US11967044B2
Provided is a device for upscaling resolution based on a slice image, in which a low-resolution image is divided into a plurality of slice images so that a high-resolution image is generated. The device includes a convolution operation unit configured to convert a low-resolution input slice image into a high-resolution output slice image using a convolutional neural network. The convolutional neural network includes a cascading block configured to perform a convolution operation using a convolution filter having a predetermined size and a residual operation on an input feature map generated from the low-resolution input slice image to generate an output feature map, and an upscaling block configured to upscale the output feature map to generate the high-resolution output slice image.
US11967042B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for low-light imaging. In some implementations, an image processor may be configured to reduce or remove noise associated with an image based, at least in part, on a neural network. For example, the neural network may be trained to infer a denoised representation of the image. In some aspects, the image processor may scale the brightness level of the image to fall within a normalized range of values associated with the neural network. In some other aspects, a machine learning system may scale the brightness levels of input images to match the brightness levels of ground truth images used to train the neural network. Still further, in some aspects, the machine learning system may scale the brightness levels of the input images and the brightness levels of the ground truth images to fall within the normalized range of values during training.
US11967037B2
Examples of methods for object deformation determination are described herein. In some examples, a method includes aligning a first bounding box of a three-dimensional (3D) object model with a second bounding box of a scan. In some examples, the method includes determining a deformation between the 3D object model and the scan based on the alignment.
US11967024B2
A technique is described for extracting or constructing a three-dimensional (3D) model from multiple two-dimensional (2D) images. In an embodiment, a foreground segmentation mask or depth field may be provided as an additional supervision input with each 2D image. In an embodiment, the foreground segmentation mask or depth field is automatically generated for each 2D image. The constructed 3D model comprises a triangular mesh topology, materials, and environment lighting. The constructed 3D model is represented in a format that can be directly edited and/or rendered by conventional application programs, such as digital content creation (DCC) tools. For example, the constructed 3D model may be represented as a triangular surface mesh (with arbitrary topology), a set of 2D textures representing spatially-varying material parameters, and an environment map. Furthermore, the constructed 3D model may be included in 3D scenes and interacts realistically with other objects.
US11967020B2
A distributed, cross reality system efficiently and accurately compares location information that includes image frames. Each of the frames may be represented as a numeric descriptor that enables identification of frames with similar content. The resolution of the descriptors may vary for different computing devices in the distributed system based on degree of ambiguity in image comparisons and/or computing resources for the device. A descriptor computed for a cloud-based component operating on maps of large areas that can result in ambiguous identification of multiple image frames may use high resolution descriptors. High resolution descriptors reduce computationally intensive disambiguation processing. A portable device, which is more likely to operate on smaller maps and less likely to have the computational resources to compute a high resolution descriptor, may use a lower resolution descriptor.
US11967019B1
A method including: receiving visible-light images captured using camera(s) and depth data corresponding to said images; identifying image segments of visible-light image that represent objects or their parts belonging to different material categories; detecting whether at least two adjacent image segments in visible-light image pertain to at least two different material categories related to same object category; and when it is detected that at least two adjacent image segments pertain to at least two different material categories related to same object category, identifying at least two adjacent depth segments of depth data corresponding to at least two adjacent image segments; and correcting errors in optical depths represented in at least one of at least two adjacent depth segments, based on optical depths represented in remaining of at least two adjacent depth segments.
US11967016B1
Disclosed is a system for differentiating the selection of three-dimensional (“3D”) image data in a 3D space from other unselected 3D image data that may be positioned in front of the selected 3D image data, and for customizing editing operations that are presented in a user interface based on the object or material property represented in the selection. The system selects a set of 3D image data in response to a user input, and adjusts the transparency of unselected 3D image data that is positioned in front of the selected set of 3D image data. The system presents a differentiated visualization by rendering the selected set of 3D image data according to an original size, position, and visual characteristics defined for the selected set of 3D image, and by performing a partial or fully transparent rendering of the unselected 3D image as a result of the transparency adjustment.
US11967013B2
An image processing method of holding a plurality of texture data for applying a metal representation on an image. The method includes acquiring predetermined information concerning at least one of an observation distance as a distance between a print product on which a target region is printed and an observer observing the print product, a sheet on which the target region is printed, or an environment in which the print product is observed, selecting texture data from the plurality of texture data based on the acquired predetermined information, and applying, to the target region, the texture data selected in the selecting.
US11967009B2
The present disclosure includes a medical monitoring hub as the center of monitoring for a monitored patient. The hub is configured to receive and process a plurality of physiological parameters associated with the patient. The hub includes advanced analytical presentation views configured to provide timely, clinically-relevant, actionable information to care providers. In certain embodiments, the monitoring hub stores and is able to replay previously presented data reflective of the patient's condition.
US11967001B2
Systems and methods for generating a video of a user-defined virtual reality scene are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain a scene definition; obtain camera information for multiple virtual cameras to be used in generating a two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene; execute a simulation of the virtual reality scene from the scene definition for at least a portion of the scene duration; obtain camera timing instructions specifying which of the virtual cameras should be used to generate the two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene as a function of progress through the scene duration; generate the two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene in accordance with the camera timing instructions and the camera information.
US11967000B2
A method for generating one or more emoticons for one or more users with respect to one or more fictional characters is provided. The method includes receiving a first image generated by a multiple localized discriminator (MLD) generative adversarial network (GAN) based on a set of features from multiple sets of features associated with the one or more fictional characters, resulting in generation of an output value associated with each of the plurality of discriminators, determining a weight associated with each of the plurality of discriminators based on a distance between each discriminator and the set of features, generating an image info-graph associated with the first image generated by the MLD GAN upon receiving the first image, calculating a relevance associated with each of the plurality of discriminators based on the image info-graph, the set of features and the distance, and generating a plurality of images representing a plurality of emoticons associated with the one or more fictional characters based on each of the multiple sets of features.
US11966994B2
The present invention provides a blockchain-based method and system for processing a traffic violation event. The method includes: obtaining traffic violation reporting information provided by a first vehicle node stored in a blockchain; obtaining an associated evidence data identifier in the traffic violation reporting information; obtaining, according to the evidence data identifier, evidence data provided by a second vehicle node stored in the blockchain; and determining, according to the traffic violation reporting information and the associated evidence data, whether the traffic violation reporting information is valid. In the present invention, each vehicle node in the blockchain automatically collects data of a traffic violation event, so that credible traffic violation determining is completed based on an intelligent contract, and credibility and tamper resistance of traffic violation determining is improved based on recording information of a plurality of associated blockchain nodes.
US11966993B2
Embodiments for providing intelligent land use planning recommendations using heterogeneous temporal datasets in a computing environment. One or more positive land-use interventions, one or more negative land-use interventions, or a combination thereof may be recommended for a selected geographical region from heterogeneous chronological data.
US11966986B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a client system, an audio input, where the audio input comprises a coreference to a target object, accessing visual data from one or more camera associated with the client system, where the visual data comprises images portraying one or more objects, resolving the coreference to the target object from among the one or more objects, resoling the target object to a specific entity, and providing, at the client system, a response to the audio input, where the response comprises information about the specific entity.
US11966985B2
A server can include an application programming interface that can determine a data system, among a first financial account data system and a second financial account data system, with which to execute a requested function received via a common user interface. The requested function can be caused to be executed using the data system and the first process or the second process. The operations also include providing a result from execution of the requested function to be outputted for display via the common user interface. The common user interface can provide integrated labeling for receiving data to allow requested functions to be executed using different processes associated with the first financial account data system and the second financial account data system using the integrated labeling.
US11966977B2
Computer implemented systems and methods are disclosed that allow for the efficient and rapid determination of guarantee funds for clearing member firms. Disclosed systems and methods account for the exposure of self-referencing risk.
US11966975B2
A system may be configured to generate an estimate of value at risk and may include a processor to process instructions that cause the system to generate a rolling time series of value data having a plurality of dimensions, perform rotation transform of the time series, perform variance scaling and correlation scaling on transformed time series, reverse transform the results of the scaling, and estimate of a value-at-risk for the value data.
US11966970B2
An example method and system for income determination analysis is disclosed. A document packet of income related documents is converted to an image file. The image file is split into separate documents and the separated documents are classified. An automated scanning tool is selected for the separated documents. Income related data is determined from the separated documents. An interface may be generated based on the confidence of the determined income related data for operator input and validation of the income related data. Multiple models are applied for calculation of income. A virtual panel is provided that incorporates the results of the multiple models to determine if further analysis is required.
US11966962B2
An artificial intelligence-based curating method and a device for performing the same may include operations of allowing an artificial intelligence curating device to receive purchaser information, allowing the artificial intelligence curating device to determine recommended painting information on the basis of the purchaser information, and allowing the artificial intelligence curating device to transmit candidate sale painting information to a user device of a purchaser on the basis of the recommended painting information.
US11966960B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to virtual reality (VR) based commerce experience enhancement. A set of user data associated with a user can be received. A session of a VR commerce environment can be initiated with the user. A set of products to include in the VR commerce environment can be selected based on the set of user data. A position and orientation of each of the products of the set of products within the VR commerce environment can be determined based on the set of user data. The set of products can be displayed within the VR commerce environment according to the determined position and orientation of each product of the set of products.
US11966959B2
In an approach to providing a notification of content to a marketplace subscriber, one or more computer processors monitor a query for content in an online marketplace. One or more computer processors determine that the content was not found. One or more computer processors receive new content to the online marketplace. One or more computer processors determine that the new content corresponds to the query for which the content was not found. One or more computer processors send a notification of the new content.
US11966953B1
Systems and methods for identifying and extracting specific product usage patterns of potential customers and utilizing a machine learning evaluation model to predict the potential customers that are most likely to convert their subscriptions.
US11966950B2
A system and method is provided for dynamically managing advertiser affiliate links for online marketing. A global redirect server accepts a visitor's web browser request for a product or non-product webpage associated with an affiliate network advertiser URL, and returns a corresponding product or non-product webpage to the visitor that is corrected for the visitor's geographic region if such a webpage exists, or returns the originally requested webpage if it does not. The server determines the visitor's geographic region based upon request metadata, and can generate a corrected webpage that affords analytic and commission tracking even if no corresponding affiliate network exists in the determined geographic region. The server includes a database for locating products within the determined geographic region that are comparable to the product of the product webpage request, in the event that the exact product is not available in the geographic region.
US11966947B1
A system and methods are disclosed for creating and using a revenue value index to score impressions and users for purposes of determining fair pricing for advertisement (“ad”) placement or to provide analytics and information to publishers for future use. The revenue value index may be configured to evaluate data obtained or acquired from first-party, publisher platforms and/or third-party platforms or other data sources for the purpose of valuing either ad impressions or the users engaging the websites on which ads are likely to be placed. The revenue value index may be utilized for either providing value information to entities (for example, publishers) or for measuring the value of ad impressions or users for use in determining fair pricing in real-time auctions conducted for ad placement.
US11966932B2
A network access point may control access by limiting time of access to users, and by granting additional access time in exchange for certain user behavior, such as viewing advertisements. Other rewards may be granted as well, such as changes to the user's network access quality, or access to restricted content.
US11966931B2
Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a storage medium configured such that a mobile information device is detachable from a support stand having a display unit and the display unit of the support stand can be effectively used even when the mobile information device is detached from the support stand. The information processing apparatus includes: a mobile information device; a support stand that has a display unit and supports the mobile information device in a detachable manner; and a display control unit that switches information to be displayed on the display unit from first information to second information when the mobile information device is detached from the support stand.
US11966923B2
System and method for facilitating account access delegation are provided. Login credentials are authenticated for a first account of a first funding source of a first user. A request from the first user to delegate, to a second account of a second user, access to the first funding source is received. A redirected login request from a merchant web application is further received. The redirected login request corresponds to the second account. A determination is made, based on the received request, that the second account is permissioned to use the first funding source. In response to the determination, a login of the first user account is caused on the merchant web application. The logging in of the first user account on the merchant web application causes the first funding source to be applied to an electronic transaction performed on the merchant web application under control of the second user.
US11966922B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for scanning and mapping entity portals to distribution processing systems. The present invention may be configured to scan an entity portal of a distribution processing system to generate responses of the entity portal to test distributions, where the entity portal is associated with an entity, and where the distribution processing system processes distributions for the entity. The present invention may be configured to receive, from the entity portal, responses of the entity portal to the test distributions, where the responses include data associated with distributions processed by the distribution processing system for the entity. The present invention may be configured to determine, based on the data, resources offered by the entity to users, an accounting hierarchy of the entity, and settlement procedures for processing distributions for the entity and generate a mapping of the entity portal to another distribution processing system.
US11966919B2
Various example embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device and a wireless communication connection control method thereof. The method may include: receiving and storing at least one first account information stored in at least one server from a first electronic device; broadcasting a beacon signal including an indicator indicating that a WiFi access is granted based at least in part on account information related to the server; receiving at least one second account information from a neighboring electronic device which has received the beacon signal; determining whether the second account information is related to the first account information, based at least in part on data to be exchanged with the server; and upon determining that the second account information is related to the first account information, granting the neighboring electronic device an access to the access point in order to use the Internet, without having to request for credential information from the neighboring electronic device.
US11966917B2
Methods and systems relating to a protocol for verification and enforcement of proper payment of a reward from a business (second entity) to a user (first entity) are shown. A reward can be earned by the user storing private information as encrypted data on the block chain or in a data store, such as IPFS, accessible by the business. Smart contracts running on a block chain operate to implement portions of the protocol while a local block chain node can run smart contracts in read-only mode to avoid placing private information, such as decryption keys, on the block chain. The protocol can be implementable over public storage and all artifacts of the protocol can be used later as proofs of proper behavior. The protocol defines incentives and penalties to motivate every player to act according to the rules, hence making the methods and systems operate as expected.
US11966914B2
A system, computer program product, and method for executing real-time processing of resource transfers using distributed ledger technology is provided. In particular, the system utilizes a private or semi-private blockchain to create a distributed ledger which comprises a record of all resource transfers between a number of entities. The real-time processing system addresses a number of computer technology-centric challenges associated with executing resource transfers. In particular, executing resource transfers on a real-time basis allows the nodes of the blockchain to more evenly distribute computing workload over time when compared to more traditional resource transfer systems that use batch processing to execute transfers.
US11966906B2
A transfer platform can allow users to participate in campaigns based on one or more types of user activity data and corresponding activity values set by the users. The transfer platform can receive the user activity data from one or more sources, such as user devices and data source platforms. Based on received user activity data, and corresponding activity values, the transfer platform can determine transfer amounts to be transferred from one or more source accounts to one or more destination accounts. Accordingly, the transfer platform can implement transfers based on user activity data that indicates user engagement in one or more activity types.
US11966900B2
A transaction record is created showing a purchase transaction of a customer. A CV profile showing a list of items in the transaction obtained from images is also obtained. The items in the transaction record are compared to items on the list. When there is a discrepancy, an action to take is determined.
US11966898B2
A system receives, from a server, information about a first set of remotely-configured options for an unattended machine. In response to receiving the information about the first set of remotely-configured options, the system displays user interface objects that allow for selection of respective options in the first set of remotely-configured options. After detecting a selection of a first user interface object, the system receives, from the server, specifications regarding electric pulses to be provided to the unattended machine by a pulse-providing device. After sending an authorization grant and the specifications to the pulse-providing device, the system receives an indication that the electric pulses were provided to the unattended machine according to the specifications.
US11966895B2
A method is performed at an electronic payment module with one or more processors, memory, a slave interface that couples the module with an unattended machine via a multi-drop bus (MDB), and one or more host interfaces that couple the module with at least one payment peripheral of the unattended machine. The method also includes: receiving, from a refund center, a request to issue an approved refund of a predetermined amount and one or more criteria that must be satisfied before dispensing the predetermined amount. In accordance with a determination that the one or more criteria are met, the method includes issuing (i) a signal to the unattended machine, via the slave interface, that the at least one payment peripheral is unavailable and (ii) a signal to the at least one payment peripheral, via the one or more host interfaces, to dispense the predetermined amount.
US11966893B1
A system for managing a financial account in a low cash mode. The system may include a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include providing an interface; providing a notification to a user when a balance in the first account is deemed to be in low cash mode; presenting, when the first account balance is deemed to be in low cash mode, an option for a transfer request; receiving, a selection of the option for the transfer request to connect the first account with a second account; transferring funds from the second account to the first account; notifying the user that funds have been transferred from the second account to the first account; and further notifying the user that the balance in the first account is greater than the threshold value.
US11966884B2
A computing platform may communicate with a device agent to receive digital system maintenance reporting, which may include information regarding steps taken to resolve issues of a digital system during a troubleshooting process. The computing platform may analyze the steps taken, and determine whether the steps resolved the troubleshooting. The computing platform may filter ineffective steps, and store steps associated with successful solutions in one or more distributed databases. The computing platform may receive information identifying a problem faced by a different system. The computing platform may analyze the distributed database to identify similar steps that successfully resolved the problem in the past, and mitigate the problem using the similar successful steps.
US11966883B2
A server determines, during a conference implemented using conferencing software and based on stored data associated with two or more users participating in the conference, that the two or more users are accessing the conferencing software from separate user devices located in separate areas of an office premises. The server determines, by accessing stored conference room scheduling data of the office premises, that a conference room within the office premises is available for use by the two or more users. The server transmits, to each of the separate user devices, a prompt recommending that the two or more users further participate in the conference using a shared device configured to access the conferencing software within the conference room.
US11966879B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to the sharing of synchronization information corresponding to content among devices in a communication network. An originating device collects synchronization information related to the presentation of content to a user via the originating device. The synchronization information is defined according to reference points related to the presentation of the content to the user via the originating device, including a current state of the presentation of the content and/or additional information obtained during the presentation of the content. Based on detection of a synchronization event, the originating device transmits the collected synchronization information, resulting in the receipt of the synchronization information by one or more receiving devices. Thereafter, the presentation of the content to the user on one of the receiving devices can incorporate the synchronization information collected and transmitted by the originating device.
US11966878B2
Systems and methods for automatically managing and utilizing the uniform labeling of data packages are disclosed. Specification information can describe many aspects of a data package, and can be analyzed to automatically identify various product attributes and service attributes usable to define the data package. Each of the individual product attributes and service attributes can be encoded into an alphanumeric code, which can be concatenated together to form a single uniform package identifier (UPID) usable to describe the associated data product. Systems and methods can automatically generate UPIDs, automatically find data packages based on search UPIDs, automatically process invoices based on UPIDs, and otherwise leverage the UPIDs to automate the collection, creation, selling, purchasing, trading, redistribution, and/or using of data packages.
US11966877B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an order processing method, apparatus, device, system and storage medium, where the method includes: acquiring an original order to be processed; searching for unsorted target orders, where the target orders are obtained by combining a plurality of original orders; decomposing at least part of the searched target orders into original orders; combining the original orders obtained by decomposition and the original order to be processed to regenerate one or more target orders. The order processing method, apparatus, device, system and storage medium provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure can realize dynamic roll-back combining, so that the newly arrived original order is combined with the currently unsorted target orders, and the out-of-warehouse efficiency is effectively improved.
US11966872B2
A service quality evaluation method and a terminal device for a communications field includes obtaining a candidate evaluation phrase set including at least one first candidate evaluation phrase, where the at least one first candidate evaluation phrase is obtained by analyzing to-be-analyzed evaluation data of a target service using a target analysis model, wherein the at least one first candidate evaluation phrase includes an evaluation phrase having personalized information content to evaluate service quality of the target service, displaying the at least one first candidate evaluation phrase and a first to-be-selected evaluation phrase, determining a first action type according to an obtained first moving track, determining a target evaluation phrase from the at least one first candidate evaluation phrase and the first to-be-selected evaluation phrase according to the first action type, and sending service quality evaluation content including the target evaluation phrase.
US11966871B2
Systems and methods for assessing, tracking and improving security maturity of an organization are provided. Described is a system for assessing security maturity of an organization. The system receives a list of data sources located across multiple jurisdictions for the organization, collects data sources/data using custom rules from a plurality of data sources of the list of data sources, determine criticality score for each of the plurality of data sources, calculates data source coverage and asset collection coverage, determines use case coverage, and determines security maturity score using a maturity score model. The maturity score model is a logistic equation which is a function of the data source coverage, the asset collection coverage, the criticality score associated with each of the plurality of data sources, the use case coverage, asset coverage by each the plurality of data sources.
US11966858B2
Systems and methods for embodiments of artificial intelligence systems for identity management are disclosed. Embodiments of the identity management systems disclosed herein may support the correlation of identities from authoritative source systems and accounts from non-authoritative source systems using artificial intelligence techniques.
US11966852B2
The present disclosure generally provides systems and methods for situation awareness. When executing a set of instructions stored in at least one non-transitory storage medium, at least one processor may be configured to cause the system to perform operations including obtaining, from at least one of one or more sensors, environmental data associated with an environment corresponding to a first time point, generating a first static global representation of an environment corresponding to the first time point based at least in part on the environmental data, generating a first dynamic global representation of the environment corresponding to the first time point based at least in part on the environmental data, and estimating, based on the first static global representation and the first dynamic global representation, a target state of the environment at a target time point using a target estimation model.
US11966838B2
In various examples, a machine learning model—such as a deep neural network (DNN)—may be trained to use image data and/or other sensor data as inputs to generate two-dimensional or three-dimensional trajectory points in world space, a vehicle orientation, and/or a vehicle state. For example, sensor data that represents orientation, steering information, and/or speed of a vehicle may be collected and used to automatically generate a trajectory for use as ground truth data for training the DNN. Once deployed, the trajectory points, the vehicle orientation, and/or the vehicle state may be used by a control component (e.g., a vehicle controller) for controlling the vehicle through a physical environment. For example, the control component may use these outputs of the DNN to determine a control profile (e.g., steering, decelerating, and/or accelerating) specific to the vehicle for controlling the vehicle through the physical environment.
US11966829B2
The present invention relates to a convolutional artificial neural network-based image and video recognition system, and a method therefor. The recognition system comprises: a mobile device for performing lower layer analysis, transmitting a user question to a server, receiving an answer thereto from the server, and managing the same; the server connected to the mobile device over a network so as to perform data processing in respective neural network layers corresponding to middle and upper layers of a convolutional artificial neural network, and register, analyze, search for, and classify a particular object (image) and video; and a retriever for comparing an FC layer value for artificial neural network processing of an image and video transmitted by the mobile device with an FC layer value for artificial neural network processing of an image and video registered by a content provider.
US11966822B2
Disclosed are a computer-implemented method, a system and a computer program product for feature processing. In the computer-implemented method for feature processing, two input features selected from multiple features of each sample in a sample set are projected to one resulting feature by one or more processing units based on a specified curve. The sample set is updated by replacing the two input features with the one resulting feature for each sample in the sample set by one or more processing units. The projecting and the updating for the sample set are repeated by one or more processing units until the number of features of each sample in the sample set reaches a predetermined criterion.
US11966821B2
A system for reducing computational load for training machine learning models is provided. The system may provide an end-to-end-solution for automating development, testing and updating of machine learning models in various operational environments. The system may determine which machine learning models included in a computer program product need to be retrained in response to a change in training data. For a computer program product that includes multiple models, the system only retrains target models, resulting in significant savings in computing resources. The system may also reduce the number of machine learning models that need to be generated for testing environments, further reducing consumption of computational resources.
US11966816B2
Aspects of generating error-resistant quantum control pulses from geometrical curves are described. In some embodiments, a closed space curve is parameterized for a target gate operation of a quantum computing device. The closed space curve corresponds to an evolution operator of a time-dependent Schrödinger equation associated with the target gate operation. A control field definition is identified for the target gate operation based at least in part on a geometrical analysis of the evolution operator of the time-dependent Schrödinger equation. The target gate operation is implemented for the quantum computing device based on the control field definition.
US11966811B2
An on-axis aimer and distance measurement apparatus for a vision system can include a light source configured to generate a first light beam along a first axis. The first light beam can project an aimer pattern on an object and a receiver can be configured to receive reflected light from the first light beam to determine a distance between a lens of the vision system and the object. One or more parameters of vision system can be controlled based on the determined distance.
US11966807B2
A multi-tag concurrent identification method and a system for a query tree based on feature groups are provided in this disclosure. In the disclosure, a whole data string space is divided into a plurality of disjoint subsets according to features of data strings returned by tags, where each of the subsets contains several different data strings, each of the data strings in the each of the subsets is regarded as a complete tag ID or a partial ID, and the each of the subsets corresponds to a unique query prefix, a length of the prefix is fixed and does not dynamically increase with an actual location of a collision, and when multiple data strings from a same subset return at a same time, a reader is capable of identifying them at a same time in a slot.
US11966803B2
An RFIC module is provided that includes a base material having a first face and a second face opposite to each other, an RFIC mounted above the first face of the base material, and RFIC-side terminal electrodes that are formed on the first face of the base material and are connected to the RFIC. An insulator film is formed on the surface of the RFIC-side terminal electrode, and conductor films facing the RFIC-side terminal electrode are formed on the insulator film. Moreover, additional capacitances are formed between the RFIC-side terminal electrodes and the conductor films.
US11966794B2
Methods and systems for providing configuration management using customized request headers. One system includes an electronic processor configured to receive, from a requesting device, a request including a customized request header, the customized request header including a custom configuration parameter. The electronic processor is also configured to perform a fraud analysis function based on the request. The electronic processor is also configured to generate a response including a customized response body based on the customized request header. The electronic processor is also configured to transmit the response to the requesting device, where the requesting device performs functionality based on information included in the customized response body.
US11966789B2
Systems and methods for optimal load distribution and data processing of a plurality of files in anti-malware solutions are provided herein. In some embodiments, the system includes: a plurality of node processors; a control processor programmed to: receiving a plurality of files used for malware analysis and training of anti-malware ML models; separating the plurality of files into a plurality of subsets of files based on byte size of each of the files, such that processing of each subset of files produces similar workloads amongst all available node processors; distributing the plurality of subsets of files amongst all available node processors such that each node processor processes its respective subset of files in parallel and within a similar timeframe as the other node processors; and receiving, by the control processor, a report of performance and/or anti-malware processing results of the subset of files performed from each node processor.
US11966785B2
A method for controlling hardware resource configuration for a processing system comprises obtaining performance monitoring data indicative of processing performance associated with workloads to be executed on the processing system, providing a trained machine learning model with input data depending on the performance monitoring data; and based on an inference made from the input data by the trained machine learning model, setting control information for configuring the processing system to control an amount of hardware resource allocated for use by at least one processor core. A corresponding method of training the model is provided. This is particularly useful for controlling inter-core borrowing of resource between processor cores in a multi-core processing system, where resource is borrowed between respective cores, e.g. cores on different layers of a 3D integrated circuit.
US11966784B2
A method includes receiving a reservation request corresponding to resource requirements of an application and including role-based access and first priority level indicators. A reservation subset of existing reservations is identified based on the role-based access indicator, and server clusters are evaluated based on the resource requirements, the first priority level indicator, the reservation subset, and server cluster resources. When the server clusters are determined to include at least one qualified server cluster, a first server cluster is identified either as a sole qualified server cluster or by ranking multiple qualified server clusters by calculating a score of each qualified server cluster, an existing reservation of the reservation subset assigned to the first server cluster is pre-empted based on the first priority level indicator relative to priority level indicators of the one or more existing reservations, and the reservation request is assigned to the first server cluster.
US11966781B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing a standalone application module are disclosed. A configuration database stores information about one or more infrastructure resources. A receiver receives a request to connect to an infrastructure resource. A processor accesses the configuration database to fetch information about the infrastructure resource; accesses one or more external resource databases to fetch infrastructure resources that are required to run an application; dynamically creates the infrastructure resources accessed from the one or more external resource databases: and establishes and maintains a connection to the dynamically created infrastructure resources required by the application to function running in background in a user's system.
US11966773B2
Migration rules for a migration engine can be automatically generated using an automated pipeline. In one example, a system can receive first information indicating first characteristics of first software and can receive second information indicating second characteristics of second software. The system can determine a difference between the first characteristics and the second characteristics. The system can then generate a rule for a migration engine based on the difference, the rule including a conditional statement configured for use by the migration engine to detect the difference in relation to a migration process for migrating the first software to the second software. The system can provide the rule for use by the migration engine, to enable the migration engine to detect the difference and responsively generate a notification associated with the difference.
US11966770B2
A system can allow collaboration between two or more tenants in a multi-tenant system. Each tenant can share a common access to a processing space and a data storage device. Each tenant can be assigned to a virtual environment having a dedicated portion of the data storage device. The system can create a database record in a first dedicated portion assigned to the first tenant. The database record can be displayed on a user interface of the first tenant and include a collaboration tool component embedded within the database record. The database record can be transmitted to a database and transmitted from the database to a second dedicated portion of the data storage device. The second dedicated portion can be assigned to a second tenant of the multi-tenant system.
US11966768B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for a multi-cloud service platform. The apparatus includes one or more processors and executable memory for storing at least one program executed by the one or more processors. The at least one program may receive a service request from a user client device, generate a multi-cloud infrastructure service using multiple clouds in response to the service request, make the multiple clouds interoperate with mufti-cloud infrastructure in order to provide the multi-cloud infrastructure service, and generate a multi-cloud application runtime environment corresponding to the multi-cloud infrastructure service.
US11966764B2
Some implementations are directed to adapting a client application on a feature phone based on experiment parameters. Some of those implementations are directed to adapting an assistant client application, where the assistant client application interacts with remote assistant component(s) to provide automated assistant functionalities via the assistant client application of the feature phone. Some implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to determining whether an invocation, of an assistant client application on a feature phone, is a request for transcription of voice data received in conjunction with the invocation, or is instead a request for an assistant response that is responsive to the transcription of the voice data (e.g., includes assistant content that is based on and in addition to the transcription, and that optionally lacks the transcription itself).
US11966752B2
Methods, systems, and devices for data caching for fast system boot-up are described. A memory system may create a linked mapping of addresses, which may also be referred to as a mixed page pointer table. The linked mapping may include logical addresses associated with commands received during a boot-up procedure, and their associated physical addresses. The linked mapping may also include a counter associated with each logical address to track how often the logical address is referenced during successive boot-up procedures. Over successive boot-up procedures, addresses may be added or removed from the linked mapping, and sequential addresses may be compressed. The memory device may use the linked mapping to predict which data may be accessed during the boot-up procedure, and may pre-transfer the data to volatile memory based on the prediction.
US11966751B2
A device is deployed with a preset operating system. A booting method of the device includes: performing, by a main processor, at least one first kernel task of a kernel of the preset operating system in a preset initialization phase of the kernel of the preset operating system; and distributing at least one second kernel task of the kernel of the preset operating system to at least one secondary processor for processing. The boot processor and the secondary processor are both processors of the device. The boot processor boots the preset operating system. Tasks of the kernel of the preset operating system in the preset initialization phase are divided into the at least one first kernel task and the at least one second kernel task.
US11966749B2
A processor includes at least one socket and at least one memory. Each socket includes a first die and a second die. The first die receives a boot-enable signal and an internal boot-enable signal to execute a boot procedure, and outputs a boot-completion signal after completing the boot procedure. The second die receives the internal boot-enable signal and the boot-completion signal from the first die to execute the boot procedure. The second die is electrically connected to the first die through a communication bus. The memory is electrically connected to the second die. When the first die executes the boot procedure, the first die accesses the memory through the communication bus and the second die.
