US12008284B2
An information presentation control device controlling information presentation to a driver in a vehicle equipped with autonomous driving function is provided. The information presentation control device is configured to: obtain a margin of the driver until an execution of driving change in which the driver takes over the at least partial driving task being performed by the autonomous driving; control a playback mode of a content presented by the information presentation device; stop the content, which is in a playback state, at a stop position in response to the execution of driving change; and set, according to the margin of the driver, a restart position of the content to which the content is rewound from the stop position to restart a playback of the content.
US12008283B2
A printing control apparatus includes a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a transmission destination corresponding to any one of a plurality of different regions where a predetermined cloud print service is provided, a registration request to register the printing control apparatus in the predetermined cloud print service, and a setting unit configured to set the transmission destination.
US12008281B2
A job execution device includes a display unit, a storage unit that stores a first history group that is a history of a job group executed based on a setting received on a first home screen, and a second history group that is a history of a job group executed based on a setting received on a second home screen different from the first home screen, and a controller that display a display screen including the first home screen and the second home screen on the display unit, wherein the first home screen includes a first object group that receives an instruction to re-execute a first job that was executed, the first job being included in the first history group, and a second object group that receives an instruction to re-execute a second job that was executed, the second job being included in the second history group.
US12008280B2
A multi-function peripheral (MFP) manages data corresponding to a print job received from an outside, and has a plurality of output management functions including at least a first output management function and a second output management function different from the first output management function as output management functions of outputting the managed data in accordance with an operation performed by a user. The MFP sets which output management function of the plurality of output management functions handles a print job that satisfies a predetermined condition based on a user operation and, in a case where a print job that satisfies the predetermined condition is received, performs control such that data corresponding to the received print job is managed in association with the set output management function.
US12008279B2
A printer includes: a print executing unit configured to execute printing on a sheet paper; a process executing unit configured to execute a predetermined process related to cutting of the sheet paper; and a controller. The controller is configured to, in a case where a first sheet paper having a first size is contained, send capability information to a terminal device, wherein the capability information includes specific size information indicating a sheet paper having a specific size. The specific size information includes a specific character string. The controller is configured to receive selection information indicating that the specific size was selected from the terminal device in response to a user selecting the specific character string. The controller is configured to, in a case where the selection information is received from the terminal device, cause the process executing unit to execute the predetermined process on the first sheet paper.
US12008274B2
In printing of a print job to be inspected using a pre-printed sheet having information printed thereon in advance, control is performed so as not to register a reference image based on image data that is received.
US12008273B2
An image forming apparatus includes a housing having a front section and a rear section opposite to the front section in a front-rear direction, a print engine, a user interface disposed at the front section, a controller and a memory interface having a plurality of ports including a first port disposed at the front section and a second port disposed at the rear section.
US12008265B2
Methods, systems, and devices for quality-of-service information for a multi-memory system are described. An interface controller may receive a first command from a host device during a set of clock cycles. The first command may be received over a command bus that includes a pin, such as a command select pin configured for double data rate signaling. The interface controller may decode the first command based on a state of the command select pin during at least one clock cycle of the set of clock cycles. And the interface controller may determine quality-of-service information for a second command based on decoding the first command and on information, such as a plurality of bits, included in the first command.
US12008253B2
An embedded system includes a host controller circuit and a microcontroller circuit. The host controller circuit is configured to access a storage device to obtain an address of a first firmware file in the storage device. The microcontroller circuit is configured to determine whether a memory circuit is being accessed by other circuits, in which the memory circuit includes memory blocks. If the memory circuit is not being accessed by the other circuits, the microcontroller circuit is further to control the host controller circuit to write the first firmware file to a first block of the memory blocks according to the address.
US12008251B2
Example storage systems, data storage devices, and methods provide rate levelling among peer storage devices. A master storage device among peer storage devices receives host commands, determines the workload states of the peer storage devices, divides the data units in the host commands into data blocks for data striping, allocates the data blocks among the peer storage devices, and sends the data blocks to the peer storage devices using a peer communication channel.
US12008248B2
A method may include receiving, from a process, a memory allocation request for a memory system comprising a first channel having a first channel utilization and a second channel having a second channel utilization, selecting, based on the first channel utilization and the second channel utilization, the first channel, and allocating, to the process, a page of memory from the first channel. The selecting may include selecting the first channel based on a balanced random policy. The selecting may include generating a ticket based on a random number and a number of free pages, comparing the ticket to a number of free pages of the first channel, and selecting the first channel based on the comparing. The selecting may include selecting the first channel based on a least used channel policy.
