US11995867B2
Embodiments of the present invention discloses an imaging calibration method and apparatus for a dual-light camera and a dual-light camera. A thermal imaging image including a first calibration frame image and a visible light image including a second calibration frame image are acquired. The first calibration frame image and the second calibration frame image are images of a same calibration frame respectively photographed by a thermal imaging camera and a visible light camera. First position information of the first calibration frame image in the thermal imaging image and second position information of the second calibration frame in the visible light image are acquired. Calibration parameters are generated according to the first position information and the second position information. A position of the thermal imaging image synthesized in the visible light image in the visible light image is adjusted according to the calibration parameters.
US11995865B2
Article position estimation system comprises: article movement recognition part; reference point recognition part; position information generation part; and article position estimation part. Article movement recognition part generates article movement information including time point when article is taken out by mobile body or time point when article placement is completed by mobile body. Reference point recognition part recognizes reference point and generates reference point recognition information including identification information according to recognized reference point, reference point recognition time point, and information related to recognized reference point. Position information generation part generates information related to position of mobile body at reference point recognition time point based on reference point recognition information. Article position estimation part estimates position of mobile body at the time when article is moved by using at least position of mobile body at reference point recognition time point.
US11995850B2
An image processing device comprises a data group generator, a gradient value manager, and a cost volume manager. The data group generator is configured to receive pixel values of an image that include phase and brightness information, and determine data groups indicating disparity of the image based on target pixel values, where the data groups correspond to a range that is determined according to the phase information. The gradient value manager is configured to determine gradient values of a region corresponding to the target pixel values and determine gradient information. The gradient information is determined by applying threshold values to the gradient values, where the threshold values are determined according to the target pixel values. The cost volume manager is configured to determine a cost volume by weighted summing the data groups based on the gradient information.
US11995847B2
During operation, an electronic device may capture images using multiple image sensors having different fields of view and positions. Then, the electronic device may determine, based at least in part on an apparent size of an anatomical feature in the images (such as an interpupillary distance) and a predefined or predetermined size of the anatomical feature, absolute motion of at least a portion of the individual along a direction between at least the portion of the individual and the electronic device. Moreover, the electronic device may compute based at least in part on an estimated distance along the direction corresponding to the apparent size and the predefined or predetermined size and angular information associated with one or more objects in the images relative to the positions, absolute motion of at least the portion of the individual in a plane that is perpendicular to the direction.
US11995846B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for three-dimensional object tracking includes, in at least one aspect, a method including: obtaining three-dimensional positions of objects registered by a detection system configured to allow more false positives so as to minimize false negatives, forming hypotheses using a filter that allows connections between registered objects when estimated three-dimensional velocity vectors roughly correspond to an object in motion in three-dimensional space, eliminating a proper subset of the hypotheses that are not further extended during the forming, specifying at least one three-dimensional track of at least one ball in motion in three-dimensional space by applying a full three-dimensional physics model to data for the three-dimensional positions used in the forming of at least one hypothesis that survives the eliminating, and outputting for display the at least one three-dimensional track of the at least one ball in motion in three-dimensional space.
US11995835B2
A pixel-level object detection system that detects an object at a pixel level, includes: an imaging unit that acquires an inference image that is an image that captures a detection target; an area detection unit that detects an area including a detection target from the inference image; a detail detection unit that detects the detection target using only local information from the inference image; and a result integration processing unit that integrates an output of the area detection unit with an output of the detail detection unit to output a segmentation map indicating, as a probability map, which pixel in the image corresponds to the detection object.
US11995825B2
The present disclosure relates to a medical imaging method for motion artifact detection. The method comprises: using (201-203) a k-space acquisition property for generating a motion-corrupted image having a motion artifact as caused by a first initial motion pattern such that the motion artifact is defined as function of a feature matrix and the motion-corrupted image; initializing (205) at least one feature map of a convolutional neural network, CNN, with values of the convolution matrix; training (207) the initialized CNN to obtain, in training images, motion artifacts caused by a second training motion pattern; obtaining (209) a motion artifact in an input image using the trained CNN.
US11995813B2
Methods and systems for analyzing the quality of a design printed on a substrate, such as a garment for example, are described. Such methods and systems may also be used for analyzing the properties of the garment together with the quality of the printed design. Components of such methods and systems, as well as information used and/or generated by such components, are described.
US11995812B2
Methods and systems for inspecting a product, such as a wire harness, including product features for inspection. A camera of an inspection station may capture a product image. A machine learning (ML) model may detect one or more objects in the captured product image and provide, for each detected object, an identification of a class of the detected object and an identification of a region of the detected object in the captured product image. The class of the detected object may be either an acceptable product feature class or an unacceptable product feature class. The inspection station may display an enhanced product image that includes the captured product image to which the identification of the class of the detected object and the identification of the region of the detected object in the captured product image for each detected object have been added.
US11995807B2
Method for ultrasound determination of a corrected image of a medium, the method comprising: determination of a temporal succession of images (Ik) of the medium, determination of the movement for each image of the medium, determination of a temporal succession of partial strain images (IΔεk) based on images of the medium, determination of corrected partial strain images (IΔεk*) by compensation of said partial strain images (IΔεk) based on preceding movements, and determination of a corrected strain image (Iεk*) by summation of the preceding corrected partial strain images (IΔεk*).
US11995801B2
An image processing method for sparse image reconstruction, image denoising, compressed sensing image reconstruction or image restoration, comprising: establishing a general linear optimization inverse problem under the 1-norm constraint of a sparse signal; establishing a differentiable deep network model based on convex combination to solve the problem on the basis of standard or learned iterative soft shrinkage thresholding algorithm; and introducing a deep neural network of arbitrary structure into the solving step to accelerate the solving step and reducing a number of iterations needed to reach a convergence. The present disclosure combines the traditional iterative optimization algorithm with the deep neural network of arbitrary structure to improve the image reconstruction performance and ensure fast convergence to meet the current needs of sparse image reconstruction.
US11995799B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a range of a transmittance of air that is designated in accordance with a user operation to a captured image, and a generation unit configured to generate a corrected image in which influence of a microparticle component in the air on the captured image is suppressed based on the range.
US11995794B2
A device for generating a high-resolution frame includes a plurality of alignment circuits configured to generate a plurality of aligned frames by blending a reference frame and a plurality of neighboring frames neighboring the reference frame; and a reconstruction circuit configured to generate the high-resolution frame corresponding to the reference frame according to the reference frame and the plurality of aligned frames. The plurality of alignment circuits and the reconstruction circuit each include neural networks.
US11995786B2
The present embodiment relates to a renderer and an interactive method for image editing of medical 3D anatomical data. The method includes receiving a dataset with volumetric image data, which have been acquired from an image acquisition modality, and providing a signed distance field data structure of the received dataset. Further, editing operations are received from a user interface for editing at least a part of the provided signed distance field data structure. A visualization of the editing operations is calculated and displayed on a display.
US11995779B2
Disclosed is a method, device, and system that determine the concentration of a user of an XR device where care contents are playing, in a manager terminal and manage and control the XR device based on the determination result. According to an embodiment of the inventive concept, the intended effects may be maximized through care contents of an XR device by managing and controlling a user's concentration of a registered XR device that is playing the care contents.
US11995774B2
Augmented reality experiences with an eyewear device including a position detection system and a display system are provided. The eyewear device acquires text from a user input, a data input, or a speech recognition system. The eyewear device presents a visual text graphic at a predefined location with respect to the eyewear on the display by the display system. The eyewear device allows the user to manipulate the visual text graphics in a number of ways.
US11995773B2
A computer-implemented method and system for navigation and display of 3D image data is described. In the method, a 3D image dataset to be displayed is retrieved and a highlight position is identified within the 3D image dataset. A scalar opacity map is calculated for the 3D image dataset, the opacity map having a value for each of a plurality of positions in the 3D image dataset, the respective value being dependent on the respective position relative to the highlight position, and on the value of the 3D image at the respective position relative to the value of the 3D image at the highlight position. The opacity is applied to the 3D image dataset to generate a modified 3D image view.
US11995760B2
A VR (Virtual Reality) simulator projects or displays a virtual space image on a screen installed at a position distant from a user in a real space and not integrally moving with the user. More specifically, the VR simulator acquires a real user position being a position of the user's head in the real space. The VR simulator acquires a virtual user position being a position in a virtual space corresponding to the real user position. Then, the VR simulator acquires the virtual space image by imaging the virtual space by using a camera placed at the virtual user position in the virtual space, based on virtual space configuration information indicating a configuration of the virtual space. Here, the VR simulator performs a lens shift process that shifts a lens of the camera such that the entire screen fits within a field of view of the camera.
US11995759B2
In examples, the number of rays used to sample lighting conditions of a light source in a virtual environment with respect to particular locations in the virtual environment may be adapted to scene conditions. An additional ray(s) may be used for locations that tend to be associated with visual artifacts in rendered images. A determination may be made on whether to cast an additional ray(s) to a light source for a location and/or a quantity of rays to cast. To make the determination variables such as visibilities and/or hit distances of ray-traced samples of the light source may be analyzed for related locations in the virtual environment, such as those in a region around the location (e.g., within an N-by-N kernel centered at the location). Factors may include variability in visibilities and/or hit distances, differences between visibilities and/or hit distances relative to the location, and magnitudes of hit distances.
US11995754B2
Systems and methods are provided for enhanced animation generation based on using motion mapping with local bone phases. An example method includes accessing first animation control information generated for a first frame of an electronic game including local bone phases representing phase information associated with contacts of a plurality of rigid bodies of an in-game character with an in-game environment. Executing a local motion matching process for each of the plurality of local bone phases and generating a second pose of the character model based on the plurality of matched local poses for a second frame of the electronic game.
US11995743B2
One embodiment provides a method comprising determining one or more coordinates representing one or more skin tones in a device-independent color space. The one or more skin tones can include one or more colors of human skin captured in one or more pieces of content. The method further comprises building a dual-core geometric model based on a distribution of the one or more skin tones in the device-independent color space. The method further comprises providing the dual-core geometric model to an electronic device for use in determining a likelihood that an input color of an input content is a skin tone. The input content is adaptively enhanced, based on the likelihood, for presentation on a display connected to the electronic device.
US11995742B2
An image processing apparatus includes a graphical image generator that generates a first graphical image and a second graphical image, and a mode switching unit that switches between a first display mode and a second display mode so that a display displays the first graphical image or the second graphical image. Each graphical image includes a color wheel indicating a two-dimensional color space of hue and saturation and a lightness bar indicating a one-dimensional color space of lightness. In the first graphical image, each position in the color wheel and the lightness bar is indicated by the hue and saturation indicated by that position. In the second graphical image, a distribution of colors included in the color image in the color space of hue and saturation or the color space of lightness is superposed on the color wheel and the lightness bar.
US11995740B2
A device and a method for performing AR image display control in which flicker in a boundary region between a virtual object and a real object is not noticeable are provided. A real object detection unit that executes processing of detecting a real object in a real world, and an augmented reality (AR) image display control unit that generates an AR image visually recognized in such a manner that a virtual object exists in a same space as a real object and outputs the AR image to a display unit are included, in which the AR image display control unit, in a case where a position of the real object detected by the real object detection unit is on a near side in a depth direction with respect to a position where the virtual object to be displayed on the display unit is arranged, an additional virtual object is output to the display unit on the near side in the depth direction with respect to the position of the real object in such a manner as to hide at least a partial region of a boundary region between the virtual object and the real object.
US11995736B2
The present invention is a system guiding an evacuation route for occupants using an augmented reality of mobile devices. The system includes: an occupant's mobile device installed with an evacuation guidance application for showing an evacuation route from a current location of the occupant to an evacuation point in the occurrence of a disaster; and a server providing a plurality of evacuation route information to the mobile device, wherein the mobile device executes the evacuation guidance application to display an evacuation guidance interface, displays a captured landscape image on an image display area of the evacuation guidance interface, displays one of the plurality of evacuation routes set based on specific information related to the type of disaster, the user's exercise ability, and personal conditions on a map display area of the evacuation guidance interface.
US11995734B2
A recording device may record information continuously. Particular events which occur during recording may be of interest for review (e.g., audit, inspection). Events may be audited to ensure that the data gathered is not tampered with or corrupted and to provably establish an evidence chain of custody. Metadata may mark recorded data of an event, in whole or in part, for later review. Metadata may be identified as an audit tag which may identify particular occurrences during an event. An audit tag may be urgent or non-urgent. Notice of an urgent audit tag may be sent to a server prior to sending the recorded data associated with the audit tag. Recorded data may be cryptographically signed to protect the recorded data from tampering.
US11995721B1
Systems and techniques are disclosed for an exchange platform that runs a hybrid market model combining electronic trading and open outcry trading. In some implementations, a secure connection is established with each of a plurality of market participants associated with a trading floor. A transaction order for a financial instrument is received from a connected device. The transaction order includes a routing instruction for routing the transaction order to the trading floor. A market participant to which the transaction order is to be routed is identified. The transaction order is routed to the market participant. Information that one or more in-crowd market participants have accepted the transaction order is received. The transaction order is facilitated based on the information that the one or more in-crowd market participants have accepted the transaction order.
US11995718B2
A routing system rapidly determines whether messages received by a data transaction processing system related to data objects in a computing system should be routed through or bypass integrity modules designed to detect and mitigate undesirable object conditions. The routing system may, in one embodiment, rely upon previous decisions made by the integrity modules. The routing system may also access data structures storing information about a current environment state to determine whether a message should be routed through the time consuming integrity modules. The routing system may additionally determine and specify which values associated with a message should be checked against integrity module logic.
US11995715B1
In some examples, a system may receive first merchant data for a first merchant. For instance, the first merchant data may include one or more merchant characteristics associated with the first merchant. The system may assign the first merchant to a first group of merchants based at least in part on the first merchant sharing at least one of the merchant characteristics with the first group of merchants. The system may use a machine learning model to determine a customized timing at which to provide a loan offer to the first merchant. The customized timing n ay be based at least in part on loan data associated with one or more loans previously offered to the merchants in the first group of merchants. Further, the system may send the loan offer to a computing device of the first merchant based at least in part on the customized timing.
US11995714B1
Systems and methods for implementing a machine learning loan portfolio loss forecasting system are provided. A current state of active loans of a loan portfolio during a first time period of a set of time periods may be determined. For each of the set of time periods, a roll rate of the active loans from each delinquency state to a subsequent delinquency state may be determined based on historical data of the loan portfolio. The machine learning model may then, iteratively, for each subsequent time period, determine a percentage of the active loans that will transition to each of the set of delinquency states during the subsequent time period based on a current state of the active loans during a previous time period and the roll rate from each delinquency state to a subsequent delinquency state for the subsequent time period.
US11995713B1
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums that provide users of a network-based financial account management system with a contextual user interface element, which when activated presents dynamic graphical user interfaces that provide financial account information as well as suggested financial performance improvement actions. Whether or not the contextual user interface is displayed may be based upon one or more of a context of the user, financial account information of the user, and account rules. Additionally, the suggested financial performance improvement actions may also be determined based upon one or more of: a context of the user, financial account information of the user, and account rules.
US11995712B1
In an example, a computer-implemented method includes determining a set of permissions that specifies types of account data of one or more financial accounts to share with a third-party, the one or more financial accounts being associated with a user and held by a financial institution, and generating authorization data that authenticates the third-party and authorizes the third-party to access the types of account data specified by the set of permissions. The method also includes transmitting the authorization data to the third-party, receiving a request for authorization that includes the authorization data and a request for account data of the one or more financial accounts that conforms to the types of account data specified by the set of permissions, authorizing the third-party based on the authorization data, and transmitting the account data that conforms to the types of account data specified by the set of permissions.
US11995710B2
A method for displaying a price chart, the price chart including a plurality of regions includes displaying, by a charting engine, a first region including one or more historical completed price-range-over-time-range-type symbols, displaying, by the charting engine, a second region adjacent to the first region, the second region including a current uncompleted price range-over-an-uncompleted-time-range-type symbol corresponding to an uncompleted time range, and in response to determining that the uncompleted time range has completed, generating and displaying, in the first region, by the charting engine, a new historical completed price-range-over-time-range-type symbol adjacent to the one or more historical completed-price-range-over-time-range-type symbols, and erasing, in the second region, the current uncompleted price-range-over-an-uncompleted-time-range-type symbol.
US11995708B2
Systems, methods, computing platforms, and storage media for generating and optimizing virtual storefront templates are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive, from an administrator device, a first set of inputs; generate a first virtual storefront template based on the first set of inputs; access, from a user device, a first virtual storefront user interface (UI), the first virtual storefront UI capable of being accessed to obtain product recommendations, sales proposals, and/or quotes; receive a request comprising a location and product preferences from a user device; determine site specific information based on the request; identify one or more products for recommendation based on the site specific information; display at least one of a product recommendation and a quote for at least one product; obtain one or more first performance results specific to the first virtual storefront template; and modify at least a portion of the first virtual storefront template.
US11995685B2
Systems and methods are provided for reducing communications between servers and a mobile device and providing enhanced security and privacy to wireless beacon services. This can involve a broadcast device transmitting a beacon transmission using a short range wireless radio, such a Bluetooth or WiFi, and including a MAC address, a first unique identifier, and a beacon service identifier. The mobile device then selects one or more unique identifiers from received beacon transmissions, by filtering (that is, selecting) those beacon transmissions which include the beacon service identifier. The wireless device then takes further action, if the first unique identifier is present among the selected one or more unique identifiers, using stored information from the server. The stored information may be delivered to the wireless device in response to the wireless device sending the first unique identifier to a server, or the stored information may have been previously downloaded.
US11995684B2
An apparatus includes a display and a processor. The processor displays a virtual shopping cart. The processor also receives information indicating that an algorithm determined that a physical item was selected by a person during a shopping session in a physical store, based on a set of inputs received from sensors located within the store. In response, the processor displays a virtual item, which includes a graphical representation of the physical item. The processor additionally displays a rack video captured during the shopping session by a rack camera located in the store. The rack camera is directed at a physical rack located in the store, which includes the physical item. In response to displaying the rack video, the processor receives information identifying the virtual item, where the rack video depicts that the person selected the physical item. The processor then stores the virtual item in the virtual shopping cart.
US11995682B2
Systems and methods of pushing content to secondary connected devices include pushing targeted content such as interactive advertisements, banners, games or application to secondary connected devices in a household. The targeted content may reflect user preferences associated with the secondary connected devices, including user behaviour and previous interaction with various forms of content viewed on the secondary connected devices. The targeted content may be either locally cached or retrieved from an advertisement server at the time of pushing to the secondary connected devices.
US11995677B2
The amount of user activity performed in relation to a promotion may be tracked based on user content captured via the client application. At least a portion of user content captured via the client application may be scanned and analyzed to identify user activity related to the user content. Augmented reality content items may be executable to generate content that is displayed in relation to the user content and that indicates an amount of user activity related to the promotion. In addition, the augmented reality content items may be executable to generate content in relation to the user content that indicates one or more redemption options for the promotion based on an amount of user activity performed by a user of the client application that captured the user content.
US11995672B2
The present disclosure relates to an offer redemption method and system. The offer redemption method includes receiving a user interactive value corresponding to a user interaction level with an external game device; receiving a transaction amount corresponding to a transaction amount made by a user with a merchant; determining an offer value corresponding to the user interaction value, transmitting an authorization request message for receiving authorization response from an authorizing entity, receiving an authorization response for the transmitted authorization request message; and displaying the authorization response and an offer redemption status on a display module of the access device.
US11995671B1
Systems and methods for forecasting commercial real estate lease rent rates are disclosed. Exemplary embodiments receive a series of independent variables that represent attributes of a specific commercial real estate property, scale and normalize the series of independent variables, and assemble the scaled and normalized series of independent variables. Weightings may be applied to the assembled scaled and normalized series of independent variables to predict a rental rate for the specific commercial real estate property.
US11995669B2
Methods and systems for simulating fulfillment of digital orders within a retail supply chain are disclosed. One method includes receiving a selection of a first operational parameter of a supply chain model. The supply chain simulation model is a transaction-level model representative of a digital order fulfillment process within a retail supply chain network. The selection of the first operational parameter includes a default value for the first operational parameter and an experimental value for the first operational parameter that is different from the default value. Simulations of a set of predicted digital orders within the retail supply chain network, using the supply chain simulation model as modified in accordance with the first operational parameter, are performed. Scenario evaluations including predicted metrics associated with each of a cost, a capacity, and a guest experience for the digital order fulfillment process may be output and displayed on a user interface.
US11995662B2
Individuals, families, and organizations all acquire assets ranging from tens to hundreds to tens of thousands. Each asset defines aspects of the acquirer and provides information to third parties as well as for the acquirer. This information includes ownership, asset experiences etc. shared with other users and/or enterprises who made it, support it, appreciate it, etc., the retailer who sold it, those who follow these assets or seek to provide improvements, enhancements, alternatives, etc. or exploit the asset ownership characteristics to target information. However, asset owners generally wish to remain anonymous yet benefit from third party knowledge of their ownership. Accordingly, a system and method of providing asset ownership brokering to derive benefit without providing confidential information to other users and/or enterprises is provided.
US11995654B2
A system and method for predictive pre-authorization of transactions using biometrics which uses wireless mobile devices and biometric scanning to automatically predict pre-authorized transaction amounts in a secure manner without requiring the customer to handle his or her mobile device. The system and method uses a payment facilitation device at the business location which automatically detects and recognizes registered mobile devices, displays a photo of the customer to a business employee for identity confirmation, verifies the customer with a biometrics verification database, generates a pre-authorization amount with an authorization generator, and automatically deducts payments for purchases from a pre-authorized customer account.
US11995653B1
An age verification payment card and method that employs a card wherein the card has a first embedded chip and a second embedded chip. The present invention includes a first chip for providing financial authorization for a purchase and a second chip that provides age verification of the cardholder to ensure that the cardholder meets any minimum age requirement for a purchase having that requirement. The method includes a step of collecting and verifying the age of the card applicant during the application process. This data is stored on the second embedded chip so as to provide the retailer a technique to verify the age of the cardholder wherein an age limit may be applicable to a purchase. The present invention will provide an age alert to a retailer in the event that the cardholder does not meet the minimum age requirement for the purchase being attempted.
US11995644B2
Disclosed is system and method for managing transactional interoperability amongst plurality of blockchains, the plurality of blockchains comprising a non-host blockchain and a host blockchain. The server arrangement is configured to append a first transaction to the non-host blockchain, first transaction comprising metadata pertaining to the user transaction, append a second transaction to the host blockchain, the second transaction comprising the first hash address, wherein second transaction triggers an initial smart contract of the host blockchain to store an operational information response at a second hash address in the distributed file storage system; append a third transaction to non-host blockchain, the third transaction comprising the second hash address, append a fourth transaction in the host blockchain, fourth transaction comprising third hash address, wherein the fourth transaction triggers initial smart contract of the host blockchain to update user wallet account based on output generated from the execution of user transaction.
US11995641B2
A transaction device includes a transceiver for receiving a first message from a first smart device and a second message from a second smart devices at distances greater than a first distance, a processor for determining a first payload and first identifier for the first smart device from the first message and for determining a second payload and second identifier for the second smart device from the second message, an NFC device for receiving an NFC identifier from a smart device at a distance less than the first distance, wherein the processor is for determining whether the NFC identifier data matches the first identifier data or the second identifier data, for processing the first payload when the NFC identifier matches the first identifier data, and for processing the second payload when the NFC identifier matches the second identifier data.
US11995640B2
Facilitating transaction status indications for point-of-sale (POS) systems is described. A POS application stored on a POS terminal of a POS system may communicate with a payment reader device coupled to the POS terminal and a payment server application. The POS application may receive, from a customer device associated with a customer and via a short-range communication network, payment information for satisfying a cost of a transaction. The POS application may send the payment information to the payment server application to attempt to authorize the payment information for the cost of the transaction and may receive, from the payment server application, an indication of a status of the transaction. Responsive to receiving the indication of the status of the transaction, the payment reader device and the customer device may output respective aspects of a transaction status indication associated with the status of the transaction.
US11995633B2
In some embodiments, a first server computer may be provided. The first server computer may comprise a processor and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor. The computer readable medium may include code executable by the processor for implementing a method. The method may include the step of electronically receiving an authorization request message that includes a first device verification value from a merchant for a first transaction, where the first device verification value may have been received by the merchant from a mobile device based on an interaction between the mobile device and an access device. In some embodiments, the mobile device may have received the first verification value based on a first request. The method may further include the step of determining by a data processor if the first device verification value corresponds to a stored device verification value.
US11995628B2
There are provided systems and methods for a physical stand for multiple device orientations and peripheral card reader. A device stand may include a dock that allows for placement and securing of a computing device within the device case, such as through a locking or connecting mechanism. The device dock further includes a peripheral component, such as a physical card reader, that allows for reading and entry of card data into the computing device for use with an electronic transaction processing application on the computing device. This allows the computing device to process transactions electronic with an online service provider. Further, the device stand includes a hinge or joint that allows for rotating and inverting of the computing device over a curved extension from a base of the device stand, which allows the computing device to be viewed in multiple directions and orientations.
US11995622B2
A method and apparatus for improving the management of cash and liquidity of an organization utilizing a plurality of currency accounts is described. The improvements optimize the interest earnings for the cash balances in each currency account, and minimizes the expenses related to funding the currency accounts. Machine learning techniques are incorporated to forecast payments, receipts, interest rates and currency exchange rates, and then cash is transferred or borrowed or loaned to fund the payments and utilize available cash.
US11995620B1
This disclosure provides methods and systems for performing authentication in a virtual reality environment. In some implementations, the system receives a request for access to a virtual reality financial center requiring authentication from a user. The system can collect user identification information that identifies the user and verification information required to verify the user's identity via a virtual reality platform.
US11995619B1
A computing system may include a network circuit configured to communicate with a third party computing device via a network, one or more interface elements (e.g., application programming interfaces and/or software development kits) providing account open functionality, and an account open circuit configured to: accept, via the interface elements, a set of user data and an account open request for opening a new account with the provider, where the set of user data is received from a user computing device of a user via a third party website or application; establish the new account by generating a set of account data associated with the new account without directing the user to the operating environment of a website or application of the provider; and transmit the set of account data to the third party computing device for use by the third party computing device in a transaction with the user.
US11995613B2
The Search Extraction Matching, Draw Attention-Fit Modality, Application Morphing, and Informed Apply Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“SEMATFM-AMIA”) transforms inputs including new job listing introduction inputs, via SEMATFM-AMIA components (e.g., the conductor component, the resume view controller component, the XY paths handler component, the title handler component, the resume librarian component, and the job listing librarian component), into outputs including relevant resume outputs and/or augmented new job listing record outputs. It is noted that the terms “component” and “object” may be used interchangeably hereinthroughout. In one embodiment, the SEMATFM-AMIA includes an apparatus, comprising: a memory, a component collection in the memory, and a processor disposed in communication with the memory, and configured to issue a plurality of processing instructions from the component collection stored in the memory. SEMATFM-AMIA may then receive, in connection with an application to a job, a resume adjustment request, where the request includes one or more raw terms of a resume, one or more normalized terms of the resume, one or more raw terms of a job listing corresponding to the job, and one or more normalized terms of the job listing. SEMATFM-AMIA may load said resume normalized terms and said job listing normalized terms into a joined normalized terms set, and add to a common normalized terms set normalized term members of the joined normalized terms set which meet a count criterion. SEMATFM-AMIA may visit each of one or more normalized term members of the common normalized terms set. After further receiving, adding, visiting, providing and otherwise processing data, SEMATFM-AMIA may receive, from the resume adjuster component, a request to formulate the adjusted resume record, wherein said record formulation request includes specification of the resume and substitution information, and formulate the adjusted resume record which substitutes each of user-selected resume raw terms with a corresponding user-selected job listing raw term, wherein the formulation includes accessing one or more stores.
US11995600B2
A method includes an operation of receiving first position information, indicative of a first material plant checkpoint in which an equipment enters a first material plant geofence a first time. The method also includes receiving second position information, indicative of a first machine checkpoint in which the equipment enters and/or exits a machine geofence. The method also includes receiving third position information, indicative of a second material plant checkpoint in which the equipment enters the first material plant geofence a second time. The method also includes creating an association between the first material plant checkpoint and the second material plant checkpoint. The method also includes determining the equipment cycle time based at least partly on a time associated with the first material plant checkpoint and a time associated with the second material plant checkpoint.
US11995599B1
Customized navigation maps of an area are generated for autonomous vehicles based on a baseline map of the area, transportation systems within the area, and attributes of the autonomous vehicles. The customized navigation maps include a plurality of paths, and two or more of the paths may form an optimal route for performing a task by an autonomous vehicle. Customized navigation maps may be generated for outdoor spaces or indoor spaces, and include specific infrastructure or features on which a specific autonomous vehicle may be configured for travel. Routes may be determined based on access points at destinations such as buildings, and the access points may be manually selected by a user or automatically selected on any basis. The autonomous vehicles may be guided by GPS systems when traveling outdoors, and by imaging devices or other systems when traveling indoors.
US11995598B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for quality compliance, system and operator verification, and process management for point of care biological sample testing systems used in hospitals and other medical delivery environments. Specifically, the present invention may be directed to a computing device configured to generate a plurality of attributes configured to assess a competency level of an operator to operate at least one sample testing instrument, obtain operator derived data pertaining to the operator's ability to operate the at least one sample testing instrument, and determine a competency level of the operator for the at least one sample testing instrument based the plurality of attributes and the operator derived data.
US11995582B2
Examples related to facilitating the training, assessment, and dispatching of technicians to a customer location for at least the purpose of servicing or repairing machines, devices, or systems present at the customer location are presented. The technician can be selected for dispatch to the customer location by review of database information, including training information for the technician, among other things. While at the customer location, the technician can be provided with training information delivered via a training module, where such training material content can comprise written materials, photos, video, virtual assistance, remote assistance, games, or the like. The technician can generate videos or other collateral while at the customer location, which can be included for use in a library of training materials for subsequent use, or for other purposes. Various systems and processes for facilitating the selection, management and deployment of training materials for technicians are also provided herein.
US11995561B2
A method and system to provide artificial intelligence services to user interacting applications which includes receiving first unfulfilled service request from a user interaction application executing on a user device and generating, from the unfulfilled service request, an unfulfilled artificial intelligence service request and an unfulfilled non-artificial intelligence service request. The unfulfilled artificial intelligence service request is transmitted to an artificial intelligence service module to fulfill the unfulfilled artificial intelligence service request, which generates a fulfilled artificial intelligence service request. The unfulfilled non-artificial intelligence service request is transmitted to a back-end server to fulfill the unfulfilled non-artificial intelligence service request, which generates a fulfilled non-artificial intelligence service request. An artificial intelligence proxy is used to combine the fulfilled artificial intelligence service request and the fulfilled non-artificial intelligence service request into a first fulfilled service request, which the artificial intelligence proxy then transmits to the user interacting application.
US11995554B2
Aspects for backpropagation of a multilayer neural network (MNN) in a neural network processor are described herein. The aspects may include a computation module configured to receive one or more groups of MNN data. The computation module may further include a master computation module configured to calculate an input gradient vector based on a first output gradient vector from an adjacent layer and based on a data type of each of the one or more groups of MNN data. Further still, the computation module may include one or more slave computation modules configured to parallelly calculate portions of a second output vector based on the input gradient vector calculated by the master computation module and based on the data type of each of the one or more groups of MNN data.
US11995544B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an aperture ratio measurement device includes an actual aperture ratio measurement unit which image some mother substrates selected from a plurality of mother substrates and calculate an aperture ratio actual measurement value of a pixel for the imaged some mother substrates, an estimation aperture ratio measurement unit which learn sensing data for each of the plurality of mother substrates and calculate an aperture ratio prediction value of a pixel for all or a group of the plurality of mother substrates, and an addition unit which calculate a final aperture ratio prediction value based on the aperture ratio actual measurement value and the aperture ratio prediction value.