US11966745B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a cross-lane processing unit (XPU) for performing data-dependent operations across multiple data processing lanes of a processor. Rather than implementing operation-specific circuits for each data-dependent operation, the XPU can be configured to perform different operations in response to input signals configuring individual operations performed by processing cells and crossbars arranged as a stacked network in the XPU. Each processing cell can receive and process data across multiple data processing lanes. Aspects of the disclosure include configuring the XPU to use a vector sort network to perform a duplicate count eliminating the need to configure the XPU separately for sorting and duplicate counting.
US11966743B2
A system includes a memory including a ring buffer having a plurality of slots, a processor in communication with the memory, a guest operating system, and a hypervisor. The hypervisor is configured to detect a request associated with a memory entry, retrieve up to a predetermined quantity of memory entries in the ring buffer from an original slot to an end slot, and test a respective descriptor of each successive slot from the original slot through the end slot while the respective descriptor of each successive slot in the ring buffer remains unchanged. Additionally, the hypervisor is configured to execute the request associated with the memory entries and respective valid descriptors. The hypervisor is also configured to walk the ring buffer backwards from the end slot to the original slot while clearing the valid descriptors.
US11966738B2
A technology for flushing a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) according to a designated key identification code (designated key ID). An instruction of an instruction set architecture is proposed to flush the TLB according to the designated key ID. A decoder transforms the instruction into at least one microinstruction. According to a flushing microinstruction included in the at least one microinstruction, a designated key ID is supplied to a control logic circuit of the TLB through a memory order buffer, so that the control logic circuit flushes matched entries in the TLB, wherein the matched entries match the designated key ID.
US11966730B2
In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes a set of host machines, each of which includes a hypervisor, virtual machines, and a virtual machine controller, and a data migration system configured to identify one or more existing storage items stored at one or more existing File Server Virtual Machines (FSVMs) of an existing virtualized file server (VFS). For each of the existing storage items, the data migration system is configured to identify a new FSVMs of a new VFS based on the existing FSVM, send a representation of the storage item from the existing FSVM to the new FSVM, such that representations of storage items are sent between different pairs of FSVMs in parallel, and store a new storage item at the new FSVM, such that the new storage item is based on the representation of the existing storage item received by the new FSVM.
US11966729B2
In one embodiment, a system for managing communication connections in a virtualization environment includes a plurality of host machines implementing a virtualization environment, wherein each of the host machines includes a hypervisor, at least one user virtual machine (user VM), and a distributed file server that includes file server virtual machines (FSVMs) and associated local storage devices. Each FSVM and associated local storage device are local to a corresponding one of the host machines, and the FSVMs conduct I/O transactions with their associated local storage devices based on I/O requests received from the user VMs. Each of the user VMs on each host machine sends each of its representative I/O requests to an FSVM that is selected by one or more of the FSVMs for each I/O request based on a lookup table that maps a storage item referenced by the I/O request to the selected one of the FSVMs.
US11966725B2
The techniques disclosed herein enable systems to reduce the time required to terminate a set of microservices for an application while ensuring high availability and preventing request failures. This is accomplished through a termination manager which retrieves request queues for the microservices to analyze outstanding requests that require processing prior to termination. Based on the outstanding requests, the termination manager constructs call graphs for each request. The call graphs capture the operational flow of the associated request by defining a sequence of microservices whose functionality is invoked by the request. From an initial analysis, the termination manager can determine that some of the microservices do not appear in the call graphs, indicating that the microservices are not needed to process the outstanding requests. Accordingly, the unneeded microservices are terminated. As requests are processed by the remaining microservices, the termination manager gradually terminates the remaining microservices based on the call graphs.
US11966724B1
Described herein are systems and methods for automatically building automations from desktop recordings using program synthesis. The problem of building automations for desktop applications can be lifted to a generalized concept of automations that operate on worlds whose “world state” can change asynchronously to the actions of the automation. Advantageously, in contrast with synthesis systems that take input-output demonstrations to synthesize a function that maps between them, the method presented here can synthesize from time-series traces of actions to automations that generalizes each step. The present disclosure describes ways to a) build assisted automations, b) synthesize them from recordings, c) running assisted automations using interpreters that observe the world state and adjust the actions accordingly, d) discovering them from an always-on recorder, e) suggesting them in partial progress from an always-on recorder, and lastly f) iteratively improving the assisted automation by recordings of every subsequent run.
US11966721B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for automated code resolution in an extended reality environment. The present invention allows a user (such as a software developer) to view source code discrepancies in real time using an extended reality (XR) environment. In this regard, the present invention focuses on electronic applications (and the electronic work products/electronic data hosted thereon) and represents a combined view of real-time applications and application requirements within an XR environment. A user may then visualize discrepancies between the current application and the application requirements via an XR platform (accessible using a virtual/augmented/mixed reality device) and proactively make edits, approvals, or otherwise interact with said application. The system may also be configured to automatically alter the source code to resolve said discrepancies.
US11966720B2
Embodiments described herein provide for structured command line input for application integration such that application programming interface (API) integration is simplified for end users. The embodiments described herein use OpenAPI specifications to map specification paths (or endpoints) to a command line interface (CLI) command structure automatically. Accordingly, the embodiments described herein enable an end user to run CLI commands within the end user's environment to accomplish application integration without the need for a technician to write configuration instructions for each type of user device. Additionally, the embodiments described herein enable efficient product integration at a larger scale as well as the ability to ad hoc add new solutions or applications based on, for example, a single line of CLI input. By providing a robust, modular CLI on multiple end user devices, each end user device may independently integrate with an application associated with the device without complex application integration.
US11966716B2
An information processing apparatus includes an annealing control unit, a spin interaction memory, a random number generation unit, and a spin state update unit and obtains a solution by using an Ising model. The annealing control unit controls an annealing step and a parameter of a temperature and a parameter of a self-action. The spin interaction memory stores the interaction coefficient of a spin. The random number generation unit generates a predetermined random number. The spin state update unit includes a spin buffer that stores values of a plurality of spins, an instantaneous magnetic field calculation unit that calculates instantaneous magnetic fields of the plurality of spins, a probability calculation unit that calculates update probabilities of the plurality of spins, and a spin state determination unit that updates the values of the spins based on the update probabilities and a random number.
US11966711B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a solution for translation verification and correction. According to the solution, a neural network is trained to determine an association degree among a group of words in a source or target language. The neural network can be used for translation verification and correction. According to the solution, a group of words in a source language and translations of the group of words in a target language are obtained. An association degree among the group of words and an association degree among the translations can be determined by using the trained neural network. Then, whether there is a wrong translation can be determined based on the association degrees. In some embodiments, corresponding methods, systems and computer program products are provided.
US11966707B2
A quantum-enhanced system and method for natural language processing (NLP) for generating a word embedding on a hybrid quantum-classical computer. A training set is provided on the classical computer, wherein the training set provides at least one pair of words, and at least one binary value indicating the correlation between the pair of words. The quantum computer generates quantum state representations for each word in the pair of words. The quantum component evaluates the quantum correlation between the quantum state representations of the word pair using an engineering likelihood function and a Bayesian inference. Training the word embedding on the quantum computer is provided using an error function containing the binary value and the quantum correlation.
US11966704B1
The techniques described herein relate to techniques for verifying a veracity of machine learning outputs. An example method includes receiving a first output generated by a first model responsive to a first input, the first output comprising one or more verifiable statements in text, verifying, using a second model and first reference data stored in at least one first datastore, the one or more verifiable statements to produce first verification results indicating which of them has been verified, when it is determined that at least one of them remains unverified based on the first verification results, identifying, using at least one of the first or second models, at least one second datastore having second reference data attesting to veracity of the first output; and verifying, using the second model and the second reference data, the at least one unverified statement to produce second verification results to be provided as output.
US11966703B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating a replacement sentence with the same or similar meaning but a different sentiment than an input sentence. The method generally includes receiving a request for a replacement sentence and iteratively determining a next word of the replacement sentence word-by-word based on an input sentence. Iteratively determining the next word generally includes evaluating a set of words of the input sentence using a language model configured to output candidate sentences and evaluating the candidate sentences using a sentiment model configured to output sentiment scores for the candidates sentences. Iteratively determining the next word further includes calculating convex combinations for the candidate sentences and selecting an ending word of one of the candidate sentences as the next word of the replacement sentence. The method further includes transmitting the replacement sentence in response to the request for the replacement sentence.
US11966689B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a responsive user interface. One of the methods includes receiving a page for a user device, the page including a panels. The method includes receiving a layout for the page, the layout defining a visual relationship between the panels. The method includes generating, by a computer system, a slide including a subset of panels to display on the user device, the subset of panels selected based on characteristics of the user device and the layout. The method includes sending the slide to the user device.
US11966683B2
A method and a system for comprehensively evaluating reliability of a multi-chip parallel IGBT module are provided. The method includes: establishing a gate-emitter voltage reliability model of the multi-chip parallel IGBT module, performing a chip fatigue failure test, and selecting a gate-emitter voltage as a failure characteristic quantity; establishing a transconductance reliability model of the multi-chip parallel IGBT module, performing a bonding wire shedding failure test, and selecting a transmission characteristic curve of the module as a failure characteristic quantity; using a Pearson correlation coefficient to characterize a degree of health of the IGBT module, and respectively calculating degrees of health PPMCCC and PPMCCB in different degrees of chip fatigue and bonding wire shedding failure states; and comprehensively evaluating the reliability of the multi-chip parallel IGBT module according to PPMCCC and PPMCCB.
US11966680B2
The disclosure provides a system to simulate a simulated noise on the power zone block of a substrate. The system comprises a signal trace and a signal generating circuit. The signal trace is disposed adjacent to the power zone block. The signal generating circuit is electrically coupled to the signal trace, configured to transmit an alternating current signal over the signal trace. The alternating current signal transmitted over the signal trace is configured to induce a simulated noise on the power zone block, and a waveform of the simulated noise is determined by a frequency of the alternating current signal.
US11966652B2
An information processing device includes: a processor configured to: specify plural parts for manufacturing ordered product; specify plural processes required from receiving order of product to completion of product using plural parts; for intermediate part generated by processing at least two plural parts, generate intermediate object indicating intermediate part; for each plural parts, generate work objects indicating processes required for manufacturing part; create workflow information that arranges and displays, for each plural parts, work objects indicating processes required for manufacturing part in order of plural processes, and relates and displays, for each plural parts, work objects indicating processes executed continuously, in workflow information, intermediate object indicating intermediate part is associated with work objects for at least two parts used to generate intermediate part; and when processing for intermediate part cannot be started in created workflow information, perform control of displaying progress status of at least two parts constituting intermediate part.
US11966650B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to convert, using a conversion rule prescribing an association between order reception information on an article and manufacturing information used by each of plural manufacturers manufacturing the article in accordance with the order reception information on the article, the order reception information into the manufacturing information used by a designated manufacturer that is requested to manufacture the article.
US11966649B2
A PC that is communicatable with a server device. The PC includes: a PC memory storing a first application; and a PC processor. The PC processor functions as, by executing the first application, a registration unit configured to register a printer, a generation unit configured to automatically generate, for the printer registered by the registration unit, a hot folder for storing a print job transmitted from the server device, and a notification unit configured to notify the server device of path information indicating a folder path of the hot folder generated by the generation unit.
US11966638B2
Aspects of the present disclosure configure a system component, such as memory sub-system controller, to dynamically generate Redundant Array of Independent Nodes (RAIN) parity information for zone-based memory allocations. The RAIN parity information is generated for a given zone or set of zones on the basis of whether the given zone or set of zones satisfy a zone completeness criterion. The zone completeness criterion can represent a specified size such that when a given zone reaches the specified size, the parity information for that zone is generated.
US11966633B1
An NVM algorithm generator that evaluates a Liberty file characterizing an NVM module and a memory view of the NVM module that identifies ports and associated operations of the NVM module to generate a control algorithm. The control algorithm includes a read algorithm that includes an order of operations for assigning values to ports of the NVM module to assert a read condition of a strobe port, executing a memory read on the NVM module and setting values to the ports on the NVM module to assert a complement of a program condition. The control algorithm also includes a program algorithm that includes an order of operations for assigning values to ports of the NVM module to assert the program condition of the strobe port, executing a memory write and setting values to the ports on the NVM module to assert the complement of the program condition.
US11966622B2
A memory storage device that performs real-time monitoring is provided. The memory storage device comprises a memory controller, and a status indicating module/circuit, wherein the memory controller is configured to perform a first a second initialization operation, the first and second initialization operations performed in response to turning-on of the memory storage device, to generate a first status parameter regarding a status of the memory storage device in which the first initialization operation is performed, and to generate a second status parameter regarding the status of the memory storage device in which a second initialization operation is performed. The status indicating circuit includes a first transistor configured to operate on the basis of the first status parameter, a first resistor connected to the first transistor, a second transistor configured to operate on the basis of the second status parameter, and a second resistor connected to the second transistor.
US11966621B2
Technology is disclosed for a non-volatile memory system that decouples dataload from program execution. A memory controller transfers data for a program operation and issues a first type of program execution command. When in a coupled mode, the die programs the data in response to the first type of program execution command. When in a decoupled mode, rather than program the data into non-volatile memory cells the die enters a wait state. Optionally, the memory controller can instruct another die to execute a memory operation while the first die is in the wait state. In response to receiving a second type of program execution command from the memory controller when in the wait state, the first die will program the data into non-volatile memory cells. The memory controller may issue the second type of program execution command in response to determining that sufficient power resources (or thermal budget) exist.
US11966618B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The memory device is arranged into at least a first super device and a second super device, each of the super devices having a plurality of active zones. The controller is configured to determine that each of the super devices includes both cold zones and hot zones, where a cold zone is a zone that is overwritten less than a hot zone. The controller is further configured to move cold zones from one super device to another super device upon determining that the another super device is below a threshold limit, where the threshold limit is a minimum free space to be maintained in a super device. The controller is further configured to move cold zones between super devices, such that the cold zones are concentrated in at least one super device.
US11966616B2
A current value for a reference voltage for a block family is determined. An amount of voltage shift for a memory page of the block family is determined based on the current value for the reference voltage and a prior value for the reference voltage. The block family is associated with a first voltage bin or a second voltage bin based on the determined amount of voltage shift. The first voltage bin is associated with a first voltage offset and the second voltage bin is associated with a second voltage offset.
US11966613B2
The present disclosure generally relates to reducing exit latency when transitioning from non-operational power states. Before entering a non-operational power state, specific data in databases and/or tables can be identified as being recently utilized by the host device. In addition to saving the databases and/or tables, a recovery code is also stored to identify that specific data. Upon transitioning back to an operational power state, the recovery code is detected and the specific data can be recovered rather than recovering the entire database and/or table. Data not identified in the recovery code need not be recovered from always-on memory. In so doing, when transitioning back to an operational power state, the latency will be reduced compared to a situation where all data is stored in always-on memory.
US11966595B2
Methods, systems, and devices for power management for a memory device are described. An apparatus may include a memory die that includes a power management circuit. The power management circuit may provide a voltage for operating a set of memory dies of the apparatus based on a supply voltage received by the memory die. The voltage may be distributed to the set of memory dies in the apparatus.
US11966578B2
An electronic device displays, on a touch-sensitive display, a user interface for an application. The electronic device, while displaying the user interface for the application, detects a touch gesture that includes movement of a contact on the touch-sensitive display at least partially over the user interface for the application. The electronic device, in response to detecting the touch gesture, in accordance with a determination that the touch gesture meets first system navigation criteria and video is playing in the application when the touch gesture is detected, concurrently displays a home screen user interface and a representation of the video that is playing in the application. The electronic device, in accordance with a determination that the touch gesture meets the first system navigation criteria and there is not video playing in the application when the touch gesture is detected, displays the home screen user interface without displaying representation of the video.
US11966576B2
A screen icon operating method includes collecting user sliding operation information. The sliding operation information includes a first location, a sliding speed, pressing duration before sliding, or a sliding direction The first location is an initial location of a user sliding operation. When the first location is not located on an icon, when the sliding speed is less than a sliding speed threshold, moving icons on a display page by columns or by rows in the sliding direction, or when the first location is located on the icon, the method determines that the pressing duration is greater than or equal to a first duration threshold and less than or equal to a second duration threshold, and moves column icons or row icons in the sliding direction.
US11966570B2
Disclosed are systems and methods that automatically classify, segment, and parse content data using artificial intelligence and natural language processing technology, and generate graphical user interfaces that allow end users to dynamically filter content data for display. The systems processes volumes of content data to identify interrogative data, content sources that generated the interrogative data, and subject identifiers relating to the content data. The system generates graphical user interfaces that allow end users to effectively filter the data by choosing between layouts that display one or more of the various categories of data, including the interrogative data, content source identifiers, and/or subject identifiers. The user interfaces include content view input functions that utilizes mapping data to locate and extract segments of the underlying content data from which displayed data is derived, thereby allowing end users to expediently review both the aggregated and reduced content data and the underlying source data.
US11966568B2
The method receives a visual specification, which specifies a data source, visual variables, and data fields from the data source. Each visual variable is associated with data fields and each data field is either a dimension or a measure. From an object model of the data source, the method identifies a minimal subtree that includes all of the dimension data fields and constructs a query from the minimal subtree. The method executes the query against the data source to retrieve a set of tuples, each tuple comprising a unique ordered combination of data values for the dimension data fields. For each tuple, the method forms an extended tuple by appending aggregated data values corresponding to each measure data field. The method then builds and displays a data visualization according to the data fields in the extended tuples and according to the visual variables to which the data fields are associated.
US11966555B2
A system, method, and apparatus for measuring a workspace is provided. The method includes capturing a workspace that is virtually represented on a user interface display of a computing apparatus that image-captured the workspace. The user inputs, via the user interface, a value of a known measurement of a length represented in the virtual workspace. Through the user interface, along the virtual workspace, the user identifies virtual end boundary points of the length associated with the known measurement. The user then defines a defined space within the virtual workspace by placing additional virtual boundary points. The system calibrates from the inputted value and the virtual end boundary points of the known measurement all the remaining measurements of the surface area, which can be used to render a map display and calculate surface area, volume, or any other geometric aspects of the defined space.
US11966553B2
A display device includes a display panel, a digitizer disposed on the display panel, and a first coupling layer disposed between the display panel and the digitizer. The digitizer includes a base layer disposed on the display panel and have flexibility, a first circuit pattern disposed on a first surface of the base layer that faces the display panel and extended in a first direction, a second circuit pattern disposed on a second surface of the base layer and extended in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a first insulating layer disposed over the first surface of the base layer to cover the first circuit pattern and including a light-absorbing material.
US11966550B2
A sensor module includes a sensor that includes a first sensor layer of a capacitance type including a plurality of first detection units arranged two-dimensionally and a second sensor layer of a capacitance type including a plurality of second detection units arranged two-dimensionally, the first sensor layer being provided on the second sensor layer, and a control unit that scans the plurality of first detection units and the plurality of second detection units.
US11966548B2
A touch sensor device (TSD) includes TSD electrodes associated with a surface of the TSD. Also, an overlay that includes marker electrode(s) is also associated with at least a portion of the surface of the TSD. The TSD also includes drive-sense circuits (DSCs) operably coupled to the plurality of TSD electrodes. A DSC is configured to provide a TSD electrode signal to a TSD electrode and simultaneously to sense a change of the TSD electrode signal based on a change of impedance of the TSD electrode caused by capacitive coupling between the TSD electrode and the marker electrode(s) of the overlay. Processing module(s) is configured to process a digital signal generated by the DSC to determine characteristic(s) of the overlay that is associated with the at least a portion of the surface of the TSD.
US11966547B2
An electronic device, a control method, a control module of the electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The electronic device includes: a shell; a display screen disposed in the shell; a fingerprint module movably disposed in an inner cavity; and a drive mechanism. The inner cavity is formed between the shell and the display screen. The drive mechanism is connected to the fingerprint module, and drives, in a case that the display screen is touched, the fingerprint module to move to a position corresponding to a first region. The first region is a region that is of the display screen and that is touched.
US11966546B2
A display device includes a base layer, a touch sensing layer, a light guide module and a display panel. The touch sensing layer is disposed on the base layer. The light guide module is disposed on the touch sensing layer. The touch sensing layer is located between the light guide module and the display panel, and the touch sensing layer and one of the light guide module and the display panel have no adhesive material therebetween.
US11966538B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment comprises: a display; a display-driving integrated circuit (IC) set to apply one or more driving signals to the display; a touch sensor including a plurality of electrodes; and a touch sensor IC configured to check an input position on the touch sensor, wherein the touch sensor IC is configured to: acquire, from the display-driving IC, a first vertical synchronization signal from among the one or more driving signals, provide a plurality of first measurement signals corresponding to a first phase at intervals of a first duration to at least a first portion of electrodes among the plurality of electrodes based on the acquisition of the first vertical synchronization signal, and, after providing the plurality of first measurement signals, provide a plurality of second measurement signals corresponding to a second phase, different from the first phase, at intervals of the first duration to at least a second portion of electrodes among the plurality of electrodes, wherein at least a portion of the application period of the plurality of first driving signals and the plurality of second driving signals can overlap with at least a portion of the application period of the one or more driving signals.
US11966536B2
A touch driving apparatus, a touch control apparatus and a touch driving method are provided. The touch driving apparatus is configured to drive a mutual capacitive touch panel. The method includes: determine a first driving electrode group and a second driving electrode group in a current driving time period according to a CDM code matrix, wherein, the first driving electrode group are driving electrodes among the plurality of driving electrodes that are expected to be discharged in the current driving time period, and the second driving electrode group are driving electrodes among the plurality of driving electrodes that are expected to be charged in the current driving time period; and controlling utilizing power from the first driving electrode group to charge the second driving electrode group, in response to the determination.
US11966535B2
Disclosed is a display device including a display panel, an input sensor that is disposed on the display panel and that includes sensing electrodes, a master readout circuit that is electrically connected with a first portion of the sensing electrodes and that generates first reception signals corresponding to a signal received from the first portion of the sensing electrodes, and a slave readout circuit that is electrically connected with the a second portion of the sensing electrodes and that generates second reception signals corresponding to a signal received from the second portion of the sensing electrodes. The master readout circuit provides a synchronization signal to the slave readout circuit, and the slave readout circuit operates in response to the synchronization signal and provides a sensing signal corresponding to the second reception signals to the master readout circuit.
US11966528B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a base, a display unit containing pixels, a power supply circuit, a touch controller and a switching circuit disposed between the display unit, the power supply circuit and the touch controller. The pixels each includes a pixel circuit and a display element including a lower electrode connected to the pixel circuit, an upper electrode disposed to oppose the lower electrode and an organic layer including a light-emitting layer disposed between the lower electrode and the upper electrode. The upper electrode is connected to the switching circuit, and the switching circuit selectively switches between connecting the upper electrode to the power supply circuit and connecting the upper electrode to the touch controller.
US11966527B2
There are provided a display panel with a touch detection function, a drive circuit, and an electronic unit, which make it possible to realize many functions related to touch detection. The display panel includes: one or more display elements; one or more drive electrodes extending in one direction; an electrode drive section integrated into a chip, and applying a drive signal to the drive electrodes; and one or more touch detection electrodes extending in a direction intersecting the direction in which the drive electrodes extend.
US11966519B2
An instrument panel includes a frame defining an opening, a plurality of cards, and an HMI. The cards have a front face, a rear face, one or more circuits, and a data interface on the rear face in communication with the circuits. The cards include one or more first cards and one or more second cards. The first cards front face have a vertical dimension approximately equal to a vertical dimension of the opening. The second cards have a body, a nose projecting from the body defining the second cards front face, and a recess between the nose and body. The HMI includes a front face received within the opening. The first cards are positioned with the front face visible within the opening. The second cards are positioned with the nose visible within the opening and a depth of the HMI received within the recess.
US11966517B2
A human interface including steps of presenting an image, then receiving a gesture from the user. The image is analyzed to identify the elements of the image and then compared to known images and then either soliciting an input from the user or displaying a menu to the user. Comparing the image and/or graphical image elements may be effectuated using a trained artificial intelligence engine or, in some embodiments, with a structured data source, said data source including predetermined images and menu options. If the input from the user is known, then presenting a predetermined menu. If the image is not known, then presenting an image or other menu options, and soliciting from the user the desired options. Once the user selections an option, the resulting selection may be used to further train the AI system or added to the structured data source for future reference.
US11966516B2
Methods and systems for gesture-based control of a device are described. A virtual gesture-space is determined in a received input frame. The virtual gesture-space is associated with a primary user from a ranked user list of users. The received input frame is processed in only the virtual gesture-space, to detect and track a hand. Using a hand bounding box generated by detecting and tracking the hand, gesture classification is performed to determine a gesture input associated with the hand. A command input associated with the determined gesture input is processed. The device may be a smart television, a smart phone, a tablet, etc.
US11966512B2
An assistive device and method for non-visually discerning a three-dimensional (3D) real-world area surrounding a user, comprises a haptic feedback interface that includes a plurality of haptic elements. The assistive device receives sensor data of the 3D real-world area within a first proximity range of the assistive device from a plurality of different types of sensors that are communicatively coupled to the assistive device. The assistive device establishes a mapping of a plurality of objects within the first proximity range to the plurality of haptic elements in a defined region of the haptic feedback interface, based on the received sensor data. A haptic feedback generator generates a touch-discernible feedback on the haptic feedback interface based on the established mapping. The touch-discernible feedback comprises a plurality of differential touch-discernible cues to enable the user to non-visually discern the 3D real-world area surrounding the user.
US11966510B2
A method includes displaying a plurality of computer-generated objects, and obtaining finger manipulation data from a finger-wearable device via a communication interface. In some implementations, the method includes receiving an untethered input vector that includes a plurality of untethered input indicator values. Each of the plurality of untethered input indicator values is associated with one of a plurality of untethered input modalities. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining proxy object manipulation data from a physical proxy object via the communication interface. The proxy object manipulation data corresponds to sensor data associated with one or more sensors integrated in the physical proxy object. The method includes registering an engagement event with respect to a first one of the plurality of computer-generated objects based on a combination of the finger manipulation data, the untethered input vector, and the proxy object manipulation data.
US11966503B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods to mitigate effects of glitch attacks on a broadcast communication bus are provided. The voltage levels of the communication bus are repeatedly sampled to identify glitch attacks. The voltage level on the communication bus can be overdriven or overwritten to either corrupt received messages or correct received messages.
US11966498B2
This disclosure relates to a system and method for at source data masking and discovery of unique identifier for at-source masking. The method reads a table of production database comprising sensitive column from a source database for at source data masking. A unique identifier column is identified, and a temporary table is created which has three or more columns. Columns of temporary table comprises a sensitive column from the table of production database, a column for masked data of sensitive column and a unique identifier column. Sensitive column of the temporary table is masked using a known masking technique and the original data of the sensitive column and the masked data of the sensitive column is inserted into the temporary table. Finally, the production database is updated with the masked data of the sensitive column.
US11966496B2
A method, an apparatus and a computer program for tracking location of users without disclosing Personally Identifiable Information (PII). The method comprises analyzing sequences of location events of a user over time to determine a Point Of Interest (POI) of the user. In response to determining that the POI is PII-revealing POI; obfuscating the POI, by generating a pseudolocation identifier of the POI indicative of a semantic meaning thereof to the user without revealing a geographic location of the POI. The method further comprises generating an anonymized sequence of location events of the user based on the sequence of location events, that comprises the pseudolocation identifier to represent location events associated with the POI, and absent of the geographic location thereof. The anonymized sequence of location events may be provided a third party to analyze behavior of the user without divulging identity of the user.
US11966494B2
Techniques are described herein for assembling/evaluating automated assistant responses for privacy concerns. In various implementations, a free-form natural language input may be received from a first user and may include a request for information pertaining to a second user. Multiple data sources may be identified that are accessible by an automated assistant to retrieve data associated with the second user. The multiple data sources may collectively include sufficient data to formulate a natural language response to the request. Respective privacy scores associated with the multiple data sources may be used to determine an aggregate privacy score associated with responding to the request. The natural language response may then be output at a client device operated by the first user in response to a determination that the aggregate privacy score associated with the natural language response satisfies a privacy criterion established for the second user with respect to the first user.
US11966487B2
A system deletes and sanitizes files in a distributed file system. The system also randomizes rotation of data in a distributed file system.
US11966483B2
A device may receive, at an operating system, a request for a random number from an application. The device may provide a command to generate an entropy input, based on the request for the random number and through a driver that is isolated from the operating system, to a quantum random number generator that is isolated from one or more processors hosting the operating system. Accordingly, the device may receive the entropy input, from the quantum random number generator, using the driver, and may generate the random number based at least in part on the entropy input. The device may provide the random number to the application.
US11966478B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for identifying highly sensitive modules and taking a remediation or preventative action if such modules are accessed by malicious software. For example, the likelihood that a module is used for an exploit, and is thus sensitive, is categorized as high, medium, or low. The likelihood that a module can be used for an exploit can dictate whether, and to what degree, an application accessing the module is “suspicious.” However, in some instances, a sensitive module may have legitimate reasons to load when used in certain non-malicious ways. The system may also consider a trust level when determining what actions to take, such that an application and/or user having a higher trust level may be less suspicious when accessing a sensitive module as compared to an application or user having a lower trust level.
US11966475B2
A method includes accessing an input representing a software component list for a software product. The software component list contains information for a given software component. The method includes accessing a knowledge base to determine security level parameters and trust parameters for the given software component based on the information. A security level of the given software component is determined based on an evaluation of the security level parameters. A trust of a source of the given software component is determined based on an evaluation of the trust parameters. The method includes determining a security context of the software product. Based on the security level, the trust and the security context, the method includes providing a recommendation for the given software component.
US11966473B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to identify a side-channel attack are disclosed. Example instructions cause one or more processors to generate an event vector based on one or more counts corresponding to tasks performed by a central processing unit; determine distances between the event vector and weight vectors of neurons in a self-organizing map; select a neuron of the neurons that results based on a determined distance; identify neurons that neighbor the selected neuron; and update at least one of a weight vector of the selected neuron or weight vectors of the neighboring neurons based on the determined distance of the selected neuron.
US11966472B2
A known-deployed file metadata repository (KDFMR) and analysis engine enumerates reference lists of files stored on a software delivery point (SDP) and compares the enumerated list of files and associated metadata to previously stored values in the KDFMR. If newly stored or modified files are identified, the analysis engine acquires the files from the SDP. Each file is analyzed to determine whether the file is an atomic file or a container file and metadata is generated or extracted. Each file stored in a container file is recursively extracted and analyzed, where metadata is generated for each extracted file and each container file. The KDFMR periodically analyzes the files stored on the SDP for differences to maintain the currency of the KDFMR data with respect to files stored on the SDP. Storage or modification of files on the SDP triggers analysis of the associated file. KDFMR data is updated with metadata determined based on sandbox detonation of files and/or identified artifacts of known-deployed files.
US11966469B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting and protecting against cybersecurity attacks using unprintable tracking characters. A computing platform may receive a character-limited message sent to a user device. Subsequently, the computing platform may detect that the character-limited message sent to the user device includes suspicious content. Then, the computing platform may generate a modified character-limited message by inserting one or more special characters into the character-limited message and cause transmission of the modified character-limited message to the user device. Next, the computing platform may receive, from the user device, a spam report that includes the modified character-limited message. Then, the computing platform may identify a presence of the one or more special characters included in the modified character-limited message and adjust one or more filters based on the identification.
US11966468B2
Examples are disclosed for detecting synthetic online entities that may be used for fraudulent purposes or other purposes. In some aspects, a computing system can generate a data structure that includes nodes and links between the nodes. The nodes can represent online entities and the links can represent geographic associations or transactional associations between pairs of online entities. These associations can be identified from electronic transactions involving the online entities. The computing system can determine, from the links between the nodes, that a degree of connectivity among a subset of the nodes exceeds a threshold connectivity. The degree of connectivity indicates electronic communications involving online entities represented by the subset of the nodes. The computing system can transmit, based on the degree of connectivity exceeding the threshold connectivity, an alert indicating a potential synthetic entity (e.g., potentially fraudulent activity) within the subset of the nodes.