US12008242B2
A signal calibration method, a memory storage device, and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The signal calibration method includes: generating a clock signal and a data strobe signal according to an internal clock signal; respectively transmitting the clock signal and the data strobe signal to a target volatile memory module among multiple volatile memory modules through a first signal path and a second signal path; obtaining a shift value between the data strobe signal and the clock signal at the target volatile memory module; and storing an initial delay setting of the data strobe signal according to delay information of the data strobe signal in response to the shift value being greater than a threshold value.
US12008237B2
An apparatus and method for designing memory macro blocks. A memory includes one or more memory banks, each with one or more arrays and input/output (I/O) blocks used to perform read accesses and write accesses. An array that utilizes multiple memory bit cells, and the I/O blocks are placed in a manner that they are abutting one another. The layout of the memory bit cells and the I/O blocks use a same subset of parameters of a semiconductor fabrication process. As a result, the memory bank does not include the placement of any boundary cells, which are used to improve yield of semiconductor layout. By skipping the use of the boundary cells, the dimensions of the memory bank are reduced, and layout density increases. Additionally, the memory bit cells use one or more p-type devices for one or more read pass gates.
US12008235B2
A data storage device with flash memory. The controller receives a mode selection command from a host. In response to the mode selection command, the controller sends a ready-to-transfer message to the host, to further receive a data out message from the host that is sent by the host in response to the ready-to-transfer message. The ready-to-transfer message and the data out message are UFS protocol information unit (UPIU) messages. The data out message is arranged to rewrite a first mode page setting among a plurality of mode page settings of firmware stored in the flash memory. In response to the data out message, the controller determines whether the data out message will change mode parameters which cannot be rewritten in the first mode page setting, to adopt or refuse new mode parameters issued through the data out message for the first mode page setting.
US12008233B2
An electronic device and method thereof are provided, which allow an input device e.g., a keypad or a keyboard) thereof to be customized. The electronic device may include a display module, a processor operatively connected to the display module, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory may store instructions that cause, when executed, the processor to display a UI based on execution of an application, to acquire keypad information and/or user input information from a user input related to a first keypad of the UI, to determine characteristic information for a second keypad based on the acquired information, to organize the second keypad based on the characteristic information, and to display the second keypad through the UI.
US12008231B2
A touch-panel cellular phone specifies an invalid area not accepting a user's input operation on a touch panel in advance. The cellular phone detects a user's touch area on the touch panel so as to execute a function pre-assigned to the touch area not encompassed by the invalid area. Additionally, it is possible to reduce and display menu icons in the display area precluding the invalid area on the touch panel. Thus, it is possible to prevent an error operation when a user holding a cellular phone inadvertently touches the touch panel.
US12008225B2
A system and method for investigating trust scores. A trust score is calculated based on peer transfers, a graphical user interface displays actuatable elements associated with a first peer transfer from the peer transfers, in response to receiving an indication the first actuatable element has been actuated, recalculating the trust score without the first peer transfer.
US12008224B2
A system for relationship information evaluation and management. The system incorporates relationship quality parameters that define the contextual parameters of quality, which are mutually validated and are accepted by the respective parties within an existing or prospective relationship. A computer, computing device, written documents or other means are used to capture the perspectives of each person, representative, or entity within the relationship or prospective relationship. This can be done automatically, on a random, periodic, or scheduled basis, or upon manual initiation. The information or data may then be analyzed and coalesced into a meaningful whole (or segments thereof), which may then be archived, printed, reported, and presented to one or both of the parties, or others. The information can be processed and stored based upon certain parameters, attributes, types or classes or relationships, so as to provide history, patterns, trends, alerts, warnings, analyses or comparisons concerning relationship quality. All information collected can be further applied or aggregated within an organization (or beyond, such as in a general locality or marketplace).
US12008223B2
A system and method whereby an user interface editing device is used to create a user interface for a controlling device, the created user interface including user interface elements that are associated with functional operations of a virtual equivalent of an appliance. After the created user interface is transferred to the controlling device, the virtual equivalent of an appliance is caused to be linked to an intended target appliance whereupon activation of those user interface elements of the graphical user interface that were associated with functional operations of the virtual equivalent of an appliance will cause the controlling device to transmit commands to control corresponding functional operations of the intended target appliance.
US12008222B1
Various embodiments include systems and methods to implement a security platform providing cyberattack detection. The security platform may, with respect to a cloud compute environment, use audit log data that is associated with a particular domain of operational activity within the cloud compute environment. Based on a domain specific graph representative of factor data and dependencies between factor data, the security platform may determine a behavioral anomaly that is associated with a cyberattack.