US11995542B2
A method of generating a neural network based open-domain dialogue model, includes receiving an input utterance from a device having a conversation with the dialogue model, obtaining a plurality of candidate replies to the input utterance from the dialogue model, determining a plurality of discriminator scores for the candidate replies based on reference-free discriminators, determining a plurality of quality score associated with the candidate replies, and training the dialogue model based on the quality scores.
US11995539B2
A method for re-learning a trained model is provided. The method for re-learning a trained model includes: receiving a data set including the trained model consisting of a plurality of neurons and a new task; identifying a neuron associated with the new task among the plurality of neurons to selectively re-learn a parameter associated with the new task for the identified neuron; and dynamically expanding a size of the trained model on which the selective re-learning is performed if the trained model on which the selective re-learning has a preset loss value to reconstruct the input trained model.
US11995529B2
Disclosed is a data processing system that includes compile time logic to section a graph into a sequence of sections including a first section and a second section. The compile time logic is to configure the first section with a first topology of tiling configurations in which to tile inputs, intermediate outputs, and final outputs of the first section, and configure the second section with a second topology of tiling configurations in which to tile inputs, intermediate outputs, and final outputs of the second section. The data processing system further includes runtime logic configured with the compile time logic to execute the first section to generate the inputs, intermediate outputs, and final outputs of the first section in the first topology of tiling configurations, and execute the second section to generate the inputs, intermediate outputs, and final outputs of the second section in the second topology of tiling configurations.
US11995528B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training an encoder neural network that is configured to process an input observation to generate a latent representation of the input observation. In one aspect, a method includes: obtaining a sequence of observations; for each observation in the sequence of observations, processing the observation using the encoder neural network to generate a latent representation of the observation; for each of one or more given observations in the sequence of observations: generating a context latent representation of the given observation; and generating, from the context latent representation of the given observation, a respective estimate of the latent representations of one or more particular observations that are after the given observation in the sequence of observations.
US11995520B2
The present disclosure relates to a feature contribution system that accurately and efficiently provides the influence of features utilized in machine-learning models with respect to observed model results. In particular, the feature contribution system can utilize an observed model result, initial contribution values, and historical feature values to determine a contribution value correction factor. Further, the feature contribution system can apply the correction factor to the initial contribution values to determine correction-factor adjusted contribution values of each feature of the model with respect to the observed model result.
US11995518B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to machine learning model understanding as-a-service. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a model understanding as-a-service system can receive, from a user system, a service request that includes a machine learning model created for a user associated with the user system. The model understanding as-a-service system can conduct an analysis of the machine learning model in accordance with the service request. The model understanding as-a-service system can compile, for the user, results of the analysis of the machine learning model in accordance with the service request. The model understanding as-a-service system can create a service response that includes the results of the analysis. The model understanding as-a-service system can provide the service response to the user system.
US11995517B1
This application concerns methods and apparatus for performing a quantum algorithm of logical qubits. The quantum algorithm is performed on a quantum system of physical qubits. The method includes providing a quantum system comprising a plurality of physical qubits in a spatial arrangement. The number of physical qubits is larger than the number of logical qubits. The logical qubits are encoded into physical qubits. A physical qubit represents either the parity of two or more logical qubits or a single logical qubit. Constraint-fulfilling sets of physical qubits fulfil constraints and each constraint-fulfilling set comprises a number of physical qubits such that every logical qubit is represented by zero or an even number of physical qubits in that set. The method includes enabling quantum interactions between logical qubits by performing quantum interactions on physical qubits. Further, at least a portion of the physical qubits is measured to obtain a readout.
US11995515B2
Method, apparatus and product for modeling of quantum circuits and usages thereof. A method comprises obtaining a model of a quantum circuit that comprises a set of decision variables, corresponding domains, and constraints, wherein the set of decision variables comprise gate assignment decision variables that define an assignment of a gate to a qubit in a cycle in the quantum circuit. The method comprises automatically determining a set of valuations for the set of decision variables. The set of valuations are selected from the corresponding domains and satisfy the constraints. Based on the set of valuations the quantum circuit is synthesized.
US11995502B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for facilitating playing soccer based on RFID. The methods and systems may include receiving a request from a user, generating a radio tracking indication, transmitting the radio tracking indication to a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) reader, emitting interrogating radio waves, receiving returned radio wave, generating ball tracking data, receiving target data from at least one target sensor, retrieving game data, processing the ball tracking data and the target data based on the game data, generating user performance, transmitting the user performance to the user, storing at least one of the request, the sensor data, the target sensor data, and the user performance.
US11995501B2
An RFID system comprises an array of antennas each configured to emit a plurality of beams in different directions. The beams of each pair of adjacent antennas are directed towards one another and overlap. A pair of adjacent antennas transmits simultaneously and the overlapping beams interfere to create an interference pattern. An RFID reader controls the relative phase and/or frequency of the beams to move the interference pattern to read an RFID tag within the moving pattern. As the chance of a RFID tag responding to an emitted beam generally increases with signal strength of the reader beam an area of constructive interference means that RFID tags in that region are more likely to respond to the signal. The system can cover a large proportion of the area below ceiling-mounted antennas, where cover generally means that RFID tags in that area will be successfully read.
US11995498B1
RFID-tagged items can be filtered based on relevance estimation or user input. A device reads digital identifiers for multiple RFID-tagged items. The device estimates and selects an item that an individual desires based on one or more metrics, then presents data about the selected item to the individual. If the device receives feedback that the selected item is not the desired item, then the device may estimate and select another item and/or present information about multiple items to allow the individual to select the desired item. When the desired item is selected, the device may perform some associated action.
US11995494B2
Disclosed are examples of transaction cards incorporating aluminum or aluminum alloys. The aluminum can be extracted or recycled from a retired aircraft. Other materials can also be incorporated into the transaction card to provide sufficient weight and rigidity to the transaction card. Stainless steel can be incorporated into the construction of the card in combination with aluminum to provide a desired user experience.
US11995493B2
Systems and methods are provided for transferring a remote frequency identification (RFID) inlay from a first substrate to a second substrate. An RFID inlay is secured to a first substrate with a first adhesive. The RFID inlay is brought into the vicinity of a second substrate and secured to the second substrate with a second adhesive. The RFID inlay is then dissociated from the first substrate. The RFID inlay may be dissociated from the first substrate by softening the first adhesive, such as by the application of heat or the application of a softening substance. Alternatively, the RFID inlay may be dissociated from the first substrate without softening the first adhesive, but rather by differential release, whereby a release force is applied between the two substrates, with the release force being greater than the release strength of the first adhesive, but less than the release strength of the second adhesive.
US11995489B2
A communication card comprises an antenna, a memory, a signal evaluation circuit, an energy supply circuit, a data interface, a signal processing circuit and a supply voltage terminal. The supply voltage terminal is coupled to the signal processing circuit and the memory. In a commissioning phase, the energy supply circuit is configured to receive electrical power via the antenna and provide electrical power to the signal evaluation circuit and the memory, and the signal evaluation circuit is configured to receive configuration data via the antenna and to store the configuration data in the memory. In an operating phase, the communication card is configured to receive electrical power by the supply voltage terminal, and the signal processing circuit is configured to read the configuration data stored in the memory.
US11995488B2
An image recording apparatus, having a conveyer, an image recorder, a cutter assembly, a reader, a display device, a controller, and an operation interface, is provided. The controller is configured to control the reader to read the image of the readable medium, the image recorder to record the image of the readable medium read by the reader on the sheet, and the cutter assembly to cut the sheet at a predetermined position in a conveying direction. The operation includes a first receivable portion, through which a selection from the user for causing the controller to control the reader to read the image of the readable medium, control the image recorder to record the image of the readable medium read by the reader on the sheet, and control the cutter assembly to cut the sheet at the predetermined position is receivable in a single action.
US11995486B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems for integrating computer applications are disclosed. One method includes querying a primary computer application for current state of a newly created object; receiving the current state of the object, and generating object data for a secondary computer application based on the current state of the object. The method further includes communicating an object creation request to a secondary computer application, the object creation request including the generated object data, receiving a secondary computer application object identifier from the secondary computer application upon creation of the object at the secondary computer application, and communicating the secondary computer application object identifier to the primary computer application for storing in a record of the object created at the primary computer application.
US11995484B2
A method of triggering an event based on occurrence of a POS transaction is provided in which an event processing server receives from a first user device associated with a first account, a first event triggering request. The request includes identification of a desired event to be triggered and first triggering criteria. The desired event is to be initiated by the event processing server upon occurrence of one or more POS transactions collectively meeting the first triggering criteria. The event processing server receives, from a transaction processing server, notification of an occurrence of a merchant POS transaction associated with the first account. The event processing server determines whether the occurrence of the merchant POS transaction results in the first triggering criteria having been met, and, if so initiates the desired event.
US11995483B2
An electronic device that is in communication with one or more wearable audio output devices detects occurrence of an event while the one or more wearable audio output devices are being worn by a user. In response to detecting the occurrence of the event, the electronic device outputs, via the one or more wearable audio output devices, one or more audio notifications corresponding to the event, including: in accordance with a determination that the user of the electronic device is currently engaged in a conversation, delaying outputting the one or more audio notifications corresponding to the event until the conversation has ended; and, in accordance with a determination that the user of the electronic device is not currently engaged in a conversation, outputting the one or more audio notifications corresponding to the event without delaying the outputting.
US11995480B2
An information handling system may include a processor, a wireless network interface communicatively coupled to the processor, and a synchronization manager comprising a program of instructions embodied in non-transitory computer-readable media communicatively coupled to the processor, the synchronization manager configured to, when executed by the processor, in response to an event for communicating data via the wireless network interface between the information handling system and a second information handling system: (i) determine a context associated with the information handling system; (ii) determine a synchronization algorithm for the data based on the context and the type of data; and (iii) synchronize the data based on the synchronization algorithm.
US11995479B2
A computer-implemented method according to one aspect includes determining and storing characteristics of a plurality of cloud vendors; dividing a workload into a plurality of logical stages; determining characteristics of each of the plurality of logical stages; and for each of the plurality of logical stages, assigning the logical stage to one of the plurality of cloud vendors, based on a comparison of the characteristics of the plurality of cloud vendors to the characteristics of the logical stage. Data migration between the cloud vendors is performed during an implementation of the workload to ensure data is located at necessary cloud vendors during the corresponding tasks of the workload.
US11995477B2
A method for evaluating an updated analytical procedure in a monitoring system, comprising a plurality of monitoring device arranged to monitor similar environments, is provided. The method comprises identifying available processing resources, selecting a first monitoring device for which available processing resources have been identified, selecting a second monitoring device, acquiring monitoring data by the second monitoring device, and performing a current analytical procedure on the monitoring data. The method further comprises sending the monitoring data to the first monitoring device, performing, in the first monitoring device, an updated analytical procedure on the monitoring data, and evaluating the updated analytical procedure based on the outcome of the current analytical procedure and the updated analytical procedure.
US11995474B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a display control program readable by a computer of a relay apparatus of a terminal management system having a management apparatus, the relay apparatus, and a terminal apparatus, the display control program, when executed by the computer, causing the relay apparatus to perform: obtaining, from the management apparatus, execution timing information indicating an execution timing of a relay application configured to relay data between the management apparatus and the terminal apparatus via the relay apparatus, the relay application being activated by a user's activation operation performed on the relay apparatus; and based on the execution timing information obtained, setting a reservation for executing display processing of displaying, on the relay apparatus, an activation notification image prompting the user to activate the relay application when the execution timing comes.
US11995471B2
A resource integration method includes the following steps: a receiving module receives access information from a guest operating system on the host device; the access information is used to determine whether the frame rate is lower than a frame rate threshold; when the receiving module determines that the frame rate is lower than the frame rate threshold, the receiving module transmits an external resource request signal to the receiving module; after the receiving module receives the external resource request signal, a resource management module (which is located in the bridge module) selects an optimal external device from a specific category (among a plurality of categories in a candidate list), and a calculation operation or a storage operation corresponding to the specific category is transmitted to the optimal external device for calculation or storage by the bridge module.
US11995470B2
Systems and methods for secure resource management are provided. A secure resource management system receives from a client computing system associated with a resource provider a query for classifying a resource user associated with the resource provider. The secure resource management system determining a set of resource abuser criteria for classifying the resource user as a resource abuser. The secure resource management system determines that the resource user is a resource abuser or a potential resource abuser based on the set of resource abuser criteria and a resource transaction history associated with the resource user. Based on determining that the resource user is a resource abuser or a potential resource abuser, the secure resource management system generates and transmits a response to the query to the client computing system. The response can be used to restrict or deny access to the resource by the resource user.
US11995467B1
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for validation, deletion, and/or recovery of resources in a service environment. A machine (e.g., server) may receive a request to identify or discover a list of resources that are unused in a service environment. A machine (e.g., server) may receive a request to delete one or more resources in a service environment. In at least one embodiment, deletion of a resource involves a two-stage process where the resource is recoverably deleted in a first stage (e.g., by deactivating or disabling the resource) such that the resource can be recovered prior to a predetermined time period by reactivating or re-enabling the resource and, in a second stage, the resource is unrecoverably deleted.
US11995462B2
Techniques for transferring virtual machines and resource management in a virtualized computing environment are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include at least one memory, at least one processor, and logic for transferring a virtual machine (VM), at least a portion of the logic comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory and the at least one processor, the logic to generate a plurality of virtualized capability registers for a virtual device (VDEV) by virtualizing a plurality of device-specific capability registers of a physical device to be virtualized by the VM, the plurality of virtualized capability registers comprising a plurality of device-specific capabilities of the physical device, determine a version of the physical device to support via a virtual machine monitor (VMM), and expose a subset of the virtualized capability registers associated with the version to the VM. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US11995460B2
A resource determination device according to a storage unit configured to store a model indicating a relationship of: a processing load of a virtual machine; a processing performance of the virtual machine; a resource operational status of a physical machine accommodating the virtual machine; and a resource operational status of the virtual machine, with respect to an amount of resources allocated to the virtual machine, and a calculation unit configured to calculate the amount of resources allocated to the virtual machine in a way such that a requirement for the processing performance of the virtual machine and a policy of the resource operational status of the virtual machine are each satisfied based on a monitoring result of the resource operational status of the physical machine accommodating the virtual machine, the processing load of the virtual machine, and the model stored in the storage unit.
US11995451B2
A resource permission processing method and apparatus, a storage medium, and a chip are disclosed, to update a resource label in a terminal device based on a first resource permission configuration file when a system software version in the terminal device is upgraded. The first resource permission configuration file covers only path information in which a label changes before and after the system software version is upgraded. Therefore, in a process of updating the resource label stored in the terminal device, a matching amount is greatly reduced when path information that matches traversal path information of a resource is searched for in the first resource permission configuration file, and therefore time consumed for labeling the stored resource can be reduced. The reduced time for labeling the stored resource improves labeling efficiency, reduces time consumed for the system software version upgrade, and improves efficiency of the system software version upgrade.
US11995450B2
Examples of cloud-based provisioning of a computing system are disclosed. In an example, a baseboard management controller (BMC) of the computing system may be configured to establish a secure cloud provisioning connection between a cloud manager and the BMC. UEFI configuration may be received from the cloud manager over the secure cloud provisioning connection. A UEFI shell may be executed during a startup of the computing system initiated by the cloud manager. Based on the UEFI configuration, a provisioning proxy server communicatively coupled to a cloud repository may be identified. A startup script may be requested from the cloud repository over a network connection using a UEFI network stack. The startup script may download an image file via the provisioning proxy server from the cloud repository over the network connection and provision the computing system from the image file.
US11995447B2
A quick predictor override system and method for a microprocessor that enables a correction to a quick predictor, branch prediction by a branch target address cache (BTAC), and rapid update to the quick predictor. For example, the microprocessor includes a quick predictor that provides branch prediction based on a local pattern history, and a large predictor in the form of the BTAC, which provides for branch prediction using a global pattern history. Branch prediction by the BTAC is the prevailing prediction if different, for a fetched cache address, than the branch prediction by the smaller, quick predictor. Accordingly, the target and direction for conditional branches provided by the BTAC for fetching the next cache instruction are used in favor of the target and direction previously provided by the quick predictor, and the quick predictor is quickly updated with the target and direction from the BTAC during a BTAC stage.
US11995444B2
Methods and supporting systems are disclosed herein that when applied to enterprise applications built on various enterprise application development platforms are translated from the high-level platform-specific language into applications programmed using low-code objects that are deployable as edge-ready, cloud-based applications.
US11995433B2
A center includes one or more processors configured to: distribute, to an OTA master, campaign data including one or more pieces of package data, each of which includes one or more pieces of update software of one or more target ECUs included in a vehicle; determine, after distributing the campaign data, whether a defect involved in an update of the one or more target ECUs is found in the one or more pieces of package data included in the campaign data; and transmit, when determining that the defect is found, an application avoidance instruction to the vehicle to which the campaign data is to be applied via the network, the application avoidance instruction instructing the OTA master not to apply a piece of package data in which the defect is found at a timing of applying the campaign data.
US11995432B2
A control method for a display device includes, in a state in which first firmware is installed, acquiring version information of second firmware installed in another display device from the other display device, inquiring the other display device about propriety of update of the second firmware to the first firmware when a version of the second firmware is older than a version of the first firmware, receiving the second firmware from the other display device when a notification for denying the update of the second firmware is received from the other display device, and updating the first firmware installed in the display device to the second firmware.
US11995427B2
A method, apparatus, device, and a storage medium for upgrading a vehicle-mounted Tbox, which relate to the technical field of vehicle-mounted Tbox. The method comprises: when using a BOOTLOADER1 module that is used to store a power-on initial code for power-on startup, a vehicle-mounted Tbox determines whether version upgrading needs to be carried out (S401); and when it is determined that version upgrading needs to be carried out, the vehicle-mounted Tbox sequentially carries out version upgrading on a BOOTLOADER2 module for storing control logic and a diagnostic protocol stack code and app module (S402).
US11995424B2
There is provided a computing device for identifying unique software installed on network connected devices, comprising: a processor executing a code for: for each unstructured text for the network connected devices, wherein the unstructured texts are extracted by different code sensors from different applications, wherein each unstructured text indicates an identity of software installed on device(s): dividing the unstructured text into token(s), classifying tokens to software parameter(s) using classification dataset(s), matching subsets of permutations of the software parameters and corresponding tokens to unique software identifiers defined by a common structured format, selecting one unique software identifier according to a set of rules, and generating a text satisfying the common structured format, the text indicating unique software installed on each device.
US11995423B2
A system on chip includes a non-volatile memory and a processor configured to execute an operating system which receives data according to a first communication protocol and program installation software that communicates with the non-volatile memory according to a second communication protocol. The operating system functions to: determine whether data received according to the first communication protocol is program data, make the program data available to the installation software, and inform the installation software that program data has been received. The installation software then stores the program data in the non-volatile memory.
US11995421B2
Compilation is supported and improved by varying the order of invocation of register allocation heuristics during code generation. A particular invocation order may be chosen based on one or more compilation scenario properties, such as a target processor architecture, a target operating system, a kind of source code being compiled, or optimization targets for the compiler or the generated code, or a mix thereof. Suitable heuristics invocation orders may be produced efficiently and effectively using a genetic algorithm that is adapted to make a population of invocation orders, select parents, create offspring, and assess invocation order fitness, until the population converges on optimal orders. Invocation order fitness assessments may be based on actual performance or simulated performance.
US11995418B2
Methods and systems are disclosed that automate and institutionalize many aspects of the process of creating software. Embodiments automate aspects of pricing, software creation, and delivery using a manufacturing-styled approach to development that reuses existing code and other existing software design features.
US11995413B2
A method of transforming data including receiving data in a first language specific form, converting the data in the first language specific form to a language agnostic form, storing the data in the language agnostic form, converting the data in the language agnostic form to at least one second language specific form and exporting, on demand, the data in at least one of the at least one second language specific form.
US11995410B1
Systems and methods use hierarchical models to process conversations. A set of word vectors is processed using a sentence model, resulting in a sentence vector for the conversation message. The sentence vector is modified to include a time value. A set of sentence vectors, representing a time window, is processed using a window model, to generate a window vector for that time window. The window vector is updated to include a count value. A set of window vectors, corresponding to a set of time windows within the conversation, is processed using a conversation model to generate a conversation vector. A sentiment value indicating the sentiment of the conversation is presented, using a processor that generates the sentiment value from the conversation vector.
US11995406B2
An encoding method is provided for an encoding apparatus. The method includes obtaining a target paragraph and a preset database, and inputting the target paragraph and preset database into a memory encoding model, obtaining, in an input layer, an original vector set of the target paragraph and a knowledge vector set of the preset database, obtaining, in a first memory layer, a first target sentence matrix according to the original vector set and the knowledge vector set, and obtaining, in an output layer, a paragraph vector of the target paragraph according to the first target sentence matrix, and performing processing based on the paragraph vector.
US11995399B2
An interactive writing system receives from a user, inputs of a plurality of short stories; receives from the user, a sequence of the plurality of short stories; arranges the plurality of short stories according to the received sequence; generates a plurality of one sentence summaries, wherein one of the plurality of one sentence summaries relates to one of the plurality of short stories; receives from the user, a selection of a word from one or the plurality of one sentence summaries; provides one or more suggested words corresponding to the selected word; displays a list of pre-determined criteria and corresponding reward; receives from the user, an indication that one or more of the list of pre-determined criteria are met; calculates a total reward received by the user; and displays the total rewards.
US11995398B2
According to one embodiment, a dictionary editing apparatus includes a processor with hardware. The processor extracts a word from text data. The processor appends a character pronunciation to the extracted word. The processor calculates at least one of a first reliability denoting a reliability of the extracted word and a second reliability denoting a reliability of the appended character pronunciation. The processor specifies a word to be a modification candidate in accordance with the first reliability. The processor specifies a character pronunciation to be a modification candidate in accordance with the second reliability.
US11995384B2
Systems and methods for facilitating virtual operation of a virtual vehicle within a virtual environment are disclosed. According to aspects, a computing device may access a data model indicative of real-life operation of a real-life vehicle by a real-life operator and, based on the data model, generate a set of virtual vehicle movements that are reflective of a performance of the real-life operation of the real-life vehicle by the real-life operator. The computing device may display, in a user interface, the virtual vehicle undertaking the set of virtual vehicle movements such that the real-life operator may review the virtual movements and potentially be motivated to improve his/her real-life vehicle operation.
US11995382B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for determination of a real subsoil geological formation. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving a model representing the real subsoil, determining a first stochastic trajectory of a first fluvial formation in said model, defining a constraint zone comprising said first fluvial formation, and determining a second stochastic trajectory of a second fluvial formation in said model within said constraint zone based on a stochastic process.
US11995378B2
The disclosure is directed to a process that can predict and prevent an audio artifact from occurring. The process can monitor the systems, processes, and execution threads on a larger system/device, such as a mobile or in-vehicle device. Using a learning algorithm, such as deep neural network (DNN), the information collected can generate a prediction of whether an audio artifact is likely to occur. The process can use a second learning algorithm, which also can be a DNN, to generate recommended system adjustments that can attempt to prevent the audio glitch from occurring. The recommendations can be for various systems and components on the device, such as changing the processing system frequency, the memory frequency, and the audio buffer size. After the audio artifact has been prevented, the system adjustments can be reversed fully or in steps to return the system to its state prior to the system adjustments.
US11995370B2
A distributed interface display method. A first electronic device may display content in a plurality of function areas (for example, a first function area and a second function area) on the first electronic device and another electronic device (for example, a second electronic device) in a distributed collaborative manner. Specifically, when the first electronic device displays the content in the first function area and the content in the second function area, the first electronic device may send the content in one of the function areas (for example, the first function area) to the second electronic device for display.
US11995357B2
Disclosed herein a disaggregation computing system. The disaggregation computing system comprising: a local computing device that comprises a local processor, a local memory bus, a local memory and a local disaggregation controller; a remote computing device that comprises a remote processor, a remote memory bus, a remote memory and a remote disaggregation controller; and a disaggregation network that connects the local computing device and the remote computing device, wherein the local disaggregation controller and the remote disaggregation controller are configured to: check a response delay for access of the remote memory, and control the access of the remote memory based on the response delay.
US11995349B2
A method and apparatus for performing access management of a memory device in a Host Performance Booster (HPB) architecture with aid of device side table information encoding and decoding are provided. The method may include: encoding internal information of the memory device and sending encoded result thereof to a host device, to allow the host device to store the encoded result in a memory within the host device as host-owned encoded device side table information at the host device; generating and storing multiple entries of address mapping control table into a RAM as at least one portion of device side table information at the memory device; decoding partial information of the host-owned encoded device side table information, performing checking operation on decoded result thereof, and selectively using the decoded result to determine physical address associated with logical address; and reading data from the NV memory according to the physical address.
US11995340B2
A read-disturb-based read temperature information access system includes a read-disturb-based read temperature information management subsystem coupled to a plurality of storage devices that each include a read-disturb-based read temperature information Application Programming Interface (API). Each storage device generates and stores read-disturb-based read temperature information associated with that storage device, and when a read-disturb-based read temperature information command is received from the read-disturb-based read temperature information management subsystem that conforms to the read-disturb-based read temperature information API, the storage device receiving that read-disturb-based read temperature information command will execute it to perform at least one operation using the read-disturb-based read temperature information associated with and stored by that storage device.
US11995335B2
A computerized-method for determining and utilizing an effectiveness of lifecycle-management for storage of interactions-related objects, is provided herein. In a computerized system that is communicating with a multi-tier storage in a cloud-environment having a lifecycle-rules data-storage to store one or more lifecycle-rules, operating a Retention Effectiveness Calculation (REC) module. The operating of the REC module includes: (i) retrieving all lifecycle-rules from the lifecycle-rules data-storage; (ii) for each lifecycle-rule in the lifecycle rules data-storage calculating a Rule Effectiveness Score (RES); (iii) grouping all the calculated RES by media type; (iv) for each media type, calculating an Object Retention Score (ORS) for the media type; (v) dividing an aggregation of the ORS of all media types by a total number of media types to yield a total ORS for a contact-center; and (vi) displaying via a display unit the total ORS of the contact-center.
US11995330B2
Technologies for providing accelerated functions as a service in a disaggregated architecture include a compute device that is to receive a request for an accelerated task. The task is associated with a kernel usable by an accelerator sled communicatively coupled to the compute device to execute the task. The compute device is further to determine, in response to the request and with a database indicative of kernels and associated accelerator sleds, an accelerator sled that includes an accelerator device configured with the kernel associated with the request. Additionally, the compute device is to assign the task to the determined accelerator sled for execution. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US11995310B2
A method and apparatus for displaying an interaction interface, a storage medium, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: displaying a first interaction interface on a front display region of a mobile terminal; detecting a first interaction operation on a back display region, wherein the first interaction operation is used for switching from displaying the first interaction interface on the front display region to displaying a second interaction interface of a target game application; responsive to detecting the first interaction operation, switching from displaying the first interaction interface on the front display region to displaying the second interaction interface.
US11995301B2
Methods for displaying user interfaces in a computer-generated environment provide for an efficient and intuitive user experience. In some embodiments, user interfaces can have different immersion levels. In some embodiments, a user interface can have a respective immersion level based on its location in the three-dimensional environment or distance from the user. In some embodiments, a user interface can have a respective immersion level based on the state of the user interface. In some embodiments, a user interface can switch from one immersion level to another in response to the user's interaction with the user interface.
US11995299B2
Searching for documents includes retrieving objects from a physical media image using a camera from a smartphone, a user selecting a subset of the objects, forming a search query based on the subset of objects, and applying the search query to a search engine to search for the documents. Retrieving objects from a media image may include waiting for a view of the camera to stabilize. Waiting for the view of the camera to stabilize may include detecting changing content of a video flow provided to the camera and/or using motion sensors of the camera to detect movement. Retrieving objects may include the smartphone identifying possible subsets of objects in the media image. The user selecting a subset of the objects may include the smartphone presenting at least some of the possible subsets to the user and the user selecting one of the possible subsets.
US11995288B2
A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for accessing social media content submitted for public accessibility via the social media platform supported by the map-based GUI. The GUI includes a map providing interactive location-based searching functionality in that selection of a target location by the user in the GUI, such as by tapping or clicking at the target location, triggers a search for social media content having geo-tag data indicating geographic locations within a geographical search area centered on the target location.
US11995283B2
The present application discloses a touch control panel and a display device. The touch control panel includes a touch control electrode array including a plurality of first touch control electrodes and at least one second touch control electrode, an area of the second touch control electrode is smaller than an area of each of the first touch control electrodes; a compensation electrode disposed on the second touch control electrode and electrically connected to the second touch control electrode, wherein the compensation electrode is configured to compensate and expand the area of the second touch control electrode; and a touch control connection pad, wherein the touch control electrode array is electrically connected to the touch control connection pad through a touch control signal line.
US11995269B2
A touch sensing method, apparatus for a touch panel, and electronic device are provided. The method includes: determining a first number of to-sense touch sensing circuits, and determining a second number of reference touch sensing circuits, each to-sense touch sensing circuit having a corresponding reference touch sensing circuit; causing each to-sense touch sensing circuit to receive a touch excitation signal TX1, and apply TX1 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a touch sensing signal therefrom, and output a first output signal; causing each reference touch sensing circuit to receive a touch reference signal DC/TX2, and apply DC/TX2 to a corresponding touch sensitive cell and receive a reference sensing signal therefrom, wherein DC/TX2 and TX1 are different signals; and obtaining, according to respective first and second output signals, a capacitance difference of capacitances sensed by each to-sense touch sensing circuit and its corresponding reference touch sensing circuit.
US11995264B2
An electronic device, according to an embodiment of the disclosure, may comprise: a touchscreen including a first portion and a second portion; a memory; and a processor operatively connected to the touchscreen and the memory. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: recognize a first point at which a touch input is in contact with the second portion, recognize a second point at which the touch input is separated from the touch screen, recognize at least one third point at which the touch input is periodically in contact with the touch screen in a state in which the touch input is in contact with the touch screen, and activate the touch input based on whether at least one of the second point and the at least one third point is located outside a specified area having a specified radius set with respect to the first point.
US11995254B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, devices, apparatuses, and storage media for mapping mouse models for computer mouses. A method according to the present disclosure may include: determining target information of a mouse model corresponding to the mouse in a virtual reality system, using the target information as initial target information; receiving movement data of the mouse in real time, the movement data including a movement distance and a movement direction of the mouse; updating the target information of the mouse model in the virtual reality system according to the movement data of the mouse; and displaying the mouse model at the updated target information in a virtual reality scene.
US11995252B2
Provided is an input system including an instruction device; a detection device that detects an instruction position of the instruction device; a display device that is provided separately from the detection device and that displays an image of a space; a position detector that detects, in the space, a line-of-sight position in a line-of-sight of the position detector; a processor; and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to set, in the space, an instruction target area including a reference position of the instruction device, based on the line-of-sight position detected by the position detector at the time of reception of a predetermined operation by the instruction device, and control the display device to display the instruction position of the instruction device in the instruction target area and on the image of the space.
US11995250B2
An elongated stylus is configured to be capacitively coupled with a sensor array providing a plurality of electrodes to indicate a position on the sensor array. The stylus includes a housing having an end in an elongated direction of the housing, a conductive tip disposed at least partially extended from the end of the housing, an electrode disposed around the conductive tip and configured to at least partially expose the conductive tip, and a signal transmit drive circuit configured to provide a signal. Control is performed to form an electrical connection between the electrode and a ground and an electrical connection between the electrode and the signal transmit drive circuit when the elongated stylus is activated for capacitive coupling with the sensor array.