US11966462B2
A computing system identifies a third-party dependency to be added to a codebase. The third-party dependency is hosted on a third-party server. The computing system downloads the third-party dependency within a secure runtime environment. The computing system generates a signature value for the third-party dependency. The computing system compares the signature value to a database of signature values of approved third-party dependencies. Upon determining that the signature value does not correspond to any signature values of the approved third-party dependencies, the computing system executes the third-party dependency within the secure runtime environment. The computing system monitors the execution of the third-party dependency within the secure runtime environment to identify suspicious activity. Upon determining that the third-party dependency is not exhibiting suspicious activity, the computing system adds the signature value to the database of signature values of approved third-party dependencies.
US11966450B2
According to an embodiment, a calculation device includes a memory and one or more processors configured to update, for elements each associated with first and second variables, the first and second variables for each unit time, sequentially for the unit times and alternately between the first and second variables. In a calculation process for each unit time, the one or more processors are configured to: for each of the elements, update the first variable based on the second variable; update the second variable based on the first variables of the elements; when the first variable is smaller than a first value, change the first variable to a value of the first value or more and a threshold value or less; and when the first variable is greater than a second value, change the first variable to a value of the threshold value or more and the second value or less.
US11966445B2
A method and system for recommending content to a user whose interest(s) has not been identified is disclosed. A base user profile may be created for association with the user. The base user profile may be created by generating a list of ranked interests of a set of representative users. The list of ranked interests may be generated based on activity information obtained for the set of representative users. Content may be recommended to the user based on the base user profile.
US11966444B2
The present disclosure relates to a document comparison system (100) for comparing a first document (D1) with a second document (D2). The first document (D1) includes at least a first section having at least one first section entity (CEn), and the second document (D2) includes at least one second document entity (CEn). The document comparison system includes a processor (110) and a memory device (120). The processor is configured to identify the at least one first section entity (CEn) in the first section of the first document (D1). The processor conducts a search of the second document (D2) to identify the presence or absence of one or more second document entity (CEn) corresponding to or equivalent to each first section entity (CEn) identified in the first section. The present disclosure also relates to a dictionary generating system; a document comparison method; a dictionary populating method; and non-transitory computer-readable medium.
US11966440B2
A method for automatic metadata tag identification for videos is described. Content features are extracted from a video into respective data structures. The extracted content features are from at least two different feature modalities. The respective data structures are encoded into a common data structure using an encoder of a recurrent neural network (RNN) model. The common data structure is decoded using a decoder of the RNN model to identify content platform metadata tags to be associated with the video on a social content platform. Decoding is based on group tag data for users of the social content platform that identifies groups of the users and corresponding group metadata tags of interest for the groups of users.
US11966437B2
The present disclosure provides computing systems and methods for cataloging, retrieving, and/or organizing user-generated content associated with objects. Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a systems and methods which utilize computers to enable users to interact with libraries of user-generated content associated with cataloged objects. For example, a user can capture one or more images of a real-world object, label or otherwise annotate the object with various types of user-generated content and organize the object and its associated content into one or more libraries. The user-generated content can then be provided to other users upon the receipt of images of the same object or an object displaying similar features.
US11966434B2
A method including determining neighboring items from among sample items based on a respective embedding distance between a query image of a query item and a respective image of each of the neighboring items. The each of the sample items can comprise the respective image and at least one respective item label. The method further can include determining a respective normalized weight for each of the neighboring items based on the respective embedding distance between the query image and the respective image of the each of the neighboring items. The method also can include determining a query item label of the query item based on a weighted majority vote by the neighboring items via the respective normalized weight for the each of the neighboring items. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11966433B1
A computer-implemented method for enabling users to subscribe to people and other tagged entities is provided herein. Such a method includes maintaining subscription data specifying a plurality of entities subscribed to by a plurality of users, with each of the plurality of entities being a tagged entity associated with a tag. The method further includes identifying a media item associated with one or more tagged entities of the plurality of entities, determining, based on the subscription data, a user of the plurality of users that is subscribed to the tagged entities of the media item, and providing the media item to the user.
US11966432B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating suggested search queries. One method includes receiving, during a search session, a request for a suggested search query; in response to receiving the request for the suggested search query, identifying an entity that is associated with an item of media content; generating a suggested search query based on the identified entity; and providing data that causes the generated suggested search query to be presented in a user interface.
US11966431B2
Systems as described herein may determine a plurality of content items posted to a mesh network and each content item may be associated with a signature stored in a blockchain. A search engine may query each content item based on the corresponding signature in the blockchain. The search engine may parse each content item to obtain a label and store the label, the signature and content associated with each content item in a database. The search engine may query the blockchain to obtain a frequency that each content item has been queried in a predetermined period of time. The search engine may rank the content items based on the frequencies, and determine a subset of the content items as frequently searched content. Accordingly, the search engine may distribute the frequently searched content to a plurality of cached nodes in the mesh network.
US11966424B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a method and for dividing geographical regions performed by a computing device. The method includes: encoding latitudes and longitudes in a first dataset to obtain a second dataset, the first dataset recording N groups of latitudes and longitudes, and the second dataset recording N region numbers, and each of the region numbers being used for representing a corresponding geographical region; obtaining a third dataset from the second dataset, the third dataset recording M groups of the region numbers, corresponding central point latitudes and central point longitudes in the geographical regions represented by the region numbers; and dividing the geographical regions represented by the M groups of region numbers into P regions according to the third dataset, each of the regions including at least one of the geographical regions represented by the corresponding group of region numbers.
US11966420B2
A method for publishing a data message to shared storage includes receiving an action targeting a user associated with a distributed network having a plurality of service providers. Each service provider includes a private storage system and has access to a shared storage system. The method also includes parsing data elements of the action into a first set of data elements and a second set of data elements. The method further includes classifying the first set of data elements into categories of a data taxonomy. The method additionally includes generating a message for the action where the message includes the first set of data elements. The method also includes publishing the message to the shared storage system using a first identifier indicating the user and a second identifier that indicates that a respective service provider associated with the action has authority to publish the message to the shared storage system.
US11966412B2
Provided are a blockchain data processing method and apparatus, a device, and a readable storage medium. By storing a data type information table in a relational database in advance, the data type information table is used for storing storage information of all the data types, and the storage information includes a table corresponding to the data type, a mapping relationship between the service field of the Value of the data type and a table field in the corresponding table, and a data format of the Value of the data type. A data type of the Value is determined when the Key-Value data needs to be stored; and a target table corresponding to the data type of the Value is determined and the Key-Value data is written into the target table according to the data type information table.
US11966409B2
Systems and methods for implementing extensible attributes in ETL are disclosed. In some examples, attributes configured at a source file may be extracted from the source file. The extracted attributes can be mapped to a target column of a data warehouse table, and then a dynamic ETL script may be generated. The dynamic script may be executed to move data associated with the attributes to an appropriate new column of the data warehouse.
US11966408B2
In example embodiments, computing systems may be configured to create, transmit, receive, store, and execute an active data executable comprising (i) a representation of given data content that is combined with (ii) an executable kernel that, when executed, causes the given data content to be extracted in a user-specified data format and provided to a user-specified destination location for storage.
US11966407B1
Systems and methods are described for communicating with a plurality of databases. An example method includes: initiating a communication with a database from a plurality of databases; selecting from a plurality of integration templates an integration template corresponding to the database; using the selected integration template to generate a communication procedure corresponding to the communication; and using the communication procedure to provide the communication to the database.
US11966406B2
A computer receives a visual specification, which specifies a data source, visual variables, and data fields from the data source. Each visual variable is associated with either data fields (e.g., dimension and/or measures) or filters. The computer obtains a data model encoding the data source as a tree of related logical tables. Each logical table includes logical fields, each of which corresponds to either a data field or a calculation that spans logical tables. The computer generates a dimension subquery for the dimensions and the filters. The computer also generates, for each measure, an aggregated measure subquery grouped by the dimensions. The computer forms a final query by joining the dimension subquery to each of the aggregated measure subqueries. The computer subsequently executes the final query and displays a data visualization according to the results of the final query.
US11966401B2
Systems and techniques are provided for query tree labeling and processing. A query may be received. A query tree may be generated from the query and identifiers may be generated for nodes of the query tree and stored in the nodes. Labels may be stored in nodes determined to meet at least one criteria for being labeled nodes to generate a labeled query tree. The nodes of the labeled query tree may be processed by receiving results from an entry in a results data structure and returning the results from the entry as the results for the node if the identifier of the nodes matches the identifier of an entry in the results data structure. If there is no match, results may be computed for the node. The results generated by computing the node may be stored in the results data structure if the node has a label.
US11966396B1
Techniques for performing machine learning inference calls in database query processing are described. A method for performing machine learning inference calls in database query processing may include generating a query plan to optimize a query for batch processing of data stored in a database service, the query plan including a batch mode operator to execute a function reference and an execution context associated with the batch mode operator, executing the query plan to invoke a function associated with the function reference, wherein the function sends a batch of requests, generated using the execution context, to a remote service and obtains a plurality of responses from the remote service, and generating a query response based on the plurality of responses.
US11966391B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for executing a query that includes an indication to process data managed by an external data system. The system identifies the external data system that manages the data to be processed and generates a subquery for the external data system indicating that the results of the subquery are to be sent to one worker node of multiple worker nodes. The system instructs the one worker node to distribute the results received from the external data system to multiple worker nodes for processing.
US11966379B2
A method for performing data transfer includes: obtaining source data; populating a staging table with the source data; making a first determination that the source data was successfully populated to the staging table; making a second determination that a target table is available, in which an application is directed to use data in the target table; and initiating, based on the first determination and the second determination, a data source switch of the application, in which the data source switch directs the application to use the source data in the staging table and not use the data in the target table, in which the application uses the source data in the staging table when the data source switch is successful.
US11966362B1
A data management system may support techniques for immutable storage of snapshot data entities, which may each include data corresponding to one or more snapshots, in a cloud environment. The data management system may determine respective retention periods and respective immutability periods for the snapshot data entities. The data management system may extend the respective immutability period for a first snapshot data entity based on the respective retention period for the first snapshot data entity being greater than or equal to a threshold duration. Additionally or alternatively, the data management system may maintain (refrain from extending) the respective immutability period for a second snapshot data entity based at least in part on the respective retention period for the second snapshot data entity being less than the threshold duration.
US11966356B2
Systems and methods for reducing latency of probing operations of remotely located linear hash tables are described herein. In an embodiment, a system receives a request to perform a probing operation on a remotely located linear hash table based on a key value. Prior to performing the probing operation, the system dynamically predicts a number of slots for a single read of the linear hash table to minimize total cost for an average probing operation. The system determines a hash value based on the key value and determines a slot of the linear hash table to which the hash value corresponds. After predicting the number of slots, the system issues an RDMA request to perform a read of the predicted number of slots from the linear hash table starting at the slot to which the hash value corresponds.
US11966352B2
An information handling system with modular riser components for receiving expansion cards having various requirements. The system includes a riser body assembly having a common support structure for receiving expansion cards. The common support structure may be coupled to different expansion structures to provide support of expansion cards having requirements that would not be met by the common support structure alone.
US11966349B2
An electromagnetic connector is disclosed that is configured to form a first magnetic circuit portion comprising a first core member and a first coil disposed of the first core member. The electromagnetic connector is configured to mate with a second electromagnetic connector, where the second electromagnetic connector is configured to form a second magnetic circuit portion comprising a second core member and a second coil disposed of the second core member. The first core member and the second core member are configured to couple the first coil to the second coil with a magnetic circuit formed from the first magnetic circuit portion and the second magnetic circuit portion when the electromagnetic connector is mated with the second electromagnetic connector. The magnetic circuit is configured to induce a signal in the first coil when the second coil is energized.
US11966346B2
A system and method for connecting a processing device to a functional device connected to or in a base unit of a communications network, the base unit having a transmitter and the processing device having a memory, a display and an operating system. A first peripheral device is adapted to be coupled to the processing device via a generic communications protocol, the first peripheral device having a receiver and at least one fixed or configurable endpoint of the functional device exposed on the first peripheral device. The base unit and the first peripheral device is adapted to transmit and receive data respectively over the communications network from the functional device to the processing device via the at least one fixed or configurable endpoint using the generic communications protocol for communication between the processing device and the first peripheral device.
US11966343B2
A storage device is disclosed. The storage device may include a storage for a data and a controller to process an input/output (I/O) request from a host processor on the data in the storage. A computational storage unit may implement at least one service for execution on the data in the storage. A command router may route a command received from the host processor to the controller or the computational storage unit based at least in part on the command.
US11966342B2
A data processing system may be configured to include a memory device, a controller configured to access the memory device when a host requests offload processing of an application, and process the application, and a sharing memory management component within the controller and configured to: set controller owning rights of access to a target region of the memory device in response to the host stores, in the target region, data used for the requested offload processing of the application; and set the controller owning rights of access or the host owning rights of access to the target region based on a processing state of the application.
US11966339B1
Selecting between basic and global persistent flush modes is described. In accordance with the described techniques, a system includes a data fabric in electronic communication with at least one cache and a controller configured to select between operating in a global persistent flush mode and a basic persistent flush mode based on an available flushing latency of the system, control the at least one cache to flush dirty data to the data fabric in response to a flush event trigger while operating in the global persistent flush mode, and transmit a signal to switch control to an application to flush the dirty data from the at least one cache to the data fabric while operating in the basic persistent flush mode.
US11966328B2
A memory module includes register selection logic to select alternate local source and/or destination registers to process PIM commands. The register selection logic uses an address-based register selection approach to select an alternate local source and/or destination register based upon address data specified by a PIM command and a split address maintained by a memory module. The register selection logic may alternatively use a register data-based approach to select an alternate local source and/or destination register based upon data stored in one or more local registers. A PIM-enabled memory module configured with the register selection logic described herein is capable of selecting an alternate local source and/or destination register to process PIM commands at or near the PIM execution unit where the PIM commands are executed.
US11966324B2
Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model.
US11966323B2
System calls can be used to troubleshoot problems with software services. For example, a system can receive tracing data indicating system calls executed by a group of software services. The system can analyze parameters of the system calls described in the tracing data to identify relationships between the system calls. The system can determine a sequence of system calls between a predefined starting event and a predefined ending event based on the relationships between the system calls. The system can then generate an output to a user indicating the sequence of system calls. The output can be used by the user to troubleshoot a problem associated with executing the plurality of software services.
US11966322B2
A method, computer program product and system are provided for preloading debug information based on the presence of incremental source code files. Based on parsed input parameters to a source code debugger, a source code repository and a local storage area are searched for an incremental file. In response to the incremental file being located, a preload indicator in the incremental file, which is a source code file, is set. Based on the preload indicator being set, debug symbol data from the incremental file is merged to a preload symbol list. In response to receiving a command to examine the debug symbol data from the incremental file, the preload symbol list is searched for the requested debug symbol data.
US11966319B2
A method for data-center management includes, in a data center including multiple components, monitoring a plurality of performance measures of the components. A set of composite metrics is automatically defined, each composite metric including a respective weighted combination of two or more performance measures from among the performance measures. Baseline values are established for the composite metrics. An anomalous deviation is detected of one or more of the composite metrics from the respective baseline values.
US11966316B2
Systems and methods herein describe receiving identification from a data pipeline, accessing first data offset information for a first data origin and second data offset information for a second data origin, bisecting the first data origin using the first data offset information, processing the data pipeline with the bisected first data offset information and the second data offset information, receiving a notification indicating a data pipeline status, and causing presentation of the notification on a graphical user interface of a computing device.
US11966311B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for managing operation of a distributed system that provides computer-implemented services. An example method includes collecting, via an out-of-band stream, sensor data from a plurality of temperature sensors positioned to infer temperatures of components of a distributed system. The example method further includes inferring, using the inferred temperatures, power consumption rates for performing respective actions with each of the components. The method further includes obtaining an action request and selecting, based on the inferred power consumption rates, a particular component of the components to perform an action to service the action request, the selection being made with a preference to reduce power consumption for performance of the action. The method further includes performing, with the particular component, the action to service the action request, the action resulting in updated computer-implemented services being provided by the distributed system.
US11966308B2
A method includes determining, by an analysis system, a system aspect of a system for an issue response communications evaluation. The method further includes determining, by the analysis system, at least one evaluation perspective and at least one evaluation viewpoint for use in performing the issue response communications evaluation on the system aspect. The method further includes obtaining, by the analysis system, issue response communications data regarding the system aspect in accordance with the at least one evaluation perspective and the at least one evaluation viewpoint. The method further includes calculating, by the analysis system, an issue response communications rating as a measure of system issue response communications maturity for the system aspect based on the issue response communications data, the at least one evaluation perspective, the at least one evaluation viewpoint, and at least one evaluation rating metric.
US11966304B1
A system, method, and computer readable medium for asynchronous live migration of applications between two or more servers. The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. Primary applications runs on primary hosts and one or more replicated instances of each primary application run on one or more backup hosts. Asynchronous live migration is provided through a combination of process replication, logging, barrier synchronization, checkpointing, reliable messaging and message playback. The live migration is transparent to the application and requires no modification to the application, operating system, networking stack or libraries.
US11966301B2
An application may store data to a dataset comprising a plurality of volumes stored on a plurality of storage systems. The application may request a dataset image of the dataset, the dataset image comprising a volume image of each volume of the dataset. A dataset image manager operates with a plurality of volume image managers in parallel to produce the dataset image, each volume image manager executing on a storage system. The plurality of volume image managers respond by performing requested operations and sending responses to the dataset image manager in parallel. Each volume image manager on a storage system may manage and produce a volume image for each volume of the dataset stored to the storage system. If a volume image for any volume of the dataset fails, or a timeout period expires, a cleanup procedure is performed to delete any successful volume images.
US11966294B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a source system comprising a processing device coupled to memory. The processing device is configured to obtain an IO operation corresponding to an address of the source system. The IO operation comprises first user data. The processing device is further configured to store metadata associated with the IO operation in a first journal barrier of a replication journal of the source system and to close the first journal barrier. The processing device is further configured to determine that the first user data associated with the IO operation is missing from the first journal barrier and to obtain second user data from the address. The processing device is further configured to identify an interval from the first journal barrier to a second journal barrier and to provide the first journal barrier and the interval to a destination system.
US11966290B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for checker cores for fault tolerant processing. For example, an integrated circuit (e.g., a processor) for executing instructions includes a processor core configured to execute instructions of an instruction set; an outer memory system configured to store instructions and data; and a checker core configured to receive committed instruction packets from the processor core and check the committed instruction packets for errors, wherein the checker core is configured to utilize a memory pathway of the processor core to access the outer memory system by receiving instructions and data read from the outer memory system as portions of committed instruction packets from the processor core. For example, data flow from the processor core to the checker core may be limited to committed instruction packets received via dedicated a wire bundle.
US11966289B2
Systems and methods are disclosed including a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device can perform operations comprising performing a first read operation on the memory device to retrieve first data; determining, from the first data, second data indicative of a write temperature associated with the first data, wherein the write temperature is indicative of a temperature measured during a write operation; determining a read voltage value based on the second data; and performing a second read operation on the memory device using the read voltage value to obtain the first data.
US11966288B2
In an electronic apparatus, a processor executes a program stored in memory to perform essential functions. In the event of an error related to these functions, a self-test application is triggered. The processor may identify a relevant test routine from a set of routines, conduct tests on the function using the identified routine, and communicate the test results to a display. Accordingly, when an error occurs while the electronic apparatus is operating, the electronic apparatus can inform a user and a manufacturer of a cause of the error.
US11966284B1
A fault-tolerant computer system includes a plurality of processors configured to simultaneously execute identical sets of processor-executable instructions, each of the plurality of processors containing a processor core including one or more registers and a local memory, an arbiter configured to read each of the registers of the plurality of processors, detect incorrect register values, and overwrite the registers containing the incorrect register values with corrected register values, and a memory scrubber configured to read each address of the local memories of the plurality of processors, detect incorrect memory values, and overwrite addresses containing the incorrect memory values with corrected memory values. In various embodiments, the computer system may be implemented using one or more field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
US11966278B2
A method of error logging includes: receiving from a user interface a first input from a user indicating that they have seen a visible error in a displayed graphical output of a computer application, tracking the gaze of the user to estimate the position, on at least a first display showing at least part of the displayed graphical output, at which the user's gaze is directed, receiving from the user interface a second input from the user indicating that they have identified the visible error with their gaze, capturing data relating to the displayed graphical output of the computer application, the data including a capture of at least part of the displayed graphical output including the identified visible error, and the estimated positon of the user's gaze with respect to the displayed graphical output, and generating an error report including the captured data.
US11966273B2
This disclosure describes a method to minimize disruption for throughput oriented jobs in power oversubscription services with a dynamic control. The mechanism controls power in a hardware-agnostic way, and the policy employs a multi-threshold approach that balances power safety with workload impact. Moreover, an alternative control mechanism ensures proper system operation while power measurements are unavailable.
US11966271B2
An Ethernet communication device includes a data interface and circuitry. The data interface is configured for communicating with a neighbor device. The circuitry is configured to exchange Ethernet data frames with the neighbor device over the data interface, wherein successive data frames are separated in time by an Inter-Packet Gap (IPG) having at least a predefined minimal duration, and to further exchange with the neighbor device, over the data interface, during the IPG between Ethernet frames exchanged on the data interface, a wake-up/sleep command that instructs switching between an active mode and a sleep mode.
US11966266B2
A dual redundant cooling system for a container is provided. The dual redundant cooling system includes a first cooling unit and a second cooling unit. The first cooling unit is positioned in a first cabinet attached to the container. The first cooling unit includes a first controller operating a first cooling loop to cool an interior of the container. The second cooling unit is positioned in a second cabinet attached to the container and adjacent the first cabinet. The second cooling unit includes a second controller operating a second cooling loop to cool the interior of the container. The first cooling unit and the first cooling loop are separate from the second cooling unit and the second cooling loop. The first controller and the second controller communicate a switch signal between each other so that either the first cooling unit is a primary cooling unit operating the first cooling loop or the second cooling unit is the primary cooling unit operating the second cooling loop. The switch signal switching the primary cooling unit.
US11966252B2
In some examples, the disclosure provides a method for determining a drift in clock data that is provided by a clock of a seismic sensor. The sensor is exposed to an ambient temperature that varies over time. The method includes obtaining temperature data associated with the ambient temperature as a function of time. The method also includes obtaining the clock data. The method also includes obtaining timestamp data provided by a global navigation satellite system. The method also includes determining drift data which minimizes a difference of a temporal drift in the clock data, based on the timestamp data and the temperature data. The method also includes outputting corrective data based on the determined drift data.
US11966245B2
The present disclosure provides a voltage reference source circuit for generating a reference voltage, the voltage reference source circuit comprises a starting circuit, a current generating circuit, and an output voltage reference circuit electrically connected in sequence. The starting circuit provides a starting voltage for the voltage reference source circuit to prevent the voltage reference source circuit from operating in zero state area. The current generating circuit generates a working current for the output voltage reference circuit; and the output voltage reference circuit is used to realize the reference voltage output with zero temperature coefficient according to the working current output by the current generating circuit. A low power consumption power supply system is also disclosed. The voltage reference source circuit and the low power consumption power supply system with the voltage reference source circuit have simple circuit structure, strong anti-noise ability, high stability and high performance.
US11966243B2
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for power factor adjustment in a waveguide circuit or a transmission line circuit. In this invention, it is shown that, in a waveguide circuit or a transmission line circuit, the power supplied by the source and the impedance can be adjusted by controlling the amount of the phase change of the signal when it propagates through the (equivalent) transmission line once the medium, the structure, and the load of the waveguide circuit or the transmission line circuit are chosen. It is also shown that, by choosing an appropriate frequency, transmission line, and load, one can achieve the negative power factor of the (equivalent) transmission line circuit, and also make the power delivered from the source be lesser than that consumed at the load.
US11966241B2
A circuit includes a voltage divider circuit configured to generate a feedback voltage according to an output voltage, an operational amplifier configured to output a driving signal according to the feedback voltage and a reference voltage and a pass gate circuit including multiple current paths. The current paths are controlled by the driving signal and connected in parallel between the voltage divider circuit and a power reference node.
US11966235B2
Provided is a method for marking a ground surface according to a predefined marking pattern using a system including a robot unit and a local base station including acts of providing two flag points, receiving global positioning data of the robot unit using a robot GNSS receiver, receiving global positioning data of the local base station using a base GNSS receiver, and establishing a local base station position using the received global positioning data of the local base station. A method wherein the predefined marking pattern is arranged relative to the two flag point positions and wherein the local base station position is a system reference point of the system. Also provided is a system for marking a ground surface according to a predefined marking pattern and the use thereof or parts thereof.
US11966232B2
A modular robot is provided. The modular robot includes a sweeper module having a container for collecting debris from a surface of a location. The sweeper module is coupled to one or more brushes for contacting the surface and moving said debris into said container. Included is a robot module having wheels and configured to couple to the sweeper module. The robot module is enabled for autonomous movement and corresponding movement of the sweeper module over the surface. A controller is integrated with the robot module and interfacing with the sweeper module. The controller is configured to execute instructions for assigning of at least two zones at the location and assigning a work function to be performed using the sweeper module at each of the at least two zones. The controller is further configured for programming the robot module to activate the sweeper module in each of the two zones. The assigned work function is set for performance at each of the at least two zones. The work function can be to sweep, to scrub, to polish, to mow or to perform different work functions over zones of a location, and providing remote access to view real-time operation of the modular robot, and to program zones and other control parameters of the modular robot.
US11966228B2
In various examples, a current claimed set of points representative of a volume in an environment occupied by a vehicle at a time may be determined. A vehicle-occupied trajectory and at least one object-occupied trajectory may be generated at the time. An intersection between the vehicle-occupied trajectory and an object-occupied trajectory may be determined based at least in part on comparing the vehicle-occupied trajectory to the object-occupied trajectory. Based on the intersection, the vehicle may then execute the first safety procedure or an alternative procedure that, when implemented by the vehicle when the object implements the second safety procedure, is determined to have a lesser likelihood of incurring a collision between the vehicle and the object than the first safety procedure.
US11966227B2
A method includes constructing a map of an environment based on mapping data produced by an autonomous cleaning robot in the environment during a first cleaning mission. Constructing the map includes providing a label associated with a portion of the mapping data. The method includes causing a remote computing device to present a visual representation of the environment based on the map, and a visual indicator of the label. The method includes causing the autonomous cleaning robot to initiate a behavior associated with the label during a second cleaning mission.
US11966225B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a sequence of location data points associated with a vehicle from a first source and a sequence of motion data points associated with the vehicle from a second source. The method includes determining a first turn angle of the vehicle based on at least one location data point in the sequence of location data points associated with the first source. The method includes determining that an additional location data point in the sequence of location data points is inaccurate. The method includes determining a second turn angle of the vehicle by using at least one motion data point in the sequence of motion data points corresponding to the additional location data point that is inaccurate. The method includes determining a turn trajectory of the vehicle by using at least the first turn angle and the second turn angle.
US11966214B2
The present disclosure provides an Industrial Internet of Things system for intelligent repair of manufacturing equipment and a control method. The Industrial Internet of Things system includes a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform interacting in sequence. The object platform is configured as a plurality of manufacturing equipment arranged in sequence according to a process sequence on the assembly line. The management platform is configured to issue self-repair instructions and failure handling instructions corresponding to the intelligent repair method to the corresponding manufacturing equipment through the sensor network platform, so as to realize the automatic repair of manufacturing equipment, reduce the cost of manual troubleshooting, and ensure the normal production and manufacturing of the assembly line.
US11966212B2
A method of processing a substrate includes subjecting a substrate to processing that modifies a thickness of an outer layer of the substrate, measuring a spectrum of light reflected from the substrate during processing, reducing the dimensionality of the measured spectrum to generate a plurality of component values, generating a characterizing value using an artificial neural network, and determining at least one of whether to halt processing of the substrate or an adjustment for a processing parameter based on the characterizing value. The artificial neural network has a plurality of input nodes to receive the plurality of component values, an output node to output the characterizing value, and a plurality of hidden nodes connecting the input nodes to the output node.
US11966209B2
To make it possible to evaluate quantitatively whether there is a problem on a machining surface. A simulator includes a memory unit that stores machining position data to be used when a machine tool machines a machining-target object, a machining surface simulation unit that uses the machining position data that is stored to perform a simulation of a machining surface, a surface texture calculation unit that calculates a surface texture of the machining surface that is simulated through the simulation of the machining surface, and a machining surface evaluation unit that evaluates the surface texture on the basis of an evaluation condition.
US11966204B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining causal models for controlling environments. One of the methods includes repeatedly selecting, by a control system for the environment, control settings for the environment based on internal parameters of the control system, wherein: at least some of the control settings for the environment are selected based on a causal model, and the internal parameters include a first set of internal parameters that define a number of previously received performance metric values that are used to generate the causal model for a particular controllable element; obtaining, for each selected control setting, a performance metric value; determining that generating the causal model for the particular controllable element would result in higher system performance; and adjusting, based on the determining, the first set of internal parameters.
US11966199B2
A timepiece component for a timepiece case or for a timepiece includes a first ring, at least one decorative and/or display element, a second ring, and an elastic element mounted so as to bear on the first ring and to urge the at least one decorative and/or display element toward the second ring.
US11966197B2
There is provided a lighting system for a vehicle. The lighting system comprises a holographic projector and a light distribution system. The holographic projector comprises a hologram engine and a spatial light modulator. The hologram engine is arranged to output holograms. The spatial light modulator is arranged to display each hologram and spatially-modulate light in accordance with each hologram. The spatially-modulated light forms a holographic reconstruction, corresponding to each hologram, on a replay plane. The light distribution system comprises a plurality of optical fibres. Each optical fibre comprises an input optically-coupled to respective sub-area of the replay plane and an output optically coupled with an illumination sub-system of the vehicle.
US11966167B2
A method for calibrating a resist model. The method includes: generating a modeled resist contour of a resist structure based on a simulated aerial image of the resist structure and parameters of the resist model, and predicting a metrology contour of the resist structure from the modeled resist contour based on information of an actual resist structure obtained by a metrology device. The method includes adjusting one or more of the parameters of the resist model based on a comparison of the predicted metrology contour and an actual metrology contour of the actual resist structure obtained by the metrology device.
US11966158B2
The purification of monoalkyl tin trialkoxides and monoalkyl tin triamides are described using fractional distillation and/or ultrafiltration. The purified compositions are useful as radiation sensitive patterning compositions or precursors thereof. The fractional distillation process has been found to be effective for the removal of metal impurities down to very low levels. The ultrafiltration processes have been found to be effective at removal of fine particulates. Commercially practical processing techniques are described.
US11966156B2
A system for mask design repair may develop a simulation-based model of a layer thickness after one or more process steps for fabricating features on a sample, develop a transformed model of the fabrication process that emulates the simulation-based model and has a faster evaluation speed than the simulation-based model, and where the inputs to the transformed model include the input mask design, and where the outputs of the transformed model include one or more output parameters associated with fabrication of the input mask design as well as one or more sensitivity metrics describing sensitivities of the one or more output parameters to variations of the input mask design. The system may further receive a candidate mask design and generate a repaired mask design based on the transformed model and the candidate mask design.
