US11881114B2
A computer-implemented method for communicating information to an electronic flight bag device (EFB) comprises receiving one or more notification to airmen messages (NOTAMs) that specify conditions associated with one or more runways or taxiways of an airport. The computing system selects from among the received NOTAMs one or more NOTAMs that specify particular conditions under which corresponding runways or taxiways are or will be closed to aircraft traffic. For each selected NOTAM, the computing system generates overlay data that specifies a graphical representation indicative of the particular conditions under which the corresponding runway or taxiway is or will be closed. The computing system communicates the overlay data associated with the selected NOTAMs to the EFB. The graphical representations specified by the overlay data are configured to be overlayed on a map that depicts runways and taxiways and that is configured to be presented by the EFB.
US11881112B1
Recent location and control information received from “lead” vehicles that traveled over a segment of land, sea, or air is captured to inform, via aggregated data, subsequent “trailing” vehicles that travel over that same segment of land, sea, or air. The aggregated data may provide the trailing vehicles with annotated road information that identifies obstacles. In some embodiments, at least some sensor control data may be provided to the subsequent vehicles to assist those vehicles in identifying the obstacles and/or performing other tasks. Besides, obstacles, the location and control information may enable determining areas traveled by vehicles that are not included in conventional maps, as well as vehicle actions associated with particular locations, such as places where vehicles park or make other maneuvers.
US11881108B2
This disclosure describes systems and methods for virtual parking lot space allocation. An example method may include receiving, by a processor and from a first vehicle, sensor data relating to a first location. The example method may also include generating, by the processor and based on the sensor data, a first virtual parking space of a virtual parking location within the first location.
US11881102B2
A measurement method includes: a step of acquiring first observation point information; a step of acquiring second observation point information; a step of calculating a path deflection waveform at a third observation point; a step of calculating a path deflection waveform at a central position between the first observation point and the second observation point; a step of calculating a measurement waveform as a physical quantity at the third observation point; a step of calculating an amplitude coefficient at which a difference is minimized between the measurement waveform and a waveform obtained by multiplying the path deflection waveform at the third observation point by the amplitude coefficient; and a step of calculating, based on the path deflection waveform at the central position and the amplitude coefficient, an estimation waveform as a physical quantity at the central position.
US11881098B1
An object tracking assembly includes a plurality of tracking units that is each attachable to a respective object. Each of the tracking units is in communication with a location network for identifying a location of the tracking units and each of the tracking units broadcasts a tracking signal when the tracking units are actuated. A locating unit is provided and the locating unit broadcasts an actuate signal to each of the tracking units. Each of the tracking units broadcasts the tracking signal to the locating unit when the tracking units receives the actuate signal. The locating unit emits a location alert ranging between a minimum intensity and a maximum intensity corresponding to a distance between the locating unit and a respective one of the tracking units. In this way the locating unit communicates to the user the distance between the locating unit and the respective tracking unit.
US11881095B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including assessing a danger level associated with an object; locating a target person and a caregiver; monitoring movement of an unsupervised target person relative to a boundary around the object; and providing a warning in a caregiver's voice if the person crosses the boundary. A content and volume of the warning, a direction of the warning with respect to a trajectory of movement of the person, and a tone of voice of the warning can be selected according to the danger level and a profile of the person. The method also includes initiating a distraction procedure directed to the person according to the profile; the distraction can include an audio message directing attention of the person to another object. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11881092B1
According to some embodiments, a premise device for monitoring in a premises monitoring system is provided. The premises device comprises at least one switching element that is switchable between a first position and second position, an electromechanical switch that is triggerable to a closed position by a magnetic field, an alignment indicator configured to indicate the electromechanical switch is aligned for monitoring, a sensor, and a power element. In response to the at least one switching element being in the first position, the at least one switching element is configured to: electrically connect the alignment indicator and power element to the electromechanical switch, electrically disconnect the sensor from the electromechanical switch; and in response to the electromechanical switch being triggered to the closed position by the magnetic field, the alignment indicator is configured to emit visual, audio and/or haptic feedback based on alignment of the electromechanical switch for monitoring.
US11881083B2
In various embodiments, the present disclosure relates generally to gaming systems and methods for providing a secondary game with player selected persistent elements.
US11881072B2
A control unit transmits an initial value of a position ID to a cassette control unit at a top in a daisy chain by a serial line. Having received the position ID from the control unit or the cassette control unit of a previous stage in the daisy chain, the cassette control unit recognizes it as a position ID of its own cassette. Where there is a following cassette control unit in the daisy chain, the cassette control unit calculates a position ID of the following cassette control unit to transmit to the following cassette control unit.
US11881068B1
Systems and methods are provided for locking equipment exposure settings. The system includes a safety interlock device coupled to an access point of a barrier and equipment enclosed thereby. The safety interlock device is configured to suspend a normal operation of the equipment while in an open state and allow the normal operation while in a closed state. The system includes an access point control device configured to allow a user to select among exposure settings for the equipment corresponding to operability of the equipment, and to, by a processor: control the equipment to operate in accordance with a selected exposure setting, determine whether the safety interlock device is in the open or closed state, automatically lock the selected exposure setting if the safety interlock device is in the open state, and automatically unlock the selected exposure setting if the safety interlock device is in the closed state.
US11881058B1
Systems and methods which implement localized functionality in a client server system using a technique of caching one or more functional objects for access in response to an appropriate server call are shown. Embodiments provide a browser based postage indicia generation and printing solution in which a browser upon which a postage client is operable is controlled to cache one or more functional objects in the form of script files. Various functional objects may be optimized for caching by clients such as postal rating scripts, postal insurance rating scripts, address verification scripts, etc. Security and/or accuracy verification may be implemented by a server to independently verify the results of use of functional objects by a client.
US11881056B2
An image processing device includes a receiver configured to receive a plurality of images of a subject from a camera; and a processor configured to: calculate, for each of the plurality of images, an angle difference between a gaze angle and a head angle of the subject to obtain a series of angle differences; and determine an authenticity of the subject at least based on the series of angle differences.
US11881047B2
An optical sensor capable of obtaining a plurality of types of information by a plurality of wavelengths in a short time is provided. The optical sensor includes a light receiving unit that includes a first and second pinhole layer that includes a plurality of pinholes, a first and second transmission layer, and a plurality of microlenses belonging to a first and second group, the microlenses being disposed at positions respectively overlapping the plurality of pixels on the second transmission layer. Either of the plurality of microlenses belonging to the first or second group is a first wavelength selection unit that transmits light of a first wavelength. At least one of the other of the plurality of microlenses belonging to the first and second group, the first transmission layer, and the second transmission layer is a second wavelength selection unit that transmits light of a second wavelength.
US11881044B2
A method and apparatus for processing an image, a device and a storage medium are provided. An implementation of the method includes: acquiring a template image, the template image including at least one region of interest; determining a first feature map corresponding to each region of interest in the template image; acquiring a target image; determining a second feature map of the target image; and determining at least one region of interest in the target image according to the first feature map and the second feature map.
US11881043B2
An image processing system having at least one processor configured to: obtain a captured image of a document that includes a fixed part and an un-fixed part, the document being captured by an image reader or an image capture device; detect a feature part of the fixed part based on the captured image; obtain, in a case where the feature part is detected, a shaped image of the captured image such that a positional relationship of the feature part is aligned with a predetermined first positional relationship; and search for, in a case where the feature part is not detected, a substitute feature part of the fixed part based on the captured image, wherein in a case where the feature part is not detected, the at least one processor obtains the shaped image such that a position of the substitute feature part is aligned with a predetermined second position.
US11881037B2
An automatically detecting method for time-varying text region of interest is disclosed. The automatically detecting method is adapted to an image processing unit of an information retrieval system, to detect a time-varying text region of interest having specific characters or character set as unit on an operation screen of a manufacturing machine, a processing machine or other equipment; furthermore, the automatically detecting method can be performed based on presence or absence of the historical screen data, and union of the detected region proposals for the time-varying text region of interest, to obtain an automatically labeled and selected time-varying text region of interest. According to the automatically detecting method, the user only needs to confirm whether the required data are labeled and selected, so it is more convenient for the user to setting data, and greatly helpful to reduce the setting time and correctly detect the required information.
US11881034B2
Erroneous detection due to erroneous parallax measurement is suppressed to accurately detect a step present on a road. An in-vehicle environment recognition device 1 includes a processing device that processes a pair of images acquired by a stereo camera unit 100 mounted on a vehicle. The processing device includes a stereo matching unit 200 that measures a parallax of the pair of images and generates a parallax image, a step candidate extraction unit 300 that extracts a step candidate of a road on which the vehicle travels from the parallax image generated by the stereo matching unit 200, a line segment candidate extraction unit 400 that extracts a line segment candidate from the images acquired by the stereo camera unit 100, an analysis unit 500 that performs collation between the step candidate extracted by the step candidate extraction unit 300 and the line segment candidate extracted by the line segment candidate extraction unit 400 and analyzes validity of the step candidate based on the collation result and an inclination of the line segment candidate, and a three-dimensional object detection unit 600 that detects a step present on the road based on the analysis result of the analysis unit 500.
US11881026B2
Disclosed is a nighttime road fog detection system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a nighttime road fog detection system which rapidly and accurately detects the time of occurrence of nighttime fog that occurs at dawn before sunrise using open information of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras installed on a road and a detection method thereof. According to an embodiment of the present invention, in a mapping image obtained by masking a fog region identified by a fog detection program on an image signal, a region incorrectly determined due to a whitening phenomenon caused by an external light source generated at night is corrected, and thus information about the fog region is more accurately provided.
US11881021B2
Provided are a method of providing carbon emission management information, the method comprising extracting, by a carbon emission management information providing server, an area corresponding to a company to be evaluated from satellite image data of the company to be evaluated, calculating, by the carbon emission management information providing server, a greenhouse gas concentration of the area corresponding to the company to be evaluated from the satellite image data, calculating, by the carbon emission management information providing server, a change in vegetation index around the company to be evaluated from the satellite image data, analyzing, by the carbon emission management information providing server, a relationship between carbon emission management factors input in relation to the company to be evaluated, a change in the calculated greenhouse gas concentration, and the calculated change in vegetation index and generating, by the carbon emission management information providing server, carbon emission management information by using both a relationship between the carbon emission management factors and the change in the calculated greenhouse gas concentration and a relationship between the carbon emission management factors and the calculated change in vegetation index according to a result of the analyzing, and providing the generated carbon emission management information.
US11881019B2
Method for tracking and exploiting at least one environmental parameter such as cleanness in an urban setting; method comprising the following successive steps: —Planning measurements of at least one environmental parameter; —Tracking in real-time said parameter by means of a camera located on-board a vehicle or fastened to a static holder; —Geo-positioning the parameter; —Classifying the parameter depending on the characteristics thereof, such as category, danger or typology; —Improving the environmental parameter based on the data obtained in the 2 preceding steps. The invention also relates to a device using said method.
US11881016B2
Method and system for processing an image and performing instance segmentation using affinity graphs
A system and a method for processing an image so as to perform instance segmentation. The system/method includes: a—inputting (S1) the image (IMG) to a first neural network configured to output an affinity graph (AF), and b—inputting (S2), to a second neural network, the affinity graph and a predefined seed-map (SM), so as to determine whether other pixels belong to a same instance, and set at a first value the value of the other pixels determined as belonging to the same instance.
US11881011B2
A fingerprint anti-counterfeiting method and an electronic device are provided. The fingerprint anti-counterfeiting method includes: After detecting a fingerprint input action of a user, an electronic device obtains a fingerprint image generated by the fingerprint input action, and obtains a vibration-sound signal generated by the fingerprint input action. The device determines, based on a fingerprint anti-counterfeiting model, whether the fingerprint input action is performed by a true finger. The fingerprint anti-counterfeiting model is a multi-dimensional network model obtained through learning based on fingerprint images for training and corresponding vibration-sound signals. The fingerprint anti-counterfeiting method in embodiments of this application helps improve a protection capability of the electronic device for a fake fingerprint attack.
US11881009B2
A software development infrastructure can enable user developers to select remote hardware devices to develop and test their software programs. For some tests and development activity, physical access to the remote device can be provided by the infrastructure administrator by replacing the internal calls of an application with mimic code, which can respond to application requests for sensor data, as if the user was physically handling the remote device at the same location.
US11881005B2
It is possible to inhibit deterioration of extraction precision of a subject and reliably extract the subject even when colors of the subject and a background are the same or similar. An image processing device 1 includes an input unit 11 configured to input a first invisible light image of only a background in which a subject is not included and a second invisible light image in which the subject and the background are included and a subject region extraction unit 15 configured to calculate a difference between a pixel value of each pixel of the second invisible light image and a pixel value of a corresponding pixel of the first invisible light image, determine whether the pixel is in a subject region or a background region in accordance with whether the difference is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold, and extract the subject region from the second invisible light image. The first and second invisible light images are images captured in an environment in which an invisible light irradiation device is disposed so that invisible light is radiated to the background and the invisible light is not radiated to the subject.
US11881000B2
This invention applies dynamic weighting between a point-to-plane and point-to-edge metric on a per-edge basis in an acquired image using a vision system. This allows an applied ICP technique to be significantly more robust to a variety of object geometries and/or occlusions. A system and method herein provides an energy function that is minimized to generate candidate 3D poses for use in alignment of runtime 3D image data of an object with model 3D image data. Since normals are much more accurate than edges, the use of normal is desirable when possible. However, in some use cases, such as a plane, edges provide information in relative directions the normals do not. Hence the system and method defines a “normal information matrix”, which represents the directions in which sufficient information is present. Performing (e.g.) a principal component analysis (PCA) on this matrix provides a basis for the available information.
US11880998B2
A device may receive images identifying interiors of buildings and movable objects and unmovable objects located in the interiors, and may train a machine learning model with the images to generate a trained machine learning model. The device may receive an image identifying an interior portion of a building and objects located in the interior portion, and may process the image, with the trained machine learning model, to identify a movable object and an unmovable object. The device may disregard the movable object to generate an image in which data identifying the movable object has been disregarded, and may process the image in which the data identifying the movable object has been disregarded, with a visual positioning system, to determine a location of the user device in the interior portion of the building. The device may perform one or more actions based on the location of the user device.
US11880995B2
Techniques for auto-locating and positioning relative to an aircraft are disclosed. An example method can include a robot receiving a multi-dimensional representation of an enclosure that includes a candidate target aircraft. The robot can extract a geometric feature from the multi-dimensional representation associated with the candidate target aircraft. The robot can compare the geometric feature of the candidate target aircraft with a second geometric feature from a reference model of a target aircraft. The robot can determine whether the candidate target aircraft is the target aircraft based on the comparison. The robot can calculate a path from a location of the robot to the target aircraft based on the determination. The robot can traverse the path from the location to the target aircraft based on the calculation.
US11880992B2
An apparatus comprising an interface, a light projector and a processor. The interface may be configured to receive pixel data. The light projector may be configured to generate a structured light pattern. The processor may be configured to process the pixel data arranged as video frames comprising the structured light pattern, perform computer vision operations to detect a size of a face area of the video frames, determine a scale ratio in response to the size of the face area, extract the structured light pattern from the video frames, generate a downscaled structured light image and generate a depth map in response to the downscaled structured light image and a downscaled reference image. A downscale operation may be performed in response to the scale ratio to generate the downscaled structured light image. The scale ratio may enable the generation of the downscaled structured light image with sufficient depth pixels.
US11880990B2
A method and apparatus with feature embedding is provided. The method includes estimating a depth map for each of plural two-dimensional (2D) input images, transforming the depth maps into three-dimensional (3D) information in a point cloud form based on an aggregation of the depth maps, and generating an embedded feature by applying the 3D information to a machine learning model, where the embedded feature includes information about a 3D shape corresponding to a 2D object in the plural 2D input images.
US11880985B2
The disclosure herein enables tracking of multiple objects in a real-time video stream. For each individual frame received from the video stream, a frame type of the frame is determined. Based on the individual frame being an object detection frame type, a set of object proposals is detected in the individual frame, associations between the set of object proposals and a set of object tracks are assigned, and statuses of the set of object tracks are updated based on the assigned associations. Based on the individual frame being an object tracking frame type, single-object tracking is performed on the frame based on each object track of the set of object tracks and the set of object tracks is updated based on the performed single-object tracking. For each frame received, a real-time object location data stream is provided based on the set of object tracks.
US11880981B2
This disclosure relates generally to estimating age of a leaf using morphological features extracted from segmented leaves. Traditionally, leaf age estimation requires a single leaf to be plucked from the plant and its image to be captured in a controlled environment. The method and system of the present disclosure obviates these needs and enables obtaining one or more full leaves from images captured in an uncontrolled environment. The method comprises segmenting the image to identify veins of the leaves that further enable obtaining the full leaves. The obtained leaves further enable identifying an associated plant species. The method also discloses some morphological features which are fed to a pre-trained multivariable linear regression model to estimate age of every leaf. The estimated leaf age finds application in estimation of multiple plant characteristics like photosynthetic rate, transpiration, nitrogen content and health of the plants.
US11880980B2
Described is a method for segmenting an anatomical part, including identifying a landmark on a contour/surface of a 2D/3D model of the anatomical part in an ultrasound image, assigning a weight to the landmark, identifying different appearance patterns of a region around the landmark based on a previously stored training set; and applying a filter to the different appearance patterns of the region around the landmark in order to identify contours of the anatomical part.
US11880969B2
A belt examination system includes a defect candidate detecting processor that detects a candidate for a belt defect of an intermediate transfer belt of an image forming apparatus from a belt image, the defect candidate detecting processor executes a background pattern reduction step to reduce a texture-pattern like background noise present in the belt image and detects the candidate based on the belt image generated during the background pattern reduction step, the background pattern reduction step is to execute a locally adaptive binarization process on the belt image in a range having a specific size based on a typical size of the belt defect to generate a binary image and subtract the binary image from the belt image, and the binary image includes a first value into which a lowest color value of the belt defect is converted and a second value larger than the first value.
US11880968B2
A distributed computing system for product defect analysis is disclosed. The distributed computing system for product defect analysis includes a computing cluster for processing product manufacturing messages, a computing cluster for identifying product defect, a product image database, and a client device.
US11880961B2
Techniques are described for the inpainting of an image with a missing region. In an embodiment, the process transforms an input image tensor of the image into a spectral tensor of the image. A machine learning-generated filter is applied to the spectral tensor of the image. Additionally or alternatively, a spectral tensor is spectrally split into at least high-frequency and low-frequency sub-tensors. The output tensor(s) are then inverse-transformed into the spatial domain, yielding pixel data for the unknown region that accurately regenerates both low-level detail information as well as high-level detail information.
US11880959B2
The present invention discloses a method for point cloud up-sampling based on deep learning, including: obtaining training data including a first number of sparse input points and a second number of dense input points; constructing a deep network model to be used for respectively performing replication and sampling operation based on curvature on initial eigenvectors extracted from the first number of sparse input points to obtain a second number of intermediate eigenvectors, performing splicing operation on each intermediate eigenvector, inputting the spliced intermediate eigenvectors into a multilayer perceptron, and determining sampling prediction points based on the sampling eigenvectors output by the multilayer perceptron; training the deep network model until an objective function determined by the sampling prediction points and the dense input points converges; and testing the deep network model to obtain point cloud data of an object under test after up-sampling.
US11880958B2
A method for adjusting an over-rendered area of a display in an AR device is described. The method includes identifying an angular velocity of a display device, a most recent pose of the display device, previous warp poses, and previous over-rendered areas, and adjusting a size of a dynamic over-rendered area based on a combination of the angular velocity, the most recent pose, the previous warp poses, and the previous over-rendered areas.
US11880956B2
An image processing method and apparatus, and a computer readable medium are provided. The method includes that includes: a first reference surface on which a virtual object is placed is determined based on an image collected by an image collection device; a to-be-placed virtual object and pose information of the image collection device relative to the first reference surface are acquired; a display size of the to-be-placed virtual object is determined based on the pose information; and the to-be-placed virtual object is rendered on the image according to the display size.
US11880945B2
The present disclosure describes a software-based solution for rendering digital crowds in real-time. The system at large is a network of machines that processes and ingests broadcast camera feeds and tracking data and then leverages an augmented reality system for compositing and tracking platforms to render tens of thousands of crowd members on top of live footage.
US11880944B2
A method and apparatus for displaying information. The method comprises: determining a field of view of a user viewing an environment via a display of a display device; using the field of view, determining a focal region of interest of the user in the environment; providing a database comprising a list of objects and, for each object, a location of that object in the environment; using the list of objects and a location of the focal region in the environment, identifying one or more of the objects that are at least partially located in the environment in or proximate to the focal region; acquiring information related to the identified one or more objects; generating an image element comprising the acquired information; and displaying the generated image element on the display of the display device through which the user is viewing the environment.
US11880934B2
An apparatus and method are described for performing an early depth test on graphics data. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processing apparatus comprises: early depth test circuitry to perform an early depth test on blocks of pixels to determine whether all pixels in the block of pixels can be resolved by the early depth test; a plurality of execution circuits to execute pixel shading operations on the blocks of pixels; and a scheduler circuit to schedule the blocks of pixels for the pixel shading operations, the scheduler circuit to prioritize the blocks of pixels in accordance with the determination as to whether all pixels in the block of pixels can be resolved by the early depth test.
US11880930B2
A system and method for content creation via interactive layers is provided. A mutable general object on which to build an artefact is stored. The mutable general object includes a plurality of n-dimensional data units capable of being rendered in a multi-dimensional display. An environment represented by the artefact is displayed. The artefact includes layers that each represent a different characteristic of the environment. Each layer includes a generator and layer parameters. A unique identifier is assigned to each layer. The identifiers for the layers of the artefact are composited and the composited identifiers are stored. Upon accessing the composited identifiers, the artefact is reconfigured for display using the generator and layer parameters from each of the layers.
US11880928B2
Apparatus and method for a hierarchical beam tracer. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a beam generator to generate beam data associated with a beam projected into a graphics scene; a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) generator to generate BVH data comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged BVH nodes; a hierarchical beam-based traversal unit to determine whether the beam intersects a current BVH node and, if so, to responsively subdivide the beam into N child beams to test against the current BVH node and/or to traverse further down the BVH hierarchy to select a new BVH node, wherein the hierarchical beam-based traversal unit is to iteratively subdivide successive intersecting child beams and/or to continue to traverse down the BVH hierarchy until a leaf node is reached with which at least one final child beam is determined to intersect; the hierarchical beam-based traversal unit to generate a plurality of rays within the final child beam; and intersection hardware logic to perform intersection testing for any rays intersecting the leaf node, the intersection testing to determine intersections between the rays intersecting the leaf node and primitives bounded by the leaf node.
US11880924B2
A method of tiled rendering is provided which comprises dividing a frame to be rendered, into a plurality of tiles, receiving commands to execute a plurality of subpasses of the tiles and interleaving execution of same subpasses of multiple tiles of the frame. Interleaving execution of same subpasses of multiple tiles comprises executing a previously ordered first subpass of a second tile between execution of the previously ordered first subpass of a first tile and execution of a subsequently ordered second subpass of the first tile. The interleaving is performed, for example, by executing the plurality of subpasses in an order different from the order in which the commands to execute the plurality of subpasses are stored and issued. Alternatively, interleaving is performed by executing one or more subpasses as skip operations such that the plurality of subpasses are executed in the same order.
US11880922B2
The present technology relates to an agent providing system, an agent providing method, and a recording medium that make it possible to provide a more suitable agent. There is provided an agent providing system including a control unit that, when newly providing an agent to a cyberspace in which a plurality of agents is allowed to be registered, provides an agent that is separated by a certain amount or more in terms of appearance or voice from an agent already registered in the cyberspace. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an agent providing system that provides an agent to be registered in a cyberspace.
US11880912B2
Provided is an image processing method wherein a computer: generates an estimation model for estimating the colorized image from the line-drawing image for each element through machine learning using the learning data of that element; identifies the element corresponding to the subject line-drawing image; generates the colorized image that is to be paired with the subject line-drawing image, on the basis of the estimation model corresponding to the identified element and the subject line-drawing image; generates a colorization layer of an image file including a line-drawing layer and the colorization layer by using the subject colorized image; extracts the modified colorization layer and the corresponding line-drawing layer as the image pair for learning; and stores a pair of the line-drawing image of the extracted line-drawing layer and the colorized image of the extracted colorization layer, as the learning data, in association with the element corresponding to the estimation model.
US11880909B2
A HUD apparatus that is an AR display apparatus mounted on an on-vehicle system includes: an image selection unit configured to input an image photographed by a camera, select and extract an area of an object from the image; a visibility judgment unit configured to judge visibility of a user with respect to the area of the object on a basis of an index value; an AR image generator unit configured to generate an AR image regarding the object by subjecting the area to image processing for improving the visibility on a basis of the visibility of the area of the object; and an AR display unit configured to superimpose and display the AR image onto a screen. The visibility judgment unit controls whether the AR image is to be displayed or not and content of the image processing to be changed in accordance with the visibility.
US11880908B2
An information handling system is configured, during a pre-extensible firmware interface initialization phase of the information handling system, to learn capabilities of components of the information handling system, create a hand-off block for storage of a virtual graphical browser firmware volume payload, and store learned capabilities of the components of the information handling system in the hand-off block. During a driver execution environment phase, the information handling system may retrieve the learned capabilities of the components of the information handling system stored in the hand-off block, publish learned capabilities retrieved from the hand-off block, retrieve the virtual graphics browser firmware volume payload stored in the hand-off block, and dispatch a virtual graphics browser learning driver and a virtual graphics browser interpreter driver based on retrieved virtual graphics browser firmware volume payload. The virtual graphics browser learning driver may learn capabilities of a graphics library associated with the information handling system, and publish learned capabilities of the graphics library. The virtual graphics browser interpreter driver may interpret a user interface input based on published learned capabilities and published learned capabilities of the graphics library, and draw user interface elements on a screen based on interpreted user interface input.
US11880900B2
A computing device provides a task user interface that includes a first task for a driver a first location associated with the first task of a transport service. The device determines that a current location of the computing device is within a threshold distance or a threshold estimated travel time from the first location and provides a task panel including information specific to the first task, one or more selectable sub-task features, and a selectable feature that the driver selects to indicate that the first task has been completed. The device can receive a user input corresponding to a selection of the selectable feature and provide a second task of the transport service a second location associated with the second task.
US11880896B2
Systems and methods for generation and use of vendor management platform architectures are disclosed. A compliance component may be utilized to receive user input data indicating supply contracts between a client and a vendor. The user input data may be utilized to determine insurable obligations associated with the supply contract and provide indications as to whether or not the vendor is compliant with the insurable obligation required by the supply contract. An exposure assessment component may be utilized to determine an exposure score associated with a client account and/or a vendor account based on various compliance factors, spending amounts, and/or properties associated with at least one of goods and/or services that a vendor will supply to a client.
US11880894B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for recommending ecosystem credit tokens based on modelled outcomes are provided. In various embodiments, field data comprising geospatial boundaries of one or more field are received. One or more methodology is accessed. For each of the one or more fields, one or more farming practice is accessed, wherein each farming practice comprises a location and time. For each of the one or more fields, for each crop production period, an ecosystem attribute is generated by applying one or more ecosystem attribute quantification methods to each spatially and temporally unique set of one or more farming practices. Selection of one or more program is optimized for each field based on the set of selected programs being compatible within the field and production period.
US11880893B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for energy efficient data exchange is provided. The present invention may include a first electronic card device (ECD) including a first switch and a second switch. The present invention may include the first switch being configured to power on the first ECD responsive to the first ECD engaging a second ECD. The present invention may include the first ECD being configured to exchange data with the second ECD. The present invention may include a docking component configured to receive the first ECD. The present invention may include the docking component including an actuator configured to engage the second switch to power on the first ECD when the first ECD is received by the docking component. The present invention may include the first ECD configured to transfer received data from the second ECD to a mobile device associated with the docking component.
US11880892B2
A method for data storage and retrieval having a plurality of steps. The method starts by first entering a first set of information into a first table. Second, learning associations based on the first set of information, where the associations may be based on purchases and creditors. Third, populating a second table with records of the associations. Fourth, entering a partial set of second information, where the information may be a credit card statement. Fifth, completing the second set of information using the records of associations in the second table.
US11880880B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for providing an efficient and time-saving shopping experience by allowing a user to initiate a purchase of items corresponding to items included in an item list (e.g., shopping list) while minimizing user interactions. A user may initiate a shopping experience via a voice command and/or an interaction with a user interface associated with a list management service. Using keywords included in the item list, a list of recommended items that correspond to items included in the shopping list and are available for purchase at a particular store can be determined and presented to the user. Item listings may be preselected for purchase based at least in part on a determined likelihood that the user will purchase the item. The user can review the recommended items and select a purchase component (e.g., add-to-cart component, buy component), that upon selection, initiates the purchase of the selected items.
US11880857B2
A system and method for dynamically optimizing online privacy recommendations for entity users. Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide for methods and systems for optimizing an entity privacy rights recommendation in online transactions. In certain embodiments, an entity user creates an account within an end user application comprising a graphical user interface configured to display one or more privacy rights education prompt and an entity user privacy score. The entity user is assigned a unique alpha-numeric identifier for the entity user within the entity user account. The end user application is configured to match the entity user to one or more online category good or service vendor according to the unique alpha-numeric identifier and provide an entity privacy rights recommendation comprising the one or more online category good or service vendor matched to the entity user.
US11880848B2
New techniques for stowing and rapidly shipping valuables from a variety of retail stores are provided. In some aspects of the invention, a new form of coded shopping bag, configured to covert to a box (a.k.a. a “BagBox”) for on-location holding and/or shipping is provided. Systems and methods for BagBox conversion, stowing and/or shipping via specialized kiosks are provided. Billing methods based on the coding and recorded user preferences are also provided.
US11880847B2
In some implementations, a device may determine an interaction profile for a provider that is to engage with a user in a communication session. The interaction profile may be based on interaction data relating to interpersonal interactions involving the provider during one or more previous communication sessions. The interaction profile may indicate a bias of the provider in connection with one or more categories of users. The device may generate, based on the interaction profile, a visual representation that depicts at least a face of a person for presentation to the provider during the communication session. One or more characteristics associated with the one or more categories of users may be absent from the face of the person. The device may cause presentation of the visual representation to the provider during the communication session.
US11880844B2
In an example embodiment, a method for updating a database with dimensional balancing comprises receiving a transaction request to transfer a portion of a first balance from the first balance to a second balance; determining a subset of the first balance less than or equal to the portion in the first balance compliant with dimensional rules based on one or more attributes of the subset and an identifier of an account holding the second balance; moving the determined subset from the first balance to the second balance; and updating attributes of the moved subset in the second balance.
US11880843B2
Exemplary systems, methods, and computer-accessible mediums can include, for example, receiving a first location of a user(s) and time information associated with that location, initiating a record for the user(s) based on the location and the time information, receiving a second location of the user(s), where the second location can be in a second bounded area, storing in record, a transaction(s) associated with the user(s) based on the second location, and automatically initiating a single payment for the transaction(s) when the user(s) leaves the first location.
US11880841B2
A system for routing an identity validation request comprises at least one processor in communication with computer-readable storage, the computer-readable storage having stored thereon instructions for causing the at least one processor to: receive, from a requesting device, an identity validation request, the identity validation request comprising identity data and a payment credential; determine, from the payment credential, an issuer of the payment credential; transmit, to the issuer, a verification service request message that comprises the identity data and the payment credential; receive, from the issuer, a verification service response indicating whether or not the identity data has previously been associated with the payment credential; and based on the verification service response, transmit, to the requesting device, an indication as to validity of the identity data.