US11995240B2
A system for conveying digital texture information to a user includes and/or interfaces with a tactile stimulation device and a processing subsystem. A method for conveying digital texture information to a user includes any or all of: receiving a set of inputs; characterizing a digital object and/or a user based on the set of inputs; determining a stimulation pattern based on the characterization(s); providing stimulation to the user according to the stimulation pattern; and repeating any or all of the above processes.
US11995238B2
Method starts with processor causing virtual reality (VR) interface for communication session to be displayed on first user interface of a first head-wearable apparatus and on second user interface of second head-wearable apparatus. Processor detects first touch input from first VR input device and second touch input from second VR input device. Processor monitors location of the first touch input within the first user interface and location of the second touch input within second user interface. Processor determines distance between location of the first touch input within first user interface and location on first user interface corresponding to location of second touch input within second user interface. Processor causes first and second VR input devices to generate haptic feedback response based on the distance. Haptic feedback response increases in intensity or speed as distance decreases and decreases in intensity or speed as distance increases. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11995217B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that protect analytics for resources of a publisher from traffic directed to such resources by malicious entities. An analytics server receives a first message that includes an encrypted token and analytics data for a publisher-provided resource. The token includes a portion of the analytics data and a trust score indicating a likelihood that activity on the resource is attributed to a human (rather than an automated process). The analytics server decrypts the token. The analytics server determines a trustworthiness measure for the analytics data included in the first message based on the trust score (in the decrypted token) and a comparison of the analytics data in the first message and the portion of the analytics data (in the decrypted token). Based on the measure of trustworthiness, the analytics server performs analytics operations using the analytics data.
US11995208B2
An example of a computer-readable medium to store machine-readable instructions. The instructions may cause a processor to update a machine learning model based on first confidential data set. The machine learning model may have been previously trained based on a training data set distinct from the confidential data set. The instructions may cause the processor to apply the machine learning model after the update to a second confidential data set.
US11995196B2
An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a memory storing an artificial neural network and metadata including information of at least one layer in the artificial neural network, and a processor configured to: acquire a security vector based on the metadata and a security key of the electronic apparatus; map the security vector and the metadata with the security key and identification information of the artificial neural network; perform encryption on the at least one layer based on the metadata and the security vector; based on input data input to the artificial neural network, load the metadata and the security vector by using the security key and the identification information of the artificial neural network; and perform an operation between the input data and the encrypted at least one layer based on the loaded security vector and the metadata.
US11995190B2
Systems and techniques for providing one or more authenticable operating system volumes on an electronic gaming machine are provided. The systems and techniques may, for example, involve storing one or more datasets, each representing one or more operating system volumes for an operating system, on a shadow partition and then selecting one of those datasets as part of the boot process, authenticating it, and creating one or more operating system volumes on one or more operating system partitions of the electronic gaming machine. The systems and techniques may further involve causing a kernel of the operating system to execute from the newly created one or more operating system volumes only after authentication is successfully performed.
US11995177B2
In one implementation, a method for providing security on controllers includes detecting computer-readable code running on a controller, the computer-readable code including code portions that each include instructions to be performed by the controller; identifying a current code portion of the computer-readable code; accessing an in-memory graph that models an operational flow of the computer-readable code, wherein the in-memory graph includes a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes corresponding to one of the code portions and each of the nodes having a risk value for the associated code portion that is a measure of security risk for the associated code portion; identifying the risk value for the current code portion; selecting, from a plurality of available flow control integrity (IMV) schemes, an IMV scheme based on the identified risk value; and applying, to the code portion as the code portion is running on the controller, the selected IMV scheme.
US11995173B2
A service providing system, an application usage method, and an information processing system. The service providing system receives from the terminal device, a request for registering a user to a second tenant in which the user can use the application, the request designating identification information of the user registered in the first tenant and identification information of the application, and registers the user and the application in the second tenant as a user who can use the application.
US11995167B2
Disclosed herein are systems and method for authenticating user identity based on supplemental environment data. When a structured approach to acquiring user identifiers (e.g., facial images, voice clips, biometric data, etc.) of authorized user is inconclusive (e.g., a matching face is similar, but not a direct match) the systems and methods describe retrieving supplemental environment data that indirectly verifies a presence of the user in an environment. The systems and methods further comprise determining whether the supplemental environment data indicates that a respective identifier belongs to the user, and in response to determining that the supplemental environment data indicates that the respective identifier belongs to the user, authenticating the respective identifier as belonging to the user and storing the respective identifier in a database of identifiers.
US11995159B2
A moveable head of a computer numerically controlled machine may deliver electromagnetic energy sufficient to cause a first change in a material at least partially contained within an interior space of the CNC machine. A feature of the material may be imaged using at least one camera present inside the interior space to update a position of the material, and the moveable head may be aligned to deliver electromagnetic energy sufficient to cause a second change in the material such that the second change is positioned on the material consistent with the first change and with an intended final appearance of the material. Methods, systems, and article of manufacture are described.
US11995155B2
An adversarial image generation method, a computer device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. A reference model classification-equivalent with a target classification model is generated according to the target classification model. A target image is obtained and an original noise for the target image is generated according to the reference model. A first noise and the original noise are input into an adversarial model and a second noise corresponding to the first noise is output when the adversarial model meets a convergence condition, where the second noise enhances an information entropy of the original noise. An enhanced noise image corresponding to the target image is generated according to the second noise and the target image, where a classification accuracy of the enhanced noise image in the target classification model is less than a classification accuracy of the target image in the target classification model.
US11995149B2
A processing system includes a first set and a second set of general-purpose registers (GPRs) and memory access circuitry that fetches nonzero values of a sparse matrix into consecutive slots in the first set. The memory access circuitry also fetches values of an expanded matrix into consecutive slots in the second set of GPRs. The expanded matrix is formed based on values of a vector and locations of the nonzero values in the sparse matrix. The processing system also includes a set of multipliers that concurrently perform multiplication of the nonzero values in slots of the first set of GPRs with the values of the vector in corresponding slots of the second set. Reduced sum circuitry accumulates results from the set of multipliers for rows of the sparse matrix.
US11995136B2
A computing device, running a web browser, can listen for an event on the web browser that is operated by a first user. In response to an occurrence of a first event, the computing device can obtain, through the web browser a URL or content of a web page being visited by the web browser. The computing device can obtain a unique identifier that is uniquely associated with a second user, based on the second user belonging to a network of users that is associated with the first user, and based on whether the unique identifier is applicable to the URL or the web page that is open in the browser. The computing device can present the unique identifier to the first user through the web browser.
US11995132B2
A system is described for generating a graphical representation of a mapping of post data of a posting. In various aspects, post data may be collected which may include a first node of a plurality of nodes identifying a submitting user of the one or more document management systems. Reaction data may be collected which may include a second node of the plurality of nodes identifying a reacting user of the one or more document management systems. The mapping may then be generated from the post data and the reaction data, in which the mapping may include the first node and the second node. The graphical representation of the mapping may then be generated, wherein zooming out of the graphical representation may filter out one or more nodes of the plurality of nodes based on a number of edges corresponding to the one or more nodes.
US11995117B2
A theme classification method based on multimodality is related to a field of a knowledge map. The method includes obtaining text information and non-text information of an object to be classified. The non-text information includes at least one of visual information and audio information. The method also includes determining an entity set of the text information based on a pre-established knowledge base, and then extracting a text feature of the object based on the text information and the entity set. The method also includes determining a theme classification of the object based on the text feature and a non-text feature of the object.
US11995109B1
Provided is a process, including obtaining, with a computer system, a first set of vectors in an embedding space and a second set of vectors in the embedding space; determining, with the computer system, which pair of vectors in the first and second sets are closest to one another in the embedding space, the pair having one vector from each set; and storing, with the computer system, in memory, the pair of vectors in the first and second sets that are determined to be closest to one another.
US11995098B2
Systems and methods for automatically profiling data a user selects to transfer to a paste area are described. Data may be automatically profiled the at the user selected target paste area to determine if sets of data are of the same data type. There may be a clarification for a target paste area or for identifying the data type. Additionally, there may be reformatting the selected data set to match the target data's format. Machine learning may trigger formatting or prompting actions according to one or more predetermined thresholds.
US11995090B2
Techniques for determining relevant electronic content in response to queries is disclosed. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the techniques may be realized as a computer implemented method for determining relevant electronic content in response to a query. The method may comprise: receiving a query from a user device; categorizing the query to identify one or more relevant electronic content sources; formatting the query according to one or more electronic content source specifics for the one or more electronic content sources; transmitting the formatted query to the one or more electronic content sources; merging results in response to the formatted query to the one or more electronic content sources; merging results based at least in part on one or more factors; and formatting the results for delivering to the user device.
US11995084B1
A database system stores a hypertable representing a database table partitioned into chunks along a set of one or more dimension attributes. A subset of chunks of the hypertable is stored in a primary database storage and another subset of chunks stored in cloud storage. The database system transmits chunks from the primary database storage to a cloud storage either individually or as larger batches of chunks. Each chunk in the cloud storage is stored using a different database storage format compared to the database storage format used in the primary database storage. The database system receives a database query and generates a query execution plan including operators for accessing a set of chunks stored in the primary database storage and operators for accessing a set of chunks stored in the cloud storage. Results obtained by processing the different sets of chunks are combined.
US11995074B2
A computing arrangement receives data. The data is from computer apps running on computer devices. The data has user identity data and associated device identity data. A memory stores sets of identity data. A respective set of identity data is associated with a user identity. Sets of identity data comprise at least one user identity data, at least one device entity data and information defining a connection relationship between the identity data of the respective set of identity data. At least one processor determines in response to received user identity data and device identity data that a first stored set of identity data is to be divided into two or more sets of user identity data. At least two sets of user identity data are associated with different user identities. The set of identity data is divided in dependence on the information defining the connection relationships.
US11995072B2
Techniques for executing operations associated with sub-sets of queries in a set of nested queries are disclosed. A graphical user interface displays individual sub-queries as separate visual representations. Based on detecting a selection, a system executes a selected query in the set of nested queries, without executing parent queries in the set of nested queries. Based on detecting another selection, the system exports a selected query without exporting parent queries of the selected query. The system copies the metadata describing the selected query and transfers the metadata to another set of nested queries. Based on detecting another selection, the system displays a results count for a selected query. The system displays a number representing the number of results returned by the selected query, without displaying the query results.
US11995064B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for managing expiration of modules. An expiry dataset may be maintained. The expiry dataset may include a set of identifiers corresponding to a set of modules, a set of expiry values for the set of modules, and a set of termination tasks for the set of modules. A request to refresh a module may be received from a client. Responsive to the reception of the request, an expiry value and a termination task for the module within the expiry dataset may be updated. The expiry value may be independent of a timestamp associated with the request.
US11995058B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for providing a compression service, such as a Compression as a Service (Caas). In some implementations, there is provided a method including receiving, at a compression service, metric information regarding one or more columns of a database server; in response to receiving the metric information, processing, by the compression service, the metric information to identify at least one column as a candidate for compression by the compression service; in response to identifying the at least one column, compressing by the compression service, the at least one column, wherein the compression service uses a hardware accelerator to execution a compression algorithm that compresses the at least one column; and notifying, by the compression service, the database server of the at least one column compressed by the compression service. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US11995057B2
A method for execution by a computer of a database management system includes obtaining a dataset that includes a set of data records, where the data set is associated with a set of data characteristics. The method further includes ranking analytical calculations of a list of analytical calculations that are able to be executed on the dataset based on the set of data characteristics and a set of analytical calculation characteristics associated with the list of analytical calculations to produce a ranked list of analytical calculations. The method further includes selecting an analytical calculation from the ranked list of analytical calculations based on the ranking. The method further includes executing the selected analytical calculation on the dataset to produce an analytical calculation result.
US11995056B2
Techniques are described herein for generating a database. A method can include receiving a first value associated with a physical element of a target object and obtained during a performance of a first stage of a robot task, and a second value associated with the physical element and obtained during a second stage, wherein the first and second value describe a same characteristic of the physical element and are represented in a target object coordinate system. A third value associated with a tool of a robot and obtained during a third stage can be received, wherein the third value is represented in the robot coordinate system. A first data structure can be generated, wherein the first data structure comprises the first, second, and third value. The first data structure can be associated with a second data structure, wherein the second data structure comprises a fourth value identifying the target object.
US11995055B2
Techniques described herein relate to a method for distributed data management. The method may include making a first determination that data is written to a data structure of storage of a data host; obtaining, based on the first determination, data information associated with the data; making a second determination of intent corresponding to the data; generating a global name and metadata corresponding to the data, wherein the metadata comprises the intent; and publishing the global name and the metadata to a global name repository.
US11995051B1
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to detecting variants in a data set. A variant-specific unique data set, which includes a variant-inclusive portion that includes a particular variant and one or more other portions is accessed. The variant-specific unique data set corresponds to a particular region of a reference data set. A plurality of reads is received, with each read of the plurality of reads having been generated by processing a material collected from a subject. For each read of a subset of the plurality of reads, a first matching criterion and a second matching criterion can be determined to be satisfied, with the first matching criterion being more stringent than the second matching criterion. A data set associated with the subject can be determined to include the particular variant based on a quantity of reads in the subset. A result identified based on the particular variant can be output.
US11995049B2
A computer-implemented method for performing application data consistency management among a plurality of computing devices within a communication network includes retrieving by a first device, application data from a second device. The application data includes an app ID and a first application version number of an app residing on the second device. A first database table is updated using an object type associated with the app ID and the first application version number. The object type identifies a database table schema of a data object used by the app and a plurality of data fields of the data object. Data stored by one or more of the plurality of data fields is synchronized with a third device based on a second application version number of the app residing on the third device and the first database table.
US11995044B2
Techniques are disclosed for a configurable stackable filesystem (CSF) that interfaces with an underlying filesystem and client applications via a virtual filesystem interface (VFS). The CSF can perform a variety of operations on its files and directories. The operations implemented by the CSF can be configured to be performed via a configuration file on the specified files/directories. These operations comprise monitoring/logging including permissions and access control lists (ACL) changes, encryption, compression, rate-limiting and time-of-use enforcement, etc. The configuration file can be updated and loaded into the CSF with immediate effect at runtime, and without requiring to unmount the CSF and disrupting the processes using it. The CSF itself is advantageously modularly implemented as multiple layers or individual CSFs each specializing in one type of operation.
US11995043B2
A map-reduce compatible distributed file system that consists of successive component layers that each provide the basis on which the next layer is built provides transactional read-write-update semantics with file chunk replication and huge file-create rates. Containers provide the fundamental basis for data replication, relocation, and transactional updates. A container location database allows containers to be found among all file servers, as well as defining precedence among replicas of containers to organize transactional updates of container contents. Volumes facilitate control of data placement, creation of snapshots and mirrors, and retention of a variety of control and policy information. Also addressed is the use of distributed transactions in a map-reduce system; the use of local and distributed snapshots; replication, including techniques for reconciling the divergence of replicated data after a crash; and mirroring.
US11995029B2
Multi-tile Memory Management for Detecting Cross Tile Access, Providing Multi-Tile Inference Scaling with multicasting of data via copy operation, and Providing Page Migration are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a graphics processor for a multi-tile architecture includes a first graphics processing unit (GPU) having a memory and a memory controller, a second graphics processing unit (GPU) having a memory and a cross-GPU fabric to communicatively couple the first and second GPUs. The memory controller is configured to determine whether frequent cross tile memory accesses occur from the first GPU to the memory of the second GPU in the multi-GPU configuration and to send a message to initiate a data transfer mechanism when frequent cross tile memory accesses occur from the first GPU to the memory of the second GPU.
US11995024B2
Some embodiments provide a method for synchronizing state between multiple smart NICs of a host computer that perform operations using dynamic state information. At a first smart NIC of the plurality of smart NICs, the method stores a set of dynamic state information. The method synchronizes the set of dynamic state information across a communication channel that connects the smart NICs so that each of the smart NICs also stores the set of dynamic state information.
US11995022B2
A universal serial bus (USB) router can include a display port input device to receive a display port signal. The display port input device can include display port link layer parser circuitry to identify display port control or data information from the received display port signal, USB packet construction circuitry to construct a USB packet comprising the display port control or data information identified by the display port link layer parser circuitry, and a USB switch to transmit the USB packet comprising the display control or data information over a USB link. A display port output device can include display port packetizer circuitry to construct a display port packet from the display port control or data information from the USB packet, and display port output circuitry to output the display port packet across a display port link.
US11995006B2
A method comprises generating, for a cacheline, a first tag and a second tag, the first tag and the second tag generated as a function of user data stored and metadata in the cacheline stored in a first memory device, and a multiplication parameter derived from a secret key, storing the user data, the metadata, the first tag and the second tag in the first cacheline of the first memory device; generating, for the cacheline, a third tag and a fourth tag, the third tag and the fourth tag generated as a function of the user data stored and metadata in the cacheline stored in a second memory device, and the multiplication parameter; storing the user data, the metadata, the third tag and the fourth tag in the corresponding cache line of the second memory device; receiving, from a requesting device, a read operation directed to the cacheline; and using the first tag, the second tag, the third tag, and the fourth tag to determine whether a read error occurred during the read operation.
US11994998B2
Techniques are provided for atomic writes for persistent memory. In response to receiving a write operation, a new per-page structure with a new page block number is allocated. New data of the write operation is persisted to a new page of the persistent memory having the new page block number, and the new per-page structure is persisted to the persistent memory. If the write operation targets a hole after the new data and the new per-page structure have been persisted, then a new per-page structure identifier of the new per-page structure is inserted into a parent indirect page of a page comprising the new data. If the write operation targets old data after the new data and the new per-page structure have been persisted, then an old per-page structure of the old data is updated with the new page block number.
US11994994B2
A memory device includes a memory array and a memory controller operatively coupled to the memory array. The memory array includes memory cells to store memory data. The memory controller includes a prefetch buffer, a read address buffer including memory registers to store addresses of memory read requests received from at least one separate device, and logic circuitry. The logic circuitry is configured to store extra read data in the prefetch buffer when an address of a read request is a continuous address of an address stored in the read address buffer, and omit prefetching the extra data when the address of the read request is a non-continuous address of an address stored in the read address buffer.
US11994991B1
It is one object of the present disclosure to provide measures for securing scalability of the queue depth of cache schedulers by utilizing a plurality of cache schedulers. To this end, a cache memory device in accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a request reception unit configured to receive input transactions; a traffic monitoring module configured to monitor traffic of the input transactions; N cache schedulers, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; a region setting module configured to set N input transaction regions corresponding to each of the N cache schedulers based on the traffic of the input transactions monitored, wherein input transactions are transferred via an input transaction region set in each cache scheduler; and an access execution unit configured to perform cache memory accesses to input transactions scheduled by the N cache schedulers.
US11994984B2
A computer storage device having a host interface, a controller, non-volatile storage media, and firmware. The firmware instructs the controller to: store a namespace map to map blocks of logical addresses defined in a namespace to first blocks of logical addresses defined in a capacity of the non-volatile storage media; without changing a size of the namespace, adjust the namespace map to map the blocks of the logical addresses defined in the namespace to second blocks of the logical addresses defined in the capacity of the non-volatile storage media (e.g., to consolidate blocks for performance improvement); and translate the logical addresses in the namespace to physical addresses for the non-volatile storage media using the namespace map.
US11994978B2
A—method for automated verification of a test model for BDD test scenarios including receiving the test model to be verified; generating a model path tree using a model-based path analysis based on the test model; filtering any test step of the plurality of test steps of the paths in the model path tree; d. identifying any test step with a missing alternative test step in another alternative path of the plurality of paths in the model path tree using machine learning based on the model path tree; adding at least one missing alternative test step to the test model after identification of at least one test step, resulting in at least one alternative path; and providing the identified test step, the identified at least one missing alternative test step, the at least one alternative path and/or the at least one alternative BDD test scenario as output data.
US11994959B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for transaction recovery in a multitenant application server environment. At least one resource manager associated with a partition can be designated as a determiner resource for that partition only, in order to support eliminating transaction logs (TLOG) in processing a two-phase commit transaction. A transaction manager can prepare all other resource managers in the mid-tier transactional system before the determiner resource. Furthermore, the transaction manager can rely on the list of outstanding transactions to be committed that is provided by the determiner resource for recovering the transaction. The transaction manager can commit an in-doubt transaction returned from a resource manager that matches the list of in-doubt transactions returned from the determiner resource. Otherwise, the transaction manager can roll back the in-doubt transaction.
US11994958B2
An inference service management method, apparatus, and system for an inference platform, and a medium, the method comprising: detecting whether there is inference service corresponding to the inference service record in a server according to an inference service record in a database (S110); and if not, then restoring the corresponding inference service according to the inference service record (S120). According to the method, an inference service in a server is detected according to an inference service record in a database to determine whether there is inference service corresponding to the inference service record in the server, if not, it means that the inference service record is inconsistent with a real inference service, and then corresponding inference service may be restored according to the inference service record.
US11994950B2
Failure-domain-specific cryptographic keys for use in control of access to data within failure domains of a storage drive. A unique failure domain-specific cryptographic key may be associated with each of a plurality of failure domains in a storage drive. The failure domains may correspond to any portion of the storage media of a drive that is susceptible to failure while leaving other portions of the storage drive functional. In turn, upon detection of a condition associated with a failure (e.g., an actual or predicted failure) of a failure domain, the associated failure domain-specific cryptographic key may be deleted to preclude further access to data in the failed failure domain. Deletion of the failure domain-specific cryptographic key may be before or after data in the failed failure domain is rebuilt in another portion of a storage drive that is functional.
US11994946B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to memory bank protection are described. A quantity of errors within a single memory bank is determined and the determined quantity is used to further determine whether to access other memory banks to correct the determined quantity. The memory bank protection described herein avoids a single memory bank of a memory die being a single point of failure (SPOF).
US11994935B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for predicting the remaining lifetime of an environment data collection sensor in a livestock house. The method for predicting the remaining lifetime of an environment data collection sensor in a livestock house includes (a) collecting livestock house environment information, (b) detecting an error of a sensor from the collected livestock house environment information, (c) generating a dataset for learning, (d) generating a sensor lifetime prediction model to performing learning, and (e) predicting a lifetime of the sensor using a result of the learning.
US11994928B1
This disclosure describes, in part, a mobile apparatus that includes capacitive sensor(s) for detecting the presence of a user. For instance, the mobile apparatus, such as a shopping cart, may include capacitive sensor(s) located proximate to a main frame, the handles, and/or the wheel frame. The mobile apparatus may use one or more of these capacitive sensor(s) to determine that the user is located proximate to the mobile apparatus, in contact with the mobile apparatus, and/or located over the main frame of the mobile apparatus. In some examples, the mobile apparatus may then perform one or more actions based on the presence of the user. For example, the mobile apparatus may activate and/or deactivate one or more devices based on the presence of the user. This way, the mobile apparatus is able to conserve power by using the capacitive sensor(s) to detect the present of the user.
US11994927B2
Selection and serving of content items may include receiving data indicative of a status of an energy source of a device with a request for a content item. A first received content item may be associated with a first energy consumption level and a second received content item may be associated with a second energy consumption level. The accessed content items are responsive to the request for a content item. The first energy consumption level may be higher than the second energy consumption level. The first content item or the second content item may be selected based, at least in part, on the received data indicative of the status of the energy source of the device, and data to display the selected content item may be provided to the device.
US11994911B2
A flexible display window and an electronic device having the same are provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first rigid portion and a flexible portion, at least one outer layer that covers the first rigid portion and the flexible portion, a display device including a screen including a first portion exposed through the first rigid portion and a second portion extended from the first portion and exposed through the flexible portion, at least one processor electrically coupled to the display device, and a memory electrically coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the outer layer includes a polymer layer, a glass layer interposed between the polymer layer and the screen, and an adhesive layer interposed between the polymer layer and the glass layer.
US11994909B2
An electronic device is installed in a given space and comprises a main body, one or more sensors, and a controller. The one or more sensors are configured to detect an object around the main body. The controller is configured to set a detection range of the one or more sensors according to an installation state of the main body in the given space.
US11994896B2
In order to reduce errors in the transfer of time from one clock domain to another clock domain, a first free running counter is incremented using a first clock signal. A free running second counter is incremented using a second clock signal, the second clock signal being asynchronous to the first clock signal. The first counter is sampled at a selected time based on a predetermined phase relationship between the first clock signal and the second clock signal to generate a sampled first counter value. The second counter is corrected based on the sampled first counter value.
US11994895B2
Systems and methods for quantifying a user capability in accordance with an organizational role are disclosed herein. In an aspect, a role capability assessment is deployed to a user comprising at least one question whereby the user selects at least one answer that corresponds to the at least one question and the at least one answer conveys information to determine the capability of the user to perform an organizational role. In another aspect, a set of answer data associated with the at least one answer is received whereby the set of answer data correlates to the capability of the user to perform a role within an organization.
US11994885B2
A fluid system includes a capillary and a first and second temperature sensor, a first and second pressure sensor, and a processor coupled to the sensors. The processor is configured to execute instructions to determine an output using the sensor data and using fluid parameter data received via an interface coupled to the processor. The processor is coupled to a control in fluid communication with the capillary.
US11994883B2
A method for optimizing the energy expenditure and the comfort of a building, including comfort systems provided with an online consumption sensor, local environment data sensors associated with an identifier of a zone of the building, and at least one server for collecting and recording the timestamped data remotely includes the following steps: —constructing and saving a simplified digital model of the thermal behavior of the building; —a step of calibrating the simplified digital model calculated during the preceding step; —a step of validating the calibrated digital model calculated during the preceding step by comparing the digital variables obtained by predictive processing of the calibrated model and the digital variables stored by the server over a period of a few days; —a step of calculating digital parameters for resource allocation by applying a Pareto optimum calculation applied to the validated calibrated digital model.
US11994879B2
A UAV location management method for use with a flight management system is provided, where the method comprises providing a location for at least one unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for at least one of: landing, taking-off and loading, providing at least a first weight-sensitive UAV pad at the UAV location, assigning a gross weight limit to each UAV scheduled to take-off from the first weight-sensitive UAV pad, the gross weight limit being based on a safety factor and at least one of: (i) a characteristic of the UAV; (ii) a characteristic of a power source of the UAV; (iii) a scheduled flight path for the UAV; and (iv) a weather condition, monitoring a weight exerted on the first weight-sensitive UAV pad when the UAV is positioned on the UAV pad, and transmitting a halt-flight signal to the flight management system for the UAV where the weight exceeds the gross weight limit.
US11994876B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for the deployment and retrieval of child UAVs from a V-TOL UAV Mothership. The Mothership may be piloted from a base station to one or more destination locations. At the destination location, one or more child UAVs may be deployed from a cargo bay module. The child UAVs perform tasks or complete a mission before coordinating their retrieval with the V-TOL UAV Mothership. The Mothership may plan an intercept course to retrieve the child UAVs in mid-flight or coordinate a hovering type retrieval with the child UAVs. The child UAVs are retrieved through an actuated frontal opening which provides access to the cargo bay without having to navigate through turbulence created beneath the hovering Mothership by the vertical thrust rotors.
US11994874B1
Autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) having adaptive safety systems may operate individually or as part of a convoy. During individual operations, an AMR may determine a safety zone and stop responsive to detecting an object within the safety zone. During convoy operations, an AMR may selectively mute a portion of the safety zone and allow a forward AMR of a convoy within the portion of the safety zone. In this manner, the adaptive safety systems may enable convoy operations of multiple AMRs with relatively greater density and greater speed, thereby improving speed and efficiency of AMR operations without negatively impacting safety.
US11994863B2
A computer-implemented method, a computer system, and a computer program product for trajectory similarity search is provided. The present invention may include, in response to receiving, by one or more processors, a search request for at least one trajectory similar to a query trajectory, determining, by one or more processors, a respective similarity between a query trajectory and a plurality of trajectories by calculating, in a synchronized way, a spatial distance measure and a time difference measure between the query trajectory and the plurality of trajectories. The present invention may further include, identifying, by one or more processors, the at least one trajectory from the plurality of trajectories based on the respective similarity between the query trajectory and the plurality of trajectories.
US11994860B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an autonomous vehicle evaluation system that performs continuous evaluation of the actions, strategies, preferences, margins, and responses of an autonomous driving control system. A computing platform may receive sensor data from one or more autonomous vehicle sensors, manufacturer computing platform, or V2X computing platform. Based on this sensor data, the computing platform may determine one or more driving patterns. Based on a primary context corresponding to the one or more driving patterns, the computing platform may group the one or more driving patterns. The computing platform may determine a driving pattern degradation output indicating degradation corresponding to the one or more grouped driving patterns, and the computing platform may send the driving pattern degradation output to an autonomous driving system, which may cause the autonomous driving system to take corrective action accordingly.
US11994842B2
An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) supports collaborative tools that allow multiple designers and programmers to remotely submit design input to the same automation system project in parallel while maintaining project consistency. The industrial IDE also permits localized development of system projects, and provides an infrastructure for intelligently brokering between conflicting edits submitted to common portions of the system project. To facilitate effective collaboration via efficient communication between developers, the IDE system can be configured to send push notifications to personal client devices in response to relevant events originating within the development environment relating to development of an automation system project.
US11994841B2
A system includes a core drill and an automatic feed device. The core drill has a human machine interface (HMI) for controlling the core drill and the automatic feed device. A menu navigation of the HMI is automatically controllable in dependence on an operating state of the core drill or the automatic feed device. The menu navigation includes menu pages where the menu pages are displayable in dependence on the operating state of the core drill or the automatic feed device such that the menu navigation is controllable automatically depending on the operating state of the core drill or the automatic feed device.
US11994828B2
A watch (1) with a mechanical movement with force control mechanism, and of the jumping seconds type. The mechanism is disposed in a finishing train of the mechanical movement between an energy source and an escape wheel set (11) linked to an oscillator (14) in oscillation to drive the escape wheel set in the same direction of rotation. The escape wheel set meshes with a seconds wheel (2). A rotary locking element (7) is arranged to cooperate with a stop member (3) mechanically linked to the accumulation seconds wheel to lock in a stop mode or release in a jump mode the finishing train according to the angular position of the seconds wheel. A stop member spring (4) rotates the accumulation fixed seconds wheel and the escapement mechanism linked to the oscillator at each half oscillation of the oscillator in stop mode.
US11994825B2
An image forming apparatus includes a drum cartridge and developing cartridge. The drum cartridge may include a photosensitive drum rotatable about a first axis extending in an axial direction. The developing cartridge may include a developing roller rotatable about a second axis extending in the axial direction. The image forming apparatus may include a main casing including a slot extending in the axial direction. The image forming apparatus may include a first inner surface positioned inside of the slot, and a second inner surface positioned inside of the slot farther from the cover in the axial direction than the first inner surface from the cover in the axial direction. The first and second inner surfaces may be configured to press the developing roller toward the photosensitive drum.
US11994824B2
A cartridge includes a drum flange provided at one end portion of a photosensitive drum. A coupling member is operatively connected to the drum flange, with the coupling member being configured to transmit the driving force to the drum flange. The drum flange has an opening at one end and is closed at another end, and the opening leads to a hollow interior portion. An end portion of a coil spring contacts an interior surface of the closed end of the drum flange, and the drum flange includes a housing and a cover member attached to the housing, with the closed end of the drum flange being a part of the cover member.
US11994823B2
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing member to develop an electrostatic latent image at a developing portion, a transfer member to transfer a developer image to a recording member at a transfer portion; and a brush provided with a plurality of base materials contacting the image bearing member at downstream of the transfer portion and upstream of the developing portion in a rotational direction of the image bearing member. The developer remaining on the surface of the image bearing member is collected in the developing portion. An average distance between base materials of the brush with respect to a rotational axis direction of the image bearing member is larger than an average particle diameter of the developer, and is equal to or less than a length corresponding to a spatial frequency visually recognizable by a user when the image formed by the image forming apparatus is observed by the user.