US11966153B2
A wavelength conversion module includes a driving element, a wavelength conversion wheel, and at least one flow guide. The wavelength conversion wheel includes a rotary disc and at least one wavelength conversion layer. The driving element is connected to the rotary disc to drive the wavelength conversion wheel to rotate along an axis of the driving element as a central axis. The flow guide is disposed beside the wavelength conversion wheel at intervals along the axis, and at least one airflow channel is formed between the flow guide and the wavelength conversion wheel. The flow guide and the driving element are disposed at intervals, and the flow guide does not contact the rotary disc and the driving element. An orthographic projection of the flow guide on the rotary disc overlaps the wavelength conversion layer. When the wavelength conversion wheel rotates, the wavelength conversion wheel and the flow guide move relatively.
US11966147B2
Cameras with OIS capable of performing multi zoom super macro photography and handheld electronic devices comprising such cameras. A camera may include a lens comprising N lens elements L1-LN divided into two or more lens groups arranged along a lens optical axis starting with L1 on an object side and ending with LN on an image side, adjacent lens groups separated by a respective air-gap d1 along the lens optical axis; an image sensor with a sensor diagonal SD between 7 and 20 mm separated from lens element LN by an air-gap d2 along the lens optical axis; and an actuator for controlling air-gaps d1 and d2 to switch the camera between M≥1 operative pop-out states and a collapsed state and to focus the camera on an object at an object-lens distance of less than 30 cm.
US11966138B2
A projector includes a beam homogenizer receiving light from a light source and creating a predetermined illumination, and a spatial light modulator including grating stages to receive the predetermined illumination. Each grating stage may include a plurality of pixels where corresponding pixels in the grating stages are aligned with one another. Each of the pixels may include a liquid crystal layer disposed between two substrates, where a pixel is switchable by applying a voltage thereto, with a grating period of the pixel selected such that, when the voltage is applied to the pixel and light is passed therethrough, optical energy from the light in plus and minus first orders is deflected toward sides of the pixel and optical energy from a zero order of the light is allowed to pass through the pixel, with a polarization state of the light maintained through the pixel.
US11966137B2
A display device can include a first substrate having an upper surface which is a display surface and a lower surface facing the upper surface; an active layer disposed on a lower surface of the first substrate and including a channel part, a first connection part connected to one side of the channel part, and a second connection part connected to the other side of the channel part; a gate electrode disposed under the active layer and overlapping with the channel part; a second substrate disposed under the above gate electrode; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a backlight provided under the second substrate. Also, the gate electrode can be disposed between a lower surface of the channel part of the active layer and the backlight, in order to protect the channel part from light emitted from the backlight.
US11966131B2
A display device is provided and includes a substrate on which a TFT is formed. The display device including an organic film formed on the TFT, the organic film having a through hole, and a first common electrode, an upper pixel electrode and a second common electrode which are stacked in this order above the organic passivation film, a filler being filled in the through hole, and wherein the upper pixel electrode is electrically connected with the TFT, and an edge of the upper pixel electrode is located directly on the filler.
US11966127B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area surround the display area, the non-display area including a pad area, a bending area disposed between the display area and the pad area, and a surrounding area disposed between the pad area and the bending area, a fan-out part disposed on the non-display area on the substrate and including a plurality of conductive lines that connects signal lines in the display area and pads in the pad area, and a strain gauge disposed on the substrate in the surrounding area.
US11966118B2
A display device includes: a plurality of backlight modules, where each backlight module includes a plurality of light sources capable of emitting light in at least three different colors; a color-filter-less liquid crystal display module including a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array form and a plurality of scanning lines coupled to the pixel units; where the plurality of backlight modules are arranged in parallel with the liquid crystal display module; where an orthogonal projection of each backlight module onto a plane where the liquid crystal display module is located corresponds to at least two rows of pixel units, where the pixel units in one row are along an length extension direction of each scanning line; and a driving circuit coupled to each backlight module and configured to apply a backlight driving signal to each backlight module.
US11966117B2
An optical sheet 5 is an optical sheet, at least a first surface of the optical sheet has unevenness. A sparkle contrast of the first surface measured in conformity with JIS C 1006: 2019 is 4% or less. An arithmetic average roughness Ra of the first surface measured in conformity with JIS B 0601: 2001 (with an assessment length set to 290 μm) may be 0.6 μm or less. A peak count RPc of the first surface measured in conformity with JIS B 0601: 2001 (with an assessment length set to 290 μm) may be 16 or more.
US11966116B2
In one embodiment, a display comprises a light source positioned to emit light into a 0.5 millimeter thick lightguide with light extraction features, a cladding layer optically coupled to a core layer of the lightguide on a first side, a light turning film optically coupled to the cladding layer on an opposite side, the light turning film comprising a light turning features that redirect frustrated totally internally reflected light from the core layer into a first portion of light with a first peak luminous intensity at a first angle and a second portion of light with a second peak luminous intensity at a second angle different from the first angle and on an opposite side of the thickness direction, and the light diffusely reflecting from a reflective spatial light modulator has a peak luminous intensity within degrees from a direction normal to a surface of the display.
US11966110B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device of the present disclosure may comprise a display panel; a guide panel including a vertical portion supporting a rear surface of the display panel, a horizontal portion extending rearward from the vertical portion, and a groove formed on an outer surface of the horizontal portion; and, a back cover including a flat plate positioned at a rear of the guide panel, a side plate extending forward from the flat plate and covering the horizontal portion, and a latch formed on an inner surface of the side plate and caught in the groove.
US11966103B2
A circular resonator, and an optical modulator and an optical element comprising same. The circular resonator includes a first material, formed in a circular shape, including a plurality of nano holes and having a thermo-optic coefficient varying at a predetermined ratio according to temperature, and a second material having a thermo-optic coefficient varying in a direction opposite to the direction of change of the thermo-optic coefficient of the first material depending on temperature, the second material being filled in the plurality of nano holes, wherein an interval between the plurality of nano holes is formed at a pitch shorter than the wavelength of incident light.
US11966095B2
A lens holder with an air escape hole which cannot be fouled by adhesive includes a holder body and a lens barrel disposed on the holder body. The holder body includes a first surface away from the lens barrel and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the first surface defines a groove. The groove includes a first bottom surface, the first bottom surface defines a recess. The recess includes a second bottom surface, the second bottom surface defines an air escape hole. A cross-sectional size of the air escape hole is less than a cross-sectional size of the recess.
US11966093B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a telecommunications terminal including fiber optic adapter carriers and/or modules that mount to a main body of the terminal.
US11966091B2
A multichannel optical coupler array can include a coupler housing structure and longitudinal waveguides. At least one of the longitudinal waveguides can be a vanishing core waveguide having an inner vanishing core having a first refractive index (N-1), an outer core having a second refractive index (N-2), and an outer cladding having a third refractive index (N-3). A refractive index transition between N-1 and N-2 can have a function form N(r), where r is a transverse distance from the inner vanishing core center. The function N(r) can be a smooth function having a positive average of the second derivative or function N(r) can be a step function with at least one step approximating the smooth function. The coupler housing structure may have non-circular holes formed by convex-shaped housing structure elements.
US11966086B2
A first time/temperature data set includes temperatures and time stamps recorded at time intervals during a first thermal cycling process and a time stamp for each time interval, and a second time/temperature data set includes temperatures and time stamps recorded at time intervals during a second thermal cycling process. Signal emissions at different signal detecting positions are sequentially measured at different time intervals to generate first and second time/signal emission data sets for receptacles subject to the first and second thermal cycling processes, respectively. Signal emissions of receptacles subject to the first thermal cycling process are synchronized with specific temperatures of the first thermal cycling process by comparing time stamps of the first time/signal emission data set for each receptacle with the time stamps of the first time/temperature data set that correspond with the specific temperature. Signal emissions of receptacles subject to the second thermal cycling process are synchronized with specific temperatures of the second thermal cycling process by comparing time stamps of the second time/signal emission data set for each receptacle with the time stamps of the second time/temperature data set that correspond with the specific temperature.
US11966085B2
An optical transceiver includes an input assembly, an output port, a fiber patch panel, multiple first optical fibers and multiple second optical fibers. The input assembly is arranged on a circuit board and has a first input port and a second input port. The fiber patch panel is arranged between the input assembly and the output port, and has multiple first fiber patch slots and multiple second fiber patch slots. The first optical fibers are connected to the first input port and the output port. The first optical fiber passes through the first fiber patch slot and the second fiber patch slot. The second optical fibers are connected to the second input port and the output port. The second optical fiber passes through the first fiber patch slot and the second fiber patch slot. The second fiber patch slot accommodates the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber.
US11966062B2
A head-mounted augmented reality device (10) includes a pair of optical modules (12) for the right and left eyes of the user, each having a collimating display source (14) optically coupled to a light guide (16) for directing image illumination towards an eye of the user. A support structure (20) is supported by the head of the user. An optical bench (22) provides a first set of alignment features (26, 28, 32, 74) for aligning and affixing the right optical module and a second set of alignment features (26, 28, 32, 74) for aligning and affixing the left optical module. A suspension arrangement suspends the optical bench relative to the support structure. The optical bench (22) provides the sole mechanical connection between the pair of optical modules (12) and the support structure (20).
US11966061B2
A near-eye display system including an optics module coupled with an electronics module having a controller. Wherein the optics module includes a planar waveguide operable to display virtual images, and a camera operable to capture pictures and videos. The planar waveguide coupled with the camera via the optics module, whereby a first view through the planar waveguide is oriented to be the same as a second view by the camera.
US11966024B2
Disclosed is a camera optical lens, comprising, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a negative refractive power; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power; wherein, the camera optical lens satisfies: 1.40≤(R3+R4)/(R3−R4)≤5.00; −12.00≤f3/f≤−6.80; 1.30≤(R7+R8)/(R7−R8)≤4.00; 2.10≤d7/d9≤3.50; and 0.80≤d4/d6≤1.60. The camera optical lens provided by the present disclosure has a large aperture, a wide angle and ultra-thinness while having good optical performance.
US11966021B2
Disclosed is a camera optical lens including nine lenses, the nine lenses from an object side to an image side being: a first lens with a negative refractive power, a second lens with a positive refractive power, a third lens with a positive refractive power, a fourth lens with a negative refractive power, a fifth lens with a negative refractive power, a sixth lens with a positive refractive power, a seventh lens with a negative refractive power, an eighth lens with a positive refractive power and an ninth lens with a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies: −4.50≤f1/f≤−2.00; 5.50≤d5/d6≤32.00. The camera optical lens has good optical performance, and meets the design requirements of large apertures, wide-angle and ultra-thin.
US11966019B2
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, from an object-side to an-image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and an eight lens, which satisfies following conditions: 0.95≤f/TTL; −3.50≤f2/f≤−1.80; and 0.30≤(R5+R6)/(R5−R6)≤0.90; where TTL denotes a total optical length from an object-side surface of the first lens to an image surface of the camera optical lens along an optic axis; f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens; f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens; R5 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the third lens; R6 denotes a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the third lens. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting the design requirement for long focal length and ultra-thinness.
US11966016B2
A camera optical lens is provided, including from an object side to an image side: a first lens; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens, the camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: −2.80≤f1/f≤−1.20; 1.20≤d9/d11≤1.90; 1.20≤(R7+R8)/(R7−R8)≤5.00; 0.70≤f2/f≤1.00, where f denotes focal length of the camera optical lens; f1 denotes focal length of the first lens; f2 denotes focal length of the second lens; R7 denotes curvature radius of object side surface of the fourth lens; R8 denotes curvature radius of image side surface of the fourth lens; d9 denotes on-axis thickness of the fifth lens; d11 denotes on-axis thickness of the sixth lens. The above camera optical lens can meet design requirements for large aperture, wide angle and ultra-thinness, while maintaining good imaging quality.
US11966015B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially arranged in numerical order from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system and each having a refractive power, wherein an entire field of view of the optical imaging system is 50° or greater, and TTL/f<1.0, where TTL is a distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to the imaging plane, and f is an overall focal length of the optical imaging system.
US11966014B2
An optical imaging lens group includes, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first lens has positive refractive power, and both an object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are convex; the second lens has refractive power, and an object-side surface thereof is convex; the third lens has refractive power, and an object-side surface thereof is concave; the fourth lens has refractive power; the fifth lens has refractive power; the sixth lens has refractive power, and an object-side surface thereof is convex; and the seventh lens has negative refractive power. An edge thickness ET6 of the sixth lens and a center thickness CT6 of the sixth lens along the optical axis satisfy 0.2
US11966010B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, and a camera module disposed in an inner space of the housing, wherein the camera module includes an image sensor and a plurality of lenses aligned with the image sensor, and wherein at least one of the plurality of lenses includes a first area formed to transfer at least a part of an external light to the image sensor and a second area including a light absorbing layer formed to absorb the at least a part of the external light and to penetrate from an outer surface of the lens into an inner space with a predetermined depth.
US11965992B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system includes a laser and a calibration unit. The laser is configured to generate a laser beam based on a particular laser waveform that is associated with at least one parameter of a plurality of parameters. The calibration unit is configured to determine a particular value for the at least one parameter of the plurality of parameters to compensate for distortion characteristics of the laser. The calibration unit is configured to determine the particular value based on an output frequency of the laser beam. The calibration unit is configured to update the particular laser waveform with the particular value of the at least one parameter of the plurality of parameters.
US11965990B2
A lidar sensor device according to an embodiment includes a data generation unit that generates light identification data, an optical modulation unit that generates a plurality of modulated signals for the optical identification data by performing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation on the optical identification data and generates a plurality of laser signals respectively corresponding to the plurality of modulated signals and having different frequencies, and a transmission unit that simultaneously transmits the plurality of laser signals to different measurement points according to the frequencies, respectively.
US11965989B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide an optical sensing system and an optical sensing method thereof. The optical sensing system comprises a light source configured to emit an optical signal into an environment surrounding the optical sensing system. The optical sensing system further comprises a photodetector configured to receive the optical signal reflected from the environment of the optical sensing system, and convert the optical signal to an electrical signal, where the photodetector is disposed in a package. The optical sensing system additionally comprises a readout circuit configured to generate a readout signal based on the electrical signal received from the photodetector, where the readout circuit is disposed in the same package as the photodetector and connected to the photodetector through routings in the package.
US11965987B2
A driver circuit includes: a first node connected to a first signal line; a first switch transistor provided between a first power supply and a first capacitor; a second switch transistor provided between a second power supply and a second capacitor; a third switch transistor provided between the first capacitor and the first node; and a fourth switch transistor provided between the second capacitor and the first node.
US11965973B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) measures one or more positioning reference signal (PRS) resources of at least one PRS instance, and processes the one or more PRS resources of the at least one PRS instance during a PRS processing gap, wherein the PRS processing gap comprises a period of time during which the UE prioritizes PRS processing over reception, processing, or both of other downlink signals and channels.
US11965970B2
A light receiving element and a ranging system is provided which achieve improvement of pixel characteristics while allowing variation in a breakdown voltage of an SPAD. The light receiving element includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels is arranged in a matrix, and a pixel driving unit configured to control respective pixels of the pixel array to be active pixels or non-active pixels. The pixel includes an SPAD, a transistor connected to the SPAD in series, an inverter configured to output a detection signal indicating incidence of a photon on the SPAD, a first transistor which is switched on or off in accordance with control of the pixels to be the active pixels or the non-active pixels, and a second transistor connected to the first transistor in series.
US11965967B2
A computer implemented scheme for a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system where point cloud feature extraction and segmentation by efficiently is achieved by: (1) data structuring; (2) edge detection; and (3) region growing.
US11965966B1
A method for steering a beam is disclosed. According to the method, a scene is scanned with a surface emitting grating optically coupled to a free propagation region. The free propagation region is optically coupled to waveguides. The waveguides are disposed at different angles to the surface emitting grating. The scanning includes scanning in a first dimension by cycling through a cross connect to illuminate each waveguide of the waveguides. Scanning in a second dimension is performed by tuning a wavelength of light used to illuminate the waveguides.
US11965963B2
The laser radar includes a clock generator, a projection unit configured to project pulse laser light in synchronization with a clock signal, a light reception unit configured to receive reflected light, a counter configured to count a counter value which is the number of clock signals generated from a projection timing until a light reception timing, a delay circuit in which a plurality of stages of delay units are connected and to which the clock signal is successively input, and a time calculation unit configured to calculate a round trip time of the pulse laser light on the basis of the counter value and the number of hops which is the number of stages of the delay units to which a head of the clock signal is transmitted in a period of the clock signal including the light reception timing.
US11965953B2
A radar data transceiver, a ranging method, and a LiDAR are provided. The transceiver includes: a synchronization module, configured to generate a synchronization signal and send the synchronization signal to an emission module and a receiving module separately; the emission module, connected with the synchronization module and configured to delay the synchronization signal according to a preset delay policy, generate a first emission signal, and emit the first emission signal; and the receiving module, connected with the synchronization module and configured to receive a reflected signal, generate a first histogram according to the reflected signal and the synchronization signal, and superimpose histograms obtained by n measurements to generate an echo signal.
US11965950B2
A method for generating a perfusion weighted image using arterial spin labeling (ASL) with segmented acquisitions includes dividing an anatomical area of interest into a plurality of slices and performing a multi-band (MB) echo planar imaging (EPI) acquisition process using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system to acquire a control image dataset representative of the plurality of slices using a central-to-peripheral or peripheral-to-central slice acquisition order. An ASL preparation process is performed using the MRI system to magnetically label protons in arterial blood water in an area upstream from the anatomical area of interest. Following a post-labeling delay time period, the MB EPI acquisition process is performed to a labeled image dataset corresponding to the slices using the central-to-peripheral or peripheral-to-central slice acquisition order. A perfusion weighted image of the anatomical area is generated by subtracting the labeled image dataset from the control image dataset.
US11965948B2
According to one embodiment, a medical information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to derive an index value with respect to noise included in data associated with magnetic resonance signals collected by each of a plurality of reception coils, adjust a degree to which noise is removed from the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals based on the derived index value, remove noise from the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals based on the adjusted degree, and perform compositing of the data associated with the magnetic resonance signals from which noise has been removed.
US11965944B2
Disclosed is a compact, multi-user magnetic tracking system. In an embodiment, a compactness is achieved by using a single coil and inertial sensors at the transmitter and magnetometers and inertial sensors at the receiver for sensing the magnetic field generated by the single coil and for determining a position and attitude of the receiver relative to the transmitter. The transmitter and receiver each include a wireless transceiver for exchanging clock synchronization data and sending transmitter attitude data to the receiver. In another embodiment, frequency or time division multiplexing is used to differentiate between multiple users of the multi-user magnetic tracking system.
US11965941B2
A magnetic sensor includes a magnetic sensor chip that includes a magnetoresistive effect element and a sealed part. The magnetoresistive effect element includes a free layer and a pinned layer. The sealed part has a first surface and a second surface, which is opposite the first surface. The shape of the sealed part in the plan view from the first surface side is substantially quadrilateral. The substantially quadrilateral shape has a first side and a second side, which are substantially parallel to each other. In the plan view, from the first surface side of the sealed part, the magnetization direction of the pinned layer, in a state in which the external magnetic field is not applied on the magnetoresistive effect element, is inclined with respect to an approximately straight line found through the least squares method using a plurality of points arbitrarily set on the first side.
US11965933B2
A battery monitoring device includes: a pair of terminals for measuring voltage or current of a battery, and to which a filter unit including a capacitive element is connected; an AD converter that measures a waveform of voltage between the terminals during charging or discharging of the capacitive element; and a time constant calculation unit that calculates a time constant of the filter unit based on the waveform measured. The AD converter is, for example, a first AD converter or a second AD converter. The filter unit is, for example, a first filter unit or a second filter unit.
US11965930B2
The disclosure describes novel methods and apparatuses for controlling a device's TCA circuit when the device exists in a JTAG daisy-chain arrangement with other devices. The methods and apparatuses allow the TCA test pattern set used during device manufacturing to be reused when the device is placed in a JTAG daisy-chain arrangement with other devices, such as in a customer's system using the device. Additional embodiments are also provided and described in the disclosure.
US11965920B1
A method for achieving terminal-pair definition of four-terminal-pair (4TP) impedance and an application thereof are provided, which belongs to the field of precision measurement and metrology. A current output terminal of a two-stage follower is connected to a high current terminal of impedance through a coaxial line, and a voltage output terminal of the two-stage follower is connected to a high voltage terminal of the impedance through the coaxial line, which makes current of the high voltage terminal be 0, and core wire currents and outer wire currents of the high current terminal equal and reverse. The terminal-pair definition of the 4TP impedance can be satisfied; and the follower is added to make a bridge ratio variable and isolate effects of bridge load changes, thereby accelerating a balancing speed of the 4TP impedance bridge, and achieving accurate and fast comparative measurement having high precision of the 4TP AC impedance.
US11965918B2
An electric meter includes a housing, a first set of connection paths, and a second set of connection paths. The first set of connection paths couple to a meter socket and are electrically coupled to a first electrical connection path between first phases of an electric distribution power source, a distributed energy resource device, and a load. First electrical metrology components of the first electrical connection path are positioned within a first segment of the housing. The second set of connection paths couple to a meter socket and are electrically coupled to a second electrical connection path between second phases of the electric distribution power source, the distributed energy resource device, and the load. Second electrical metrology components of the second electrical connection path are positioned within a second segment of the housing that is non-overlapping with the first segment of the housing.
US11965906B2
A closed-loop microelectromechanical accelerometer includes a substrate of semiconductor material, an out-of-plane sensing mass and feedback electrodes. The out-of-plane sensing mass, of semiconductor material, has a first side facing the supporting body and a second side opposite to the first side. The out-of-plane sensing mass is also connected to the supporting body to oscillate around a non-barycentric fulcrum axis parallel to the first side and to the second side and perpendicular to an out-of-plane sensing axis. The feedback electrodes are capacitively coupled to the sensing mass and are configured to apply opposite electrostatic forces to the sensing mass.
US11965898B2
An automatic nucleic acid detection system and a method thereof are disclosed. The automatic nucleic acid detection method includes: performing, by an automatic control subsystem, on a nucleic acid extraction machine platform, a nucleic acid extraction on one or more specimens in a sample tray to generate one or more corresponding nucleic acids in the sample tray; distributing, by the automatic control subsystem, on a nucleic acid distribution machine platform, the nucleic acid in each hole of the sample tray and a first reagent into a plurality of holes of a detection tray, wherein the number of holes of the detection tray is greater than that of the sample tray; and performing, by the automatic control subsystem, on a nucleic acid detection machine platform, a nucleic acid detection on the detection tray.
US11965895B2
The present invention relates to, in part, methods of improved healthcare in female subjects that, for example, relay on menstrual fluid sampling for long term biomarker monitoring.
US11965885B2
Methods and kits for diagnosing or monitoring systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a subject are provided. Particularly, the present invention relates to a specific antibody reactivity profile useful in diagnosing or monitoring SLE in a subject.
US11965884B2
A method of quantitating free (unbound) human C5 complement protein (C5) from a sample comprising: binding biotinylated anti-C5 capture antibody to strepavidin-coated particles; capturing the free (unbound) C5 in the sample; detecting the captured free C5; and quantitating the captured free C5 using laser-induced fluorescence detection; wherein the method is performed in a Gyros Bioaffy 200 CD in a Gyrolab xPlore or a Gyrolab XP instrument.
US11965883B2
Provided are point of care sensor systems that include portable readers and disposable cartridges for receiving and analyzing samples. A cartridge may be equipped with one or more sensor channels, each containing one or more sensors. After providing a sample to a cartridge, the cartridge can be inserted into a reader, which can interact with the cartridge to perform on-cartridge sensing and receive signals indicating the presence and/or quantity of one or more targets in the sample. Examples of cartridges can include cardiac panels, sepsis panels and the like. In some embodiments, the same sensor hardware may be configured for multiple measurements of different targets conducted at different time frames. Also provided herein are novel on-cartridge solid and liquid reagent storage and delivery mechanisms.
US11965876B1
The present disclosure generally pertains to a biomimetic apparatus configured to simulate physiological conditions by, in part, providing for both barrier and transport interfaces. The presently disclosed apparatus may be used to: test therapeutics for different diseases; to study transport; form a substrate for any organ tissue with a barrier and/or transport function; provide a closed loop assembly for fluid flow; mimic underlying and enveloped tissue; and model external environmental conditions.
US11965871B2
Disclosed are a method and system for intelligent source tracing of organic pollution of a water body, which belongs to the technical field of environmental analytical chemistry. The method comprises: acquiring organic matter analysis and detection data from water samples of a polluted water body through high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry; performing high-throughput screening on the organic matter in the water samples according to said data to determine pollutants; identifying pollution sources by means of network analysis according to the determined pollutants; and according to the identified pollution sources and the organic pollutants, determining key pollutants and quantifying the pollution contributions thereof by using a machine learning classification model. The present invention can achieve intelligent tracing of the pollution sources and the key pollutants thereof in the case of the pollution sources being unknown, and provide technical support for investigation and control of organic pollution in a water environment.
US11965867B2
A sensing element for a chemiresistor sensor and a method of making such a sensing element is disclosed. The sensing element may include: one or more first type of 3D elements, each comprising a first type of chemiresistor particles; and one or more second type of 3D elements, each comprising a second type of chemiresistor particles. At least one of the one or more first type of 3D elements and at least one of the one or more second type of 3D elements may have one or more joint surface. The first type of chemiresistor particles may differ from the second type of chemiresistor particles by at least one of: a type of nanoparticle core and a type of organic ligands bonded to each nanoparticle core.
US11965865B2
A peak analyzing method for separating overlapping peaks observed in a second signal waveform representing a relationship between a second parameter and a signal intensity into a plurality of individual peaks originating from different factors based on signal patterns observed in a dimension of a first parameter, the method including at least: performing singular value decomposition on an input matrix expressing three-dimensional data to be processed; estimating characteristic orientations within a space spanned by a plurality of basis vectors by performing a geometric analysis on a trajectory defined by a plurality of weighting vectors in an SVD projection space whose number of dimensions is equal to a lowered rank given by a singular value decomposition process; and deconvoluting signal waveforms in a first matrix of a dimension of the first parameter by a transformation matrix.
US11965863B2
A liquid chromatography system includes a solvent delivery system, a sample manager including a sample delivery system in fluidic communication with the solvent delivery system, the sample delivery system configured to inject a sample from a sample-vial into a chromatographic flow stream, a liquid chromatography column located downstream from the sample delivery system, and a detector located downstream from the liquid chromatography column. The sample delivery system further includes a first needle drive including a first sample needle configured to extract the sample from the sample-vial and deliver the sample to the liquid chromatography column, and a first syringe in communication with the first sample needle configured to meter extraction of the sample from the sample-vial. The sample manager further includes a sample automation system that includes a second needle drive including a second sample needle configured to add a volume of reagent to the sample-vial.
US11965861B2
Disclosed is an equivalent acceleration method of creep loads based on a consistent failure mode. The equivalent acceleration method includes obtaining corresponding tensile strengths; obtaining corresponding creep rupture time; establishing rupture time law, minimum creep rate law and rupture strain law; calculating the value of parameter p in creep damage accumulation model; and dividing the failure mode consistency interval of creep load under variable temperature and variable load. The damage caused by the creep load in the failure mode consistency interval is calculated by using the multi-grade variable temperature and variable load creep nonlinear damage accumulation model, the damage is accelerated to the maximum creep load state in the failure mode consistency interval according to the principle of damage equivalence, and finally the equivalent acceleration of creep load is realized.
US11965860B2
Provided is a test system for hard rock breaking by a microwave intelligent loading based on true triaxial stress, including: a true triaxial stress loading device consisting of a loading frame and a rock sample moving structure; a microwave-induced hard rock breaking device consisting of an excitation cavity, a rectangular waveguide, a magnetron, a thermocouple, a circulator, a cold water circulation device, a flowmeter, a power meter, an automatic impedance tuner, a coupler, a microwave heater and a shielding cavity; and a dynamic rock response monitoring and intelligent microwave parameter control system consisting of a CCD industrial camera, a temperature acquisition device and an anti-electromagnetic high-temperature resistant acoustic wave-acoustic emission integrated sensor. According to the test system, the microwave-induced hard rock breaking test, dynamic monitoring temperature and rock breaking in microwave-induced breaking process and intelligent control over microwave power and heating time are achieved.
US11965859B1
System and methods are provided for empirical analysis of remaining life in electromechanical devices. Sensors are positioned to generate signals representing sound energy emitted by devices, and digital sound data are stored corresponding thereto. The system classifies sound characteristics and their corresponding impact on wear rate over time via recurring analysis of the stored sound data. For a selected device, a wear state is estimated based on a comparison of current sound energy emitted therefrom with respect to sound data for a comparable group of electromechanical devices, and it may be ascertained whether certain classified sound characteristics are present in digital sound data corresponding to the selected electromechanical device. Output signals are selectively generated based on the estimated wear state and/or classified sound characteristics ascertained to be present, e.g. providing indicators of said sound characteristics in association with the digital sound data, and/or providing notification of detected intervention events.
US11965855B2
The present utility model relates to a device for improving gas detection in a photoionization detector. A gas detector is provided. The device reduces interference of photoelectric noise on the reading of the gas detector for target gases such as volatile organic compounds.
US11965852B2
A microelectromechanical sensor includes a base, a heater provided on the base, and a sensing electrode including a sensing portion. The heater includes a heating portion. The heater and the sensing electrode are provided at different layers in a stacking direction, and the sensing electrode is electrically insulated from the heater. On a reference plane in the stacking direction, a projection of the sensing portion of the sensing electrode is entirely covered by a projection of the heating portion of the heater.
US11965851B2
Methods of using grids in connection with suitable microscopy techniques, such as for determining the structure of target compounds including proteins, are disclosed. Said grid comprising a coating modified with one or more capture agents and a deactivating agent.
US11965850B2
The present invention provides a vapor-permeable flexible sensing platform unit comprising: a first porous membrane, wherein said membrane is substantially flexible and hydrophobic; and a volatile organic compounds (VOCs) sensor disposed on said membrane, the VOCs sensor comprising an electrode array and a conducting polymer porous film being in electric contact with said electrode array, wherein the VOCs sensor is insensitive to lateral strain. Further provided are a method of preparation of said platform unit and a lift-off, float-on (LOFO) method for the preparation of protonically doped polyaniline (PANI) thin films.
US11965845B2
The present invention provides a device and a method for measuring fluid saturation in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) on-line displacement, the method comprising: measuring a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) T2 spectrum under the dead volume filling of the on-line displacement system as displacing phase fluid and the core to be measured as saturated nuclear magnetic detection phase fluid to generate a calibrated T2 spectrum; measuring a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) T2 spectrum of a process in which the core to be measured is converted from a saturated displaced phase fluid into a displacing phase fluid to generate a displacement process T2 spectrum; generating the fluid saturation of the on-line displacement system in real time according to the generated calibrated T2 spectrum and the displacement process T2 spectrum. The present invention achieves the purpose of improving measurement precision of fluid saturation in the on-line displacement process.
US11965841B2
A surface analyzer is provided with a measuring unit, a scatter diagram generation unit, a cluster analysis unit, and a cluster region detection unit. The measuring unit acquires a signal reflecting a quantity of each of a plurality of components or elements that are analysis targets at a plurality of positions on a sample. The scatter diagram generation unit generates a scatter diagram based on a measurement result by the measuring unit. The cluster analysis unit performs the clustering of points in the scatter diagram. The cluster region detection unit acquires, based on clustering information given to each point in the scatter diagram by the cluster analysis unit, for each cluster, cluster region boundary information on a polygon having a predetermined number or less of vertices.