US12008219B2
The disclosure relates to a user interface presentation method and apparatus, a computer-readable medium and an electronic device. The method comprises: performing, according to the axis of symmetry of a to-be-flipped user interface, mirror image flipping on said user interface, so as to obtain a first interface; determining a first target element in the first interface; performing mirror image flipping on the first target element in the first interface according to the axis of symmetry of the first target element to form a second target element, so as to obtain a second interface; and presenting the second interface. Thus, the flipping of a user interface is realized by means of mirror image flipping, so as to adapt to reading habits of a user.
US12008209B2
A virtual space management system configured to manage a virtual space in which a plurality of users participates as avatars using client terminals performs control to provide a private content in a display area of a user device object via a client terminal of a second user, based on at least one of a gesture of a first avatar of a first user on both the user device object and a second avatar of the second user in the virtual space, and an operation by the second user in the virtual space.
US12008207B1
A user device (e.g., a computing device, a smart device, a mobile device, a laptop, a tablet, a display device, etc.) may identify a duration of a loading time for a page (e.g., web page, application page, links and/or linked data, documentation, a screen, etc.) of a user interface, for example, based on a request to load the page. The user device may retrieve a structure of the page that indicates an arrangement of page elements of the page, for example, based on the duration of the loading time exceeding a time threshold. The user device may cause, for example, during the loading time, display of a preview page for the page. According to some aspects of this disclosure, the preview page may include an animated representation of the structure of the page that indicates various arrangements of the page elements.
US12008206B2
A position detection device includes a position detection sensor and selection circuitry. The position detection sensor has first loop electrodes arranged in a first direction and second loop electrodes arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The selection circuitry is coupled to the first loop electrodes of the position detection sensor and, in operation, simultaneously selects two of the first loop electrodes, connects a first terminal of each of the two of the first loop electrodes to a first one of two first common terminals, and connects a second terminal of each of the two of first loop electrodes to a second one of the two first common terminals. The two of the first loop electrodes change sequentially over time from a first two of the plurality of first loop electrodes to a last two of the plurality of first loop electrodes.
US12008201B2
A display device including: a display panel; a first input sensor disposed on the display panel and configured to generate a first reception signal in response to a user input; a second input sensor spaced apart from the first input sensor on the display panel and configured to generate a second reception signal in response to the user input; and a readout circuit configured to generate an output signal corresponding to the user input in response to the first reception signal and the second reception signal.
US12008199B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a touch apparatus including: a touch panel configured to include a plurality of touch electrodes; a touch driver configured to apply a first driving signal to a first touch electrode of the touch electrodes during a first period, and a second driving signal to the touch electrodes during a second period subsequent to the first period; and a touch controller configured to determine a detection signal as a valid touch signal based on whether a signal strength of the detection signal received in response to the first driving signal exceeds a first threshold during the first period, wherein the detection signal include at least one of a first detection signal generated by a first touch object and a second detection signal generated by a second touch object, and the first detection signal is determined as a valid touch signal, while the first threshold is set to filter the second detection signal.
US12008195B2
An apparatus for sensing includes a computer. The apparatus includes one or more individual sensing tiles in communication with the computer that form a sensor surface that detects force applied to the surface and provides a signal corresponding to the force to the computer which produces from the signal a time varying continuous image of force applied to the surface, where the surface is contiguous, and detected force can be sensed in a manner that is geometrically continuous and seamless on a surface. A method for determining locations of tiles of a sensor.
US12008193B2
A display panel and a display device are provided, the display panel includes a base substrate and a touch wire including a first sub-portion and a second sub-portion, a main surface of the base substrate is a first surface; the second sub-portion includes a first height portion and a second height portion, a height of the first height portion relative to the first surface is smaller than a height of the second height portion relative to the first surface, line widths of respective positions of the first height portion are inversely proportional to heights of the respective positions of the first height portion relative to the first surface, and line widths of respective positions of at least part of the second height portion are proportional to heights of the respective positions of the at least part of the second height portion relative to the first surface.
US12008191B2
A single-chip device for driving a panel including fingerprint sensing pixels, display pixels and touch sensors, electronic module therefor, and electronic apparatus including the single-chip device are provided. The single-chip device comprises a main body, a first group of pads and a second group of pads disposed in the main body. The main body has a left portion and a right portion with respect to an axis. The first group of pads comprise a plurality of first pads for driving the fingerprint sensing pixels, are disposed on both the left portion and the right portion and configured to be coupled to the fingerprint sensing pixels. The second group of pads comprise a plurality of second pads for driving the display pixels and the touch sensors, are disposed on both the left portion and the right portion and configured to be coupled to the panel.
