provide a method for securing communication of data messages of a particular machine that includes a dynamic first level address. The method identifies a fixed second level address for a particular data. The fixed second level address is associated with an interface of the particular machine. Based on the fixed second level address, the method identifies a set of security policies for securing the communication of the particular data message. The method applies the set of security policies to the particular data message.
US11805093B2
Improved methods for retrieval of content from CDNs is provided that includes a rendezvous controller that receives information of an identification of content being requested and an estimated location of a content requesting device. Based on this information, the rendezvous system identifies a server within a CDN from which the requested content may be retrieved. The selected server may be based on a repeatable hash function such that the likelihood that the content being requested is cached at the selected server. Steering requests to a server of the CDN which may have the content cached may reduce the number of servers within the CDN with the same cached content, particularly for the highest requested content. The rendezvous system may then return a corresponding domain name associated with the selected server and that can be subsequently submitted to a DNS for resolution to the IP address of the identified server.
US11805083B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating personalized messages. One example method includes identifying a media item at a first computing device and identifying a group of one or more recipients to send the media item and a personalized message to. An association between a user of the computing device and a recipient from the group is identified. A personalized message is generated based at least in part on the association between the user and the recipient. The media item and personalized message are sent to the recipient from the first computing device.
US11805078B2
A first ingress interface on a switch receives a first control packet for establishing a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) session and selects a first engine running on a first line card in the switch. A second ingress interface receives a second control packet and selects the same first engine. Data associated with the TCP session received by the first or second ingress interface subsequent to establishing the TCP session is to be forwarded to the first engine. The first ingress interface receives a third control packet and sends, to the selected first engine, a notification indicating the TCP session which is to be tracked. The first or second ingress interface receives a fourth packet with a payload associated with the TCP session and forwards, to the selected first engine, a copy of the fourth packet, thereby facilitating a plurality of engine instances to support application identification.
US11805075B2
A network management entity configured to: deactivate a Network Slice Instance without releasing network resources previously allocated to the Network Slice Instance; and subsequent to deactivating the Network Slice Instance, activating the Network Slice Instance using the network resources previously allocated to the Network Slice Instance. A Network Slice Management Function (NSMF) perform slice specific Lifecycle Management (LCM) for a Network Slice Instance (NSI) based on Communication Service Instance (CSI) requirements is also disclosed. Customer Service Management Function (CSMF) for receiving service requirements from a Service Manager (SM) and transmitting the CSI requirements a Network Slice Management Function (NSMF) is also disclosed.
US11805072B2
A method for distributing data process according to technical resource capacity availability and constraints across a network is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at a database, a feed request for processing by a computing resource, among a network of computing resources that are geographically dispersed. Further, the method includes identifying, among the network of computing resources, a computing resource for processing the feed request based on the at least one attribute and processing capacity of the computing resources, and assigning the feed request for processing to the identified computing resource in real-time and without predetermined assignment to process increase in data volume by leveraging remotely located and/or underutilized computing resources.
US11805067B1
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for utilizing dynamic request queues to process electronic requests in a shared infrastructure environment. The disclosed system dynamically generates a plurality of separate request queues for tenant computing systems that utilize a shared processing infrastructure to issue electronic requests for processing by various recipient processors (e.g., one or more processing threads) by separating a primary request queue into the separate requests queues based on the tenant computing systems. The disclosed system also generates a plurality of queue order scores for the request queues based in part on a processing recency of each of the request queues and whether the request queues have pending electronic requests. The disclosed system processes electronic requests in the request queues by selecting a request queue based on the queue order scores and processing a batch of electronic requests utilizing a recipient processor.
US11805064B2
A system and method are disclosed for estimating the location of a satellite terminal. The terminal is selected from among a plurality of terminals, and one or more position estimates are generated for a satellite which provides service to the terminal. The position estimated can be generated, for example, by performing a first one or more iterative grid searches over a plurality of potential position estimates for the satellite. A location estimate is subsequently generated for the terminal by performing a second one or more iterative grid searches over a plurality of potential location estimates for the terminal.
US11805057B2
Routing tier for highly-available applications on a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system
Implementations of a routing tier for highly-available applications on a multi-tenant Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) system are disclosed. A system includes a processing device to determine that, for an application running on the multi-tenant PaaS system and utilizing a first load balancer gear, a second load balancer gear is to be created for the application, and cause the second load balancer gear to be created. The processing device further to update the routing table to include information corresponding to the second load balancer gear and transmit the information associated with the second load balancer gear to a routing component of the multi-tenant PaaS system, the routing component to route traffic to the application via the first and second load balancer gears.
US11805055B2
In some embodiments, a method inserts, by a first computing device, a first value for a capability in a first message that is used in a process to automatically exchange capability values with a second computing device. The first value for the capability indicates the first computing device requires a default route to reach the second computing device as a next hop for sending a packet to a destination. The first computing device sends the first message to the second computing device; and receives a second value for the capability in a second message from the second computing device. The second value indicating the second computing device will send the default route to reach the second computing device. When the default route is received from the second computing device, the first computing device stores the default route from the second computing device in a route table.
US11805046B2
A method for extending Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to change multiple route attributes at a time. The method includes receiving a BGP wide community container that includes an indication that multiple route attributes can be changed at a time, a one or more route conditions, and actions to perform on the multiple route attributes when the one or more route conditions are met. The method determines whether the route conditions are satisfied. The method performs the actions specified in the BGP wide community container on the multiple route attributes when the one or more route conditions are satisfied.
US11805045B2
Systems and methods for selectively transmitting routing information between separated local area network (LAN) interfaces are disclosed. In exemplary embodiments, a network appliance to update a local routing table with IP subnet, neighbor type, source type, and community identifier of a second network appliance; based at least on the local routing table, receive a customized routing policy and subnet exporting policy that permits the network appliance to export a subset of IP addresses from the local routing table to a permitted community of network appliances, wherein the customized routing policy and subnet exporting policy are configured by a network administrator of the network appliance; match the permitted community of network appliances to a new community identifier of a third network appliance; and export the subset of IP addresses of the local routing table to the third network appliance based on the customized routing policy and subnet exporting policy.