US11994819B2
The image forming apparatus forms a test chart on an image bearing member, the test chart including a plurality of test images including a first test image of a first density and a second test image formed at a position different from a position of the first test image in a conveying direction of a recording medium, the second test image having a second density different from the first density. The image forming apparatus transfers the test chart to the recording medium with a transfer roller and controls the rotation velocity of the transfer roller when the recording medium passes through a transfer portion based on a result of reading the test chart on the recording medium with a reading unit.
US11994817B2
An image forming apparatus includes a stack portion having recording materials, an image forming unit, a basis weight detection unit, an operating sound detection unit, and a mode selection unit. The basis weight detection unit detects a recording material basis weight based on an ultrasonic wave. The operating sound detection unit detect an abnormality of a generated operating sound. The mode selection unit selects, for each recording material fed to the image forming unit, between transmitting to the basis weight detection unit a first instruction for detecting the recording material basis weight and transmitting to the operating sound detection unit a second instruction for detecting the operating sound abnormality. In determining an interval at which each second instruction is transmitted, the mode selection unit determines the interval so that the interval and a cycle, in which properties of recording materials on the stack portion are repeated, do not continuously coincide.
US11994811B2
In a beam irradiation apparatus in which a movable body holds an object, a mark detection system detects a first mark on the movable body while moving the movable body in a first direction and changing an irradiation position of a measurement beam in the first direction, the mark detection system detects a second mark while moving the movable body in the first direction and changing the irradiation position of the measurement beam in the first direction, a controller controls a position of the movable body in a second direction intersecting the first direction during a time period between the detection of the first mark and the detection of the second mark, and the controller controls the movement of the movable body to adjust a positional relation between the object on the movable body and a processing beam, based on results of the detection of the first and second marks.
US11994808B2
A system includes a radiation source, first and second phased arrays, and a detector. The first and second phased arrays include optical elements, a plurality of ports, waveguides, and phase modulators. The optical elements radiate radiation waves. The waveguides guide radiation from a port of the plurality of ports to the optical elements. Phase modulators adjust phases of the radiation waves. One or both of the first and second phased arrays form a first beam and/or a second beam of radiation directed toward a target structure based on the port coupled to the radiation source. The detector receives radiation scattered by the target structure and generates a measurement signal based on the received radiation.
US11994801B2
A semiconductor manufacturing device has an outer cup and inner cup with a wafer suction mount disposed within the outer cup. A photoresist material is applied to a first surface of a semiconductor wafer disposed on the wafer suction mount while rotating at a first speed. A gas port is disposed on the inner cup for dispensing a gas oriented toward a bottom side of the semiconductor wafer. The gas port purges a second surface of the semiconductor wafer with a gas to remove contamination. The second surface of the semiconductor wafer is rinsed while purging with the gas. The gas can be a stable or inert gas, such as nitrogen. The contamination is removed from the second surface of the semiconductor wafer through an outlet between the inner cup and outer cup. The semiconductor wafer rotates at a second greater speed after discontinuing purge with the gas.
US11994794B2
An optical array includes one or more optical elements each including an incident surface at which light is incident into the optical element, a first reflection surface at which the light passing through the incident surface is reflected, a second reflection surface at which the light reflected by the first reflection surface is reflected again, an emission surface at which the light from the second reflection surface exits the optical element, and a refractive surface at which light that passes through the first reflection surface is refracted away from the emission surface.
US11994787B2
An information handling system may include a processor, a memory device, a PMU, and a camera formed into a chassis of the information handling system. The camera includes a lens, a shutter to block the capture of an image by the camera, shutter driver hardware to actuate shutter movement between an open state and a closed state, and a shutter position sensor to detect the position of the shutter. The information handling system includes a microcontroller unit operatively coupled to the camera to receive input describing a set state of the shutter received from user toggle input, compare the set state of the shutter to a detected state of the shutter detected by the shutter position sensor and take remedial action to actuate the shutter driver hardware to change the detected state of the shutter when the detected state of the shutter differs from the set state of the shutter.
US11994777B2
The present application discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel electrodes and a common electrode arranged correspondingly, and a plurality of light shielding electrodes, by opening holes on the common electrode corresponding to the light-shielding electrode or adjust a preset voltage on the light-shielding electrode, a vertical electric field is formed between the common electrode and the corresponding light-shielding electrode, which hinders a lateral movement of impurity ions and relieves a problem of line residue of currently LCD panels.
US11994758B1
An optical switch structure includes a substrate, a first electrical contact, and a first material having a first conductivity type electrically connected to the first electrical contact. The optical switch structure also includes a second material having a second conductivity type coupled to the first material, a second electrical contact electrically connected to the second material, and a waveguide structure disposed between the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact. The waveguide structure includes a waveguide core coupled to the substrate and including a core material characterized by a first index of refraction and a waveguide cladding at least partially surrounding the waveguide core and including a cladding material characterized by a second index of refraction less than the first index of refraction and an isotope-enhanced Pockels effect.
US11994756B2
Disclosed are methods for preparing partially polarized optical articles. A polarizing element is used to cover at least a portion of the front surface of an optical article to form a polarizing zone and a non-polarizing zone on the optical article. The optical article is then tinted to produce a gradual color transition between the polarizing zone and non-polarizing zone of the optical article.
US11994752B2
The present invention relates to self-customized glasses. The self-customized glasses allow a wearer to assemble essential parts of the glasses in a self-customized type, can allow the wearer to make glasses with various forms according to the wearer's taste since allowing the wearer to select colors, patterns or designs of essential parts of the glasses by applying various custom-assembly forms or micro LED display skins to the essential parts, and provide rimless glasses with feelings of rimless glasses, half-rim glasses and full-rim glasses.
US11994746B2
A zoom lens comprises, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power; a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power; a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group (G4) having negative refractive power; and a fifth lens group (G5) having positive refractive power, in which the first to the fifth lens groups (G1 to G5) each move in an optical axis direction upon zooming from a wide angle end state to a telephoto end state, at least a part of the fourth lens group (G4) is configured to serve as a focusing lens group to move in the optical axis direction upon focusing, the first lens group (G1) consists of two lenses, and the following conditional expression is satisfied. 0.30
US11994745B2
There is provided: an optical system including a focus lens group having positive refractive power and configured to move along an optical axis when focusing from an infinite-distance object to a short-distance object, and satisfying predetermined conditional expressions; and an imaging device including the optical system. The focus lens group includes a lens subgroup A, an aperture stop, and a lens subgroup B in order from the object side. The lens subgroup A includes a negative lens, a positive lens, and a positive lens in order from the image side. The lens subgroup B includes a negative lens and a positive lens in order from the object side.
US11994741B2
One embodiment relates to a lens driving device and a camera module including same. The lens driving device according to the one embodiment can include: a base; a pin coupled to the base; and a housing including a lens group and moving in the optical axis direction along the pin. The housing can include, in one side thereof, a ball accommodation part and a plurality of balls arranged in the ball accommodation part. The pin is arranged in the ball accommodation part so as to be capable of guiding the housing while being in contact with the plurality of balls.
US11994738B2
An imaging lens assembly includes a plastic barrel and an optical element set. The optical element set includes an optical lens element, a light blocking sheet and a light-shielding layer. At least one surface of an object-side peripheral surface and an image-side peripheral surface of the optical lens element includes an annular side wall. An annular abutting surface of the light blocking sheet and the annular side wall of the optical lens element are disposed correspondingly to each other. The light-shielding layer surrounds a central opening of the light blocking sheet and includes an annular concave-curved portion. The annular concave-curved portion is for retaining the light blocking sheet, so that there is no relative displacement in a direction parallel to an optical axis between the annular abutting surface of the light blocking sheet and the annular side wall of the optical lens element.
US11994731B2
An optical fiber pedestal box comprises a pedestal having a rail and an optical fiber box configured to mount to the pedestal. The optical fiber box is restricted in movement by at least one cable and the pedestal is configured to slide relative to the optical fiber box to accommodate cables moving because of ground heaving during freezing and thawing. The optical fiber pedestal box may be configured to receive different sizes and types of optical fiber cables.
US11994721B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing an optical connector. The optical connector includes: an optical fiber including a glass fiber and a resin coating; and a ferrule including a through hole. The method for manufacturing includes: coating an inner wall of the through hole with a thermosetting resin; inserting the glass fiber exposed from the resin coating into the through hole; adjusting a mutual positional relationship between the optical fiber and the ferrule so that a distance between end surfaces of a tip of the glass fiber and a tip of the ferrule is equal to or less than 1 mm; rotationally aligning the glass fiber with respect to the ferrule; curing the thermosetting resin; and polishing the tip of the glass fiber and the tip of the ferrule.
US11994717B2
A method includes: determining a first material and a second material of a photonic waveguide for propagating light, the photonic waveguide having a first section and a second section arranged in a first layer and a second layer, respectively, of the photonic waveguide; determining a spacing between the first layer and the second layer; determining a parameter set of a crosstalk reduction structure, according to the spacing, the first material and a wavelength of the light, to cause insertion losses of the first section and the second section to be lower than a predetermined threshold; and forming the first and second sections with the first and second materials, respectively, the first section having the crosstalk reduction structure overlapping the second section.
US11994715B2
A tapered waveguide. In some embodiments, the waveguide has a narrow end and a wide end. A taper angle of the waveguide may be, at each point along the waveguide, less than an adiabatic taper angle by a margin. The margin may be greater at a first point than at a second point, where the adiabatic taper angle is less at the first point than at the second point.
US11994714B2
Disclosed are embodiments of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) structure with a waveguide core having tapered sidewall liner(s) (e.g., symmetric tapered sidewall liners on opposing sides of a waveguide core, asymmetric tapered sidewall liners on opposing sides of a waveguide core, or a tapered sidewall liner on one side of a waveguide core). In some embodiments, the tapered sidewall liner(s) and waveguide core have different refractive indices. In an exemplary embodiment, the waveguide core is a first material (e.g., silicon) and the tapered sidewall liner(s) is/are a second material (e.g., silicon nitride) with a smaller refractive index than the first material. In another exemplary embodiment, the waveguide core is a first compound and the tapered sidewall liner(s) is/are a second compound with the same elements (e.g., silicon and nitrogen) as the first compound but with a smaller refractive index. Also disclosed are method embodiments for forming such a PIC structure.
US11994687B2
A display system includes an optical device configured according to constructive interference for a plurality of wavelengths at a focal length. The display system includes a fiber. The display system includes a controller configured to scan the fiber using a Lissajous scanning method to generate a display. The display can be disposed within a focal plane of the optical device. The controller is configured to modulate light intensity from the fiber. The controller can be configured to form a display image that passes through the optical device. The display system can include an optical combiner configured to reflect the display image from the optical device and form a virtual image. The optical device can be configured to magnify a display image from the display and form a virtual image.
US11994685B2
A head-mounted display system includes a positioning and stabilising structure structured and arranged to hold a display unit in an operational position over a user's face in use and an interfacing structure for the display unit constructed and arranged to be in opposing relation with the user's face. The interfacing structure comprises a substantially continuous face engaging surface adapted to contact the user's face around a periphery of the user's eyes. The interfacing structure comprises silicone. The interfacing structure is configured and arranged such that force applied to the user's face is distributed around the periphery thereof. The interfacing structure comprises a first compliance at a first region and a second compliance at a second region, wherein the first region and the second region are configured around the periphery of the interfacing structure to allow selective distribution of the force onto the user's face.
US11994681B2
An electronic device may include a display module that generates light and an optical system that redirects the light towards an eye box. The system may include an input coupler on a waveguide and a lens that directs the light towards the input coupler. The input coupler may include a prism having a reflective surface that reflects the light into the waveguide. The reflective surface may be curved to provide the light with an optical power. The prism may be configured to expand a field of view of the light. A birefringent beam displacer may expand the effective pupil size of the light. The lens may include lens elements that converge the light at a location between the lens elements and the waveguide. A switchable panel may be placed at the location and toggled between first and second orientations to increase the effective resolution of the light.
US11994679B2
An optical device includes two or more light sources configured for providing input light beams having different wavelengths. The optical device also has a curved reflective element configured to receive the input light beams to provide two or more reflected light beams. The optical device also has a cylindrical lens for each of the reflected light beams configured to transmit each of the reflected light beams to provide a corresponding collimated output light beam.
US11994675B2
A head-mounted device, such as augmented reality glasses, can be configured to track screen time. The head-mounted device can advantageously track screen time across a variety of devices whether or not they are configured to such measurements. Various modes for tracking the screen time may be used based on accuracy, power consumption, and privacy. The head-mounted device may track in a mode based on a battery level, a device setting or a user input. The head-mounted device may accumulate screen times in a database and in some implementations, can link screen times with devices in the database based on device information gathered by the head-mounted device during the tracking process. The head-mounted device may be configured to generate and display an alert based on one or more rules about screen time.
US11994673B2
An information processing device includes a control unit that has control so that, when detected a status transition of a user including a rising motion or a moving motion of the user during reproduction of a wide-angle image covering the entire field of view of the user, a real-space image acquired by an outward-facing camera provided on a display device that is worn on the head of the user and has a display unit covering the entire field of view is displayed on the display unit in real-time and a 2D image corresponding to a portion of the wide-angle image is displayed on the real-space image.
US11994670B2
Color-selective waveguides, methods for fabricating color-selective waveguides, and augmented reality (AR)/mixed reality (MR) applications including color-selective waveguides are described. The color-selective waveguides can advantageously reduce or block stray light entering a waveguide (e.g., red, green, or blue waveguide), thereby reducing or eliminating back-reflection or back-scattering into the eyepiece.
US11994666B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe techniques for independently controlling an angle (e.g., change in tilt) and/or position (e.g., change in lateral position) of an optical beam. For example, an optical beam control system may include a telescope with rotatable mirrors and lenses configured to provide a path to an optical beam to produce an output optical beam, which in turn is made into parallel optical beams following a diffractive optical element. The optical beam control system may also include a detector system to a beam angle and/or a beam position of one of the parallel optical beams to generate feedback signal or signals to control a rotation of one or more of the mirrors in the telescope such as to adjust the beam angle, the beam position, or both of the parallel optical beams. The optical beam control system may be part of a quantum information processing (QIP) system.
US11994663B2
The present invention is in the field of a vacuum transfer assembly, such as for cryotransfer, and specifically a TEM vacuum transfer assembly, which can be used in microscopy, a sample holder, a vacuum housing, a sample holder stage and a sample holder coupling unit for use in the assembly, and a microscope comprising said assembly as well as a method of vacuum transfer into a microscope.
US11994661B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for an optical system including pairs of LCPGs and polarization controllers (e.g., waveplates) that can be controlled to effect multiple simultaneous focal planes, or to simultaneously image multiple focal planes.
US11994660B2
A light-emitting module (1) includes a light-emitting unit (10) and a rod lens (20). The light-emitting unit (10) outputs a light (11). The rod lens (20) is adjacent to the light-emitting unit (10), and converges the light (11) along an optical axis (100). A radial direction of the rod lens (20) is parallel to the optical axis (100). A distance between an axis (21) of the rod lens (20) and a light-emitting center (12) of the light-emitting unit (10) along the radial direction is greater than or equal to a focal length of the rod lens (20) along the radial direction.
US11994658B2
A projector includes a lens, a beam processing module, a plurality of digital micromirror devices, a reflecting module and an illumination module. The beam processing module is disposed with respect to the lens. The digital micromirror devices are disposed around the beam processing module, wherein a beam projecting path is defined between the lens and the digital micromirror device. The reflecting module is disposed with respect to the digital micromirror devices and located beyond the beam projecting path. The illumination module is disposed with respect to the reflecting module. An initial beam projected by the illumination module is reflected to the digital micromirror devices by the reflecting module, such that the digital micromirror devices generate a plurality of image beams. The beam processing module combines the image beams to form a projecting beam and projects the projecting beam onto the lens along the beam projecting path.
US11994655B2
A camera optical lens is provided. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, and a ninth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 3.50≤f1/f≤6.50; and 3.00≤d13/d14≤15.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, d13 denotes an on-axis thickness of the seventh lens, and d14 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the seventh lens to an object side surface of the eighth lens. The camera optical lens according to the present disclosure has good optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having large apertures.
US11994654B2
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a mobile electronic comprising an integrated camera, comprising a Wide camera unit comprising a Wide lens unit, and a Telephoto camera unit comprising a telephoto lens unit, the telephoto lens unit and the wide lens unit having respectively TTL/EFL ratios smaller and larger than 1 and defining separate telephoto and wide optical paths.
US11994648B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for monitoring precipitation. An example rain gauge device for use in such monitoring generally includes a first basin including at least one outlet for forming and releasing droplets of moisture, and at least two electrical contacts disposed proximate to the at least one outlet. A closed circuit is formed between the at least two electrical contacts when a droplet of moisture, released by the at least one outlet, contacts the at least two electrical contacts. The rain gauge device then also includes a processor communicatively coupled to the at least two electrical contacts. The processor is configured to determine presence of a moisture event based on the closed circuit formed by the droplet and the at least two electrical contacts and, in response to the determination, transmit an indication of the moisture event to a computing device.
US11994645B2
A borehole muon detector for detecting and characterizing a geographic region of interest is provided, the borehole muon detector comprising a housing and sensor, which is housed in the housing, the sensor including: a plurality of photodetector elements; at least one printed circuit board in electrical communication with the plurality of photodetectors and including an integrated electronic circuit for tracking time; a first helical bundle of scintillator fibers; an oppositely wound helical bundle of scintillator fibers, the oppositely wound helical bundle, the first helical bundle and the opposite helical bundle defining an outer cylinder, which includes a first end and a second end and a bore therebetween, each scintillator fiber of each bundle directly optically connected to a photodetector element at least at one end and indirectly optically connected to the photodetector element at no more than one end; and a plurality of scintillator bars, each comprising a first end, a second end and an optical fiber extending from the first end to the second end, the plurality of scintillator bars vertically disposed in the bore of the outer cylinder, each optical fiber of the scintillator bar optically directly connected to a photodetector element at least at one end and indirectly optically connected to the photodetector at no more than one end.
US11994641B2
A seismic survey system is provided. The system can include a receiver array including a first streamer and a second streamer. The system can include a first plurality of receivers coupled with the first streamer and a second plurality of receivers coupled with the second streamer. The system can include a main source array including a first main source and a second main source. The system can include an accessory source array including a first accessory source and a second accessory source. The first accessory source can couple with the first main source and the second accessory source can couple with the second main source. The system can include a first lateral cable to couple with a first diverter and with the first main source. The system can include a second lateral cable to couple with a second diverter and with the second main source.
US11994635B2
A MEMS nanotube based radiation sensor that is low cost, low power, compact, reliable and is applicable across many fields and a method for fabricating such a sensor are described. Each sensor may be connected to an array of similar but distinct sensors that leverage different materials and nanotube technology to detect radiation.
US11994634B2
Fiber reinforced aerogel composites, including a transparent composite material that contains an aerogel and fibers embedded into the aerogel and/or bonded to one or more surfaces of the aerogel, and composites that contain an aerogel tile and an assemblage of fibers embedded into the aerogel tile or bonded to the aerogel tile that are useful as Cherenkov radiators for the detection and identification of subatomic particles. Also, methods of making and using the composites.
US11994633B2
A plurality of ultrasonic sensors are configured such that search ultrasonic waves transmitted from the respective ultrasonic sensors have mutually different characteristics that are mutually distinguishable. A transmission timing setting unit is configured to set a transmission timing of transmitting the search ultrasonic wave for each of the ultrasonic sensors, such that the plurality of ultrasonic sensors transmit the respective search ultrasonic waves at respective transmission timings that are mutually different. The transmission timing setting unit is configured to set a delay time between a first transmission timing, which is a transmission timing of the first ultrasonic sensor, and a second transmission timing, which is a transmission timing of the second ultrasonic sensor, with the delay time being determined based on a positional relationship between the first ultrasonic sensor and the second ultrasonic sensor.
US11994621B2
A scanning lidar system includes a first lens having a first lens center and characterized by a first optical axis and a first surface of best focus, a second lens having a second lens center and characterized by a second optical axis, a platform separated from the first lens and the second lens along the first optical axis, and an array of laser sources mounted on the platform. Each laser source of the array of laser sources has an emission surface lying substantially at the first surface of best focus of the first lens and positioned at a respective laser position. The scanning lidar system further includes an array of photodetectors mounted on the platform. Each photodetector of the array of photodetectors is positioned at a respective photodetector position that is optically conjugate with a respective laser position of a corresponding laser source.
US11994620B2
A LIDAR system may include: a first housing containing a processor configured to control a light source to enable light flux of the light source to vary over a scan of a field of view; a second housing located in a vehicle remote from the first housing, the second housing containing a controllable light deflector, and an actuator configured to move the light deflector; and a data conduit configured to interconnect the first housing and the second housing, the data conduit is associated with a forward path from the first housing to the second housing and a return path from the second housing to the first housing, wherein the data conduit is configured to cooperate with the processor and the actuator such that the forward path conveys signals for controlling the actuator and the return path conveys reflections signals indicative of light reflected from objects in the field of view.
US11994618B2
A light ranging system including a shaft having a longitudinal axis; a light ranging device configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis of the shaft, the light ranging device including a light source configured to transmit light pulses to objects in a surrounding environment, and detector circuitry configured to detect reflected portions of the light pulses that are reflected from the objects in the surrounding environment and to compute ranging data based on the reflected portion of the light pulses; a base subsystem that does not rotate about the shaft; and an optical communications subsystem configured to provide an optical communications channel between the base subsystem and the light ranging device, the optical communications subsystem including one or more turret optical communication components connected to the detector circuitry and one or more base optical communication components connected to the base subsystem.
US11994617B2
An apparatus is for generating an emulated radar reflection signal of a target moving at a relative velocity. The apparatus includes a radar detector, an emulation transmitter, and a processor. The radar detector is configured to detect radar chirps emitted by a device under test (DUT), where the chirps are emitted at random time intervals. The emulation transmitter is configured to generate emulated radar reflection signals of the target being emulated. The processor is configured to generate control signals at intervals corresponding to the random time intervals at which the radar chirps are emitted by the DUT, where each control signal controls the emulation transmitter to generate a radar reflection signal. A relative phase of the control signals is adjusted according to a duration of each of the random time intervals between successive chirps and a magnitude and sign of the relative velocity of the target.
US11994610B1
The disclosure provides a Lorentz constraint angle estimation method and a system in a non-Gaussian environment; the method includes the following steps: constructing an N-time slot received signal model based on a non-Gaussian noise environment to obtain a reflected signal; constructing a cost model based on Lorentz norm by a difference value between an actual received signal and the reflected signal, and performing an angle estimation by combining with an atomic norm to obtain a signal sparse reconstruction model; constructing an augmented Lagrangian function by the signal sparse reconstruction model, and carrying out the iterative update on the augmented Lagrangian function to obtain a reconstructed signal; and analyzing the reconstructed signal and searching spectral peaks globally to obtain spatial spectral peak points, and completing an angle estimation of the reconstructed signal.
US11994607B2
A first electronic device determines that a first trigger condition is satisfied, sends a first instruction to enable a first sound wave transmitter to send a first sound wave signal, and sends a second instruction to enable a second sound wave transmitter to send a second sound wave signal. A second electronic device sends a third instruction to enable a first sound wave receiver to receive the first sound wave signal and the second sound wave signal, calculates a first receiving start moment and a second receiving start moment, obtains first location information, determines second location information based on the first receiving start moment, the second receiving start moment, and the first location information, and sends the second location information to the first electronic device. The first electronic device updates third location information by using the second location information.
US11994594B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system has a modulator to modulate a light signal from an optical source with a low-power mode at a section of a sweep signal to generate a pulsed light signal transmitted towards a target. The LIDAR system has a photodetector to receive a return beam from the target with an amplitude modulated (AM) signal portion and a frequency modulated (FM) signal portion. The LIDAR system processes the return beam with in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) detection to extract the AM signal portion and the FM signal portion. The system determines a range value and a velocity value for the target based on the extracted AM signal portion and the extracted FM signal portion.
US11994593B2
A detection method and a device based on a laser radar, and a computer readable storage medium are disclosed. The detection method includes: obtaining scanning data of the laser radar; performing an algorithm splitting on a feature algorithm for detection based on the scanning data to obtain at least one sub-algorithm capable of parallel processing in the feature algorithm; and performing a heterogeneous acceleration for the at least one sub-algorithm to process the scanning data and to obtain a processing result; and obtaining a detected position of an obstacle and a detected drivable area based on the processing result.
US11994590B2
Systems and method are provided for controlling a vehicle. In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, by the controller, first return data detected by a first detector of a lidar device as a result of a first laser pulse or chirp; receiving, by the controller, second return data detected by a second detector of the lidar device as a result of a second laser pulse or chirp; combining, by the controller, the first return data and the second return data to form a point cloud; and controlling, by the controller, the vehicle based on the point cloud.
US11994579B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for hybrid radar and camera edge sensors are disclosed. Examples disclosed herein relate to a hybrid sensor system having a plurality of edge sensors positioned on the perimeter of a vehicle. The hybrid sensor system processes signals received from the various sensors to identify a target located within the vicinity of the vehicle.
US11994578B2
A system for virtual Doppler and/or aperture enhancement, preferably including one or more transmitter arrays, receiver arrays, and/or signal processors, and optionally including one or more velocity sensing modules. A method for virtual Doppler and/or aperture enhancement, preferably including transmitting a set of probe signals, receiving a set of reflected probe signals, and/or analyzing the set of received probe signals.
US11994575B2
A method for dithering radar frames includes determining at least one of a chirp period Tc for radar chirps in a radar frame and a chirp slope S for radar chirps in the radar frame. In response to determining the chirp period Tc, a maximum chirp dither Δc(max) is determined, and for the radar frame N, a random chirp dither Δc(N) between negative Δc(max) and positive Δc(max) is determined. In response to determining the chirp slope S, a maximum slope dither Ψ(max) is determined, and for the radar frame N, a random slope dither Ψ(N) between negative Ψ(max) and positive Ψ(max) is determined. A radar sensor circuit generates radar chirps in the radar frame N based on the at least one of (1) the chirp period Tc and the random chirp dither Δc(N) and (2) the chirp slope S and the random slope dither Ψ(N).
US11994573B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for motion detection using a communication channel carrier signal. In one aspect, a method includes, for each of one or more communication channels, wherein each communication channel has a center frequency that is different from the center frequency of each other communication channel: determining mean power levels from consecutive power samples at the center frequency, determining a difference between the mean power levels of two consecutive power samples at the center frequency, and determining whether physical motion is occurring in a monitored area based on the difference between the mean power levels.
US11994572B2
Techniques are described herein for imaging static or semi-static objects in a wireless power delivery environment and tracking non-static objects contained therein. More specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques for determining the relative locations and movement of non-static objects in a wireless power delivery environment. Additionally, the techniques describe methods and system for generation of motion-based maps such as heat (or dwell maps) and flow maps.
US11994568B2
A local coil of an embodiment includes a flat carrier body, at least one ventilation opening, and an antenna array for receiving RF signals in the frequency and power range of a magnetic resonance device. The flat carrier body is made of a reversibly deformable material and is moldable to the patient's shape. An embodiment of the invention further relates to a magnetic resonance system including a magnetic resonance device, a local coil and an electrical connecting cable. A method additionally relates to a method of manufacturing the local coil. A tool is further for use in a manufacturing process of a local coil.
US11994563B2
A battery type determination device according to an embodiment includes: an output controller configured to instruct a current application circuit to apply a specific current to a target battery; a voltage response measurer configured to measure a voltage response of the target battery with respect to the current applied using the output controller; a calculator configured to obtain an inductance value of the target battery on the basis of a current value applied using the output controller and a voltage value measured by the voltage response measurer; and a determiner configured to determine a type of the target battery on the basis of a specified value of an inductance according to the type of the target battery and an inductance value of the target battery obtained using the calculator.
US11994561B2
A method of estimating a battery current limit for operation of a battery cell over the course of a specified prediction time. The method includes generating a plurality of current limit estimations by means of a plurality of current limit estimation sub-methods, wherein at least one current limit estimation sub-method generates its current limit estimation based on an RC equivalent circuit model of the battery cell, and determining the charge current limit by finding the lowest magnitude current limit estimation in the plurality of current limit estimations. At least one parameter of the RC equivalent circuit model is set based on the specified prediction time and at least one variable from the set of: a state of charge (SOC) of the battery cell, a temperature of the battery cell, a state of health (SOH) of the battery cell, a capacity of the battery cell, and a current of the battery cell.
US11994555B2
A probe card includes a circuit board, a fixing member, and a plurality of probes. The fixing member is fixed on the circuit board and has a through opening therein. The fixing member has opposite first and second sidewalls defining the through opening. Each of the probes includes an arm portion and a tip portion. One end of the arm portion is connected to the circuit board. The tip portion extends from the arm portion. The arm portions of the probes extend in substantially a same direction inclined to a direction perpendicular to the first sidewall of the fixing member in a top view.
US11994553B2
A signal transmission circuit and method for testing an integrated circuit (IC) are disclosed. The signal transmission circuit includes: an input circuit, configured to generate a first test signal in response to a first control signal and a clock signal; a transfer chain, including multiple stages of serially-connected transfer circuits, where adjacent transfer circuits in the transfer chain are connected via a through silicon via (TSV), the transfer circuit on one end of the transfer chain is connected to the input circuit, and the multiple stages of transfer circuits transfer the first test signal in stage by stage in response to the clock signal; and multiple signal output ends, where a first test signal input end of each stage of transfer circuit is correspondingly connected to one signal output end. The signal transmission circuit improves the effective utilization rate of a chip in an IC having a TSV test circuit.
US11994538B2
An open loop electrical current transducer including a primary conductor bar, for carrying a current to be measured, a magnetic core having a U shape formed by an end branch and lateral branches upstanding therefrom to free ends, a magnetic circuit gap formed between inner surfaces of the lateral branches at the free ends of the lateral branches, a magnetic field detector positioned in the magnetic circuit gap, and a housing surrounding the magnetic core and a section of the primary conductor bar extending through the magnetic core and beyond the magnetic core either side thereof. The primary conductor bar includes a central portion having a width (Wc) equal to the width of a magnetic field gap (Wg) such that the central portion is clamped between said lateral branches in an interference force fit.
US11994537B2
In an embodiment, a circuit includes a first branch coupled between a first node and a second node, the first branch including a first ceramic capacitor, the first ceramic capacitor including terminals configured to receive a first voltage applied therebetween. The circuit further includes a second branch coupled between the first node and a third node, the second branch including a second ceramic capacitor that is substantially identical to the first ceramic capacitor, the second ceramic capacitor including terminals configured to receive a second voltage applied therebetween. The circuit further includes a control circuit configured to modify the second voltage until a first current passing through the second node is substantially equal to a second current passing through the third node.
US11994529B2
The object of the invention is to avoid a decrease in dispensing accuracy of a sample, a reagent, or the like as a temperature changes. In an automatic analyzer, a dispensing nozzle sucks the sample from a sample container holding the sample and discharges the sample to a reaction container. A syringe pump controls an amount of change in a volume of water. A first pipe connects the dispensing nozzle and the syringe pump. An electromagnetic valve flows or stops the water. A second pipe connects the electromagnetic valve and the syringe pump. A branch pipe branches the water. A third pipe connects the electromagnetic valve and the branch pipe. A case accommodates at least the syringe pump, the first pipe, the electromagnetic valve, the second pipe, the branch pipe, and the third pipe. Further, the third pipe includes a heat exchange unit that performs heat exchange of the water.