US11880838B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying an account via a hash key specific to the account and presented to a third party, in connection with a network interaction. One example method includes receiving, by a computing device, from the third party, the hash key in connection with the network interaction, determining a primary account number (PAN) for the account based on the hash key, and identifying an issuer of the account based on the determined PAN. The method also includes transmitting a verification request to the issuer, to verify details of the account, and receiving a code from the issuer indicative of the verification. The method further includes intercepting an authorization request for the network interaction based on the authorization request including the hash key and, in response to the authorization request further including said code, directing the authorization request to the issuer.
US11880835B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating prevention of duplicate transactions across multiple transaction entities in database systems according to one embodiment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes receiving a request to facilitate a financial transaction, wherein the request is received from an external computing device and includes an idempotency key that is unique to the request, and verifying, based on the idempotency key, the request as being a valid request or an invalid request, wherein the valid request is registered, and classifying, based on the idempotency key and a gateway log, the valid request as an original request or a duplicate request that is a successful duplicate request or an unsuccessful duplicate request.
US11880834B2
Examples described herein include systems, methods, instructions, and other implementations for data security with integrated promotion systems. In one example, account security system receives a checkout communication that includes data describing a validated checkout system of a merchant system, where the checkout communication does not include a purchase promotion option. A client token is transmitted in response to an authentication that the checkout communication is from the validated checkout system, and an account communication including the client token and secure client information is received from a client device. A plurality of promotion options associated with the secure transaction is transmitted in response to the account communication, and a promotion selection for the secure transaction is received from the client device and not from the merchant system.
US11880833B2
Methods are provided for maintaining user privacy, and may include establishing a secret key for communication between a plurality of user devices, the plurality of user devices including a first user device associated with a requesting user and a second user device associated with a second user, wherein at least one server computer does not have access to the secret key; receiving from the first user device, a split-payment request message comprising encrypted data, the encrypted data included in the split-payment request message encrypted based on the secret key; generating an encrypted balance for the requesting user and the second user based on the encrypted data of the split-payment request message; and transmitting to the second user device, a split-payment confirmation message including the encrypted balance for the requesting user and/or the second user. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11880825B2
A system is configured to perform operations that include receiving a purchase request to use a consumer digital wallet account of a user to pay for an item sold by a merchant, the consumer digital wallet account being included as a payment method in a merchant digital wallet account provided by the merchant to the user. The operations further include generating a single-use payment token based on a non-transactable token. Additionally, the operations include transmitting, to an existing card payment network, a card transaction message that includes the single-use payment token, the single-use payment token causing the existing card payment network to route the card transaction message back to the system. The operations also include causing payment to be remitted from the user to the merchant using a payment method included in the consumer digital wallet account.
US11880821B2
A system includes a processing system and a memory system. The processing system includes one or more processors. The memory system includes one or more computer-readable media that contain instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to perform operations. The operations include detecting a loading of a webpage including a document object model (DOM). The operations also include analyzing the DOM to identify a first element in the DOM. The operations also include determining, based on the first element, that the webpage is configured to accept payments. The operations also include receiving, from a provider server, a virtual token which corresponds to a user account. The operations also include injecting information from the virtual token into one or more account number fields on the webpage.
US11880820B2
A mobile device is used to initiate and execute a transaction between a customer and a merchant. A mobile device is used to initiate a point of sale transaction, wherein a merchant ID is sent to a payment processing server. Responsive to receiving a communication from the mobile device, the payment processing server requests transaction information from the merchant, wherein the merchant is identified based on the provided merchant ID. The merchant can provide transaction information such as the total sale amount to the payment processing server. The payment processing server can authenticate the customer and initiate a purchase transaction with the appropriate financial institutions associated with the customer and the merchant. The payment processing server can send a confirmation of the executed transaction to the merchant and the mobile device.
US11880819B2
A system may receive, via an NFC tag disposed proximate a vehicle fuel tank, a fuel transaction request from a third-party POS NFC reader positioned proximate a fuel pump. The system may detect a user device being paired with a vehicle communication device of the vehicle to enable a short-range wireless communication. The system may determine that the user device is associated with an authorized user of the vehicle. The system may unlock the NFC tag to enable the NFC tag to communicate with the third-party POS NFC reader for a predefined time limit responsive to determining that the user device is associated with the authorized user. Responsive to unlocking the NFC tag, the system may retrieve account payment information associated with the authorized user, and may transmit, via the NFC tag, the account payment information to the third-party POS NFC reader to complete the fuel transaction.
US11880818B2
Techniques and arrangements of a point-of-sale (POS) system including a transaction interface control mechanism configured to prevent simultaneous input by a merchant and a customer during a transaction. The POS system can include a merchant user interface (UI) presented on a merchant-facing display and a customer UI presented on a customer-facing display. In some instances, the merchant UI can be on a display of a merchant device, while the customer UI can be on a display of a customer device. In such instances, the merchant device and the customer device can be operably connected via a wired or wireless connection.
US11880817B2
A media level of each Self-Service Terminal (SST) within a customized group of SSTs are managed in real time based on a current media level and a predicted optimal media level for each SST over a given period of time. During management, depositors are proactively steered away from media heavy SSTs to media deficient SSTs within the group. Any given SST of the group may have deposits temporarily disabled based on real-time instruction. Depositors that are being redirected may be incentivized to encourage the depositors to deposit at the cash deficient SSTs of the group.
US11880812B2
A point of sale terminal of a merchant includes a third party payment provider display area for payment using a third party payment provider. The point of sale terminal receives an authentication notification for a consumer from the third party payment provider. The consumer is authenticated using one or more of a personal identification number, an image of the consumer, a quick response code scanned from a mobile device of the consumer, or a code received via near field communications with the mobile device of the consumer. The point of sale terminal requests payment from the third party payment provider for a transaction with the consumer using the transaction amount and authentication information. The third party provider display area allows new payment modalities to be used at the point of sale terminal without requiring modification of the instructions for the point of sale terminal.
US11880810B1
A system includes a first processor configured to transmit to a second processor via a secure network session, a first payload configured for a transaction in a public blockchain network including a transaction amount, and a wallet address of a cryptocurrency account, and, in response to receiving, from a blockchain node associated with the cryptocurrency account, an indication that the cryptocurrency account has received a first monetary amount via the public blockchain network, transmit, to the second processor via the secure network session, a second payload indicating the first monetary amount that is less than the transaction amount. In response to the second processor validating the first monetary amount, the second processor transmits, using a blockchain node associated with the cryptocurrency account, a remainder of the transaction amount to the cryptocurrency account via the public blockchain network.
US11880799B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for remotely managing a cleaning quality for an indoor location being cleaned. The method includes accessing a training dataset including a plurality of plot points and associated signal strengths of a predefined signal received from a fixed network device, where at least one plot point is preselected based on a predefined cleaning attribute associated with a physical spot corresponding to the at least one plot point; receiving the predefined signal at a position in the indoor location from the fixed network device, where the received signal has a second signal strength and the position is determined proximate to the plot point based on the second signal strength and each of the signal strengths; and calculating a cumulative duration spent at the determined position based on a predefined cleaning schedule to assess the cleaning quality for the physical spot.
US11880792B2
Embodiments of this disclosure are directed to a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (“WCD”) system design in which a WCD implements an alert prioritization scheme to provide the patient with feedback in an order that is less likely to cause confusion. Different conditions (e.g., device status, equipment condition, or physiologic condition) are prioritized based on an analysis of severity of the condition and timeliness of user action needed. The prioritization scheme defines what alert, if any, is presented to the user by the WCD system as a result of various conditions. Generally stated, an alert for the highest priority condition currently detected is presented to the user and maintained until that condition either changes or becomes surpassed in the prioritization scheme.
US11880791B2
Techniques are disclosed for creating an attachment between two compute instances. An infrastructure and a generalized method is described for attaching two or more cloud resources (e.g., two compute instances) in spite of the compute resources being provisioned by two different services from different cloud tenancies. An automated process is described that is executed for wiring the compute instances. The automated process can be generally applied to attach any two compute instances providing two different services and provisioned from two different service tenancies.
US11880781B2
The present invention discloses a method, a system and a computer program product for Autonomous sourcing and Category management. The invention includes demand sensing and generation through a category workbench interface providing actionable insights for sourcing operation. The invention includes an AI engine configured for recommending a sourcing strategy through prediction analysis and auto negotiation in sourcing operation of Supply chain.
US11880777B2
The described features of the present disclosure generally relate to one or more improved systems for analyzing the electronic information associated with driving activities (e.g., driver log information) obtained from the one or more mobile computing platforms (ELDs) associated with one or more vehicles to identify a likelihood of a driver resigning or deserting his or her position. Accordingly, features of the present disclosure may identify “at-risk” drivers for the fleet operators to trigger remedial measures to prevent such adverse event (e.g., driver quitting).
US11880775B1
Techniques for improved automated selection in computer-based reasoning systems are presented. The techniques include receiving context data for operation of a system, determining two or more candidate actions to take, each from a different computer-based reasoning model, and determining the surprisal of each. The surprisals are then compared and, in some embodiments, the one with the lowest surprisal is chosen. In some embodiments, this chosen action is performed on the system. In some embodiments, the chosen action is passed up a control hierarchy for consideration along with entropy and other factors, and the action chosen at that level is performed on the controlled system.
US11880774B2
This disclosure is directed to communication generation by traversing routes of a graph in a complex computing network. The communication generation is used for determining whether certain input data has certain desired data attributes.
US11880757B2
Embodiments relate to a neural engine circuit that includes an input buffer circuit, a kernel extract circuit, and a multiply-accumulator (MAC) circuit. The MAC circuit receives input data from the input buffer circuit and a kernel coefficient from the kernel extract circuit. The MAC circuit contains several multiply-add (MAD) circuits and accumulators used to perform neural networking operations on the received input data and kernel coefficients. MAD circuits are configured to support fixed-point precision (e.g., INT8) and floating-point precision (FP16) of operands. In floating-point mode, each MAD circuit multiplies the integer bits of input data and kernel coefficients and adds their exponent bits to determine a binary point for alignment. In fixed-point mode, input data and kernel coefficients are multiplied. In both operation modes, the output data is stored in an accumulator, and may be sent back as accumulated values for further multiply-add operations in subsequent processing cycles.
US11880754B2
An electronic apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The control method of the electronic apparatus includes receiving, from a first external electronic apparatus and a second external electronic apparatus, a first artificial intelligence model and a second artificial intelligence model used by the first and second external electronic apparatuses, respectively, and a plurality of learning data stored in the first and second external electronic apparatuses, identifying first learning data, which corresponds to second learning data received from the second external electronic apparatus, among learning data received from the first external electronic apparatus, training the second artificial intelligence model used by the second external electronic apparatus based on the first learning data, and transmitting the trained second artificial intelligence model to the second external electronic apparatus.
US11880752B2
Certain aspects and features of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods that generate machine-learning models to predict whether user devices are likely to meet defined objectives. For example, a machine-learning model can be generated to predict whether or not a user device is likely to access a resource. In some implementations, a semi-supervised model can be used to determine to what extent user devices are predicted to satisfy the defined objective(s). For example, a resource-affinity parameter can be generated as a result of inputting various data points into a semi-supervised model. The various data points can be access from a plurality of data sources, and can represent one or more activities or attributes associated with a user. The value of the resource-affinity parameter can be evaluated to determine the extent to which the user is likely to meet an objective.
US11880746B1
Media and method for a user interface for training an artificial intelligence system. Many artificial intelligence systems require large volumes of labeled training data before they can accurately classify previously unseen data items. However, for some problem domains, no pre-labeled training data set may be available. Manually labeling training data sets by a subject-matter expert is a laborious process. An interface to enable such a subject-matter expert to accurately, consistently, and quickly label training data sets is disclosed herein. By allowing the subject-matter expert to easily navigate between training data items and select the applicable labels, operation of the computer is improved.
US11880740B2
Techniques and solutions are described for facilitating the use of machine learning techniques. In some cases, filters can be defined for multiple segments of a training data set. Model segments corresponding to respective segments can be trained using an appropriate subset of the training data set. When a request for a machine learning result is made, filter criteria for the request can be determined and an appropriate model segment can be selected and used for processing the request. One or more hyperparameter values can be defined for a machine learning scenario. When a machine learning scenario is selected for execution, the one or more hyperparameter values for the machine learning scenario can be used to configure a machine learning algorithm used by the machine learning scenario.
US11880729B2
An RFID tag includes an IC for RFID to which information for presentation can be written by wireless communication, a display, and a control circuit configured to output presentation data to the display. The control circuit includes a font repository storing font data and a data processor configured to create the presentation data by using one or more character codes and the font data, the one or more character codes being included in the information for presentation.
US11880721B2
A method, including receiving, from a client, a unified query, and extracting, from the unified query, an endpoint query for a first data source on a first server and an endpoint query for a second data source on a second server. The extracted endpoint query for the first data source is forwarded to the first server. Upon receiving a response to the endpoint query forwarded to the first server, one or more parameters are extracted from the response. The endpoint query for the second data source is updated so as to include the extracted one or more parameters, and the updated endpoint query for the second data source is forwarded to the second server. Upon receiving, from the second server, a response to the forwarded endpoint query, a result for the received unified query is generated based on the receive responses, and the generated result is conveyed to the client.
US11880718B2
Example implementations includes a method of partitioning a non-transitory memory device by detecting a boot state of a processing device including a non-transitory memory device, identifying a startup state of the processing device based on the boot state, and partitioning the memory device into at least one secure address region, in accordance with a determination that the startup state satisfies an operating state condition. Example implementations also include a method of generating a secure partition associated with a non-transitory memory device by identifying a target processing instruction restricted to execution at a secure subsystem of a processing device, assigning to the target processing instruction a secure address, associating the secure address with a secure address region of a non-transitory memory device of the processing device, and generating a secure partition table including the secure address.
US11880714B2
Technologies for providing dynamic selection of edge and local accelerator resources includes a device having circuitry to identify a function of an application to be accelerated, determine one or more properties of an accelerator resource available at the edge of a network where the device is located, and determine one or more properties of an accelerator resource available in the device. Additionally, the circuitry is to determine a set of acceleration selection factors associated with the function, wherein the acceleration factors are indicative of one or more objectives to be satisfied in the acceleration of the function. Further, the circuitry is to select, as a function of the one or more properties of the accelerator resource available at the edge, the one or more properties of the accelerator resource available in the device, and the acceleration selection factors, one or more of the accelerator resources to accelerate the function.
US11880710B2
An apparatus comprising an interface to receive an identification of a function to be executed; and a scheduling engine comprising circuitry, the scheduling engine to select a candidate compute element from a plurality of candidate compute elements based on a combined burden, the combined burden based on an estimated burden to execute the function by the candidate compute element and an estimated burden of data movement over at least one interconnect identified for the candidate compute element.
US11880706B2
A interrupt control system and method based on RISC-V comprises a processor, a fast interrupt controller, a Caller-save type general-purpose register, and a hardware memory area; the hardware memory area is used for storing a value of the Caller-save type general-purpose register during an interrupt response; and the fast interrupt controller is used for storing the value of the Caller-save type general-purpose register into the hardware memory area, or loading back a content from the hardware memory area into the Caller-save type general-purpose register, and further storing a value of a control and status register set into the hardware memory area when a nested interrupt occurs; which improve an interrupt handling speed of a RISC-V architecture processor, simplify the program development difficulty, expand an application field of the RISC-V as a core single chip microcomputer, and particularly have a wide prospect in the embedded application field.
US11880697B2
A method for task mobilization may include a server receiving user inputs from a desktop application. A user input may correspond to a respective function performed by a user on the desktop application. A processor may identify the respective functions of the user inputs. Further, the method may include translating the respective functions into respective mobile view functions. Based on the respective mobile view functions, the processor may generate a mobile application and provide the mobile application to a mobile user device.
US11880696B2
A system provides a design interface for designing and implementing graphical user interfaces that users can access through web browsers. Depending on the configuration of the graphical user interfaces, the users may be able to monitor and control industrial processes by interacting with components that correspond to the industrial processes as displayed in user interfaces at client devices. The design interface includes functionality for selecting preprogrammed components, or for generating new components for display. The design interface further allows designers to associate data values received from a variety of sources with properties of the components in the user interfaces. In particular, properties associated with a component of an interface are stored in property tree structures, making dynamic changes to the components possible. Data bindings between subtrees representing components and sets of data from industrial and other sources allows for designs that scale with the availability of the data.
US11880691B2
An Internet of Things (IoT) device includes a first memory disposed in a normal zone; a first driver disposed in the normal zone; and a second driver disposed in a secure zone. The first driver is configured to perform: (a) monitoring the first memory to generate data change information of the first memory, the data change information being information on changes of data in the first memory; (b) transmitting the data change information to the second driver; and (c) controlling an operating state of the IoT device based on an instruction for the operating state received from the second driver. The second driver is configured to perform: (d) transmitting the data change information to a specified IoT device management system; and (e) receiving the instruction for the operating state from the IoT device management system and transmitting the instruction for the operating state to the first driver.
US11880690B1
A method, system and apparatus for monitoring a BIOS booting process of a server. The method includes: detecting whether a PCH in a server starts to transmit data to a BMC; when the PCH starts to transmit data to the BMC, acquiring data from an IO transmission line between the PCH and the BMC and parsing same, and determining whether the parsed data includes process data which represents a BIOS booting process of the server; and when the parsed data includes the process data, displaying the process data. It can be seen that a user may directly and quickly determine the current booting process of a BIOS by means of displayed information, such that quick trouble locating of a server during a BIOS booting process is facilitated.
US11880688B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses that enable determining expected hash-values in functions with control flow. A computing device receives a function comprising function instructions within at least three basic blocks connected via multiple execution paths. Hash-input instructions are inserted within a plurality of the basic blocks that indirectly force hash values at the respective insertion points. Hash values at ends of the plurality of the basic blocks are set to a canonical value and an expected hash-value and hash input-values are calculated using a hash function. By using the canonical value and the hash input-values, the expected hash-value is the same regardless of which execution path is executed.
US11880678B2
A chip includes a power pin, a ground pin, a plurality of input/output (I/O) pins, a readable/writable memory, a switching circuit, and a control circuit. The I/O pins include a plurality of mapping pins and a control pin. The readable/writable memory includes a clock port, a plurality of I/O ports, and an enable port. The control circuit selectively activates or does not activate the switching circuit according to the control pin. When the switching circuit is activated, the switching circuit electrically couples the clock port, the I/O ports, and the enable port to the mapping pins respectively.
US11880677B2
A building network system of a building includes a network system. The network system includes one or more processing circuits. The one or more processing circuits are configured to receive network data from a building network of the building, the network data associated with a plurality of pieces of building equipment of the building. The one or more processing circuits are configured to generate a digital network twin of the building network based on the network data, the digital network twin representing the plurality of pieces of building equipment and relationships between the plurality of pieces of building equipment. The one or more processing circuits are configured to identify one or more network updates to the building network based on the digital network twin. The one or more processing circuits are configured to deploy the one or more network updates to the building network.
US11880674B2
Improved systems and methods for hot reloading software applications are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provide that includes detecting an update for a software application. It may be determined whether the update represents a change to a class structure of the software application. If the update does not represent a class change, framework metadata for a class corresponding to the update may be replaced. If the update represents a class change, a runtime executable unit of the software application may be removed and replaced. After replacing the framework metadata and/or the runtime executable unit, the software application may be executed according to the update.
US11880669B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that generates a first compiler output based on input code that includes dynamically typed variable information and generates a second compiler output based on the input code, wherein the second compiler output includes type check code to verify one or more type inferences associated with the first compiler output. The technology may also execute the first compiler output and the second compiler output in parallel via different threads.
US11880664B2
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for improving understandability of text by a user. A final word vector for each word in a sentence of a document is computed, such as by averaging a first word vector and a second word vector for that word. Furthermore, elements of a user portrait are vectorized. A distance is then computed between a vector for each word in the sentence and a vectorized element in the user's portrait which is summed to form an evaluation result for the element. An evaluation result is also formed for every other element in the user's portrait by performing such a computation step. A “final evaluation result” is then generated corresponding to the evaluation results for every element in the user's portrait. The document is then transformed in response to the final evaluation result indicating a lack of understanding of the sentence by the user.
US11880660B2
Technologies relating to model interpretation are described herein. A text classifier is provided with input text and assigns a class to the input text from amongst several possible classes. Based upon the class assigned to the input text by the text classifier, a class profile of a centroidal classifier is selected, where the class profile is constructed based upon numerous input texts to which the text classifier has previously assigned the class. Based upon the selection of the class profile, information that is indicative of operation of the text classifier with respect to the text classifier assigning the class to the input text is output, where the information includes an exemplar text sequence.
US11880657B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for automatically determining accuracy of entity recognition of text. An example method includes segmenting a service entity recognition analysis of the text and a gold entity recognition analysis of the text into common superstrings that define entity spans. The example method further includes classifying each of the entity spans based on an accuracy of entity recognition in the service analysis of the text corresponding to the entity spans using a classification system that differentiates accurately identified but improperly bounded entities into at least three subcategories to obtain an entity accuracy classification. The example method also includes obtaining a score report based on the entity accuracy classification. The example method additionally includes performing an action set based on the entity accuracy classification.
US11880655B2
Embodiments are disclosed for performing fact correction of natural language sentences using data tables. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods comprise receiving an input sentence, tokenizing elements of the input sentence, and identifying, by a first machine learning model, a data table associated with the input sentence. The systems and methods further comprise a second machine learning model identifying a tokenized element of the input sentence that renders the input sentence false based on the data table and masking the tokenized element of the tokenized input sentence that renders the input sentence false. The systems and method further includes a third machine learning model predicting a new value for the masked tokenized element based on the input sentence with the masked tokenized element and the identified data table and providing an output including a modified input sentence with the new value.
US11880653B2
A user requests explanation of a term. In response, a definition is provided. The user can indicate that the user does not understand a new term included in the definition. In response, explanation information is customized based on analysis of the initial term and the new term, and then the explanation information is provided to the user.
US11880646B1
Embodiments of the present invention are related to a dynamic content optimization system including a collection engine, a news server, an optimization engine including a filter engine and a markup engine, an intake module, a client setup engine, a client website with an optimized content display module, and an administrative override. The system includes a learning track and an autonomous track and is configured to create the client website using data gathered from the collection engine. The collection engine is structured to gather outside content for storage within the news server and forward it to the optimization engine. The optimization engine is operable to retrieve content from the news server, preprocess the content for comparison against previously rejected data, compare the content for rejection, markup non rejected content and forward the marked up non-rejected content to the content display module for display on the client website.
US11880645B2
Systems and methods for generating encoded text representations of spoken utterances are disclosed. Audio data is received for a spoken utterance and analyzed to identify a nonverbal characteristic, such as a sentiment, a speaking rate, or a volume. An encoded text representation of the spoken utterance is generated, comprising a text transcription and a visual representation of the nonverbal characteristic. The visual representation comprises a geometric element, such as a graph or shape, or a variation in a text attribute, such as font, font size, or color. Analysis of the audio data and/or generation of the encoded text representation can be performed using machine learning.
US11880644B1
In one embodiment, the disclosure provides a computer-implemented or programmed method, comprising: causing subscribing to a plurality of events provided by a first application programming interface; receiving a layout change event pushed from the first application programming interface; determining that a change in focused element resulted in a currently focused element; causing generating a transparent window on top of the currently focused element; causing receiving one or more character ranges respectively associated with one or more types of markup; causing determining one or more screen bounds corresponding to the one or more character ranges; and, causing respectively displaying, in the transparent window, the one or more types of markup at the screen bounds corresponding to the one or more character ranges associated with that type of markup.
US11880643B2
A device and a method for integrated circuit assistance design, and a method for constructing an electrical performance gradient model are provided. The device includes a database and a processor. The database has an electrical performance gradient model. The electrical performance gradient model represents a gradient distribution of an electrical performance in a wafer. The processor is coupled to the database. The processor analyzes a designed circuit by using the electrical performance gradient model.
US11880634B2
An operation terminal is configured to: determine whether or not a directional microphone and/or a directional speaker of a mobile object is facing toward the operation terminal based on the position and the orientation of the mobile object, a sound picking-up angle of the directional microphone of the mobile object and an output angle of the directional speaker thereof, and the position of the operation terminal; set, when the directional microphone and/or the directional speaker of the mobile object is facing toward the operation terminal, a predetermined threshold as a distance threshold, and determines whether or not a distance between the mobile object and the operation terminal is equal to or shorter than the predetermined threshold; and make, when the distance is equal to or shorter than the predetermined threshold, at least one of the mobile object and the operation terminal reduce the volume of its microphone and/or speaker.
US11880632B2
A method of managing at least one audio playback equipment group including at least one piece of audio playback equipment is provided with a light-emitting identification interface. The method includes the steps of: using the light-emitting identification interface of the piece of audio playback equipment to display a light pattern characteristic at least of the group to which said piece of equipment belongs and/or characteristic of the role of the piece of equipment within said group in the event of at least one of the pieces of audio playback equipment being selected, and performing an action relating to the associated piece of audio playback equipment.
US11880626B2
In embodiments of multi-device pairing and combined display, mobile devices have device touchscreens, and housing bezels of the mobile devices can be positioned proximate each other to form a combined display from the respective device touchscreens. An input recognition system can recognize an input to initiate pairing the mobile devices, enabling a cross-screen display of an interface on the respective device touchscreens, such as with different parts of the interface displayed on different ones of the device touchscreens. The input to initiate pairing the mobile devices can be recognized as the proximity of the mobile devices, as a gesture input, as a sensor input, and/or as a voice-activated input to initiate the pairing of the mobile devices for the cross-screen display of the interface.
US11880615B2
An image formation apparatus includes an accepting portion that accepts authentication information for identifying whether a user is an authorized user having a right to use the image formation apparatus; an authenticator that authenticates whether the user is the authorized user, based on the authentication information accepted by the accepting portion; and an adder that adds, to an image to be printed, tracking information including information for specifying the user authenticated as the authorized user by the authenticator. If the authentication information accepted by the accepting portion is single identification information, the adder adds, as the tracking information, to the image, user specifying information for specifying the user authenticated as the authorized user, the user specifying information being different from the single identification information.
US11880609B2
A USB memory according to a present embodiment is the USB memory capable of data transfer by being connected with a receptacle, and includes a wiring board, a semiconductor chip, a connector, and an adhesive film. The wiring board includes wiring. The semiconductor chip is electrically connected with the wiring. The connector includes a first connection, a second connection, and a holder. The first connection is electrically connected with the semiconductor chip via the wiring. The second connection is electrically connected with the first connection and is connectable with the receptacle. The holder holds the first connection and the second connection. The adhesive film is provided at least between the wiring board and the holder.
US11880602B2
A data writing method includes: receiving a write command, where the write command carries a type of to-be-written data; determining, based on the type of to-be-written data, a type of storage area that is in an SSD and into which the to-be-written data is written, where the SSD includes a plurality of types of storage areas; determining, based on the type of storage area, a target storage area into which the to-be-written data is written; and writing the to-be-written data into the target storage area. In embodiments of this application, data processing efficiency can be improved.
US11880601B2
A storage device having improved performance includes: a plurality of memory devices, each memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, the plurality of memory devices coupled to a channel; and a memory controller coupled to the channel to be in communication with the plurality of memory devices to provide a read command for instructing a read operation on the plurality of memory blocks to read out data and provide a read enable signal to the memory devices during at least part of an idle time of the channel, which occurs while the read operation is being performed. The plurality of memory devices output first data to the memory controller through the channel in response to the read enable signal, wherein the first data is different from the data previously read out by the read operation that provides the read enable signal in response to the read command.
US11880590B2
A data processing system and method for accessing a heterogeneous memory system including a processing unit are provided. The heterogeneous memory system includes a memory module and high bandwidth memory (HBM) including a processing-in-memory (PIM) circuit combined with a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to detect a data array required for an arithmetic operation from a memory module or the HBM by using a border index value when the arithmetic operation is performed by the PIM circuit of the HBM and generate a memory module command set and an HBM command set using physical address spaces respectively designated in the memory module and the HBM.
US11880589B2
A storage system is coupled to a cloud system that provides cloud volumes belonging to any of a plurality of tiers with different access performances. The cloud system changes a tier to which an externally-provided volume belongs based on a state of volume utilization in which the cloud volumes are utilized. A storage controller of the storage system provides a host computer with a volume created by allocating a page to an external volume that corresponds to the cloud volumes. In addition, the storage controller adjusts a state of volume utilization to control a tier to which the cloud volumes belong.
US11880585B2
Embodiments relate to a semiconductor memory and a method for writing data. The semiconductor memory includes: at least one storage array, the storage array including a plurality of data storage units and a plurality of check bit storage units; a check module, configured to receive written data and generate check data according to the written data; and a data transmission module, respectively connected to the check module and the storage array, the data transmission module being configured to transmit the written data to the plurality of data storage units and transmit the check data to the plurality of check bit storage units. A first transmission time duration of the check data is shorter than a second transmission time duration of the written data.
US11880584B2
A method for reverse range lookup in an ordered data structure of keys, wherein each key comprises a logical block address (LBA) and a snapshot identifier (ID) of one of one or more snapshots in a snapshot hierarchy, is provided. The keys in the ordered data structure are in an order from smallest to largest LBA, wherein in the order, keys having a same LBA are ordered from smallest to largest snapshot ID. The method includes determining a range of LBAs and traversing the ordered data structure in reverse order until a key is found that: has an LBA and a snapshot ID that is less than or equal to the last LBA and the largest snapshot ID, respectively. The method further includes adding an extent corresponding to the located key to an extent result list if the snapshot ID of the located key is not within a deny list.
US11880583B2
A storage device may include a storage medium, a storage device controller coupled to the storage medium, a host interface coupled to the storage device controller, and an attachable module interface configured to connect an attachable compute module to the storage device controller. The attachable module interface may include a data interface, a side-band interface, and/or a power interface. The attachable module interface may include a connector configured to connect the attachable compute module to the storage device controller. The storage device may include an enclosure having an opening configured to enable the attachable compute module to be connected to the attachable module interface through the opening. The storage device controller may be configured to utilize one or more resources of the attachable compute module. The storage device controller may be configured to communicate with the attachable compute module through one or more command extensions of a storage protocol.
US11880578B2
Techniques are provided for providing a storage abstraction layer for a composite aggregate architecture. A storage abstraction layer is utilized as an indirection layer between a file system and a storage environment. The storage abstraction layer obtains characteristic of a plurality of storage providers that provide access to heterogeneous types of storage of the storage environment (e.g., solid state storage, high availability storage, object storage, hard disk drive storage, etc.). The storage abstraction layer generates storage bins to manage storage of each storage provider. The storage abstraction layer generates a storage aggregate from the heterogeneous types of storage as a single storage container. The storage aggregate is exposed to the file system as the single storage container that abstracts away from the file system the management and physical storage details of data of the storage aggregate.
US11880577B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to data deduplication (dedup) techniques for storage arrays. In embodiments, a sequence of input/output (IO) operations in an IO stream received from one or more host devices by a storage array are identified. Additionally, a determination is made as to whether previously received IO operations match the identified IO based on an IO rolling offsets empirical distribution model. Further, one or more data deduplication (dedup) techniques are performed on the matching IO sequence based on a comparison of a source compression technique and a target compression technique related to the identified IO sequence.
US11880570B1
A storage systems is configured so that when a network interface receives a write request, the network interface performs protocol processing on the write request and transfers a write command to a storage controller, the storage controller reserves a data storage area in a cache memory, the network interface receives a data transfer request from the storage controller and stores data relating to the write request in the reserved storage area of the cache memory, the storage controller transfers a write response to the network interface, and the network interface responds to the source of the write request.
US11880569B2
A clock mode configuration circuit for a memory device. A memory system includes any number of memory devices serially connected to each other, where each memory device receives a clock signal. The clock signal can be provided either in parallel to all the memory devices or serially from memory device to memory device through a common clock input. The clock mode configuration circuit in each memory device is set to a parallel mode for receiving the parallel clock signal, and to a serial mode for receiving a source synchronous clock signal from a prior memory device. Depending on the set operating mode, the data input circuits will be configured for the corresponding data signal format, and the corresponding clock input circuits will be either enabled or disabled. The parallel mode and the serial mode is set by sensing a voltage level of a reference voltage provided to each memory device.