US11965838B2
A portable assessment kit for measuring metal content of an aqueous solution. The kit includes a sample container having an opening at its first end for containing a sample of the aqueous solution, a disc holder having a first end for detachably attaching the disc holder to the opening of the sample container, a pre-concentration disc for collecting metals and being arrangeable in the disc holder. The pre-concentration has a first side and a second side. The kit further includes means for pumping the sample through the opening of the sample container to the first side of the pre-concentration disc and a measurement device for measuring amount of metals in the pre-concentration disc.
US11965821B1
An optical fiber sensing system for temperature and salinity synchronous measurement is provided, which includes a broad-spectrum light source, an optical fiber circulator, a coupler, a first interferometer, a second interferometer, a third interferometer and a spectrometer; the first interferometer is insensitive to temperature and salinity; the second interferometer is sensitive to both temperature and salinity, and the third interferometer is only sensitive to temperature; light emitted by the broad-spectrum light source passes through the optical fiber circulator and enters the first interferometer; reflected light of the first interferometer passes through the optical fiber circulator and the coupler sequentially, and then enters the second and the third interferometers respectively; the reflected light of the second and the third interferometers enters the spectrometer after passing through the coupler; the temperature and the salinity to be measured are simultaneously obtained by performing spectral analysis of the reflected light entering the spectrometer.
US11965819B2
A method is provided for determining whether post-weld heat treatments should be required for external attachment welds in applications where stress corrosion cracking is a possibility. According to the method, residual stress values are measured in test samples welded at high input heat levels and test samples welded at low input heat levels for a variety of different wall thickness. A threshold residual stress level is determined according to a method of selecting a common pipe used in industry and measuring the residual stress level in the longitudinal seam of the pipe. The measured residual stress values for the high and low heat input welds are compared against the threshold to determine whether for a particular wall thickness, the high and low input data exceeds the threshold, indicating whether post-weld heat treatments are required.
US11965817B2
Disclosed is a cell classification method, to be executed by an analyzer, for classifying cells contained in a specimen, including: preparing a first measurement sample by treating a specimen under a first preparation condition; obtaining a first signal from the prepared first measurement sample; classifying, by using the first signal, cells contained in the first measurement sample; preparing a second measurement sample by treating the specimen under a second preparation condition different from the first preparation condition; obtaining a second signal from the prepared second measurement sample; classifying, by using the second signal, cells contained in the second measurement sample; and comparing a result of the cell classification performed by using the first signal and a result of the cell classification performed by using the second signal, with each other, and outputting an analysis result including a number of cells on the basis of a result of the comparison.
US11965816B2
This disclosure concerns a cytometry system including a handling system that enables presentation of single cells to at least one laser source. The laser source is configured to deliver light to a cell within the cells in order to induce bond vibrations in the cellular DNA. The system further includes a detection facility that detects the signature of the bond vibrations, wherein the bond vibration signature is used to determine the folding or packing of the DNA.
US11965815B2
A particle analyzer, comprising a source of a substantially nondiffracting light beam; a flow path configured to produce in a flowcell a ribbon-like core stream having a specific cross-sectional aspect ratio; the flowcell being configured to expose a segment of the core stream to the light beam; a detector configured to receive a signal resulting from an interaction of a particle in the core stream with the light beam; a first sorting actuator connected with the flowcell, downstream of the exposed segment of core stream; a plurality of sorting channels in fluid connection with the flow path and downstream of the first actuator; the actuator having multiple actuation states, each state configured to direct at least one part of the core stream to a corresponding channel; a second sorting actuator connected with the flowcell, opposite the first actuator, and operable in coordination with the first actuator.
US11965812B2
Described herein are apparatuses and methods for analyzing an optical signal decay. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes: a source of a beam of pulsed optical energy; a sample holder configured to expose a sample to the beam; a detector comprising a number of spectral detection channels configured to convert the optical signals into respective electrical signals; and a signal processing module configured to perform a method. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving the electrical signals from the detector; mathematically combining individual decay curves in the electrical signals into a supercurve, the supercurve comprising a number of components, each component having a time constant and a relative contribution to the supercurve; and quantifying a relative contribution of each component to the supercurve.
US11965801B2
A measurement system includes a measurement device including a light source, and a first power meter, and one or a plurality of connection members each configured to optically connect a pair of optical fiber lines of the plurality of optical fiber lines. A first optical fiber line of the pair of optical fiber lines includes a first end and a second end, a second optical fiber line of the pair of optical fiber lines includes a third end and a fourth end, the one or plurality of connection members optically connect the second end to the fourth end, the light source causes testing light to be incident on the first end, and the first power meter measures first intensity of first output light output from the third end by causing the testing light to propagate through the pair of optical fiber lines.
US11965780B2
Improved resolution of a time-varying optical measurement is provided with optical intensity modulator(s) having a bandwidth greater than that of the detector array(s). The modulator configuration can have high photon collection efficiency, e.g. by using polarization modulation to split the incident light into several time-gated channels.
US11965765B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for predicting gas transmission loss of smart gas, implemented by a smart gas equipment management platform of an Internet of Things (IoT) system for predicting gas transmission loss of smart gas, comprising: obtaining gas flow data, gas pressure data, and ambient temperature data of a plurality of time points respectively based on gas metering devices, pressure detection devices, and temperature monitoring devices at a plurality of positions of a gas pipeline network; predicting a gas metering error based on the ambient temperature data; determining whether gas loss is abnormal loss based on the gas flow data, the gas pressure data, and the gas metering error; and in response to a determination that the gas loss is the abnormal loss, sending a warning notice.
US11965764B2
A method for unloading a payload at a loading station includes selecting the payload to be unloaded from different payloads and registering a total target quantity of the selected payload to be unloaded at the loading station as a target quantity unit, a current total quantity of the selected payload that has already been unloaded at the loading station as an actual quantity unit, a number of already performed unloading procedures corresponding to a quantity of the selected payload that has already been unloaded at the loading station, or a difference between the target quantity unit and the actual quantity unit.
US11965763B2
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for measuring fluid flow across a pump used in a system for precisely and accurately metering fluid. The systems, devices, and methods can use contactless approaches to measure the properties of the fluid being pumped. The measured properties can be used to precisely and accurately determine the flow rate through the pump.
US11965749B2
Systems, methods, and autonomous vehicles for automated lane conflict estimation may obtain map data associated with a map of a geographic location including a roadway, determine, based on the map data, a relative lane geometry between a first lane segment and a second lane segment of a pair of overlapping lane segments; process, with a machine learning model, the relative lane geometry and a type of a traffic signal or sign associated with the pair of overlapping lane segments to generate a prediction of whether the first lane segment yields to the second lane segment for a given state of the traffic signal or sign; and use the prediction to at least one of generate a map including the lane segment associated with the prediction, facilitate at least one autonomous driving operation of an autonomous vehicle, or any combination thereof.
US11965745B2
A system and method generates and recommends a short and pleasant path between a source s and destination d in a geo-location such as a city or city center. The routes are not only short but emotionally pleasant, offering an engaging user experience, going beyond just showing paths on a map.
US11965744B2
The present disclosure is related to systems and methods for indoor positioning. The method includes obtaining a first location of a subject at a first time point. The method also includes determining one or more motion parameters associated with the subject at least based on one or more sensors carried by the subject. The method further includes determining, based on the first location of the subject and the one or more motion parameters associated with the subject, a second location of the subject at a second time point after the first time point. The method still further includes adjusting, at least based on surroundings information associated with the subject at the second time point, the second location of the subject to determine a target location of the subject.
US11965737B2
A non-destructive and non-contact test system quantifies the cellulose and/or plastic content in a given composite material board sample using capacitive sensors. The system includes a ground plate and a capacitive sensor probe system with programmed instructions to calibrate to a predetermined dielectric, determine, in a composite board placed in between the capacitive sensor and the ground plate, an equivalent thickness of material emitting the predetermined dielectric, and convert the equivalent thickness into a weight percentage of the material in the board.
US11965721B2
The tracer projectile having a closure disk assembly is described. The tracer projectile includes a projectile base with a tracer cavity formed therein. A pyrotechnic charge is pressed into the tracer cavity and is ignitable by burning propellant such that a trajectory of the projectile is visible when fired. A closure disk assembly covers and seals the tracer cavity. A crown of the closure disk assembly is supported on a ring flange formed by an annular groove in the projectile base. A sidewall of the closure disk assembly surrounds the ring flange. A retaining element is disposed in the annular groove and engages a rim of the closure disk assembly for securing the closure disk assembly to the projectile base over the tracer cavity.
US11965714B2
Video sources and inertial sensors are attached to a weapon and to goggles. A computer receives video images from the weapon- and goggles-mounted sources and inertial data from the sensors. The computer calculates a location for an image from the weapon-mounted source within an image from the goggles-mounted source using the inertial sensor data. The sensor-based location is checked (and possibly adjusted) based on a comparison of the images. A database contains information about real-world objects in a field of view of the goggles-mounted source, and is used to generate icons or other graphics concerning such objects.
US11965712B2
Embodiments include archery sights mounted or mountable on an archery bow. The sight incorporates a sight pin and an adjustment assembly in combination with an electronic module to indicate or control the desired position of the sight pin. The electronic module calculates and displays correlated target distances based on the position of the sight pin.
US11965711B2
The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets.
US11965699B2
A heat exchanger includes a body, a plurality of first flow channels defined in the body; and a plurality of second flow channels defined in the body. The second flow channels are fluidly isolated from the first flow channels. The first flow channels and second flow channels are arranged in a checkerboard pattern.
US11965683B2
The present invention relates to a cooling system for a low temperature storage. The cooling system for the low temperature storage according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first outdoor valve disposed between a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger and selectively restricting an inflow of a refrigerant into the outdoor heat exchanger; and a first bypass pipe branched from an inlet side of the first outdoor valve and guiding the refrigerant to bypass the outdoor heat exchanger, so that the refrigerant can be guided to bypass the outdoor heat exchanger during defrosting operation of the cooling system.
US11965674B2
An air purifier or air conditioner including a filter device. The air purifier includes: a main body: a suction port provided to allow air to flow into the main body; a filter provided in the main body to filter the air suctioned from the suction port and including a frame and a filter body fixed to the frame; an auxiliary filter member separably mounted on the filter; and a locking device provided on the frame of the filter such that the auxiliary filter member is separably mounted on the frame of the filter.
US11965668B2
A device for managing a temperature according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a conversion controller that estimates an indoor set temperature based on a temperature of air returned from a target zone and an operating time of a state converter, and controls a state conversion amount of the state converter by comparing the estimated indoor set temperature with the temperature of the returned air, and a heat exchanger for varying the temperature of the returned air and providing the air whose temperature is varied to the target zone.
US11965664B2
The present disclosure provides systems, apparatuses, and methods for monitoring building efficiency by a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. In an aspect, an HVAC unit including a memory and a processor coupled with the memory is disclosed. The processor may be configured to establish a current building efficiency state value of a current run cycle of the HVAC system. The processor may also be configured to determine an building efficiency state deviation value based on a difference between an average building efficiency state value of a set of previous building efficiency state values and the current building efficiency state value. The processor may further be configured to determine whether the building efficiency state deviation value satisfies a building inefficiency threshold. The processor may also be configured to provide an indication including an inefficiency status to a device associated with the HVAC system based on a determination that the current building efficiency state satisfies the building inefficiency threshold.
US11965660B2
A water circulation system having a feed line, a return line, a string that connects the feed line to the return line is disclosed. A temperature control unit connects the feed line to the return line, a consumer, a valve, at least one temperature sensor and a system control. A method is disclosed which includes the steps of determining a first temperature, a second temperature and a lowering time; detecting the water temperature; controlling the first temperature by controlling the valve; and controlling the second temperature by controlling the valve during the lowering time.
US11965658B2
An electric heater includes a substrate (an insulating material capable of forming a conductor pattern on a surface of an insulating substrate), a first plane heating element formed on one surface of the substrate, and a second plane heating element formed on one surface of the substrate to be located outside the first plane heating element. The first plane heating element includes a first pattern portion connecting a start point with an end point located in a first zone, a pair of first electrodes located outside the first zone, and a pair of first connectors connecting the first pattern portion with the first electrodes. The second plane heating element includes a second pattern portion located in a second zone surrounding the first zone and connecting a start point with an end point, and at least some of the first connectors are located in the second zone.
US11965651B2
The continuous process of the present invention is intended to obtain dry biomass from two treatment steps by drying organic waste. The waste previously sieved and crushed waste are dumped into a first dryer, inside of which temperatures are between 280° C. and 300° C. at the inlet thereof and between 90° C. and 100° C. at the outlet, then passing to a conveyor belt where at room temperature a partial cool-down occurs and the waste is dumped into a second dryer inside of which the temperatures are between 180° C. and 200° C. at the inlet and between 75° C. and 85° C. at the exit, completing the process, during which the interior of the dryers is maintained in negative pressure through exhaust flow and the oxygen content is kept between 5 and 7%.
US11965650B2
A photoconversion device includes a first wavelength converter and a long-pass filter. The first wavelength converter receives excitation light from an output portion and emits fluorescence having a longer wavelength than the excitation light. The long-pass filter transmits the fluorescence emitted by the first wavelength converter and reflects the excitation light transmitted through or reflected from the first wavelength converter to enter the first wavelength converter.
US11965643B1
The present application relates to a split head lamp of a built-in energy storage element. The split head lamp includes a head lamp body, a connecting line and an external power source. The head lamp body includes a light-emitting assembly, a circuit board, an energy storage element, and a Micro Control Unit (MCU) chip; the MCU chip is mounted on the circuit board; the circuit board is provided with an energized interface for plugging in the connecting line; power supply of the energy storage element and the external power source is regulated by a program stored in the MCU chip; and the energized interface is a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface. a power supply system has better interchangeability; and through the present application, lighting may also be continuously temporarily provided when the external power source is replaced or is low, such that the split head lamp is more user-friendly.
US11965622B2
The present invention is directed towards a system for hanging an article under a structure, the system comprising a structure comprising at least one plank; an article; and at least one bracket comprising a structure engaging portion structured and arranged to contact a top surface of at least one plank; a bottom extension portion structured and arranged to be coupled to the structure engaging portion and having a length that extends below a bottom surface of the plank; and an article engaging portion structured and arranged to be coupled to the article. Also disclosed are methods of hanging an article underneath a structure, and a bracket.
US11965611B2
Provided is a threaded pipe having a pin member connecting to a box member. The pin member contains wedge-shaped pin threads that extends in a helical direction around the outside surface of its pipe end. The pin member is tapered to result in an increasing diameter of the pin threads away from the front end of its pipe. The box member contains a wedge-shaped box thread that stretches in a helical direction around the inside surface of its pipe end. The box member is tapered to result in a decreasing diameter of the box threads away from the front end of its pipe. The pin crest of the pin member increases in width along the pin thread and the box root of the box thread decreases in width along the box thread. When assembled together, the pin thread crest increases in width at a different rate than the box thread root increase in width.
US11965610B2
An electric valve and an assembly method therefor. The provision of multilayered sealing of a first sealing element, a second sealing element, and a sealing medium located between the first sealing element and the second sealing element along the axial direction of a valve stem is conducive to restricting outward leakage of a fluid along the axial direction of the valve stem.
US11965603B2
The present disclosure pertains to a system configured to protect flows in piping systems using minimal spare components. Some embodiments may provide: a first piping subsystem configured to receive a portion of the input flow; a second piping subsystem configured to receive the portion of the input flow by substituting for the first subsystem; a test subsystem configured to detect whether each of the first and second subsystems is able to vent when at least one, in the each subsystem, of a respective pressure and a respective pressure rate satisfies first and second criteria, respectively; and first and second pilots configured to detect a maximum pressure and a maximum pressure rate, respectively, of the portion of the first and second subsystems.
US11965602B2
A valve for a vacuum apparatus includes a first housing element and a second housing element wherein an outer chamber is defined by the first housing element and the second housing element. The first housing element has a first opening and the second housing element has a second opening in fluid communication with the first opening via the outer chamber. An inner chamber is defined by the first housing element and the second housing element wherein a membrane is disposed in the inner chamber. A sealing element is connected to the membrane and is moveable from a first position to a second position wherein in the first position the sealing element closes the first opening in a leak-tight manner and in the second position the sealing element opens the first opening to allow a gaseous medium to flow through the valve.
US11965601B2
In a flow path switching valve, when a valve rod is shifted toward a first back pressure chamber, a first valve chamber is separated from the first back pressure chamber by a first valve element, and a second valve chamber is separated from an intermediate chamber by a second valve element. When the valve rod is shifted toward a second back pressure chamber, the first valve chamber is separated from the intermediate chamber by the first valve element, and the second valve chamber is separated from the second back pressure chamber by the second valve element. The valve rod has a pressure equalizing path through which the first back pressure chamber and the second back pressure chamber are connected.
US11965598B2
A monolithic break-seal includes a membrane that separates an outer ring from an inner ring. The inner ring is bonded to a vacuum cell and the outer ring is bonded to a vacuum interface. To protect against unintentional breakage of the membrane, a surface of the outer ring not bonded to the vacuum interface contacts the vacuum cell. An external vacuum system evacuates the vacuum cell through an aperture of the break-seal. Once a target vacuum level is reached for the vacuum cell, a cap is bonded to the inner ring, blocking the aperture and hermetically sealing the vacuum cell. The membrane is broken so that the hermetically sealed vacuum cell can be separated from the vacuum interface to which the outer ring remains bonded.
US11965596B2
A parking lock actuation system for a motor vehicle includes an actuation element that can be moved between a locking position, in which a parking lock of the motor vehicle is active, and an unlocking position, in which the parking lock is inactive. The system also includes a locking element which is designed to fix the actuation element in the unlocking position in a form-fitting manner; and an electric actuator which has an adjusting effect on the locking element. A current circuit which has an autonomous power source is connected to the electric actuator, and a bistable switch and a monostable opener arranged in series to the bistable switch are used in the current circuit.
US11965595B2
A park lock gear assembly for a transmission unit of a vehicle includes a transmission shaft, a park lock gear arranged on the transmission shaft, a housing unit of a motor unit and a bearing assembly. The housing unit has a portion extending parallel to the transmission shaft and adjacent to the park lock gear, and the bearing assembly is disposed between the park lock gear and the portion of the housing unit. The bearing assembly may be arranged with a radial clearance between the park lock gear and the portion of the housing unit. The bearing assembly may be arranged on the portion of the housing unit with the radial clearance between the bearing assembly and the park lock gear.
US11965593B2
A hydraulic control circuit includes a pressure regulator valve, a first pilot valve, a second pilot valve, and a third pilot valve. A first pilot pressure is introduced as a source pressure into the primary solenoid valve that generates a primary signal pressure and a secondary solenoid valve that generates a secondary signal pressure. A second pilot pressure is introduced as a source pressure into a lock-up solenoid valve that generates the lock-up signal pressure. A third pilot pressure is introduced as a damping pressure into a primary regulator valve that controls a primary pulley pressure according to the primary signal pressure, and into a secondary regulator valve that controls a secondary pulley pressure according to the secondary signal pressure.
US11965590B2
Methods and systems for lubricating a rotating shaft are provided. The lubrication system, in one example, includes a pump coupled to a central lubricant channel, the rotating shaft having a plurality of channels, an air intake channel positioned parallel to an axis of rotation of the rotating shaft, and a first orifice of a first channel of the plurality of channels, where the first orifice is positioned between the air intake channel and the central lubricant channel.
US11965586B2
An electromechanical actuator (100) is provided. The actuator comprises an electrical motor (110) controlling a ball ramp mechanism. The ball ramp mechanism is configured to allow for mutual rotation of a first and second rotational member (120, 30) up to a first torque of the electrical motor (110), and to allow for axial separation of the first and second rotational members (120, 130) at a second torque of the electrical motor (110).
US11965580B2
A dynamic viscoelastic vibration neutralizer for industrial pipes includes a metallic housing, to which the shaft supports are fixed, by screws. The supports of the viscoelastic pieces and the supports of the housing itself, allow the junction of the device with the system to be controlled. An oscillating mass, fixed in the center of a metallic shaft, is supported by the shaft supports. two sets of viscoelastic pieces, are fixed by one of their ends to the supports of the viscoelastic pieces and by the other to the oscillating mass.
US11965576B2
A damper device includes a first rotor, a second rotor, an elastic coupling part elastically coupling the first and second rotors in a rotational direction, and a hysteresis generating mechanism. The hysteresis generating mechanism generates a hysteresis torque and includes a friction member. The friction member is configured to make frictional contact with the first or second rotor. The friction member does not make frictional contact with the first and second rotors in a first torsion angular range where torsion is caused from a neutral condition to a first side and a second side in the rotational direction. The friction member makes frictional contact with the first or second rotor so as to generate a hysteresis torque in a second torsion angular range exceeding the first torsion angular range. The friction member is set in a neutral position by actuation of the elastic coupling part in the neutral condition.
US11965567B2
This disc brake includes a cylinder bore into which a piston is fitted, a seal groove provided in the cylinder bore as an annular groove, and a seal member which has a rectangular cross section shape and which is fitted into the seal groove and seal a space between the piston and the cylinder bore. The seal groove includes a bottom surface portion, a side surface portion, and a chamfered portion. The chamfered portion is formed to expand an opening of the seal groove in the axial direction of the cylinder bore and has two types of curvature radii (r1 and r2).
US11965562B2
An outer member of a rotation transmission device has an opening integral with an inner peripheral portion of the outer member. Engaging elements are disposed between an inner member and the inner peripheral portion. An outer ring is fitted to the inner peripheral portion. A first snap ring is attached to the inner peripheral portion. An inner ring is fitted to an end portion of the inner member at one axial end thereof. A second snap ring is attached to the end portion through the opening. A shaft is connected to the opening so as to be rotatable in unison with and coaxially with the outer member.
US11965560B2
A bearing assembly includes a bearing unit configured to support a rotating component relative to a stationary component and having a first stationary bearing ring configured to be connected to the stationary component in a rotationally fixed manner by a bearing carrier and a second rotatable bearing ring configured to be connected to the rotating component. The bearing carrier includes at least one electrical conductor configured to make electrical contact with the bearing unit and to make electrical contact with the stationary component or to be electrically connected to the stationary component when the bearing carrier is mounted to the stationary component.
US11965553B2
A bearing cage for a bearing assembly is disclosed herein. The bearing cage includes a first ring, a second ring, and a plurality of crossbars extending between the first ring and the second ring to define a plurality of rolling element pockets. A first terminal end of each of the plurality of crossbars is connected to the first ring and a second terminal end of each of the plurality of crossbars is connected to the second ring. A medial portion of each of the plurality of crossbars is defined between the first terminal end and the second terminal end, and a pair of recesses are defined on opposing circumferential sides of the medial portion.
US11965547B2
A bearing bush configured to support a journal of a journal cross of a cardan shaft includes a cylindrical circumferential wall that radially delimits an interior for receiving rolling elements and the journal and includes a base axially delimiting the interior. The base has a central holder configured to receive a slip disk for contacting the journal. The base may include a conical portion extending from the cylindrical circumferential wall and a flat central portion, and the holder may be formed as a depression in the flat central portion. Also a journal bearing assembly including the bearing bush.
US11965544B2
A ball stud track assembly includes a ball track and connector portion, the ball track comprising a back inner sidewall having a lower portion with a lower portion top surface and an upper portion having a retention ridge, an upper retaining arm extending from a front inner sidewall of the ball track and terminating at an upper arm end portion surface, and a lower retaining arm extending from the lower portion of the back inner sidewall and having a lower arm top surface, the upper arm end portion surface, the lower portion top surface, and the lower arm top surface extend to form a longitudinal ball channel having a central longitudinal ball channel axis, the ball channel configured to receive a ball stud head and allow sliding longitudinal movement, while restricting movement of the ball stud head along axes perpendicular to the central longitudinal ball channel axis.
US11965535B2
A screw includes a shank where a thread helix receiving groove winds around the shank and is disposed in the shank. A thread helix is disposed in the thread helix receiving groove where the thread helix has an expandable helix section. The shank has, at the thread helix receiving groove, a wedge flank for radially expanding the expandable helix section as the shank is moved relative to the expandable helix section. The expandable helix section has a helical back and a plurality of expansion fingers projecting axially from the helical back towards the wedge flank. The wedge flank of the thread helix receiving groove is configured for radially displacing the plurality of expansion fingers outwardly as the shank is moved relative to the plurality of expansion fingers.
US11965534B2
A barrel for a barrel joint for parts of furniture and furnishing items includes a hollow cylindrical body containing a blocking element and having at least one hole on one of its side surfaces for the passage of a tip of a tool that actuates the blocking element, the hollow cylindrical body also having at least another hole for receiving a pin of the barrel joint.
US11965533B2
A component securing unit for mounting to a cooperating surface of a component, including: a component interface defining a first interface surface region and a second interface surface region; a first adhesive material located on the first interface surface region; a second adhesive material having one or more adhesive material properties that are different than adhesive material properties of the first adhesive material, the second adhesive material located on the second interface surface region; the component interface, first adhesive material, and second adhesive material co-operatively configured such that the first adhesive material and second adhesive material can each adhere to respective portions of the cooperating surface to mount the component securing unit to the cooperating surface.
US11965530B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of energy and power, in particular to an ejector with a core needle cooled by cooling medium. In the ejector with a core needle cooled by cooling medium, a cooling section is arranged between a stepping motor and a nozzle; the stepping motor, the cooling section and the nozzle are arranged coaxially, a partition plate and a sealing element are used to isolate the cooling medium from the primary flow medium, and the cooling medium is introduced into the cooling section to effectively cool the core needle therein, without affecting the adjustment function of the core needle for an area of the nozzle throat, so as to effectively improve the performance of the ejector. As the core needle is cooled, the adjustable ejector can be used in the primary flow fields with high temperature.
US11965524B2
A centrifugal compressor includes: a housing accommodating an impeller; a diffuser flow path formed radially outside the impeller in the housing; and a scroll flow path formed in the housing and connected to the diffuser flow path from a radially-outer side, the scroll flow path extending in a rotational axis direction and a rotational direction of the impeller with respect to the diffuser flow path, the scroll flow path including a radially-inner end located at the radially-innermost position, and the radially-inner end being spaced apart from the diffuser flow path with respect to a middle point of the maximum flow path width of the scroll flow path in the rotational axis direction.
US11965518B2
A motor assembly for driving a pump (e.g., liquid pump) includes an electric motor with an output shaft. A motor frame houses the electric motor so that the output shaft protrudes from an end of the motor frame. A plate assembly is coupleable about the output shaft to the end of the motor frame. The please assembly has a cavity that houses motor drive electronics. The plate assembly further defines a duct that extends between a central opening and one or more openings on an outer radial wall of the plate assembly. A fan is coupled to the output shaft so that the plate assembly is disposed between the fan and the motor frame. Rotation of the output shaft by the electric motor rotates the fan, causing air to flow through the duct. Air flow through the duct inhibits heat transfer between the electric motor and the motor drive electronics.
US11965517B1
A cooling fan module may include a fan assembly and a shroud. The fan assembly including a number of fan blades and the shroud including a first sidewall and a first ring. The first sidewall defining an opening and the first ring extending in an axial direction from the first sidewall. The first ring including an inner periphery provided with a number of first serrations, each serration of the number of first serrations extending in a radial direction. The radial direction is substantially orthogonal to the axial direction.
US11965513B2
A system and method for operating centrifugal pumps related to net positive suction head (NPSH), including identifying a group of centrifugal pumps and deriving an equation for the group based on manufacturer data of the centrifugal pumps collectively in the group, the equation correlating NPSH required (NPSHr) with flowrate of pumped fluid, wherein the manufacturer data includes NPSHr for each centrifugal pump of the group as a function of the flowrate of the pumped fluid. The technique includes specifying a NPSH margin for NPSH available (NPSHa) above the NPSHr.
US11965510B2
A compressor body includes a compression mechanism including a screw rotor that compresses gas, a casing that accommodates the compression mechanism and defines a compression working chambers therein, a suction side bearing that rotatably supports the screw rotor, a bearing chamber that accommodates the suction side bearing, and a liquid supply port that communicates with the compression working chambers and supplies liquid supplied from the outside of the casing into the compression working chambers. The casing has an internal liquid supply flow path that extends from a discharge side of the compression working chambers as an upstream side to a suction side of the compression working chambers as a downstream side and that supplies the liquid to the liquid supply port. The internal liquid supply flow path has a downstream portion reaching the bearing chamber and supplies the liquid to the suction side bearing.
US11965487B2
The present invention relates to an Electro-Thermal Heating element for a wind turbine blade comprising an electrically conductive resistive material; two active busbars for supplying electrical power to the electrically conductive resistive material; and at least one dummy busbar at a predetermined spacing between the two active busbars on the electrically conductive resistive material. The present invention is also directed to a method of repair of the Electro-Thermal Heating Element.
US11965472B1
A vehicle includes an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders, a sensor configured to generate a sensor signal correlated with an air-fuel ratio of first and second cylinders of the plurality of cylinders, and a controller in communication with the sensor and programmed to monitor the air-fuel ratio of the first cylinder in response to an indication that air-fuel ratio measurements of the first cylinder satisfy predetermined criteria for current engine operating conditions while air-fuel ratio measurements of the second cylinder do not satisfy the predetermined criteria for the current engine operating conditions.
US11965469B2
In an internal combustion engine having a cylinder in which an air-fuel mixture of gaseous fuel and intake air is combusted, an intake passage connected to the cylinder, and a supercharger for supercharging the intake air, in a case where backfire is generated in a set period before supercharging is performed by the supercharger, supercharging is performed at a smaller supercharging pressure than in a case where backfire is not generated in the set period.
US11965468B2
A vehicle control system, a vehicle control method, and a storage medium are provided. A stopping process stops fuel supply to one or more stopping cylinders and supplies fuel to one or more remaining cylinders during a load operation of an engine. During execution of the stopping process, a compensating process compensates for a decrease in output of the one or more stopping cylinders due to the execution of the stopping process by increasing output generated by combustion in the one or more remaining cylinders. The system control circuit causes, when the engine rotation speed of the engine is the same, the output after being increased by the compensating process to decrease as a shaft torque of the crankshaft of the engine increases.
US11965460B1
An air intake for an aircraft propulsion system includes an air inlet duct, a core flow duct, a bypass flow duct, a splitter, and a flow control device. The air inlet duct includes an intake inlet and a gas path floor. The core flow duct includes a core flow outlet. The bypass flow duct includes a bypass flow outlet. The bypass flow duct includes the gas path floor. The splitter separates the core flow duct and the bypass flow duct. The flow control device is disposed on a portion of the gas path floor. The flow control device is configured to be selectively positioned to control an air flow path for air flowing through the air inlet duct, the core flow duct, and the bypass flow duct.
US11965456B2
A heating system is configured to produce heated fluid. The system includes a source of primary fluid, a diffusing structure comprising an outlet structure out of which the heated fluid flows, at least one conduit coupled to the source and the diffusing structure and configured to introduce to the diffusing structure the primary fluid, and an intake structure coupled to the diffusing structure and configured to introduce to the diffusing structure a secondary fluid accessible to the system. The heated fluid includes the primary and secondary fluids.
US11965454B2
A thermostat device ensures a coolant amount from a bypass passage sufficiently and excellent temperature sensitivity to the coolant temperature. The thermo-operating unit is provided with a control valve for controlling an introduced coolant amount from a first flow inlet via a radiator, corresponding to the temperature of the coolant from a second flow inlet via a bypass passage. Within the housing are provided multiple guides, which are formed extending from the second flow inlet side toward a thermo-element, are arranged intermittently around the thermo-element, and support the thermo-element slidably movable in an axial direction and coolant rectifying protrusions arranged spaced apart from the thermo-element between the guides, wherein a detoured passage for the coolant, directed from the second flow inlet side toward an outflow port, is formed by forming gaps between the guides and the coolant rectifying protrusions.