US11994522B2
The subject invention provides a robust, quantitative, and reproducible process and assay for diagnosis of a neurological condition in a subject. The invention provides measurement of two or more biomarkers in a biological fluid such as CSF or serum resulting in a synergistic mechanism for determining the extent of neurological damage in a subject with an abnormal neurological condition and for discerning subtypes thereof or tissue types subjected to damage.
US11994521B2
A method for measuring interactions between labeled particles and ligands comprising the steps: a) providing a sample comprising labeled particles and ligands in a solution, wherein the labeled particles are dissolved or dispersed in the solution or are immobilized on a solid support; b) exciting fluorescently the labeled particles and detecting the fluorescence of the excited particles at a predetermined temperature; c) repeating steps (a) and (b) multiple times at different concentrations of the ligands in the solution; and d) determining the interaction between the labeled particles and the ligands based on the ligand concentration dependent change of the fluorescence of the labeled particles, wherein the labeled particles are labeled with one or more dyes.
US11994519B2
The present invention relates to biomarkers associated with multiple sclerosis (MS), particular GLX molecules, and teven more particular GLX-related glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) and GLX-related proteoglycans (PGs).
US11994513B2
Provided herein are methods for detecting an estrogen-induced cancer in a subject, for identifying a subject at risk of developing an estrogen-induced cancer and for determining or predicting prognosis for a subject with an estrogen-induced cancer. The methods of the disclosure comprise determining the level of expression of ALPPL2 in a biological sample, typically a blood sample, obtained from a subject.
US11994512B2
Disclosed here is a generally applicable framework that utilizes massively-parallel single-cell RNA-seq to compare cell types/states found in vivo to those of in vitro models. Furthermore, Applicants leverage identified discrepancies to improve model fidelity. Applicants uncover fundamental gene expression differences in lineage-defining genes between in vivo systems and in vitro systems. Using this information, molecular interventions are identified for rationally improving the physiological fidelity of the in vitro system. Applicants demonstrated functional (antimicrobial activity, niche support) improvements in Paneth cell physiology using the methods.
US11994503B2
Computer systems, methods, and apparatuses for estimating changes in gas emissions are described. A computer system may monitor overall emission levels based on sensor outputs from a plurality of gas sensors in a facility. The computer system may estimate a total emission level over a time interval based on the accumulative, gas-response-factor weighted detections of the gas sensors. Emissions from maintenance activities may be excluded as appropriate. The total emission level may be compared with total emission level estimated from different time intervals and/or different facilities. The computer system may be further used for comparing emissions across multiple facilities, or emissions from facilities across multiple regions.
US11994498B2
A marine climate environment-bending load collaborative acceleration test method is provided, including conducting a static bending load loading test in an outdoor marine climate environment, conducting an alternate cycle of a dynamic bending load loading test in the outdoor marine climate environment and a test in the outdoor marine climate environment, and conducting an alternate cycle of the dynamic bending load loading test and the static bending load loading test in the outdoor marine climate environment. In the present disclosure, an acceleration rate of the marine climate environment-bending load collaborative acceleration test reaches over 8 times that of the test in the outdoor marine climate environment by taking the maximum bending force as an evaluation index, which may achieve a change from a static test to a static and dynamic combined test for examining and evaluating the environmental adaptability of the metal material.
US11994496B2
An inspection probe and system for inspecting a welded or brazed joint includes a housing having an internal cavity and opposed tapered standoffs disposed at a distal end portion of the housing. Distal ends of the opposed tapered standoffs define pivot surfaces, and the opposed tapered standoffs are spaced apart to define a secondary enclosure. A plurality of transducer elements are disposed within the internal cavity of the housing and a primary coupling medium made of a flexible, semi-solid material is secured between the opposed tapered standoffs. A signal processing module is in communication with a data acquisition unit, which is in communication with the transducer elements. The inspection probe is rotated across the joint, data from the transducer elements is communicated to the signal processing module, and reconstructed and corrected images obtained at different angles from the transducer elements are stitched to generate an inspection image.
US11994476B2
A multi-color system for optically inspecting a surface of a specimen includes a multi-wavelength led array to illuminate the specimen with a multi-color light pattern including simultaneously emitted spatial intensity color image patterns, each of which has first areas in which light is emitted with a first light intensity and second areas in which the light is emitted with a second light intensity, the first light intensity being higher than the second light intensity, and corresponding first and second areas in each of the simultaneously emitted spatial intensity color image patterns being phase-shifted relative to each other. A multi-color sensor captures each of the simultaneously emitted spatial intensity color image patterns reflected from the surface of the specimen in a single wavelength-multiplexed sensor image, and a data processing apparatus in communication with the multi-color sensor determines properties of the surface based on an evaluation of the single wavelength-multiplexed sensor image.
US11994474B2
A method of forming a colorimetric sensor includes depositing a first material onto a substrate, providing porous sensing particles, wherein the sensing particles comprise sensing species dispersed into a porous host structure, and embedding the porous sensing particles onto a surface of the deposited first material, the first material attaching the sensing particles to the substrate with at least a portion of the sensing particles is exposed to an ambient environment.
US11994473B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are disclosed for enhancing resolution for nonlinear optical microscopy. Embodiments include pulse picking using a modulator, such as an acousto-optic modulator, that is optionally controlled by a function generator or a frequency divider. Some embodiments spatially overlap two laser beams prior to the modulator, and still additional embodiments include separating the 1st diffraction order of the modulated laser output of the acousto-optic modulator and directing the 1st diffraction order to a microscope. Some embodiments chirp a spatially overlapped laser beam with one pulse rate to a spatially overlapped laser beam with a higher pulse rate, while still additional embodiments utilize a coherent Raman scattering microscope.
US11994468B2
A fluorescence intensity calculating apparatus, includes a measuring section configured to receive fluorescences generated from plural fluorescent dyes excited by radiating a light to a microparticle multiply-labeled with the plural fluorescent dyes having fluorescence wavelength bands overlapping one another by photodetectors which correspond to different received light wavelength bands, respectively, and whose number is larger than the number of fluorescent dyes, and obtain measured spectra by collecting detected values from the photodetectors, and a calculating section configured to approximate the measured spectra based on a linear sum of single-dyeing spectra obtained from the microparticle individually labeled with the fluorescent dyes, thereby calculating intensities of the fluorescences generated from the fluorescent dyes, respectively.
US11994453B2
The present technology relates to a method for improved recovery of phosphorylated compounds (e.g., phosphorylated glycans). In particular, the present technology utilizes certain chelator additives in a solution to wash and elute the phosphorylated compounds from a solid phase extraction cartridge.
US11994438B2
A communication device of an embodiment includes a normal operation mode and a low-power consumption mode and includes a first memory unit, a second memory unit, and a control unit. The first memory unit includes a work area for execution of firmware configured to perform basic control of the communication device. The second memory unit stores software for communication with an external device. When transition is performed from the normal operation mode to the low-power consumption mode, the control unit stops voltage supply to the first memory unit and performs control to reduce voltage supplied to the second memory unit to lower than a voltage in the normal operation mode.
US11994426B1
A photon counting device includes unit cells, a bias current source coupled to the unit cells, and a waveguide coupled to the unit cells. Each unit cell includes photodetector(s). Each photodetector includes superconducting component(s) and a transistor. The transistor includes a superconducting gate that is coupled in parallel with the photodetector(s), and a channel that is electrically isolated from the superconducting gate. For each unit cell, a photodetector is optically coupled to the waveguide. A superconducting component is configured to transition from the superconducting state to the non-superconducting state in response to a photon being incident upon the superconducting component while the superconducting component receives at least a portion of bias current output from the bias current source. The superconducting gate of the unit cell is configured to transition from the superconducting state to the non-superconducting state in response to the superconducting component transitioning to the non-superconducting state.
US11994421B2
A thermal probe assembly includes an RTD element having an electrical resistance that varies with temperature. A plurality of leadwires is operably coupled to the RTD element. The RTD element is disposed within a sheath and spaced from a distal end of the sheath by a distance selected to provide vibration resistance to the RTD element.
US11994418B2
A sensing system including: a sensor located in an external environment, including: an electrically powered sensor element sensing an environment variable and converting the sensing to a corresponding analog electrical value measure; an electrically powered sensor value conversion system connected to the electrically powered sensor and converting the analog electrical value measure to a digital measure, in addition to encoding the digital measure with sensor identification information; a transducer element for sending the sensed data information over an optical conduit for inputting an optical power signal and outputting optical sensed data information; a coupler splitting a first portion of the optical power signal to an energy storage system; and an energy storage system converting the first portion of the optical power signal into corresponding electrical energy and storing it for on demand usage; said electrically powered sensor value conversion system being supplied with electrical power from said energy storage system.
US11994408B2
A method for localization performed by an agent includes receiving a query image of a current environment of the agent captured by a sensor integrated with the agent. The method also includes receiving a target image comprising a first set of keypoints matching a second set of keypoints of the query image. The first set of keypoints may be generated based on a task specified for the agent. The method still further includes determining a current location based on the target image.
US11994405B2
The present disclosure is directed to determining geographic orientation based at least in part on imagery. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive data generated by a camera (118) and representing imagery that includes at least a portion of a physical real-world environment comprising the camera (118) and a travelway (312); and determine, based at least in part on the data and a machine-learning model, a geographic orientation of the camera (118) with respect to the travelway (312).
US11994400B2
Techniques are disclosed for objectively assessing the driving performance of rideshare drivers and/or vehicles. The techniques include collecting data from various sources to aggregate trip data for several drivers and passengers over several ridesharing trips. This data may include telematics data collected from several passengers and/or drivers during each of their respective ridesharing trips, which indicates various aspects associated with operation of the vehicle. Each driver may then be correlated to his own set of trip data, such that a driving assessment may be made for each individual driver. When a new user subsequently requests a ride via a ridesharing provider, this driver assessment may be made available to the user, thereby providing the user with an objective assessment of the driver prior to the start of the scheduled ride.
US11994394B2
A system for validating the road object data is provided. The system, for example, receives the road object data for a geographic region and determines, from a map database, a state of ground truth data associated with the geographic region. The state of the ground truth data comprises at least one of partial ground truth data and complete ground truth data. Further, the road object data is validated based on the determined state of the ground truth data. The validation of the road object data includes performing a first validation operation when the state of the ground truth data is the partial ground truth data and performing a second validation operation when the state of the ground truth data is the complete ground truth data.
US11994393B2
Provided are a device and a method for tracking air cargo that determine whether air cargo is loaded on the basis of sensing values of a pressure sensor and an accelerometer, and switch to a flight mode when the loading is completed to block communication with an external device. The provided device for tracking air cargo detects acceleration information and pressure information according to the movement of the air cargo, generates tracking information of the air cargo on the acceleration information and the pressure information, transmits the tracking information to an external device, and switches to a flight mode on the basis of one of the acceleration information, the pressure information, and whether a communication signal is received.
US11994389B2
A device and method for projecting visible level laser lines onto a work surface and measuring distances along the level laser lines. The device includes a self-leveling laser housing that allows the lasers to level when activated. The device also includes separate distance measuring lasers and a handheld display used to measure distances from the center of the device.
US11994380B2
An apparatus and method for aligning two coaxially coupled rotatable shafts. A servo operated multi axis positioning device is movable along a longitudinal axis parallel to the axis of the shafts, and movable vertically to position a laser range (LRF) adjacent to the two shafts, which measures the distance between the LRF and a spot on the shafts. A controller having a processor and memory communicates with the positioning device and the LRF to collect data at two axial positions on each shaft. At each position the LRF measures the distance to the shaft and stores the measurement and location data. The LRF is vertically repositioned and the measurement and storing steps are repeated over a scan distance sufficient to provide enough data to determine the location of the shaft center. The processor then calculates and compares the shafts centerlines and determines the necessary adjustments needed to move the shafts into coaxial alignment.
US11994374B2
A measurement system is presented configured for integration with a processing equipment for applying optical measurements to a structure. The measurement system comprises: a support assembly for holding a structure under measurements in a measurement plane, configured and operable for rotation in a plane parallel to the measurement plane and for movement along a first lateral axis in said measurement plane; an optical system defining illumination and collection light channels of normal and oblique optical schemes and comprising an optical head comprising at least three lens units located in the illumination and collection channels; a holder assembly comprising: a support unit for carrying the optical head, and a guiding unit for guiding a sliding movement of the support unit along a path extending along a second lateral axis perpendicular to said first lateral axis; and an optical window arrangement comprising at least three optical windows made in a faceplate located between the optical head at a certain distance from the measurement plane. The optical windows are aligned with the illumination and collection channels for, respectively, propagation of illuminating light from the optical head and propagation of light returned from an illuminated region to the optical head, in accordance with the normal and oblique optical schemes.
US11994372B2
The invention relates to the field of weapons, especially a device for wearing or carrying ammunition (magazines with cartridges or empty magazines) for small arms such as pistols, rifles, automatic rifles, automatic weapon, light machine guns, etc., and to design pouches formed open-faced to dispose magazines for cartridges. The pouch includes longitudinal and transverse walls and a waterproof material bottom and configured to form the open-faced pouch housing. Also, elements for attaching the housing to ammunition, the elements including at least one band fixed in the openings of the housing and ammunition. At least one of the longitudinal walls, the transverse walls and the bottom of the housing are formed solid-drawn (from a single piece of material), while the elements for attaching the firearm magazines pouch housing to the ammunition and also the elements for fastening a pistol magazine pouch housing on the above said firearm magazines pouch housing are made with the possibility of being partially arranged in the inner cavity of the above said firearm magazines pouch housing or the above said pistol magazine pouch housing.
US11994371B2
A test system is disclosed that has a chassis, a throwing mechanism that is located at an upper part of the chassis onto which at least one weight is attached and which provides throwing the weight attached thereon, a base is located at a lower part of the chassis and onto which a weight is thrown by the throwing mechanism, a control unit for throwing the weight by the throwing mechanism, and at least one pushing member for throwing the weight by pushing which is located on the throwing mechanism and operated by the control unit.
US11994367B2
Embodiments include active protection systems and methods for an aerial platform. An onboard system includes radar modules, detects aerial vehicles within a threat range of the aerial platform, and determines if any of the aerial vehicles are an aerial threat. The onboard system also determines an intercept vector to the aerial threat, communicates the intercept vector to an eject vehicle, and causes the eject vehicle to be ejected from the aerial platform to intercept the aerial threat. The eject vehicle includes alignment thrusters to rotate a longitudinal axis of the eject vehicle to substantially align with the intercept vector, a rocket motor to accelerate the eject vehicle along an intercept vector, divert thrusters to divert the eject vehicle in a direction substantially perpendicular to the intercept vector, and attitude control thrusters to make adjustments to the attitude of the eject vehicle.
US11994365B2
Techniques for tracing back a projectile to the projectile origin are described. A method includes detecting projectile track(s) in image(s). Each projectile track crosses multiple pixels in each image. The projectile track(s) correspond to projectile(s). The projectile track(s) in the image(s) are translated to traceback path(s). The traceback path includes a known location and a projectile origin (e.g. the location at which the projectile originated, also termed the shooter's location).
US11994363B2
The present disclosure relates to a firearm which may include a frame with a first outer wall, and a second outer wall opposite the first outer wall. A laser module may be disposed between the first and second outer walls. An alignment pin may be in communication with the first outer wall and may be configured to move the laser module relative to the frame.
US11994359B2
An archery hook engager includes, in an embodiment, a first portion defining a first opening configured to receive a pivot member of an archery release device. The archery release device has a body, a carriage, and a hook pivotally coupled to the carriage. The pivot member is coupled to the carriage. The archery hook engager also includes a second portion configured to define a second opening that has an opening dimension. The second opening is configured to receive a stopper that is coupled to the body. The stopper includes a stopper dimension. There is difference between the opening dimension and the stopper dimension that results in a gap between the second portion and the stopper. Furthermore, the archery hook engager includes a hook interface portion configured to be engaged with a hook engagement portion of the hook.
US11994358B2
A toy projectile shooter that includes a housing defining a housing interior, a barrel, a trigger movable between a firing position and a non-firing position, a firing motor, a plunger sensor, a plunger disposed in the housing interior, and a shot firing mode system configured to activate the firing motor when the trigger is moved from the non-firing position to the firing position, move the plunger from a first plunger position to a second plunger position when the firing motor is activated, actuate the plunger sensor when the plunger is moved from the first plunger position to the second plunger position, bias the plunger from the second plunger position to the first plunger position after the plunger sensor is actuated, and deactivate the firing motor after the plunger sensor has been actuated a predetermined number of times.
US11994349B2
A bulkhead heat exchanger includes path walls which divide a space formed between a first bulkhead and a second bulkhead into first paths. The first bulkhead and the second bulkhead separate the first paths from second paths. When a phase overlapping an inflection point of one path wall of adjacent path walls is θ0 (=0°), the path wall is a sinusoidal path wall having a range of θ0 (=0°)<θ1<θ2<90°<θ3<θ4<180°<θ5<θ6<270°<θ7<θ8<θ0 (=360°) as one period. In the one path wall, a main element is formed in θ1≤θ<θ3 and θ6≤θ<θ8, and in the other path wall, a main element is formed in θ2≤θ<θ4 and θ5≤θ<θ7.
US11994338B2
A control method for a drawer door of a refrigerator and the refrigerator. The refrigerator comprises a refrigerator body, a drawer door mounted in the refrigerator body in a front-back pushed and pulled mode, and a driving mechanism driving the drawer door to move forward and backward. The control method comprises: obtaining a door opening instruction or a door closing instruction; controlling the driving mechanism to drive the drawer door to move forward to open or move backward to close; detecting a resistance borne by the drawer door during the movement; determining whether the resistance is greater than a preset resistance threshold; and if yes, controlling the driving mechanism to stop running to enable the drawer door to stop moving.
US11994336B2
A refrigerator includes a wrapper having an opening with a front edge. A liner includes an opening and a front edge. A thermal bridge interconnects the wrapper and the liner to form a vacuum insulated cavity therebetween. The thermal bridge includes an outwardly opening channel and first and second inwardly opening channels. The front edge of wrapper is received in the first inwardly opening channel, and the front edge of the liner is received in the second inwardly opening channel. The second inwardly opening channel is inset relative to the first inwardly opening channel on the thermal bridge. A conduit is disposed within the outwardly opening channel and is configured to circulate a heated medium. The wrapper and liner are contemplated to be comprised of conductive materials, such sheet metal, while the thermal bridge is comprised of a thermally resistant material, such as a polymeric material.
US11994332B2
A cooling assembly includes a cold plate in contact with a heat generating component, a housing on one side of the cooling assembly in a first direction with respect to the cold plate, a first wall located between the housing and the cold plate, and a second wall separating a plate chamber defined by the housing and the first wall into a first plate chamber and a second plate chamber adjacent to each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first wall includes a first through hole opposing the cold plate in the first plate chamber and a second through hole opposing the cold plate in the second plate chamber.
US11994324B2
A multi-outdoor unit parallel type non-reversing defrosting system, which includes an indoor heat exchanger and three or more outdoor units arranged in parallel. The outdoor units each include a compressor, a four-way valve, an outdoor heat exchanger, a first solenoid valve, and a bypass branch. Two ends of the bypass branch are respectively in bypass connection with a pipeline between the four-way valve and the outdoor heat exchanger and a pipeline between the first solenoid valve and the indoor heat exchanger. The bypass branch is provided with a second solenoid valve configured to control connection and disconnection of the bypass branch. When it is monitored that any outdoor unit is abnormal in frosting, the outdoor units which are not frosted are correspondingly distributed and started as required on the basis of a current heating energy requirement A of the indoor heat exchanger.
US11994323B2
There is provided a refrigerant charging method in which a foreign material and moisture are avoided from entering a heat source unit until a refrigeration cycle apparatus is configured. The refrigerant charging method is a method of charging a refrigerant to a refrigerant circuit in which a refrigeration cycle is to be performed by a circulating refrigerant, the refrigerant circuit being configured by connecting a second heat source unit and a utilization unit to each other. The refrigerant charging method includes charging a first refrigerant to the second heat source unit before connecting the second heat source unit to the utilization unit to configure the refrigerant circuit, and connecting the second heat source unit to the utilization unit and charging a second refrigerant that differs from the first refrigerant to the refrigerant circuit to obtain the circulating refrigerant that includes the second refrigerant and the first refrigerant that is charged in the second heat source unit.
US11994313B2
An IAQ sensor module includes: a sensor configured to measure an amount of an item in air, the item being one of particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, and carbon dioxide; a minimum module configured to selectively store the amount of the item as a minimum value of the amount when a mitigation device has been on for at least a predetermined period, the mitigation device being configured to decrease the amount of the item in the air when on; a storing module configured to selectively store the minimum value as an initial minimum value; an offset module configured to determine a drift offset for the sensor based on a difference between the minimum value and the initial minimum value; and an adjustment module configured to determine an adjusted amount of the item in the air at the IAQ sensor module based on the amount and the drift offset.
US11994311B2
When first screen customizing information is changed in order to change a first display screen, a local controller sends first setting information indicating a changed part of the first screen customizing information to a server. When second screen customizing information is changed in order to change a second display screen, a remote controller sends second setting information indicating a changed part of the second screen customizing information to the server. The server sends first renewal information identical to the second setting information to the local controller and sends second renewal information identical to the first setting information to the remote controller; the local controller changes the first display screen in accordance with the first renewal information; and the remote controller changes the second display screen in accordance with the second renewal information.
US11994307B2
A communication device generates electricity by receiving light and uses the generated electricity to wirelessly transmit communication data. An air conditioner includes an air-conditioner main body that performs air conditioning. An operation state of the air-conditioner main body is caused to be a setback in a case where communication data from the communication device is not transmitted for a predetermined transition time when the operation state of the air-conditioner main body is caused to be in a stop, the setback being a state in which air conditioning of the air-conditioner main body is performed, and the temperature of a space where the air conditioner is placed does not exceed a predetermined limit temperature, the stop being a state in which air conditioning by the air-conditioner main body is not performed.
US11994305B2
The invention discloses a ceiling cassette smart combined air conditioner, comprising a cassette body; the outer side of the front end of the cassette body is provided with an air outlet section; the cassette body is sequentially arranged and connected with a filter section, a disinfection and sterilization section, a freeze protection section, a surface cooling section, a reheat section, a humidification section, a fan section, a static pressure section and an air supply section according to the air circulation direction. The advantages of the invention: it is provided with integrated functions for detecting, displaying and controlling the indoor air quality, and can realize intelligent control and regulation of indoor air temperature, humidity, freshness, cleanliness, ultraviolet sterilization, negative oxygen ions, odor removal, formaldehyde removal and other multi-functional integration, meeting the most favorable effects of indoor health and comfort.
US11994298B2
A stand is provided for elevating a portable stove above a surface. The stand includes a central intersection and a plurality of legs. Each leg includes an inner link extending radially outward from the central intersection, and an outer link connected to the inner link by a hinge. The outer link is thus movable to a position extending radially outward from the inner link. Each leg also includes a foot coupled to, and extending transverse to, the outer link. Each foot includes a standoff extending transverse from the outer link in a first direction, and an interference arm extending transverse from the outer link in a second direction opposite the first direction.
US11994297B2
A method includes forming a fluid conduit inside a heat shield in an additive manufacturing process, wherein a fluid nozzle is defined at a downstream end of the fluid conduit, and wherein the heat shield is formed about the fluid nozzle. The method includes removing powder from an interior passage of the fluid conduit and fluid nozzle and from an insulation gap defined between the heat shield and the fluid conduit and fluid nozzle. The method includes separating the heat shield, fluid conduit, and fluid nozzle from the build platform. The method includes shifting the fluid conduit and fluid nozzle to a shifted position relative to the heat shield, and securing the fluid conduit and fluid nozzle to the heat shield in the shifted position.
US11994293B2
An integrated combustor nozzle includes a combustion liner that extends radially between an inner liner segment and an outer liner segment. The combustion liner includes a forward end portion, an aft end portion, a first side wall, and a second side wall. The integrated combustor nozzle further includes an impingement cooling apparatus positioned within the cavity. The impingement cooling apparatus includes a flange. The impingement cooling apparatus further includes a plurality of impingement members that each extend from a respective opening defined in the flange to a respective closed end. Each impingement member defines a plurality of impingement apertures that direct air to impinge upon one of the first side wall and the second side wall. The impingement cooling apparatus further includes stand-offs extending from each impingement member of the plurality of impingement members. The stand-offs space apart each impingement member of the plurality of impingement members from surrounding surfaces.
US11994291B2
An annular combustor includes a combustion liner defining a combustion chamber, the combustion liner having an outer liner and an inner liner and a plurality of dimples in the combustion liner. The combustion liner is characterized by a performance factor greater than or equal to one and less than or equal to seven. An engine includes the annular combustor.
US11994288B2
A vaporizer for heating a liquid phase fuel, the vaporizer comprising a reservoir having a least one wall for containing a liquid and a heat-conducting fluid within the reservoir. A heating core extending into the reservoir such that the heating core is in fluid contact with the heat-conducting fluid and the heating core has an inlet through which the liquid phase fuel will flow and an outlet through which the vaporized liquid phase fuel will flow. A heating passage having at least one open end extending at least partially within the reservoir such that at least a portion of an exterior surface of the heating passage is in fluid contact with the heat-conducting fluid. A heat source communicating with the open end of the heating passage to heat the heating passage, which in turn heats the heat conducting fluid and the liquid phase fuel within the heating core to vaporize the liquid phase fuel.
US11994283B2
An LED backlight module includes an LED light plate, a diffusion plate, a brightening film, an MOP film, and a QBEF film. The LED light plate includes a driving circuit, a substrate, and LED devices on the substrate. Each LED device includes a transparent LED frame, an LED chip disposed on a bottom portion of the transparent LED frame, and a packaging glue layer formed inside the transparent LED frame and covering the LED chip. A diffusion agent is distributed in the packaging glue layer.
US11994281B2
The present disclosure provides a light fixture which comprises a compartment configured to house at least one light source and a lens movably arranged relative to the light source. The light fixture further comprises a deformable membrane having a tubular shape extending from a first end to a second end and forming an inner cavity. The first end of the membrane is attached to the lens. The second end of the membrane is attached to a sidewall of the compartment. The sidewall is extending circumferentially around the lens.
US11994278B2
A lighting device or lamp having two or more operating modes are provided. The lighting device or lamp comprises a housing having one or more light emitting diode (LED) packages mounted therein. The lighting device or lamp further comprises at least one secondary optic disc comprising a plurality of secondary optical elements. The secondary optical elements comprise two or more types of secondary optical elements. An operating mode of the two or more operating modes corresponds to each of the one or more LED packages being aligned with a secondary optical element of a predetermined type. The secondary optic disc is mounted to the housing so that the secondary optic disc is selectively rotatable with respect to the housing.
US11994272B2
A lighting assembly includes an upper mount having a pan gear and a plurality of indicator flanges. A lower mount is operably coupled to the lower mount and includes a pan motor and a tilt motor. A printed circuit board is operably coupled to the upper mount and includes a plurality of sensors. At least one sensor is selectively and operably coupled with the plurality of indicator flanges of the upper mount. A light module is operably coupled to the lower mount and includes a tilt gear operably coupled to the lower mount. A controller is operably coupled to the printed circuit board, the pan motor, and the tilt motor and is configured to rotate the lower mount and the light module via the pan motor and is configured to tilt the light module via the tilt motor.
US11994267B2
A vehicle lamp includes: a circuit board on which a light source is mounted; a heat sink having a front surface or a rear surface to which the circuit board is attached and configured to release heat generated when the light source is driven; and a cooling fan disposed above or below the circuit board and the heat sink. Cooling air generated by the cooling fan flows along the heat sink and the light source.
US11994264B2
A lighting device for a motor vehicle having a multiplicity of light sources from which light radiates in operation of the lighting device, an optical component that has at least one light entry surface for the light radiating from the light sources and at least one light exit surface for the light that has entered through the at least one light entry surface, as well as a secondary optical system that has at least one light entry surface for the light radiating from the at least one light exit surface of the optical component as well as at least one light exit surface for the light that has entered through the at least one light entry surface, wherein the light that has exited from the at least one light exit surface of the secondary optical system produces a light distribution outside the motor vehicle in operation of the lighting device.
US11994263B2
A LiDAR sensor unit is configured to detect information of an outside area of a vehicle with sensing light. A cover covers the LiDAR sensor unit so as to allow passage of the sensing light while forming a part of an outer surface of the vehicle. A strain gage is disposed on the cover and configured to output a strain signal corresponding to strain generated in the cover. A processor is configured to detect a foreign substance adhered to the cover based on the strain signal.
US11994261B1
There is described a color-changing LED bulb in the LED bulb technical field. The bulb has light-emitting components, under which electrified components are mounted. The outer surface of the light-emitting component is covered by a lampshade. The light-emitting component includes a component loading board with a protective cover on the outer side. The power cord stretches out of the bottom of the loading board and is connected to electrified components. Capacitors are also mounted at the bottom of the loading board. This color changing LED bulb controls the power supply to the beads via a chip bridge rectifier, chip resistor, and IC chip. If the switch is flipped, the chip bridge rectifier detects if power is supplied. By connecting the 3 different IC chips—U1, U2 & U3, U1 chip controls the U2 & U3 IC chip to electrify the beads of different colors. Each time that the switch is operated (flipped), a different color is displayed.
US11994258B2
A pressure vessel and a method of manufacturing the pressure vessel is provided that reduces leaks in type IV pressure vessels having a liner with a corrugated section. The method includes providing a liner having a tubular portion having a corrugated section with circumferential corrugations providing alternating ridges and grooves arranged from one end to an opposing end of the corrugated section, applying a barrier to an outer surface of the corrugated section from one end to an opposing end of the corrugated section such that air voids are formed in annular cavities between the liner and the barrier; and applying resin to an outer surface of the barrier. The barrier prevents intrusion of the resin between the barrier and the liner in the corrugated section.
US11994256B2
Various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a leveling foot tool which comprises a first base and a threaded rod. The threaded rod comprises a cavity to insert a screw nut and bolt assembly. A socket driver is installed over the screw nut and bolt assembly. The leveling foot tool is mounted on a drill. The first base of the leveling foot tool has one or more holes through which one or more screw nut and bolt assemblies are threaded. A leveling foot, which is to be installed comprises a second base and a threaded rod. The second base of the leveling foot comprises one or more holes to receive the one or more screw assemblies of the leveling foot tool. Using the rotational and the translational motion of the drill, the threaded rod of the leveling foot is drilled into a threaded hole of a leg of a machine.
US11994255B2
A workstation holding one or more electronic devices, e.g., a display, keyboard, or the like, can be mounted on a structure, e.g., a wall, using an articulating arm assembly including one or more arms. The one or more arms can be rotatingly coupled to the structure on one end and a work surface can be coupled to the other end. At least one of the one or more arms can be height adjustable. The workstation can rotate about a horizontal axis between a use configuration and a storage configuration. The one or more arms can be configured to translate the workstation between a contracted orientation and extended orientation. The height adjustable arm can include a counterbalance mechanism to counter a weight of the one or more components coupled to the workstation. A tension of the one or more springs contained in the counterbalance mechanism can be adjustable.
US11994252B2
A dual plated magnetic plate mount comprising magnets, bolts, screws, and related hardware is disclosed herein. A magnetic cap and puck ceiling or wall mount for the consolidation or management of loose wires is also disclosed herein. The dual plated mount and magnetic cap and puck embodiments disclosed herein may be advantageously used to mount a projector to a wall or ceiling.
US11994249B2
A conduit thermal shield that may include a section of shielding material having opposing ends connected by a connector. The shielding material is configured to wrap around a pipe with the opposing ends connecting via the connector. In various embodiments, the shielding material may be sections of a roped material, such as sisal rope, and the connectors may include one or more cooperating magnets disposed at or near opposing ends of the shielding material and the connectors may be adjustable.