US11805038B2
A monitoring system includes one or more units that are adapted monitor the radio frequency conditions of a facility or portion of the facility. The units include a packet sniffer and/or an RF spectrum analyzer. Sniffed packets and spectrum data are recorded and made available for analysis and display, either locally on the units or at one or more remote locations. The locations of the units are also gathered, thereby enabling correlation of the sniffed packets and/or RF spectrum data with locations within the facility. Real time RF conditions can thereby be gathered and used to improve the wireless communications within the facility and/or to ensure the wireless communication infrastructure of the facility is operating satisfactorily. The units may be person support apparatuses, such as beds, chairs, stretchers, cots, or the like.
US11805037B2
A latency adjustment method includes the following operations: in response to a predetermined event of a data stream occurred during a first interval, performing a transmission status determining operation to determine whether a transmission status of the data stream is stable; in response the transmission status being stable, determining whether a total number of times of packet loss compensation events of the data stream occurred during a previous interval is higher than a first predetermined value; and in response to the transmission status being unstable or the total number of times being higher than the first predetermined value, increasing a latency of the data stream.
US11805028B1
Disclosed is a system for providing an Internet-of-things (IoT) device integrated control service, in particular, a system for providing an IoT device integrated control service through an artificial intelligence (AI) server, in which a plurality of users can collectively control and manage a plurality of IoT devices for a ‘smart home’ and a ‘connected car,’ owned or managed by the users through the AI server capable of analyzing a speech or a text, so that the plurality of IoT devices can be collectively controlled and managed with only one control command, thereby minimizing time and effort to individually control and manage the plurality of IoT devices.
US11805022B2
Disclosed are a method and device for providing network analytics information in a wireless communication network. A method for providing network analytics information by means of a network data collection and analytics function (NWDAF) entity in a wireless communication network may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a consumer network function (NF), a request message including information indicating a request time interval related to analytics information; in response to the request message, transmitting, to the consumer NF, a response message including information notifying that real-time analytics information can be provided; and transmitting, to the consumer NF, the analytics information corresponding to the request message within the request time interval.
US11805021B1
A network connectivity system identifies potential connection mechanisms between datacenter entities (e.g., between service instances) on the cloud platform. The network connectivity system provides recommendations including one or more connectivity paths that are preferred with respect to one or more indicators, for example, cost, latency, or security. Specifically, the network connectivity system receives a request to configure a network connection between a first service instance and a second service instance on the cloud platform. The first service instance and the second service instance may reside within the same or different datacenters, different geographical locations, and the like. A network connectivity system identifies, from network connectivity information, one or more connectivity mechanisms for establishing connection between a first datacenter entity (e.g., first service instance) and a second datacenter entity (e.g., second service instance).
US11805019B1
Provided are systems and methods for segmenting and grouping a plurality of network nodes into one or more clusters. Content may be delivered from a transmitting user node to a receiving user node based on which cluster the receiving user node resides. The grouping of the clusters may be dynamically updated in real-time based on user activity data. Such user activity data may be collected from both a transmitting user node (e.g., server) and a receiving user node (e.g., user device) to map the delivery of a relevant communication. Advantageously, a transmitting user may deliver content to other relevant users and a receiving user may receive content from other relevant users.
US11805009B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques for adjusting a network connection of an accessory. In some examples, the computing device can determine that the accessory is not connected to a network (e.g., the same network to which the computing device is connected). The network may utilize a first connection type. Using a second type of connection, the computing device may determine an appropriate network for connection with the accessory. The computing device may then transmit instructions to the accessory, using the second type of connection, to adjust its network connection to be connected to the determined network. The determined network may use the first connection type.
US11805005B2
Systems and methods are provided for predicting system or network failures, such as a degradation in the services provided by a service provider system or network, a system or network outage, etc. In a discovery phase, failure scenarios that can be accurately predicted based on monitored system events are identified. In an operationalization phase, those failure scenarios can be used to design production run-time machines that can be used to predict, in real-time, a future failure scenario. An early warning signal(s) can be sent in advance of the failure scenario occurring.
US11805003B2
In one embodiment, a network assurance service that monitors a network detects an anomaly in the network by applying an anomaly detector to telemetry data collected from the network. The service sends first data to a user interface that causes the interface to present the detected anomaly and one or more candidate root cause metrics from the telemetry data associated with the detected anomaly. The service receives feedback regarding the candidate root cause metric(s) and learns a root cause of the anomaly as one or more thresholds of the candidate root cause metric(s), based in part on the received feedback regarding the candidate root cause metric(s). The service sends second data to the user interface that causes the user interface to present at least one of the candidate root cause metric(s) as a candidate root cause of a subsequent detected anomaly, based on the learned threshold(s).
US11805000B2
A wireless telecommunications base station that compensates for Doppler shift in each connected User Equipment. The base station deploys a plurality of parallel receivers, each with a given frequency offset above and below the carrier frequency. Each receiver performs a frequency shift on a common uplink signal, determines the quality of the frequency shifted uplink signal, and demodulates the frequency shifted uplink signal. A selector/combiner module generates a highest quality demodulated signal, which may be done by selecting the frequency shifted uplink signal or soft combining a subset of frequency shifted uplink signals having a sufficiently high quality.
US11804998B2
Various embodiments include methods performed in receiver circuitry of a wireless communication device for demodulating wireless transmission waveforms to reconstruct data tones, which may include receiving, from a transmitter, wireless transmission waveforms that includes peak reduction tones (PRTs) that were inserted by a PRT neural network in the transmitter, and demodulating the received wireless transmission waveforms using a decoder neural network that has been trained based on outputs of the transmitter to output a reconstruction of the data tones. Further embodiments include exchanging information between the transmitter and receiver circuitry to coordinate the PRT neural network used for inserting PRTs in the transmitting wireless communication device and the decoder neural network used in the receiving wireless communication device for demodulating transmission waveforms received from the transmitting wireless communication device.