US11965453B2
A thermal management assembly includes a first pump group and a second pump group connected by an auxiliary duct, a first inlet and a second inlet respectively connected to the first and second pump groups, a first outlet, a second outlet and a third outlet, and a fluidic command device fluidically connected to the first and the second pump groups and to the auxiliary duct. The fluidic command device is configurable in a first configuration in which flow of working fluid is regulated through the first and second outlets, preventing flow through the third outlet and the auxiliary duct, a second configuration in which flow of working fluid is regulated through the third outlet, preventing flow through the auxiliary duct, and a third configuration in which flow of working fluid is regulated through the auxiliary duct and flow of working fluid exiting through the second outlet is also regulated.
US11965445B1
In a fastening structure that fastens an exhaust manifold to a cylinder head of an engine, a bolt that extends through a flange is inserted into and fixed to a bolt hole of the cylinder head. The flange includes a contact surface that contacts a coupling surface of the cylinder head, and an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to the contact surface. A clearance is provided between the bolt and the cylinder head inside the bolt hole in a range extending from the coupling surface of the cylinder head to a specified length.
US11965442B2
A duct includes a duct body defining an inlet, an outlet, and a channel connecting the inlet and the outlet. The duct body also defines an upstream resonator. The upstream resonator includes an upstream annular cavity external to the channel and an annular perforated plate coplanar with the upstream annular cavity. The duct body further defines a downstream resonator. The downstream resonator includes a downstream annular cavity external to the channel and an annular neck coplanar with the downstream annular cavity.
US11965434B2
A combined power plant is provided. The combined power plant includes a gas turbine configured to combust fuel to generate a rotating force, a boiler configured to heat water to generate steam, an ammonia decomposition apparatus configured to receive a combustion gas generated in the gas turbine to thermally decompose ammonia to generate a decomposed gas containing hydrogen, nitrogen, and a residual ammonia, a steam turbine configured to generate a rotating force using the steam generated in the boiler, and a decomposed gas supply line configured to supply the decomposed gas generated in the ammonia decomposition apparatus to a combustor of the gas turbine.
US11965430B1
A method of forming a vane preform includes braiding a sleeve from ceramic fibers, inserting a flared mandrel into the sleeve, the flared mandrel comprising a body region and at least one contoured region, manipulating the sleeve using the flared mandrel to form contours in the sleeve corresponding to the contoured region of the flared mandrel, and laying up at least one ceramic ply with the sleeve to form the vane preform.
US11965429B1
A turbomachine component has a wall outer surface and an internal coolant source. A film-cooling hole is in the wall and extends from the internal coolant source to the wall outer surface. The film-cooling hole includes a metering section in fluid communication with the internal coolant source, and a diffuser section in fluid communication with the metering section and including a first internal surface spaced from a second internal surface. A coating collector receives part of a coating and is part of the diffuser section. The film-cooling hole also includes a hood section including a member extending outwardly from the wall outer surface. The member may include a hood internal surface contiguous with the first internal surface of the diffuser section and a hood outer surface parallel to the wall outer surface. The hood section reduces, and possibly prevents, the coating from filling the film-cooling hole during application thereof.
US11965426B2
The turbine (12) for a turbine engine (100) extends around a major axis (X-X) and comprises: —a casing (4) comprising an annular hook (38), —a movably mounted impeller (16), —a ring (30) extending opposite the impeller in a direction radial to the major axis (XX), —a distributor (14) comprising a blade provided with a platform (11), the platform being extended radially outwards by a spoiler (22, 24), the spoiler (22, 24) being radially mounted on the hook (38), and —foils (40) each having a profiled trough shape in a direction circumferential to the axis, the foils extending in succession in the circumferential direction, each foil (40) extending between the spoiler (22, 24) and the hook (38). The turbine comprises stops (162) to prevent the foils (40) from moving in the circumferential direction. Each foil (40) comprises a protrusion (162) arranged so as to extend circumferentially opposite another protrusion (162) of another adjacent foil (40).
US11965418B2
A system includes a discharge tool positioned within a wellbore and configured to generate an electrical discharge that interacts with a rock formation proximate to the discharge tool, wherein the interaction of the electrical discharge with the rock formation vaporizes a portion of the rock formation to generate a discharge plasma. The system further includes an optical emission spectroscopy (OES) sub-system configured to determine an elemental composition of the portion of the rock formation based on optical emission generated by the discharge plasma, wherein at least a portion of the OES sub-system is positioned within the wellbore.
US11965417B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a sensor assembly apparatus, system, and method. In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a sensor assembly adapted to be integrated into a casing to be positioned in a wellbore, the sensor assembly comprising a housing; a magnet located within the housing; a magnetic sensor located within the housing to measure a magnetic measurement change resulting from a force between the magnet and magnetic particles flowing with a cement slurry inside the casing from a reverse cementing; and a sensor plug having a side with a non-flat shape that is to be in contact with the slurry flowing in the casing of the wellbore; a processor communicatively coupled to the magnetic sensor and configured to determine whether the magnetic measurement change exceeds a magnetic threshold; and determine that the slurry is flowing back up internal to the casing at or beyond a location in the wellbore.
US11965408B2
Measurement of the inclination and azimuthal direction of a borehole extending beneath an obstacle, such as a body of water, which utilizes magnetic and gravity sensors at the drill bit of a borehole being drilled. Embodiments of the present invention determine and remove remanent field components and the effects of ferromagnetic permeability prior to and during drilling of the borehole.
US11965407B2
Methods and systems for wellbore path planning are disclosed. The method includes defining total depth coordinates of a candidate wellbore path within a hydrocarbon reservoir, obtaining geoscience data for a subterranean region enclosing the hydrocarbon reservoir, and obtaining historical drilling data from an offset well in the subterranean region. The method further includes training a machine learning network to predict drilling hazard probabilities along the candidate wellbore path using the geoscience data and the historical drilling data. The method still further includes determining a first wellbore path to terminate at the total depth coordinates using the candidate wellbore path and the trained machine learning network.
US11965403B2
Methods for producing hydrocarbons from subterranean reservoirs utilizing a production well having a plurality of fluid-inlet components spaced apart to define a plurality of production-well fluid-inlet zones. An injection fluid comprising a solvent is injected into the reservoir, resulting in a drainage fluid with a liquid phase and a gas phase occupying one or more of the production-well fluid-inflow zones. The production fluid is produced at a production-flow rate via a pump, and the gas phase:liquid phase ratio of the production fluid is modulated by orchestrating variations in the pump speed and one or more of the plurality of fluid-inlet components to prioritize hydraulic communication with a subset of the plurality of production-well fluid-inlet zones.
US11965402B2
An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The ESP assembly comprises an electric motor; a seal section coupled to the electric motor; a fluid intake coupled to an uphole end of the seal section, wherein the fluid intake defines a plurality of inlet ports; a gas separator comprising a plurality of gas phase discharge ports, and at least one liquid phase discharge port, wherein the gas separator is located uphole of the fluid intake; a centrifugal pump comprising a fluid inlet at a downhole end, wherein the at least one liquid phase discharge port of the gas separator is fluidically coupled to the fluid inlet of the centrifugal pump; and an inverted shroud assembly, wherein a downhole end of the inverted shroud assembly is coupled to an outside of the gas separator downhole of the gas phase discharge ports of the gas separator and uphole of the fluid intake.
US11965393B2
A setting tool includes a housing having an initiator compartment to receive an initiator for initiating combustion of a combustible element, a combustion compartment to receive the combustible element, and a switch compartment to at least partially receive a switch circuit for activating the initiator, a piston configured to impart a setting force against the plug in response to combustion of the combustible element, and an interrupt flowpath configured to connect at least one of the combustion compartment and the initiator compartment with the switch compartment whereby combustion products that may be created in the initiator compartment or combustion compartment would be circulated from the at least one of the combustion compartment and the initiator compartment to the switch compartment to disconnect the switch circuit in response to the activation of the initiator charge.
US11965388B2
A downhole tool includes a top sub-assembly configured to connect to a downhole conveyance that is operable to run the tool into a wellbore formed from a terranean surface to a subterranean formation; a housing coupled at an uphole end to the top sub-assembly, the housing defining an interior volume; a vacuum positioned in the interior volume and configured to generate a fluid suction; a debris chamber fluidly coupled to the vacuum and positioned in the interior volume; a nozzle coupled at a downhole end of the housing, the nozzle including one or more openings; and a controller communicably coupled to the vacuum and configured to perform operations including activating the vacuum to generate the fluid suction to circulate wellbore debris through the vacuum and into the debris chamber.
US11965371B2
A vehicle that can effectively prevent a collision between the tail gate and an obstacle in the situation where the tail gate is automatically opened or closed includes: a tail gate; a driving unit engaged to the tail gate and configured to open or close the tail gate; a UWB module configured to communicate with a smart key according to an authentication signal transmitted from the smart key in a first mode, and transmit a detection signal to an object and detect the object according to the detection signal reflected from the object in a second mode; and a controller connected to the UWB module and configured to operate the UWB module in the second mode when the driving unit operates, and stop the operation of the driving unit when the object is detected from the UWB module operating in the second mode during operation of the driving unit.
US11965363B2
A barn door and wall strike assembly, including a barn door to slide laterally in a first direction and a second direction with respect to a door frame, a handle set assembly attached to the barn door, the handle set assembly including a handle to allow the barn door to open, and a lock having a bolt to lock the barn door when the bolt is extended, and a wall strike attached to the door frame, the strike including a plate to contact the door frame, and a bolt receiving member disposed on the plate, the bolt receiving member comprising an aperture to receive the bolt.
US11965352B2
Tent couplers include a pivot interlocking member and a bridged interlocking member. The bridged interlocking member comprises a bridge that extends between a tether-receiving portion and a tent support-receiving portion that includes a tent support receiver configured to couple to a tent support. The pivot interlocking member includes a tent fabric receiver configured to couple to a tent fabric. The pivot interlocking member defines a bridge-receiving aperture and an entrance slot interconnected thereto. Tent couplers are selectively configured between a linking configuration and an interlocked configuration. In the linking configuration, the pivot interlocking member is positioned for insertion and removal of the bridge from the bridge-receiving aperture via the entrance slot. In the interlocked configuration, the bridge is positioned within the bridge-receiving aperture, and the pivot interlocking member is oriented within a range of interlocked orientations that restrict removal of the bridge from the bridge-receiving aperture.
US11965348B2
A stanchion surrounding assembly includes a first plate that has a first recess integrated into a first engaging edge of the first plate. The first recess accommodates a stanchion to inhibit vegetation from growing around the stanchion. A second plate has a second recess integrated into a second engaging edge of the second plate. The second recess accommodates the stanchion to inhibit vegetation from growing around the stanchion. The second plate engages the first plate when the first plate and the second plate are positioned against the stanchion. In this way each of the first plate and the second plate forms a disk surrounding the stanchion.
US11965344B2
An anchoring head for formwork struts is intended for the implementation of inclined floor slabs, and includes a support, an erect region coupled to a strut to be mounted, wherein there are two separate positioning shafts transversely arranged with respect to the erect region, that are adjustable in height by means of a height adjusting system, the positioning shafts being configured to support a respective beam in a fixed way by means of releasable locking means. The support includes a visual indicating means for indicating the angular position of each beam to be supported, the indicating means being associated with the positioning shaft of the beam to be supported by means of a cam arrangement, the cam arrangement being provided with a cam member coupled to the positioning shaft, such that the position of the cam member is directly related to the height at which the positioning shaft is located.
US11965339B2
A ridge vent system is provided including a ridge vent having opposing exterior sidewalls that each define multiple fastener recesses that extend inward from the exterior sidewalls and downward from a top plate, where each recess has multiple recess slots that cooperate with adjacent sidewall slots to form contiguous vented areas along each of the opposing exterior sidewalls to provide enhanced attic ventilation and/or airflow through the ridge vent, while still providing fastener recesses that facilitate rapid and efficient application of fasteners therethrough.
US11965338B2
A self-supporting gutter guard device is described, comprising: a bridge member composed of a sheet or micro-mesh decking material having a plurality of orifices, and having a roof side and an opposing gutter lip side; at least one truss spanning a top surface of the bridge member from a proximal end of the bridge member's roof side to a proximal end of the bridge member's gutter lip side; a roof attachment member attached to an end section of the roof side of the bridge member and configured to attach to a roof; and a gutter attachment member attached to an end section of the gutter lip side of the bridge member and configured to attach to a gutter lip, wherein the device is self-supporting.
US11965331B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure includes a curtain wall panel having an inner core material sandwiched between two outer walls and at least one elastic member inserted into at least one channel formed by the inner core material. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a curtain wall system including a plurality of adjacent panels of the present disclosure and at least one joining member configured to be received within a recess formed by the at least one elastic member of at least two of the plurality of adjacent panels. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides a method for assembling a curtain wall system of the present disclosure.
US11965324B2
A drain system includes a drain body attachable to a subfloor and configured for attachment to a pipe member below the subfloor. A seal component is positionable between the drain body and the pipe member and is arranged to form a seal therebetween. The seal component has a body including open upper and lower ends defining an opening therethrough for receiving a portion of the pipe member. An outer surface of the body defines an interface between the seal component and the drain body arranged to permit a first angular movement between the seal component and the drain body. An inner surface defines an interface between the seal component and the pipe member and is arranged to seal and permit a second angular movement between the seal component and the pipe member, wherein the second angular movement is different than the first angular movement.
US11965321B2
A plumbing fixture assembly including a fluid flow detection system for monitoring fluid flow and flow characteristics through plumbing fixtures without contacting the fluid. The fluid flow detection system communicates collected data related to the plumbing fixtures to a water management system, which analyzes the data and provides information to a user through a portal and user interface. The fluid flow detection system also tracks users of the plumbing fixtures for compliance with a hand washing routine. The hand washing compliance data is communicated to the water management system as well.
US11965320B2
Techniques for controlling water pressure at a plurality of water customer service sites are described. In an example, a first plurality of water service sites having water pressure values greater than a first threshold value are identified. A second plurality of water service sites having pressure values less than a second threshold value are identified. Valves controlling water flow to respective customer service sites within the first and second pluralities of water service sites are adjusted. The adjustments increase water pressure in the second plurality of water service sites to a pressure above a minimal target pressure. The adjustment maintains the water pressure of the first plurality of service sites above the minimal target pressure. In an example, groups of water service sites are associated with respective water mains and/or water pressure sensors. Information shared between groups may assist in adjusting water valves within the water system.
US11965316B2
A work vehicle and a method of controlling propulsion of a work vehicle includes an auxiliary work tool. The method includes receiving a propulsion input for propelling the work vehicle at a propulsion speed, determining a prime mover speed for a prime mover configured to propel the work vehicle, propelling the work vehicle with a prime mover output based on the propulsion input, operating the auxiliary work tool while propelling the work vehicle, determining an auxiliary work tool load from operation of the auxiliary work tool, determining whether the auxiliary work tool load of the auxiliary work tool exceeds an auxiliary work tool load threshold, and reducing the propulsion speed of the work vehicle if the auxiliary work tool load of the auxiliary work tool exceeds the auxiliary work tool load threshold.
US11965314B2
A method for actuating the movement of a boom, or an attachment, in a work vehicle includes determining a joystick position difference between the actual component of the position of the joystick along a boom, or attachment, actuation axis in a first time instant and a neutral position of the joystick along the boom, or attachment, actuation axis, determining a first position of the boom, or attachment, along the boom travel path in the first time instant, and a second position of the boom, or attachment, along the boom travel path in a second time instant, and determining a boom, or attachment, position difference between the second position and the first position. If the determined boom, or attachment, position difference is lower than a threshold and the determined joystick position difference is higher than a joystick position difference threshold, the method also includes slowing movement of the boom, or attachment.
US11965307B2
A pile-driver assembly for driving a pile into the ground, preferably offshore, and a method of driving a pile into the ground using the pile-driver assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a casing defining a chamber, the chamber being configured to house a fluid. The assembly further includes a positioning element configured to position the casing at or on the pile, wherein at least a portion of the positioning element is positioned between the chamber and the pile. The assembly further includes actuating means, wherein actuation of the actuating means displaces the chamber relative to the positioning element, such that the chamber moves away from the pile, and wherein the actuating means is configured to release the chamber for displacement towards the pile such that a force is exerted by the chamber on the positioning member, to controllably drive the pile into the ground.
US11965304B2
A self-sinking-type deep foundation pit retaining wall structure, comprising a cylindrical retaining wall body (1); a ground breaking structure (2) is formed at the bottom of the cylindrical retaining wall body (1), and the cylindrical retaining wall body (1) is suitable for achieving downward ground breaking and sinking by means of the cooperation of the ground breaking structure (2) and the gravity of the cylindrical retaining wall body; and a water pipe (20) running through the cylindrical retaining wall body is cast in the cylindrical retaining wall body (1), and the water pipe (20) is provided with a water outlet (80) located at the lower end face of the cylindrical retaining wall body (1) and a water inlet (81) located at the upper end face of the cylindrical retaining wall body (1). The self-sinking-type deep foundation pit retaining wall structure further comprises resistance increasing devices (4) provided on an outer side wall (3) of the cylindrical retaining wall body (1), and the resistance increasing devices (4) are used for cooperating with a foundation (5), so as to adjust upward resistance applied by the foundation (5) to the cylindrical retaining wall body (1). In addition, further provided is a construction method for an underground space.
US11965303B2
Disclosed herein are a group anchor system, subsea installation tool and method of install such group anchor systems. The group anchor system includes a template through which a plurality of vertical piles, such as helical piles, are passed, drilled into the seabed at one end and secured to the template at the other to provide a mooring anchor for an offshore asset. The installation tool is a modular tool designed to mate with the group anchor system. Each module including drive mechanism for engaging and driving a pile. The piles may be driven simultaneously, individually, or in groups as required for proper placement and leveling. Methods of using the installation tool are also disclosed.
US11965300B2
A system for controlling a motion compensated pile guide for a floating vessel comprises a pile guide for guiding a monopile in its longitudinal direction during driving the monopile into a seabed, an actuator for moving the pile guide in horizontal direction with respect to a vessel to which the pile guide is mounted, a control unit for controlling the actuator, which control unit is configured for compensating motion of the vessel to which the pile guide is mounted so as to maintain the horizontal position of the pile guide during driving a monopile into a seabed, a first sensor for determining an inclination angle of a monopile with respect to the vertical during driving the monopile into a seabed, and a second sensor for determining magnitude and direction of an actual force of a monopile onto the pile guide during driving the monopile into a seabed. The control unit is configured to determine a desired force of the pile guide onto the monopile for minimizing the inclination angle when determined by the first sensor, and to control the actuator for moving the pile guide opposite to the direction of the actual force when the desired force is larger than the actual force and in the same direction as the actual force when the actual force is larger than the desired force.
US11965288B2
A rope (1) according to the invention comprises a main rope segment (4), a branching position (5) and an end connector segment (6), wherein the end connector segment comprises a first rope-branch (11) and a second rope-branch (12). The first rope-branch (11) comprises a noosed first rope-branch portion (21N) for making a noosed connection with a thickened rope portion, or a thickened first rope-branch portion for making a noosed connection with a noosed rope portion. The second rope-branch (12) comprises a noosed second rope-branch portion for making a noosed connection with a thickened rope portion, or a thickened second rope-branch portion (22T) for making a noosed connection with a noosed rope portion. The rope according to the invention allows for many various favourable manners of connecting the rope to other ropes and/or to other types of external objects.
US11965279B2
A shell structure of a clothing treating device comprises a rear U-shaped plate, the rear U-shaped plate being bent at two vertical lines to form a left side wall, a right side wall and a rear side wall of a shell, with a cross section being U-shaped. The left side wall and the right side wall are respectively provided with at least one handle part, and the rear U-shaped plate is provided with an air vent communicating with an inside of the shell. As a result, the shell structure of a machine body of the clothing treating device is simplified, the strength is improved, and the assembly efficiency is improved. Also, an air duct arranged in the clothing treating device communicates with the air vent, so that the purpose of exchanging air with the outside through the air vent is realized.
US11965276B1
A custom piece-together quilt template incorporates first and second primary template sectors. Each template sector has an outer edge, converging side edges, a sector point at a convergence of said side edges, and a planar body. The planar body of each template sector defines at least one interior arc-shaped cutout. Complementary tabs and sockets are located along respective side edges of the first and second template sectors and function to temporarily join the template sectors together when using the quilt template.
US11965264B2
Electrode assemblies useful, inter alia, for mounting thin rods in Siemens reactors for manufacture of polysilicon, have a base segment which receives a holder segment, and an insert, interfacial surface(s) of which have depressions and/or elevations which reduce contact surface area, allowing the holder, base segment, insert, and optional intermediate segments to be constructed of materials having different thermal conductivities.
US11965257B2
A method for preparing a COF-protected electrode and an electrode are provided. The method includes mixing an organic framework, a small molecular organic acid and a solvent, adding a polar aqueous solution containing a substrate thereto, mixing the above uniformly and heating the system at a low temperature under an inert atmosphere, filtering the solution to obtain precipitates, washing and drying the precipitates to obtain a COF film grown on a surface of the substrate; coating a protective layer on the COF film to obtain a substrate/COF/protective layer film; etching off the substrate to obtain a COF/protective layer film; and transferring the COF/protective layer film to a surface of the electrode, and removing the protective layer.
US11965245B2
A method of making an alumina including providing an alumina slurry, aging the slurry, adding a tricarboxylic acid to the aged alumina slurry, further aging the slurry, and spray drying, the method being characterized by the addition of a dicarboxylic acid either at the same time as the tricarboxylic acid, or after the second aging and before the spray drying. The resulting alumina is dispersible at a pH greater than 9.5 above 95% and has a viscosity below 0.4 Pa·S for 10 wt % sols.
US11965243B2
Techniques for controlling a solid precursor vapor source are provided. An example method disclosure includes providing a carrier gas to a precursor material in a sublimation vessel, such that the sublimation vessel includes an inlet area and an outlet area configured to enable the carrier gas to flow through the precursor material, and at least one thermal device configured to add or remove heat from the sublimation vessel, determining a sublimation temperature value and a delta temperature value based on the precursor material and the carrier gas, setting a first temperature in the sublimation vessel based on the sublimation temperature value and the delta temperature value, such that the first temperature is measured proximate to the inlet area, and setting a second temperature in the sublimation vessel based on the sublimation temperature value, such that the second temperature is measured proximate to the outlet area.
US11965242B2
A raw material supply apparatus according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes: a container configured to store a solution of a first solid raw material dissolved in a solvent or a dispersion system of the first solid raw material dispersed in a dispersion medium; a removal part configured to form a second solid raw material by removing the solvent or the dispersion medium from the solution or the dispersion system stored in the container; a detection part configured to detect a completion of a removal of the solvent or the dispersion medium from the solution or the dispersion system; and a heater configured to heat the second solid raw material.
US11965227B1
The invention belongs to the technical field of metal ceramics, in particular to a metal ceramic and a preparation method thereof. The hard phase is formed by at least four kinds of crystal grains with different compositions and shapes; and in the scanning electron microscope photograph of the metal ceramic, it can be observed the first hard phase comprising black titanium nitrocarbide, a thin ring and a thick ring wherein the core phase is pure black; the second hard phase in the form of a dark gray core-ring structure particles; the third hard phase in the form of a high-brightness white core-gray ring; and the fourth hard phase in the form of a homogenous gray phase and off-white core-gray ring structure particles. In addition, a white binder phase can also be observed, and the binder phase is at least one of cobalt and nickel.
US11965225B2
A cold-rolled and heat treated steel sheet, has a composition comprising 0.1%≤C≤0.4%, 3.5%≤Mn≤8.0%, 0.1%≤Si≤1.5%, Al≤3%, Mo≤0.5%, Cr≤1%, Nb≤0.1%, Ti≤0.1%, V≤0.2%, B≤0.004%, 0.002%≤N≤0.013%, S≤0.003%, P≤0.015%. The structure consists of, in surface fraction: between 8 and 50% of retained austenite, at most 80% of intercritical ferrite, the ferrite grains, if any, having an average size of at most 1.5 μm, and at most 1% of cementite, the cementite particles having an average size lower than 50 nm, martensite and/or bainite.
US11965224B2
This steel sheet for a can is a steel sheet for a can containing, by mass %, C: 0.010% to 0.050%, Si: 0.020% or less, Mn: 0.10% to 0.60%, P: 0.020% or less, S: 0.020% or less, Al: 0.050% or less, N: 0.0100% or less, Nb: 0% to 0.03%, Ti: 0% to 0.03%, B: 0% to 0.0020%, and a remainder including Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which, when the number of carbides having an equivalent circle diameter of 2 μm or more and 5 μm or less is indicated by a, and the number of carbides having an equivalent circle diameter of 0.1 μm or more and less than 2 μm is indicated by b, a/b satisfies a range of the following formula (1), a fracture strain is 1.6 or more, and a sheet thickness is 0.10 to 0.30 mm a/b<0.12 . . . (1).
US11965216B2
Provided herein are media, methods, kits, primers and oligonucleotide probes for use in the molecular detection of pathogens. These may be used in combination for the rapid, high-throughput screening PCR-based techniques to simultaneously detect multiple pathogens. The multiplex-detection methods have improved sensitivity and specificity for the detection of multiple pathogens simultaneously. Real-time PCR assaying techniques using such primers include microarrays and multiplex arrays, the latter optionally simultaneously with oligonucleotide TaqMan probes.
US11965215B2
Processes and materials to detect cancer from a biopsy are described. In some cases, cell-free nucleic acids can be sequenced, and the sequencing result can be utilized to detect sequences derived from a neoplasm. Detection of somatic variants occurring in phase can indicate the presence of cancer in a diagnostic scan and a clinical intervention can be performed.
US11965211B2
Personalized medicine involves the use of a patient's molecular markers to guide treatment regimens for the patient. The scientific literature provides multiple examples of correlations between drug treatment efficacy and the presence or absence of molecular markers in a patient sample. Methods are provided herein that permit efficient dissemination of scientific findings regarding treatment efficacy and molecular markers found in patient tumors to health care providers.
US11965207B2
The present invention relates to methods to detect an amount of DNA that originates from cells of a given type, where the sample comprising such DNA in admixture with DNA that does not originate from such cells. Such methods are based on differential methylation, at certain regions, of the DNA that originates from the given type of cells compared to the admixed DNA. Such methods have particular application in the detection, from a biological fluid from a pregnant female, of cell free DNA that originates from a foetus or the placenta of a foetus, or the detection, from a biological fluid from an individual, of cell free DNA that originates from cells of a tumour. Accordingly, such methods have diagnostic, prognostic and/or predictive utility for detecting an increased risk of an individual suffering from or developing a medical condition such as preeclampsia or cancer, and/or to aid (subsequent) diagnostic, prognostic and/or predictive methods such as the detection of chromosomal trisomy in a foetus, including for twin-pregnancies. The present invention also relates to compositions, kits, computer program products and other aspects that are used in, useful for or related to the practice of such methods.
US11965203B2
Embodiments of the invention relate generally to methods to generate microorganisms and/or microorganism cultures that exhibit the ability to produce polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) from carbon sources at high efficiencies. In several embodiments, preferential expression of, or preferential growth of microorganisms utilizing certain metabolic pathways, enables the high efficiency PHA production from carbon-containing gases or materials. Several embodiments relate to the microorganism cultures, and/or microorganisms isolated therefrom.
US11965200B2
The present invention relates to a recombinant microorganism imparted with increased ability to produce glutaric acid by further introducing a gene encoding a polypeptide having glutaric acid transporter activity into a microorganism having ability to produce glutaric acid, and to a method of preparing glutaric acid using the recombinant microorganism. According to the present invention, glutaric acid used for the preparation of various compounds such as polyamide, polyurethane, 1,5-pentanediol, and 5-hydroxyvaleric acid can be biosynthesized at high yield.
US11965188B2
The invention relates generally to recombinant human sialidases and recombinant sialidase fusion proteins, wherein the sialidase optionally contains one or more mutations compared to wild-type human sialidase, e.g., a substitution, deletion, or addition of at least one amino acid. The invention also provides antibody conjugates including a sialidase and an antibody or a portion thereof. The invention further relates to methods of using the sialidase fusion proteins or antibody conjugates for treating cancer.
US11965181B2
Recombinant microorganisms, plants, and plant cells are disclosed that have been engineered to have reduced levels or activity of one or more alcohol dehydrogenases or aldehyde reductases thereby increasing the production of benzylisoquinoline alkaloids and/or benzylisoquinoline alkaloid precursors.
US11965170B2
This invention relates to compositions and methods for modifying Growth Regulating Factor (GRF) family transcription factors in plants to produce plants having improved phenotypic characteristics including increased growth. The invention further relates to plants produced using the methods and compositions of the invention.
US11965168B2
Soybean plants producing soybean seeds comprising leghemoglobin are produced by modifying the genome of the soybean plant. Soybean plants, soybean seeds and soy protein compositions comprising leghemoglobin are provided. Soybean plants, soybean seeds and soy protein compositions comprising leghemoglobin and additionally one or more of high oleic acid, low linolenic acid, high protein, low stachyose, low raffinose and low protease inhibitors are provided. Protein compositions comprising leghemoglobin, such as soy isolates and concentrates can be made from the soybean seeds. Additionally, methods for generating and using plants, seeds and protein compositions comprising leghemoglobin are disclosed.
US11965165B2
Compositions and methods for editing, e.g., introducing double-stranded breaks, within the TTR gene are provided. Compositions and methods for treating subjects having amyloidosis associated with transthyretin (ATTR), are provided.
US11965163B2
The invention relates to saRNA targeting an HNF4a transcript and therapeutic compositions comprising said saRNA. Methods of using the therapeutic compositions are also provided.
US11965162B2
In one aspect, compositions are provided for the early diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and include microRNAs, e.g. miR-21 and inhibitors thereof. The treatment compositions can be useful for early detection, and for intercepting developing premalignant pancreatic lesions and other KRAS-driven premalignancies.
US11965160B2
Provided herein are aptamers capable of inhibiting the activity of Von Willebrand Factor (VWF). Pharmaceutical compositions comprising these aptamers are also provided. Methods of preventing blood clot formation in a subject by administering the aptamers are provided and methods of treating a blood clot by administering a VWF-targeting agent are also provided.
US11965152B2
The monitoring and control of bioprocesses is provided. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to formulating buffer products from multiple buffer solutions for feeding the different operations occurring within a bioprocess line. As the buffer product is being formulated, the buffer product is tested for conductivity, refractive index, and optionally pH. The conductivity measurements are used in conjunction with refractive index measurements to ensure that the buffer product not only has the correct concentration of ions but also has the correct concentration of components. A controller can be used to make automatic adjustments to the buffer product should any of the measured parameters fall outside a preset range.
US11965149B2
The shock tube comprises a tube, a first electrode, a second electrode and a stopple, wherein the tube is internally provided with a cavity for accommodating a target liquid sample. The first electrode is arranged at one end of the tube. The second electrode is arranged in the stopple, and the outer end of the second electrode can be electrically connected with the exterior via an opening of the stopple. The stopple is internally provided with an elastic piece connected with the second electrode. The outer side of the elastic piece is connected with the stopple, and the inner side of the elastic piece is connected with the second electrode. The invention further provides a cell electroporation device where the shock tube can be placed.