US11994246B2
A hydration system including a fluid reservoir, a fluid path in communication with the reservoir, and a magnetic quick connect interposed in the fluid path is disclosed. A fluid delivery system for a hydration system is also disclosed that includes a magnetic quick connect interposed in a fluid delivery path of the delivery system. The magnetic quick connect can also be used in a wide variety of fluid delivery systems. A kit for forming a fluid delivery system for a hydration system is also disclosed, as are various components of a hydration system.
US11994233B2
The present disclosure generally relates to an external shaft connection assembly. In particular, an external shaft connection assembly for use with vane actuators is disclosed. In various aspects, the disclosed assembly includes an external shaft connector to connect a valve to the vane actuator, an upper shaft to connect a positioner the vain actuator and a compression ferrule to ensure a tight fit with the vane actuator in order to overcome mechanical slop and inefficiencies in motion transmission due to variances in manufacturing tolerances.
US11994220B1
Air valves, such as wastegates, utilize a shaft that rotates within a bushing system. Conventional deposition processes limit the thickness of the wear material between the shaft and bushing system. Accordingly, embodiments disclosed herein utilize one or more coating sleeves that are press-fit onto the shaft. This enables a thicker layer of wear material to be applied to the shaft, thereby improving the longevity and durability of the air valve, while also simplifying the manufacturing process. Embodiments may also utilize one or more anti-rotation features, such as a dowel or axial protrusion, and/or may utilize snap ring(s) to prevent axial sliding of the coating sleeve(s).
US11994208B2
A method for calibrating an actuation of a converter lock-up clutch of a hydrodynamic torque converter having a pump wheel and a turbine wheel connected to a power-split transmission. The transmission has at least two clutches each connected to a respective power-split shaft assembly and each configured be actuated separately to close and open in order to apply a clutch torque to the turbine wheel so that a rotation speed difference between the pump wheel and the turbine wheel changes. The method includes opening the converter lock-up clutch and the at least two clutches each connected to a respective power-split shaft assembly of the transmission, rotating the pump wheel with a specified rotation speed, and applying a clutch torque to the turbine wheel as a function of an actual rotation speed difference. Clutches connected to a different respective power-split shaft assembly of the transmission are actuated in the closing direction.
US11994204B2
A gear assembly for an aeronautical engine includes a first gear disposed at a centerline axis of the gear assembly, a second gear coupled to the first gear in adjacent radial arrangement to form a first mesh between the first gear and the second gear, a static portion coupled to the second gear in adjacent circumferential arrangement, the static portion defining a pocket, and a spraybar disposed within the static portion such that a supply opening of the spraybar is directed at the first mesh between the first gear and the second gear. The supply opening provides a flow of lubricant to the first mesh between the first gear and the second gear and at least a portion of the flow of lubricant is collected by the pocket. The flow of lubricant is continuously released from the pocket to the gear system.
US11994203B2
A housing part and drive system for a vehicle, including a housing part, having a service access for the actuation of at least one screw that is arranged in the interior of a housing assigned to the housing part. The housing part has an insert is fitted into a provided opening and in which at least one receiving slot is provided, which at least one receiving slot is open at an inner end and advantageously projects over a screw head of one of the at least one screw and is closed at an outer end by a detachable sealing plug. The receiving slot is advantageously dimensioned so as to serve as a guide for a screwdriver.
US11994198B1
An axle assembly having a preload mechanism. The preload mechanism engages a bearing assembly and includes a preload element and an adjuster element. The preload element is disposed inside a housing and is rotatable about an axis. The adjuster element engages the preload element and is moveable to actuate the preload element and exert a preload force on a bearing assembly. The adjuster element is accessible from outside of the housing.
US11994184B2
A brake assembly with multiple telescoping structures comprises: a rotatable part configured to be rotated by an actuator; a fixed part comprising an outer ball nut fixed to a housing; a rotatable and translatable part comprising an outer ball screw and an inner ball nut, wherein the outer ball screw is operably coupled with the outer ball nut through first rolling bodies, and the rotatable and translatable part is operably coupled with the rotatable part and is rotatable relative to the outer ball nut and axially translatable relative to the rotatable part and the outer ball nut simultaneously by rotation of the rotatable part; a translatable part comprising an inner ball screw operably coupled with the inner ball nut through second rolling bodies and configured to be axially translated relative to the inner ball nut by rotation of the inner ball nut to move a brake pad assembly.
US11994183B2
A brake assembly may comprise: a brake piston configured to be movable for a brake apply or release, the brake piston having an inner wall forming a piston cavity; a linearly movable structure positioned within the piston cavity of the brake piston; the linearly moveable structure configured to be linearly movable within the piston cavity in response to rotation of a rotatable structure operably coupled to the linearly movable structure; and a magnet disposed between the brake piston and the linearly movable structure so that the brake piston is movable toward the linearly movable structure in response to linear movement of the linearly movable structure by magnetic field generated by the magnet. The magnet may function to provide active retraction of the brake piston when the linearly movable structure moves in a brake release direction during a brake release operation.
US11994181B2
A disc brake caliper has a caliper body and a pair of pads and, in each side portion of the caliper body, a distal piston and a proximal piston, having radially distanced and aligned pressure centers.
US11994174B1
A clutch assembly comprises at least one controllable friction clutch for variable torque transmission between a clutch input part and a clutch output part; a hydraulic actuator assembly for actuating the friction clutch, the actuator assembly comprising a hydraulic pump, a hydraulic chamber in which hydraulic pressure for the friction clutch is built up by the hydraulic pump and a return flow element with an orifice, via which hydraulic fluid can flow out of the hydraulic chamber into a housing reservoir when the hydraulic pump is not actuated, wherein the hydraulic fluid defines a filling level in the housing reservoir; wherein an outlet opening of the return flow element lies below the filling level of the hydraulic fluid in a inactive state.
US11994171B2
A clamping coupler for a hobby servo motor includes a body. The clamping couple also includes a first body portion and a second body portion separated by a gap. The clamping coupler includes an aperture configured to receive a shaft of the hobby servo motor, the aperture defined, at least in part, by the first body portion, second body portion and the gap. The coupler includes a first fastener coupled to the first body portion and the second body portion, that when actuated exerts a first force on the first body towards the second body. The coupler includes a second fastener coupled to the first body portion and the second body portion, that when actuated exerts a second force on the first body towards the second body.
US11994170B2
A differential gear includes a holder which is provided between first and second pinion gears in a differential case and through which a differential pinion shaft is inserted. An insertion hole is radially formed in the differential pinion shaft. The holder is formed with a fixing hole facing the insertion hole when the differential pinion shaft is inserted through the holder. Due to insertion of a fixing pin through the fixing hole and the insertion hole, the differential pinion shaft and the holder are relatively non-rotatable. Due to the holder being held between first and second side gears, relative rotation of the holder with respect to the differential case is restricted, and the differential pinion shaft is non-rotatable relative to the differential case.
US11994168B2
A bearing unit comprising a stationary radially outer ring with a spherical radially outer surface with a convex shape; a radially inner ring that is rotary about a central rotation axis of the bearing unit and is mounted on a rotating or oscillating shaft in which a diametrical through-hole formed in a first cylindrical portion is used to receive an elastic element for locking the radially inner ring on the shaft; a plurality of rolling bodies interposed between the radially outer ring and the radially inner ring to enable the relative rotation of the two rings; and at least one element for locking the radially inner ring on the shaft in which a pair of threaded through-holes formed in either the first cylindrical portion or the second cylindrical portion of the radially inner ring is used to receive respective grub screws for locking the radially inner ring on the shaft.
US11994164B2
A packaged bearing unit is disclosed including an outer surface for receiving an aircraft landing gear wheel and an inner surface for receiving an axle. The unit may include first and second spaced-apart sets of tapered roller bearings, held between inner and outer raceways. There may be a bearing setting spacer which can be used when setting and pre-loading the bearings. The bearing unit may be a sealed unit which includes a pre-set amount of lubricant (grease) for lubricating the bearings. One or more sensors may be retained in a void between the sets of bearings.
US11994163B2
A bearing including a sidewall including a substrate and a low friction material extending along at least one of a radially inner surface or a radially outer surface of the sidewall, the sidewall further including: a body defining a bore about a central axis; and a flange contiguous with and extending from an axial end of the body, where the flange includes a folded over outermost peripheral edge, where the substrate has a reduced thickness at the outermost peripheral edge, the flange being configured such that the substrate is not exposed along the outermost peripheral edge.
US11994161B2
A hinge includes a base and a rotating component. The base extends along a first direction, and the rotating component includes a floating plate and a rotating assembly. A first mounting position and a second mounting position are on the floating plate and spaced apart along a second direction. The second direction is orthogonal to the first direction. A first end of the rotating assembly is pivotably coupled to the base, a second end of the rotating assembly is pivotably coupled to the first mounting position and the second mounting position. The rotating assembly is slidable relative to the second mounting position along the second direction.
US11994152B2
A pneumatic circuit for controlling the activation of a robot with inflatable chambers includes at least one ring oscillator formed from a plurality of valves connected in series to selectively admit fluid pressure to inflate and deflate the chambers. Sequential actuation of the valves induces sequential bending and rotation of combinations of the chambers to effect motion. A switching valve changes the actuation sequence of the oscillator valves to change the direction of motion.
US11994137B2
A vacuum pump which suppresses occurrence of deposition caused by an exhaust gas is obtained. The vacuum pump includes: a pump portion including a shaft portion, a rotor disposed on an outer peripheral side of the shaft portion, and a stator disposed on the outer peripheral side of the rotor; a channel of the exhaust gas from the pump portion to an outlet port; and a shielding portion which suppresses contact of the exhaust gas with the shaft portion in the channel. Further, an end portion of the shielding portion has a surface opposed to the rotor.
US11994124B1
System of gas compression utilizing variable input pressures to produce a consistent output pressure
A system for compressing gas, including fugitive natural gas emissions from natural gas compression equipment, such that the gas can be reintroduced in an unchanged, undiluted state into a pressurized gas pipeline system such as that used for natural gas. The source of gas can include leakage from natural gas compressor piston rod packing seals, or blowdowns of certain sections of a natural gas pipeline system for purposes of maintenance or emergency operations, or any other leakage source. The current practice within the natural gas pipeline industry is to vent or flare fugitive emissions and blowdown gas to atmosphere.
US11994121B1
A variable displacement hydraulic device comprising: a housing having an inlet for receiving hydraulic fluid and an outlet for outputting the hydraulic fluid, the housing having a reciprocation axis; a first cylinder positioned in the housing along the reciprocation axis, the first cylinder having a first input for receiving the hydraulic fluid on a first intake stroke and a first output for ejecting the hydraulic fluid on a first exhaust stroke; a first piston positioned for a first reciprocal motion within the first cylinder, the first piston having a first main end exposed to the hydraulic fluid and a second main end coupled to an actuator, the actuator for driving the second main end when coupled to the actuator for causing the first reciprocal motion to induce a first portion of said outputting of the hydraulic fluid; a second cylinder positioned in the first piston along the reciprocation axis, the second cylinder having a second input for receiving the hydraulic fluid on a second intake stroke and a second output for ejecting the hydraulic fluid on a second exhaust stroke; a second piston positioned for a second reciprocal motion within the second cylinder, the second piston having a first secondary end exposed to the hydraulic fluid and a second secondary end coupled to the actuator, the actuator for driving the second secondary end when coupled to the actuator for causing the second reciprocal motion to induce a second portion of said outputting of the hydraulic fluid; and a locking mechanism for inhibiting the first reciprocal motion of the first piston; wherein when engaged the locking mechanism inhibits the first portion of said outputting of the hydraulic fluid by decoupling the first piston from the actuator while continued operation of the actuator provides the second portion of said outputting of the hydraulic fluid by the second piston.
US11994119B2
A compressor including: a casing; a rotary shaft rotatably mounted in the casing; a compression mechanism configured to compress a refrigerant by operating in conjunction with the rotary shaft; a thrust plate configured to support an end surface of the rotary shaft; a chamber configured to accommodate the thrust plate; and a slit configured to guide oil to the chamber, in which a part of the slit is formed to face a contact portion between the rotary shaft and the thrust plate, such that it is possible to supply the oil between the rotary shaft and the thrust plate, thereby preventing damage to the thrust plate for supporting the rotary shaft. In addition, an inner diameter of the chamber gradually increases, and the chamber extends to an end surface of a cylinder block, such that the cylinder block may be easily extracted from a mold.
US11994114B2
A nacelle for a wind turbine is disclosed. The nacelle comprises a self-carrying rear structure (1) extending in a length direction (4) between a front end (6) defining an interface towards a hub mounted rotatably on the nacelle, and a rear end (7) arranged opposite to the front end (6), the nacelle defining an interface (15) towards a tower (14) of the wind turbine. The nacelle further comprises at least one pre-tensioned brace cable (8, 9) attached to the rear structure (1) at a first position (10) at or near the interface (15) towards the tower (14) along the length direction (4), at a second position (11) at or near the rear end (7) of the rear structure (1), and at at least one intermediate position (12) between the first position (10) and the second position (11) along the length direction (4). A direction defined by the pre-tensioned brace cable (8, 9) is changed at each intermediate position (12).
US11994101B2
A wind turbine rotor blade has a first rotor blade segment with a first connection end and a second rotor blade segment with a second connection end assigned to the first end. The first segment has first mounting sleeves at the first end. The first mounting sleeves each have a first internal thread. The second rotor blade segment has second mounting sleeves at the second connection end. Each of the second sleeves define a longitudinal axis and has a second internal thread arranged therein. Each of the second internal threads is displaceable axially with respect to the corresponding longitudinal axes. The rotor blade further has a plurality of connecting bolts threadably engaging a pair of first and second sleeves via corresponding internal threads such that the first segment and the second segment are mechanically interconnected at the first end and the second end.
US11994095B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method of producing unidirectional motion from a multidirectional source using magnets strategically placed to reduce the necessity of some physically interacting parts. Smoothened unidirectional motion can accomplish usable work in many applications.
US11994092B2
A turbo-boost controlled intake system is disclosed that provides a driver of a vehicle with greater control over vehicle performance. The turbo-boost controlled intake system includes a control module that is coupled with an aircharger air intake. The control module instructs an electronic control unit of the vehicle to increase manifold pressure to a higher level before releasing the pressure through a waste gate so as to provide a greater power output of the engine. The turbo-boost controlled intake system further includes a wiring harness and a signal adjuster. The wiring harness couples the control module with a turbo inlet pressure sensor, a manifold absolute pressure sensor, and an electronic control unit of the vehicle. The signal adjuster includes a rheostat that enables manual adjustment of the power output of the engine.
US11994085B2
An additive manufactured piston having a crown portion and a skirt portion form of an aluminum-cerium-silicon alloy. The piston includes a least one recess pocket in an unstressed region located at an interface between an inner surface of the crown portion and an outer surface of the skirt portion. The skirt portion includes an outer panel surface defining an external rib adjacent a peripheral end surface, at least one stiffening rib extending from a pin boss to a skirt end, and a wall thickness of between 0.2 mm and 1.0 mm in a region between the external rib and the at least one stiffening rib. The skirt portion further includes an internal first rib having a width W1 on a thrust side portion and an internal second rib having a width W2 located on an anti-thrust side portion, in which W1 is greater than W2.
US11994075B2
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft and a method of operating a gas turbine engine on an aircraft. Embodiments disclosed include a gas turbine engine for an aircraft including: an engine core has a turbine, a compressor, and a core shaft; a fan located upstream of the engine core, the fan has a plurality of fan blades; a nacelle surrounding the engine core and defining a bypass duct and bypass exhaust nozzle; and a gearbox that receives an input from the core shaft and outputs drive to the fan wherein the gas turbine engine is configured such that a jet velocity ratio of a first jet velocity exiting from the bypass exhaust nozzle to a second jet velocity exiting from an exhaust nozzle of the engine core at idle conditions is greater by a factor of 2 or more than the jet velocity ratio at maximum take-off conditions.
US11994072B1
A method of operating a gas turbine engine is disclosed, the gas turbine engine comprising an engine core comprising a combustor arranged to burn a fuel; a turbine, the turbine comprising a plurality of turbine blades; a compressor arranged to be used as a source of cooling air for the turbine blades; and an inducer arranged to accelerate and direct the cooling air onto the turbine blades and comprising a plurality of airflow passageways and a modulating valve arranged to control cooling air flow into a subset of the passageways; and a fuel management system arranged to provide the fuel to the combustor, the fuel having a sulphur content of less than 30 ppm. The fuel management system comprises two fuel-oil heat exchangers through which oil and the fuel flow. The method comprises using the modulating valve to adjust the cooling air flow based on turbine inlet temperature.
US11994068B2
In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, there is provided a heat exchange system. The heat exchange system includes a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger. The first heat exchanger includes an engine fluid conduit fluidly connecting an engine fluid inlet to an engine fluid outlet. A first internal buffer fluid conduit fluidly connects a first buffer fluid inlet to a first buffer fluid outlet where the engine fluid conduit is in fluid isolation from the first internal buffer fluid conduit but is in thermal communication with the first internal buffer fluid conduit for heat exchange between the engine fluid and the buffer fluid.
US11994067B2
An aircraft gas turbine engine includes a heat exchanger module, and a core engine including an intermediate-pressure compressor, a high-pressure compressor, a high pressure turbine, and a low-pressure turbine. The high-pressure compressor is connected to the high-pressure turbine by a first shaft, and the intermediate-pressure compressor is connected to the low-pressure turbine by a second shaft. The heat exchanger module includes a central hub and heat transfer elements extending radially from the central hub and spaced in a circumferential array, for transferring heat energy from a fluid within the heat transfer elements to an inlet airflow passing over the heat transfer elements prior to entry of the airflow into an inlet to the core engine. The gas turbine engine further includes a first electric machine connected to the first shaft and positioned downstream of the heat exchanger module, and a second electric machines connected to the second shaft.
US11994058B2
Operating a gaseous fuel engine system includes urging a mixture containing a gaseous hydrogen fuel and air into a pocket in an igniter fluidly connected to a cylinder to form an ignition charge, and igniting the ignition charge via a flame kernel formed by energizing spark electrodes of the igniter. The method further includes igniting a main charge containing the gaseous hydrogen fuel via a flame jet of the ignition charge from the igniter. The pocket is shielded from the cylinder sufficiently to form within the pocket a flow field protecting the flame kernel, while fluidly connected to the cylinder sufficiently to clear the pocket of residual combustion gases.
US11994055B2
Methods and systems using model based and iterative calculations of mass flow throughout an internal combustion engine system. A secondary air injection valve is provided to selectively allow intake air to pass to the exhaust side of the engine system to aid in exothermic reaction with exhaust gasses exiting the engine for various purposes. The iterative calculations of mass flow include estimation of the mass flow through the secondary air injection valve.
US11994049B2
An impactor separator comprises a housing having an inlet receiving a gas-liquid stream and an outlet expelling a gas stream. The impactor separator also includes an impaction surface positioned within the housing and configured to separate liquid particles from the gas-liquid stream and a nozzle assembly positioned within the housing. The nozzle assembly includes a nozzle assembly housing portion and a plurality of nozzles extending through the nozzle assembly housing portion. Each of the plurality of nozzles includes a nozzle inlet and a nozzle outlet. The gas-liquid stream enters into the nozzle assembly housing portion, flows into the plurality of nozzles through the nozzle inlet and exits the plurality of nozzles through the nozzle outlet. The plurality of nozzles accelerates the gas-liquid stream toward the impaction surface.
US11994042B1
A piston engine described allows identical cylinder heads rather than requiring mirror image left and right heads. The engine has front and rear sides, with engine block containing two opposing cylinder banks. Identical heads mounted on block, with overhead camshaft structures in each head. Crankshaft between banks has front and rear gears. At rear is reverse-rotation gear mechanism with internal and external gears. External gear engages crankshaft's rear gear. First chain connects reverse-rotation internal gear to first camshaft sprocket on one head at rear. Second chain connects crankshaft's front gear to second camshaft sprocket on other head at front. Allows driving overhead camshafts of identical heads rather than requiring left and right mirror image heads.
US11994039B2
A gas turbine engine having a rotor blade stage with a plurality of circumferentially spaced rotors, a nozzle stage adjacent the rotor blade stage and including an outer nozzle end, at least one stop, and a shroud. The shroud having a forward end positioned radially outward from the circumferentially spaced rotor blades, and an aft end axially aft of the forward end. The at least one stop confronting at least a portion of the outer nozzle end.
US11994037B2
There is provided a compact turbine-compressor assembly 25. The turbine-compressor assembly 25 includes a turbine wheel 39 with one or more turbine blades 41 and a compressor wheel 47 that includes one or more compressor blades 49. The compressor wheel 47 is concentric with the turbine wheel 39. Furthermore, the compressor wheel 47 and the turbine wheel 39 are not located at opposite ends of a common axle with a medial portion of the axle distancing them apart, as is the case with prior art turbine-compressor assemblies that are known. In contrast, the turbine wheel 39 and the compressor wheel 47 are located adjacent to each other and in one embodiment they axially overlap each other so that one nests within the other to thereby provide a compact arrangement. The turbine-compressor assembly 25 includes a first fluid path 67 which is configured to convey fluid, which will typically be air, through the turbine blades 41. The turbine-compressor assembly 25 also includes a second fluid path 77 which is configured to convey fluid, which will typically be air, through the compressor blades. The turbine-compressor assembly 25 is arranged so that the first fluid path 67 is distinct from the second fluid path 77 and vice-versa.
US11994035B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a valve controller configured to network with one or more other valve controllers in a water condition system, providing on-board communication between valves. The valve controller can provide, among other features, improved demand recall, user settings protection, dynamic addressing and automatic master unit selection, network settings push capabilities, and/or descriptive error log displays.
US11994029B2
A tunnel profile element is disclosed. The tunnel profile element includes a lightweight body constituted by a plurality of foam glass side wall panels and a foam glass roof panel between the plurality of side wall panels. The foam glass panels being sprayed with unbroken polyurea layer.
US11994026B2
A method for hydrocarbon production includes receiving data from a sensor associated with hydrocarbon production equipment, the hydrocarbon production equipment configured to extract hydrocarbons from a site, determining, based on the sensor data and a model associated with extracted hydrocarbons, multiphase properties of the extracted hydrocarbons, determining that a portion of the multiphase properties exceeds a threshold value, and controlling the hydrocarbon production equipment based on the multiphase properties responsive to determining that the portion of the multiphase properties exceeds the threshold value.
US11994025B2
A system including an image acquisition unit in optical communication with a flow pathway. The system may include at least one illumination source directable toward a shale shaker. The illumination source may emit a light output. A band-stop filter may be affixed to the image acquisition unit to filter out infrared light. The band-stop filter may also allow electromagnetic radiation of the light output to reach the image acquisition unit. An analysis device may be used to determine a volume of downhole particles on the shale shaker using deflections of the light output observed by the image acquisition unit.
US11994023B2
A transmitter for an inground operation includes an antenna and a sensor section for generating sensor data. An antenna driver selectively drives the antenna to emit a locating signal such that the locating signal carries the sensor data. A processor controls the antenna driver to transmit the locating signal during a normal mode and to enter a sleep state that disables at least the sensor section and the antenna driver such that the locating signal is not transmitted responsive to detecting that the transmitter is inactive. The processor can enter a snooze mode from the normal mode by disabling the antenna driver so that the locating signal is not transmitted, without disabling the sensor section, and the snooze mode requires less power than the normal mode but more power than the sleep state.
US11994020B2
A method for mapping inter-well porosity includes injecting a Type 1 tracer into a hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir via an injector well, wherein the Type 1 tracer is a passive tracer, injecting a Type 2 tracer into the hydrocarbon-bearing reservoir via the injector well, wherein the Type 2 tracer is a porosity-sensitive tracer, detecting a breakthrough of the Type 1 tracer and a breakthrough of the Type 2 tracer in produced fluid at a producer well, and comparing the breakthrough of the Type 1 tracer with the breakthrough of the Type 2 tracer to provide a map of inter-well porosity.
US11994019B2
A method for determining the distribution of a proppant and associated slurry exiting perforations made in a casing, which is placed in a well, includes receiving settling data describing the proppant settling in the casing; receiving a slip parameter describing a casing velocity of the proppant relative to a perforation velocity of the proppant; calculating with a computing device, based on a constant proppant concentration model, (1) initial flow rates Q′(i) of the proppant through the perforations and (2) initial flow rates Q′case(i) of the proppant through the casing, wherein i is the number of perforations; and calculating with the computing device, based on (1) a variable proppant concentration model, (2) the settling data, (3) the slip parameter, (4) the initial flow rates Q′(i) of the proppant through the perforations, and (5) the initial flow rates Q′case(i) of the proppant through the casing, normalized flow rates Q′s(i) of the proppant through the perforations.
US11994010B2
A system can include isolation devices, a flow control device, and an energy transfer device. The isolation devices can be positioned between a wall of a wellbore and a tubular positioned in the wellbore for carrying fluid for geothermal energy transfer. The flow control device can be positioned in the wellbore and between the isolation devices for controlling flow of the fluid between zones of the wellbore for transferring geothermal energy to a surface of the wellbore. The energy transfer device can be positioned at the surface of the wellbore for transferring the geothermal energy from the fluid into usable energy.
US11994001B2
A downhole method for preparing and/or providing isolation at a predetermined position in an existing well includes inserting a downhole tool comprising a bit on a projection part in a first well tubular metal structure, positioning the downhole tool opposite the predetermined position, separating an upper part of the first well tubular metal structure from a lower part of the first well tubular metal structure, moving the downhole tool along the longitudinal extension in the upper part to a second position, and separating a first part of the upper part of the first well tubular metal structure from a second part of the upper part of the first well tubular metal structure, thus providing an uncased opening between the second part of the first section and the second section.
US11994000B2
A bridge plug includes a mandrel, a setting cone disposed at least partially about the mandrel, a slip ring and a sealing element disposed at least partially about the setting cone, and a guide shoe operatively coupled to a downhole end of the mandrel. The bridge plug is actuatable from a run-in state to a deployed state, wherein, when the bridge plug is in the deployed state, the mandrel is axially movable relative to the setting cone to seal or open a flow path through the bridge plug.
US11993999B2
A well barrier can include an annular seal element, an anti-extrusion backup having radially inward and radially outward portions, and a biasing device that exerts a biasing force against the radially outward portion of the anti-extrusion backup. A method of operating a well barrier can include setting the well barrier by decreasing a longitudinal distance between abutments of the well barrier, thereby compressing a seal element between the abutments, and unsetting the well barrier by increasing the longitudinal distance between the abutments and radially inwardly retracting an anti-extrusion backup positioned longitudinally between the seal element and one of the abutments. Another well barrier can include an annular seal element, an anti-extrusion backup, an abutment displaceable relative to the seal element to compress the seal element, a sleeve reciprocable relative to the abutment, and a biasing device that biases the sleeve toward the anti-extrusion backup.
US11993989B2
A drilling system includes a horizontal tubular handling and transfer assembly configured to receive a tubular component, a first sensor array disposed at a first axial location on the horizontal tubular handling and transfer assembly, and a second sensor array disposed at a second axial location on the horizontal tubular handling and transfer assembly. The drilling system also includes processing circuitry configured to determine a length dimension of the tubular component based on first data feedback from the first sensor array, second data feedback from the second sensor array, or both. The processing circuitry is also configured to determine a diameter dimension of the tubular component based on the first data feedback, the second data feedback, or both.
US11993988B2
A system with a wrench coupled to a rig floor, and the wrench can include a plurality of grippers, a linkage mechanism that couples the plurality of grippers together, and a plurality of actuators coupled to the linkage mechanism, with the plurality of actuators used to apply a force to the linkage mechanism in opposite directions, and with the linkage mechanism configured to evenly distribute the force between the plurality of grippers. The wrench can support a torque wrench or a backup tong of an iron roughneck.
US11993987B2
A gooseneck conduit assembly includes a gooseneck conduit including a vertically-extending portion, an upset formed on the vertically-extending portion, an alignment key extending laterally from the vertically-extending portion, and a lower coupling at a lower end of the vertically-extending portion; a second conduit configured to connect to an auxiliary fluid line connected to and extending along a riser string that extends to a subsea wellhead, the second conduit including a receiving end configured to form a connection with the lower coupling; and a frame configured to be connected to the riser string. The frame includes an upper bracket vertically offset from a lower bracket to which the second conduit is secured, an alignment groove configured to slidably receive the alignment key so as to maintain a coaxial alignment between the vertically-extending portion of the gooseneck conduit and the second conduit, and a locking member pivotally coupled to the upper bracket.
US11993984B2
A downhole coupling mechanism for use in downhole tools that find application in wells exploited by a hydraulic refracturing process. The downhole coupling mechanism connects first and second tubular sections via a tensile load arrangement of wires located in complimentary grooves, a torque arrangement of interlocking lugs and notches on opposite ends, and a seal arrangement. The downhole coupling mechanism provides a thin walled coupling where a screw-threaded connection could not achieve the required tensile load, torque and sealing properties needed. Embodiments of a thin walled anchor and packer including the downhole coupling mechanism are described.
US11993981B2
A visibility control device includes one or more light sources to provide input light, a waveguiding substrate, which has a first major surface and a second major surface, and a plurality of light-deflecting grooves implemented on at least one major surface of the substrate. The device is arranged to form guided light by coupling the input light into the substrate, The grooves are arranged to form deflected light by coupling the guided light out of the substrate through the second major surface of the substrate.
US11993977B2
A frame may include three or more portions having an upper portion disposed adjacent an upper end of an opening and two side portions disposed along either edge of the opening, and in some cases a lower portion when the opening is for a window or some doors. A first frame segment and the second frame segment are adjustable with respect to each other in order to extend around the thickness of the door opening. The segments may have one or more thermal barriers, such as a seal (e.g., u-shaped, v-shaped, or the like seal) located between portions of the segments. The first frame segment may be adjusted with respect to the second frame segment. The adjustment of the segments may be made before or after the one or more thermal barriers are installed.
US11993969B1
An exemplary hinge (36, 88) is used to connect a body door (84, 162) in movable operative connection with a body (12, 102). The hinge enables selectively moving the door to open and close a body opening (82, 164). The hinge includes a primary hinge butt (38, 90) which includes a primary hinge butt knuckle (40, 104). A primary hinge strap (60, 114) includes a primary hinge strap knuckle (62, 116) which enables relative rotational movement of the primary hinge butt and the primary hinge strap. The door is in operatively attached connection with the primary hinge strap. A secondary hinge butt (132) may be in operative connection with the primary hinge strap to enable relative rotational movement of the door relative to the primary hinge strap in the hinge open position. A disengageable latch may be used to hold the secondary hinge butt in a fixed rotational position.
US11993966B2
A door hinge for an electrical cabinet includes a pathway for receiving an electrical harness, the hinge including two parts that are connected together and are rotatable with respect to one another about a pivot axis, the hinge including a duct that extends along the pivot and is designed to receive an intermediate section of the harness along the pivot axis, the duct including a longitudinal slot for the lateral insertion of the intermediate section of the harness into the duct while the intermediate section extends parallel to the duct. An electrical cabinet includes such a door hinge.
US11993964B2
A casement window locking assembly comprises a locking handle, a housing, a locking bar, and a coupling member to transfer movement of the locking handle to the locking bar. The locking handle is movable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The assembly comprises first and second sensors, the first sensor comprising a first handle component secured to the coupling member and a second handle component mounted within the housing in order to detect the locking handle being in a locked position, the second sensor comprising a first window component mounted in the housing and a second window component being arranged to be mounted on the window sash in order to detect the window sash being located in a closed position. Rotational movement of the handle causes translational movement of the coupling member. Also, methods of providing a window status sensor system.