US11880568B2
A dynamically reconfigurable computational storage drive (CSD) that facilitates parallel data management functionality for a plurality of associated memory devices. The CSD includes an FPGA device that is dynamically reconfigurable during operation of the CSD to provide configuration of a storage interface. Specifically, the FPGA device may be dynamically configured to provide one of a plurality of different communication protocols. A physical connector may be remapped to facilitate a communication protocol without reconnecting a memory device or CSD. The CSD may be provided as a rack-mounted device or a storage appliance for dynamic provision of data management functionality to data in a storage system comprising the CSD.
US11880563B2
A handwriting input device includes a display section which includes a display surface and which, in operation, displays handwritten input information that is handwritten on the display surface, a position detection sensor which is disposed such that a position detection area of the position detection sensor is superimposed on a display area of the display surface and which, in operation, detects a position corresponding to the handwritten input information, a memory which, in operation, stores electronic data according to the position that corresponds to the handwritten input information and that has been detected by the position detection sensor, a transmission circuit which, in operation, transmits the electronic data stored in the memory to an external device, and a control circuit which, in operation, controls the transmission of the electronic data stored in the memory to the external device via the transmission circuit.
US11880559B2
A method includes obtaining proximity information for each of a plurality of assistant-enabled devices within an environment of a user device. Each assistant-enabled device is controllable by an assistant application to perform a respective set of available actions associated with the assistant-enabled device. For each assistant-enabled device, the method also includes determining a proximity score based on the proximity information indicating a proximity estimation of the corresponding assistant-enabled device relative to the user device. The method further includes generating, using the proximity scores determined for the assistant-enabled devices, a ranked list of candidate assistant-enabled devices, and for each corresponding assistant-enabled device in the ranked list, displaying, in a graphical user interface (GUI), a respective set of controls for performing the respective set of actions associated with the corresponding assistant-enabled device.
US11880548B2
An arrangement section arranges a plurality of display elements including a first display element and a second display element. A reception section receives an operation for selecting a display element. A display processing section displays the selected display element in such a predetermined manner as to indicate that the display element is selected. When the reception section receives an operation for selecting the second display element while the first display element is in the selected state, the display processing section performs presentation display indicating that a state in which the first display element is selected is to be changed to a state in which the second display element is selected, and then displays the second display element in a predetermined manner.
US11880544B1
Technologies for accurate asset delivery using geospatial information are provided. Upon receiving location information related to an asset delivery, geospatial image data is retrieved for an area based on the location information. The geospatial image data comprises aerial imagery correlated with geographic coordinate information. The geospatial image data can be displayed at graphical user interface. Responsive to receiving an asset request, a virtual asset object is generated. The virtual asset object corresponds to a physical asset, wherein the virtual asset object has a plurality of dimensional parameters associated with the physical asset. The virtual asset object is displayed at the graphical user interface (GUI), and the virtual asset object is overlaid on top of the geospatial image data. Responsive to receiving user input related to a position of the virtual asset object with respect to the geospatial image data an asset delivery report is generated based on the position of the virtual asset object.
US11880537B2
A device including a memory and a processor. The processor receives electronic information. The processor analyzes the electronic information. The processor displays, based on analyzing the electronic information, the electronic information on a graphical user interface. The displayed electronic information is shown as a first electronic formation, and the graphical user interface is controlled by the processor. The device receives an electronic communication and changes the displayed electronic information to a second electronic formation displayed on the graphical user interface. The change from the first electronic formation to the second electronic formation occurs instantaneously.
US11880528B2
A stimulus transmission device suppresses power consumption, and effectively transmits a physical stimulus to a user. The stimulus transmission device has a pressure receiving portion which receives pressure from part of a human body, an actuator which drives the pressure receiving portion, and a supporting portion which supports the actuator. The actuator does not move in conjunction with the supporting portion.
US11880520B2
A touch member for a display device includes first and second touch signal lines and an insulating layer between first and second conductive layers. The first touch signal line includes a first sub-touch signal line corresponding to the first conductive layer, and a second sub-touch signal line corresponding to the second conductive layer and connected to the first sub-touch signal line through first and second contact holes penetrating the insulating layer. The second touch signal line includes a third sub-touch signal line corresponding to the first conductive layer, and a fourth sub-touch signal line corresponding to the second conductive layer and connected to the third sub-touch signal line through third and fourth contact holes penetrating the insulating layer. The first and second contact holes are spaced by a first distance, and the third and fourth contact holes are spaced by a second distance less than the first distance.
US11880515B1
A touch pad structure including a carrier, a frame, a touch pad, a switch and four first springs is provided. The frame is disposed above the carrier. The touch pad is disposed on the frame, and the frame is located between the carrier and the touch pad. The switch is disposed on the touch pad and penetrates through the frame and thus faces the carrier. The first springs are distributed at a peripheral of the touch pad. Two opposite ends of each of the first springs respectively contact the carrier and the frame. Two longest connecting lines between the first springs are defined as a first connecting line and a second connecting line. The switch is seated on an intersection point of the first connecting line and the second connecting line. An electronic device is also provided.
US11880512B1
Computer peripheral devices designed and configured to generate and send peripheral device command signals for controlling software applications. In some examples the peripheral device command signals are designed to be the same as command signals generated by a keyboard in response to pressing one or more keyboard keys corresponding to a keyboard shortcut for a software application control function. The peripheral devices may be selectively configured into one of a plurality of configurations for selectively generating peripheral device command signals by selecting a position of at least one command signal group selector switch operably coupled to the peripheral device.
US11880511B1
A method and a device for automatically convert input typed using a multi layout physical or virtual keyboard to the correct layout. Some implementations also fix spelling mistakes and set the active layout to the desired layout. When a key such as the space bar is triggered, the implementation may feed the gestures into a machine learning model, the model then may output the estimated correct layout, and followingly cause replacing the characters, symbols or letters, corresponding to the typed keys in displayed words. Based on the estimated or detected language, the software of the implementation may check for spelling mistakes and will correct them.
US11880502B2
An information processing device configured to present a virtual space at a display mounted on the head of a user, the information processing device inputs detection information from a sensor that detects movement of the head of the user. The information processing device generates the virtual space including a body image representing at least a part of a body of the user in response to the detection information. The information processing device inputs correction information from a device operated to perform correction of an angle in a pitch direction of the head of the user. The information processing device corrects a pitch direction angle employed when presenting the virtual space at the display based on the correction information. The information processing device presents the virtual space at the display with the corrected pitch direction angle.
US11880501B2
A user profile generating system for generating a user profile for use with a processing device operable to display content includes: a head motion tracking unit operable to identify head motion of the user, an eye motion tracking unit operable to identify eye motion of the user, and a profile generating unit operable to generate a user profile comprising head tracking and eye tracking information for the user, where the generated user profile is used to modify interactions between the user and a processing device.
US11880499B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for creating an observation video are described. The observation video may comprise a viewport that moves in coordination with motion of an HMD user's head and that shows portions of VR content being output to the HMD user at different times. For each of those times, motion data from the HMD may be used to determine a position, orientation, and/or shape of the viewport. The observation video may also include an element that represents the HMD user, which element may comprise a video element video isolated from video of the user captured by a camera, and/or which may comprise an animated avatar.
US11880494B2
A node associated with an organization may receive a storage identifier for new credit data associated with an individual. A distributed ledger and distributed data sources may be used to share the new credit data with a network of nodes. The node may update a smart contract with the storage identifier for the new credit data. The node may receive, from a particular device associated with the organization, a request for the new credit data. The node may obtain the storage identifier for the new credit data from the smart contract. The node may obtain the new credit data by using the storage identifier to search the distributed data sources. The node may provide the new credit data to the particular device. The node may perform actions to obtain additional new credit data from the distributed data sources or provide the additional new credit data to the distributed data sources.
US11880493B2
A wearable device and method for operating the wearable device in a wearable device communication system in a controlled environment is disclosed. The wearable device includes at least one module configured to customize an inmate interface on the wearable device based at least in part of an inmate profile and an administrative rule. In some embodiments, the inmate interface is a keyboard. The wearable device also includes additional modules that enable the wearable device to monitor information regarding at least one of the inmate of the wearable device and the physical environment in which the wearable device is located.
US11880489B2
Provided is a technique for performing statistical processing such as processing for obtaining parameters of logistic regression analysis faster than before. A secure statistical processing system includes a cross tabulation table computing device 2 that performs secure computation on a cross tabulation table in which frequencies are in plain texts while keeping each record concealed; and a statistical processing device 3 that performs predetermined statistical processing using the cross tabulation table in which frequencies are in plain texts. The cross tabulation table computing device 2 may include a plurality of secure computation devices 221, . . . , 22N that perform secure computation on a cross tabulation table in which frequencies are fragments subjected to secret sharing while keeping each record concealed, and a management device 21 that restores the fragments to compute the cross tabulation table in which frequencies are in plain texts.
US11880487B2
Systems and methods are described herein for graphically representing an information management system based on the characteristics of within the system. The systems and methods interface with various components of the system (e.g., administrative components, index components, and so on) to identify data having certain characteristics (e.g., personal data), and generate or render information (e.g., a heat map or other visual display) that represents areas or locations within the system storing the data. Thus, the systems and methods, in some embodiments, generate or create a data-specific view into the information management system.
US11880479B2
A device configured to identify a first digital document in a digital document repository, to identify a first graphical code that represents the first digital document, and to send the first graphical code to an approved user device. The device is further configured to obtain a second graphical code that represents a public encryption key for the organization and to extract the public encryption key for an organization from the second graphical code. The device is further configured to obtain a third graphical code from the approved user device. The third graphical code represents a second digital document comprising data and a digital signature that was signed using a private encryption key for the organization. The device is further configured to determine the third graphical code passes validation using the public encryption key for the organization and to store the second digital document in a digital document repository.
US11880475B2
Techniques for secure fast channel change in live content streaming are described. In some embodiments, during content preparation, a packager and/or an encoder encrypts media content items at both the service level (e.g., by encrypting a first portion of the plurality of segments with a service level access key unique to a service) and the channel level (e.g., by encrypting a second portion of the plurality of segments with a channel level access key unique to a channel associated with the service). On the receiving end, a client device (e.g., a media player) requests a service level access key prior to content acquisition. As such, a client can join any channel on a segment protected with the service level key without waiting for a license for that channel first, and the channel license can be acquired in parallel with the content acquisition during channel switching.
US11880472B2
Modified data records, including mock data, are generated and disseminated in response to determining that a data breach has occurred resulting in the data records being released or otherwise made available at an Internet website. The modified data records are posted or otherwise made available at the same Internet site at which the original data records are posted or otherwise are available. The modified data records are made to be more enticing to a would-be acquirer of the data than the original data records by containing significantly more records than the original data records and/or be offered to the would-be acquirer at better terms.
US11880468B2
The invention is directed to an autonomous, self-authenticating and self-contained secure boot-up system and methods for field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that leverages physical unclonable functions (PUFs).
US11880461B2
Providing an isolation system that allows analysts to analyze suspicious information in way that aids in preventing harmful information from spreading to other applications and systems on a network. A plurality of virtual containers may be used by analysts to analyze the suspicious information. The analyst may utilize a non-native application to analyze the suspicious information within the virtual container. The non-native application may be used to analyze the suspicious information in an analysis format instead of an original format for which the suspicious information, and any harmful information therein, were intended to be accessed. Additionally, the virtual containers may be accessed through the use of an API that allows an analyst to analyze the suspicious information in the virtual container without transferring information from the virtual container back to the analyst user computer system.
US11880456B1
A method in one embodiment creates a model of an authentic IC for use in comparisons with counterfeit ICs. The model can be created by determining a first or initial set of points of interest (POIs) on the simulated physical (e.g., gate level) layout and simulating side channel leakage from each POI and then expanding the size of the POI and repeating the simulation and comparing successive simulation results (between successive sizes of POIs for a given POI) to determine if a solution for the size of the POI has converged. The final POIs are then processed in a simulation that can use multiple payloads (e.g., cryptographic data) over the entire set of final POIs, and the resulting data set can be used to create the model.
US11880450B2
The present application discloses a method and apparatus for updating a password of an electronic device, a device, and a storage medium, and relates to intelligent transportation, vehicle-road collaboration, and device security technologies in the field of data processing. The specific implementation solution is: in response to detecting a trigger condition of a password update, the electronic device randomly generates a first password, and updates a login password of the electronic device to the first password; then the electronic device sends a password updating message to a server, and the password updating message is configured to indicate an identification of the electronic device and the first password. The server updates the database for storing login passwords of different electronic devices according to the password updating message. Through the above process, the safety of the electronic device is improved.
US11880449B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, in an application on an information handling device, a password reset request from a user; accessing, subsequent to the receiving, a data store comprising a list of answers that are responsive to a list of security questions; constructing, using the data store, a temporary password, wherein the temporary password consists of at least one answer selected from the list of answers; and providing, to the user, a prompt containing an indication of the temporary password, wherein the prompt comprises at least one security question, from the list of security questions, that corresponds to the at least one answer. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US11880448B1
A computer-implemented method of user authentication is provided. The method comprises combining, by a computer system, a user recurrent neural network with a system recurrent neural network to form a unique combined recurrent neural network. The user recurrent neural network is configured to generate a unique user key, and the system recurrent neural network is configured to generate a system key. The computer system inputs a predetermined input into the combined recurrent neural network, and the combined recurrent neural network generates a unique combined key from the input, wherein the combined key differs from both the user key and system key. The computer system then associates the combined key with a unique access authorization to authenticate a user.
US11880438B2
Embodiments of devices and methods for restricting access to certain age related devices are disclosed, including an accessory for an aerosol delivery device comprising an interface that is configured to provide access to age restricted material within the aerosol delivery device; and authentication circuitry that is configured to receive an age verification of a user, wherein the access is not provided to the aerosol delivery device without the age verification.
US11880437B2
A system and method for securely storing, retrieving and sharing data using PCs and mobile devices and for controlling and tracking the movement of data to and from a variety of computing and storage devices.
US11880428B2
A server includes a controller programmed to obtain information about a first perception model installed in a vehicle. The controller is further programmed to determine a value of updating the first perception model. The controller is further programmed to determine whether the first perception model needs to be updated to a second perception model based on the value of updating the first perception model. The controller is further programmed to transmit the second perception model to the vehicle in response to determining that the first perception model needs to be updated to the second perception model.
US11880420B2
A method including parsing a query into a tree of operations, generating a query matrix and a transcript matrix, determining a cross-correlation of the query matrix and the transcript matrix, applying a softness map to the cross-correlation to determine one or more matches for each of the literals, and combining the one or more matches utilizing the tree of operations to generate an output, each of the operators corresponding to a combination operation for the matches.
US11880413B2
This disclosure covers systems and methods that retrieve and transform a requested dataset into a data shape that a widget specifies for visualization. In certain embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods respond to data requests for widgets by retrieving datasets formatted according to different data models for different platforms. The systems and methods then transform the datasets into a data shape specified by the widgets. By transforming requested datasets to conform to data shapes specified by widgets, the disclosed systems and methods orchestrate the update of a widget (or multiple instances of a widget) with data that originally conformed to different data models and, in some cases, was formatted for different software applications.
US11880411B2
Named Entity Recognition (NER) in a user search query in a real-time search engine may be achieved by training a machine learning algorithm to create a trained model. The trained model may be configured to receive a user search query as input and to recognize and output zero or more named entities in the search query. The training may include an iterative training process in which further training data is added at each iteration, in some embodiments. The training may be based on three training data sets, in some embodiments. A first training data set may be based on user search and engagement activity. A second training data set may be artificially generated based on a catalog of named entity values. A third training data set may be based on optimized and supplemented data pairs sampled from the first training data set.
US11880410B2
According to certain aspects of the disclosure, a computer-implemented method may be used for analytics integration into electronic mediums. The method may include determining at least one insight discovery function from a plurality of insight discovery functions on a user device and enabling a software module based on the selection of the at least one insight discovery functions. Additionally, the method may include determining at least one key term based on the enabled software module, and determining at least one electronic data card associated with the at least one key term. Additionally, the method may include presenting the at least one data card to the user device based on a user interaction with the at least one insight discovery function on the user device.
US11880398B2
A server can receive a seed keyword to generate additional keywords relevant to the seed keyword. The server can identify, using a semantic relationship graph, keyword categories. Each keyword can have a semantic distance from the seed keyword less than a threshold. The server can generate, for each keyword of the keyword categories, a keyword-seed affinity score based on a frequency of the keyword occurring with the seed keyword on an information resource. The server can determine, for each keyword category, a category-seed affinity score based on the keyword-seed affinity scores for each of keyword in the keyword category. The server can compare each category-seed affinity score a threshold. The server can transmit, for display, the keywords. One keyword category can be indicated as selected and another keyword category can be indicated as unselected based on the comparison.
US11880397B2
An event argument extraction (EAE) method, an EAE apparatus and an electronic device, relates to the technical field of knowledge graphs. A specific implementation scheme includes acquiring a to-be-extracted event content; and performing argument extraction on the to-be-extracted event content based on a trained EAE model, to obtain a target argument of the to-be-extracted event content; where the trained EAE model is obtained by training a pre-trained model with event news annotation data and a weight of each argument annotated in the event news annotation data.
US11880396B2
A method for training system to perform text-based search among plurality of documents. The method including receiving starting document, having at least one reference-identifier associated with the document; selecting reference-text from starting document; generating search-string by using a plurality of keywords using at least one first machine learning algorithm and at least one search-operator using at least one second machine learning algorithm; performing search among plurality of documents using search-string to fetch set of relevant documents; deriving reference-identifier distribution, corresponding to the at least one reference-identifier associated with document, for the set of relevant documents; and corelating at least one reference-identifier associated with starting document with reference-identifier distribution to determine performance-score for system. The steps of method are iteratively performed until performance-score exceeds a predetermined threshold, wherein at each iteration at least one of: different search-string is generated, different reference-text is obtained, different document is received.
US11880395B2
A computing device includes processor(s), memory(s), and network interface(s). The processor(s) is configured to: cause the computing device to request mapping data for a particular physical location from a remote server using the at least one network interface; receive a unique identifier for the mapping data for the particular physical location from the remote server using the at least one network interface; cause the computing device to query a plurality of network nodes using the unique identifier to identify at least one network node of the plurality of network nodes that can provide the mapping data associated with the unique identifier, wherein the plurality of network nodes does not include the remote server; and receiving the mapping data from the at least one network node identified as being able to provide the mapping data associated with the unique identifier.
US11880391B2
Systems, methods, and software can be used to cluster software codes in a scalable manner. In some aspects, a computer-implemented method comprises: obtaining a plurality of software samples; computing one or more first hash results for each of the plurality of software samples; computing one or more second hash results for each of the plurality of software samples based on the one or more first hash results, wherein an amount of the one or more second hash results is less than an amount of the one or more first hash results; determining a similarity output based on the one or more second hash results of two of the plurality of software samples; and clustering the plurality of software samples based on the similarity output to generate one or more software sample clusters.
US11880381B1
A data platform for running a subset of cells in a notebook is provided. The data platform receives a run cells message from a notebook user interface (UI) application specifying the subset of cells to run. For each cell in the subset, the data platform runs the cell to generate a set of results, generates a cell execution stream using the results, stores the stream, and transmits the stream to the notebook UI application. The notebook UI application generates a display for the user using the cell execution stream. The data platform provides an efficient way to run specific cells in a notebook and display the results to the user.
US11880377B1
Systems and methods are described for identifying a target entity that a user intends to refer to based on input that may include only a partial name of the entity. A system may receive a user's entity search query, which may include a partial entity name, then may determine initial candidate matching entities and associated name match scores for each of the initial candidate matching entities relative to the input string, such as using string matching or fuzzy matching techniques. The system may apply a probability match model to generate an overall match score for individual ones of the initial candidate matching entities, then may generate a response to the entity search query that includes information regarding one or more of the initial candidate matching entities with an overall match score exceeding a threshold.
US11880367B2
Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are methods and apparatuses for realizing a globally unique index, which are applicable to a distributed database. One of the methods includes: receiving a structured query language, SQL, request, obtaining a conflict detection SQL statement corresponding to the SQL request and calculating an expected value; issuing the conflict detection SQL statement to each database node for execution; obtaining an execution result of the conflict detection SQL statement, and comparing the execution result of the conflict detection SQL statement with the expected value; and when the execution result of the conflict detection SQL statement is less than or equal to the expected value, processing an original SQL statement of the SQL request, and issuing the original SQL statement to the each database node for execution.
US11880356B1
A method is provided for performing transaction processing in a system. The system includes a plurality of processors. Each processor executes a plurality of transactions. Two of the processors receive requests to process the same subset of the plurality of transactions and each of the two processors execute each of the requests to process the same subset of the plurality of transactions. Each of the two processors create local indicia from the outcome of each transaction in the same subset of the plurality of transactions. Each of the two processors assign a transaction tag to each of the local indicia, wherein the same transaction tag is assigned by each of the two processors executing the same transaction. The local indicia and the respectively assigned transaction tags from each of the two processors are queued. It is then detected when queued transaction tags from the two processors match each other. The local indicia associated with the matching transaction tags are then compared to each other. Remediation action is taken when the local indicia associated with matching transaction tags do not match each other.
US11880352B2
Disclosed is technology for storing original work data on a derivative work data blockchain along with code for verifying that derivative work data is derivative of the original work data. The technology involves receiving derivative work data from a submitting entity along with proof data showing that the derivative work is derivative of the original work. If the derivative work data is verified as derivative, then the derivative work data is appended to the derivative work data blockchain.
US11880342B2
Disclosed here is a visual collaboration software including multiple digital canvas and multiple tools enabling collaboration among multiple users by enabling creation and sharing of visual information including text and drawings. The visual collaboration software obtains from a second software, e.g., a project management software, a file or a portion of the file, and displays the file or the portion in one of the multiple digital canvases. In one embodiment, the visual collaboration software can enable the user to interact with the file obtained from the second software and can pass the modifications to the file to the second software. In another embodiment, the visual collaboration software can only display the file or the portion of the file in one of the multiple digital canvases, and an interaction between the user and the file has to be passed to the second software to compute to the effect of the interaction.
US11880340B2
A method includes receiving trace data representing access information about files stored in a large-scale distributed storage system, identifying file access patterns based on the trace data, receiving metadata information associated with the files stored in the large-scale distributed storage system, and generating a preferred storage parameter for each file based on the received metadata information and the identified file access patterns. The method also includes receiving, file reliability or accessibility information of a new file, determining whether the received file reliability or accessibility information of the new file matches information of a file group of the files in the large-scale distributed storage system, and when the file reliability or accessibility information of the new file matches the information of the file group, storing the new file in the large-scale distributed storage system using the preferred storage parameter associated with the file group.
US11880336B2
An apparatus, a method, and computer program product are provided that tracks data for, and generated by, machine learning for accurate and precise deletion. The method includes receiving a dataset for use in training a machine learning model and registering a file from the dataset into a reference table, wherein the file is designated for monitoring. The file designation can indicate that the file is confidential and requires deletion upon completion of training of the machine learning model and project. The method also includes monitoring the file for an event that accesses the file, detecting a read access event occurring on the file, and determining a creation of a derivative file generated as a result of the read access event. The method further includes registering the derivative file into the reference table and indicating an association between the derivative file and the file in the reference table.
US11880334B2
At least a portion of data of a tree data structure is serialized into a first set of flat data. At least a portion of a structure of the tree data structure is serialized to reproduce at least the portion of the structure in a second set of flat data. It is determined to access a desired data of the tree data structure from an archive. The second set of flat data is read to reconstitute at least the portion of a structure of the tree data structure. The reconstituted structure of the tree data structure is used to determine a data offset associated with the first set of flat data, wherein the data offset corresponds to the desired data. The desired data is accessed using the data offset associated with the first set of flat data.
US11880332B2
A bus system is provided. A plurality of slave devices are electrically connected to a master device through an enhanced serial peripheral interface (eSPI) bus. The slave devices are electrically connected together via a control line. A first slave device is configured to provide a first clock signal to each second slave device via the control line, so that a second clock signal of each second slave device is synchronized with the first clock signal. After the second clock signals are synchronized with the first clock signal, each second slave device is configured to adjust a phase of the second clock signal in a clock phase shift stage, so that each second clock signal has a phase difference with the first clock signal. The phase differences between the second clock signals of the second slave devices and the first clock signal are different.
US11880331B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate a testing of an unknown USB supply that is connected to a CPE (customer premise equipment) device to determine a current draw capacity of the USB supply. The CPE device may test the USB supply to determine whether the USB supply is capable of supplying a predetermined current. If the determination is made that the USB supply is not able to supply the predetermined current, an end-user may be instructed to plug an alternative PSU (power supply unit) into the CPE device, wherein the alternative PSU is capable of supplying the predetermined current to the CPE device. The CPE device may output an indication that an alternative PSU should be used via a graphics output to a display device through an HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) connection or via an LED indication using one or more LEDs at the CPE device.
US11880328B2
The present application relates to a network-on-chip data processing method. The method is applied to a network-on-chip processing system, the network-on-chip processing system is used for executing machine learning calculation, and the network-on-chip processing system comprises a storage device and a calculation device. The method comprises: accessing the storage device in the network-on-chip processing system by means of a first calculation device in the network-on-chip processing system, and obtaining first operation data; performing an operation on the first operation data by means of the first calculation device to obtain a first operation result; and sending the first operation result to a second calculation device in the network-on-chip processing system. According to the method, operation overhead can be reduced and data read/write efficiency can be improved.
US11880319B2
According to certain aspects, a memory subsystem is coupled to a memory controller of a host computer system via an interface. The memory subsystem comprises dynamic random access memory elements and a memory subsystem controller. During a normal memory read or write operation, the memory subsystem controller is configured to receive address and command signals associated with the memory read or write operations and to control the dynamic random access memory elements in accordance with the address and command signals. The memory subsystem controller is further configured to output via the open drain output a parity error signal in response to a parity error having occurred during the memory read or write operation. During an initialization operation, the memory subsystem controller is configured to output via the open train output a signal related to one or more parts of initialization operation sequences.
US11880315B2
An example peripheral device includes circuitry to identify a target device that matches the device type identifier of the peripheral device. The example circuitry of the peripheral device is to cause selection of an input component device, transmission of a request to place the input component of the target device into an instruction set receiver mode, and operation of an output component of the peripheral device to produce audio output or video output that represents the instruction set in response to a determination that an instruction set version identifier of the target device mismatches the instruction set version identifier of the peripheral device.
US11880314B1
A method is provided for using a microcontroller for driving an external device, where the microcontroller comprises a processor coupled to a controller, and the controller comprises a state machine coupled to a storage medium configured to store at least one command executable by the state machine. A drive signal is generated using the controller to drive the external device. The storage medium may be configured by the processor with various commands and waveforms for operating different types of external devices. The proposed microprocessor permits reducing power consumption while at the same time allowing for a broad flexibility of use.
US11880305B2
A data access system including a processor, multiple cache modules for the main memory, and a storage drive. The cache modules include a FLC controller and a main memory cache. The multiple cache modules function as main memory. The processor sends read/write requests (with physical address) to the cache module. The cache module includes two or more stages with each stage including a FLC controller and DRAM (with associated controller). If the first stage FLC module does not include the physical address, the request is forwarded to a second stage FLC module. If the second stage FLC module does not include the physical address, the request is forwarded to the storage drive, a partition reserved for main memory. The first stage FLC module has high speed, lower power operation while the second stage FLC is a low-cost implementation. Multiple FLC modules may connect to the processor in parallel.
US11880301B2
Techniques for enabling efficient guest OS access to PCIe configuration space are provided. In one set of embodiments, a hypervisor can reserve a single host physical memory page in the host physical memory of a host system and can populate the single host physical memory page with a value indicating non-presence of PCIe device functions. The hypervisor can then create, for each guest physical memory page in a guest physical memory of a virtual machine (VM) corresponding to a PCIe configuration space of an absent PCIe device function in the VM, a mapping in the hypervisor's second-level page tables that maps the guest physical memory page to the single host physical memory page.
US11880281B1
Embodiments are described for a system that automatically determines the ideal backup target for the backup agent to send its backup data. The system will automatically create and destroy temporary backup targets in order to handle the current backup traffic and provide the optimal throughput based on speed of the backup agent and reliability of the storage target. The backup agent is able to send incremental backups to any temporary backup target, which are later consolidated on the storage target after the agent has disconnected from the system. The final storage target may be an original primary storage target for the data asset or one of the temporary storage targets.
US11880274B2
A host device includes a Host Memory Buffer (HMB) including a plurality of memory areas, each memory area configured to store data provided from a storage device which is in communication with the host device, and a host controller configured to generate reliability information of each of the plurality of memory areas, and in communication with the storage device to provide the reliability information to the storage device.
US11880273B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for installing a program code packet onto a device. A processor device of the device receives the program code packet via a first data connection from a device-external data source and forms a checksum value in response to the received program code packet. A controller which differs from the processor device is operated in the device. The controller receives a reference checksum value from a specified device-external update server device via a second data connection, which differs from the first data connection, and the checksum value formed by the processor device from same, and a specified installation procedure for installing the program code packet on the processor device is initiated by the controller in the processor device only in the event that the checksum value and the reference checksum value are identical.
US11880271B2
The current document is directed to methods and systems that employ call traces collected by one or more call-trace services to generate call-trace-classification rules to facilitate root-cause analysis of distributed-application operational problems and failures. In a described implementation, a set of automatically labeled call traces is partitioned by the generated call-trace-classification rules. Call-trace-classification-rule generation is constrained to produce relatively simple rules with greater-than-threshold confidences and coverages. The call-trace-classification rules may point to particular services and service failures, which provides useful information to distributed-application and distributed-computer-system managers and administrators attempting to diagnose operational problems and failures that arise during execution of distributed applications within distributed computer systems. Call-trace-classification rules that are useful in multiple diagnoses are maintained as diagnosis tools for future diagnoses.
US11880269B2
Disclosed herein are a method for generating Gaussian error data using flash memory and an apparatus using the method. The method includes receiving a request to generate Gaussian error data and delivering an operation command to flash memory; generating Gaussian error noise based on a threshold voltage that is generated when the flash memory performs the operation command; and generating Gaussian error data so as to correspond to the Gaussian error noise and providing the same.
US11880263B2
A disclosed system may include (1) a memory package having a physical memory and optical circuitry, (2) a processor package, separate and distinct from the memory package, having at least one physical processor and additional optical circuitry, and (3) an optical medium communicatively coupling the optical circuitry of the memory package with the additional optical circuitry of the processor package. Various other systems, apparatuses, and methods are also disclosed.
US11880262B2
Power consumption can be reduced by preventing a memory image from being destaged to a nonvolatile memory device. For example, a system can determine, subsequent to a computing device being in a first power mode and having a memory image stored in a first nonvolatile memory device that performs a caching function, that the computing device is in a second power mode that is a higher power mode than the first power mode. The system can, in response to determining that the computing device is in the second power mode, generate a first command to store the memory image in a volatile memory device and prevent the memory image from being stored in a second nonvolatile memory device. The system can, in response to generating the first command, store the memory image in the volatile memory device.
US11880259B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques for managing power assertions associated with applications that may run on an electronic device. For example, to reduce power consumption of power available on a power source of the electronic device, the electronic device may start a timer after receiving a request for a power assertion. When the timer expires, the electronic device may enter a low power state.