US11804997B2
Interference in preamble signals and pilot signals in cooperative transmission using interference suppressing technology is avoided. A wireless apparatus for transmitting a wireless signal on which directivity control has been performed to stations in a wireless system including at least one wireless apparatus is provided with a known signal generating unit which generates a known signal to be added to the wireless signal, a weighting processing unit which performs weighting on the known signal generated by the known signal generating unit, and a wireless processing unit which transmits the known signal on which the weighting has been performed by the weighting processing unit.
US11804994B2
Method of demodulation of M-CPFSK signal, includes receiving the M-CPFSK radio signal; moving it to zero frequency; sampling at no less than double a frequency of symbols; storing the samples with their amplitude and phase for at least L4 symbols; demodulating the sampled signal in three stages, wherein each stage includes iterating over symbol values within a block of symbols, of length is L1, L2 and then L3; in the first stage, N1 symbol sequences out of all possible symbol sequences are iterated over, at the second stage, N2 symbol sequences out of all possible symbol sequences are iterated over, and at the third stage, N3 symbol sequences out of all possible symbol sequences are iterated over, to obtain final symbol values; symbol values obtained at previous stage is used in a next stage to reduce a number of symbol sequences; and determining encoded bits based on final symbol values.
US11804993B2
Systems, methods, and devices enable coexistence of traffic for collocated transceivers. Methods may include transmitting a baseband training signal via a transmit path of a wireless communications device, obtaining a plurality of samples of the baseband training signal via a receive path of the wireless communications device, and generating a plurality of weighted averages based on the plurality of samples. Methods may further include generating an estimated amplitude and an estimated phase for at least one spur frequency of the wireless communications device based, at least in part, on the plurality of weighted averages.
US11804992B2
Systems and methods for implementation of modified decision feedback equalization. In one embodiment, a method, includes sweeping a reference voltage signal across a set of voltages to find a center point of an eye diagram, determining whether an asymmetry is present in the eye diagram relative to the center point of the eye diagram, and when an asymmetry is determined to be present, generating a control signal to select a mode of decision feedback equalization to be applied to an input data bit.
US11804989B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. These wireless communications may include channel estimation procedures between communicating devices such as a base station and user equipment (UE). For example, the UE may receive, from the base station, a resource grant triggering a given reference signal configuration. Based at least in part on the type of reference signal configuration, the UE (e.g., and the base station) may determine a timing offset relative to the resource grant. The UE may transmit (and the base station may receive) the reference signal based at least in part on the timing offset. In some cases, the reference signal may be transmitted in a transmission opportunity of a set of transmission opportunities, where the set of transmission opportunities is determined based at least in part on the reference signal configuration.
US11804983B2
One embodiment provides a system which facilitates scaling of routing in an EVPN. During operation, the system determines, in an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN), a plurality of virtual tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) coupled to a plurality of subnets, wherein a respective subnet includes one or more hosts, wherein a first VTEP is configured with a first number of host routes for a first subnet coupled to a second VTEP, and wherein each of the first number of host routes corresponds to a host residing in the first subnet. Responsive to detecting that a total number of routes configured on the first VTEP exceeds a first predetermined threshold, the system aggregates the first number of host routes by replacing the first number of host routes with a first prefix route which indicates the first subnet.
US11804978B2
A network hub device used for building a simple network configuration in an in-vehicle network system is provided. A network hub device (35) is coupled to a trunk network and performs input/output of a signal to/from an in-vehicle device via a plurality of device side communication ports. A signal conversion section (35a, 35b) configured to perform signal conversion between a digital control signal and an analog control signal is provided between a trunk side communication port and an analog port. A second signal conversion section (70) configured to perform signal conversion between a digital control signal and an analog control signal is provided between a digital port (49) and a predetermined in-vehicle device (353).
US11804977B2
A method can comprise determining, by a device comprising a processor, a transition between an arbitration phase of a Controller Area Network (CAN) XL node of a group of communicatively coupled CAN XL nodes of a CAN bus network and a data phase of the CAN XL node based on a voltage change of a voltage level of the CAN XL node being determined, by device, to satisfy a defined voltage change criterion of defined voltage criteria, wherein the data phase comprises both positive voltages and negative voltages, and in response to determining the transition, routing, by the device, dominant data or logic 0/1 data of the CAN XL nodes to other nodes of the group of CAN XL nodes.
US11804975B1
A method, system, and computer program product for attentive listening in multiple contemporaneous meetings. The method identifies a set of keywords designated by a host of a meeting. Remarks in a set of sub-meetings of the meeting are monitored. One or more remarks of interest are identified which match one or more keywords within the remarks of a sub-meeting of the set of sub-meetings. Each sub-meeting has a meeting designation. The one or more remarks of interest are determined to exceed an interest threshold. The method presents the meeting designation and a remark indication to the host in response to determining the one or more remarks of interest exceed the interest threshold.
US11804972B2
A fluid meter includes communication means arranged to receive an external opening or closing command to open or close an electromechanical valve suitable for being included in a cut-off unit mounted in the proximity of the fluid meter, authentication means arranged to authenticate a control frame including the opening or closing command, and a first communication interface arranged to transmit both the control frame and electrical energy to a second communication interface of the cut-off unit via a wireless link. The electrical energy is suitable for electrically powering the second communication interface of the cut-off unit.
US11804969B2
Systems and methods are described for establishing trust between two devices for secure peer-to-peer communication. In an example, a first and a second device can each possess a digital signature issued by the same certificate authority and a hash function issued by the same trusted entity. The devices can exchange public keys that include their respective digital signatures. The second device can verify the first device's digital signature, encrypt an encryption key with the second device's public key, hash the encryption key using its hash function, and encrypt the hash using its private key. The second device can send the encrypted hash and encryption key to the first device. The first device can verify the second device's digital signature, decrypt the encryption key, and decrypt the encrypted hash. The first device can hash the encryption key using its hashing function and compare the two hashes to verify the second device.