US11993962B2
A cable module includes a retaining member and a cable member. The retaining member includes a base portion, a guide portion, and an attaching portion. The cable member placed on the base portion includes a grip portion and a cable. The guide portion configured to guide the cable is provided on a surface of the base portion. The attaching portion protrudes from the base portion. The retaining member is configured to retain the cable member in a first position and a second position. The length of an intermediate portion of the cable located between the guide portion and the grip portion when the cable member is in the second position is longer than that when the cable member is in the first position. When the cable member is in the second position, the grip portion is attached onto the attaching portion in a condition where the intermediate portion is bent.
US11993957B2
A method including placing a first adhesive on a first surface of a strike plate, wherein the strike plate includes a pocket extending into a second surface of the strike plate opposite the first surface of the strike plate. The method further includes placing a second adhesive on a first surface of a lock module, wherein the lock module includes a bolt operable to extend beyond a second surface of the lock module. The method also includes aligning the pocket with the bolt such that the bolt is operable to extend into the pocket, and with the pocket and the bolt aligned with one another, releasably joining the strike plate and the lock module with a releasable coupler, thereby forming an aligned locking assembly.
US11993956B2
A lock kit for a fenestration assembly includes a panel stop. The fenestration assembly includes a first panel and a second panel, at least one of the first and second panels being slideable relative the other of the first and second panels. The panel stop is configured to pivotably mount within a recess of a frame member of the first panel and pivot between a first stop position configured to maintain the first and second panels in a fully closed position, a second stop position configured to limit sliding of the first and second panels beyond a preset partially-open position, and a third position substantially within the recess, the third position being configured to not restrict a range of motion of the first and second panels.
US11993954B2
In one form, a multipoint locking assembly included a first latch device, a second latch device, and a mortise assembly coupled to the first and second latch devices. The mortise assembly may comprise a first transmission coupled to the first latch device via a first flexible member, a second transmission coupled to the second latch device via a second flexible member, and an actuation assembly operable to actuate the first and second transmissions. At least one of the transmissions comprises a slack removal device operable to remove slack in the flexible member to which it is coupled, thereby ensuring proper transmission of pulling forces between the transmission and the latch device.
US11993953B2
A power control system for use with an electric lock mechanism including an actuator having a coil with a particular coil impedance. The power control system comprises a power supply configured to provide an output voltage having a drive current to the actuator, a credential device powered by the power supply and configured to signal the power supply to provide the output voltage upon receiving an authorized access code, an actuator driver including a multiple-gain current-sensing circuit, and a microcontroller configured to monitor and control the power supply, credential device, actuator driver, and actuator, and determine the impedance of the coil. The microcontroller is populated by a look-up table having performance data for a plurality of coils such that the microcontroller selects a duty ratio to establish the optimum magnitude of drive current to the coil based only on the determined impedance of the coil.
US11993950B2
Example embodiments provide mechanical dampers. The mechanical dampers may be applied to dissipate energy in a structure that arises for example from a dynamic load such as seismic activity, vehicle impact, vibration of the structure, wind forces, an explosion, etc. The damper comprises a pair of clamping plates. A shear plate is held between the clamping plates. The shear plate is movable in transverse directions relative to the clamping plates. The damper also comprises a conical wedge coupled between one of the clamping plates and the shear plate. The conical wedge comprises a female conical element and a male conical element that projects into a conical indentation of the female conical element.
US11993948B1
The present application relates to the technical field of pet toy, and particularly to a pet swimming pool, including a pool bottom, an annular pool body, an annular spraying tube and an inlet tube; wherein the annular pool body includes an inner layer, an outer layer and a connection layer, a bottom of the outer layer is connected to an edge of the pool bottom, a bottom of the inner layer is connected to the pool bottom, a top of the outer layer is connected to a top of the inner layer by the connection layer, and a cavity that is enclosed is formed between the outer layer, the inner layer, the connection layer and the pool bottom; the annular spraying tube is provided at a side of the inner layer departing from the outer layer, and a plurality of spraying holes are formed on the annular spraying tube.
US11993944B2
Examples of a swing arrangement for a pole include a first part connectable to a first section of the pole, a second part connectable to a second section of the pole and a friction reducing housing arranged to rotatably house and couple the second part to the first part in a coupled condition so as to provide a rotational axis about which the first and second sections of the pole pivot. A pole including the swing arrangement and a related method are also disclosed.
US11993942B2
A safety cable system for installation during building construction is provided and includes a first track mounted to a first structural element of a building, a first plurality of anchors slidably engageable with the first track, a second track mounted to a second structural element of a building, a second plurality of anchors slidably engageable with the second track, and a plurality of cables interconnecting the first plurality of anchors and the second plurality of anchors. The first plurality of anchors, the second plurality of anchors, and the plurality of cables are positionable vertically at a plurality of different heights above a floor of the building, or horizontally at a plurality of different positions above the floor. Also provided are stops for restricting movement of the first and second plurality of anchors, roller bearings that capture the plurality of anchors in the tracks and allow the anchors to slide with respect to the tracks, plates and associated mounting hardware for mounting the tracks, turnbuckles for tensioning the cables, and tie points for tying a netting between the tie points.
US11993937B2
An adhesive floor/wallboard includes a floor/wallboard main body layer and a buffer layer adhered to the back surface of the floor/wallboard main body layer. The buffer layer is provided with a plurality of holes. The holes extend through the buffer layer to the main body layer. Glue is deposited in the holes. The buffer layer is adhered to the back surface of the floor/wallboard. The glue in the holes makes direct contact with the floor/wallboard main body at the holes. Due to the holes and their depth, the contact area between the glue, the buffer layer and the main body is increased. Accordingly, the adhesive floor/wallboard can be more firmly adhered to a backing surface.
US11993936B1
A splicing step device includes a first step body and a second step body. A height of the first step body is different from a height of the second step body, and the first step body is configured by splicing. The splicing step device is detachable, which reduces a space occupied by the splicing step device during storage and transportation, and reduces storage costs as well as transportation costs.
US11993934B2
In a roof window system, the housing (6) of the ventilation unit (5) is prepared for accommodation of a standard ventilator and/or a regenerator allowing an air current through a ventilation passage (28), from an exterior grating (18) to a ventilation panel (3) integrated into or in continuation of a lining panel of a room in the interior of the building in which the roof window is installed.
US11993933B1
An improved wall stud includes a pair of spaced rails, each having a planar outer surface for attaching an exterior cladding substrate or wall board, an inner surface, an upper end, and a lower end. The inner surface has a substantially triangular cross-section to prevent the rail from bowing. The upper end of each rail includes an opening in communication with a mortise for telescopically receiving an elongated tenon projecting from the lower end of each rail. Accordingly, two or more studs can be quickly and easily joined to form a longer stud, if needed. The spaced rails are interconnected with a series of uniquely designed reinforcement members that prevent the studs from bending, twisting, contorting, or deforming when subjected to undue force.
US11993928B2
A hybrid wall system includes studs with spacers interspersed between the studs. The spacer is a flat elongate member with at least one hook-like member on each end of the elongate member to secure ends of the elongate member between two studs. At least one snap member on each end of the elongate member is removed to remove the spacer to release the spacer between the two studs. The system further includes a base track and a top track with a slip spacer assembly used to level the tops of the studs. A drop-in ceiling is placed on top of the leveled studs. A leveling assembly on the base track is used to raise and lower at least one of the studs for purposes of attaching cladding to the at least one stud.
US11993926B2
An antiviral commode has a base structure including a toilet water bowl having an upper rim, a seat and top lid hinge mounted to the base structure a filter assembly including a high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter disposed within a porous and metallic filter track housing mounted to the underside of the toilet top lid concentric to the toilet seat making uniform surface contact on one end with the top surface of the toilet seat when the toilet seat and top lid are closed, electronics for initiating flushing, a power source for powering the electronics, and at least one visual indicia for notification of state.
US11993925B2
Embodiments of air admittance valve assembly and plumbing system incorporating the same are provided herein. In some embodiments, a valve assembly comprising a housing, a first valve comprising a first valve sealing member and a first valve seat, and a second valve comprising a second valve sealing member and a second valve seat, and a pipe, an inlet, an outlet, a first zone, a second zone, a third zone, the first and second valve sealing member is closed by gravity and open based upon the pressure differential between the first zone, second zone and third zone.
US11993918B2
A cable support device (14) for supporting an intermediate part of a power supply cable (13) is provided with a cable stand (16) attached to an upper revolving structure (3), an arm member (19) that is rotatably attached to the cable stand (16) to grip the power supply cable (13) on the tip end side and, and a locking mechanism (25) that is removably disposed in the cable stand (16) and in the arm member (19) to prohibit rotation of the arm member (19) relative to the cable stand (16). Thereby, the rotation of the arm member (19) relative to the cable stand (16) is prohibited by the locking mechanism (25), making it possible to prevent the power feeding cable (13) retained in the arm member (19) from contacting a cab (6).
US11993915B2
An operator's cab includes an operator's seat provided on a floor surface, a control lever that is provided laterally to the operator's seat and is operated at least toward the operator's seat, and an armrest that includes an upper surface and is provided laterally to the operator's seat in the rear of the control lever. A front portion of the upper surface is larger in width than a rear portion of the upper surface. The front portion of the upper surface includes an inclined portion. With the floor surface being defined as the reference, the inclined portion decreases in height toward the operator's seat.
US11993913B2
The invention relates to a cable plow system, comprising a cable plow for introducing at least one line into the ground and a chassis, wherein the cable plow comprises at least one laying unit, wherein the or each laying unit has an attachment suitable for engaging the ground to form a trench in the soil and a line routing for laying the line into the trench formed or formable by the attachment, wherein the chassis comprises a driver's cab and front wheels and rear wheels, wherein the front wheels and/or the rear wheels are attached in each case to the driver's cab by means of a support. The invention is characterized in that the cable plow system has a coupling device, the chassis and the cable plow being interchangeably connectable or connected to one another by means of the coupling device.
US11993911B2
A working machine includes a machine body, an engine on the machine body, a motor/generator to perform an assisting action in which the motor/generator functions as a motor to assist the engine in driving and an electricity generating action in which the motor/generator functions as a generator to generate electricity using power from the engine, a battery to store electricity generated by the motor/generator, an operation actuator to perform an operation of the machine body, a starting action determiner to determine, upon operation of the operation actuator, whether the operation corresponds to a starting action for the machine body, a first setter to set, if the starting action determiner determines that the operation of the operation actuator corresponds to the starting action, a torque of the motor/generator for the assisting action or the electricity generating action to a first torque, and a second setter to set, if the starting action determiner determines that the operation of the operation actuator does not correspond to the starting action, the torque for the assisting action or the electricity generating action to a second torque differing from the first torque set by the first setter.
US11993910B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for producing an injection anchor in the ground, wherein a bore is created in the ground, a hardening material for forming the anchor foot is injected by means of an injection member at least in a partial region of the bore, and after partial, not yet complete, hardening of the material a post-grouting medium is introduced under pressure in a region of the anchor foot via a post-grouting member, by which medium the not yet completely hardened anchor foot is broken up. According to the invention, provision is made for an automatic post-grouting machine to be connected to the post-grouting member, by which machine the post-grouting medium for breaking up the not yet hardened anchor foot is automatically introduced into the post-grouting member at a freely specifiable time.
US11993907B2
A device for damping hydrosound in liquid having a frequency range emitted from a sound-emitting body in the liquid includes: a plurality of individual gas volumes distributed in the liquid in an area of the sound-emitting body and at a distance from each other, each of the individual gas volumes being operable to reduce the hydrosound through resonant oscillations; and at least one mass body disposed in the liquid, the individual gas volumes being connected to the at least one mass body so as to prevent the individual gas volumes from rising up in the liquid.
US11993891B2
Household appliances, such as for laundry treatment, can be configured with a sump and an outlet having a barrier for foreign objects. Foreign objects such as pocket items can inadvertently be added to the appliance along with the wash items. A barrier secured in the opening of the outlet can prevent pocket items from entering the drain.
US11993886B2
A method and appliance for controlling a household washing machine for washing laundry includes receiving, in a user interface, a user-selected steam sanitize cycle, displaying, on the user interface, a first indicator, and executing, by the controller, the sanitize cycle, and displaying a sanitized indicator, for example, on the user interface.
US11993880B2
A sewing machine includes: a pattern data acquisition unit that acquires pattern data in which information on an object corresponding to a unit from a sewing start point to a ravel preventing point or a thread trimming point and information related to a required bobbin thread amount required for sewing the object are associated with each other and registered; a bobbin thread remaining amount acquisition unit that acquires a bobbin thread remaining amount; a determination unit that determines whether or not the object is sewable, based on a difference between a required bobbin thread amount of the object according to the pattern data and the bobbin thread remaining amount; and a decision unit that, based on a determination result of the determination unit, decides whether or not the object is set as a sewing target.
US11993870B2
A shedding machine includes an eccentric system rotatable about a main axis; a lever; and a transmission rod, coupled to the eccentric system and pivotally to the lever about the eccentric axis and connecting rod axis spaced apart by a connecting rod center distance, the main axis and the eccentric axis being spaced apart by an eccentric center distance. To facilitate the adjustment of the stroke of a heald frame operated by the machine, which includes an adjustment system, allowing an adjustment configuration where the eccentric distance or connecting rod distance is adjustable, and a locked configuration where these distances are fixed. The machine also includes a locking system, which allows lever locking and lever release configurations.
US11993868B1
Provided is a control method for a yarn route inspection equipment, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: detecting whether a first workstation in an initial yarn route inspection path is in a shoveling state; when the first workstation is not in the shoveling state, controlling the yarn route inspection equipment to inspect the first workstation; when the first workstation is in the shoveling state, controlling the yarn route inspection equipment to bypass the first workstation to inspect a second workstation and mark the first workstation as an uninspected state; and when inspection of the initial yarn route inspection path is completed and there is a workstation in the uninspected state, controlling the yarn route inspection equipment to perform supplementary inspection on the workstation in the uninspected state in the initial yarn route inspection path.
US11993858B2
Various configurations of a power plant are described. The power plant is configured to supply power to a receiving electrical grid by the combustion of metal powder. The power plant is also configured absorb power by recovering the metal powder from the metal oxide produced by the combustion of the metal powder, with electricity from a source electrical grid.
US11993854B2
In an etch process chamber, oscillators are positioned a predetermined distance away from an outer wall and coupled to a microwave generator. An inner wall of the process chamber on which particulates such as polymers adhere from the etch process is vibrated via operations of the oscillators. A gas flows into the cavity defined by the inner wall to collect the displaced particulates, which is then pumped out of the cavity to clean the process chamber. A controller identifies the polymer recipe used during the etch process and selects an oscillation program from memory. A microwave generator, controlled by the controller, is directed to generate microwaves at preselected frequencies determined from the program. The microwave frequencies are communicated to the oscillators, which then vibrate the inner wall at such received frequencies.
US11993853B2
An antimicrobial and adhesion-proof titanium tableware and a manufacturing method of the same are provided. The antimicrobial and adhesion-proof titanium tableware is made of a titanium substrate, and includes a contact portion and an oxidation layer structure. The contact portion is used for contacting foods, food ingredients, drinking water, beverages, or body parts of a user. The oxidation layer structure is formed on one part of a surface of the titanium substrate corresponding to the contact portion. The titanium substrate is made of titanium in α phase, and the oxidation layer structure is a titanium dioxide film in a rutile crystalline form. The oxidation layer structure has a roughened surface and an oxygen diffusion layer formed at an interface of the oxidation layer structure and the titanium substrate.
US11993852B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a stainless steel with excellent contact resistance for a polymer fuel cell separator. The method of manufacturing a stainless steel with excellent contact resistance for a polymer fuel cell separator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: electrolyzing to remove a first passivation film formed on a cold-rolled thin sheet of a stainless steel comprising, in percent (%) by weight of the entire composition, C: greater than 0 to 0.1%, N: greater than 0 to 0.02%, Si: greater than 0 to 0.25%, Mn: greater than 0 to 0.2%, P: greater than 0 to 0.04%, S: greater than 0 to 0.02%, Cr: 22 to 34%, Ti: greater than 0 to 0.5%, Nb: greater than 0 to 0.5%, the remainder of iron (Fe) and other inevitable impurities; and immersing in a mixed acid solution of nitric acid and hydrofluoric acid to form a second passivation film on the stainless cold-rolled thin sheet.
US11993844B2
The present inventive concept is related to methods for passivating an oxide layer and methods of selectively depositing a metal, metal nitride, metal oxide, or metal silicide layer on a metal, metal oxide, or silicide layer over an oxide layer including exposing the oxide layer to a passivant that selectively binds to the oxide layer over the metal, metal oxide, or silicide layer, and selectively growing the metal, metal nitride, metal oxide or metal silicide layer on the metal, metal oxide or silicide layer.
US11993840B2
A metal-ceramic article and method for creating the same is disclosed in which the article has undergone machining to remove outer surface volume. The intermediate layer of the article includes a gradient of a metal and metal-ceramic that diminishes toward a metal core.
US11993838B2
A method for heat treating an additively manufactured A205 aluminum alloy component (“AM205 component”) to produce a uniform grain distribution within the AM205 component is disclosed. The method includes solution aging the AM205 component at a first temperature for a first time period, wherein the first time period is less than five hours and overaging the AM205 component after the solution aging.
US11993833B2
Provided is a soft magnetic metal powder including a plurality of soft magnetic metal particles. Each of the soft magnetic metal particles includes a metal particle and an oxidized part covering the metal particle. The metal particle includes at least Fe. The oxidized part includes at least one kind of element of S and an element M. The element M is at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of Nb, Ta, W, Zr, Hf, and Cr. A unit of a concentration of each of S and the element M in the metal particle and the oxidized part is atom %. The concentration of S or the element M in the metal particle and the oxidized part has a maximum value in the oxidized part.
US11993832B2
In various embodiments, a metal alloy resistant to aqueous corrosion consists essentially of or consists of niobium with additions of tungsten, molybdenum, and one or both of ruthenium and palladium.
US11993827B2
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to a method for recovery of lithium ions from a lithium-ion containing liquid, the method comprising the steps of coating a nanoparticle with a styrene monomer; polymerizing the styrene monomer to form a poly-styrene-coated nanoparticle; attaching a dibenzo-12-crown-4-ether to the polystyrene-coated nanoparticle to form a lithium adsorbing medium; exposing the lithium ion-containing liquid to the lithium adsorbing medium to form a lithium-rich adsorbing medium; and extracting the lithium ion from the lithium-rich adsorbing medium.
US11993826B2
An oxidation step for sulfide and transition ores prior to CN leaching to recover 60 to 90 percent of metals from those ores. Use of tona, soda ash or carbonate source in treating sulfide and transition ores for CN leaching recovery of metals, including gold and silver. The oxidation of sulfide and transition ores in the presence of carbonate. Low moisture content in the heap, to enhance available oxygen, during the oxidation of sulfide and transition ores in the presence of carbonate.
US11993825B2
The present invention pertains to a hot press forming member having excellent resistance to hydrogen embrittlement, and a method for manufacturing same. An aspect of the present invention provides a hot press forming member having excellent resistance to hydrogen embrittlement, the hot press forming member comprising a base steel plate and an alloy-plated layer formed on the surface of the base steel plate, wherein the alloy-plated layer contains pores such that pores having a size of 5 μm or less constitute 3-30% of the surface area of the alloy-plated layer as viewed in a cross-section taken in the thickness direction of the member.
US11993823B2
The present invention provides steel sheet products having controlled compositions that are subjected to two-step annealing processes to produce sheet products having desirable microstructures and favorable mechanical properties such as high strength and ultra-high formability. The steel sheet products may be cold rolled or hot rolled. Steels processed in accordance with the present invention exhibit favorable combined ultimate tensile strength and total elongation (UTS•TE) properties, and may fall into the category of Generation 3 advanced high strength steels, desirable in various industries including automobile manufacturers.
US11993822B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a monocrystalline metal foil and a monocrystalline metal foil manufactured thereby, the method comprising the steps of: fixing each of the ends of a polycrystalline metal foil to electrodes; and heat-treating the fixed polycrystalline metal foil to manufacture a monocrystalline metal foil.
US11993818B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for various uses of cell-free nucleic acid (cfNA). Functional typing of cfNA fragmentation patterns may be utilized in the non-invasive detection, diagnosis, and monitoring of disease. One embodiment may determine a stage of cancer in a subject, the progression of cancer in a subject, or the responsiveness to treatment of a cancer in a subject. Another embodiment disclosed herein may include sequencing-free diagnostic methods.
US11993813B2
A nucleic acid probe and a nucleic acid sequencing method for performing sequencing while ligating nucleic acids. The nucleic acid probe is a DNA sequencing probe, comprising a first moiety, a second moiety, a linker, and a detectable label. A base of the first moiety is A, T, U, C, or G, a base of the second moiety is a random base and/or a universal base, and 3 bases or more are present in the second moiety. The first moiety and the second moiety are ligated via the linker, the connection between the first moiety and the ligation can be cleaved, and the detectable label is ligated to the second moiety or the linker. The above probe, a combination formed therewith, or a sequencing method using the same can reduce the number or types of probes in nucleic acid sequencing, thereby reducing cost.
US11993811B2
A method of identifying and quantifying copy number variations in a gene of interest for a genomic DNA sample includes (i) fragmenting a genomic DNA sample to produce a plurality of polynucleotide fragments, (ii) isolating a plurality of target polynucleotide fragments, (iii) sequencing the plurality of target polynucleotide fragments, (iv) aligning fragment sequences to a reference sequence, (v) calculating read depths for base positions of the plurality of target polynucleotide fragments, (vi) calculating copy number likelihoods for each base position of the reference sequence, (vii) performing a breakpoint analysis on a set of fragment sequences to identify at least one sequence variation located between selected breakpoint regions of the target gene and calculate modified copy number likelihoods for base positions of the reference sequence based on the at least one sequence variation, and (viii) determining whether the target gene includes at least one copy number variation.
US11993807B2
An affinity reagent, having: (a) a retaining component such as a structured nucleic acid particle; and (b) one or both of (i) one or more label components attached to the retaining component, and (ii) one or more binding components attached to the retaining component.
US11993803B2
The invention relates to a mixture composition comprising glucolipids, to its use for producing formulations and to formulations comprising this mixture composition.
US11993788B2
The present invention relates to an expanded population of human Breg cells having the phenotype CD19+CD73−CD71+CD25+TIM-1+ and methods for producing the cell population of the invention. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the cell populations of the invention and their use in the treatment of immune-mediated disorders.
US11993787B2
Disclosed herein are neural extracellular vesicles (EVs) and methods of using these EVs in the treatment of spinal cord injury, stroke, and traumatic brain injury and neurodegenerative diseases.
US11993780B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising at least one polypeptide, which polypeptide comprises the amino acid sequence set out in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 51 or 101 to 111 or an amino acid sequence having at least about 80% sequence identify thereto and which polypeptide is capable of binding to a fungus. The invention further relates to a composition comprising at least one polypeptide, which polypeptide comprises a CDR1 region having the amino acid sequence set out in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 52 to 67 or 112 to 122, a CDR2 region having the amino acid sequence set out in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 68 to 83 or 123 to 133, and a CDR3 region having the amino acid sequence set out in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 84 to 100 or 134 to 144 and which polypeptide is capable of binding to a fungus. The compositions may be used as anti-fungal compositions.
US11993779B2
Stevia varieties with high a content of RebD, a high content of RebM, and a high content of RebD and RebM containing various SNP markers and UGT isoforms, are disclosed. Methods of screening for the SNPs are also disclosed as well as for using the SNPs in marker assisted breeding. Further provided are methods for introgressing the disclosed SNPs associated with high RebD and high RebM into Stevia plants by selecting plants comprising for one or more SNPs and breeding with such plants to confer such desirable agronomic phenotypes to plant progeny.
US11993771B2
The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for cell free cloning and polynucleotide production. In illustrative aspects, the methods of the present disclosure comprise the use of molecular barcodes and a dilution step. Moreover, some aspects of the instant disclosure relate to systems and kits comprising molecular barcodes for use with methods of cell free cloning and polynucleotide production.
US11993766B2
In biosciences and related fields, it can be useful to modify surfaces of apparatuses, devices, and materials that contact biomaterials such as biomolecules and biological micro-objects. Described herein are surface modifying and surface functionalizing reagents, preparation thereof, and methods for modifying surfaces of wells within a well plate to activate lymphocytes, including but not limited to T lymphocytes, in a controllable and reproducible manner.
US11993763B2
A valve includes a body including an inner bore extending between a first port and a second port, a seat, and one or more restrainers and a disk that is moveable between the seat and the one or more restrainers such that a first pressure that is less than 1 pascal and applied in a first direction causes the disk to move from a first position towards a second position to permit fluid communication between the first port and the second port. A metamaterial scaffold including a structure defining a lumen, at least a portion of an outer or non-lumen surface of the structure is coated with a plurality of biological cells, and wherein the structure is composed of a metamaterial.
US11993758B2
A system for purifying edible oils includes a plurality of microchannel fiber reactors arranged in series. The edible oils may be first neutralized with an alkali solution and then washed with water to thereby remove impurities such as free fatty acids, mono- and diacylglycerols, phospholipids, glycolipids, trace metals, and unsaponifiable matter. The system allows for continuous, high-yield production of improved quality edible oils.
US11993746B2
Provided are methods of increasing the production of a hydrocarbon from a subterranean formation by waterflooding with injection solutions containing dihydrogen phosphate ions.
US11993740B2
The present disclosure provides a low dielectric resin composition having good melt processability and excellent low dielectric characteristics in a high frequency band as compared to low dielectric materials such as liquid crystal polymers. A molded article and a film, each of which is formed from the low dielectric resin composition, a multilayer film obtained by superposing a metal foil on at least one main surface of the film, and a flexible printed wiring board which includes the film are also provided. The present disclosure includes, as a low dielectric resin composition, a resin composition which contains (A) a liquid crystal polymer and (B) a graft-modified polyolefin having a polar group. The low dielectric resin composition has a dielectric constant of 2.80 or less at a frequency of 10 GHz and a dielectric loss tangent of 0.0025 or less at a frequency of 10 GHz.
US11993733B2
The present application relates to polyurethane polymers produced by polymerizing a reactant mixture comprising triglycerides of Physaria fendleri, one or more polyisocyanates, and one or more polyols, wherein the triglycerides of Physaria fendleri have a hydroxyl value ranging from 90 milligrams of potassium hydroxide per gram of the triglycerides of Physaria fendleri to 250 milligrams of potassium hydroxide per gram of the triglycerides of Physaria fendleri. The present application also relates to polyester polymers produced by polymerizing a reactant mixture comprising triglycerides of Euphorbia Lagascae, and one or more dicarboxylic acids. Also disclosed are the methods of formation of the polyurethane and polyester polymers, and their use as adhesives.
US11993727B2
The present invention provides an antifouling coating film that exhibits suppressed elution of an organism repellent in exposure to a dynamic water flow in water and exhibits an antifouling property for a long time and a method of manufacturing the same, a water-contacting structure with an antifouling coating film, and an antifouling tape and a method of manufacturing the same, and relates to an antifouling coating film containing a binder (A) and an organism repellent (B), having a riblet structure on a surface thereof, the organism repellent (B) containing one or more kind selected from the group consisting of copper pyrithione, zinc pyrithione, 4-bromo-2-(4-chlorophenyl)-5-(trifluoromethyl)-1H-pyrrole-3-carbonitrile, and 4,5-dichloro-2-n-octyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one, and a method of manufacturing the same.
US11993726B2
A coating system for the decoration of a recyclable plastic substrate. The coating system includes a primer layer and a decorative layer. The primer layer includes at least one coating which is made from at least one coating material having 60 to 80 wt.-% of at least one difunctional, alcoxylated acrylate monomer, 5 to 15 wt.-% of at least one acrylate oligomer, 5 to 15 wt.-% of at least one of at least one carbonyl-functional acrylate and at least one methacrylate oligomer or 5 to 15 wt.-% of at least one of at least one polyethylene glycol acrylate and at least one polyethylene glycol methacrylate, and 1 to 10 wt.-% of at least one photoinitiator, each of which are based on a total weight of the coating material.
US11993717B2
The present invention is directed to a wax with graphene compositions offering surprising benefits in reducing bicycle or motorbike chain lengthening, particularly in off road environments with high dirt and water levels such as during mountain biking or off-road biking. The invention is further directed to a method of preparing such compositions and to the use of such compositions on bicycle or motorbike chains.
US11993715B2
The present invention relates to curable silicone rubber composition which can be cured to silicone rubber composition having low compression set and the use of such a curable silicone rubber composition.
US11993705B2
The present invention relates to a plastic composition based on biodegradable and bio-based polyesters, in particular for the preparation of plastic films.
US11993703B2
Disclosed are an aging-resistant rubber composition and methods for processing and use thereof. The rubber composition includes a rubber matrix and compounding components. In parts by weight, every 100 parts of rubber matrix comprise 50-99 parts of a halogenated butyl rubber, 0-50 parts of a highly branched polyethylene P1, and 0-50 parts of P2 obtained by the polarization modification of said highly branched polyethylene P1. The sum of P1 and P2 in parts by weight is 1-50 parts; and the compounding components comprise a vulcanization system.
US11993702B2
The present disclosure provides a thermoplastic resin composition having high rigidity and a low coefficient of linear thermal expansion and a molded article including the same. Specifically, the thermoplastic resin composition includes a base resin including at least two polypropylene-based resins having different melt indexes, an elastomer having a melt index (190° C., 2.16 kg) of 20 g/10 min to 35 g/10 min as measured by ASTM D1238, and inorganic particles, and has a flexural modulus (FM) of 2,500 MPa or more and a coefficient of linear thermal expansion (CLTE) of 60 μm/m° C. or less.
US11993698B2
A low-dust composite building product is provided. The low-dust composite building product includes a binder system comprising one or more of a thermoset resin, a diluent, and a hardener; and a low-dust filler material comprising filler particles that have been pre-coated with a coating agent comprising one or more of the thermoset resin, the diluent, and the hardener from the binder system.
US11993692B2
A method of forming an antimicrobial film, including providing a substrate with a polymer coating disposed thereon, the polymer coating including: an antimicrobial material, an inner surface contacting the substrate, and an outer surface opposite the inner surface; and extracting ions from the antimicrobial material toward the outer surface, such that the outer surface interacts with surface microorganisms. A composition, including a polymer; an antimicrobial material; and at least one of an organic solvent and an additive. The antimicrobial material comprises at least one of copper-containing glass particles, copper oxide particles, copper metal particles, copper salts, copper coordination complexes, cuprite crystals, and a combination thereof. Further, the additive can be selected to increase the oxidation resistance of the antimicrobial material.
US11993682B2
A method for purifying a contaminated reclaimed HDPE is provided. The method comprises obtaining the contaminated reclaimed HDPE, extracting it with a solvent to produce an extracted contaminated reclaimed HDPE, and then dissolving it in the solvent to produce a first suspension comprising dissolved HDPE and suspended contaminants. The first suspension is settled to produce a second suspension comprising dissolved HDPE and suspended remaining contaminants, and the second suspension is purified by contacting it with solid media to produce a third suspension comprising purer HDPE. Finally, the purer HDPE is separated from the third suspension and it has natural-like optical properties.
US11993679B2
A thermally conductive sheet 10 of the present invention comprises a polymer matrix 12 and an anisotropic filler 13, and the anisotropic filler 13 is oriented in a thickness direction. The anisotropic filler 13 is disposed in such a way as to fall down in a proportion of 1 to 45% in the vicinity of surfaces 10A, 10B of the thermally conductive sheet 10. According to the present invention, a thermally conductive sheet capable of sufficiently improving the thermal conductive properties in the thickness direction can be provided.