US11880257B2
A method of peak power management (PPM) is provided for two NAND memory dies. each NAND memory die comprises a PPM circuit having a PPM contact pad held at an electric potential common between the two NAND memory dies. The method includes the following steps: detecting the electric potential during a first peak power check (PPC) routine for the first NAND memory die; driving the electric potential to a second voltage level if the detected electric potential is at a first voltage level higher than the second voltage level; generating a pausing signal in the electric potential to pause a second PPC routine for the second NAND memory die if no pausing signal is detected; and generating a resuming signal in the electric potential to resume the second PPC routine for the second NAND memory die after the first NAND memory die completes a first peak power operation.
US11880253B2
A system incorporating a smartphone and an add-on device coupled to each other via combined data/power interface, the smartphone having a rechargeable battery connected to battery protection circuitry and the add-on device optionally having a rechargeable battery connected to battery protection circuitry as well, the combined data/power interface having one or more data pins for transferring data between the smartphone and the add-on device, one or more regulated power delivery pins, and one or more protected-battery power delivery pins, wherein the regulated power delivery pins are used to charge the battery of the smartphone from an external charger coupled to the add-on device, the batteries are connected to the battery protection circuitries that is configured to protect the battery by cutoff or limit the current or voltage on the battery electrodes, and the protected-battery power delivery pins are connected to the battery protection circuitries of the smartphone or add-on device.
US11880243B2
The present disclose provides a display device and a method of manufacturing the same. A display device includes a display panel including a substrate having a bent portion and a bending protective layer arranged on the bent portion of the substrate, and an optical functional layer on the display panel and in contact with the bending protective layer, the optical functional layer having an accommodating portion configured to accommodate deformation of the optical functional layer.
US11880237B1
A wearable device has a housing containing electronics and a band that retains the wearable device on a user's arm. Each end of the housing has an open receptacle. The band has protrusions made from an elastomeric material and includes a rigid member arranged at least partially within. The protrusions are inserted into the receptacle to attach the band to the housing. A lower portion of the housing comprises two pieces that, when assembled, provide optical baffles between adjacent optical devices such as a heart rate monitor, and windows for the optical devices to operate. A thermal conductor is retained between the two pieces and facilitates operation of a temperature sensor in the device. An antenna carrier facilitates installation of an antenna without impairing fixation of an upper portion of the housing. A compact charger clips to the housing to supply power to recharge a battery in the wearable device.
US11880236B2
A portable computer includes a computer body and a handle. The handle, operable to be located at a closed position and an open position relative to the computer body, includes a body component for holding of a user, a movable member and an auxiliary member. One end of the movable member is pivotally connected to the body component and the other end is pivotally connected to the computer body. The auxiliary component is disposed on one end of the body component, and is abutted against one side of the movable member. During a movement process of the handle between the closed position and the open position, at least a portion of the movable member is kept in contact with the auxiliary member. When the handle is at the closed position and the open position, the auxiliary member and the body component jointly secure the movable member.
US11880233B2
An electronic device. The electronic device includes a host having a first body and a second body, and a display screen rotatably connected to the host and configured to display to-be-output content output by the host, the display screen being rotatably connected to the host through the first body or the second body.
US11880227B1
Processor(s) can receive from a first computing device information representing a member, an animal, a location, a wireless device, and a reward. After a second computing device has received a signal from the wireless device, second information can be received. Further, the processor(s) can receive third electronic information. The processor(s) can determine, using at least some of the second electronic information and the third electronic information, that a second computing device is within a respective distance of a third computing device. Moreover, the processor(s) can transmit an alert representing that a user of the second computing device is within a proximity of the animal. The processor(s) can receive an electronic notification that the animal is in custody and provide a portion of the reward to a user of one device and a portion of the reward to a user of another device, based on contributions to the recovery.
US11880224B2
A recommendation system can be configured to provide tailored software update relevance information for deployed software. The recommendation engine can obtain running state information for a current version of software running on a device, as well as build data for each of the current version of the software and a new version of the software. The recommendation engine can obtain software version difference information based on the build data and determine, based on at least the software version difference information and the running state information, a number of functions in the current version of software that are directly impacted by the new version. The recommendation engine can cause relevance information derived from this determination to be displayed on a computing device, and/or the recommendation engine can automatically cause an update to the new version of the software to be applied or rejected based on the determination.
US11880213B2
A substrate liquid processing apparatus includes: at least one liquid pipe through which a processing liquid flows; a discharge nozzle configured to discharge the processing liquid supplied via the at least one liquid pipe; a valve mechanism configured to regulate a flow of the processing liquid in the at least one liquid pipe; and a liquid detection sensor configured to detect presence or absence of the processing liquid in the at least one liquid pipe, wherein in a state in which the valve mechanism is operating so that the processing liquid in the at least one liquid pipe is located at an upstream of a first pipe measurement site of the at least one liquid pipe, the liquid detection sensor detects the presence or absence of the processing liquid at the first pipe measurement site located at a first measurement point.
US11880212B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining that current data captured at a current location of a drone satisfies localization adjustment criteria; in response to determining that the current data captured at the current location of the drone satisfies the localization adjustment criteria, identifying previously captured image data; determining a previous expected location of the drone based on both an expected change in location of the drone and a first previous location determined from other image data captured before the previously captured image data; determining a location difference between the previous expected location of the drone and a second previous location determined from the previously captured image data; and determining the current location of the drone based on the location difference.
US11880209B2
An electronic apparatus for providing a traversability map of a robot and a controlling method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a transceiver, a memory configured to store feature information of each of a plurality of robots, and at least one processor configured to receive sensing data obtained by sensing vicinity by at least one external device from the external device from the at least one external device, through the transceiver, generate at least one map with respect to a space where the at least one external device is positioned based on the received sensing data, generate a traversability map for traversal of a robot based on feature information of at least one robot among the plurality of robots and the generated at least one map, and control the transceiver to transmit the traversability map to the robot.
US11880208B2
A method for drivable area detection and autonomous obstacle avoidance of unmanned haulage equipment in deep confined spaces is disclosed, which includes the following steps: acquiring 3D point cloud data of a roadway; computing a 2D image drivable area of the coal mine roadway; acquiring a 3D point cloud drivable area of the coal mine roadway; establishing a 2D grid map and a risk map, and performing autonomous obstacle avoidance path planning by using a particle swarm path planning method designed for deep confined roadways; and acquiring an optimal end point to be selected of a driving path by using a greedy strategy, and enabling an unmanned auxiliary haulage vehicle to drive according to the optimal end point and an optimal path. Images of a coal mine roadway are acquired actively by use of a single-camera sensor device.
US11880204B2
A method includes obtaining, from an operator of a robot, a return execution lease associated with one or more commands for controlling the robot that is scheduled within a sequence of execution leases. The robot is configured to execute commands associated with a current execution lease that is an earliest execution lease in the sequence of execution leases that is not expired. The method includes obtaining an execution lease expiration trigger triggering expiration of the current execution lease. After obtaining the trigger, the method includes determining that the return execution lease is a next current execution lease in the sequence. While the return execution lease is the current execution lease, the method includes executing the one or more commands for controlling the robot associated with the return execution lease which cause the robot to navigate to a return location remote from a current location of the robot.
US11880202B2
Various systems and methods for providing a vehicle control system are described herein. A system for managing a vehicle comprises: a vehicle control system of a vehicle having access to a network, including: a communication module to interface with at least one of: a mobile device, the vehicle, and environmental sensors coupled to the vehicle; and a configuration module to identify a mitigation operation to be taken when predetermined factors exist; wherein the vehicle control system is to identify a potential obstacle in a travel route of the vehicle and initiate a mitigation operation at the vehicle.
US11880201B2
A method, apparatus, and system for determining average lane travel speeds is disclosed. A plurality of vehicles traveling in a same direction as the ADV in a plurality of lanes are identified. Over a first time period, the plurality of vehicles is tracked. At least a first quantity of representative vehicles within the plurality of vehicles that are representative of vehicles traveling in the lane over the first time period are identified. For each of the plurality of lanes, an average speed over the first time period of the representative vehicles associated with the lane is determined. A trajectory is planned for the ADV, wherein the planned trajectory moves toward a lane whose representative vehicles have a fastest average speed. Thereafter, control signals are generated to control operations of the ADV based on the planned trajectory.
US11880199B1
Example systems and methods are disclosed for determining vehicle pose data for an autonomous vehicle. The vehicle computer system may receive pose data from multiple pose measurement systems of the autonomous vehicle. Each pose measurement system may include one or more corresponding sensors of the autonomous vehicle. The vehicle computer system may determine a pose data quality for the received pose data for each pose measurement system. The vehicle computer system may set the vehicle pose data to the pose data of the pose measurement system with the highest pose data quality. The vehicle computer system may control the autonomous vehicle based on the vehicle pose data.
US11880196B2
An industrial IoT system is provided that has adaptable, re-configurable, connected and integrated suite of smart, synchronized sensors and video/thermal cameras for continuous monitoring, access and control from anywhere in an industrial environment. A path sensor comprises a multi-sensor device with lookaround housing feature for monitoring conditions of conveyor brushes. A package sensor comprises a multi-sensor device with sensors adapted for mounting in different form factor carriers for monitoring conditions during package transport. A software platform integrates multiple layers of information from the sensors and video/thermal cameras and corresponding RFID locations into a single meaningful experience/assessment tool that can further be superimposed on a scaled representation of a monitored industrial environment generated from a map and dimensions for same.
US11880186B2
According to one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a transmitter. The processor is configured to generate a first control signal including a first instruction to operate at least part of a terminal with in a first validity and generate a second control signal including a second instruction to operate at least part of the terminal within a second validity period after an operation of the at least part of the terminal in accordance with the first instruction. The transmitter is configured to transmit the first control signal to the terminal at first timing and transmit the second control signal to the terminal at second timing after the first timing. An end of the first validity period is after the second validity timing.
US11880173B2
Circuit operation is improved through application of artificial intelligence to optimize circuit control. This can provide dynamic and intelligent supply regulation for power supplies which has particular advantages for the Internet of Things and other similar areas which require circuits to be used in different environments or with widely varying energy sources.
US11880171B2
A fluorescence detection process begins by localizing rubidium 87 atoms within an optical (all-optical or magneto-optical) trap so that at least most of the atoms in the trap are within a cone defined by an effective angle, e.g., 8°, of a spectral filter. Within the effective angle of incidence, the filter effectively rejects (reflects or absorbs) 778 nanometer (nm) fluorescence and effectively transmits 775.8 nm fluorescence. Any 775.8 nm fluorescence arrive outside the effective angle of incidence. Thus, using an optical trap to localize the atoms within the cone enhances the signal-to-noise ratio of the fluorescence transmitted through the spectral filter and arriving a photomultiplier or other photodetector, resulting fluorescence detection signal with an enhanced S/N.
US11880169B2
The invention concerns a timepiece member including a first axis and a first threading intended to cooperate with 5 a second threading provided on a second timepiece member. The first threading is configured so that a zone of contact between the first threading and the second threading extends over less than 50% of the height of the threads of the second threading or is configured so that the zone of contact between the first 10 threading and the second threading extends over less than 0.3 times the pitch of the threading.
US11880160B2
A filter holding device includes an opening portion and a filter. The opening portion communicates an inside of the filter holding device with an outside of the filter holding device. The filter includes a first side and a second side. The first side faces the inside of the filter holding device. The second side faces the outside of the filter holding device. The filter has a lower weight density per unit volume at the first side than at the second side. At least a side face of the first side of the filter is covered with an air-impermeable member. The side face is a lateral face of the filter at the first side.
US11880154B2
An image forming system includes: an image former that forms a label image on a long sheet conveyed in a sheet conveyance direction on a basis of a print job; an image defect detector that detects an image defect of the label image that is formed; and a sheet conveyer that conveys the long sheet in accordance with the label image where the image defect is detected after execution of the print job has been completed.
US11880153B2
An image forming device includes: a sheet feeder that feeds a sheet; a controller that: discriminates a sheet type of the sheet, and receives a user input to specify a sheet type; and an image forming device that has two setting modes including an automatic discrimination mode in which an image is formed based on the discriminated sheet type and a user specified mode in which an image is formed based on the sheet type specified by the user input. The controller automatically switches one of the two setting modes to the other based on a defined condition.
US11880151B1
An image forming apparatus has an image forming unit to form a toner image on a first sheet and a fixing unit configured to heat the first sheet to fix the image to the first sheet. A control unit begins a cooling process for cooling the fixing unit when an overheating condition is met, then permits the image forming unit to form a toner image on a second sheet after the cooling process ends according to a first cooling condition if a person is detected near the image forming apparatus or after the cooling process ends according to a second cooling condition if a person not detected near the image forming apparatus. The cooling process under the first cooling condition ends in less time than under the second cooling condition.
US11880148B2
A heating device includes: a heating unit configured to heat a transported material being transported in a transport direction in a non-contact manner with respect to the transported material; and a facing portion that is disposed on a side opposite to the heating unit with respect to the transported material and faces the heating unit in a facing direction intersecting the transport direction, wherein a length of the heating unit in the transport direction is longer than a length of the facing portion in the transport direction, or a length of the heating unit in an intersecting direction intersecting the transport direction and the facing direction is longer than a length of the facing portion in the intersecting direction.
US11880142B2
A self-calibrating overlay metrology system may receive device overlay data for a device targets on a sample from an overlay metrology tool, determine preliminary device overlay measurements for the device targets including device-scale features using an overlay recipe with the device overlay data as inputs, receive assist overlay data for one or more assist targets on the sample including device-scale features from the overlay metrology tool, where at least one of the one or more assist targets has a programmed overlay offset of a selected value along a particular measurement direction, determine self-calibrating assist overlay measurements for the one or more assist targets based on the assist overlay data, where the self-calibrating assist overlay measurements are linearly proportional to overlay on the sample, and generate corrected overlay measurements for the device targets by adjusting the preliminary device overlay measurements based on the self-calibrating assist overlay measurements.
US11880136B2
A resist composition comprising an ammonium salt and fluorine-containing polymer offers a high sensitivity and is unsusceptible to nano-bridging, pattern collapse or residue formation, independent of whether it is of positive or negative tone. The ammonium salt and fluorine-containing polymer comprises repeat units AU having an ammonium salt structure containing a carboxylic acid anion, sulfonamide anion, phenoxide anion or enolate anion of β-diketone, the anion containing fluorine, but not iodine and bromine, and repeat units FU-1 having a trifluoromethylalcohol group and/or repeat units FU-2 having a fluorinated hydrocarbyl group.
US11880113B2
A device includes a first-type liquid crystal (LC) lens configured to provide a first optical power that is variable in a first step resolution. The device also includes a second-type LC lens coupled with the first-type LC lens, and configured to provide a second optical power that is variable in a second step resolution. The first step resolution is smaller than the second step resolution. A total optical power of the device is a sum of the first optical power and the second optical power, and is variable in the first step resolution.
US11880112B2
An optical element and a method for using thereof are provided. The present application provides an optical element that may provide various modes, and has excellent durability, and the like.
US11880111B1
A pair of eyeglasses may include one or more adjustable lenses that are each configured to align with a respective one of a user's eyes. The adjustable lenses may each include electrically modulated optical material such as one or more liquid crystal cells, each having a phase profile that is adjusted using patterned electrodes. Analog voltages may be provided to the patterned electrodes through variable-resistance conductive paths that are each coupled to a subset of the patterned electrodes. Digital voltage selection circuitry may be used to select which analog voltage to apply to each of the variable-resistance conductive paths from a predetermined set of analog voltages that are generated off of the lens. The digital voltage selection circuitry may include an array of multiplexers, each of which selects a desired voltage based on control signals received from digital control circuitry such a shift register and/or a decoder.
US11880109B2
According to one embodiment, a light control device includes a first liquid crystal cell, a second liquid crystal cell, and a polarization conversion element disposed between the first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell. One substrate of each of the first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell includes an insulating substrate, and first to fourth electrodes arranged on the insulating substrate and formed in a strip shape. The electric potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode, the electric potential difference between the second electrode and the third electrode, and the electric potential difference between the third electrode and the fourth electrode are different from each other.
US11880108B2
The present application discloses a display device, a method for controlling the display device, and an electronic device. The display device includes: a first panel and a second panel sequentially stacked along a direction opposite to a light-emitting direction, wherein: the first panel includes first sub-pixels, the second panel includes second sub-pixels; each first sub-pixel is provided with a first electrode, the first electrode has a first extension part, and each second sub-pixel is provided with a second electrode, the second electrode has a second extension part; and in the first panel, first extension parts of first electrodes of at least two adjacent first sub-pixels are arranged in different forms; and/or, in the second panel, second extension parts of second electrodes of at least two adjacent second sub-pixels are arranged in different forms.
US11880100B2
An electronic device including a flexible substrate, a plurality of light emitting units, and a plurality of supporting elements is provided. The flexible substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The light emitting units are disposed on the first surface. The supporting elements are disposed on the second surface. The supporting element includes an arc-shaped structure.
US11880099B2
Embodiments of the inventive concept provide a substrate treating apparatus and a substrate treating method. According to an embodiment, the substrate treating apparatus may include a substrate floating unit that floats a substrate, a gripping member that grips the substrate on the substrate floating unit, a nozzle unit that is located above the substrate floating unit and discharges a treatment liquid to the substrate, and an impurity removal unit that removes impurities in the substrate floating unit.
US11880092B2
Provided is a pair of glasses with a ventilated structure, mainly including an upper frame, a lens unit and a lower frame. The upper frame is provided with a lens groove and an inserting seat. The lens unit is arrange in the lens groove, and is provided with a plurality of air-permeable holes at the upper end of the lens unit. The lower frame is provided with an inserting section to be inserted into the inserting groove. The inserting section is provided with a positioning convex part operatively embedded in one of the adjusting holes of the adjusting unit to for a positioning. By positioning the position of the positioning convex part relative to each adjusting hole, the air-permeable holes of the lens are hidden or exposed on the upper frame.
US11880087B2
An optical element driving system is provided. The optical element driving system includes a fixed portion, a first movable portion, a second movable portion, a first driving assembly, a second driving assembly, and a connecting element. The first movable portion is used for moving relative to the fixed portion. The second movable portion is used for holding an optical element having a main axis, and is movable relative to the first movable portion. The first driving assembly is used for driving the first movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion in a first dimension. The second driving assembly is used for driving the second movable portion to move relative to the first movable portion in a second dimension. The connecting element connects the first movable portion and the second movable portion.
US11880085B2
A resin component holding member is made of a metal material and holds a predetermined resin component. The resin component holding member includes, in at least a region with which the resin component can be in contact, a configuration for preventing alkaline residue caused by chemical treatment from permeating into the resin component.
US11880076B2
A fiber optic connector assembly includes a connector housing defining locking portion defined, an adapter assembly selectively coupled to the connector housing, the adapter assembly including a conversion housing extending around the connector housing and defining a conversion retention member that is positionable between an engaged position, in which the conversion retention member restricts movement of the connector housing with respect to the adapter assembly in an axial direction, and a disengaged position, in which the connector housing is movable with respect to the adapter assembly in the axial direction, and a release housing positioned between the conversion housing and the connector housing, the release housing defining a release front end positionable at least partially within the conversion housing, and a release face selectively engageable with the conversion retention member and configured to move the conversion retention member from the engaged position to the disengaged position.
US11880069B2
An object is to provide a highly versatile local-light detection apparatus for an optical fiber capable of supporting various types of coated optical fibers. A local-light detection apparatus for an optical fiber according to the present invention includes a first jig including a recess curved in a longitudinal direction of a coated optical fiber and an optical input and output device configured to make light incident on the coated optical fiber in which a bend is formed and to receive light leaking from the coated optical fiber, a second jig including a protrusion curved in the longitudinal direction of the coated optical fiber, the protrusion being configured to sandwich the coated optical fiber between the recess of the first jig and the protrusion, a presser configured to apply a pressing force in a direction in which the recess of the first jig and the protrusion of the second jig approach each other and to form the bend in the coated optical fiber, and fiber guides disposed at both ends of the recess of the first jig in the longitudinal direction of the coated optical fiber, and to arrange the coated optical fiber on a predetermined path on the recess of the first jig regardless of a diameter of the coated optical fiber when the presser forms the bend in the coated optical fiber.
US11880050B2
A virtual reality lens barrel assembly, a virtual reality device and a control method, belonging to the field of virtual reality technology is provided. The virtual reality lens barrel assembly includes a lens, a blocking mechanism and a lens barrel, the lens and the blocking mechanism are both located outside a first opening of the lens barrel, and a second opening of the lens barrel is configured to place a display assembly; and the blocking mechanism includes a through hole with a variable size, and an optical axis of the lens passes through a center of the through hole and the first opening.
US11880049B2
A geometric phase optical element and a three-dimensional display apparatus including the same are provided. The geometric phase optical element includes: a liquid crystal layer; a first electrode on a surface of the liquid crystal layer; and a second electrode on another surface of the liquid crystal layer, wherein, when no voltage is applied to the first and second electrodes, the liquid crystal layer is configured such that a phase difference according to an arrangement of the liquid crystal is π and light transmitted through the liquid crystal layer is diffracted by a first deflection angle, and when a first voltage that causes the phase difference according to the arrangement of the liquid crystal to become π/2 is applied to the first and second electrodes, the liquid crystal layer is configured such that the light transmitted through the liquid crystal layer is diffracted by a second deflection angle.
US11880047B2
An array of optical resonators includes at least a first type of optical resonators each having a resonant response to an optical field at a first wavelength, and a second type of optical resonators each having a resonant response to an optical field at a second wavelength, being different from the first wavelength. The resonant responses can be selected to reduce chromatic aberrations, or to shape a profile of a light beam, or to selectively switch a near field beam.
US11880044B2
The invention relates to an optical device (1) for enhancing the resolution of an image or for reducing speckle noise.
US11880041B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to speaker assemblies for head worn computers, including speaker assemblies in a temple portion of a head-worn computer.
US11880036B2
A waveguide head-up display (HUD) includes a waveguide that includes a lower surface and an upper surface and is configured to receive an input and project, based on the input, at least one image from the upper surface and into an eyebox, and a prism arranged at least one of on and above the waveguide. The prism includes a lower surface facing the waveguide and configured to receive the at least one image and an upper surface opposite the lower surface configured to project the at least one image received via the lower surface of the prism. The upper surface of the prism is angled relative to the upper surface of the waveguide such that a first normal of the upper surface of the prism is different from a second normal of the upper surface of the waveguide.
US11880034B2
A high-assurance headtracking system for a head worn display (HWD) incorporating ground-truth fiducials is disclosed. In embodiments, the headtracking system includes a camera fixed to a mobile platform (e.g., an aircraft cockpit) and oriented toward a pilot wearing the HWD. Images captured by the camera detect fiducial markers attached to the HWD (and fixed in a device reference frame) and static fiducial markers fixed to the mobile platform, each static fiducial marker including a constellation of individual markers having a known position and orientation in the platform reference frame. The headtracking system include control processors for analyzing the images and identifying therein the device-frame and static fiducial markers. The headtracking system determines a device pose of the HWD relative to the platform reference frame and monitors the device pose for drift or error based on the known positions of the identified static fiducial markers.
US11880029B2
The endoscope system includes: a laser diode for an endoscope that emits illumination light whose amount can be controlled; an image pickup device that outputs an image pickup signal of an image obtained by receiving reflected light of the illumination light; a photodiode that receives a part of the illumination light of the laser diode; a thermistor that detects a temperature of the laser diode; a thermistor that detects a temperature of the photodiode; a detection light amount temperature correction circuit that corrects an amount of light received by the photodiode based on the temperature of the photodiode; and a laser diode control circuit that controls driving of the laser diode so that an amount of the illumination light becomes a set value based on a corrected amount of received light corrected by the detection light amount temperature correction circuit and the temperature of the laser diode.
US11880028B2
A method for altering the intensity of light across the field of view of an image sensor in a microscope apparatus having a light source, an image sensor having pixels, and a specimen stage, wherein light from the light source travels along a light path to the specimen stage and then to the image sensor includes interposing a programmable spatial light modulator, pSLM, in the light path between the light source and the image sensor, the pSLM having a plurality of pixels; and modulating the intensity of light passing through one or more pixels of the plurality of pixels of the pSLM to produce an altered illumination landscape at the field of view of the image sensor that differs from an unaltered illumination landscape that would otherwise be produced at the image sensor. Vignetting can be specifically addressed.
US11880025B2
An optical system to divide a light flux from an object plane includes a first curved-surface mirror, and second, third, and fourth reflecting portions. The second reflecting portion divides and reflects light flux from the first curved-surface mirror to respective different positions on the first curved-surface mirror as first light fluxes. The third reflecting portion reflects, as third light fluxes, the first light fluxes. The fourth reflecting portion reflects the third light fluxes from the third reflecting portion. A number of reflective surfaces of each of the third and fourth reflecting portions on which the first and third light fluxes are incident is the same as a division number in the dividing of the light flux into the second light fluxes. The first and third light fluxes are reflected by the respective third and fourth reflecting portions to be image-formed so that divided images of the object plane are formed.
US11880019B2
The present disclosure provides a camera optical lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens; wherein the first lens has a positive refractive power, and the camera optical lens satisfies conditions of: 0.95≤f/TTL; 3.20≤f2/f≤5.00; and 0.30≤(R7+R8)/(R7−R8)≤1.00. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting the design requirements for large aperture, ultra-thinness and long focal length.
US11880015B2
Train a machine learning model, using an image-based knowledge graph of tropical cyclone data, for implementing a surface field modeling architecture that produces images of at least surface wind fields and surface rainfall fields from images of at least tropical cyclone tracks and pressure intensities. Generate model images of a modeled surface wind field and a modeled surface rainfall field by providing images of at least a user-generated tropical cyclone track and pressure intensity to the trained machine learning model.
US11880003B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for measuring the distribution of radiation dose emitted from a brachytherapy insertion tool, the apparatus including a housing having defined therein a measurement space in which the brachytherapy insertion tool is located, a fluorescent member disposed at the housing, the fluorescent member being configured to react with radiation emitted to the measurement space and to emit light, a camera disposed in the housing, and a cover coupled to one surface of the housing, the cover being configured to cover the fluorescent member. The portion of the fluorescent member to which radiation from a radiation source of the brachytherapy insertion tool is applied reacts with the radiation and generates light, brightness of the light varies depending on distribution of the radiation, and the position at which the light is bright is calculated to measure the direction in which the brachytherapy insertion tool has no shielding.
US11879998B2
The present disclosure relates to optical systems, specifically light detection and ranging (LIDAR) systems. An example optical system includes a laser light source operable to emit laser light along a first axis and a mirror element with a plurality of reflective surfaces. The mirror element is configured to rotate about a second axis. The plurality of reflective surfaces is disposed about the second axis. The mirror element and the laser light source are coupled to a base structure, which is configured to rotate about a third axis. While the rotational angle of the mirror element is within an angular range, the emitted laser light interacts with both a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface of the plurality of reflective surfaces and is reflected into the environment by the first and second reflective surfaces.
US11879997B2
A system and method for analyzing a surface of an object is provided. The system includes a 3D measurement device operable to acquire a plurality of points on the surface of the object and determine 3D coordinates for each of the points. The system further includes processors operably coupled to the 3D measurement device. The processors are responsive to computer instructions when executed on the processors for performing a method comprising: generating a point cloud from the 3D coordinates of the plurality of points; extracting a first set of points from the plurality of points; defining a first reference geometry through the first set of points; measuring at least one first metric from each of the points in the first set of points to the first reference geometry; and identifying a nonconforming feature based at least in part on the at least one first metric.
US11879996B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor includes a first reflective surface configured to oscillate about a first rotation axis to deflect a light beam into an environment; and a second reflective surface configured to oscillate about a second rotation axis to guide light received from the environment onto a photodetector of the LIDAR sensor. The first rotation axis and the second rotation axis extend parallel to one another. The LIDAR sensor also includes a control circuit configured to drive the first reflective surface to oscillate with a first maximum deflection angle about the first rotation axis, and to drive the second reflective surface to oscillate with a second maximum deflection angle about the second rotation axis, the first maximum deflection angle being greater than the second maximum deflection angle, and an area of the first reflective surface is less than an area of the second reflective surface.
US11879993B2
Examples relate to a method, an apparatus and a computer program for determining distance information based on Time of Flight (ToF) sensor data. The method includes obtaining the ToF sensor data, determining one or more saturated regions within the ToF sensor data, determining distance information for one or more boundary regions located adjacent to the one or more saturated regions based on the ToF sensor data, and determining distance information for at least a part of the one or more saturated regions based on the distance information of the one or more boundary regions.
US11879981B2
The present disclosure is of an atmospheric characterization system that has a central processing board that has a first and a second communication interface. Further, the atmospheric characterization system further has a first precision temperature sensor that is communicatively coupled to the central processing board via the first communication interface and positioned a distance from a first side of the processing board, wherein the precision temperature measures a first temperature and transfers data indicative of the first temperature to the central processing board. In addition, the atmospheric characterization system has a second precision temperature sensor that is communicatively coupled to the central processing board via the second communication interface and positioned the distance from a second opposing side of the processing board such that the first precision temperature sensor and the second precision temperature sensor are equidistance from the processing board and a distance between the first precision sensor and the second precision sensor is a predetermined distance, r, and the second precision temperature sensor measures a second temperature and transfers data indicative of the second temperature to the central processing board simultaneously with the transferring of the first temperature. Additionally, the atmospheric characterization system has a processor that receives the first temperature and the second temperature and calculates a value indicative of atmospheric turbulence based upon the first temperature and the second temperature, wherein the value indicative of the atmospheric turbulence is used for designing, modifying, calibrating, or correcting an optical system.
US11879980B2
Improved systems and methods are provided to implement anomaly detection. The method includes a FMCW LIDAR system that steers the laser beam of the LIDAR system via the wavelength tuning of a FMCW. The direction of the laser beam can be diffracted and controlled by the optical grating antennas which may diffract the laser beam as a function of wavelength. The method may also provide a LIDAR sensor with exhibits a controlled and wide-angle fill or output without the use of conventional mechanical mechanisms for scanning. The LIDAR system provides a cost-effective method to reduce scan dimensionality without sacrificing performance.
US11879975B2
A measurement apparatus including: a laser that outputs a frequency-modulated laser beam; a branch that splits the frequency-modulated laser beam into a reference light and a measurement light; a beat signal generator that generates a beat signal by mixing the reference light and a reflected light that is reflected by radiating the measurement light onto an object to be measured; a frequency analyzer that frequency-analyzes the beat signal; a storage that stores a reference frequency signal which is a frequency signal obtained by converting a reference signal output by the beat signal generator in a state without the object to be measured; and calculation circuitry that calculates a difference between propagation distances of the reference light and the measurement light.
US11879967B2
An ultra wide band (UWB) based radar system and method uses reflected UWB signal pulses to locate and/or track objects having a detectable radar cross-section. The system and method use the same types of UWB transceivers used to track active RF tags and includes a method of processing channel impulse response data allowing the detection, location, and tracking of non-tagged objects within a monitored area.
US11879961B2
An improved circuit configuration is disclosed for calibrating and/or verifying the operation of phase shifters in a phased array radar system. In one illustrative embodiment, a method includes: (i) programming a set of phase shifters to convert a radio frequency signal into a set of channel signals; (ii) splitting off a monitor signal from each channel signal while coupling the set of channel signals to a set of antenna feeds; and (iii) while taking the monitor signals in pairs associated with adjacent channels, measuring a relative phase between each pair of monitor signals.
US11879960B2
A monitoring system can be configured to monitor activities or actions occurring in clinical settings, such as hospitals. The monitoring system can improve patient safety. The system can use visual and/or other tracking methods. The system can detect and/or identify people in a clinical setting. The system can also track activities of the people, for example, to improve adherence to hygiene protocols.