US11804964B2
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission between a contactless card, a client device, and one or more servers are provided. One or more applets of the contactless card are configured to dynamically generate an encrypted payload appended to a link, wherein the contactless card is configured to transmit the link with the appended payload to the client device via one or more gestures. The one or more servers are configured to receive the payload from the client device via one or more applications, parse and decrypt the payload after launch of one or more applications, and transmit one or more notifications to the client device based on a status associated with decryption of the payload. The client device is granted access to a plurality of services associated with the one or more servers based on the one or more notifications received from the one or more servers.
US11804961B1
A computer network includes a camera node, a network access node, a verification node, and a display node. Video content recorded by a camera at the camera node is transmitted to the display node and to the verification node for verification. The video content is verified at the display node and at the verification node. Recording metadata of the video content is stored in a distributed ledger and retrieved by the display node to verify the video content. The verification node receives, from the network access node, verification data for verifying the video content.
US11804957B2
Techniques for exporting remote cryptographic keys are provided. In one technique, a proxy server receives, from a secure enclave of a client device, a request for a cryptographic key. The request includes a key name for the cryptographic key. In response to receiving the request, the proxy server sends the request to a cryptographic device that stores the cryptographic key. The cryptographic device encrypts the cryptographic key based on an encryption key to generate a wrapped key. The proxy server receives the wrapped key from the cryptographic device and sends the wrapped key to the secure enclave of the client device.
US11804952B2
A system and method for the analysis of log data is presented. The system uses SuperMinHash based locality sensitive hash signatures to describe the similarity between log lines. Signatures are created for incoming log lines and stored in signature indexes. Later similarity queries use those indexes to improve the query performance. The SuperMinHash algorithm uses a two staged approach to determine signature values, one stage uses a first random number to calculate the index of the signature value that is to update. The two staged approach improves the accuracy of the produced similarity estimation data for small sized signatures. The two staged approach may further be used to produce random numbers that are related, e.g. each created random number may be larger than its predecessors. This relation is used to optimize the algorithm by determining and terminating when further created random numbers have no influence on the created signature.
US11804951B2
The described techniques facilitate the secure transmission of sensor measurement data to an ECU by implementing an authentication procedure. The authentication procedure includes an integrated circuit (IC) generating authentication tags by encrypting portions of sensor measurement data. These authentication tags are then transmitted together with the sensor measurement data as authenticated sensor measurement data. The ECU may then use the authentication tags to authenticate the sensor measurement data based upon a comparison of the portions of the sensor measurement data sensor measurement data to the authentication tag that is expected to be generated for those portions of sensor measurement data.
US11804947B2
A radio apparatus correlates signal data with stored synchronization data to determine correlation data. The signal data represents a received radio-frequency signal that encodes a data frame, which has a synchronization preamble with a plurality of instances of a predetermined synchronization sequence. The stored synchronization data represents the predetermined synchronization sequence. The radio apparatus identifies a set of peaks in the correlation data, and uses a timing criterion to identify a plurality of subsets of the set of peaks, such that time values of the peaks of each identified subset satisfy the timing criterion. The radio apparatus calculates a correlation score Cj for each of the identified subsets from correlation values of the subset's peaks, and uses the correlation scores Cj to select a subset from the plurality of subsets. Timing or frequency synchronization information for the radio apparatus is determined from the peaks of the selected subset.
US11804945B2
A clock frequency divider circuit and a receiver are provided. The clock frequency divider circuit includes a reset retimer circuit configured to receive a reset signal and a clock signal, output a reset buffer signal of a differential signal pair obtained by buffering the reset signal, and output a reset synchronization signal obtained by synchronizing the reset signal with the clock signal, a clock buffer circuit configured to receive the clock signal and the reset synchronization signal and output a clock buffer signal of a differential signal pair obtained by buffering the clock signal, and an IQ divider circuit configured to output first through fourth output signals having different phases based on the reset buffer signal and the clock buffer signal.
US11804942B2
The disclosure of the present invention proposes a wireless communication method. The method may comprise: performing a downlink (DL) reception on a DL resource; and performing an uplink (UL) transmission on a UL resource. The UL resource and the DL resource may use different numerologies each other. The numerologies may be defined by a subcarrier spacing and a cyclic prefix (CP) length.
US11804939B2
In certain embodiments, a method includes, by a first mobile device, obtaining a data packet and determining, from a first set of resources, control resources for transmitting scheduling information associated with the data packet. The control resources include a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH). The method includes determining, by the first mobile device from a second set of resources, acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) resources associated with the data packet and related to the control resources. The scheduling information includes transmission information for transmitting the data packet and an indication of the ACK/NACK resources. The method includes transmitting, by the first mobile device to a second mobile device, the scheduling information on the control resources and the data packet on a set of resources indicated by the transmission information and listening, by the first mobile device, for an ACK/NACK transmitted by the second mobile device on the ACK/NACK resources.
US11804936B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a base station (BS) may process, for a plurality of search space (SS) set occasions, a plurality of narrowband (NB) demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) using a common precoder in a common resource element group (REG). The BS may transmit the plurality of NB DMRSs within a union of REGs of each physical downlink control channel for each aggregation level configured for the plurality of SS set occasions. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11804931B2
A method for data transmission and related products are provided. The method includes the following. A first application data packet of a first application is obtained during running the first application. The first application data packet is tagged according to first user identification (UID) of the first application, and a first data packet tag of the first application data packet is obtained. A target PLR of data transmitted by the Wi-Fi module is obtained in response to that the first data packet tag is identified by the Wi-Fi module. When the target PLR is greater than a first threshold, first maximum number of retransmissions of the first application data packet is increased to first target number of retransmissions according to the target PLR. The first application data packet is transmitted according to the first target number of retransmissions.