US11993678B2
A polyamic acid that is a polyaddition reaction product of a diamine and a tetracarboxylic dianhydrides, according to one or more embodiments of the present invention. The polyamic acid contains 2′-bistrifluoromethylbenzidine as a diamine component in addition to 3,3′,4,4′-biphenyltetracarboxylic dianhydride and 9,9′-(3,4′-dicarboxyphenyl)fluorenic dianhydride as tetracarboxylic dianhydride components. The polyamic acid may include 9,9′-(3,4′-dicarboxyphenyl)fluorenic dianhydride in an amount ranging from 0.5 mol % or more to 10 mol % or less based on total amount of the tetracarboxylic anhydride.
US11993672B2
Disclosed are catalyst compositions having an internal electron donor which includes a 3,6-di-substituted-1,2-phenylene aromatic diester. Ziegler-Natta catalyst compositions containing the present catalyst compositions exhibit very high hydrogen response, high activity, high selectivity and produce propylene-based olefins with high melt flow rate.
US11993669B2
Expandable resin particles that have a reduced VOC content, a method of producing the expandable resin particles, and a foamed molded product that has reduced VOC emission are provided. The expandable resin particles contain a base material resin containing, as a structural unit, a styrene unit and an acrylonitrile unit and an expanding agent. The expandable resin particles have a styrene content and an ethylbenzene content each of which is not more than a specific amount.
US11993662B2
The present invention provides a general sequence of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and an application thereof, The hinge domain in the general sequence includes hinge domain V-5, hinge domain V-4-5, hinge domain V-3-4-5, hinge domain V-2-3-4-5 or hinge domain V-1-2-3-4-5. The CAR constructed by using the general sequence of the chimeric antigen receptor of the present invention can significantly improve the antigen-specific immune response of CAR-T cells, enhance the sensitivity of CAR-T cells and resist exhaustion, so as to enhance the therapeutic effect of CAR-T cells and enhance the therapeutic effect of anti-tumor agents. At the same time, the CAR containing the general sequence of the present invention is suitable for transfection of immune cells such as T cells and NK cells, and can be broadly applied to tumor therapy.
US11993657B2
The invention provides bifunctional molecules including an antibody specifically binding to CD122 and an extracellular domain of CTLA-4. The bifunctional molecules specifically bind to CD122 and CTLA-4 ligands, CD80 and CD86 and inhibit their function in immune activation. The bifunctional molecules can inhibit interaction of CD122 with its ligands IL-2 and IL-15 and inhibit interaction of CD80 and CD86 with their counter-receptor, CD28. These bifunctional molecules can suppress Signals 2 and 3 of immune responses as a single therapeutic agent for treatment of immune disorders.
US11993654B2
The present disclosure relates to novel PD-1 binding domains that have a higher binding affinity for human PD-1 than a reference PD-1 binding domain. The PD-1 binding domains of the present disclosure further provide a comparable, or equal or higher, potency in blocking ligand binding to human PD-1 than a reference PD-1 antibody. The present disclosure further relates to binding moieties comprising such PD-1 binding domains. Also provided is a method for treating a disease, in particular a disease associated with a suppressed immune system, such as cancer, with a PD-1 binding domain or binding moiety of the present disclosure. The present disclosure further relates to nucleic acids encoding the heavy chain variable region of the PD-1 binding domains, and a vector and cell comprising such nucleic acid.
US11993653B2
Provided are antibodies that specifically bind to CTLA-4 and/or PD-1 and antagonize CTLA-4 and/or PD-1 function. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions and kits comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies either alone or in combination.
US11993652B2
The present disclosure relates to tagged chimeric effector molecules and receptor molecules thereof for genetically engineering a host cell, wherein the recombinant host cell can be identified, isolated, sorted, induced to proliferate, tracked or eliminated. For example, a T cell may be recombinantly modified for use in adoptive immunotherapy.
US11993651B2
The instant disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to LAG-3 (e.g., human LAG-3) and antagonize LAG-3 function. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies.
US11993628B2
Described herein are neuroactive steroids of Formula (I), Formula (V), or Formula (IX) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; wherein each instance of R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R11a, R11b, R12, R16, R17, R19, and are as defined herein. Such compounds are envisioned, in certain embodiments, to behave as GABA modulators. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound described herein and methods of use and treatment, e.g., such as for inducing sedation and/or anesthesia.
US11993627B2
Methods of synthesizing chondroitin sulfate oligosaccharides are provided. Enzymatic schematic approaches to synthesizing structurally defined homogenous chondroitin sulfate oligosaccharides at high yields are provided. Synthetic chondroitin sulfate oligosaccharides ranging from 3-mers to 15-mers are provided.
US11993623B2
Preparation of phosphorus fine chemicals from phosphate sources is described.
US11993618B2
The invention relates to complexing agents of formula (I): wherein Chrom1, Chrom2 and Chrom3 are as defined in the description. The invention also relates to lanthanide complexes obtained from these complexing agents.
US11993615B2
Tunable thermochromic materials comprise a metal salt with a varying proportion of two different anions and an organic ligand. Partial substitution via doping during the initial synthesis with a macro-structurally similar (generating an isostructural material) yet chemically different anion creates a material with altered thermochromic properties. For example, in bromide-doped bis(N,N′-diethylethylenediamine)nickel(II)) tetrafluoroborate; both the tetrafluoroborate (BF4-) and bromide (Br—) derivatives are isostructural. Substitution of BF4- for Br— causes a decrease in the materials' thermochromic transition temperature by approximately 10° C.
US11993611B2
Equipotent indolocarbazole-derived analogs of staurosporine identified herein are prepared through C—H borylation chemistry. Functionality resides at C2 and C10 of the indolocarbazole aromatic region. Introducing functionality in this previously inaccessible region does not abrogate kinase activity and is shown to change the selectivity profile.
US11993605B2
The present disclosure relates to processes for preparing (3S,4R)-3-ethyl-4-3H-imidazo[1,2-a]pyrrolo[2,3-e]pyrazin-8-yl)-N-(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)pyrrolidine-1-carboxamide, solid state forms thereof, and corresponding pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treatment (including treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and psoriatic arthritis), kits, methods of synthesis, and products-by-process.
US11993604B2
A 1H-pyrazolo[4,3-H]quinazoline compound represented by formula (I) can be used for treating cell proliferation dysfunction, and is an broad-spectrum and strongly-active inhibitor for a cell cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK).
US11993594B2
Disclosed embodiments concern interleukin receptor associated kinases (IRAK) inhibitors, such as oxazole compounds, and compositions comprising such inhibitors. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the compounds and compositions. The disclosed compounds and/or compositions may be used to treat or prevent an IRAK-associated disease or condition.
US11993589B2
Prodigiosin analogs which reactivate the p53 pathway are provided, as well as compositions of these compounds, and methods for reactivation of the p53 pathway using these compounds are provided. The prodigiosin analogs may be used to treat cancer in which p53 mutation plays a role, including prostate cancer, breast cancer, kidney cancer, ovarian cancer, lymphoma, leukemia, and glioblastoma, among others.
US11993582B2
This application relates to various crystalline forms of (S)-3-amino-4-(5-(4-((5-chloro-3-fluoropyridin-2-yl)oxy)phenyl)-2H-tetrazol-2-yl)butanoic acid in its free form, as well as compositions, method of making and methods of using the same. In some embodiments the crystalline forms also contain water (“hydrates”). These materials are useful in the treatment of diseases and disorders which are typically ameliorated by the inhibition of LTA4H. Such diseases and disorders may include inflammatory and autoimmune disorders and pulmonary and respiratory tract inflammation.
US11993580B1
The present disclosure relates to compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the variable are as described herein, and compositions and uses of same for treating neurological disorders.
US11993563B2
The present invention relates to solid compositions comprising cocrystals of cannabinoids, processes for their preparation, and their use as in therapy or in cosmetics or for the purification of cannabinoids. It also relates to cocrystals of cannabinoids.
US11993553B2
Compositions that include cationic surfactants and methods of synthesizing compositions that include cationic surfactants. The surfactants include a quaternary amine and a saturated or unsaturated alkyl chain with 4 to 28 carbons. The surfactants can be generated by reacting a fatty acid modified with an amino alkyl group and an epihalohydrin in the presence of a base. The cationic surfactants can be generated by reacting a fatty acid modified with an amino alkyl group, an epihalohydrin, and a carboxylic acid. The cationic surfactants can be generated by reacting a carboxylic acid, an epihalohydrin, and a catalyst to afford a halo-substituted alkyl ester, followed by reacting the halo-substituted alky ester with a fatty acid modified with an amino alkyl group.
US11993547B2
An electrical termination unit or feedthrough which may be used for routing electrical conductors through a chamber wall, or otherwise across a barrier between isolated atmospheric conditions. The electrical termination unit may have aluminum as the interface material to the chamber interface and may utilize a ceramic insulator. The electrical termination unit may have the aluminum used as the interface brazed directly to a ceramic surface of the insulator. The aluminum that forms the chamber interface may be formed within a hollow ceramic tube in the same process step that brazes the aluminum to the ceramic tube with a hermetic joint. Machining subsequent to the brazing of the aluminum to the ceramic insulator may allow for achievement of the final form desired. A method for manufacturing such an electrical termination unit.
US11993534B2
The volatilization suppressing component according to the present disclosure has a metallic base material; and a laminated film having at least a first layer formed on a portion or the entirety of a surface of the metallic base material, and a second layer formed on the first layer, wherein the first layer is an adhesive layer between the metallic base material and the second layer, and the second layer is a protective layer for the first layer.
US11993520B2
A method for recovering NiSO4.6H2O crystals from a nickel rich organic phase is provided. The method includes contacting a nickel rich organic phase with an aqueous strip solution of sufficient H2SO4 concentration to extract nickel from the organic phase and of sufficient Ni2+ concentration to precipitate NiSO4.6H2O crystals and form a nickel lean organic phase. Also provided are methods for recovering NiSO4.6H2O crystals that include preceding processing steps, including low temperature pressure oxidation (LTPOX) autoclaving of a nickel sulphide concentrate to afford a pregnant leach solution (PLS).
US11993516B2
In the present invention, only low-growth carbon nanotubes are selectively separated among solid particles discharged during a reaction and then re-input to a reactor, so that it is possible to improve the quality of a carbon nanotube product to be produced and the productivity of a carbon nanotube production process.
US11993511B2
A hermetically sealed package includes: a base substrate and a cover substrate which define at least part of the package, the base substrate and the cover substrate being hermetically sealed to one another by at least one laser bonding line, the at least one laser bonding line having a height perpendicular to its bonding plane, at least the cover substrate including a toughened layer at its surface, at least on a side opposite the at least one laser bonding line; and at least one functional area enclosed in the package.
US11993497B2
A materials handling vehicle including a power unit supported on wheels, and a mast assembly supported on the power unit. The mast assembly includes four or more telescoping sections defined by pairs of laterally spaced rails. An operator compartment is supported on the mast assembly for vertical movement relative to the mast assembly and includes a front wall defining a side of the operator compartment adjacent to the mast assembly. The laterally spaced rails have a height that is generally equal to the height of the front wall. A dash is located adjacent to the operator compartment.
US11993492B2
The invention relates to a wheel system having a running wheel and a support body which at least partially surrounds the running wheel and in which the running wheel is mounted and from which the running wheel projects in order to come into contact with a rail. In order to allow predictive maintenance of the wheel system with a low inspection effort, it is proposed that a mechanical device for detecting and/or determining wear on the running wheel is mounted on the support body.
US11993479B2
An electrical converter unit and a method for reducing thermal stress of a power semiconductor switch, such as an IGBT, of an electrical converter unit, the electrical converter unit comprising at least a gate control circuit wherein the electrical converter unit controls an electrical motor. The method comprises determining load and estimating required motor current based on the determined load and/or a predetermined speed profile. The electrical converter unit has at least a first operating state and a second operating state. The second operating state is used if predetermined criteria is fulfilled, the predetermined criteria relating to at least one of the following: estimated required current, measured motor speed, temperature of the power semiconductor switch and/or electrical converter unit, temperature model of the power semiconductor switch and/or electrical converter unit. In the second operating state a lower switching frequency of the power semiconductor switch is used than in the first operating state, and in the second operating state a higher switching speed of the power semiconductor switch is used than in the first operating state.
US11993475B2
The disclosure provides a strap pulling device, the strap pulling device comprises a cutter mechanism, a first strap pulling mechanism and a second strap pulling mechanism. The first strap pulling mechanism and the second strap pulling mechanism are configured to alternately clamp a strap at a pulling position located upstream of a cutting position and pull the strap to a transfer position located downstream the cutting position. When the first strap pulling mechanism pulls the clamped strap to the transfer position, the second strap pulling mechanism clamps the strap at the pulling position, the cutter mechanism cuts the strap at the cutting position to acquire a strap segment. When the second strap pulling mechanism pulls the clamped strap to the transfer position, the first strap pulling mechanism clamps the strap at the pulling position, the cutter mechanism cuts the strap at the cutting position to acquire a strap segment.
US11993471B2
A raising assembly for use with a gangway connected for rotation between a raised stowed position and a lowered deployed position. The raising assembly comprises at least one fluid actuated cylinder connected to the gangway. A raising actuator is operative to cause operation of the cylinder in a manner that rotates the gangway toward the stowed position while the raising actuator is continuously activated by an operator. A lowering actuator is operative to cause operation of the cylinder in a manner that rotates the gangway toward the deployed position due to gravitational forces while the lowering actuator is continuously activated by the operator. The raising assembly is configured to maintain the gangway at a current position between the stowed position and the deployed position if the operator does one of ceasing to activate the raising actuator while raising the gangway or ceasing to activate the lowering actuator while lowering the gangway.
US11993470B2
Systems and methods for dispensing dry flowable materials used in wellbore operations. In some embodiments, the methods include: providing at least one vessel that contains dry flowable materials, each vessel including an outlet connected to a common vacuum manifold; providing a vacuum source for directing a flow of the dry flowable materials from at least one vessel to the common vacuum manifold; discharging the dry flowable materials from the vessel to the common vacuum manifold through an outlet connected to at least one vessel, wherein a discharge valve is disposed on the outlet; determining an amount of dry flowable materials in at least one vessel at least in part using at least one load cell disposed underneath the vessel; and determining the amount of dry flowable materials being routed to the common vacuum manifold based at least in part on the amount of dry flowable materials measured in the vessel.
US11993466B2
The present invention discloses a material integrating device, which comprises a material transferring mechanism, an integrating mechanism and a conveying mechanism that are linked to a control system signal, wherein the material transferring mechanism is used to place the material to be integrated on the integrating mechanism and transfer the integrated material to the conveying mechanism, a vacuum adsorption platform is installed on a manipulator and is used to adsorb materials; the integrating mechanism comprises a vacuum negative pressure worktable, an angle adjusting platform and an electric push rod, the angle adjusting platform is slidably provided on the top surface of the vacuum negative pressure worktable and is located on the side of the material to be integrated, and the electric push rod is used to push the material to be integrated to be level; and the conveying mechanism comprises a conveyor belt for placing the integrated material.
US11993463B2
Conveyor idler monitoring apparatus, systems and methods are provided. In some embodiments, one or more sensors (e.g., temperature sensors, load sensors, etc.) are supported by the shaft of a conveyor idler. In some embodiments, one or more sensors are in data communication with a wireless transmitter. In some embodiments, a power generator driven by rotation of the idler is in electrical communication with one or more sensors and/or a wireless transmitter. In some embodiments, idler monitoring systems are in data communication with a conveyor monitoring system and/or operational monitoring system.
US11993453B2
In one embodiment, a roller jack includes: caster wheel attached to jack lift attached to an angle member having an angle member opening, and a locking mechanism to releasably lock the angle member to a corner block of a container through an elongated opening of the corner block. The locking mechanism includes: a locking mechanism baseplate having a baseplate protrusion, a swivel locking plate to be inserted through the angle member opening and the elongated opening of the corner block to the interior of the corner block, and a locking bolt for moving the swivel locking plate to an engaged position, where the swivel locking plate is prevented from passing through the angle member opening and the elongated opening of the corner block, and for threadingly moving the swivel locking plate toward the locking mechanism baseplate to press the angle member and the external wall of the corner block together.
US11993452B2
Disclosed is an enclosure having: a first sensor and a first controller for controlling the first sensor, the first sensor being an ultra-wide band (UWB) radar sensor, wherein the first controller monitors for cargo in the enclosure by scanning the container periodically and/or in response to one or more trigger events, and identifying from scanned data one or more of cargo type and cargo quantity.
US11993447B2
An aerosol sprayer may be connected to an aerosol container to form an aerosol delivery system. The aerosol sprayer includes a base secured to the container, a cap secured to the base, a pivoting trigger and a nozzle which is slidably movable relative to the trigger between an extended operable position and a retracted, locked position. The nozzle and trigger have interfitting locking structures to prevent actuation of the trigger when the nozzle is in the retracted locked position.
US11993445B1
An insulation panel has an insulation core layer disposed that includes at least a first particulate and a second particulate of a plurality of discrete puffed polysaccharide particulates that defines a plurality of voids within the core layer. The first particulate is at least partially adhered to at least the second particulate at one or more bonded areas without the use of external non-water-soluble adhesives.
US11993443B2
A plastic container comprises an upper portion including a finish defining an opening into the container, a lower portion including a base defining a standing surface, a sidewall extending between the upper portion and the lower portion, the sidewall defining a longitudinal axis, and at least one substantially transversely-oriented pressure panel located in the lower portion. The pressure panel is movable between an outwardly-inclined position and an inwardly-inclined position to compensate for a change of pressure inside the container. The standing surface defines a standing plane, and the entire pressure panel is located between the standing plane and the upper portion of the container when the pressure panel is in the outwardly-inclined position.
US11993440B2
The invention relates to an article hanger having a receiving region, wherein, by means of the receiving region, a receiving space for receiving an article of at least one article type, for example at least one type of tool for a mobile machine tool or at least one type of building product, is formed in the interior of the receiving space. The receiving region is formed from a wound tube and/or comprises a wound tube. An environmentally friendly material can be used as the raw material for the wound tube. Risks to the environment as a result of carelessly discarded article hangers can therefore be avoided or at least reduced.
US11993438B2
A packaging material web stock is provided. The packaging material web stock can include first and second plies overlaid and sealed to each other at a plurality of seals that include a plurality of transverse seals extending transversely across the plies, wherein a plurality of interior cavities are defined between the plies and the transverse seals, the first and second plies arranged in a web that includes a plurality of packaging units arranged longitudinally in a series along the web, wherein the first and second plies form walls of the packaging units, and at least some of the packaging units include at least one of the interior cavities, and an expansion material disposed in the interior cavities in an unexpanded configuration, wherein the expansion material is arranged within the inner cavities such that, when expanded to the expanded configuration, the expansion material is configured to provide cushioning in the walls.
US11993437B2
The invention to which this application relates to improvements to a retaining band which can be used to securely locate, form and retain a load of items or goods, in one embodiment on a pallet, and thereby retain the said items or goods as a single integral package. The invention allows for the adaptation of the retaining bands to be detectable when with a predetermined range of detection apparatus such as X-ray and/or metal detection apparatus so that should the retaining band or fragments thereof be discarded or dislodged, the presence of the same is detectable and therefore prevented from becoming a potential contaminant or safety hazard.
US11993423B2
A tamper-evident bag seal. The tamper-evident bag seal may include a body having a length and a width, the body may include a first panel and a second panel, the first and second panels each having a first side and second side; a fold line extending along the length of the body dividing the first panel and the second panel; a tear strip disposed along a length of at least one of the first panel and second panel; vertical separation lines disposed along opposing end portions of at least one of the first panel and second panel; and a first adhesive strip disposed on the second side of the first panel and a second adhesive strip disposed on the second side of the second panel.
US11993420B2
A storage and display assembly with a base defining a cavity configured to receive a product. A lid is mounted to the base covering the cavity. A hang tag is mounted to the base. The hang tag has a first position with a first end of the hang tag engaging an inner surface of the lid securing the lid to the base and a second position with the first end of the hang tag is disengaged from the inner surface of the lid.
US11993418B2
Provided is a utility module including a base portion and a top portion and having a front side and a back side with a locking path extending between the front side and the back side. The top portion is configured at a back portion thereof with at least one back locking bar and at a front portion thereof with at least one front locking bar extending parallel to said back locking bar. The base of the utility module is configured at a back portion thereof with a back bar coupling recess facing towards the back side and having a back under-bar arresting surface and a front bar locking arrangement comprising a front facing barrier wall and a locking lever comprising an arresting tongue extendable in front of said barrier wall and having a front under-bar arresting surface.
US11993417B1
A multi-piece plastic tank is provided and includes a tank top section, wherein the tank top section defines a tank top opening surrounded by a top flange that extends along the length of the top flange, a tank bottom section having, wherein the tank bottom section defines a tank bottom opening surrounded by a bottom flange that extends along the length of the bottom flange, wherein the top flange and bottom flange are configured to be connected to form the multi-piece plastic tank.
US11993414B2
Systems and methods for filling and sealing a container can include a housing having an opening for receiving containers, a rotary assembly including mount assemblies disposed in the housing, the rotary assembly operable to rotate the of mount assemblies about a central axis, a washing station, a filling station, a steam injector, and cap setter disposed in the housing.
US11993413B2
The present invention relates to a heat-shrinkable packaging intended for wrapping a series of containers, comprising a lower portion, an upper portion and lateral portions and having a reinforcement strip arranged transversely to the rows of containers, the packaging according to the present invention comprising at least two perforation lines. The present invention also relates to a method for packaging containers by means of a packaging and to a packaging blank.
US11993412B2
A parcel sorting system is disclosed having bags located within rigid containers to form nested containers. The bags are configured to enable the bag to conform to an inner surface area of the rigid container. The resultant nested container can provide more efficient packing of packages and parcels for transportation.
US11993410B2
Packaged viscoelastic polymer substances and methods for the production of the packaged viscoelastic polymer substances are provided. The packaged viscoelastic polymer substances are further processable under the influence of heat and shear.
US11993409B2
Vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (VTOLs) of the type used for the point-to-point delivery and transport of payloads (e.g., packages, equipment, etc.) and personnel, are significantly stabilized at least during takeoff and landing with present aspects significantly ameliorating or significantly eliminating destabilizing effects, including ground effect, during VTOL takeoff and/or landing. VTOL performance is further improved through the use of increased lift pressure and battery charging during takeoff.
US11993407B2
The invention relates to a system (10) for remote and/or autonomous transporting at least a portion of a tree, said system (10) comprising an unmanned aerial vehicle (100), UAV, comprising, at least one means (105) for holding said at least a portion of a tree, said system comprising at least one means for detecting said at least a portion of a tree to be transported, and means for detecting at least one of the group of tree parameters: diameter of a tree, length of a tree, tree species and/or the weight of a tree, a base station (120) for communication with said means configured for transporting said at least a portion of a tree and/or said UAV (100) and means configured for directing said remotely and/autonomously UAV (100) with said at least a portion of a tree to a final destination where said final destination is depending on said detected tree parameters.
US11993403B2
In one or more embodiments, a disclosed method for cooling a vehicle involves routing, by a bypass line, boil-off of a cryogenic fuel of the vehicle past a cold plate to cool a subsystem mounted proximate the cold plate. The method further involves purging the boil-off in a direction away from the vehicle, after the boil-off passes the cold plate. In one or more embodiments, the cryogenic fuel involves liquid hydrogen (LH2), liquid oxygen (LO2), and/or liquid methane (LCH4). In at least one embodiment, the boil-off of the cryogenic fuel involves gaseous hydrogen (GH2), gaseous oxygen (GO2), and/or gaseous methane (GCH4). The vehicle is a space vehicle, an airborne vehicle, a terrestrial vehicle, or a marine vehicle. In at least one embodiment, the vehicle is a fuel cell vehicle (FCV).
US11993400B2
The present invention explains an apparatus 100 for transporting a vehicle 111 to space comprising a vertical tower 101 having an upper end 116 and a lower end 117 wherein the lower end 117 is below sea level 108 and a horizontal pipe 102, connected to the lower end 117 of the vertical tower 101. The vertical tower 101 is filled with water and the horizontal pipe 102 extends underground to sea shore 110. The horizontal pipe 102 includes a valve 104 for outlet of water. A horizontal inlet pipe 105 connected to the vertical tower 101 below the sea level 108, wherein the horizontal inlet pipe 105 includes a valve 106 for inlet of water. A plurality of shutters 107, 113, 114, 115 placed at intervals in the vertical tower 101; and a platform 112 is provided at the upper end 116 of the vertical tower 101.
US11993398B2
The application concerns an apparatus for inspecting luggage, including a tubular frame having a plurality of pairs of lateral openings, the tubular frame being suitable for receiving a plurality of containers in line with the pairs of openings, each of the containers having two opposing faces and a plurality of juxtaposed and superimposed locations that are freely accessible through the two opposing faces, each of the locations being suitable for receiving a piece of luggage provided with an information recording medium containing information relating to the piece of luggage. The apparatus further includes a locating device including photoelectric detection grids installed across the lateral openings, respectively, and the position of the location in the container is recorded when the photoelectric detection grid is crossed.
US11993397B1
A system and a method for preconditioning a power source of an electric aircraft are disclosed. The system may include a ground service equipment, wherein the ground service equipment may be configured to precondition a power source of an electric aircraft. The ground service equipment may include a positive pressure pump configured to pump a coolant into the power source and a negative pressure pump configured to pump the coolant out of the power source. The system may include a controller communicatively connected to the ground service equipment. The controller may be configured to control the positive pressure pump and control the negative pressure pump.
US11993392B2
An auxiliary propulsion apparatus of an air vehicle may include an engine mounted in a fuselage of the air vehicle, a generator configured to be driven using power from the engine, a compressor configured to be driven by the engine or the generator, a battery configured to store electricity generated by the generator, an electricity distributor connected to the generator, the battery and the main propulsion apparatus and configured to distribute electricity generated by the generator to the battery and to a main propulsion apparatus, and at least one nozzle device configured to jet high-pressure gas, supplied from the compressor, to an outside of the fuselage.
US11993368B2
A hybrid electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The hybrid electric VTOL aircraft generally includes a fuselage, a pair of wings, a pair of booms, a plurality of flight components and a power system. The wings are connected to the fuselage and extend generally laterally therefrom with each wing on either side of the fuselage. Each boom is connected to a respective one of the wings and extends generally longitudinally and parallel to the fuselage. The plurality of flight components is configured to provide thrust to the hybrid electric VTOL aircraft. The power system is configured to power the plurality of flight components and includes at least a fuel tank and a generator, and at least a battery. The at least a fuel tank is mounted to at least one of the booms. The at least a battery configured to power the plurality of flight components.
US11993366B2
A wingless vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) vehicle has a main body including airfoil sections on either side of a central module in which a load may be carried. Articulated forward thrust systems are mounted on a leading edge of the main body and lateral members are located on either side of the main body and form winglets. At least one rear vertical-thrust system may also be provided and, in one embodiment, is mounted in an aperture aft of the central module. The forward thrust systems transition between a vertical flight configuration and a horizontal flight configuration. The lateral members are configured as both vortex-damping members and also to channel backwash from the forward thrust systems over the airfoil formed by the main body.
US11993365B2
An assembly comprising a propeller blade and its system for angularly adjusting the pitch of the blade including a bowl which is radially delimited by an annular wall extending about an axis for adjusting the pitch of the blade, the bowl having a bottom wall, a free lower end of the root being fitted axially into a complementary housing of the bottom wall in order to rotatably connect the bowl and the blade about the pitch-adjustment axis. The root of the blade comprises a first limiting face that engages with a first abutment face of the bowl to limit the rotation of the blade in the event of breakage of the lower end of the root.
US11993361B2
A fan apparatus is disclosed, including a duct having an inlet opening, a fan mounted in the duct, and a plurality of louver devices positioned at the inlet opening. Each louver device has an open position and a closed position, and adjacent louver devices define a plurality of airflow channels. Each airflow channel has a curvature profile that changes as the louver devices move between open and closed positions.
US11993358B2
A method for shifting a multi-speed transmission for transmitting rotation between an input shaft and an output shaft for a marine vessel. The method includes providing a multi-speed transmission having first and second gears engaged by actuating first and second clutches, and providing first and second pressure sensors that measure first and second pressures within the first and second clutches, respectively. The method further includes performing a first shift from the first gear to the second gear by de-actuating the first clutch a first delay after the second clutch is actuated, then measuring the first and second pressures and determining a first shift pressure at which the first and second pressures are substantially equal while performing the first shift. The method further includes comparing the first shift pressure to a first pressure threshold range and adjusting the first delay when the first shift pressure is outside the first pressure threshold range.
US11993347B2
A pontoon boat is provided that includes a deck and a plurality of pontoons running longitudinally beneath the deck and providing buoyancy to the pontoon boat. The plurality of pontoons include a multi-chine configuration that increases the stability of the pontoon boat and provides handling characteristics similar to that of a hulled boat. The plurality of pontoons may include two outer pontoons and a third pontoon positioned laterally intermediate the outer pontoons. The third pontoon may include a plurality of chines, and each of the outer pontoons may include at least one chine. At least a portion of each of the at least one chines of the outer pontoons may be positioned vertically below the plurality of chines of the third pontoon. The chines on the third pontoon may extend longitudinally further than each of the at least one chines of the outer pontoons.
US11993345B2
Drive disks are configured to rotate a main wheel by applying a frictional force thereto. Each of the drive disks includes a base and a plurality of rollers. The base includes a first sheet metal member and a second sheet metal member. The first sheet metal member includes a first central part and a plurality of first arm parts. The second sheet metal member includes a second central part and a plurality of second arm parts. Each of the rollers has a first end and a second end. Each of the first arm parts includes a first supporting part and a second supporting part. Each of the second arm parts includes a third supporting part and a fourth supporting part. The first supporting part and the second supporting part are inclined to each other. The third supporting part and the fourth supporting part are inclined to each other.
US11993343B1
A transmission structure of a hub motor has a hub shell, an axle, a motor unit, and a clutch assembly. The clutch assembly connects with the hub shell and the motor unit, and includes a driving ring, an output disc, a fixing base, a clutch disc, and a pressing ring. The motor unit drives the driving ring to rotate. The output disc is capable of driving the hub shell to rotate. The driving ring drives the clutch disc to rotate and further drives the pressing ring; the pressing ring then pushes the clutch disc to contact the output disc and further drives the output disc to rotate. The fixing base is magnetic and is disposed between the output disc and the motor unit. The clutch disc is magnetically attractable such that the clutch disc separates from the output disc when the motor unit stops working to prevent the motor unit from providing resistance.
US11993342B2
In order to form a largely oval circulatory path, in particular a pedal (1a), a crank drive (1) is described which periodically changes the effective lever length of a crank (2). In this case, gear levers (4′ or 7) are mounted on a crank (2) at both ends (2 a, 2b) which rotate in opposite directions with respect to one another and thus form two further movement axes within the pedal path and are thus adapted to the natural human leg movement in a force-saving and ergonomic manner.
US11993336B1
A vehicle that provides for a suspension assembly that can articulate independent of a lean angle of a vehicle frame is disclosed. The vehicle includes a non-steering suspension assembly and a steering suspension assembly. The steering suspension assembly is connected to at least one wheel wherein the wheel can articulate left and right to steer the vehicle. The non-steering suspension assembly is connected to two wheels which are on an opposite end of the vehicle frame from the steering suspension assembly. The two wheels are connected to a suspension beam such that each wheel can articulate up and down independent of each other. The two wheels connected to the suspension beam can lean as the vehicle frame leans and further the two wheels remain parallel to the vehicle frame when the vehicle frame tilts.