US11879954B2
In a method for correcting chemical shift artifacts, CSA, a convolutional neural network (CNN) may be provided, which is trained using acquisition data acquired in phase and in opposed phase by a DIXON MR method that may include acquisition data that contains CSA in mutually opposite directions and acquisition data that contains CSA only in one direction. The CNN may be trained to transform acquisition data obtained by the fast DIXON MR method so the acquisition data acquired by the fast DIXON MR method exhibits CSA that arise only in the same direction. The method may further include acquiring fast DIXON MR acquisition data using respective control instructions and applying the trained CNN to the acquisition data to minimize or entirely remove the CSA and to calculate corrected acquisition data. The CSA may arise in the magnetic resonance DIXON method when using fast DIXON MR to capture the echoes.
US11879952B2
An atomic vapor cell for performing RF measurements includes: a first optical window of transparent nonconducting material free of electrically conductive materials; an intermediate frame of transparent nonconducting material free of electrically conductive materials; a second optical window disposed on the intermediate frame and including transparent nonconducting material free of electrically conductive materials to minimize distortion of radiofrequency fields by the windows and frame; and a cell aperture, wherein the atomic vapor cell is hermetically sealed by bonding between the first optical window and the second optical window to the intermediate frame.
US11879939B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a clocking system that generates first and second clock signals and a clock enable signal, and a testing system that tests the clocking system. During a capture phase of an at-speed testing mode of the IC, the second clock signal is a gated version of the first clock signal and includes two clock pulses. The testing system determines a first count of clock pulses of the first clock signal between an activation of the capture phase and an assertion of the clock enable signal. Similarly, the testing system determines a second count of clock pulses of the first clock signal between the two clock pulses of the second clock signal. The testing system then compares the first count with a first reference value and the second count with a second reference value to detect a fault in the clocking system.
US11879932B2
Techniques regarding autonomous identification of aged circuits are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise an identification component, operatively coupled to the processor, that can identify an aged circuit by analyzing a current-voltage characteristic curve for a distortion in a sub-threshold quiescent current signature of the aged circuit.
US11879922B2
The present invention discloses an antenna arrangement for 4.5G or 5G base station testing purposes. The antenna elements are placed in concentric rings and in a star-shaped arrangement around a center spot. All antenna elements within the same ring are controlled by the same amplitude and phase control signal. The test system processor also selects dedicated rings into use and switches the rest of the rings off. The ring spacing, i.e. the mutual antenna element distance along the same radial line will be determined based on highest frequency within the desired wide frequency band. A bowtie dipole type of antenna can be used. The antenna elements can be fixed on a printed circuit board, and thus, they remain mechanically stationary.
US11879919B2
A method can include in a first phase of a sensing operation, controlling at least a first switch to energize a sensor inductance; in a second phase of the sensing operation that follows the first phase, controlling at least a second switch to couple the sensor inductance to a first modulator capacitance to induce a first fly-back current from the sensor inductance, the first fly-back current generating a first modulator voltage at the first modulator capacitance, and in response to the first modulator voltage, controlling at least a third switch to generate a balance current that flows in an opposite direction to the fly-back current at the first modulator node. The first and second phases can be repeated to generate a first modulator voltage at the first modulator capacitance. the modulator voltage can be converted into a digital value representing the sensor inductance. Related devices and systems are also disclosed.
US11879914B2
A test arrangement and a method for controlling a measurement apparatus are provided. The measurement apparatus, in particular the triggering of the measurement apparatus is controlled by a state machine. If a desired state for triggering the measurement apparatus is not entered within a predetermined time period, the conditions for triggering the measurement apparatus can be adapted. For example, a required state for triggering can be changed or an automated triggering can be initiated.
US11879909B2
A testing device for electronic dies includes a first support part and a second support part configured to be removably assembled with each other. The first and second support parts together define at least one housing where at least one electronic die can be arranged to be tested. The electronic die has a first surface with contacting elements. The at least one housing includes a first portion. This at least one housing is arranged to enable the at least one electronic die to occupy a first position in the housing where the first surface is spaced apart from the first portion, and is further arrange to enable the at least one electronic die to occupy a second position in the housing where the first surface bears against the first portion.
US11879907B2
The invention provides an acceleration sensor, including a sensing unit, a sensing unit includes a ring-shaped outer coupling unit; seesaw structures, including at least two and arranged on an inner side of the outer coupling unit; an inner coupling unit, including an inner coupling elastic beam connecting two adjacent seesaw structures; proof mass blocks fixed on the outer coupling unit or the inner coupling unit or the seesaw structures; an in-plane coupling elastic member elastically connecting the seesaw structures to the outer coupling unit; in-plane displacement detection devices arranged on the proof mass blocks and configured to detect movements of the proof mass blocks along the first direction and/or along the second direction; and out-of-plane displacement detection devices arranged on the outer coupling unit and/or the seesaw structures and/or the inner coupling unit configured to detect movements of the seesaw structures along the third direction.
US11879900B2
Methods are described for determining the amount of metabolites of leflunomide in a sample. More specifically, mass spectrometric methods are described for detecting and quantifying teriflunomide in a sample.
US11879890B1
An exemplary breath analysis system may include a sampling chamber having a molecule collector disposed therein. The molecule collector may be configured such that volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in a breath sample introduced to the sampling chamber adhere to the molecule collector. A laser may be configured to ablate at least a portion of the VOCs adhered to the molecule collector off of the molecule collector to release of at least the portion of the VOCs adhered to the molecule collector. An analysis device (e.g., a mass spectrometer or Terahertz (THz) spectrometer) may identify one or more target VOCs from among at least the portion of the VOCs released from the molecule collector and generate an output representative of the identified target VOC(s). The output may include information that quantitates a concentration of the target VOC(s) with respect to a source of the breath sample.
US11879878B2
A gas separation system includes a separation column for separating components contained in sample gas, a sample gas supplier fluidly connected to an inlet of the separation column for supplying sample gas to the separation column, a detector fluidly connected to an outlet of the separation column, a collection tube filled with an adsorbent having a property of adsorbing a target component in the sample gas under a condition of a first temperature or less and desorbing the adsorbed target component under a condition of a second temperature or more higher than the first temperature, a temperature adjuster for adjusting a temperature of the collection tube, a collection container for collecting the target component, and a switching mechanism for switching between a state in which the collection tube is connected to an outlet of the detector and a state in which the collection tube is connected to the collection container.
US11879872B2
The present disclosure discloses a deformation and control simulation test system for a tunnel engineering supporting structure, including a follow-up hoisting platform, actuators, a control system. It is horizontal structure. The follow-up hoisting platform reduces the friction caused by the weight of testing sample and facilitates experimental operations. Each actuator fixed on an annular box body reaction frame can move independently through a control system in form of force control or displacement control mode, and can achieve circumferential contraction loading through its gomphodont configuration. The hinged and curved design of the cushion blocks of actuators can adapt to the circumferential contraction deformation of a test sample and maintain a close fit with them during the loading process. The present disclosure provides a good solution for physical model tests on deformation and control of tunnel engineering supporting structures including uniform loading, non-uniform loading, and long-term loading conditions.
US11879861B2
A method for measuring an electrical conductivity of a medium with a conductive conductivity sensor with four electrodes includes measuring a first impedance dependent on a first total impedance of the first voltage electrode and a medium layer adjacent to the first voltage electrode, measuring a second impedance dependent on a second total impedance of the second voltage electrode and a medium layer adjacent to the second voltage electrode, and making a conductivity measurement using an alternating electrical signal introduced into the medium via the first current electrode and measuring a potential difference between the first voltage electrode and the second voltage electrode. Based on the measured potential difference, the first impedance, and the second impedance a corrected potential difference is determined. Based on the corrected potential difference, a measured conductivity is determined.
US11879860B2
A device for measuring conductivity of a fluid. The device including a chamber and at least two electrodes. The chamber includes an inlet, an outlet, an upper surface, and a lower surface that runs separate from the upper surface. The fluid enters the chamber through the inlet and flows out of the chamber through the outlet. Moving along a length of the chamber from the inlet to the outlet or from the outlet to the inlet, a distance between the upper surface and the lower surface changes in at least one dimension of the chamber. The two electrodes are configured to measure electrical voltage in the fluid that enters the chamber through the inlet and flows out of the chamber through the outlet.
US11879845B2
The present disclosure relates to a fluorescence filter for measuring fluorescence generated by a measurement object and an image sensor module including the same, and includes an absorption filter transmitting light within a specific wavelength band generated by the measurement object including a fluorescent dye and absorbs light in the remaining wavelength bands, and a reflection filter that is disposed adjacent to the absorption filter, transmits light within a specific wavelength band generated by the measurement object, and reflects light in the remaining wavelength bands, wherein the absorption filter has a plurality of wells having a predetermined depth in which the measurement object is accommodated, and wherein the plurality of wells are disposed at regular intervals on an incident surface of the absorption filter to which external light is incident.
US11879844B2
An example device includes an array of sensor modules. A sensor module includes a body to be positioned in alignment with a planar target, a light source coupled to the body to emit light to the planar target along a source optical path, and a plurality of light sensors coupled to the body. Each light sensor is to sense a different wavelength of light received from the planar target along a sensor optical path. The sensor optical path is different from the source optical path. The bodies of the array of sensor modules are arranged in a planar tiling pattern with respect to a longitudinal axis of the planar target.
US11879839B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a supply channel through which a liquid to be supplied to a substrate flows; and a foreign substance detecting unit configured to detect a foreign substance in the liquid based on a signal obtained when light, which is near-infrared light, is radiated toward a flow path forming unit constituting a part of the supply channel by a light projector so that light is emitted from the flow path forming unit and a light receiver receives the light emitted from the flow path forming unit.
US11879838B2
A method for vicarious spatial characterization of a remote sensor system. The method includes detecting, via the remote sensor system, radiation reflected from at least one body of water corresponding to a plurality of point reflector images, selecting a set of point reflector images from the plurality of point reflector images, the selected set of point reflector images corresponding to sub-pixel point reflector images, analyzing the selected set of point reflector images by executing an algorithm for fitting the point reflector images to obtain a point spread function of the remote sensor system, and determining a spatial characteristic of the remote sensor system based on the point spread function.
US11879835B1
A method for detecting for a presence of a toxic element in a sample includes emitting UV light from an UV-VIS LED illuminator onto a sample as incident light. Capturing a portion of the incident light being reflected from the sample using a frinGOe interferometer and converting the reflected light to an interferogram spectrum. Collecting the interferogram spectrum using a camera. Retrieving the interferogram spectrum from the camera and transforming it to absorption wavelength spectrum using Fourier transformation via a microcontroller. Comparing and normalizing the absorption strength peak wavelength using the microcontroller. Comparing the normalized absorption strength peak wavelength spectrum with stored allowable toxic chemical absorption strength peak wavelength thresholds. Sending a message indicating that the sample is safe or not safe to use to a LCD screen and a speaker based on the comparison between the normalized absorption strength peak wavelength spectrum and the stored allowable thresholds.
US11879831B2
A method of measuring a wet friction of a bundle of hair, using a system which includes a friction probe having a contact surface and fitted with a weight in the range of from 10 g to 500 g, inclusive, a means for securing the bundle of hair, and a water bath, the friction probe being connected to a texture analyser, the method including the step of i) providing a bundle of hair fibres. The method also includes the steps of ii) aligning the bundle of hair fibres; iii) securing the bundle of hair fibres; iv) immersing the bundle of hair fibres under water in the water bath; v) contacting the bundle of hair fibres with the contact surface of the friction probe, which is fitted with the weight; vi) moving the probe along the hair fibres; and vii) recording the friction generated under step vi).
US11879827B2
Methods for determining a parameter of a particle in a flow stream (e.g., in a particle analyzer of a flow cytometer) from scattered light are described. Methods according to certain embodiments include irradiating a particle in a flow stream with a frequency-modulated beam of laser light modulated at a reference frequency, detecting scattered light from the particle with a photodetector, generating a frequency-encoded data signal from the detected scattered light, synchronizing the frequency-encoded data signal with the reference frequency and determining one or more parameters of the particle based on the synchronized frequency-encoded data signal. Systems and non-transitory computer readable storage medium with instructions for practicing the subject methods are also provided.
US11879826B2
In some embodiments, a plurality of smart flow cytometers are coupled into communication with a computer communication network. A central repair server system is coupled into communication with the computer communication network and the plurality of smart flow cytometers. Each of the plurality of smart flow cytometers includes a monitoring system coupled to monitor differing operational parameters of the smart flow cytometer for possible failure. The monitoring system can detect an advanced failure of components based on the operational parameters being monitored. The monitoring system can also detect an advanced need for repair and maintenance based on the operational parameters being monitored.
US11879822B2
To enable the particle size distribution of a measurement target to be accurately measured regardless of the presence of a particle which is similar in shape to the measurement target and which is not the measurement target, a particle size distribution measuring device includes an image processing unit that receives image data obtained by capturing an image of a particle group including a first particle and a second particle of a type different from the first particle, at least the first particle being translucent; and a particle discriminating unit that discriminates whether a particle depicted in the image is the first particle or the second particle on the basis of light and dark regions that appear as a result of refraction of light passing through the particle.
US11879820B2
A droplet-based microfluidic rheometer system and method of use for real-time viscosity monitoring of blood coagulation is disclosed. Droplets of blood samples are generated in a microfluidic rheometer, and the size of the droplets is highly correlated to the sample viscosity. The size of the droplets can be determined optically using an inverted light microscope and a camera or using electrodes. The microfluidic rheometer systems provides viscosity measurements in less than a second and consumes less than 1 μl blood or plasma over an hour period. The viscosity measurements may be displayed and transmitted to the Internet or cloud storage.
US11879814B2
A railway track defect detection system may include a mobile defect detection platform and a modal parameter analyzer. The platform may include an excitation mechanism (e.g., an excitation hammer or wheels that are in contact with a railway track) to apply multiple impact forces to the railway track while the platform travels along the railway track, and a laser Doppler vibrometer to capture, while the platform travels along the railway track, vibration data representing vibrations of the railway track caused by application of the multiple impact forces by the excitation mechanism. The modal parameter analyzer may be configured to detect, based on the vibration data captured by the laser Doppler vibrometer, a defect in the railway track. For example, changes in vibration amplitudes, mode shapes, damping ratios, or a natural frequency derived from the received vibration data may indicate the presence of a defect in the railway track.
US11879810B2
An exemplary method includes vehicle-mounted sensors continuously detecting vehicle speed and vehicle tire and steering vibrations; a processor implementing a machine-learning program that continuously monitors signals from the vehicle-mounted sensors and compares detected vehicle tire and steering vibrations to upper bounds corresponding to detected vehicle speed; and the processor alerting a vehicle driver that wheel or tire service is required based on the detected vehicle tire and steering vibrations exceeding the upper bounds. An exemplary apparatus includes a vehicle; tires mounted to the vehicle; a speed sensor mounted to the vehicle; a vibration sensor mounted to the vehicle; and a processor connected in communication with the speed sensor and the vibration sensor. The processor is adapted to implement any of the method steps above.
US11879809B2
In a vehicle action simulation method according to the present invention, a behavior of an actual vehicle during travel is predicted, and an attitude of a tire and a rotational speed of a rotary drum are changed to reproduce a transient change in a tire attitude that occurs during the travel of the actual vehicle on the tire while the predicted behavior of the actual vehicle during travel is reflected, stress applied to the tire in contact with the rotary drum of a tire ground contact characteristic measuring portion is measured, tire ground contact characteristics are calculated, the behavior of the actual vehicle during travel is predicted while vehicle characteristics predicted from the tire ground contact characteristics are reflected, and the prediction, the reproduction, the measurement of stress, and the calculation are performed in parallel.
US11879806B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method for carrying out a test run on a test stand. The method in some embodiments reduces a deviation between a comparison simulation value and a comparison reference value when carrying out a test run on a test stand with a test object by simulating via a simulation unit a number of simulation values using a number of specified reference values starting from a selected reference value, determining a corrected reference value which is specified to the simulation unit for simulating a corrected simulation value and determining at least one setpoint variable using the corrected simulation value.
US11879801B2
A controller for an environmental sensor provides digital environmental measurement values from analog environmental measurements performed by analog circuitry, the digital environmental measurement values lying in a global scale range. The controller subjects the global scale range to a subdivision into scale subranges that are proper subranges of the global scale range. The controller selects, among the scale subranges, one scale subrange in which an analog environmental measurement is to be performed, selects an offset information and a gain information that are associated with the selected scale subrange and that are indicative of an offset and a gain to be applied by the analog circuitry to perform an analog environmental measurement in the selected scale subrange, and to provide the offset information and the gain information to the analog circuitry.
US11879793B2
A vibration sensor according to an embodiment includes a laminated body. The laminated body includes a support layer a first end of which is fixed; a piezoelectric layer on the support layer; an insulating layer disposed between the support layer and the piezoelectric layer; a common electrode disposed on a first principal surface of the piezoelectric layer; a first sensing electrode disposed in a first area on a second principal surface of the piezoelectric layer on the side opposite to the first principal surface; and a drive electrode disposed in a second area different from the first area on the second principal surface of the piezoelectric layer. The first area is located near the first end of the support layer.
US11879787B2
Disclosed is a heat sensor cable having: a conductor defining a conductor first end and a conductor body extending by a first longitudinal span from the conductor first end to a conductor second end; a coil that is non-conductive and includes a coil first end and a coil body extending by a second longitudinal span from the coil first end to a coil second end, wherein the coil surrounds the conductor from the conductor first end to the conductor second end; an outer sheath that is conductive and includes an outer sheath first end and an outer sheath body extending by a third longitudinal span from the outer sheath first end to an outer sheath second end, wherein the outer sheath surrounds the coil from the conductor first end to the conductor second end; and an eutectic salt that is disbursed between the conductor and the outer sheath.
US11879782B2
An ear thermometer includes a probe including an infrared sensor unit for measuring a temperature of an eardrum of an ear of a temperature measurement target parson in a non-contact manner, the probe attached to an ear hole of the temperature measurement target parson. The probe includes a probe body inserted into the ear hole of the temperature measurement target parson, a housing for supporting the probe body; and an in-ear type earpiece attached to the probe body and abutting on an inside of the ear hole of the temperature measurement target person. The infrared sensor unit includes a first sensor and a second sensor arranged in the probe body and spaced apart by a predetermined distance along a direction substantially orthogonal to the eardrum when the probe body is inserted into the ear hole of the temperature measurement target person.
US11879779B2
An optical system (150) is disclosed and includes an optical sensor (154), a plurality of photosensitive pixels (178) disposed on the optical sensor, a wavelength-selective optical filter (158) in optical communication with the photosensitive pixels, the wavelength-selective optical filter being disposed remotely from the optical sensor, and a plurality of spatially-variant areas (220, 224, 228, 232) disposed in the optical filter, at least one area of the plurality of spatially-variant areas including a downconverter (400, 500).
US11879778B2
The invention relates to a method for classifying spectra of objects having complex information content after recording of the spectra involving the use of a method for preprocessing data and of a method, associated with the data preprocessing, for classification with the calculation of a classifier. After the recording of the spectra and the preprocessing of the spectra, a multiple classification method is thereby performed with at least two different methods for the data preprocessing of the spectra and the method, assigned to the respective data preprocessing, for classification. After the recording and the data preprocessing of the spectra, the following steps are thereby carried out: a calculation of multiple classifiers of the series per type of data preprocessing; a determination of the classifiers of the series with iterative adjustment and validation; a calculation of probabilities of the class association, with all classifiers of the series or classifiers being equally incorporated into the determination of a classification result.
US11879777B2
A small, handheld Raman spectrometer device can be built from a laser, lenses, and a diffraction grating configured in a right-angle Raman spectroscopy geometry, and used in conjunction with a cell-phone camera to record the Raman spectra. The cell-phone-based Raman spectrometer system is suited to performing in-situ measurements of chemical and biological molecules.
US11879775B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein describe a divided-aperture infrared spectral imaging (DAISI) system that is adapted to acquire multiple IR images of a scene with a single-shot (also referred to as a snapshot). The plurality of acquired images having different wavelength compositions that are obtained generally simultaneously. The system includes at least two optical channels that are spatially and spectrally different from one another. Each of the at least two optical channels are configured to transfer IR radiation incident on the optical system towards an optical FPA unit comprising at least two detector arrays disposed in the focal plane of two corresponding focusing lenses. The system further comprises at least one temperature reference source or surface that is used to dynamically calibrate the two detector arrays and compensate for a temperature difference between the two detector arrays.
US11879774B2
The invention provides a light indicator (100) for use in evaluating melanopsin active radiation in a flux of light, the light indicator (100) comprising a first light indicator element (110) comprising a first light reflective element (112) and a second light indicator element (120) comprising a second light reflective element (122), the light reflecting elements (112,122) having different wavelength dependencies of the spectral reflectivity, wherein the light reflecting elements (112,122) are selected to provide the same intensity of reflected light of two or more different types of light irradiating on the light indicator elements (110,120), wherein the two or more different types of light have different spectral power distributions in the visible wavelength range but having the same ratios of the melanopic flux and the luminous flux, wherein the ratio of the melanopic flux and the luminous flux of light is defined as MEF = 1.22 ∑ λ = 380 780 SPD ( λ ) m ( λ ) Δλ ∑ λ = 380 780 SPD ( λ ) V ( λ ) Δλ ( Eq . 1 ) wherein SPD(λ) is the spectral power distribution of the light, m(λ) is the melanopic sensitivity function, and the V(λ) is the photopic sensitivity.
US11879770B2
A weighing method has an automatic micro-calibration function. In the method, an automatic adjustment is performed by a self-calibration weighing module. When the result of the adjustment does not meet a requirement, an automatic calibration is performed by the self-calibration weighing module, followed by weighing fine formulation materials. In the weighing method, the self-calibration module is used to perform the automatic calibration function to weigh the fine formulation materials. This provides a high degree of automation, and greatly reduced cost in equipment and labor for a formulating process, saving on time and labor, and with no risk of cross-contamination.
US11879767B2
The present disclosure is to a scale for measuring a weight of a mass inside of an intermodal freight container. The scale includes a first bottom side rail, a second bottom side rail, a first cross-member and a second cross-member, where the cross-members join the first bottom side rail and the second bottom side rail. The scale further includes a jointed member having a first elongate section joined to the first bottom side rail with a first hinge, a second elongate section joined to the second bottom side rail with a second hinge, and a third hinge that connects the first elongate section and the second elongate section. A container floor is positioned over the jointed member to allow force from a weight of a mass on the container floor to be transferred through the hinges into a first lateral force through the first elongate section into the first bottom side rail, where a load cell associated with the first bottom side rail provides an electrical signal whose magnitude is representative of the first lateral force being imparted by the weight of the mass. A microprocessor receives and stores in memory the electrical signal from the load cell indicating the weight of the mass inside of the intermodal freight container.
US11879758B2
The present disclosure provides a linear motor including: a housing body with a containment space; a vibrator assembly suspended in the containment space by an elastic member for vibrating along a vibration direction; a stator assembly fixedly connected to the housing body and having a magnetic axis along the vibration direction; and two magnets located on both sides of the magnetic axis and spaced from the stator assembly, including a first magnet section and a second magnet section located on both sides of the first magnet section. A magnetic field strength of the first magnet section along the magnetic axis is greater than a magnetic field strength of the second magnet section along the magnetic axis. The configuration of the invention can effectively reduce the static attraction force of the magnetic circuit, and increase the overall rigidity of the linear motor.
US11879752B2
A sensor module as well as a method for manufacturing a sensor module for determining a property of a fluid, in particular for measuring air quality, comprises a printed circuit board, at least one sensor on the printed circuit board for measuring a parameter of the surrounding air and a housing for the printed circuit board. A part of the printed circuit board protrudes from an opening in the housing (10), wherein the at least one sensor (21, 22) is located on a front side of the protruding part of the printed circuit board. In addition, at least the front side of the protruding part of the printed circuit board, with the exception of a recess for the at least one sensor, is encapsulated with a filling compound. The sensor module can be used in an interior or an air duct of motor vehicles or buildings. In one embodiment, the sensor module measures temperature, relative humidity and gas concentration in a fluid, especially in the surrounding air.
US11879751B2
An inspection apparatus includes a portable housing and at least one handle structure integrally formed with the portable housing. The inspection apparatus further includes a vision data system, a lighting system, a user interface system, a wireless communication system, and a controller. The vision data system includes one or more cameras provided on the first face of the portable housing. The vision data system is operable to capture component data. The lighting system is arranged with the vision data system at the first face. The lighting system includes diffused light emitting diode (LED) ring arranged around at least one of the one or more cameras. The manufacturing inspection apparatus is a stand-alone and all-in-one computing device. The manufacturing inspection apparatus processes and stores inspection data locally.
US11879743B2
A device for identifying a shift in a point of interest (POI). The device may receive location information of the POI, determine a geographical coordinate of the POI based on the location information and using map data, determine a routable attribute of the POI based on the geographical coordinate and using updated map data, identify a shift in the POI between the map data and the updated map data based on an inconsistency between the routable attribute and the map data, determine an aggregate score based on the routable attribute and the inconsistency between the routable attribute and the map data when the shift in the POI is identified, and cause an action to be performed based on the aggregate score.
US11879741B2
Systems and methods for optimizing issue reporting in a navigation environment are provided. In example embodiments, a networked system causes presentation of a navigation user interface on a user device of a user, whereby the navigation user interface includes a route being navigated and navigation instructions. The networked system also causes presentation of one or more issue icons on the user device, whereby each issue icon represents a different type of issue to be reported. A selection of an issue icon from the one or more issue icons is received by the networked system. In response to receiving the selection of the issue icon, the networked system infers a location associated with the issue. The networked system updates a database with the issue and the inferred location. In some embodiments, the database is updated after the inferred location or the issue is verified.
US11879732B2
A method of measuring a structure includes acquiring azimuth and tilt readings at a first location and second location. Images of the structure are also acquired from the first and second location. The respective distances from the first and second locations to a first and second point on the structure are measured. A scale is established from two positions of the structure depicted in the first or second image of the structure. The distance between the first and second points on the structure is found using the established scale. This distance is used with the azimuth and tilt readings and measured distances from the first and second location to build an epipolar model of the structure. The structure may be a utility pole. Also disclosed are methods of assisting photogrammetric measurements and estimating the class of a utility pole, and methods of determining the compliance status of a utility pole.
US11879730B2
A laser interferometer includes a light source that emits first laser light, an optical modulator that includes a vibrator and modulates the first laser light by using the vibrator to generate second laser light including a modulated signal, a photodetector that receives interference light between third laser light including a sample signal generated by reflecting the first laser light on an object and the second laser light to output a light reception signal, and an optical path length variable section that changes an optical path length of an optical path through which the third laser light propagates.
US11879713B2
The disclosure relates to an insert (5) made of a textile fabric for being received in a jacket wall of a cylindrical case (6) made of a combustible, felted fibrous material, wherein in particular embodiments the textile fabric includes one, several, or a plurality of yarns which along a longitudinal direction (L) of the insert form a plurality of mesh rows (18) which each include a plurality of meshes (19, 20, 21) that extend in a circumferential direction (U) of the insert.
US11879710B2
A mitigation control system, for performing an active hazard mitigation method, is arranged in an environment containing an energetic material and includes an abnormal temperature sensor for detecting an abnormal temperature of the environment, a power source that is mechanically actuated by the abnormal temperature sensor when the abnormal temperature exceeds a predetermined abnormal temperature threshold, a mitigation controller that is actuated by the power source, and a plurality of local temperature sensors that are communicatively coupled to the mitigation controller and are arranged for detecting critical temperatures in specific regions of the environment. The mitigation controller executes a mitigation action when one of the critical temperatures exceeds a predetermined critical temperature threshold for the corresponding specific region.
US11879695B2
A sink composed of metal, preferably composed of a solid metal block, in particular composed of aluminium, and also to a method and a tool for the production of same. The heat sink has a plurality of fluid lines for conducting cooling fluid which are separated from one another by heat sink ribs arranged between them, which are arranged next to one another and which run in a parallel manner. It is characterized in that the fluid lines are formed by grooves which are milled into the metal.
US11879674B1
The current invention provides an evaporative condensing system using an evaporative condenser heat exchanger having an outer surface. The heat exchanger has a superhydrophilic surface. A compressor is configured to circulate a working fluid through the heat exchanger. A water distribution system is adapted to deposit a controlled amount of water on the heat exchanger to absorb heat from the heat exchanger by evaporation of water from the heat exchanger. A collector is located below the heat exchanger to receive excess water from the heat exchanger and direct excess water to a drain and an air delivery system is provided to direct air over the heat exchanger. The water distribution system supplies water to the heat exchanger in sufficient quantity that the water wets the heat exchanger, keeps the heat exchanger wet along its length, and excess water remains to carry dissolved solids to the collector.
US11879673B2
Air sourced or water sourced packaged self-contained heat pump units having indoor and outdoor sections are provided. The heat pump unit distributes its total charge of refrigerant between a main refrigerant system and a refrigerant charge control system while keeping the total charge of refrigerant in the heat pump unit constant. The refrigerant charge control system has a refrigerant reservoir, an inlet conduit, and an outlet conduit that extends into the reservoir such that its lowest point is close to the bottom of the reservoir.
US11879670B2
An absorption refrigerator using a circulation cycle of a regenerator, a condenser, an evaporator, and an absorber includes temperature sensors, a storage unit storing the approximation function for obtaining the second concentration based on second detection results obtained by each of the temperature sensors, a calculation unit to apply the second detection results to the approximation function to obtain the second concentration and a control unit to execute control in accordance with the second concentration. The approximation function is obtained using a response surface method by interpolation or approximation, based on data including first detection results obtained by temperature sensors and first concentrations each corresponding to when each of the first detection results has been obtained.
US11879668B2
An adaptor for connecting a ground screw to an upright beam of a solar panel support assembly includes (a) a cylindrical connector having an open ground-screw receiving bottom end and a top end, the cylindrical connector having an inner circumferential surface with a diameter slightly larger than that of the ground screw and at least two sets of bolt holes, each set of bolt holes including at least three bolt holes uniformly distributed circumferentially about the cylindrical connector at an axial level, and the at least two sets of bolt holes being axially distanced from one another; (b) an intermediate plate having a top surface and a bottom surface fixed to the top end of the cylindrical connector; and (c) an upright beam connector fixed to the top surface of the intermediate plate and extending upward from the intermediate plate.
US11879660B2
A photovoltaic air conditioner control method and apparatus and a photovoltaic air conditioner. The method includes: detecting in real time the grid-connected side inverter module temperature and the grid-connected side current of a photovoltaic air conditioner; determining the interval in which the grid-connected inverter module temperature is located and the interval in which the grid-connected side current is located; and, on the basis of the determining results, performing frequency-limiting and frequency-reduction control of the photovoltaic air conditioner.
US11879658B2
An air-conditioning ventilation system includes a ventilation device configured to ventilate an air-conditioned space while controlling a ventilation rate, an air-conditioning apparatus that includes a heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between refrigerant and air and that is configured to operate while controlling an air-conditioning capacity thereof to bring an indoor temperature in the air-conditioned space to a setting temperature, and a controller. The controller performs normal control that causes the ventilation device to operate to ventilate the air-conditioned space at a ventilation rate corresponding to the air-conditioning capacity of the air-conditioning apparatus, and recovery control that controls the ventilation rate of the ventilation device such that an integrated value of an amount of ventilation for a time duration from activation of the ventilation device under the normal control falls within a standard ventilation range including a standard integrated value of an amount of ventilation obtained by causing the ventilation device to operate to ventilate the air-conditioned space at a standard ventilation rate for a time duration having a same length as the time duration.
US11879645B2
A ventilation and air conditioning system includes: a ventilation and air conditioning body; and an air-opening varying component provided at a ventilation outlet of the ventilation and air conditioning body.
US11879644B2
An apparatus includes a heater with a heating element having a region that does not contain a surface heating portion of the heating element and a thermostat positioned in the region. The thermostat includes a contact surface disposed to make physical contact with an object placed on the surface heating portion and a switch configured to prevent a current from conducting through the heating element when the contact surface experiences a temperature equal to or greater than a temperature limit.