US11965147B2
A laundry care or dish care composition can include a poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivative, wherein the poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivative includes: (i) a poly alpha-1,6-glucan backbone of glucose monomer units, wherein greater than or equal to 40% of the glucose monomer units are linked via alpha-1,6 glycosidic linkages, and wherein from 0% to less than 30% of the glucose monomer units are linked via alpha-1,3 glycosidic linkages, and optionally at least 5% of the backbone glucose monomer units have branches via alpha-1,2 and/or alpha-1,3 glycosidic linkages; and (ii) at least one organic group linked to the poly alpha-1,6-glucan backbone through a linkage moiety; wherein, the poly alpha-1,6-glucan backbone has a weight average degree of polymerization of at least 5; and wherein, the poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivative has a degree of substitution of linkage moiety of from 0.20 to 1.00.
US11965143B2
The present invention relates to processes of recovering oil after liquefaction and/or from thin stillage and/or syrup/evaporated centrate from a fermentation product production process by adding a thermostable protease to the whole stillage, thin stillage and/or syrup.
US11965138B2
A flavor or aroma charcoal material, such as charcoal briquets, which is formulated to include a flavor or aroma component. The charcoal material may include a smoldering agent (e.g., limestone), wood particles (e.g., sawdust), a binder, and the flavor or aroma component (herbs and/or spices). The flavor or aroma charcoal material may not be configured as a fuel charcoal material, for example, it may be substantially void of char and/or coal. In an embodiment, the flavor or aroma charcoal material may be provided as part of a blend of different charcoal materials that includes both flavor or aroma briquets in combination with fuel briquets (e.g., which fuel briquets include char and/or coal, while the flavor briquets do not). The flavor briquets provide enhanced aroma and/or flavor to the grilling experience.
US11965137B2
The present invention relates to the field of gasoline and gasoline compositions or blends. More specifically the invention relates to a novel fuel or gasoline composition with synergistic effects and use thereof, and in particular a synergistic effect with respect to the octane rating/octane number.
US11965123B2
A red phosphor that has optical characteristics and durability under high-temperature and high-humidity environments, and a method for producing the same. The red phosphor includes a Mn-activated complex fluoride represented by the following general formula (1) and bismuth: A2MF6:Mn4+ (1) wherein A represents at least one alkali metal element selected from the group consisting of lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium and cesium, and M represents at least one tetravalent element selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium, tin, titanium, zirconium and hafnium.
US11965121B2
The present disclosure relates to an adhesive tape and to a method for jacketing an elongated item, more particularly cable sets. The adhesive tape comprises a tapelike carrier provided on at least one side with an adhesive layer which consists of a self-adhesive, pressure-sensitive adhesive, characterized in that the self-adhesive pressure-sensitive adhesive is a UV-curable composition comprising, based on the total weight of the composition: 15 to 50 parts by weight of matrix polymer; 50 to 85 parts by weight of epoxy resin; 0.1 to 3 parts by weight of photoinitiator, with the matrix polymer forming a self-supporting film in which epoxy resin and photoinitiator are embedded.
US11965110B2
The present disclosure relates to a polyimide varnish composition for a flexible substrate and a polyimide film using the same, and a polyimide varnish composition for a flexible substrate according to the present disclosure may include an acid anhydride including 3,3′,4,4′-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride (BPDA) and pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA), and a diamine. The polyimide varnish composition according to the present disclosure has the advantage of being able to manufacture a polyimide film having heat resistance, high flexural properties, and high flexibility by increasing elongation while having a low coefficient of thermal expansion.
US11965107B2
A system for applying a coating composition is provided herein. The system includes a first high transfer efficiency applicator defining a first nozzle orifice and a second high transfer efficiency applicator defining a second nozzle orifice. The system further includes a reservoir. The system further includes a substrate defining a first target area and a second target area. The first high transfer efficiency applicator and the second high transfer efficiency applicator are configured to receive the coating composition from the reservoir and configured to expel the coating composition through the first nozzle orifice to the first target area of the substrate and to expel the coating composition through the second nozzle orifice to the second target area of the substrate.
US11965092B2
The present invention relates to a composition, preparation and use thereof, and a product coated with the composition. The composition comprises: (a) a polyurethane polymer which is a reaction product comprising the following components: (a1) a polyisocyanate, (a2) a compound having an isocyanate-reactive group, which comprises a polymer polyol selected from one or more of the following: a polyether polyol and a polyolefin polyol, (a3) optionally an emulsifier, (a4) optionally a solvent, and (a5) optionally a reactive diluent; (b) an organic antioxidant in an amount of 0.01 wt % to 2.4 wt %, based on the total weight of solid components of the composition; (c) a chelating agent; and (d) water. The composition according to the present invention has good high-temperature yellowing resistance.
US11965090B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a polymer which comprises poly(lactic acid) and an additive which comprises dipentaerythritol, wherein the weight percentage of the polymer is from 80 to 99.5%, and the weight percentage of the additive is from 0.5 to 20%. It also relates to the use of dipentaerythritol as a nucleating agent for polymers comprising poly(lactic acid); to a process for the preparation of moulded article from the composition comprising the polymer which comprises poly(lactic acid) and an additive which comprises dipentaerythritol; and to an injection moulded article made therefrom.
US11965083B2
A polyolefin material that is formed by solid state drawing of a thermoplastic composition containing a continuous phase that includes a polyolefin matrix polymer and nanoinclusion additive is provided. The nanoinclusion additive is dispersed within the continuous phase as discrete nano-scale phase domains. When drawn, the nano-scale phase domains are able to interact with the matrix in a unique manner to create a network of nanopores.
US11965073B2
A polyester film comprising a polymeric phosphonate flame retardant in an amount of from about 1.0 to about 25.0 wt % by total weight of the film and further comprising at least one metal cation selected from the group consisting of Group I and Group II metal cations.
US11965062B2
The method of preparing the polycarbonate ether polyol or high molecular weight polyether carbonate using controlled addition of materials during polymerisation includes the steps of: mixing catalyst of formula(I), double metal cyanide (DMC) catalyst and optionally carbon dioxide and/or solvent with epoxide and optionally starter compound and/or carbon dioxide; or mixing DMC catalyst and optionally starter compound, carbon dioxide and/or solvent with epoxide and optionally carbon dioxide and/or solvent; or mixing epoxide, catalyst of formula(I), starter compound and carbon dioxide and optionally solvent; or mixing catalyst of formula (I), DMC catalyst and optionally starter compound, epoxide, carbon dioxide and/or solvent to form in each case a mixture (α); and adding one or more of starter compound, epoxide, carbon dioxide, catalyst of formula(I), DMC catalyst and/or solvent to mixture (α) to form mixture (β) comprising starter compound, epoxide, carbon dioxide, catalyst of formula(I), DMC catalyst and optionally solvent,
US11965050B2
The present invention further relates to a waterborne dispersion comprising (A) polymer P; (B) amphiphilic block copolymer obtained with a controlled radical polymerization process and comprising at least blocks [A] and [B], whereby block [A] comprises ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s) bearing water-soluble and/or water-dispersible functional groups (monomer(s) (i)), and block [B] comprises ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s) different from monomer(s) (i) (monomer(s) (ii)); and (C) crosslinker, characterized in that the polymer P is crosslinkable and comprises ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s) bearing crosslinkable functional groups different from monomer(s) (i) and monomer(s) (ii) (monomer(s) (iii)) in an amount of from 1 to 10 wt. %, based on the total weight of monomers used to prepare the polymer P, the amount of lock copolymer is higher than 1 wt. % and lower than 30 wt. %, based on the total weight of monomers used to prepare the block copolymer and polymer P; the acid value of the composition consisting of block copolymer and polymer P is higher than 1 and lower than 17 mg KOH per g of the block copolymer-polymer P composition.
US11965040B2
The present invention provides modulators of complement activity. Also provided are methods of utilizing such modulators as therapeutics.
US11965022B2
Disclosed herein are engineered cells and/or hypoimmunogenic cells including engineered and/or hypoimmunogenic stem cells, engineered and/or hypoimmunogenic cells differentiated therefrom, engineered and/or hypoimmunogenic CAR-T cells (primary or differentiated from engineered and/or hypoimmunogenic stem cells) and related methods of their use and generation. Provided herein are engineered and/or hypoimmunogenic cells exhibiting reduced expression of MHC class I and/or MHC class II human leukocyte antigens and T-cell receptors. In some embodiments, such cells also exogenously express one or more tolerogenic factors such as CD47 and one or more chimeric antigen receptors (CAR)s.
US11965016B2
The present invention relates to new biomimetic mineralized apatite structures. The present invention also relates to processes for the production of new biomimetic mineralized apatite structures based on natural and synthetic protein scaffolds. In particular, the invention provides synthetic crystal having a hierarchical structure formed on an elastin-like polypeptide membrane or hydrogel. The invention also provides methods of making such crystals, both in vivo and in vitro, as well as kits comprising membranes or hydrogels with cross-linking agents and/or mineralization solutions. The invention also provides the use of such structures in methods of treatment.
US11965015B2
IL-7Rαγc binding compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the IL-7Rαγc binding compounds are disclosed. IL-7Rαγc bonding compounds can act as IL-7R agonists and are useful in treating cancer, viral diseases, autoimmune diseases, and inflammatory diseases.
US11965011B2
An antitumor peptide provided according to the present invention includes (1) an S1PR-TM related sequence; and (2) an amino acid sequence functioning as a cell penetrating peptide; wherein the total number of amino acid residues is 100 or less.
US11965010B2
Disclosed are a method for preparing a porcine-derived interferon-delta 5 (pIFN-δ5) and an application of the pIFN-δ5, where the method for preparing pIFN-δ5 includes the following steps: step S1, obtaining a DNA fragment containing pIFN-δ5 gene through reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) amplification by using the total RNA of pretreated porcine small intestinal epithelial cells IPEC-J2; step S2, inserting the DNA fragment containing pIFN-δ5 gene into an exogenous expression vector to construct a recombinant expression vector for expressing the pIFN-δ5 gene; and step S3, introducing the recombinant expression vector into a suitable host cell, and driving the host cell to express the pIFN-δ5 gene to obtain the pIFN-δ5. The recombinant pIFN-δ5 protein is used to prepare drugs or preparations for inhibiting infection of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), porcine transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), porcine delta coronavirus (PDCoV) and porcine rotavirus (PRoV).
US11965005B2
The disclosure provides peptide compositions and immunotherapy compositions comprising an amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide and a tau peptide. The disclosure also provides methods of treating or effecting prophylaxis of Alzheimer's disease or other diseases with beta-amyloid deposition in a subject, including methods of clearing deposits, inhibiting or reducing aggregation of Aβ and/or tau, blocking the uptake by neurons, clearing amyloid, and inhibiting propagation of tau seeds in a subject having or at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease or other diseases containing tau and/or amyloid-beta accumulations. The methods include administering to such patients the compositions comprising an amyloid-beta (Aβ) peptide and a tau peptide.
US11965003B2
A modified lectin protein is provided having at least one amino acid modification in an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1 orin an amino acid sequence having at least 60% homology thereto. The amino acid modification is selected from one of more of the following: at least one amino acid modification in a carbohydrate binding site; at least one amino acid modification in the N-terminus; at least one amino acid modification at position 76; or at least one amino acid modification at position 44 or 89. The modified lectin protein does not consist of the amino acid sequence of any of SEQ ID NOs: 2 to 4.
US11964996B2
The present disclosure relates to 2-alkynylmannose Derivative and Application Thereof. The mannose derivatives, and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, an isotope, and an isomer thereof have a structure shown as formula I: and are used for treating or preventing bacterial infections. The present disclosure also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising the above compounds and their use in the treatment or prevention of bacterial infections.
US11964993B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of crystalline Bortezomib of formula (I) and its pharmaceutical acceptable salts thereof. The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of highly pure crystalline Bortezomib (I).
US11964982B1
Compounds for treating cancer and, particularly, to compounds that are 5-(3-substituted phenyl)-pyrimido[4,5-d]pyrimidine-2,4,7(1H,3H,8H)-trione analogues and their use as anticancer agents.
US11964980B2
Crystalline Forms of Compound (I): pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and solvates of any of the foregoing are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, methods of treating disorders and conditions associated with oncogenic KIT and PDGFRA alterations using the same, and methods for making Compound (I) and crystalline forms thereof are also disclosed.
US11964966B2
Disclosed is a polyanhydride having Formula I where A is In Formula I: R1 and R2 are the same or different at each occurrence and are F, CN, alkyl, fluoroalkyl, alkoxy, fluoroalkoxy, silyl, siloxy, unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon aryl, unsubstituted or substituted heteroaryl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryloxy; R3 and R4 are the same or different and are A3, A4, H, F, CN, alkyl, fluoroalkyl, alkoxy, fluoroalkoxy, silyl, siloxy, unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon aryl, unsubstituted or substituted heteroaryl, or unsubstituted or substituted aryloxy; R5 and R6 are the same or different and are H, F, CN, alkyl, fluoroalkyl, alkoxy, fluoroalkoxy, silyl, siloxy, unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon aryl, unsubstituted or substituted heteroaryl, and unsubstituted or substituted aryloxy; R8 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, silyl, unsubstituted or substituted hydrocarbon aryl, or unsubstituted or substituted heteroaryl; c and d are the same or different and are an integer from 0 to the maximum available; m and n are the same or different and are 0 or 1; A1 to A4 are the same or different and have the formula single dashed lines between two rings indicate that the rings are joined by a single bond or fused together at any available position; L is a bond or a hydrocarbon aryl; and at least two A groups are present.
US11964962B2
Disclosed is a pyridazinone compound represented by Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, hydrate, solvate, polymorph, stereoisomer, or isotopic variant thereof. The compound can be used for preparation of medicinal products for treatment and/or prophylaxis of a disease or condition associated with thyroid hormone abnormalities. The compound has higher selectivity to THβ, better pharmacokinetic parameters, desired stability, and higher agonistic activity toward THβ.
US11964949B2
The present invention relates to novel oxazolidinones (Formula I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt having ring A characterized by N-containing monocyclic, bicyclic or spirocyclic substituents, to their preparation, and to their use as drugs for treating Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other microbial infections, either alone or in combination with other anti-infective treatments.
US11964939B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel compound that provides a curing agent that is less likely to volatilize during curing reaction and is excellent in various properties such as heat resistance. As a solution, an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid compound represented by formula (I) below is provided. (In the formula, each R independently represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an alkoxy group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and each n independently represents 0 or an integer of 1 to 4.)
US11964924B2
Fertilizers that contain urea-aldehyde condensates. The fertilizer can be spherical and can be formed using a granulation and/or spheronization technique and optionally can be an extruded fertilizer that is spheronized.
US11964919B2
A method for manufacturing active metal-brazed a nitride ceramics substrate having excellent joining strength, includes: a step of preparing a mixed raw material; a step of forming a green sheet of the mixed raw material by a tape casting method; a step of removing a binder by performing degreasing; a step of performing sintering; a step of forming an aluminum nitride sintered substrate by performing gradual cooling; and a step of printing a conductive wiring pattern with active metal paste on the aluminum nitride sintered substrate.
US11964917B2
A method for constructing a plurality of ceramic layers by winding continuous ceramic filaments to prepare RF-transparent structures is provided. Dielectric properties of each layer of the plurality of ceramic layers are characterized by an inter-filament spacing, a filament count and thickness. Once the plurality of ceramic layers are constructed, a structure is removed from a winding surface, wherein the winding surface is a mandrel, infiltrated with a resin in a separate set up and fired.
US11964911B2
The corrosion-preventing additive for reinforced concrete is a concrete additive for preventing corrosion of steel rebars in steel-reinforced concrete. The corrosion-preventing additive is a solution with an organic solvent, the solute being either gallic acid (3,4,5-trihydroxybenzoic acid), at least one ester of gallic acid, or combinations thereof. The weight-to-volume concentration of the solute to the organic solvent may be between 1% and 10% w/v. Reinforced concrete may be made using the corrosion-preventing additive by mixing the corrosion-preventing additive with a conventional concrete mixture (i.e., a mixture of an aggregate, water, and cement), with at least one steel rebar being embedded in the mixture, similar to conventional steel rebar reinforced concrete. The concentration of the corrosion-preventing additive with respect to the cement of the mixture may be between 0.0125 wt % and 1.0 wt %.
US11964907B2
Glass compositions include one or more of silica (SiO2), magnesia (MgO) and alumina (Al2O3) as essential components and may optionally include sodium oxide (Na2O), potassium oxide (K2O), zirconia (ZrO2), titania (TiO2), zinc oxide (ZnO), manganese oxide (MnO2), hafnium oxide (HfO2) and other components. The glasses may be characterized by low density at room temperature.
US11964898B2
A method of cutting a glass sheet comprising a transparent oxide glass includes directing a laser beam from a middle-infrared (mid-IR) laser source onto a major surface of the glass sheet. A wavelength of the laser beam is tuned thereby adjusting an absorption depth of the laser beam in the glass sheet. The glass sheet is cut using the laser beam.
US11964894B2
A glass roll of band-shaped glass film is free of skew and single slack when a roll-to-roll mode is used. The band-shaped glass film is wound into a roll shape and has creases formed thereon. The band-shaped glass film includes an effective section with two side edges in a width direction extending parallel to each other, and leading and trailing end portions extending parallel to the width direction. When a length from the leading end portion to the trailing end portion along a surface of the effective section is measured along each of a first position along one side edge and a second position along another side edge, a difference between the first and second measurement lengths is 400 ppm or less of a longer measurement length of the first and second measurement lengths.
US11964886B2
A water treatment system is provided. The system includes a container holding a reactant liquid within the container. The system further includes an electrode capsule removably retained within the container and submerged in the reactant liquid. The electrode capsule operates to generate reactant gas by operating within the reactant liquid. The system includes a cap releasably coupled to an opening of the container. The cap includes a nozzle that allows flow of reactant gas out of the container to treat an amount of water. The use of the system operates to treat water for particular applications and controlling pH level range and/or alkalinity for each particular application.
US11964875B2
A method is provided for synthesizing *MRE molecular sieves using an organic structure directing agent which comprises a 1-ethylpyridinium cation.
US11964862B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for monitoring beverage dispenser. A system for controlling beverage quality comprises a beverage dispenser monitoring unit comprising: a plurality of weight sensors each positioned below one of a plurality of syrup containers connected to a beverage dispenser, and a first network adapter configured to communicate with a control unit. The control unit configured to detect a low weight reading from a weight sensor of the plurality of weight sensors of the beverage dispenser monitoring unit via the second network adapter, determine a syrup container of the plurality of syrup containers associated with the weight sensor, and provide a notification of low syrup level indicating the syrup container to at least one of the plurality of user interface devices.
US11964861B2
A beverage server for pouring a beverage includes tubular through-screw portion 4, gas supply tube 2, gas supply device 3, gate valve 43, tubular pouring portion 5, and check valve 51. The gate valve is configured to be opened and closed with the pouring portion. The pouring portion has beverage supply hole 53 formed at a lower end portion thereof. Food additive gas supplied from the gas supply device is supplied from the gas supply tube to the through-screw portion and supplied to internal space S through a space between an outer wall of the pouring portion and an inner wall of the through-screw portion. The food additive gas exerts a pressing force that causes the beverage to flow to the inside of the pouring portion through the beverage supply hole, open the check valve, and be poured through an orifice of the pouring portion.
US11964857B2
A lift for elevating an object having a base including two legs, lifting apparatus associated with each leg, vertically telescoping guard elements extending along each leg, the lifting apparatus being arranged to lift an object disposed above a plane between said legs, the guard elements telescoping vertically when the lifting apparatus is deployed to exclude a person's limb from a space above said planes.
US11964853B2
A platform assembly includes a work platform including a platform floor and a safety rail extending from the platform floor to a rail height, and a primary sensor unit secured to the work platform and positioned adjacent one of the platform floor and the safety rail. The primary sensor unit is configured to monitor an area from the platform floor or from the safety rail to a space above the rail height and forward and aft of the work platform. The platform assembly enhances protection for an operator from sustained involuntary operation resulting in an impact with an obstruction or structure.
US11964851B2
An overhead hoist transfer (OHT) apparatus and a differential overhead trolley thereof are provided. The OHT apparatus includes a rail module and a differential overhead trolley. The rail module includes a main rail and a first rail, and defines a turning path extending from the main rail to the first rail. The differential overhead trolley is movably disposed on the rail module, and includes a walking mechanism and a carrying body that is hung on the rail module by being connected to the walking mechanism. The walking mechanism includes two differential wheels and a driving unit that is connected to the two differential wheels. When the differential overhead trolley is moved along the turning path, the driving unit is configured to drive the two differential wheels to move along the first rail by different rolling velocities.
US11964844B2
A fish tape case is configured to house a fish tape. The fish tape includes a shell having an upper base wall, a lower base wall, an inner side wall extending between inner perimeters of the base walls and forming a central aperture through the shell, an outer side wall extending between outer perimeters of the base walls and defining an outer diameter of the shell, the walls defining a cavity therein, the upper base wall having a first opening therethrough in communication with the cavity through which the fish tape can exit, and the outer side wall having a second opening therethrough in communication with the cavity through which the fish tape can exit. A storage reel is mounted in the cavity for holding the fish tape.
US11964839B2
A conveyance route switching mechanism and a paper sheet handling apparatus that includes the conveyance route switching mechanism include a driving source, a gate, a first gear, and an internal gear. The driving source includes a driving shaft. The gate includes a gate shaft, and a blade that is provided on the gate shaft, and switches conveyance routes of paper sheets. The first gear is provided on the gate shaft. The internal gear meshes with the first gear. According to rotation of the driving shaft, the gate shaft rotates on an axis of the gate shaft, and revolves with the driving shaft as a rotation center while the first gear meshes with the internal gear.
US11964831B2
An apparatus including a first device configured to support a substrate thereon; a first transport having the first device connected thereto, where the first transport includes: rails or maglev guides; a magnetic system configured to vertically space the first device over the rails or maglev guides with a gap between the first device and the rails or maglev guides, where the magnetic system comprises a first electromagnetic actuator at a first corner of a first side of the first device, a second electromagnetic actuator at a second corner of the first side of the first device, and a third electromagnetic actuator at a second opposite side of the first device, where the third electromagnetic actuator is not located proximate a corner of three sides of the first device; and a linear actuator configured to move the first device along the rails or maglev guides.
US11964824B2
In order to at least temporarily increase the throughput of transported objects in a transport device in the form of a planar motor, without negatively influencing the movement of the transport units, at least one engagement portion is provided on each of the at least two transport units, it being possible for the at least two transport units to be moved in succession in the transport plane in a direction of movement into an engagement position in which the engagement portions of the transport units are at least partially engaged. The engagement portions are designed to overlap with one another in the engagement position at least in the direction of movement such that a total extent of the transport units in the direction of movement is smaller than a sum of the individual transport-unit extents of the transport in the direction of movement.
US11964809B2
A food product package is formed by a sheet resulting from a blank with a plurality of sheets, each sheet of the blank having weakened portions, and a tongue secured to a transverse edge of the sheet The sheet is folded according to transverse weakened portions in order to form a tube with a rectangular cross-section and being sealed on itself along a peelable or tearable transverse joint, the tongue projecting longitudinally from the transverse joint, the sheet being sealed longitudinally along a longitudinal base joint, and the package being closed by longitudinally sealing the sheet on itself along a longitudinal top joint spaced apart from the longitudinal base joint, with the transverse joint extending from one longitudinal joint to the other.
US11964803B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a venting system that includes a wall of a lid or a container. The lid or container defines a central longitudinal axis, and a line segment that is measured from the longitudinal axis to an outermost surface of the lid or container, and a pressure relief feature that is disposed along the lid or container. The pressure relief feature includes a thinned region of the lid or container that defines a minimum thickness that is less than 40% of a maximum thickness of the respective lid or container.
US11964802B2
A package includes a structure and a handle structure portion. The structure constitutes a housing space to house a packaged object. The handle structure portion is disposed in the structure, formed by a perforated line, and lifted from the structure. The perforated line includes a cut portion, a connecting portion, and a notched cut line. The notched cut line is provided with respect to a central reference line that is an axis of symmetry of the handle structure portion. The notched cut line includes a base portion and a leading end. The notched cut line is included within a range closer to the boundary point than a center line of the connecting portion parallel to the lifting direction of the handle structure portion.
US11964781B2
A coupling unit is disclosed for detachable coupling two pars of a spacecraft, the coupling unit connecting the two parts of the spacecraft in a connected condition and the coupling unit distancing the two parts of the spacecraft, when the coupling unit is in detached condition. The coupling unit comprises a first element and a second element engaged to each other in connected condition, with the second element comprising a gas generator for generating gas under pressure to detach the first and the second element to bring them in the detached position, thereby distancing the first element and the second element from each other, and thus also the first part and the second part connected to the respective elements.
US11964776B2
A locking system for fixing at least one transport unit for cargo items in an aircraft. The locking system includes a plurality of locking devices and at least one actuating device. Each locking device has at least one locking element for fixing and releasing the transport unit at least one predetermined position and is displaceable in a displacement direction between a fixing position and a release position. The at least one actuating device has at least one actuating unit for initiating an actuating movement and at least one sliding unit for displacing the locking element. The actuating unit is connected to the sliding unit for transmitting the actuating movement by means of at least one transmission section extending transversely to the displacement direction. The sliding unit is mechanically coupled to the locking element to transmit the actuating movement and to move the locking element between the fixing position and the release position.
US11964774B2
The present invention relates to the field of unmanned aerial vehicle safety protection technologies, and in particular, to an unmanned aerial vehicle safety protection method and apparatus and an unmanned aerial vehicle. The method includes: obtaining ultrasonic information and a flight status of an unmanned aerial vehicle, where the flight status includes a normal flight state and a descending state; and performing safety protection on the unmanned aerial vehicle according to the ultrasonic information and the flight status. The implementation can reduce an occurrence probability that an unmanned aerial vehicle crashes at a high altitude when ultrasound encounters abnormalities to get out of control at the high altitude and fail to descend, rise, move to the left or move to the right and land without slowing down to violently hit the ground, so that the safety of the unmanned aerial vehicle is enhanced, and user experience is improved.
US11964773B2
Systems and methods for transferring electric power to an aircraft during flight. Power transfer to the receiver aircraft is effected by means of a donor aircraft using a wired electrical connection. The method for transferring electric power includes: establishing an electrical connection between a receiver aircraft and a donor aircraft during flight; and transferring electric power from the donor aircraft to the receiver aircraft via the electrical connection. In one embodiment, electric power is transferred by way of a power cable deployed by the donor aircraft, a drogue attached to a trailing end of the power cable, and a probe mounted to the fuselage of the receiver aircraft, The probe and drogue are configured to form an electrical connection when fully engaged.
US11964772B2
An aircraft propulsion system includes a propulsive fan assembly configured for assembly into an aircraft structure, the propulsive fan assembly that includes a fan rotatable about a fan axis, an inlet duct assembly disposed within the aircraft fuselage, the inlet duct assembly that includes an upper inlet duct with an upper inlet opening and a lower inlet duct with a lower inlet opening. The upper inlet duct and the lower inlet duct merge into a common inlet duct forward of the propulsive fan assembly, and an outlet duct is disposed aft of the propulsive fan assembly.
US11964758B2
An airfoil of an aerodynamic surface including: a control surface having an upper surface and a lower surface, and an actuator configured to elevate or lower the control surface, wherein at least a portion of one of the upper surface and the lower surface of the control surface is auxetic with a negative Poisson ratio, and the other of the upper surface and the lower surface of the control surface includes a material with a higher Poisson ratio.
US11964751B2
A load detent assembly for restricting creep of a rotating assembly of an actuator used to actuate an aircraft flight control surface. The load detent assembly includes an engagement member having circumferentially spaced engagement surfaces/protruding portions, and a load detent having a stoppage member radially biasable towards the engagement member for interengagement between the engagement surfaces to restrict creep of the rotating assembly. One of the engagement member or the load detent is configured for rotation radially inward of the other of the engagement member or the load detent through at least 360 degrees of rotation. The other of the engagement member or the load detent is configured for being fixed radially outward of the one of the engagement member or the load detent.
US11964746B1
An outboard motor has a powerhead that causes rotation of a driveshaft, a steering housing located below the powerhead, wherein the driveshaft extends from the powerhead into the steering housing; and a lower gearcase located below the steering housing and supporting a propeller shaft that is coupled to the driveshaft so that rotation of the driveshaft causes rotation of the propeller shaft. The lower gearcase is steerable about a steering axis with respect to the steering housing and powerhead.
US11964742B2
A hull behavior control system includes a memory and at least one controller coupled to the memory. The at least one controller is configured or programmed to control a propulsion force of the marine vessel using a propeller of the marine vessel, obtain a water surface shape around the marine vessel, estimate movement of a wave based on the water surface shape, and reduce the propulsion force by controlling the propeller when it is determined that an impact force equal to or greater than a threshold value will act on the hull after the hull travels over the wave whose movement has been estimated.
US11964729B2
An operated component for a human-powered vehicle comprises a first wired communicator and a first wireless communicator. The first wired communicator has a first wired communication state in which the first wired communicator is configured to recognize a wired signal transmitted via a wired communication channel. The first wireless communicator has a first wireless communication state in which the first wireless communicator is configured to recognize a wireless signal transmitted via a wireless communication channel. The first wireless communicator is configured to be in the first wireless communication state while the first wired communicator is in the first wired communication state.
US11964726B2
A shock absorber includes: a damper tube accommodating a piston in a reciprocally movable manner; a suspension spring for urging the damper tube and a piston rod in opposite directions; a first male screw provided on an outer peripheral surface of the damper tube; a first nut screwed into the first male screw so as to enable a spring load of the suspension spring to be adjusted; a second nut screwed into the first male screw so as to enable a position of the first nut in an axial direction of the damper tube to be fixed; a second male screw having a reverse screw configuration to the first male screw and provided on the outer peripheral surface of the damper tube; and a damper head screwed into the second male screw so as to enable the damper head to cover one end portion of the damper tube.
US11964714B2
A steering control apparatus controls a motor used to turn a steered wheel of a vehicle, which synchronizes with a steering wheel, based on a command value. The steering control apparatus includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to compute a feedback control torque to be reflected in the command value. The electronic control unit is configured to compute a disturbance torque based on the feedback control torque and a predetermined angle. The electronic control unit is configured to correct the feedback control torque by using the disturbance torque. The electronic control unit is configured to correct the command value reflecting the corrected feedback control torque, based on an applied torque.
US11964709B2
A steering control device controls a reaction motor that generates a steering reaction force applied to a steering wheel of which power transmission to and from turning wheels is cut off. the steering control device includes: a first processor configured to change a virtual operation range of the steering wheel according to a steering state or a vehicle state by controlling the reaction motor; and a second processor configured to change a degree of change of the virtual operation range of the steering wheel according to the steering state or the vehicle state when an operation position of the steering wheel reaches a position in a vicinity of a limit position of the virtual operation range.
US11964707B2
A speed reducer according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an input rotating body, a speed reducing mechanism unit, and a tubular case. The speed reducer is rotatable when acted upon by power fed from a drive device. The speed reducing mechanism unit reduces a speed of rotation of the input rotating body. The tubular case covers an outer surface of the speed reducing mechanism unit and rotates when acted upon by speed-reduced power from the speed reducing mechanism unit. An output arm is formed integrally with the tubular case, the output arm extending radially outward from an outer peripheral surface of the tubular case and configured to transmit a manipulating force to an outside.