US11804916B2
A system for determining a direction of arrival of a radio signal being emitted by a radio emitter, the system including: a single antenna configured to be moved through multiple spatial positions and configured to receive the radio signal at two or more of the multiple spatial positions; and a controller configured to determine one or more directions of arrival of the radio signal based on: a radio signal frequency; at least one residual phase difference value between at least two of two or more residual phase values each obtained based on the radio signal received by the single antenna at one of the two or more multiple spatial positions; and at least a portion of a motion data indicative of the movement of the single antenna.
US11804914B1
Techniques are described for detecting whether a phased array antenna is to be calibrated. In an example, a controller communicatively coupled with the phased array antenna measures a characteristic of a probe signal. The probe signal is communicated between an antenna element of the phased array antenna and a probe antenna mounted to the phased array antenna. The probe antenna is over-resonant. The controller further determines a drift of the phased array antenna based at least in part on the characteristic. Based at least in part on the drift, the controller initiates a calibration of the phased array antenna.
US11804906B2
A system includes a transmitter configured to output an optical signal. The transmitter includes a seed laser, an optical array including a plurality of array elements, and a plurality of phase shifters in a multi-layer arrangement. The multi-layer arrangement includes a plurality of layers between the seed laser and the optical array, wherein a first layer of the plurality of layers transmits light to a second layer of the plurality of layers. The first layer has fewer phase shifters than the second layer. The multi-layer arrangement also includes a plurality of branches wherein each branch includes a phase shifter from each of the plurality of layers connected in series between the seed laser and one of the plurality of array elements. Each phase shifter is configured to shift the optical signal incrementally to amass a total phase shift for each of the plurality of array elements.
US11804905B1
An optical full-field transmitter (OFFT) includes a plurality of optical circulators and a polarization beam combiner. The plurality of optical circulators are fabricated on a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate, where each of the optical circulators has (a) a first port that optically couples to a high-quality optical source, (b) a second port that optically couples to a child laser configured to receive amplitude modulation data, and (c) a third port optically coupled to a phase modulator that (i) is configured to receive a phase modulation data and (ii) includes an output port that outputs amplitude and phase modulated light. The polarization beam combiner receives the amplitude and phase modulated light from each of the optical circulators and outputs combined amplitude and phase modulated light.
US11804898B2
A detection system for light communications comprises a total internal reflection (TIR) waveguide and a light sensor adjacent to the TIR waveguide. The TIR waveguide comprises a TIR structure, a diffusive element, and a waveguide entrance. The TIR structure is configured to internally propagate light associated with optical signaling along the TIR waveguide. The diffusive element is disposed at an internal edge of the TIR structure opposite the light sensor. The diffusive element is configured to disrupt the propagation of the light such that at least some of the light is directed to the light sensor. The waveguide entrance is offset from the diffusive element along the TIR structure and configured to collect the light into the TIR structure.
US11804889B2
Orbital angular momentum (OAM)-based multiplexing includes accessing distinct data streams to be multiplexed and transmitted according to a corresponding plurality of OAM modes. The OAM-based multiplexing further includes generating a set of antenna element-specific signals corresponding to individual antenna elements of an antenna array. Individual ones of the antenna element-specific signals are based on corresponding distinct data streams.
US11804886B2
Provided are CSI feedback and receiving methods, apparatuses, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: a terminal determines PMI, the PMI includes at least one of: first base vector information, second base vector information, second coefficient amplitude information or phase information; for one transmission layer, a frequency domain resource in one preset frequency domain unit corresponds to one precoding vector, the precoding vector is a linear combination of first base vectors, and weighting coefficients used in the linear combination of the first base vectors are first coefficients; on multiple frequency domain units contained in a CSI feedback band, a vector composed of first coefficients corresponding to a same first base vector is a linear combination of second base vectors, and weighting coefficients used in the linear combination of the second base vectors are second coefficients; and the terminal feeds back CSI containing the PMI to a base station.
US11804885B2
A method, in a radio network node, comprises identifying, among a predetermined codebook of precoding matrix codewords, a subset of precoding matrix codewords that are not to be reported by the wireless device in channel-state-information, CSI, feedback, and transmitting, to the wireless device, a bitmap identifying the subset of precoding matrix codewords that are not to be reported by the wireless device; where each bit in the bitmap corresponds to only one combination of a first dimension index l′1 and a second dimension index l′2 out of the possible combinations of the first dimension index l′1 and the second dimension index l′2, and where the first dimension index l′1 and the second dimension index l′2 identify a two-dimensional beam, the two-dimensional beam being defined by a vector of complex numbers comprised within at least one column of a precoding matrix codeword in the codebook.
US11804883B2
Methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses for wireless communications that support transmission diversity enhancement for uplink control channel are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for enhanced performance of an uplink control channel such as a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) through the use of transmission diversity. In some cases, multiple input multiple output (MIMO) techniques may be supported for transmission of an uplink control channel for a given format suitable for transmission diversity enhancement. A resource block (RB) used in an uplink control channel transmission may contain a number of resource elements (REs) across one or more resource blocks. According to some aspects, a transmit diversity scheme may be employed at the RE level through application of different spatial precoders for different groups of REs of a given RB.
US11804880B2
A transmission method simultaneously transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal at a common frequency performs precoding on both signals using a fixed precoding matrix and regularly changes the phase of at least one of the signals, thereby improving received data signal quality for a reception device.
US11804879B2
A terminal apparatus mounted on a movable body is provided to communicate with an external communication apparatus outside the movable body. The terminal apparatus includes an antenna, and a communicator device. The antenna includes a plurality of antenna elements to be arranged along a traveling direction of the movable body. The communicator device is configured to communicate with the external communication apparatus using a communicating antenna element that is at least one of the plurality of antenna elements. The communicating antenna element is selected from the plurality of antenna elements so as to belong to a specified region. The specified region is defined by propagation environment information of an electric wave propagation path of a signal transmitted to and received from the external communication apparatus.