US11879641B2
A fire pit is disclosed that includes a burn chamber, a removable fire grate, and a removable ash pan. The burn chamber is defined by an inwardly facing surface and a bottom. The removable fire grate is positioned within the burn chamber and supports combustible fuel for burning. The removable fire includes a plurality of holes sized to permit passage of ash from the combustible fuel, and at least one grip feature sized and shaped to permit a user to remove the removable fire grate from the fire pit by lifting the removable fire grate vertically through the burn chamber. The removable ash pan is positioned within the burn chamber beneath the removable fire grate, and includes, a side wall, a bottom, and at least one grippable surface configured to permit the user to remove the removable ash pan from the fire pit by lifting the removable ash pan vertically through the burn chamber.
US11879640B2
A combustion air proving (CAP) system for a burner assembly having a burner for providing heated air to a location, a controller, and a back plate, where outside air is fed to the burner via a conduit. The CAP system is connected to an inlet of the system. An outlet of the system is connected to the burner via the back plate. A damper within the system is translatable between open and closed positions for allowing and blocking air flow, respectively. A sensor measures an air flow parameter of air flow to the burner. The sensor communicates with the controller, which shuts down the burner if the parameter measured by the sensor meets a predetermined threshold value. An assembly installer may test for proper sensor and controller functions by translating the damper to the closed position and blocking outside air flow.
US11879628B1
The present invention discloses is an easy heat-dissipating lamp structure, comprising an outer shell. Inside the upper half space of the outer shell, there are multiple rib plates formed in the direction from top to bottom, so that multiple vertical gaps are formed. A heat dissipator is held inside the lower half space of the outer shell, leaning and fixed on the lower edge of the rib plates. The bottom face of the heat dissipator is attached with a light emitting plate. The heat generated by the light emitting plate is received by the heat dissipator and is discharged through the vertical gaps between the multiple rib plates.
US11879614B2
Luminaires including a charging base and a rechargeable illuminating personal ornament. The charging base includes a power cable connectable to an external power source and a power connector. The rechargeable illuminating personal ornament is connected to the charging base and has a shell, a light source attached to the shell, a rechargeable power source located in the shell and connected to the light source, and a corresponding power connector defining an opening in the shell and coupled to the rechargeable power source. The power connector of the charging base is coupled to the corresponding power connector of the rechargeable illuminating personal ornament.
US11879605B1
A magnetic swaying electronic candle includes a cylindrical support, a support base and a cylindrical housing, where the cylindrical support is sleeved inside the cylindrical housing, the support base is fixedly connected to the bottom of the cylindrical housing, a candle cover is fixedly connected to the top of the cylindrical housing, and the candle cover, the cylindrical housing and the cylindrical support form a receiving space. An electromagnet is repulsed against magnetism from and is homopolar to an opposite side to a magnet ring. When a PCB board is powered on, the electromagnet is energized to generate magnetism; when a magnet ring is close to the electromagnet with magnetism, the electromagnet will push the magnet ring away in an opposite direction; and when the magnet ring sways to a vertical position, the electromagnet will be energized again, and push the magnet ring away again.
US11879596B2
Provided is a pressure testing method for a high-pressure tank capable of avoiding a destruction of the high-pressure tank during a pressure test. A pressure testing method includes: extracting a plurality of AE waveforms from output waveforms of an AE sensor while increasing a pressure inside the high-pressure tank; and testing the high-pressure tank based on the extracted plurality of AE waveforms. The method includes: while increasing the pressure inside the high-pressure tank, classifying the extracted AE waveforms into first waveforms and second waveforms with a classifier that is machine-learned so as to classify the plurality of AE waveforms into the first waveforms derived from a macrocrack that increases immediately before destruction of the high-pressure tank, and the second waveforms derived from a microcrack smaller than the macrocrack; and stopping pressurization of the high-pressure tank based on the number of the first waveforms.
US11879588B2
A wall support system is provided and includes an adjustable bracket system that attaches a bracket support beam to one or more of the traffic barriers. The adjustable bracket system includes two bracket members spaced apart by a top connecting member; where the top connecting member supports the bracket assembly straddled overtop the bracket support beam which is laid transversely atop one or more barriers. The bracket members are fastened to the barrier and tightened to the bracket support beam. This creates an adjustable system that corn accommodate barriers of various cross-sectional widths and wall angles, to form a strong connection between a framework and the barriers.
US11879582B2
A method and fluid connection system to fluidly connect a fracturing manifold to a fracturing tree. The method includes fluidly connecting a plurality of flexible flowlines between the manifold outlet of a fracturing manifold module and the fracturing tree such that fluid from the manifold outlet is distributed into the flexible flowlines and into the fracturing tree to avoid abrupt or right angle changes in direction in all fluid connections at the fracturing tree and between the manifold outlet and the fracturing tree. The fluid connection system includes a flow distribution block having a single inlet and a plurality of outlets, and distributes fluid flow between the single inlet and the plurality of outlets without abrupt or right angle changes in direction. The flexible flowlines have a first end fluidly connected to one of the plurality of outlets, and a second end fluidly connected to the fracturing tree.
US11879579B2
A vehicle exhaust evacuation system includes an adapter secured to an end of a vehicle tailpipe and a nozzle assembly secured to the end of a flexible hose for carrying vehicle exhaust outside of a building. The nozzle assembly has an aluminum cartridge removably secured in a rubber boot. Magnet assemblies are secured to the aluminum cartridge. Openings in the adapter allow ambient air to flow over the magnet assemblies to lengthen the life of the magnets.
US11879562B2
A valve arrangement for a pressurized fluid source includes a valve housing comprising an inlet, an outlet, and a main fluid channel extending along a longitudinal axis of the valve housing. The valve arrangement further includes a spool and a regulating poppet valve coaxially located in the main fluid channel. The spool and a regulating poppet valve are both configured to translate along the longitudinal axis of the valve housing independent of each other. In response to the spool moving to an open position, the poppet valve regulates the flow of a pressurized fluid flowing from the inlet to the outlet of the valve housing.
US11879559B2
The vent valve (10) for venting bores of vulcanization molds, which includes the sleeve (1), with the inner cylindrical hollow (1.1), ended with the valve conical hole (1.2) and the cylindrical hole (1.4) along the sides, whereas the sleeve (1) may be inserted into the vulcanization mold hole, the pin (2), movably located on the spring (3) in the inner cylindrical hollow (1.1), whereas the pin (2) contains the lower cylindrical part (2.4), ended in its lower part with the lower conical part (2.4.1), and the upper conical part in the upper part (2.4.2), the upper conical part (2.4.2) is followed by the central cylindrical part (2.5), followed by the connecting cylindrical part (2.6), whereas the diameter of the central cylindrical part (2.5) is smaller than the connecting cylindrical part (2.6) as well as the lower cylindrical part (2.4). The lower cylindrical part (2.4) and the central cylindrical part (2.5) are divided into four flexible legs (2.7) to (2.10), forming the flexible collet. Four flexible legs (2.7 to 2.10) are shaped identically and partially reach the connecting cylindrical part (2.6).
US11879556B2
A check valve unit 1 includes: a container body 2 including a valve body housing portion 21, a valve seat 22, and a protruding portion 23, the valve body housing portion 21 having a cylindrical shape, the valve seat 22 being formed at one end portion of the valve body housing portion 21 and protruding from an inner peripheral surface of the valve body housing portion 21, the protruding portion 23 being formed at the other end portion of the valve body housing portion 21 and protruding from the inner peripheral surface of the valve body housing portion 21; and a valve body 3 including a valve portion 31 and a guide portion 32 and disposed in the container body 2, the valve portion 31 coming into contact with the valve seat 22 at a time of preventing backflow of refrigerant, the guide portion 32 including a plurality of blades.
US11879552B2
Embodiments of a flow control apparatus of the present invention generally include a vessel equipped with a pre-filter assembly, a substantially vertical, bottom-feeding liquid inlet line, a vapor space pressure equalization line, and a liquid outlet, wherein the vessel contains a pair of connected, horizontally oriented, O-ring and/or piston ring equipped sealing plates that are designed to rise and fall as a pair in response to gravity provided liquid pressure in the sump of the vessel, whereby an elevation of the sealing plates provides the liquid in fluid communication with the liquid outlet via internal orifices fluidly connected to one or more fluid conduits. Embodiments of a method of using embodiments of an apparatus of the present invention to control liquid flow are also provided.
US11879549B2
Each of mechanical seal devices 7 of a rotary joint 1 includes a first shaft side seal ring 71 and a second shaft side seal ring 72 attached to a shaft body 5, and a first case side seal ring 73 and a second case side seal ring 74 attached to a case body 2. The first shaft side seal ring 71 and the second shaft side seal ring 72 have contact surfaces 71b and 72b axially facing each other and coming into contact with each other, and grooves 421c and 421d for forming a second communication flow passage 42 connecting a second outer flow passage 32 and a second inner flow passage 62 are formed in both the contact surfaces 71b and 72b.
US11879548B2
Subassembly fora double-door leaktight connection system between two closed spaces, the system including two flanges able to be secured to each other, and two doors each normally closing an opening delimited by a flange, the subassembly including a flange and a seal, the seal being intended to provide leaktight contact between the flange and the seal, between the seal and the other flange of the connection system and between the seal and the door closing the opening of the flange, the flange including a groove and the seal being a part moulded onto the flange and being partly received in the groove.
US11879536B2
In one aspect, a rotary device is provided, and includes a shaft adapter, a chambered member, a seal member and at least one internal torque transfer member. The shaft adapter is connectible to a crankshaft or accessory shaft and defines an axis. The chambered member (e.g. a pulley) is rotatably connected to it, and at least partially encloses a chamber (e.g. for oil), and includes a circumferential portion, a first side wall, and a second side wall which is a separate member from the circumferential portion. One of the circumferential portion and the second side wall has projections thereon, and the other has valleys that mate with the projections with no clearance, so as to be able to transfer a torque of at least 10 Nm into one another without plastic deformation. A seal member is compressed between the second side wall and the circumferential portion.
US11879533B2
A differential device is provided with: a casing rotatable about an axis; a differential gear set including a pair of side gears housed in the casing and rotatable about the axis, a pinion shaft penetrating perpendicular to the axis and being secured to the casing; and pinion gears rotatably supported by the pinion shaft and so meshed with the side gears as to enable differential motion between the side gears; friction clutches interposed between the side gears and an inner periphery of the casing to limit the differential motion; a pair of repulsive bodies respectively applying force in directions along the axis to the friction clutches; and a block in contact with and supporting in the directions along the axis both the repulsive bodies, the block so fitting on the pinion shaft as to impose reaction forces from the friction clutches on the pinion shaft.
US11879531B1
A method of forming a welded connection between a hub and a plate component in a transmission assembly is provided. The method includes providing the plate component which includes a radially extending portion and an opening in a connection region to the hub, forming a flare bevel with an axial extension that extends beyond a projection of a thickness of the radially extending portion of the plate component at the opening, locating the plate component with the flare bevel and at least a portion of the axial extension on the hub, welding in a recess formed between the flare bevel and the hub to connect the plate component to the hub with the weld, and removing at least a portion of the axial extension after the welding.
US11879521B2
A wire clip includes a longitudinal hole and a longitudinal through-channel having a generally U-shaped cross section wherein a first end of the longitudinal through-channel is in communication with a lateral opening and a second end of the longitudinal through-channel is closed.
US11879516B2
This disclosure presents a new type of variable stiffness magnetic spring, which can have a highly linear translational force characteristic. The variable stiffness is achieved through the rotation of a central magnet. Both positive and negative spring constants can be created. Using an analytic-based field analysis modelling technique, the operating principle and linearity characteristics of the adjustable magnetic spring are studied. The use of a magnetic spring with an adjustable negative spring constant could enable an ocean generator to continuously operate in a resonant state, thereby greatly increasing its power generation capability. The described variable stiffness spring could also be useful in other energy harvesting applications, robotic actuator applications, and/or other applications.
US11879510B2
A method of manufacturing a camshaft for a drum brake includes designing a tubular camshaft and thereafter forming the camshaft as a unitary body through, for example, an additive manufacturing process. The camshaft is designed with a first end portion configured for coupling to a brake actuator, a second end portion defining a cam configured to engage cam followers coupled to first and second brake shoes, rotation of the cam causing the first and second brake shoes to move between positions of engagement and disengagement with an associated braking surface, and an intermediate portion disposed between the first and second end portions. A wall thickness of at least one of the end portions and the intermediate portion is configured to achieve at least one of a predetermined torsional stiffness in the camshaft and vibration damping in the camshaft at a selected frequency.
US11879508B2
A clutch for preventing backdrive, includes a housing: a cover portion positioned on one end portion of the housing; an external shaft, at least one portion of which is positioned inside the housing, the other end portion thereof passing through the housing; a rocker positioned between the housing and the cover portion and fastened to the external shaft; an input shaft, one end portion thereof being inserted into an opening portion in the locker, and the other end portion thereof passing through the cover portion; and a gear portion positioned on the housing or the cover portion so that a serrated portion positioned on the locker is selectively brought into contact with the gear portion, wherein rotation of the rocker is restricted so that the external shaft is rotated along a rotation direction of the input shaft.
US11879502B2
A preload assembly for bearings comprising in combinations a threaded bolt, an anti-rotational washer, a serrated edge locking washer, and a threaded locking nut having a shallow outer profile and at least four locking notches in an outer edge thereof.
US11879500B2
A wheel bearing assembly is disclosed herein. The assembly includes a joint element having a first spline portion defined on an axial surface and a nose. An inner ring is provided that includes a through hole configured to receive at least a portion of the joint element and an abutment flange defined within the through hole. The inner ring includes a second spline portion configured to matingly engage with the first spline, and the nose of the joint element is configured to extend axially within the abutment flange. A connection assembly is configured to connect the inner ring and the joint element, and a portion of the connection assembly abuts a first axial end of the abutment flange.
US11879495B2
A thermally insulating fixture includes a self-tapping screw, a fixed member mounted on the self-tapping screw, and a thermally insulating member wrapping the fixed member. The fixed member is provided with a first through hole. The thermally insulating member is provided with a second through hole and a positioning groove. The self-tapping screw extends through the second through hole of the thermally insulating member and the first through hole of the fixed member. A thermally insulating cover is mounted in the positioning groove and covers the self-tapping screw. The thermally insulating cover has a receiving space which receives the self-tapping screw. The thermally insulating cover has a positioning flange which is positioned in the positioning groove when the thermally insulating cover covers the head of the self-tapping screw.
US11879483B2
A multiphase pump for conveying a multiphase process fluid includes a pump housing, a stationary diffuser, a rotor and swirl brake. The rotor is arranged in the pump housing and is rotatable about an axial direction, the rotor including a pump shaft and an impeller fixedly mounted on the pump shaft. The stationary diffuser is arranged adjacent to and downstream of the impeller. The impeller includes a blade with the blade having a radially outer tip, and a ring surrounding the impeller and arranged at the radially outer tip of the blade. A passage is between the ring and a stationary part configured to be stationary with respect to the pump housing, the passage extending in the axial direction from an entrance to a discharge. The swirl brake is disposed at the passage, and configured and arranged to brake swirling of the process fluid passing through the passage.
US11879481B2
One aspect described in this application provides an apparatus that includes an external tray hose with an integrated booster pump for cooling a computing device. The booster pump can boost fluid flow and fluid pressure of coolant fluid pumped toward the computing device on a server tray. The booster pump includes a stator mounted around a booster pump housing with a bore. The stator includes one or more C-shaped lamination stacks for supporting coil windings. Energized coil windings generate a varying magnetic field for rotating an impeller within a housing bore to pump fluid along the housing bore of the booster pump. The apparatus includes a monitor module to monitor a set of sensors to obtain information about one or more of fluid temperature, fluid pressure, and device temperature; and a control module to adjust performance of the booster pump based on the information obtained from the set of sensors.
US11879473B2
An air pump is provided, the air pump comprising: an air pump housing; a first check valve; a main air pump; an airway switching device; an air-supplementing pump; an air pressure sensor; and a control device. The control device is electrically connected to the main air pump, the airway switching device, the air-supplementing pump, and the air pressure sensor, and is configured to: send a main air pump stop signal based on the air pressure sensor detecting a threshold pressure in the inflatable body during operation of the main air pump; and send an air-supplementing pump operation signal based on the air pressure sensor detecting a pressure lower than the threshold pressure in the inflatable body when the main air pump is not in operation.
US11879463B2
In the operation of a refueling screw compressor, when load conditions constantly fluctuate or when the rotation speed control of a cooling fan is performed, it is difficult to accurately perform a diagnosis predicted from measurement results of devices inside the compressor, so a diagnostic mode stably creates an operating condition under which an accurate diagnosis can be performed. In the refueling screw compressor, a discharge electric valve is provided downstream of an air cooler, and an air release electric valve and a dedicated orifice are provided to connect an oil separator inner space and a suction throttle valve space. In the diagnostic mode, the discharge electric valve is closed, the air release electric valve is opened, and while an upstream pressure of the oil separator is maintained at a specified pressure, a rotation speed control operation of a compressor body and the diagnosis of internal devices are performed.
US11879462B2
The present invention relates to a Moineau pump-type quantitative liquid-discharging apparatus including a stator in which a slot hole is formed, a main shaft including a first shaft part and a second shaft part, which are eccentric with respect to each other, and a rotor which extends from the first shaft part and is inserted into the slot hole, first and second slide bearings to which the first shaft part and the second shaft part are rotatably coupled, respectively, and first and second sliders which guide the first and second slide bearings to move in directions to cross each other, wherein the movement directions of the first and second slide bearings are perpendicular to an extension direction of the rotor.
US11879457B1
An electric compressor includes a housing, refrigerant inlet port, a refrigerant outlet port, an inverter section, a motor section, a compression device and a front cover. The housing defines an intake volume and a discharge volume. The refrigerant inlet port is coupled to the housing and is configured to introduce the refrigerant to the intake volume. The compression device is a scroll-type compression device configured to compress the refrigerant. The refrigerant outlet port is coupled to the housing and is configured to allow compressed refrigerant to exit the scroll-type electric compressor from the discharge volume.
US11879442B2
Provided is a seal arranged about a tower aperture of a wind turbine nacelle, which seal includes an annular channel shaped to contain a liquid, and an annular lip extending downwards into the annular channel, which annular channel and annular lip are mounted at opposite sides of a gap between the nacelle and a wind turbine tower; and further including a volume of liquid in the annular channel, which liquid volume is sufficient to immerse the annular lip about its lower circumference to prevent a passage of air between nacelle interior and nacelle exterior. A seal maintenance arrangement including such a seal and a device for replenishing the liquid in the annular channel is also provided.
US11879440B2
A rotor bearing housing for a wind turbine has: a bearing body for receiving a rotor shaft of the wind turbine, a support body arranged under the bearing body and configured to be coupled at a first end to a base element in order to transmit a force flow between the bearing body and the base element. The base element is arrangeable under the support body for the purposes of rotatable fastening to a first end of a tower of the wind turbine, the bearing body and the support body together forming a single-piece body, and the bearing body and the support body being configured such that, if a geometrical central point of the first receptacle for a rotor bearing is projected onto a cross-sectional plane of the first end of the tower, the geometrical central point is arranged outside a diameter of the tower at the first end.
US11879438B2
Methods for replacing a Wye-ring of a wind turbine generator preferably, but not necessarily, in-situ are described along with a combination of three arcuate Wye-ring sections that when assembled comprise a Wye-ring. The method after gaining access to the Wye-ring typically comprises: removing all or most of the damaged Wye-ring; installing the replacement sections typically by welding or brazing them in place; insulating the new ring; installing new blocking; and adhesively securing the new blocking in place.
US11879421B2
An energy farm having an electrical grid through which power generated by the devices in the farm may be combined and transmitted. The electrical grid is formed through the electrical interconnection of devices in a farm through electrical connections that remain, in whole or at least in part, adjacent to the surface of the body of water on which the devices float. A plurality of flexible converters of the network have no direct or immediate electrical interface with a subsea power cable (i.e. a cable on or under the seafloor), but instead transmit electricity to other converters in a daisy-chained fashion.
US11879420B1
An embodiment system for controlling an ignition coil includes a first ignition coil including a first primary coil and a first secondary coil, a second ignition coil including a second primary coil and a second secondary coil, a spark plug including a pair of electrodes configured to generate a spark discharge by a discharge current generated by the first ignition coil and the second ignition coil, and a controller configured to selectively perform a multi-stage ignition through the first ignition coil and the second ignition coil or a single-stage ignition through the first ignition coil or the second ignition coil depending on an operation region of an engine and, in response to a misfire occurring in the engine while performing the multi-stage ignition, to adjust a number of ignitions or a dwell time.
US11879415B2
A jet engine for propelling aircraft, capable of providing thrust from rest to high speeds is provided. The engine has an axial compressor (16) or several axial compressors located on the same plane and is driven by a gas generator. At the outlet of the turbine there is a gasification chamber (23) into which more fuel is injected. Combustion of the gases from the gasification chamber is performed in two combustion chambers (18) with a rectangular cross-section, separated by a central body (10). The exhaust of the gases is performed in nozzles, each with a square convergent/divergent cross-section (19) and (21). The cross-section of the throats (26) can be adjusted by means of two mobile elements (20). The final section of the central body (10) forms a wedge-shape (27), enabling the continued expansion of the exhaust gases.
US11879393B2
A fuel system can include a total flow line configured to receive a total flow and a primary flow line connected to the total flow line. The primary flow line can be in fluid communication with one or more primary fuel nozzles of a nozzle assembly. The fuel system can include a secondary flow line connected to the total flow line in parallel with the primary flow line, the secondary flow line in fluid communication with a plurality of secondary flow nozzles of the nozzle assembly. The fuel system can include a flow split system configured to control a flow split between a primary flow of the primary flow line and a secondary flow of the secondary flow line.
US11879392B2
A gas supply system is provided herein. The gas supply system includes a fuel oxygen reduction unit having a circuit defining a gas flowpath for a flow of a stripping gas. A reservoir is in selective fluid communication with the fuel oxygen reduction unit and is configured to store a portion of the stripping gas from the circuit. The reservoir is further configured to be in selective fluid communication with the fuel system component when installed in a vehicle to provide the stored portion of the stripping gas to the fuel system component in response to detection of a purge condition.
US11879388B2
A system for monitoring fuel additives on board a vehicle includes a fuel line carrying fuel from a fuel source to an engine; a fuel additive sensor configured to measure concentration of additives in fuel at a point along the fuel line; a fuel additive dispenser connected in parallel to the fuel line; at least one flow control device for controlling an amount of flow from the fuel line into the fuel additive dispenser; and a controller configured to receive input from the fuel additive sensor and to control the flow control device to adjust the amount of the flow from the fuel line into the fuel additive dispenser.
US11879381B2
A two-stroke engine (1) is disclosed comprising a cylinder (2), a piston (3) arranged to reciprocate in the cylinder (2), a crankcase (5), a fuel injector (7) configured to inject fuel into the crankcase (5), an air inlet (9) connected to the crankcase (5), and a stratified scavenging intake (11) connected to the cylinder (2). The engine (1) comprises a throttle (13) configured to control the amount of air supplied to the air inlet (9) and to the stratified scavenging intake (11). The present disclosure further relates to handheld power tool (50) comprising an engine (1).
US11879377B2
A system including an engine block and a crankshaft able to rotate around axis A, and a pump with an impeller, the impeller mounted coaxially to the crankshaft such that the crankshaft drives the impeller. The system can be part of an engine for a vehicle, and the pump can drive water or other coolant through the engine.
US11879373B2
An exhaust after treatment system for a vehicle includes an exhaust outlet pipe, having a first end that is connectable to a vehicle engine, for receiving exhaust gases from said vehicle engine, and having an outlet opening at a second end, arranged to eject the outlet gases, a catalytic converter, connected to the exhaust outlet pipe; and an electric heater element which is in heat conducting contact with the catalytic converter and adapted for pre-heating the catalytic converter. The heater element is positioned downstream of the catalytic converter with respect to the first end. Upon the vehicle being started, the heater element is switched on and gases are flowed from the second end, in the direction of the first end of the exhaust outlet pipe, through the catalytic converter for a pre-set period of time prior to passing exhaust gases from the engine towards the outlet opening at the second end.
US11879372B2
A connection unit for connecting an electrical supply line to an exhaust gas heater of an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes an electrically conductive connection element. The connection element has a heater connection region in a first end region and a supply line connection region in a second end region. A carrier has a receiving opening, wherein the connection element is arranged and has a support region. A first insulating element is arranged in the opening and surrounds the support region. A second insulating element is arranged on a first end face of the carrier. The connection element is supported with respect to the first end face via the second insulating element. A third insulating element is arranged on a second end face of the carrier. The connection element is supported with respect to this second end face via the third insulating element.
US11879366B2
The disclosure relates to a control device, in particular in an electromechanical camshaft adjuster, comprising an electric motor and a control transmission coupled to the electric motor via a coupling element and designed as a harmonic drive. A two-armed wire coupler is provided as the coupling element, the arms of which engage in openings of an inner ring of a waveform generator of the control transmission, and the wire coupler has a winding which is wound around the motor shaft of the electric motor in a non-rotating manner.
US11879363B2
The invention discloses a new type of integrated cycle to compete with the standard gas-steam combined cycle in terms of full load/part load efficiency besides ramp rate, startup time and other off design performance. The topping cycle is intercooled recuperative gas turbine (ICR GT) with multiple intercoolers. The bottoming compound cycles consists of supercritical refrigerant Rankine cycle (RRC) and vapor compression refrigeration cycle (VCRC). The refrigerant can be chosen from various organic and inorganic working fluids. The topping and bottoming cycles are highly coupled and form a new integrated cycle rising to the challenge of incoming renewable energy era when thermal power plants undergo frequent load change and long-term part load operation. This invention also markedly outperforms single intercooler ICR GT bottomed by single pressure subcritical RRC system in terms of efficiency, ramp rate etc., and could be an incredibly competitive solution for stationary power generation and marine propulsion.
US11879362B1
A turbine section of a gas turbine engine includes a case, a plurality of flow path components, and a mounting system. The case extends circumferentially at least partway around an axis of the gas turbine engine. The plurality of flow path components includes a flow path segment and a turbine vane. The mounting system couples the flow path segment to the case to support the flow path segment radially relative to the axis of the gas turbine engine.
US11879361B2
A vane for a turbine engine includes a body in the form of an aerodynamic profile formed by a shell produced from a composite material formed from a three-dimensional textile of reinforcement fibres consolidated by a hardened resin. The shell forms a pressure surface and a suction surface of the vane connected to each other while forming on one side a leading edge and on the opposite side a trailing edge of the vane, and a core including a core body surrounded by the shell. The core is produced from non-porous plastics material, and the core body is in the form of an aerodynamic profile and delimits at least one closed cavity of the core.
US11879359B2
Provided is a transition piece including a first flow path group formed by arraying a plurality of in-wall flow paths that extend inside a plate material forming the transition piece and a second flow path group that is positioned on a side closer to a combustor liner than the first flow path group is. Each in-wall flow path in the first flow path group and the second flow path group has an inlet that is located at one end section in a flow direction of a combustion gas and that faces a compressed air main flow path, and an outlet that is located at the other end section in the flow direction of the combustion gas and that faces a combustion gas flow path. An installation area of the first flow path group and an installation area of the second flow path group partially overlap in the flow direction of the combustion gas by a predetermined overlap amount, and the overlap amount is set large for a portion where a shape change of the transition piece is relatively large, as compared with a portion where the shape change of the transition piece is relatively small.
US11879354B2
A rotor blade for a gas turbine engine is provided. The rotor blade includes a blade body formed of a first material; and a spar within a portion of the blade body, the spar formed of a second material that is different than the first material, the spar having an elongate body including a notch. The notch, weakened geometric feature, or other reduction in cross-section defines a frangible portion of the spar that is used to control a fracture of a rotor blade.
US11879350B2
A gas passage for a gas turbine engine, which allows for quicker and easier determination of the condition of a liner within the gas passage without the need for dismantling the entire gas passage, or irreparably damaging large sections of the liner. The gas passage comprises a casing with one or more plugs which are at least partly coated in a material matching the material composition of the lining, which can be removed from the gas passage in order to analyse the condition of the lining material.
US11879345B2
A sensor includes a mount arranged along a sensor axis, an airfoil body fixed to the mount and having a first face and second face extending along the sensor axis, a heater element, and a temperature probe. The heater element and the temperature probe are positioned within the airfoil body and extend axially along the airfoil body. The airfoil body defines within its interior a pressure channel having an inlet segment extending between the heater element and the first face of the airfoil body to prevent ice formation and/or melt ice entrained within air traversing the pressure channel. Gas turbine engines, methods of removing ice or preventing ice formation, and methods of making sensors are also described.
US11879341B2
A turbine for a turbine engine extending along an axis includes an annular casing and at least one turbine stage having a nozzle and a rotor impeller wheel surrounded by a sealing ring with an abradable element. The impeller wheel and the sealing ring are located downstream of the nozzle, and the sealing ring has an upstream end held on the casing by locking means. The turbine includes elastic sealing means in contact with the locking means as well as with the nozzle or the casing so as to press the locking means against the sealing ring. The locking means includes a radially outer portion with a C-shaped cross-section and a radial portion extending radially inwards from the outer portion. The sealing means include two elastic seals bearing on the radial portion, respectively, on either side of the radial portion.
US11879340B1
There is a blade outer air seal positioned to be radially outward of blades in the rotating blade row relative to the rotational axis. There is at least one brush seal having bristles extending from a mount location radially inward to contact a sealing surface on the blade outer air seal. An angle is defined between the bristles and relative to the sealing surface having a radially inward extending component, and with an axial component in a direction toward a leading edge attachment feature and a trailing edge attachment feature, and the angle is less than 90° on a side of the brush seal opposite the leading edge and trailing edge mount hooks. A gas turbine engine component is also disclosed.
US11879334B2
A rotary steerable tool may include a tool body with an upper end and a lower end. Additionally, the tool body may include at least one steering assembly extending from the tool body and includes at least one steering actuator configured to extend beyond other portions of the steering assembly. Furthermore, at least one cutter may be disposed on the rotary steerable tool a distance from the at least one steering actuator.
US11879329B2
The pure mechanical well deviation wireless measure-while-drilling and mud pulse generation device includes an outer cylinder and an inner cylinder coaxially arranged inside the outer cylinder; an inner flow channel is formed inside the inner cylinder, and an outer flow channel is formed between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder; a flow control valve and a hydraulic turbine are arranged in the inner flow channel, and the flow control valve is located at an upstream section of the hydraulic turbine. The device further includes a signal generation base and a rotary stopper. An overflow hole is formed on the signal generation base and arranged in the annular outer flow channel, and the rotary stopper can periodically shield the overflow hole. The inclinometer includes the pure mechanical well deviation wireless measure-while-drilling and mud pulse generation device, an inclinometer outer cylinder and an eccentric rotary column.
US11879318B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to fluid injection systems, apparatus, methods, and associated components thereof that include flexible hoses for wellhead sites. In one implementation, a fluid injection system for wellhead sites includes a pump, a pump manifold, and a flexible hose coupled between the pump and the pump manifold. The flexible hose includes a first end coupled to the pump and a second end coupled to the pump manifold. The first end of the flexible hose includes a first end fitting coupled to the pump, and the first end fitting is oriented at an angle relative to a horizontal plane. The second end of the flexible hose includes a second end fitting coupled to the pump manifold, and the second end fitting is oriented vertically and perpendicularly to the horizontal plane.
US11879310B2
An efficient gas hydrate production system using flue gas waste heat/solar absorption heat pump to compensate reservoir heat, includes a heat source absorption system, heat pump heating system and reservoir heat compensation system. The invention uses the low-grade heat energy of offshore platform to solve the problems of heat source and energy consumption in the process of natural gas hydrate exploitation. It provides a commercial feasible scheme for large-scale exploitation of natural gas hydrate. The condenser module, evaporator module and injection well module of the invention can be flexibly increased or decreased, and can adapt to a variety of actual hydrate reservoir distribution; the injection well module adopts ball-nozzle, which can disperse and evenly inject the hot injected water into the reservoir, which is convenient for the rapid and effective transfer of reservoir heat and improves the speed of reservoir heat compensation.