US11964702B2
A rack assembly configured to mount to sidewalls of a truck bed can include a pair of side rails defining a support surface positionable over the sidewalls and at least one cross rail having a first end, a second end, a first length extending between the first and second ends, and one or more channels extending along a portion of the first length. In some embodiments, each of the pair of side rails includes at least a first mounting station. In some embodiments, each of the first and second ends of the at least one cross rail can secure to one of the first mounting stations of the pair of side rails such that, when the at least one cross rail is secured to the pair of side rails at the first mounting stations, the at least one cross rail is transverse with respect to the pair of side rails.
US11964689B2
A vehicular trailer guidance system includes a human machine interface provided in the vehicle and operable by a driver of the vehicle during a backing up maneuver of the vehicle with a trailer hitched thereto. The human machine interface comprises a rotary knob and operates (i) in a backing up trailer left-backup mode when rotated counter-clockwise, (ii) in a backing up trailer straight-backup mode when the rotary knob is pushed or pulled and (iii) in a backing up trailer right-backup mode when rotated clockwise. Responsive to selection by the driver of the backup mode, the system sets a desired trailer angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle to an angle that is commensurate with a driver-selected setting of the rotary knob. The system controls steering of the vehicle to back up the trailer to have the determined trailer angle coincide with the set desired trailer angle.
US11964677B2
The present invention relates to a platform door control apparatus based on a double 2-vote-2 architecture, including a security communication and logic processing module, a driver collection module, and a maintenance module, the security communication and logic processing module is separately connected to the driver collection module and the maintenance module, and both the security communication and logic processing module and the driver collection module are devices using the double 2-vote-2 architecture. Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the following advantages of effectively improving linkage efficiency of a signal system and a platform door system, and the like.
US11964671B2
The disclosure relates to technology for determining vehicle environment interaction metrics and/or passenger behavioral metrics for autonomous vehicles in a driving environment. A group of one or more autonomous vehicles independently determine a VEI score for a target vehicle within a predefined vicinity of the group of one or more vehicles. A target vehicle may determine a VPB score based on passengers within the target vehicle. VEI scores and/or VPB scores determined for a target vehicle may be used by the target vehicle to reinforce and/or correct driving actions of the target vehicle.
US11964662B2
A method for allocating power between electric machines in a powertrain of an electric vehicle is described. The electric vehicle includes a gearbox having an input shaft and an output shaft configured to transmit a first torque to the wheels of the vehicle, a first electric machine having an output shaft coupled to the input shaft of the gearbox, and a second electric machine configured to supply a second torque to wheels of the vehicle. The method comprises: prior to a gear change of the first electric machine, allocating power to the first and second electric machines according to a first power ratio; in response of an intended gear change of the first electric machine, allocating power to the first and second electric machines according to a second power ratio.
US11964661B2
A driver assistance system has an emergency stopping function for a motor vehicle. The driver assistance system is designed to perform an automated lane change from a first lane to a second lane when the emergency stopping function is triggered. The driver assistance system is further designed to determine at least one road characteristic and/or at least one vehicle interior characteristic and, based on the determined at least one road characteristic and/or the vehicle interior characteristic, to decide whether to execute the lane change.
US11964655B2
The present invention discloses a backward anti-collision driving decision-making method for a heavy commercial vehicle. Firstly, a traffic environment model is established, and movement state information of a heavy commercial vehicle and a vehicle behind the heavy commercial vehicle is collected. Secondly, a backward collision risk assessment model based on backward distance collision time is established, and a backward collision risk is accurately quantified. Finally, a backward anti-collision driving decision-making problem is described as a Markov decision-making process under a certain reward function, a backward anti-collision driving decision-making model based on deep reinforcement learning is established, and an effective, reliable and adaptive backward anti-collision driving decision-making policy is obtained. The method provided by the present invention can overcome the defect of lack for research on the backward anti-collision driving decision-making policy for the heavy commercial vehicle in the existing method, can quantitatively output proper steering wheel angle and throttle opening control quantities, can provide effective and reliable backward anti-collision driving suggestions for a driver, and can reduce backward collision accidents.
US11964635B2
A vehicle and vehicle wiper with antenna is directed to improve communication stability with other target vehicles by securing sufficient signal reception sensitivity of an antenna of a vehicle even in rainy weather where the signal reception sensitivity of the antenna may decrease, while at the same time supplementing shortcomings of a short communication distance. A vehicle includes a wiper including a blade for wiping a windshield of the vehicle and an arm for supporting the blade, and a first antenna provided on the arm of the wiper.
US11964630B2
An all-terrain vehicle includes a frame, a cockpit, wheels, suspension assemblies, an engine, a seat support, a cushion, and a storage box. The frame includes a longitudinal beam extending along a front-rear direction and a vertical beam extending upwards from the longitudinal beam. The cockpit is arranged in a middle portion of the frame. The wheels are connected to left and right sides of the frame. The suspension assemblies are connected between the wheels and the frame. The engine is disposed on the frame. The seat support is disposed on the frame, and includes a cushion support and a backrest support both arranged in the cockpit, and the backrest support is located above the cushion support. The cushion is mounted on the cushion support. The storage box is detachably mounted on the backrest support, and the storage box and the cushion form a seat that can be leaned on.
US11964627B2
According to one aspect, a method includes detecting, through a detection interface of a vehicle, an installation of a first compartment insert in a first compartment of the vehicle, wherein detecting the installation includes determining when the detection interface is in contact with a second interface of the first compartment insert. After detecting the installation of the first compartment insert, it is determined whether the first compartment insert is capable of transmitting information to the vehicle. The method also includes obtaining the information from the first compartment insert when it is determined that the first compartment insert is capable of transmitting the information to the vehicle, and identifying a type associated with the first compartment insert from the information.
US11964617B2
A vehicular vision system includes a camera module having a housing that houses at least (i) electronic circuitry disposed at a main printed circuit board (PCB) and (ii) an imager assembly. The imager assembly includes an imaging array sensor, an imager PCB and a lens holder that includes an elongated lens barrel that houses at least one lens. Electronic circuitry is disposed at an upper side and at a lower side of the main PCB. Image data captured by the imaging array sensor is conveyed to electronic circuitry disposed at the main PCB. An electronic component of electronic circuitry disposed at the main PCB is in thermal conductivity with a thermal element, which is in thermal conductivity with a lower housing portion of the housing to enhance heat transfer from the electronic component to the lower housing portion of the camera housing.
US11964616B2
The technology includes a roof pod system for a vehicle configured to operate in one or more partly or fully autonomous self-driving modes. The roof pod system is arranged to sit above the roof of the vehicle, for instance at least 10-50 mm above the roof surface. The roof pod may be supported by a set of legs such as cross-rails. The roof pod system incorporates various sensors and related equipment to assist with self-driving operation. Some sensors may be arranged in the main housing of the roof pod, while others can be located in a dome-type structure extending above the main housing. A cabling harness assembly runs wiring and other links between the roof pod and the vehicle chassis.
US11964604B2
When a tilt in a right-and-left direction occurs in a cargo bed (9) being raised due to imbalance of excavated materials, the tilt is detected as a roll angle (θR), and it is determined whether the absolute value (|θR|) of the roll angle is not less than an imbalance determination value (θ2) (S4). When the absolute value is not less than the imbalance determination value (θ2) (Yes in S4) and the roll angle (θR) is positive (the cargo bed (9) is rising to the right) (Yes in S8), an oil supply amount (VL) to a hoist cylinder (11) on the left side is increased, and an oil supply amount (VR) to a hoist cylinder (12) on the right side is decreased (S9). When the roll angle (θR) is negative (the cargo bed (9) is rising to the left) (No in S8), the oil supply amount (VL) on the left side is decreased, and the oil supply amount (VR) on the right side is increased (S10).
US11964602B2
A support system is provided for a passenger vehicle having front seats, rear seats, a front anchoring feature 3 forwardly of a gap between the front and rear seats and a rear anchoring feature 2 rearwardly of the gap. The support system includes (i) a panel structure, (ii) front end connectors connecting the panel structure to the front anchoring features of the vehicle, (iii) rear end connectors connecting the panel structure to the rear anchoring features of the vehicle, and (iv) a supporting arrangement providing support to laterally opposing side portions of the panel structure to resist inward displacement of the laterally opposing side portions of the panel structure towards one another when supporting a load on an upper supporting surface of the panel structure. The supporting surface extends the substantially horizontal supporting platform at the rear of a vehicle for extending the resting or storage area of the vehicle.
US11964600B2
An armrest assembly for a vehicle and method of operating includes a body with a hinge receiver coupled to the top section. An armrest member is rotationally and removably coupled to the body and is movable between first, second, and third positions A latch receiver having a locking mechanism that operably couples to a latch is defined on the top section or the armrest member. A hinge feature operably couplable to the hinge receiver is defined on the armrest member. An input device is communicatively coupled to a controller, wherein the controller is configured to actuate the locking mechanism.
US11964596B2
Provided is a vehicle seat including: a seat cushion supported by a support member so as to be rotatable around an axial direction along the seat up-down direction; a seatback configured such that the angle of the seatback relative to the seat cushion is adjustable by unlocking and locking of an angle adjustment mechanism, the seatback being biased to be tilted forward in the seat front-rear direction when the angle adjustment mechanism is unlocked; an operated member configured to unlock and lock the angle adjustment mechanism, the operated member being placed on a first end side of the seat cushion in the seat width direction; and an operating member provided in the support member such that the operating member is configured to relatively operate the operated member along with a rotation of the seat cushion so as to unlock the angle adjustment member.
US11964595B2
A seat tilting system for tilting a seat, in particular a vehicle seat, may have at least a seat support structure to support and mount the seat, a base platform defining a reference plane, and a number of swivel actuators coupling the seat support structure relative to the base platform. At least a first swivel actuator is configured to swivel the seat support structure with respect to the base platform around a first swivel axis. At least a second swivel actuator is configured to swivel the seat support structure with respect to the base platform around a second swivel axis. At least a third swivel actuator is configured to rotate the seat support structure around a third swivel axis perpendicular to the base platform.
US11964559B2
This vehicle control device includes: a distance measurement unit that measures the distance between a vehicle and a preceding vehicle; and an engine control unit that starts up an engine when, in comparison to a distance measured by the distance measurement unit once a host vehicle has stopped and an engine mounted in the host vehicle has stopped, a distance newly measured by the distance measurement unit increases by at least an offset amount that indicates the amount of increase in distance used to determine whether to start up the engine.
US11964558B2
Methods and apparatus allow for passive determination of a driver's Breath Alcohol Concentration (BrAC). Alcohol concentrations can be determined from exhaled breath, however inconvenience to a driver is often a barrier for incorporation of BrAC sensors into vehicles. The methods and apparatus allow for passive determination of a driver's BrAC, while detecting and accounting for a wide range of environmental conditions that may reduce the accuracy of a passive BrAC reading.
US11964546B2
An embodiment end cover member for an outbelt of a vehicle door includes a cover part configured to cover a portion where an end of the outbelt and an end of a glass run abut each other, an upper body positioned on an upper end of a panel mounted with a window glass, a lower body positioned below the upper body, the lower body including a locking hook locked and fixed to the panel, wherein the upper body and the locking hook vertically grip the panel to be fixed to the panel, and a connection part connecting the upper body to the lower body.
US11964541B1
A ventilation system for a vehicle having a cabin includes a segmented plenum comprising a plurality of sub-plenums that are disposed above the cabin, a perforated panel defining the ceiling of the cabin and having plurality of perforations for air communication of the plenum with the cabin, and ductwork including one or more upper main ducts, lower main ducts, vertical ducts, and seat return ducts. The ducts communicate with each other to convey air, descending from the segmented plenum through the perforated panel as a high volume, low turbulence blanket of air through the cabin, back to the segmented plenum. The ventilation system also includes an air processing unit (APU) in communication with the ductwork and operable to sterilize the air conveyed therein, and one or more fans for circulating the air in the ventilation system.
US11964537B2
Disclosed is a vehicle air conditioning device including a heat pump cycle configured to compress and expand a refrigerant; a heater core; a high pressure side pressure sensor configured to detect a pressure on the high pressure side of the heat pump cycle; and a heater core inlet water temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of cooling water at an inlet of the heater core as a heater core inlet water temperature. The heat pump cycle includes a compressor; a condenser; a water refrigerant heat exchanger and an evaporator; and a heating expansion valve and a cooling expansion valve. An estimated outside air temperature is calculated based on the high pressure side pressure detected by the high pressure side pressure sensor and the heater core inlet water temperature detected by the heater core inlet water temperature sensor.
US11964534B2
A control apparatus for a vehicle disclosed herein is applied to a vehicle configured to perform pre-air conditioning of the interior of the vehicle by starting an internal combustion engine according to a remote control signal sent from a remote controller. When starting pre-air conditioning according to the remote control signal, the control apparatus sets the control mode of the vehicle to a drive-disabling mode, which is a control mode that disables an operation for driving the vehicle. If a specific mode-cancelling operation is detected in a situation in which the remote controller is present in the interior of the vehicle while the control mode of the vehicle is being set to the drive-disabling mode, the control apparatus cancels the drive-disabling mode while leaving the internal combustion engine operating.
US11964533B2
In a fastener structure for a vehicle, a height adjustment spacer is interposed between first and second vehicle body frames fixed with a bolt and a nut. The nut has a first insertion hole through which a bolt is screwed, and is fixed to a surface of the first vehicle body frame. The height adjustment spacer has a second insertion hole through which the bolt is inserted, and is disposed in contact with another surface of the first vehicle body frame. The bolt is inserted through an attachment hole of the second vehicle body frame, the second insertion hole, an attachment hole of the first vehicle body frame, and the first insertion hole. On a contact surface between the height adjustment spacer and the first vehicle body frame, a protrusion and a recess are provided to surround an entirety of the second insertion hole, the second insertion hole respectively.
US11964525B2
A mounting structure of a dynamic damper capable of effectively reducing the vibration of a vibration body is provided. The mounting structure includes a suspension member 100 inhibiting the upward shift of a mass member 5. The suspension member 100 and plates 3 are configured as separate members, so that as compared with the case where a pair of plates 3 are coupled, the opposite interval between the plates 3 can be determined without being affected by the dimension accuracy of such the coupling portion. Thus, the thicknesses of the rubber elastic bodies 4 can foe formed at high accuracy, so that the mass member 5 can be easily vibrated at the desired frequency. Therefore, the vibration of the suspension member 100 can be effectively reduced.
US11964523B2
A hitch vibration dampener assembly and method of use thereof including a tow mount member including a base portion with a vibration dampener pad affixed to the back surface such that coupling of the tow mount member by locked engagement of at least one elongated pin successively received through paired side holes disposed in flanges of a hitch platform channel compresses a vibration dampener material upon the back panel of the hitch platform to thereby reduce the movement between the tow mount member and hitch assembly.
US11964519B2
The bead portion of the tire has an inner bead provided inside the tire width direction of a carcass ply and an outer bead provided outside the tire width direction of the carcass ply. The inner bead and the outer bead have a bead core portion including a bead cord formed of a metal material, and a filler portion provided outside the tire radial direction of the bead core portion and formed of a resin material. The inner bead and the outer bead sandwich a carcass ply.
US11964516B2
A pneumatic tire including: a tread portion is in contact with a road surface; and a side wall portion is continuous to the tread portion and positioned inside a tire radial direction of the tread portion. A large region including a plurality of small regions having different arithmetic average roughness outside in a tire width direction is formed on outer surface of the side wall portion. A plurality of large regions are formed along a tire circumferential direction and the tire radial direction. In a boundary line of adjacent large region, small regions having different arithmetic average roughness come into contact with each other.
US11964513B2
A tire includes: circumferential grooves along a circumferential direction of a tire; lateral grooves along the circumferential direction, each lateral groove having one end opened to a side of the tire and the other end communicated with the circumferential groove; and narrow grooves in blocks defined by the circumferential and lateral grooves, each narrow groove having one end opened to the side of the tire and the other end communicated with the circumferential groove. The tire includes a surface that projects, at a position more to one side or the other in the circumferential direction than the narrow groove that is opened to the tire side, further to an outer side in a tire width direction than a tire side shape to which the narrow groove is opened, and the surface extends in a radial direction from a ground contact end to include a groove bottom of the narrow groove.
US11964507B2
A method for producing a printed material includes forming a color image having an image area ratio of 20% or less on a peripheral edge portion of a recording medium by using a coloring material; providing pressure-induced phase transition particles to a region of the recording medium, the region including the peripheral edge portion; bonding the color image and the pressure-induced phase transition particles onto the recording medium; and folding the recording medium having the color image and the pressure-induced phase transition particles bonded thereon and pressure-bonding the folded recording medium, or pressure-bonding the recording medium having the color image and the pressure-induced phase transition particles bonded thereon and another recording medium placed on top of each other. The pressure-induced phase transition particles contain a styrene resin and a (meth)acrylic acid ester resin, the styrene resin contains styrene and a vinyl monomer other than styrene as polymerization components, the (meth)acrylic acid ester resin contains at least two (meth)acrylic acid esters as polymerization components, and a mass ratio of the (meth)acrylic acid esters is 90 mass % or more of a total of all polymerization components of the (meth)acrylic acid ester resin. The pressure-induced phase transition particles have at least two glass transition temperatures, and a difference between the lowest glass transition temperature and the highest glass transition temperature among the glass transition temperatures of the pressure-induced phase transition particles is 30° C. or more.
US11964505B2
A printer includes a shaft-shaped member, a movable support portion, paired strain detection units, and a control unit. The shaft-shaped member that sets a path of an ink ribbon from a supplying shaft to a winding shaft is provided at least on a downstream side between an upstream side and the downstream side in a conveying direction at a position where a thermal head and a platen face each other with a recording medium interposed therebetween, and the ink ribbon is hung around the shaft-shaped member. The movable support portion movably supports at least one end portion of the shaft-shaped member in a direction in which a tension of the ink ribbon varies. The paired strain detection units are provided at both end portions of the shaft-shaped member, and an output thereof is varied according to a strain of the shaft-shaped member. The control unit controls movement of the shaft-shaped member in a direction in which a difference in output between the paired strain detection units becomes small.
US11964498B2
Example implementations relate to a printer comprising at least one printhead, carried by a carriage, to print onto a substrate, a surface to support the substrate; the surface comprising a plurality of platens associated with an elongate member; each platen having an upper planar surface forming part of the surface for supporting the medium and being adjustable to vary a characteristic of the upper planar surface to influence a distance between the upper planar surface and the at least one printhead.
US11964495B2
Provided is an ink set including: an ink containing a cyan pigment; an ink containing a magenta pigment; and an ink containing a yellow pigment, wherein the proportion of the cyan pigment is 0.70% by mass or greater but 1.40% by mass or less, and wherein the proportion of the magenta pigment and the proportion of the yellow pigment are both higher than the proportion of the cyan pigment.
US11964494B2
An image forming apparatus, having a cartridge detachably attached to the image forming apparatus and including a first compartment configured to store a colorant, a container configured to be connected with the cartridge and including a second compartment configured to store the colorant flowing from the cartridge, and a display configured to display a first object indicating a first remainder amount and a second object indicating a second remainder amount in a single screen, is provided. The first remainder amount is a remainder amount of the colorant stored in the first compartment, and the second remainder amount is a remainder amount of the colorant stored in the second compartment.
US11964488B2
A recording apparatus includes a first absorbing member (extended absorbing member or the like) that absorbs a liquid discarded from a discharge head to an outer side of an end portion of a medium supported by a support section as a waste liquid. The recording apparatus includes a second absorbing member (waste liquid absorbing member) that absorbs the waste liquid sent from a cap, an accommodating section (waste liquid box) that holds the second absorbing member, and a delivery section that delivers the liquid between the first absorbing member and the second absorbing member. In a state where the accommodating section is inserted into an apparatus main body, the delivery section 141 is inclined downward from the first absorbing member toward the second absorbing member, and an inclination of the delivery section when the accommodating section is removed from the apparatus main body varies depending on an inserted state.
US11964486B2
A liquid ejection head includes a recording element substrate including an energy generating element configured to generate energy for ejecting liquid from an ejection port; an electrical wiring board electrically connected to the recording element substrate to supply an electric signal for driving the energy generating element; a first support member supporting the recording element substrate; and a second support member supporting the first support member and having a greater linear expansion coefficient than that of the electrical wiring board. The electrical wiring board is bonded to a first surface of the first support member and a second surface of the second support member, and an adhesive that bonds the electrical wiring board to the second surface has a lower elastic modulus than that of an adhesive that bonds the electrical wiring board to the first surface.
US11964477B2
A recording system includes: a recording apparatus; a post-processing apparatus; and a transport apparatus which transports the medium to which the recording is performed to the post-processing apparatus, and the transport apparatus includes a transport mechanism which transports a medium to which the recording is performed to the post-processing apparatus, and a loading stand which loads the discharged medium without transporting the medium to which the recording is performed to the post-processing apparatus.
US11964476B2
A print device includes a supply unit, a print unit, a conveyer, a tensioner, and a rotor. The conveyer is configured to nip and to convey, with a pair of rollers, a long medium in a conveyance direction. The tensioner is configured to contact a second surface of the medium to cause the medium to bend. The tensioner is pivotably supported at a position upstream of the conveyer in the conveyance direction. The rotor is rotatably supported at a position upstream of the conveyer in the conveyance direction, and positioned downstream, in the conveyance direction, of an upstream end portion, in the conveyance direction, of the tensioner. The rotor is positioned such that an upper end of the rotor and a nipped point are at a same height. The rotor is configured to contact the second surface.
US11964473B2
A printing apparatus includes an image formation unit, a tray on which a medium is placed, a movement unit, and a control unit. The image formation unit includes a first head forming a first image and a second head forming a second image. The movement unit is provided so as to be capable of moving the tray to a first position at which the medium is placed and a second position serving as a reference position. The control unit switches between a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, a starting position is moved to an image forming region, and the tray is not moved to the second position, and a movement direction is changed to form the first image and the second image. In the second mode, after the first image is formed, the tray is moved to the second position, and then the movement direction is changed to form the second image.
US11964462B2
The present invention provides an electrical debonding type adhesive sheet capable of producing a joined body in which a voltage can be stably applied to an electrical debonding type adhesive layer. An electrical debonding type adhesive sheet according to a first embodiment of the present invention includes a first adhesive layer, a substrate for voltage application including an electroconductive layer and a base layer, and a second adhesive layer in this order, and has a first protrudent part, in which the first adhesive layer and the substrate for voltage application extend and protrude with respect to the second adhesive layer, and a second protrudent part, in which the substrate for voltage application extends from the first protrudent part and protrudes with respect to the first adhesive layer.
US11964455B2
A method for manufacturing a breathable elastic laminate includes aperturing an elastic film to create an apertured elastic film with a pattern. The pattern includes a plurality of first lanes extending in a machine direction, each of the plurality of first lanes having a plurality of apertures, and a plurality of second lanes extending in the machine direction. Each of the plurality of second lanes is devoid of apertures and has a width of at least twice the width of one of the apertures in the first lanes. The plurality of second lanes alternate with the plurality of first lanes in a cross direction substantially orthogonal to the machine direction. The method includes stretching the apertured elastic film in the machine direction to activate the apertured elastic film and bonding a first side of the activated apertured elastic film to a nonwoven web to create a breathable elastic laminate.
US11964453B2
A laminated pane with electrically controllable optical properties, includes an outer pane and an inner pane that are joined to one another via a thermoplastic intermediate layer, wherein an optoelectronic functional element with electrically controllable optical properties is incorporated into the intermediate layer, including an active layer, to which transparent sheetlike control electrodes are assigned on both surfaces, between a first carrier film and a second carrier film, wherein the intermediate layer, which surrounds the optoelectronic functional element, and the carrier films contain, in each case, thermoplastic material, wherein at least one capacitive touch element is integrated into the optoelectronic functional element such that a portion of at least one control electrode of the optoelectronic functional element is separated and provided with a signal lead for detecting a capacitive touch or approach signal.
US11964451B2
An integrated glazing with a data transponder embedded between layers of glass is disclosed. The data transponder stores and processes data. The integrated glazing also includes a display unit including display elements disposed between layers of glass, communicating with the data transponder. The integrated glazing may comprise a data channel, a power channel, antenna and chip. An intelligent system is also disclosed including the integrated glazing, a reader device and a control system. The reader device is communicably coupled to the integrated glazing to generate signals based on the received data. The control system is communicably coupled to the integrated glazing and the reader device to process signals received from the reader device and perform pre-defined operations in response to the instructions and received signals.
US11964433B2
A build material conveyor is disclosed. Such conveyor comprising an auger to transport build material in a substantially vertical direction wherein the conveyor further comprises a set of wall elements selectively positioned to, in a first position occupy part of the volume of the auger.
US11964428B2
The present invention provides a bottom plate of a resin tank for three-dimensional printing, which is manufactured through the following steps: substrate surface roughening step: treating the upper surface of a transparent substrate by using a plasma, or disposing a composite film on the upper surface of the transparent substrate to form a non-smooth surface structure having pores; substrate surface modification step: sequentially performing an activation treatment and a fluorination treatment on the upper surface of the transparent substrate; and stabilizer filling step: applying a stabilizer to the upper surface of the transparent substrate to fill the stabilizer penetrates into the pores on the upper surface of the transparent substrate. The low surface energy film reduces the adhesion of the hardened photosensitive material, and the stabilizer maintains the structure of the low surface energy film, so that the resin tank bottom plate has both oleophobic and hydrophobic properties.
US11964422B2
Described herein are various embodiments of a valve that may be opened and closed using a thixotropic or “stress yield” material, or other material that temporarily changes phase upon application of energy to the material. More particularly, some embodiments may include a valve that is opened and closed using a granular gel that is a temporary phase change material.
US11964417B2
Provided is a melt processible fluororesin molded article with reduced metal ions after molding (eluted metal ions) and submicron size fine particles. The melt processible fluororesin molded article has an amount of eluted Ni ions (in pg/cm2) and amount of eluted Cr ions (in pg/cm2) and amount of eluted Mo ions (in pg/cm2) in a test solution after eluting for 20 hours at 60° C. using 12% nitric acid, quantitatively analyzed by the ICP (induced coupled plasma) mass analysis method, satisfy the following formula: 0.5≤1−[(M1+M2)/(M1+M2+M3)]<1, wherein M1 refers to the eluted Cr ion amount (in pg/cm2), M2 refers to the eluted Mo ion amount (in pg/cm2), and M3 refers to the eluted Ni ion amount (in pg/cm2).
US11964416B2
A resin part includes a molded main body that has a plate shape with a longitudinal direction and is constituted of an injection-molded product. The resin part has a gate portion that is a vestige of a resin injection gate. The gate portion is located in an end face part of the molded main body to cross a position corresponding to a center of gravity of the molded main body; the end face part extends in the longitudinal direction of the molded main body.
US11964414B2
The present invention relates to a guiding and centering device (10) for a forming tool (2), in particular an injection molding or die-casting tool, comprising a first mold half (1) and a second mold half (5) which are guided by guide means (7) from a closed position in which the respective separating surfaces of both mold halves (1; 5) are pressed against one another into an opened position and vice versa. This guiding and centering device (10) comprises a protruding guiding body (4) formed as a circular cylindrical bolt (12) provided at the first mold half (1), a guiding recess (6) formed as a bush (14) with an circular cylindrical inner surface (20) provided at the second mold half (5) and a rolling element cage (16) with rolling elements (17) inserted in rows (18), by means of which the two mold halves (1; 5) are guided and precisely centered in the closed position. The rolling element cage (16) is supported by the circular cylindrical inner surface (20) of the bush (14) and positioned via positioning means (30) in such a way that when closing the forming tool the circular cylindrical bolt (12) runs practically simultaneously in a first row of rolling elements (18.1) and a second row of rolling elements (18.2) of the rolling element cage (16).
US11964410B2
An example mandrel for processing a part is described including a plurality of elastomeric components aligned end to end and spaced apart linearly to form a segmented mandrel body, and compressible interconnections positioned within spacing between adjacent elastomeric components and abutting the adjacent elastomeric components. The compressible interconnections allow the plurality of elastomeric components to expand axially due to thermal expansion resulting in a distribution of pressure. An example method for fabricating a composite part is also described including placing a base composite layer into a cavity of a tooling surface, inserting a mandrel into the cavity of the tooling surface such that the base composite layer is between the mandrel and the tooling surface, applying a skin to the mandrel and the base composite layer forming a package, enclosing the package in a vacuum bag and curing, and removing the mandrel from the cavity of the tooling surface.
US11964399B2
Provided is art capable of recognizing the states of a plurality of target objects arranged in a prescribed space region. This target object recognition device is provided with: a plurality of calculation processing units (21, 22) which each calculate the attitude state of a target object in a prescribed space region using a different technique; a state recognition unit (23) which recognizes the layout state of all of a plurality of target objects arranged in the space region; a method determination unit (24) which, in accordance with the result of the recognition by the state recognition unit (23), determines a method for using the results of the calculation performed by the calculation processing units (21, 22); and a target object recognition unit (25) which recognizes the attitude states of the target objects by means of the determined method for using the results of the calculation.
US11964398B2
Systems and methods for autonomous robot distributed processing are provided. A method includes receiving, at a robot, camera output from a camera located on the robot. The method may further include outputting the camera output to a mobile client device. The method may also further include receiving at the robot, from the mobile client device, object recognition metadata based upon the camera output. The method may additionally include outputting a notification from the robot to a user of the mobile client device based upon the object recognition metadata.
US11964393B2
A robot control system determines which of a number of discretizations to use to generate discretized representations of robot swept volumes and to generate discretized representations of the environment in which the robot will operate. Obstacle voxels (or boxes) representing the environment and obstacles therein are streamed into the processor and stored in on-chip environment memory. At runtime, the robot control system may dynamically switch between multiple motion planning graphs stored in off-chip or on-chip memory. The dynamically switching between multiple motion planning graphs at runtime enables the robot to perform motion planning at a relatively low cost as characteristics of the robot itself change. Various aspects of such robot motion planning are implemented in particular systems and methods that facilitate motion planning of the robot for various environments and tasks.
US11964389B2
A strain wave gear comprising an outer ring and an inner ring rotatably arranged in the outer ring. The inner ring comprises an internally toothed gear and a flex spline is arranged in the inner ring and comprise a flexible part comprising an external toothed gear. A wave generator is rotatable in relation to the flex spline and is configured to flex the flexible part in a radial direction to partly mesh the external toothed gear with the internally toothed gear causing rotation of the inner ring in relation to the outer ring. A part of said inner ring extends out of said outer ring and comprises an outwardly protruding output flange. An encoder reader can be disposed on the outer ring and an encoder track can disposed on the inner ring. A robot joint comprising the strain wave gear is also disclosed.
US11964379B2
An apparatus includes a first arm comprising an unequal-link linkage having a first end effector; a second arm comprising an equal-link linkage having a second end effector; and a drive unit coupled to the first arm and the second arm, the drive unit being configured to move the first arm and the second arm. The first end effector is asymmetric to the second end effector. The first end effector is angled relative to the second end effector such that a first substrate support section on the first end effector is not positioned over or under a second substrate support section on the second end effector.
US11964374B2
A stapler including a moveable strike plate and accessibility features is described. A slidable strike plate is moveable from a first staple forming position to a second staple forming position to form different staple shapes. The slidable strike plate is moved relative to the anvil of the stapler with a single hand to change positions. A rotatable strike plate is turned with a single hand to move between staple forming positions by rotating an outer dial of the rotatable strike plate relative to the anvil of the stapler. The stapler includes an indicator window that shows if the stapler is empty or running low on staples and a quick release staple loading magazine that is operable using a single hand.