US11804874B2
An antenna device for magnetic field communication may include: a first coil; a second coil; a third coil; a first capacitor connected to a 1-1 terminal of the first coil; a second capacitor connected to a 2-1 terminal of the second coil; a third capacitor connected to a 3-1 terminal of the third coil; and an input port including a first input terminal connected to a 1-2 terminal of the first coil, a 2-2 terminal of the second coil, and a 3-2 terminal of the third coil, and a second input terminal connected to the first capacitor, the second capacitor, and the third capacitor.
US11804861B2
Devices and methods related to wideband multiplexer for radio-frequency (RF) applications. In some embodiments, a multiplexer may include a common path configured to receive a plurality of RF signals. The multiplexer may further include a first path having an output coupled to the common path and configured to provide a band-pass response for a frequency band BX. The multiplexer may further include a second path having an output coupled to the common path such that RF signals in the first and second paths are combined and routed through the common path. The second path may be configured to provide a band-stop response for the frequency band BX such that the common path includes a wideband response that includes the frequency band BX and one or more other frequency bands.
US11804860B2
An apparatus, method and computer program performs initializing parameters of a transmission system. The transmission system comprises a transmitter, a first channel, a relay, a second channel and a receiver. The transmitter includes a transmitter algorithm having trainable weights, the relay includes a relay algorithm having trainable weights and the receiver includes a receiver algorithm having trainable weights. A first training sequence of messages is received, and the first training sequence of messages is sent from the transmitter to the relay using the first channel and is sent from the relay to the receiver using the second channel. A loss function is obtained or generated, and trainable parameters of the transmission system are updated based on the loss function. The trainable parameters include some of the trainable weights of the transmitter, some of the trainable weights of the relay, and some of the trainable weights of the receiver.
US11804859B2
An analog error correction circuit is disclosed that implements an analog error correction code. The analog circuit includes a crossbar array of memristors or other non-volatile tunable resistive memory devices. The crossbar array includes a first crossbar array portion programmed with values of a target computation matrix and a second crossbar array portion programmed with values of an encoder matrix for correcting computation errors in the matrix multiplication of an input vector with the computation matrix. The first and second crossbar array portions share the same row lines and are connected to a third crossbar array portion that is programmed with values of a decoder matrix, thereby enabling single-cycle error detection. A computation error is detected based on output of the decoder matrix circuitry and a location of the error is determined via an inverse matrix multiplication operation whereby the decoder matrix output is fed back to the decoder matrix.
US11804847B2
A circuit includes a programmable frequency divider which receives a high-speed clock, fin, as an input and which provides a modulated reference clock as an output; a Sigma-Delta modulator which receives a Frequency Control Word (FCW) and which is connected to the programmable frequency divider to receive the modulated reference clock as a sample clock and to control an average frequency of the modulated reference clock; and an integer-N Phase Lock Loop (PLL) which receives the modulated reference clock and outputs a clock output.
US11804846B2
A phase-locked loop (PLL) includes a phase-frequency detector that compares a reference signal to a feedback signal. The difference in phase between the reference signal and the feedback signal is encoded as digital pulses on one or more outputs of the phase-frequency detector. The digital output pulses from the phase-frequency detector are duplicated and delayed multiple times in a non-overlapping manner before being input to the loop filter or voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) of the PLL.
US11804845B2
Multi-mode non-return-to-zero (NRZ) and orthogonal differential vector signaling (ODVS) clock and data recovery circuits having configurable sub-channel multi-input comparator (MIC) circuits for forming a composite phase-error signal from a plurality of data-driven phase-error signals generated using phase detectors in a plurality of receivers configured as ODVS sub-channel MICs generating orthogonal sub-channel outputs in a first mode and a separate first and second data driven phase-error signal from two receivers of a plurality of receivers configured as NRZ receivers in a second mode.
US11804841B2
An interface circuit includes: a buffer circuit configured to receive an input signal and to generate an output signal having a delay time, the delay time being determined based on a current level of a bias current and a voltage level of a power supply voltage; and a bias generation circuit configured to vary a voltage level of a bias control voltage so that the delay time is constant by compensating for a change in the voltage level of the power supply voltage, the bias generation circuit being further configured to provide the bias control voltage to the buffer circuit.
US11804833B1
An apparatus includes a capacitor coupled to a power switch, wherein the capacitor is configured to provide a negative gate voltage to the power switch when a turn-off signal is applied to a gate of the power switch, and a sink and source power supply coupled to the capacitor, wherein the sink and source power supply has a first current limit for controlling a sink current flowing from the capacitor to the sink and source power supply, and a second current limit for controlling a source current flowing from the sink and source power supply to the capacitor.
US11804831B2
An NMOS switch driving circuit and a power supply device are provided. The NMOS switch driving circuit includes a power-supply unit, a switch unit, a power conversion unit, and a driving unit. The power-supply unit is configured to output a first voltage. The switch unit is electrically coupled between the power-supply unit and a first interface and configured to establish or disconnect an electrical coupling between the power-supply unit and the first interface. The power conversion unit includes a port coupled to the power-supply unit and another port electrically coupled to the switch unit via the driving unit. The power conversion unit is configured to convert the first voltage into a constant driving voltage and output the driving voltage to the switch unit via the driving unit to drive the switch unit to be switched on, to establish the electrical coupling between the power-supply unit and the first interface.
US11804823B1
Embodiments described herein may provide a surface acoustic wave (SAW) device, methods of fabricating the SAW device, and a system incorporating the SAW device. The SAW device may include a piezoelectric substrate and individual resonators may be formed by a plurality of electrodes on the surface of the piezoelectric substrate. A dielectric layer having a positive thermal coefficient of frequency (TCF) may be formed on each of the plurality of electrodes. In various embodiments, temperature compensation may be achieved by providing more or less of the dielectric layer on at least one resonator than on the other resonators based on a configuration of the resonators. In various embodiments, temperature compensation may be achieved by providing at least one resonator with a different duty factor than the other resonators based on a configuration of the resonators.