US11879307B2
An object carrier including a housing having a bore with a diametrically larger portion and a diametrically smaller portion, an object keeper having a first and a second end, the first end being initially disposed in the diametrically smaller portion, an actuator assembly configured to move the first end of the object keeper from the diametrically smaller portion to the diametrically larger portion responsive to selected application of pressure, and an object disposed within the object keeper and secured within the object keeper while the first end of the object keeper is in the diametrically smaller portion, the object being released from the object keeper upon the first end of the object keeper moving to the diametrically larger portion. A method for managing an object-based operation downhole of a restriction including pressuring up on the object carrier, withdrawing the first end from the diametrically smaller portion, and releasing the object.
US11879304B2
Methods and systems for cementing in a wellbore. An example method includes introducing a conduit into a wellbore. The conduit comprises a reactive metal element disposed on an exterior of the conduit. The reactive metal element comprises a reactive metal having a first volume. The method further includes circulating a cement over the exterior of the conduit and the reactive metal element, contacting the reactive metal element with a fluid that reacts with the reactive metal to produce a reaction product having a second volume greater than the first volume, and contacting a surface of the cement adjacent to the reactive metal element with the reaction product.
US11879299B2
A dissolvable barrier assembly includes a holder configured to couple to the casing string in a generally transverse orientation and defining a central aperture, a barrier positioned in the central aperture of the holder and configured to prevent the communication of fluid across the barrier whereby an uphole chamber within the casing string extending uphole from the barrier and containing an uphole fluid is hydraulically isolated from a downhole chamber within the casing string extending downhole from the barrier, and wherein the barrier includes an outer surface including an uphole surface defining an uphole end and a downhole surface defining a downhole end, wherein the uphole surface is configured to corrode when in contact with the uphole fluid at a first corrosion rate and also wherein the downhole surface is configured to corrode when in contact with the uphole fluid at a second corrosion rate.
US11879293B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for animal containment systems configured to reduce stress, fear, and anxiety experienced by animals being held in animal containment structures by utilizing light filters in the form of orthogonally orientated light-polarization on the front walls of the animal containment structures to control the viewpoints from within and without the animal containment structures, thereby configuring the system to control the animals sight lines, such as allowing the animals to see out of their respective containment structure, but restricting their viewpoint into any other containment structure.
US11879290B2
Multi-pane insulating glass unit having a rigid frame for a third pane and method of making the same
An insulating glass unit and a method of forming same comprising a pair of glass panes in a parallel, spaced apart relation, at least one edge spacer and at least a primary sealant located between adjacent edges of the pair of panes to provide an integral sealed unit defining a space therebetween, and at least one transparent film located within the space between the pair of glass panes, said at least one transparent film secured to one of a support structure and the at least one edge spacer, wherein the film is positioned in a spaced apart parallel relationship between the pair of glass panes, and wherein the film is heat shrunk to a tensioned state prior to positioning of the film between the pair of glass panes.
US11879278B2
A vehicle door control device includes a swipe operation portion provided on a vehicle interior side of a door, a detection unit provided at least in the swipe operation portion and configured to detect a swipe operation, a door lock device configured to hold the door in a closed state, and a controller configured to release a closed state of the door by the door lock device when it is determined that the swipe operation is detected based on a detection result of the detection unit.
US11879277B2
An inside handle device includes a handle base attached to a door panel of a vehicle; a lock lever rotatably supported on the handle base, a stopper portion provided on the handle base and limiting a rotation range of the lock lever, and an impact absorbing portion provided on the handle base and absorbing impact generated by a contact of the lock lever with the stopper portion.
US11879276B2
A door handle device for a vehicle includes a handle base including an inertia stopper and an operation handle including a stopper protruding portion. The operation handle is movable from an initial position to a use position and to a latch operation position. The inertia stopper has two stopper surfaces and is to rotate from a standby position to a regulation position due to inertia when a collision force is applied to the vehicle. The stopper protruding portion includes a first stopper to, when the operation handle is at the initial position, limit a movement of the operation handle toward the use position by abutting against one of the stopper surfaces, and a second stopper to, when the operation handle is at the use position, limit the movement of the operation handle toward the latch operation position by abutting against another one of the stopper surfaces.
US11879273B2
Disclosed herein are lock assemblies that include, in particular embodiments, a cable assembly, a housing, a sensor assembly, and a wireless transceiver. The cable assembly includes a cable having a sensor element disposed along its length, a first shackle pin on its first end, and a second shackle pin on its opposing end. The housing defines a first pinway for receiving the first shackle pin, a second pinway for receiving the second shackle pin, and a locking mechanism for securing the shackle pins to the housing. The sensor assembly is located within the housing and in communication with the cable assembly for sensing a cable type and a cable condition related to the cable assembly. The wireless transceiver is connected to a power source, in communication with the sensor assembly, and operated by a microcontroller within the housing.
US11879260B2
A mosquito repellent and antibacterial tent includes a tent body, a first support bar and a second support bar. The tent body is formed by a base fabric entirely provided with a mosquito repellent agent and a waterproofing agent. An adhesive coating layer is provided on the base cloth. The tent body includes a plurality of first positioning parts. A side surface of the tent body has at least one opening. The first support bar and the second support bar are connected to the plurality of first positioning parts so as to be crossed to support the tent body. Thus, the mosquito repellent and antibacterial tent achieves mosquito repellent and antibacterial effects as well as being waterproof and sturdy.
US11879251B1
A safety cap is to be used on linear members to provide a greater surface area on the end of the linear members. The cap has a platform and an attachment portion that is coupled to the platform. The attachment portion has two or more engagement members and two or more joint portions. Each joint portion couples two of the two or more engagement members together, and the two or more engagement members extend inward from the two or more joint portions.
US11879247B2
The present invention pertains to an element of an autoclave aerated concrete (AAC) material having a web of a second material different from AAC embedded therein and generally centrally disposed in a depth dimension of the element and between two planar faces and the second material supporting hardware for connecting the element to other structures.
US11879246B2
A method for managing the flow of water beneath a ground surface uses modules. Assemblies of such modules are disclosed. The modules include supports and a deck portion, and the supports are spaced apart and form multiple channels with a main section of the deck portion. The deck portion also includes at least one section extending from a main section.
US11879245B2
The disclosure includes a water sounds noise maker and wall mount for inducing urination. The noise maker is battery powered, and mounts to the wall for convenience or may be worn or mounted by other means. Battery power sources include but are not limited to power sources which are rechargeable, plug-in and solar powered options. The invention contains three settings for duration of sounds, three options for sounds, and volume control. The disclosure manages inducing urination for clients by recording and playing various water sounds. Various prerecorded water noises from sources outside a housing of the disclosure, are also reproduced to induce urination.
US11879241B1
A decontamination rinse wastewater management system for use with a shower facility has a containment assembly with a first compartment and a second compartment integrally connected together, and a diverter valve having an inlet, a first outlet and a second outlet. The first outlet is directed to the first compartment. The inlet of the diverter valve is adapted to receive wastewater from the shower facility. The second outlet of the diverter valve is adapted to be connected to a sewer. The diverter valve is actuatable so as to move to a first position wherein wastewater from the shower facility is directed to the first compartment and to move to a second position wherein wastewater from the shower facility is directed to the sewer. The diverter valve is positioned in the second compartment of the containment assembly.
US11879227B2
The present invention relates to a method for inducing ground consolidation. The method comprises providing a first chamber in a first hole in the ground, and a second chamber in a second hole in the ground, the first and second chambers being liquid-impermeable and electrically conductive; providing a first electrolytic fluid in the first chamber and a second electrolytic fluid in the second chamber; placing at least a first electrode in the first chamber, and at least a second electrode in the second chamber, the first and second electrodes being operatively connected to a power supply; feeding consolidation fluids into the ground for feeding reactants of a consolidation process, and catalysers for the reactants into the ground; and applying to the first and second electrodes an electric current. The current causes the first electrode to operate as an anode and the second electrode to operate as a cathode thereby inducing electric polarization in the ground to cause the reactants and catalysers to cross paths to thereby cause consolidation of the ground.
US11879226B2
An autonomous deployment system for deploying systems and a method of deploying a seafloor device. The autonomous deployment system includes a release unit, a support frame, a plurality of mats, a hose, a plurality of weighted bands, a gas supply, a waterproof housing, and a timer. The method of deploying a seafloor device includes spooling a plurality of mats in a rolled-up position, each of said plurality of mats comprising a hose, wherein each mat is adjacent to a support frame, submerging the seafloor device in a body of water, releasing the seafloor device from a vessel via a release unit, supplying gas to each hose of the plurality of mats, unfurling each of the plurality of mats from the support frame, sinking the seafloor device to lay on the seafloor. The invention may also include a microbial fuel cell and support weights.
US11879225B2
A flexible in-ground shield includes a first wall, a second wall, a third wall, a plurality of shoring members, and a plurality of pivoting couplers. The first wall is disposed on a first side of the flexible in-ground shield, the second wall is disposed on a second side of the flexible in-ground shield, and the third wall is disposed on a third side of the flexible in-ground shield and coupled to the first and second walls. The plurality of shoring members extend between the first wall and the second wall, and the plurality of pivoting couplers, coupled to ends of the plurality of shoring members, respectively, allow the first wall and the second wall to pivot relative to the third wall.
US11879223B2
A boat dock structure includes an upper deck, sides extending downward from the upper deck, and a wheel bumper having a substantially round shape. The wheel bumper has a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being positioned under the upper deck, the second portion extending outward from the open or cutout portion of at least one of the sides to protect the boat dock and a boat from damage when the boat is docking at the boat dock adjacent to the wheel bumper. At least one of the sides may have an open or cutout portion.
US11879218B2
A road safety barrier has a plurality of panels flanking one another at respective vertical lateral edges thereof, made of a material deformable upon impact by a vehicle, and a plurality of vertical support elements supporting the panels. The vertical support elements include a first and a second vertical support member facing one another at the flanked vertical lateral edges of the panels, on opposite sides with respect to two major faces of the panels. The barrier has components for reciprocally blocking the first and the second vertical support member to the two opposite faces of the panels, and longitudinal stiffening elements coupled to the panels at respective upper longitudinal edges thereof.
US11879212B2
A wet wipe is provided. The wet wipe includes a sheet formed from non-plastic materials. The sheet has a weight of between 40-90 gsm. The sheet comprises a blend of wood pulp fluff fiber and cellulosic staple fibers and/or cross-linked curly pulp. The wood pulp fluff fiber has a weight percent of between 60-95%. The cellulosic staple fibers and/or cross-linked curly pulp has a weight percent of between 40-5%. A plastic free binder is included. The sheet has an effective wet strength of at least 150 grams per linear inch in the cross-direction.
US11879210B2
A method of producing conifer-derived pulp fibers for paper includes a beating step of beating conifer-derived material pulp fibers in the presence of a liquid including water; and an ozone treatment step of treating, with ozone water, the beaten conifer-derived material pulp fibers.
US11879204B2
A laundry basket lining device for preventing contact of a user's laundry with a laundry basket includes a sleeve, which is insertable into a laundry basket so that the sleeve covers an interior surface and a rim of the laundry basket. The sleeve is selectively engageable to the laundry basket so that sleeve is removably engaged to the laundry basket. The sleeve thus prevents contact of a user's laundry with the laundry basket.
US11879199B2
A laundry treating apparatus having a tub, a drum rotatably disposed inside the tub and configured to store laundry therein, and a connector connecting the drum to a rotary shaft of a motor for transferring a rotation power to the drum. The connector includes a first body having a first body hub fixed to the drum and a first body arm extending from the first body hub fixed to the drum, a second body having a second body hub coupled to the rotary shaft and a second body arm extending from the second body hub along the first body arm, and connecting portions connecting the first body and the second body in a manner that the first body is spaced apart from the second body. The connecting portions are spaced apart from each other along a longitudinal direction of the first body arm to allow water to pass therebetween.
US11879194B2
Devices and related methods for, among other things, maintaining the warp/weft threads of a backing layer of material (e.g., fabric) in a fixed orientation while being sewed are described and provided.
US11879193B2
An apparatus for bonding a first layer having short fibers with a second layer having long fibers into a non-woven web. The apparatus includes a first circulating belt on which the second layer is depositable and displacable, a second circulating belt via which the first layer is transferable at a transition point to the second layer, a pre-bonding unit arranged directly behind the transition point, and a bonding device. The pre-bonding unit has compactors which are spaced apart from one another. The compactors act in one region on the first or second circulating belt. The bonding device is arranged between the compactors and bonds together the first and second layers. The compactors and the bonding device are integrated into the apparatus to together be in an operating state when the first layer is transferred using the second circulating belt.
US11879170B2
A device includes a substrate and a stressed layer disposed on a first surface of the substrate. The stressed layer includes: a first set of patterns having a predetermined geometry, size, and arrangement selected to control an equibiaxial stress field of the stressed layer, wherein the equibiaxial stress field varies in magnitude over the first surface of the substrate, and a second set of patterns etched into the first set of patterns and the substrate, the second set of patterns comprising a plurality of substantially parallel lines arranged to control at least a uniaxial stress field of the stressed layer, wherein the uniaxial stress field varies in magnitude over the first surface of the substrate.
US11879166B2
The invention relates to a wrought 7xxx-series aluminium alloy product having a composition comprising, in wt. %., Zn 6.20 to 7.50, Mg 2.15 to 2.75, Cu 1.20 to 2.00, and wherein Cu+Mg<4.50, and wherein Mg<2.5+5/3(Cu-1.2), Fe up to 0.25, Si up to 0.25, and optionally one or more elements selected from the group consisting of: (Zrup to 0.3,Crup to 0.3,Mnup to 0.45,Tiup to 0.25, Scup to 0.5, Agup to 0.5), the balance being aluminium and impurities.
US11879163B2
A method for determining the lignin or lignin by-product content of a process stream includes measuring the fluorescence parameter of a fluorescence spectra of the process stream, comparing the measured fluorescence parameter with predetermined a fluorescence parameter of lignin or lignin by-product reference samples, determining the amount of lignin or lignin by-product based on the comparison with the reference samples. Lignin or lignin by-products can then be removed from a process stream by adding a sufficient amount of a compound suitable for precipitating the lignin or lignin by-product to the process stream, and removing the precipitated lignin or lignin by-product from the process stream.
US11879153B1
The present invention relates to a method for detecting nucleic acids by fluorescent PCR. The method combines primer-activated polymerization reaction and specific fluorescence-labeled probe, which detects the target nucleic acid with high selectivity and high specificity.
US11879151B2
The invention generally relates to capturing, amplifying, and sequencing nucleic acids. In certain embodiments, copies of the sense and antisense strands of a duplex template nucleic acid are captured using linked capture probes and multiple binding and extension steps to improve specificity over traditional single binding target capture techniques. Methods of seeding sequencing clusters with sense and antisense strands of a target nucleic acid are also disclosed including identifying the strands using sense-specific barcodes and confirming base calls using two sense-specific sequencing reads. Linked adapters may be used to increase adapter ligation selectively or efficiency and yield.
US11879149B2
There is provided a novel quantification method for quantifying a concentration of EAP, which is a biomarker of depression, an enzyme for quantitation, a composition for quantitation, a kit for quantitation or a sensor for quantitation. There is provided a quantification method of ethanolamine phosphate by adding oxidoreductase to a sample containing ethanolamine phosphate. A mediator may be reduced by adding the oxidoreductase, and the reduced mediator may be reacted with a reagent to determine a concentration of ethanolamine phosphate. In addition, hydrogen peroxide produced by adding the oxidase as the oxidoreductase may be reacted with a reagent to determine a concentration of the ethanolamine phosphate.
US11879141B2
The invention relates to recombinant nucleic acid and polypeptides encoding collagenase I and collagenase II, methods for the preparation thereof and methods for the use thereof. The invention also encompasses methods related to releasing a composition comprising collagenase prior to therapeutic administration.
US11879140B2
A composition of matter comprising a DNAzyme molecule capable of mediating cleavage of p21 mRNA corresponding to SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein said DNAzyme molecule comprises a nucleic acid sequence at least 80% identical to the nucleic acid sequence set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 23, 29, 33-38, 40, 42, 45-48, 53-60, 63-65, 69-74 or 78, is disclosed. Methods of eradicating senescent cells or cancer cells, as well as methods of treating senescence-associated diseases or disorders, cancer, and fibrotic diseases and disorders are also disclosed.
US11879136B2
Disclosed herein is a method for producing an exosome containing therapeutic agent, including: separating mononuclear cells from a bone marrow sample of a healthy donor; treating the separated mononuclear cells in a culture media at 37° C. and at 5% CO2 for 48-72 h; separating an exosome composition from the culture media; and dissolving the separated exosome composition in a phosphate buffer to obtain the exosome containing therapeutic agent. The culture media includes a 1:1 mixture of DMEM/F12 and HEPES, 2 mmol/mL or 3.65 mg/10 mL of L-glutamine, 100 units/mL of penicillin, 100 μg/mL of streptomycin, and 10 wt % of fetal bovine serum.
US11879125B2
Provided herein, are compositions comprising GaINAc moieties that may be conjugated to an oligonucleotide. The oligonucleotide may be a small interfering RNA or an antisense oligonucleotide. Also provided herein are methods of treatment that include administering the composition to a subject.
US11879124B2
A construction method of a regulation system for gene expression in Zymomonas mobilis and applications are provided. The T7 expression system in Zymomonas mobilis has been constructed. The T7 expression system is used to construct a regulation circuit, help analyze the function of toxic genes and realize the regulation of metabolic pathways in Zymomonas mobilis. At the same time, shuttle plasmids that can be used in Zymomonas mobilis and Escherichia coli, also be constructed to facilitate the construction of plasmid and improve the expression efficiency of foreign genes in Zymomonas mobilis, laying a foundation for subsequent protein expression and secretion and metabolic engineering pathway optimization regulation.
US11879123B2
Modified probiotics, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of modulating and treating disorders are disclosed.
US11879122B2
A method of producing natto includes inoculating a mutant strain of Bacillus subtilis var. natto onto steamed or boiled soybeans, and fermenting the soybeans inoculated with the mutant strain by maintaining a temperature of the soybeans at 40° C. to 53° C. The number of the mutant strain spores after fermenting the soybeans is 5×105 or less spores per gram of the fermented soybeans. A single colony of the mutant strain cultured in a selective solid medium supplemented with biotin at a gas phase temperature of 49° C. for 48 hours has a region having a hue of yellow (Y), a value of 9 or more, and a chroma of 2 or less, as defined by the Munsell Color System, and a surface area of the region is 20% or less of the total surface area of the single colony.
US11879117B2
A gel tray for a bacteria transformation lab exercise has a transparent plastic body with four parallel gel channels and four filling ports, one for each channel into which unmodified bacteria and heat-shocked bacteria can be injected by students along with appropriate reaction constituents to demonstrate transformation of the bacteria under visualization.
US11879112B2
The present invention is in the field of fabric cleaning compositions; in particular powder detergent compositions having foaming and cleaning characteristics in the main wash, yet significant foam reduction during rinse. Accordingly the present inventors have investigated ways of improving the defoaming ingredient such that the defoaming ingredient has improving foam-subsiding effects in the rinse stage. However they found that incorporating a monoester of glycerol of unsaturated fatty acids in a cleaning composition has adverse effects on the perfume impact of the cleaning composition. The inventors have found that the disadvantages of the prior art can be overcome, if a monoester of glycerol and unsaturated fatty acid is sorbed by a porous carrier material having a specific pore size and pH ranges. The inventive defoaming ingredient did not masked and/or altered the perfume delivery of the detergent composition.
US11879108B2
The present invention relates to a middle-pressure polymerization process for the preparation of a liquid ethylene copolymer which comprises in polymerized form 20 to 60 wt % of ethylene; and at least 20 wt % of an acrylate, which is selected from C1-C22 alkyl (meth)acrylate, where a monomer mix comprising the ethylene and the acrylate is polymerized at a pressure of 50 to 400 bar and in the presence of at least 2 wt % of a chain transfer agent. The invention further relates to a liquid ethylene copolymer obtainable by the polymerization process; and to a lubricant comprising the liquid ethylene copolymer obtainable by the polymerization process; and to a method for reducing friction between moving surfaces comprising the step of contacting the surfaces with the lubricant or with the ethylene copolymer.
US11879104B2
A hydrocarbon recovery facility includes: a washing column configured to bring a gas and water into contact to deposit a hydrocarbon contained in the gas into the water; an automatic strainer for continuously removing the hydrocarbon together with part of the water from the water mixed with the hydrocarbon; an oil-water mixing drum for mixing the water and the hydrocarbon removed by the automatic strainer with an organic solvent to prepare an oil-water mixture; and an oil-water separation drum for separating the oil-water mixture prepared in the oil-water mixing drum into an oil phase and a water phase.
US11879099B1
A Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process with a hybrid membrane/PSA configuration provides high component recoveries from FT off gas with minimum power consumption. Synthesis gas from a synthesis gas production zone is reacted in an FT reaction zone forming a liquid stream and an off gas stream. The off gas from the FT reaction zone, which contains hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane reactants, is recycled to the synthesis gas production zone. A purge stream from the recycle loop is sent to a membrane separation unit where it is separated into a permeate stream and a residue stream. The residue stream is separated in a pressure swing adsorption (PSA) unit into a fuel gas stream and a second stream. The second stream can be compressed and recycled to the synthesis gas production zone.
US11879096B2
The disclosure is directed to a process for treating a subterranean earth formation by introducing a monovalent salt of monochloroacetic acid into said subterranean earth formation in the presence of a chelating agent which comprises at least one carboxylate group having a monovalent counterion and furthermore comprises a carbon chain carrying at least five hydroxyl groups. Preferably the cation of the monovalent salt of monochloroacetic acid is sodium.
US11879093B2
A method for inhibiting corrosion of pipelines and other metal surfaces, particularly those used in the oil-and-gas industry, is disclosed. The method comprises treating a brine-exposed metal surface with a film-forming composition. The composition comprises a quaternary surfactant, which is made by reacting a polyalkylene glycol (PAG), a haloalkanoic acid, and a tertiary fatty amine that optionally incorporates amide or ester functionality. The surfactant comprises a PAG monoester quat and a PAG diester diquat and may have other components. The quaternary surfactants provide good corrosion protection and can partition effectively from an oily phase into a brine phase in the absence of agitation. The surfactants are easy to synthesize economically and have structures that can be tailored to meet local HLB requirements.
US11879092B2
An aqueous modified acid composition for industrial activities, said composition comprising: an alkanolamine and strong acid in a molar ratio of not less than 1:15, preferably not less than 1:10; it can also further comprise a metal iodide or iodate. Said composition demonstrates advantages over known conventional acids and modified acids.
US11879084B2
In the present disclosure embodiments, a phosphate phosphor including an activation center of trivalent chromium and a light emitting device are provided. The light emitting device includes a light source and the above mentioned phosphate phosphor, such that the phosphate phosphor is excited by the light source and emits a wide spectrum of the infrared light. The light emitting device with wide emission spectrum of the infrared light may be widely applied in detecting devices.
US11879067B2
A film forming method is a method of forming a film on a substrate top face including a first region in which a metal or a semiconductor is exposed and a second region in which an insulator is exposed. The method includes a SAM forming process of forming a self-assembled monolayer film of a perfluoropolyether group-containing compound on the first region and a film growth process of forming a predetermined film on the second region after execution of SAM forming process.
US11879063B2
The present invention relates to a new aqueous curable binder composition comprising a polyphenolic macromolecular compound which bears a multitude of catechol radicals (dihydroxybenzene), preferably lignosulfonate salts and condensed tannins and mixtures thereof, and a polyamine functional compound comprising primary and/or secondary and/or tertiary and/or quaternary amine functional groups, suitable for bonding particulate matter, such as fibers, more particularly mineral wool fibers, or particles, such as wood particles.
US11879060B2
A curable silicone composition is disclosed. The curable silicone composition comprises: (A) a linear organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups and at least one aryl group in a molecule; (B) a branched organopolysiloxane represented by the average unit formula; (C) an organosiloxane having at least two silicon atom-bonded hydrogen atoms in a molecule; and (D) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst. The curable silicone composition forms a cured product having good mechanical properties and good retention of transparency under conditions of high temperature.
US11879059B2
Polymer compositions comprising stiff and tough star shaped styrene butadiene block-copolymers A1 and A2 can be used for making shrink films. Block copolymer A2 preferably has the structure with hard blocks Se and Si, hard random copolymer blocks (B/S)Ae, soft random copolymer blocks (B/S)B coupled by a coupling agent X.
US11879057B2
The invention relates to a process for producing a polypropylene composition by sequential polymerization, said polypropylene composition having low sealing initiation temperature (SIT) and high melting point (Tm), thus providing abroad sealing window.
US11879056B2
The present disclosure provides a composition. The composition contains (A) an ethylene-based polymer; and (B) a slip agent blend, the slip agent blend containing (i) from greater than 50 wt % to 99 wt % of a first polydimethylsiloxane having a number average molecular weight (Mn) from 30,000 g/mol to less than 300,000 g/mol; and (ii) from 1 wt % to less than 50 wt % of a second polydimethylsiloxane having a number average molecular weight (Mn) from 300,000 g/mol to 2,000,000 g/mol, based on the total weight of the slip agent blend. The present disclosure also provides a film with a layer containing said composition.
US11879054B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide: a spherical magnesium oxide which has high sphericity and excellent moisture resistance, and has excellent fluidity by which a resin composition exhibits excellent fluidity when filled in a resin; and a method for producing the same. The present invention is a spherical magnesium oxide characterized in that: 10-2000 ppm of boron is contained; the total content of silicon and phosphorus is 300-4000 ppm; and the sphericity that can be read from the SEM photograph is 1.00-1.10, when the volume-based cumulative 50% particle diameter (D50) measured by means of a laser diffraction scattering particle size distribution measurement, is in the range of 3-200 μm.
US11879053B2
The disclosed concept relates to compositions and methods for the manufacture of electrically resistive, thermally conductive electrical switching apparatus. The composition includes a polymer component and a nanofiber component. The thermal conductivity of the nanofiber component is higher than the thermal conductivity of the polymer component such that the electrical switching apparatus which includes the composition of the disclosed concept has improved heat dissipation as compared to an electrical switching apparatus constructed of the polymer component in the absence of the nanofiber component. Further, the disclosed concept relates to methods of lowering the internal temperature of an electrically resistive, thermally conductive electrical switching apparatus by forming the internals of the apparatus, e.g., circuit breakers, and/or the enclosure from the composition of the disclosed concept.
US11879050B2
The invention concerns an antidegradant blend for polymers, comprising: a. an antioxidant selected from one or more of: i. a phenolic antioxidant; ii. an organic phosphite antioxidant; and: b. an inorganic antioxidant or reducing agent; wherein the composition is absent any metal carboxylate or buffering agent having the capacity to buffer in aqueous solution at a pH range from 4 to 8.
US11879029B2
Provided is a polymerizable composition comprising a cycloolefin-based monomer having a specific structure, a silane coupling agent having at least one hydrocarbon group having a norbornene structure, and a metathesis polymerization catalyst.
US11879026B2
The invention relates to a polypropylene composition comprising a terpolymer containing propylene, ethylene and 1-hexene wherein the polypropylene composition (i) has a content of ethylene derived units of at least 1.5 wt %; (ii) has a content of 1-hexene derived units of at least 1.5 wt %; (iii) has a melt flow rate of 0.10 to 0.70 g/10 min determined by ISO 1133-1:2011 (230° C., 2.16 kg); and (iv) has a ratio of weight average molecular weight (Mw) to numeric average molecular (Mn) weight of the terpolymer of 7.0 to 20.0, wherein Mw and Mn are measured according to ASTM D6474-12.
US11879024B1
Disclosed herein is a nanoimprint lithography (NIL) soft mold precursor material comprising a curable fluorinated base resin component, one or more additives, one or more crosslinkers, and one or more of a photo radical generator, a photo acid generator, or both. According to certain embodiments, further disclosed herein are a polymeric material comprising a partially or totally polymerized or crosslinked NIL precursor material, a NIL soft mold comprising the polymeric material, a process for making the NIL soft mold, and a method of using the NIL soft mold to form a NIL grating.
US11879019B2
An enzyme-responsive peptide and a method off using such enzyme-responsive peptide are disclosed. An enzyme-responsive peptide, the peptide comprising an amino acid having an α-amino group, an α-carboxylic acid group and a ε-amine group, wherein the ε-amine group is covalently bonded with a first group and the α-carboxylic acid is covalently bonded with a second group.
US11879009B2
The present invention relates to multifunctional protein molecules comprising decorin and uses thereof. In particular, the present invention relates to multifunctional protein molecules comprising decorin and a targeting polypeptide such as an antibody and methods of their production and uses thereof.
US11879006B2
Disclosed herein is a recombinant antibody exhibiting binding affinity and/or neutralizing activity to porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV). According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the PEDV is genotype 1 (G1) or genotype 2b (G2b) PEDV. Also disclosed herein are methods of diagnosing and treating PEDV infection by use of the present recombinant antibody.
US11879005B2
This invention relates to novel hetero-dimeric multi-specific format of multiple antibody variable domains comprising a core of two split variable domain pairs wherein both variable light domains and the two cognate variable heavy domains are positioned in tandem on two separate protein chains, respectively.
US11878999B2
This disclosure relates to the field of molecular biology. Provided are novel genes that encode pesticidal proteins. These pesticidal proteins and the nucleic acid sequences that encode them are useful in preparing pesticidal formulations and in the production of transgenic pest-resistant plants. Methods to create or alter pesticidal proteins are provided for altered or enhanced pesticidal activity.
US11878991B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for synthesizing 5′Capped RNAs wherein the initiating capped oligonucleotide primers have the general form m7 Gppp[N2′Ome]n[N]m wherein m7G is N7-methylated guanosine or any guanosine analog, N is any natural, modified or unnatural nucleoside, “n” can be any integer from 0 to 4 and “m” can be an integer from 1 to 9.
US11878988B2
A series of functionalized imidazophenthridine analogue-based blue phosphorescent emitters have been designed, where bulky substituents (e.g., tetrabutyl, phenyl, mesityl, triisopropylbenzene, etc.) are introduced on an imidazophenthridine fragment of the emitters. Bulky substituents may suppress potential excimer formation, as well as improve the solubility of the complexes. This class of emitters may be utilized in luminescent labels, emitters for organic light emitting devices, and lighting applications.
US11878980B2
The present invention relates to a novel co-crystal of the compound of formula (I): wherein the co-former molecule is bisphosphate hemihydrate, to processes for the preparation of the co-crystal, to pharmaceutical compositions containing the co-crystal, to the use of such a co-crystal in the manufacture of a medicament for use in the treatment of cancer and to methods of treating such diseases in the human or animal body by administering a therapeutically effective amount of such a co-crystal.
US11878978B1
Novel pyrrolo[2,3-c]quinoline compounds, a method of synthesizing these compounds, a pharmaceutical composition comprising these compounds and a suitable carrier, and a method of using the compounds. The pyrrolo[2,3-c]quinoline compounds, identified as CK2 inhibitors, are useful as anticancer and/or antitumor agents, and as agents for treating other kinase-associated conditions including inflammation, pain, and certain immunological disorders, and other types of diseases such as diabetes, viral infection, neurodegenerative diseases.
US11878966B2
Described herein are 1,4-substituted piperidine compounds according to Formula I that have demonstrated activity as fatty acid synthase inhibitors. Also described herein are pharmaceutical compositions containing the described 1,4-substituted piperidine compounds. Also described herein are methods of treating diseases mediated by fatty acid synthase, by administering one or more of the compounds or pharmaceutical formulations described herein. Also described herein are methods of synthesizing the described 1,4-substituted piperidine compounds and synthetic intermediates useful in those syntheses.