US11804819B2
A method and structure for single crystal acoustic electronic device. The device includes a substrate having an enhancement layer formed overlying its surface region, a support layer formed overlying the enhancement layer, and an air cavity formed through a portion of the support layer. Single crystal piezoelectric material is formed overlying the air cavity and a portion of the enhancement layer. Also, a first electrode material coupled to the backside surface region of the crystal piezoelectric material and spatially configured within the cavity. A second electrode material is formed overlying the topside of the piezoelectric material, and a dielectric layer formed overlying the second electrode material. Further, one or more shunt layers can be formed around the perimeter of a resonator region of the device to connect the piezoelectric material to the enhancement layer.
US11804811B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes: a low noise amplifier (LNA) to receive and amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal, the LNA having a first controllable gain; a mixer to downconvert the RF signal to a second frequency signal; a programmable gain amplifier (PGA) coupled to the mixer to amplify the second frequency signal, the PGA having a second controllable gain; a digitizer to digitize the second frequency signal to a digitized signal; a demodulator coupled to the digitizer to demodulate the digitized signal; an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit to control one or more of the first controllable gain and the second controllable gain; and an AGC settling circuit to cause the demodulator to begin operation in response to determining that the AGC circuit has settled.
US11804806B2
A charge-steering amplifier circuit and a control method thereof are provided. The charge-steering amplifier circuit is used for amplifying a differential input signal and includes a sample-and-hold circuit, a charge-steering amplifier, a reference voltage generation circuit, and a switch circuit. The sample-and-hold circuit is configured to sample the differential input signal to generate first and second sampled signals. The charge-steering amplifier has a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. The first and second input terminals receive the first and second sampled signals, respectively. The reference voltage generation circuit is configured to generate a reference voltage according to the differential input signal. The switch circuit is configured to couple the reference voltage to the first output terminal and the second output terminal.
US11804805B2
Described examples include an integrated circuit having an input stage with an input and an output. A first current mirror is coupled to the output, the first current mirror including a first transistor having an emitter and a base coupled to the output of the input stage, and a collector coupled to a reference potential. The first current mirror also includes a second transistor having a base coupled to the base of the first transistor, an emitter coupled to the reference potential and a collector coupled to an output node. A buffer has an input coupled to the output node and an output. A third transistor has a base and an emitter coupled to the reference potential and a collector coupled to the output of the buffer. A second current mirror couples a portion of the buffer output current to the base of the first transistor.
US11804801B2
Disclosed is an AC motor drive (600) for a three phase, 400 Hz., AC induction motor. The application is a constant speed, constant load application. An AC power source with a wide variation in voltage and frequency is rectified to establish a DC bus. A three phase full wave bridge inverter operates on this source. A cascaded sinusoidal reference signal generator (225) generates three sinusoidal voltages 120° phase shifted from one another. These pure sinusoidal reference help reduce harmonic currents. A high PWM frequency is used to operate the power switches of the bridge to reduce current harmonics. The speed regulator (220) generates an error voltage between a speed command voltage and a feedback of DC voltage that is equivalent to the RMS value of the terminal voltage of the motor for speed regulation. The harmonic content of the DC bus current is extracted to provide short circuit protection.
US11804799B2
A system for controlling a synchronous motor drive may be configured to receive a command voltage signal and to identify, in the synchronous motor drive, a resistance imbalance signature from the command voltage signal. The system may determine, based on the resistance imbalance signature, respective phase resistances that correspond to phases of a synchronous motor of the synchronous motor drive. Each respective phase resistance may include a phase transistor resistance and a phase winding resistance. The system may identify, based on the phase resistances and an estimated average resistance between the phases of the synchronous motor, one or more phases of the synchronous motor that correspond to one or more phase resistances representing a resistance imbalance.
US11804794B2
A motor controller comprises a switch circuit and a control unit. The motor controller is used for driving a motor, where the motor has a coil. The switch circuit is configured to supply a coil current to the coil. The control unit is configured to generate a plurality of control signals to control the switch circuit. The motor controller enables a floating phase time to be a variable value, where the floating phase time has a stable interval and a detecting interval. The motor controller enables a zero point of the coil current to appear in the stable interval, so as to detect a phase switching time point in a stable way and avoid a noise problem. The motor controller detects a zero crossing point of a back electromotive force in the detecting interval.
US11804789B2
A drive system (500) includes a power converter (510) with power modules (312) supplying power to one or more output phases (A, B, C), a central control system (512) in communication with the power converter (510) and controlling operation of the power modules (312), wherein the central control system (512) comprises an advanced protection module (APM 514) configured via executable instructions to receive input data from an electrical load (520) operably coupled to the one or more output phases (A, B, C) utilizing power converter feedback from the electrical load (520), determine one or more operating conditions of the electrical load (520) based on the input data; and output one or more protection parameters based on a determined operating condition of the electrical load (520) for protecting the electrical load (520).
US11804788B2
A power converter includes an inverter circuit connected between the positive and negative terminals of a DC power supply, three single-phase bridge circuits each connected in series between an AC terminal of one of different phases of the inverter circuit and a motor, and a power conversion controller that generates gate signals to control operations of the inverter circuit and the three single-phase bridge circuits based on phase voltage commands. When a semiconductor switching element of the single-phase bridge circuits fails, the power conversion controller sets the output voltage of the single-phase bridge circuit of a phase to which the faulty semiconductor switching element belongs to zero to continue operation.
US11804787B2
A power converting apparatus includes: a reactor that includes a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal being connected to an alternating-current power supply; a bridge circuit that is connected to the second terminal of the reactor, includes at least one or more switching elements, and converts an alternating-current voltage output from the alternating-current power supply into a direct-current voltage; a power-supply current detecting unit that detects a current from the alternating-current power supply; and a control unit that controls ON and OFF of the switching elements depending on a current value detected by the power-supply current detecting unit, in which two or more current thresholds for controlling ON and OFF of the switching elements are included.
US11804783B2
A power converter includes a transformer having a primary-side winding connected to a switch, and a controller connected to a gate node of the switch. The controller includes a switch timing and control module to generate switch control pulses, a gate driver to receive the switch control pulses and generate gate control pulses therefrom to control the switch, and a gate drive controller to provide a switch transition speed control signal to the gate driver to control a switch transition speed of the switch for each pulse of the gate control pulses. Based on an operating mode of the power converter, the gate drive controller is configured to set the switch transition speed of the gate driver to a first speed for generating an initial gate control pulse and to set the switch transition speed of the gate driver to a second speed for generating subsequent gate control pulses.
US11804780B2
This disclosure provides a multi-mode control method for an active clamp flyback converter. In the flyback converter, the controller realizes mode switching between a trailing edge non-complementary mode, a leading edge non-complementary mode, and a leading edge non-complementary Burst mode of two driving signals after comparing a detection feedback voltage with the set mode switching threshold voltages. The disclosure adopts the trailing edge non-complementary mode to reduce a circulating current of the converter, uses the leading edge non-complementary mode to replace the ordinary flyback mode to improve light load efficiency, and uses the leading-edge non-complementary Burst mode at no-load to limit a peak current of a primary side in leading-edge non-complementary Burst mode to avoid generation of audio noise, and allowing a low no-load power consumption.
US11804778B2
A direct-current (DC)-DC converter includes a converting circuit including an inductor element. The converting circuit is configured to generate an output voltage from an input voltage based on a switching operation. An inductor current emulator is configured to adjust at least one parameter for changing a current peak value of the inductor element in response to a change in a level of the input voltage and is configured to generate an internal voltage based on the at least one parameter, which is adjusted. The inductor current emulator is configured to generate a control signal for controlling the switching operation such that current of the inductor element has a pattern corresponding to a pattern of the internal voltage.
US11804774B2
Voltage converter systems and methods are described. One aspect includes extracting energy from one or more data lines. A feedback voltage is derived from the extracted energy. Responsive to the value of the feedback voltage being less than a reference voltage value, a waveform modulation controller is switched to a pulse-frequency modulation (PFM) mode. Subsequent to switching the waveform modulation controller to the PFM mode, additional energy is extracted from the one or more digital data lines. Another feedback voltage is derived from the additional extracted energy. Responsive to the value of other feedback voltage being greater than the reference voltage value, the waveform modulation controller is further switched from the PFM mode to a pulse-skipping modulation (PSM) mode.
US11804769B2
In some examples, an apparatus includes a driver having a driver output, a capacitor having a first plate and a second plate, the first plate coupled to the driver output, and a transistor having a transistor gate, a transistor source, and a transistor drain. The apparatus also includes a first switch coupled between the second plate and the transistor gate, a second switch coupled between the second plate and the transistor drain, and a third switch coupled between the transistor gate and the transistor drain.
US11804751B2
An electric actuator includes a case, an electric motor 5 built in the case, and a motion conversion mechanism 4 configured to convert a rotary motion of the electric motor 5 into a linear motion. The electric motor 5 is fixed to the case (gear case 10) at a first end in an axial direction of the electric motor 5, and the electric actuator is provided with a first elastic member 50 between an outer peripheral surface of the electric motor 5 and an inner peripheral surface of the case (motor case 60) at a second end of the electric motor opposite to the first end fixed to the case (gear case 10).
US11804745B2
A printed coil assembly including a flexible dielectric material, a patterned top conductive layer formed on a top surface of the flexible dielectric material, and a patterned bottom conductive layer formed on a bottom surface of the flexible dielectric material. The patterned top conductive layer and the patterned bottom conductive layer form a plurality of printed coils arranged in a plurality of printed coil rollers concentrically arranged in a cylindrical shape. Each of the plurality of printed coils includes a top layer printed coil disposed within the patterned top conductive layer and a bottom layer printed coil disposed within the patterned bottom conductive layer. Coil pitches of the coils within each roller are chosen such that corresponding ones of the plurality of printed coils in adjacent rollers are axially aligned relative to a center of the cylindrical shape.
US11804731B2
A method for controlling an uninterruptable power supply arranged between a grid and a variable load, the uninterruptable power supply includes a DC link interconnecting a rectifier connected to the grid via a grid switch, an energy storage and an inverter connected to the load, and a switchable bypass connected between the grid switch and the load and in parallel with the path formed by the rectifier, the DC link and the inverter, the method includes monitoring a power supply of the grid, comparing the power supply to a load requirement of the load, if the power supply meets the load requirement, closing the grid switch, and switching on the bypass, to supply the load with AC current from the grid.
US11804713B2
An energy system that has components connected by buses, and a method and an apparatus for controlling same is provided. The components are labelled as either non-fixed or fixed, depending on whether their energy operating point is specified. The control of the energy system includes performing an iteration process via all of the buses. A respective iteration for the respectively selected bus includes attempting to balance a power budget of the selected bus by specifying the energy operating points of components connected to the respective bus that are labelled as non-fixed. If the balancing for the respective bus is successful, all of the components connected to the respective bus are labelled as fixed; otherwise, the label of components connected to the respective bus is converted from fixed to non-fixed and a fresh iteration for the bus is triggered.
US11804709B2
An ESD protection circuit that includes a clamp path including two clamp transistors and a GIDL detection circuit for detecting GIDL current conditions in the ESD protection circuit. The GIDL detection circuit generates a signal indicative of a GIDL current condition. The signal is utilized to control a voltage of a control electrode of a clamp transistor of the clamp path to increase the conductivity of the clamp transistor when the signal is indicative of a GIDL current condition to minimize a GIDL current through at least through a portion of the clamp path when the second clamp transistor is nonconductive where no ESD current is being discharged through the clamp path.