US11878963B2
The present disclosure provides a semi-synthetic method of dihydroquercetin, belonging to the field of synthesis of organic drugs. The semi-synthetic method includes the following steps: adding quercetin dihydrate to solvent water adjusted to be alkaline with an alkalizing reagent, heating and stirring to dissolve the mixture, and then adding thiourea dioxide under the protection of an inert gas to perform a reduction reaction, to obtain an endpoint reduction reaction solution; diluting the endpoint reduction reaction solution with water and cooling the resultant, and then acidizing, aging, and filtering the resultant to obtain a filtrate and a filter cake; extracting, washing, drying, concentrating, and repeatedly crystallizing the filtrate to obtain dihydroquercetin; and recycling the filter cake after being washed.
US11878960B1
Novel organic selenide compounds that can be used as a chemopreventive mixture against breast cancer. These compounds and compositions may be used alone or in conjunction with DPPD. Likewise, the present subject matter relates to the use of N, N′-Diphenyl-1,4-phenylenediamine (DPPD) as a synthetic antioxidant supplementation to enhance breast cancer complications.
US11878952B1
Methods for deactivating a transition metal-based catalyst system containing a co-catalyst comprising an aluminoxane and optionally an alkylaluminum are disclosed in which the catalyst system is contacted with a C4-C18 alcohol co-catalyst deactivating agent at a molar amount of OH of the co-catalyst deactivating agent in a range from 0.5 to 1.5 times {(moles of aluminum of the aluminoxane)+(moles aluminum of the alkylaluminum)+(moles aluminum of the alkylaluminum)}. Related methods for deactivating a residual catalyst system in reactor effluent streams and related ethylene oligomerization processes also are described.
US11878951B2
Described are energetic compositions formed of a 5,5′-bistetrazole salt and a perchlorate salt, in which the energetic composition is a co-precipitated product. The 5,5′-bistetrazole salt and the perchlorate salt can be dipotassium 5,5′-bistetrazole and potassium perchlorate. The energetic composition can have a particle size distribution between 1-50 micron and/or a mean volume diameter of less than 30 micron. In a low energy electro-explosive device, an ignition element is at least partially surrounded by an acceptor formed of this energetic composition, and the ignition element can be a bridgewire, a thin film bridge, a semiconductor bridge, or a reactive semiconductor bridge.
US11878948B2
A method/system for sequestering carbon dioxide from cement and lime production facilities wherein carbon dioxide from flue gases originating from cement or lime production facilities is recovered and transported to a building materials production facility where it is sequestered.
US11878947B2
A ceramic precursor mixtures for extrusion and firing into porous ceramics. The ceramic precursor mixtures include ceramic beads and green inorganic shear binder agglomerates. The green inorganic shear binder agglomerates can include inorganic filler particles and a polymeric binder. The green inorganic shear binder agglomerates can deform under an applied shear stress during mixing and/or extrusion such that they are smeared into a plurality of interbead gaps between adjacent ceramic beads or pore former particles. During firing, the smeared green inorganic shear binder agglomerates can sinter and react to form ribbons extending between, and interconnecting adjacent ceramic beads.
US11878938B2
Disclosed are an optical glass, a glass preform, an optical element and an optical instrument having the same. The optical glass comprises 5 to 25 wt % of B2O3, 25 to 45 wt % of La2O3, 0 to 10 Wt % of Y2O3, 10 to 35 wt % of Gd2O3, 0.5 to 15 wt % of SiO2, 1 to 15 wt % of ZrO2, 0 to 5 wt % of TiO2, 0 to 7 wt % of WO3, 0 to 15 wt % of Ta2O5, 0 to 10 wt % of ZnO and 0 to 8.5 wt % of Nb2O5; and m(B2O3+SiO2+ZrO2+Nb2O5+TiO2+WO3)/m(La2O3+ZrO2) is not lower than 0.6.
US11878929B2
A manufacturing apparatus of porous glass base material includes deposition apparatuses that manufacture a porous glass base material by generating raw material particles from vaporized raw material compounds in an oxyhydrogen flame, and then depositing the generated raw material particles on a rotating starting material. The manufacturing apparatus includes a storage container that stores liquid raw material compounds for each compound, a vapor generation mechanism that vaporizes the raw material compounds, and a gas channel that supplies the vaporized raw material compounds to the deposition apparatuses. The gas channel includes a common gas channel shared to supply vaporized raw material compounds to the plurality of deposition apparatuses, and individual gas channels branched off from the common gas channel to supply vaporized raw material compounds to each of the deposition apparatuses individually. Each of the individual gas channels has a flow controller, a steam valve, and a valve.
US11878920B2
A stormwater runoff treatment substrate includes a lower pyrite substrate layer and an upper biochar substrate layer. The lower pyrite substrate layer includes pyrite, oyster shell powder, and sandy materials in a volume ratio of 10:5:85. The upper biochar substrate layer includes biochar or activated carbon, organic nutrient soil, and sandy materials in a volume ratio of 20:3:77.
US11878914B2
This invention relates to cost-effective methods for synthesizing metallic nanoparticles in high yield using non-dendrimeric branched polymeric templates, such as branched polyethyleneimine. This invention also provides a high-throughput apparatus for synthesizing metallic nanoparticles under conditions that produce less waste than conventional nanoparticle synthesis methods. Also provided are metallic nanoparticles and multi-metallic nanoparticle compositions made by methods and high-throughput apparatus of the invention.
US11878900B1
A shoe plate for use in a clamp assembly for a lift truck load handler. The shoe plate has a spine, an outside wear rib, and a load-side wear rib. The shoe plate is configured to couple detachably and interchangeably to either one of two clamp plates of a clamp assembly on a load-side of a lower portion of the clamp plate. The shoe plates are made of harder and more wear resistant materials than the clamp plates. The shoe plate has a first bracket at one end of the spine and a second bracket at the other end. Each of the brackets has a notch configured to mate with a front edge of the lower portion of either one of the two clamp plates. The brackets are also each configured to insert into a bracket recess in the load-side of one of the two clamp plates.
US11878890B2
An apparatus for folding and receiving book documents comprises a main conveying device arranged and adapted to convey unfolded book documents in a main conveying direction and a secondary conveying device arranged and adapted to receive the book documents conveyed by the main conveying device and to convey them in a secondary conveying direction and/or against the secondary conveying direction, wherein the secondary conveying direction is transverse to the main conveying direction. Further, the apparatus comprises a receiving device arranged at a spatial distance from the first and/or the second conveying surface and configured to receive folded book documents. The device folds the conveyed book documents respectively with a movement in the secondary conveying direction and/or against the secondary conveying direction. Furthermore, a lifting device is arranged to convey the folded book documents from the main conveying device and/or from the secondary conveying device into the receiving device.
US11878883B2
An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit and a medium feeding apparatus. The medium feeding apparatus includes: a medium placement portion on which a medium before being fed is placed; a feed roller that feeds the medium placed on the medium placement portion; and at least one pressing portion that presses the medium placed on the medium placement portion onto the medium placement portion at a position upstream of the feed roller in a medium feeding direction. Since the pressing portion presses the medium placed on the medium placement portion, friction occurs between sheets of the medium, thereby preventing or reducing a skew.
US11878882B2
A paper sheet storage device includes a storage space in which paper sheet is stored; a mounting table that is provided in the storage space and on which the paper sheet is accumulated and placed; a support base that supports the mounting table; a first lifting lowering mechanism that lifts and lowers the mounting table between a high position and a low position relative to the support base; and a second lifting lowering mechanism that lifts and lowers the support base in the storage space. The support base and the first lifting lowering mechanism are disposed within a projection area in which the mounting table is projected on a plane orthogonal to a lifting lowering direction in which the support base is lifted and lowered by the second lifting lowering mechanism.
US11878861B2
A refuse vehicle includes a chassis, a body, a power source, and a tailgate. The chassis is coupled to a plurality of wheels. The body assembly is coupled to the chassis and defines a refuse compartment configured to store refuse material. The tailgate comprises a refuse receiving portion, a tailgate compaction assembly, and an electrically-driven actuation mechanism. The refuse receiving portion is configured to receive refuse material. The tailgate compaction assembly is selectively actuatable to compact the refuse material received by the refuse receiving portion into the refuse compartment. The electrically-driven actuation mechanism is powered by the power source and is configured to selectively actuate the tailgate compaction assembly.
US11878859B2
A side opening intermodal shipping container has a fixed base, end walls, back wall and part of a roof. A movable entire side wall is connected to a movable partial roof. The movable partial roof is hinged to the fixed roof part. Hydraulic cylinders rotate the movable side wall and roof part, opening an entire side and a portion of the top within a limited clearance space. A large object may be loaded into the container and removed from the container indoors.
US11878856B2
A packet for cigarette industry products, having a casing which at least partially surrounds a group of cigarette industry products as the packet content, wherein the casing is formed from a packaging material, and wherein folding tabs of the packaging material are connected to one another by seams, in which the casing is formed from a paper-based packaging material, and a corresponding method.
US11878855B2
Metering valve for dispensing a fluid product, having a valve body containing a metering chamber defined by a chamber insert and two annular seals, a valve seal and a chamber seal. The chamber insert has a cylindrical wall, an upper edge cooperating with the valve seal and a lower edge that cooperates with the chamber seal. A valve slides axially in the valve body between a rest position and a dispensing position, so as to selectively dispense the contents of the metering chamber, the valve being urged towards its rest position by a spring that cooperates with the valve body and with the valve. The upper edge of the chamber insert has an annular cutout formed on the radially inner side of the upper edge, so that the width of the upper edge in contact with the valve seal is always the same, whatever the width of the cylindrical wall.
US11878854B2
This invention relates to a process for reducing or eliminating organoleptic degradation in organoleptically sensitive foods packaged in flexible packaging, and packaged products thereof. This invention also relates to organoleptic flexible packaging made from polymeric films comprising oxidation-stable and non-migratory polysiloxane as slip additive. The oxidative-stability and non-migratory nature of the polysiloxane slip additive provides an organoleptic flexible packaging that is non-interactive with and inert to the organoleptically sensitive food packaged within, specifically: (1) coffee; (2) beer; (3) water; and (4) wine.
US11878839B2
The bin with flip lid device includes a main body and lid having a first portion and a second portion. The main body includes a plurality of sides, an upper surface, and a bottom surface. The main body further has a first handle arrangement and a second handle arrangement. Each of the handle arrangements are disposed on opposite sides of the upper surface of the main body. Each of the first portion and the second portion of the lid are also disposed on opposite sides of the upper surface of the main body. Each of the first portion and the second portion are hingedly connected along the upper surface of the main body. Each of the first portion and the second portion have at least one tooth which is configured to nest into a corresponding recess in each of the opposite lids where the device is in a closed position.
US11878838B2
A pallet for carrying an object. The pallet may include a receiving surface to support the object. The pallet may include a socket and may be part of a pallet assembly including a rotationally asymmetrical positioning rod operable to be selectively repositioned within the socket with a main body extending above the receiving surface to restrain a lateral movement of the object. The pallet may include a support frame to support the plurality of objects thereon. The support frame may including a plurality of post supports. The pallet may include a plurality of stacking post assemblies each including a first post having a bottom end pivotally secured to the support frame and a second post operable to move between an extended position engaged with the post support and the first post and a retracted positon engaged with only one of the post support and the first post.
US11878829B2
A packaging machine is provided for producing single and multiple compartment film wrapped pouches. Multiple linear motors allow aspects of the forming, filling, cutting and discharging to run at different speeds. The pouches are formed, filled and discharged from platens that are secured to movers that proceed through the packaging process by following magnetic fields created by independently controlled linear motors. Overall, cycle time is decreased as a result of speeding up parts of the process, including the platen return process, possible because there is no mechanical connection and not a single conveyor moving the platens while the other parts of the process may be simultaneously slowed down or even temporarily stopped. Changeover of platens, to accommodate different products, such as single compartment pouch to multiple compartment pouches, is also simplified because platens are simply connected to the movers and are thus easily removed and replaced.
US11878824B2
A robot hand includes a gripping mechanism. The gripping mechanism includes a pair of gripping claws that perform opening and closing operations in a horizontal direction intersecting with an extending direction of an electric wire. The gripping claw has a lower claw portion that functions as a scooping claw by moving obliquely upward from below. Before or during a bundling operation, a control device of a robot causes the lower claw portion of the gripping claw to move obliquely upward from below to scoop up all electric wires to be bundled.
US11878821B2
A vibration isolation/damping satellite mount of a chopped carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite material mainly includes two parts, and the two parts are connected through bolts. Considering the limitation of the molding process, the mount configuration is further optimized, and the mount structure is prepared by using the injection molding process. Furthermore, the vibration isolation/damping satellite mount of the chopped carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic composite material prepared in the present invention can be used for large loads and complex working conditions, and the connectivity, overall strength stability, vibration isolation performance and service life of the mount all meet the design requirements. The present invention provides an efficient optimization design and manufacturing method for engineering manufacturing of thermoplastic composite materials, and vibration isolation/damping satellite mount manufactured by the method is low in cost, high in practicability and easy to produce on a large scale.
US11878818B2
A microthruster for controlling small spacecraft and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. Embodiments of the microthruster include one or more nozzle throats with cross sectional areas of at most 20 μm2, and some with 6 μm2. Some embodiments include heaters that heat water in one or more reservoirs to increase pressure in the reservoirs and eject the water from the one or more nozzle throats. Some embodiments are manufactured by etching channels into one or more layers of material, and still further embodiments are manufactured by forming the nozzle throats and/or the reservoirs between two layers of material. Some microthruster embodiments are flat in shape with the nozzle throats ejecting water out the thin sides of the microthruster. Still further embodiments are formed by etching channels into one layer of material, printing a heater onto another layer of material, and bonding the two layers together.
US11878815B2
The present invention relates to a system that can to capture, retain, and release a small UAV/drone. Exemplary embodiments include a plurality of capture mechanisms each include a capture arm coupled to an actuator. The capture mechanism can include two pivot points, one of which can move along a track or groove, to allow the capture arm to extend and retract while maintaining a small combined circumference during UAV landing while still being able to extend to engage with a retention ring on the UAV.
US11878813B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for updating a graphic user interface (GUI) of a vehicle. For instance, the method may include generating and displaying a checklist GUI with a plurality of tasks on a display; determining whether information indicating that a task of the plurality of tasks has been completed has been received; in response to determining that the information indicating that the task has been completed has been received, determining whether a user or a system indicated that the task is complete; in response to determining that the user indicated that the task is complete, updating the checklist GUI to change a status indicator of the task to a first type of status indicator; and in response to determining that the system indicated that the task is complete, updating the checklist GUI to change the status indicator of the task to a second type of status indicator.
US11878811B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to externally accessible auxiliary power unit (APU) pump assembly, comprising: a pump configured to pressurize an accumulator that is used to start an APU of an aircraft; a pressure gauge for the accumulator; and a support frame configured to be mounted within an outer wall of the aircraft, wherein the support frame defines an externally accessible compartment and secures the pump and the pressure gauge within the externally accessible compartment.
US11878803B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle according to the present invention include: a main body; plural arms as supports that extend from the main body and support rotors; cloth-like parts held in a standby state in which the cloth-like parts are folded at positions close to the main body; and deployment mechanisms that are provided in the arms and each configured to move a portion of the cloth-like part in a direction away from the main body so that the cloth-like part-is switched from the standby state to a deployed state in which the cloth-like part is spread between the arms in plan view.
US11878802B2
A lavatory monument assembly that includes an enclosure having front and rear walls and that defines an enclosure interior. A divider wall that extends between the front and rear walls, and a divider door that is movable between closed and opened positions. In the closed position the divider door divides the enclosure interior into first and second lavatory interiors. The divider wall includes first and second sections and the divider door includes first and second portions that meet at an obtuse angle. The divider door is pivotably attached to the divider wall. The front wall includes first and second lavatory doors that are both movable between closed and opened positions and provide access to the first and second lavatory interiors. A first toilet is positioned adjacent the rear wall in the first lavatory interior and a second toilet is positioned adjacent the rear wall in the second lavatory interior.
US11878798B2
Certain aspects relate to a blended wing body aircraft with a fuel cell and methods of use. An exemplary aircraft includes a blended wing body, at least a propulsor mechanically affixed to the aircraft and configured to propel the aircraft, at least a first fuel store configured to store a first fuel, and at least a fuel cell configured to combine the first fuel with oxygen to produce electricity.
US11878788B2
A method of controlling cooling of a brake system, includes determining a brake temperature, obtaining a wear rate profile for the brake system indicative of wear rate in dependence on temperature, and controlling activation of cooling of the brake system according to the wear rate profile.
US11878766B1
A crank assembly for a bicycle includes a crank axle, crank arms mounted to the crank axle to rotate the crank axle, a carrier shaft slidably mounted on the crank axle and configured to slide relative to the crank axle, and a sprocket mounted on the carrier shaft. A position sensor determines a relative position of a diametric axis of the sprocket relative to a central longitudinal axis of the crank arm at an end of a power stroke. Further, an actuator is operatively coupled to the carrier shaft to slide the carrier shaft, and a controller is configured to actuate the actuator to slide the carrier shaft relative to the crank axle based on input from the position sensor to change a start time of the power stroke of the sprocket.
US11878756B2
A bike balance trainer apparatus for training a rider to balance on a single wheel of a bicycle and including a mount for a service stand and an attachment to allow it to act as a bike stand or storage apparatus is provided. The apparatus may have a base support member and a tire retention member movably connected to the base support member about a first pivot.
US11878755B2
A support stand (100) for supporting a two-wheeled vehicle (500) though a support wheel (502) thereof. The support stand defines a wheel cradle (125) for receiving the support wheel (502) thereinto. The support stand (500) is made of substantially plate-shaped elements (104, 106, 116, 130) that are securable to each other and detachable from each other by toolless connection arrangements (114, 120, 128, 134) of mechanical interferences.
US11878752B2
A method for operating a steering system includes providing an electromechanical steering assistance having several redundant control paths. Each control path includes a control unit, a power unit and a winding circuit of a servomotor. A correcting-variable unit is provided in each control unit in order to make a correcting variable available, depending on input variables. The correcting variables of all of the correcting-variable units are averaged. A set correcting variable is made available by each control unit, depending on the averaged correcting variable. A device for operating a steering system and a steering system for steering wheels of a motor vehicle, are also provided.
US11878748B2
A fluid controller (1), in particular as part of a hydraulic steering unit, is described said controller (1) comprising a housing (2) having a supply port arrangement, a sleeve (4) arranged rotatably in a bore of the housing (2), a spool (3) arranged rotatably in the sleeve (4), and a measuring motor, wherein the measuring motor comprises a plurality of working chambers, each working chamber being connected to the bore, wherein the sleeve (4) comprises a commutation geometry (7) having a first partition and controlling together with a housing geometry (5) of the housing (2) a flow of hydraulic fluid into and out of the working chambers and the spool (3) comprises a spool geometry (14) controlling together with a valve geometry (10, 11) of the sleeve (4) a flow of hydraulic fluid between the supply port arrangement and the commutation geometry. Such a fluid controller should have a stable control behavior. To this end the valve geometry (10,11) comprises a second partition different from the first partition.
US11878743B2
A power machine having a frame and a cab pivotally attached to the frame at a first cab pivot, such that the cab pivots about a first transverse axis from an operational position to a service position, includes a link mechanism and a first spring. The link mechanism includes a first link having a first link end, a second link end, and a first pivot engagement feature pivotally coupling the first link to the frame and to the cab such that the first link is pivotal about the first transverse axis. The second link end is configured to interface with the cab at a position forward of and below the first cab pivot and first pivot engagement feature when the cab is in the operational position.
US11878741B2
A multi-layer sliding member (1) includes a backing plate (2) formed from a steel plate, a copper-plated or nickel-plated layer (4) formed on one surface (3) of the backing plate (2), a porous sintered metal layer (5) integrally bonded to the surface (3) of the backing plate (2) through the layer (4), and a coating layer (8) filling pores (6) and coating on the surface (7) of the porous sintered metal layer (5) and formed from a synthetic resin composition. The synthetic resin composition contains a PTFE as a main component and further contains, as additives, 5 to 30% by mass of a thermotropic liquid crystal polymer, 5 to 12% by mass of a polyarylketone resin, 5 to 12% by mass of a melt moldable fluororesin, and 1 to 5% by mass of a polyimide resin.
US11878738B2
The present teachings provide a reinforcement for a cavity. The reinforcement may include a carrier having a length extending along an axis between a first end and a second end. The carrier may include one or more longitudinal structures and one or more transverse structures. The carrier may also include one or more walls joined together to form one or more cavities extending along the axis. The carrier may have a cross-sectional shape roughly corresponding to the cross-sectional shape of interior of a hollow structural member. The device may also include a secondary material placed over the carrier. The secondary material is configured to expand, seal, reinforce, or a combination thereof upon application of a selectable stimuli and adhere to the interior of the cavity to provide reinforcement of the same.
US11878737B2
A fastening assembly for fastening an axle support on a vehicle body. The axle support is screwed onto the vehicle body on multiple attachment points. On at least one of the attachment points, a bearing bracket for mounting a unit for the axle drive is arranged between the axle support and the vehicle body and also screwed on. A method for installing and fastening an axle support on a vehicle body in the mass production of motor vehicles is further disclosed.
US11878731B2
A switch device includes a switch body, which is attached to and rotated integrally with an irregularly-shaped steering unit, and a lever unit, which is held pivotally about a switch body. The lever unit includes a lever shaft including a base, which extends in a direction intersecting the steering shaft, and an arm, which is formed integrally with the base and extends in a direction that differs from the direction in which the base extends. The lever unit also includes a lever head at the distal end of the lever shaft, and the lever head extends from the lever shaft in the width direction, which intersects an axial direction.
US11878728B2
The invention relates to a foldable cot, comprising a bottom portion and a stretchable side wall. The cot further comprises a movable frame for stretching the side wall to an unfolded state. The foldable cot also comprises an adapter mounted to a side wall frame element for connecting the foldable cot to a bearing frame of a buggy, the adapter having a rotatable element that is rotatably attached to the side wall frame element, and an engaging element fixedly attached to the rotatable element such that upon pivoting the frame arm for unfolding the side wall, the frame arm also engages the engaging element inducing the rotatable element to swivel relative to the side wall frame element of the frame for bringing the cot in a mainly horizontal orientation.
US11878725B2
A system includes a safety mode activation device disposed onboard a vehicle system and operatively connected to a controller of the vehicle system. The safety mode activation device is configured to receive a status signal indicating a presence of one or more of an operator or an active work marker in a location proximate to the vehicle system. The safety mode activation device is further configured to transmit a lockout signal to the controller to prevent movement of the vehicle system along a route responsive to receiving the status signal.
US11878721B2
In some embodiments, techniques for updating a model that represents turning dynamics of a vehicle are provided. In some embodiments, an initial location and orientation of the vehicle with respect to an object outside the vehicle are determined using information from environment sensors including but not limited to image sensors and/or range sensors. In some embodiments, vehicle state information including but not limited to steering angle and wheel speed is received before determining a new location and orientation of the vehicle with respect to the object. In some embodiments, the model is updated using the initial location and orientation, the new location and orientation, and the vehicle state information.
US11878720B2
A method for adaptive risk modeling for an autonomous vehicle, the method comprising: retrieving parameters of an identified driving mission of the autonomous vehicle; in response to the parameters of the identified driving mission, generating values of: a comparative autonomous parameter, a mix model parameter, a surrounding risk parameter, a geographic operation parameter, and a security risk parameter upon evaluating situational inputs associated with the identified driving mission with a comparative autonomous model, a mix model, a sensor-surrounding model, a geography-dependent model, and a security risk model generated using sensor and supplementary data extraction systems associated with the autonomous vehicle; upon generating values, generating a risk analysis with a rule-based algorithm; and contemporaneously with execution of the identified driving mission, implementing a response action associated with control of the autonomous vehicle, based upon the risk analysis.
US11878712B2
A computer-implement method for operating an ADV is disclosed. A first trajectory for the ADV to drive along is planned. The ADV is to autonomously drive along the first trajectory. An obstacle in an affected region of the ADV is detected based on sensor data obtained from a plurality of sensors mounted on the ADV. An expected residence time of the obstacle in the affected region is determined. Whether to plan a second trajectory or to wait for the obstacle to leave the affected region is determined based on the expected residence time of the obstacle in the affected region. A second trajectory for the ADV to drive along is planned and the ADV is to autonomously drive along the second trajectory, or the ADV is to wait for the obstacle to leave the affected region and to autonomously drive along the first trajectory afterwards.
US11878703B2
A method for determining a pullover spot for a vehicle is described. The method includes using a computing device to detect information related to a system of the vehicle or an environment surrounding the vehicle using a sensor of a vehicle and determine a local failure of the vehicle based on the information. The computing device may then be used to determine that the vehicle should pullover before completing a current trip related to transporting a passenger or good by comparing vehicle requirements for the trip with the local failure and determine a pullover spot by identifying a first area for the vehicle to park in part based on a second area being available for a second vehicle to pick up the passenger or good. The computing device may operate the vehicle to the pullover spot and transmit a request for a second vehicle.
US11878702B2
The invention relates to a driver assistance system for a motor vehicle, comprising a surroundings sensor system, a controller, and an analysis module. The controller is equipped and designed so as to ascertain an assistance function control signal on the basis of surroundings data detected by the surroundings sensor system, said assistance function control signal being in a specified functional relationship with at least one assistance system parameter and the detected surroundings data, and to actuate the vehicle so as to provide an assistance function by means of the assistance function control signal. The analysis module is equipped and designed so as to ascertain a success value for the assistance function control signal using reference information and to initiate an optimization of the at least one assistance system parameter if the success value falls below a success threshold.
US11878689B2
A vehicle includes an electric machine that generates torque to move wheels of the vehicle, and a controller. The controller operates the electric machine to limit a maximum speed at which the vehicle is driven in reverse such that the maximum speed depends on a number of detected objects behind the vehicle.
US11878687B2
An automated driving method for a vehicle includes: determining whether or not a traffic jam is detected ahead of a host vehicle by a distance equal to or more than a predetermined distance on a travel route of the host vehicle during travel by automated driving that brings a vehicle speed close to a target vehicle speed; and in a traffic jam detection time when the traffic jam is detected, reducing the vehicle speed VSP to be lower than a target vehicle speed VSPt0 for the automated driving in a normal time other than the traffic jam detection time.
US11878676B2
A motor vehicle includes at least two drive motors, an automatic gearbox, and an electronic control unit, which, during a gear ratio adjustment between an engagement and a loading of a shift element, causes the shift element to be loaded with a predefined torque gradient at a first point in time at which at least one tooth-to-tooth position exists, up to a second point in time, cause the predefined torque to be limited to a maximum permissible torque during a predefined waiting period from the second point in time up to a third point in time, and cause the shift element to be further loaded with the previously predefined torque gradient after the waiting period or when the engaged state is detected.
US11878675B2
A method for operating a drive train of a working machine, wherein a traction drive of the drive train is driven by an electric traction motor via a transmission and wherein, when a gear stage of the transmission is changed, a rotational speed of the traction motor is synchronised with the gear stage being engaged. The method further includes a computational model of the traction motor that is used for the rotational speed synchronisation. The model, taking into account a moment of inertia of the traction motor, describes a torque to be delivered for the rotational speed synchronisation. A corresponding drive train and a working machine is also disclosed.
US11878672B2
A method of emergency braking of a vehicle includes: displaying a brake button in a vehicle; determining pre-touch information on a distance before the brake button is touched by a user; determining post-touch information on a distance after the brake button is touched; and performing any one of a first brake control in which general braking is performed according to the degree of the pressing of the brake button and braking force is added from a first time point after the brake button is pressed, a second brake control in which the general braking is performed and braking force is added from a second time point that is after the first time point, and a third brake control in which the general braking is performed according to the pre-touch information and the post-touch information.
US11878669B2
A military vehicle includes a front axle, a rear axle, a front differential coupled to the front axle, and a transaxle coupled to the rear axle and the front differential. The transaxle includes an internal mechanical disconnect that facilitates mechanically decoupling the transaxle from the front differential.
US11878665B2
A hydraulic pressure control unit and a straddle-type vehicle brake system capable of simultaneously reducing size of a motor for the hydraulic pressure control unit in a rotation axis direction and improving workability of connecting fluid pipes to a master cylinder port and a wheel cylinder port are obtained. An inlet valve and an outlet valve are provided in valve holes provided on a first surface of a base body. A motor is provided in an upright manner in a motor hole provided on the first surface. One of the master cylinder port and the wheel cylinder port is provided on a second surface as a surface opposing the first surface. The other of the master cylinder port and the wheel cylinder port is provided on a third surface constituting one end of the base body in a direction that is parallel with a reference surface including a center axis of the motor hole and is orthogonal to the center axis.
US11878650B2
A safety belt automatic adjustment apparatus includes a safety belt buckle fastening assembly, a safety belt retractor and a linking component. The safety belt buckle fastening assembly is rotatably connected to a seat body of a child safety seat and for connecting with a safety belt buckle. The safety belt retractor is used for retracting a safety belt, and the safety belt retractor includes a restraining assembly for restraining a movement of the safety belt in a predetermined direction. The linking component is installed between the safety belt buckle fastening assembly and the safety belt retractor, and the safety belt buckle fastening assembly rotates to drive the linking component and the restraining assembly, so as to restrain or release the safety belt winding around the safety belt retractor. The safety belt automatic adjustment apparatus has advantages of automatic adjustment for the safety belt, simple structure, convenient operation and enhanced safety.
US11878648B2
The disclosure relates to a vehicle occupant restraint system for a motor vehicle, comprising a central airbag installed in the area of a vehicle roof liner between two vehicle seats. At least one holding arrangement is fastened by a first end to the airbag and by a second end to a vehicle structure such that the holding arrangement retains the airbag in an inflated state in a holding position in which the airbag can laterally support a vehicle occupant.
US11878647B2
A restraint system is provided for helping to protect an occupant in a seat of a vehicle and includes an airbag having a main portion inflatable from a stored condition to a deployed condition in front of the occupant. Arms extend from the main portion and are spaced apart from one another to form an uninflated volume for receiving the occupant in response to a vehicle collision. The arms are configured to inflate to opposite sides of the occupant prior to occupant penetration into the airbag.
US11878646B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to reducing the likelihood of injury to a passenger in a collision. In one example, a computing device may determine that an impact between a vehicle and an object external to the vehicle is imminent. The computing device may determine a protection range for a vehicle's airbag based on characteristics of the passenger, including the passenger's seating location within the vehicle. An airbag extension system may position an airbag package, including the vehicle's airbag, such that the vehicle's airbag is within the protection range of the passenger's seating location.
US11878645B2
A knee airbag device according to the present invention includes: an airbag that restrains a lower extremity of an occupant by expanding and deploying below an instrument panel of a vehicle; and an inflator that supplies expansion gas to the airbag. The airbag includes, when the inside of the vehicle is a first side and the outside of the vehicle is a second side, a first portion positioned on the first side and a second portion positioned on the second side. Furthermore, the first portion of the airbag protrudes more toward the occupant side than the second portion.
US11878640B2
A wiring module includes: a sheet which is a member extending planarly and including an easy-fracture part sectioning the sheet into a plurality of areas and capable of dividing the sheet into the areas; and a transmission member including one of or both a power line supplying an electrical power to at least one apparatus provided in one or more of the plurality of areas and a signal line enabling communication with the apparatus, wherein, in a case where the transmission member is disposed over at least two areas, a part of a middle portion of the transmission member in relation to an end portion connected to the apparatus is fixed to a first area in the two areas, and the transmission member is laid without being fixed to a second area in the two areas.