US12008186B2
The present disclosure provides a touch panel assembly and an electronic device. The touch panel assembly includes a touch panel, a touch switch, and a transmission assembly. The touch panel receives a touch operation from a user. The touch switch is positioned below the touch panel and located at a center position of the touch panel. The transmission assembly drives the touch panel to ascend and descend along a vertical direction synchronously and across an entire touch surface, and the touch panel activates the touch switch while descending. When subject to a given force, any touch areas of the touch panel can be pressed down, the touch panel stably moves synchronously and across its entire touch surface, so as to increase product stability. The touch panel assembly can achieve technical effects of a uniform touch feedback and the touch panel's stable movement, and so as to effectively improve user experiences.
US12008181B2
The disclosure provides an electronic device including a host control circuit, a display driving circuit, a touch driving circuit and a logic circuit. The host control circuit is configured to provide a first reset control signal. The display driving circuit is configured to reset according to the first reset control signal. The logic circuit is configured to generate a second reset control signal to the touch driving circuit according to the first reset control signal and an enable signal. During a sleep mode of the electronic device, the enable signal has a first logic level. In response to the enable signal at the first logic level, the logic circuit generates the second reset control signal at the first logic level. The touch driving circuit does not reset according to the second reset control signal at the first logic level.
US12008179B2
An electronic substrate and an electronic device are provided. The electronic substrate includes a first functional region, a second functional region, and a peripheral region; the first functional region includes an opening, the second functional region is in the opening, and the peripheral region includes an opening peripheral region between the first functional region and the second functional region; the electronic substrate includes a base substrate and a detection trace structure on the base substrate; the detection trace structure includes a first conductive trace and a second conductive trace which are in the opening peripheral region, and the first conductive trace and the second conductive trace respectively extend from a first position reversely along an edge of the second functional region and respectively partially surround the second functional region, the first conductive trace and the second conductive trace are spaced apart from each other in the first position.
US12008178B2
A device including a mechanical input and a touch-sensitive surface for detecting one or more touch inputs and an input from the mechanical input. The touch-sensitive surface can include a first portion for detecting at least the touch inputs, and a second portion for detecting at least the mechanical input. The touch-sensitive surface can include a first portion for detecting at least the touch inputs and the mechanical input. The mechanical input can comprise an electrically conductive material, and the mechanical input can be detected based on capacitance measurements between the mechanical input and the touch-sensitive surface. The device can include a sensing element, the mechanical input can comprise an electrically insulating material, and the mechanical input can be detected based on capacitance measurements between the touch-sensitive surface and the sensing element. The device can include logic to differentiate between the touch inputs and the mechanical input.
US12008172B2
A position detection device includes a communication circuit which, in operation, receives, from a stylus including a built-in acceleration sensor, acceleration information detected by the acceleration sensor, and a controller which, in operation, detects a first position indicating a position of the stylus on a touch surface and a second position indicating a position of a finger on the touch surface, and outputs the first position and the second position that have been detected. The controller controls the output of the second position based on the acceleration information received by the communication circuit.
US12008162B2
A method and system are disclosed using steady-state motion visual evoked potential stimuli in an augmented reality environment. Requested stimuli data are received from a user application on a smart device. Sensor data and other context data are also received, where other context data includes data that is un-sensed. The requested stimuli data are transformed into modified stimuli based on the sensor data, and the other context data. Modified stimuli and environmental stimuli are presented to the user with a rendering device configured to mix the modified stimuli and the environmental stimuli, thereby resulting in rendered stimuli. Biosignals generated in response to the rendered stimuli are received from the user to a wearable biosignal sensing device. Received biosignals are classified based on the modified stimuli, resulting in a classified selection, which is returned to the user application.
US12008153B2
Interactive augmented reality experiences with an eyewear device including a position detection system and a display system. The eyewear device registers a first marker position for a user-controlled virtual game piece and a second marker for an interaction virtual game piece. The eyewear device monitors its position (e.g., location and orientation) and updates the position of the user-controlled virtual game piece accordingly. The eyewear device additionally monitors the position of the user-controlled virtual game piece with respect to the interaction virtual game piece for use in generating a score. Augmented reality examples include a “spheroidal balancing” augmented reality experience and a “spheroidal balancing” augmented reality experience.
US12008148B2
This application describes a method operable by a safety unit that comprises a safety sensor, the sensor configured to perform a safety feature based on one or more sensor parameters. The method may involve accessing a memory card, the card having stored thereon a password, a parameter set, and a flag indicative of whether the parameter set is unique to the sensor. The method may involve determining, based on the flag, that the parameter set is not unique to the sensor. The method may involve determining whether the password stored on the card matches a sensor password of the sensor. The method may involve, in response to the password stored on the card matching the sensor password, writing a sensor serial number of the sensor onto the card.
US12008144B2
Provided is a method and a system for the tamper-proof storage of information about object-related measures which are contained as transactions in transaction blocks that are interlinked in a transaction block chain of the object to which the measures relate, the transaction block chain being stored in an object data memory allocated to the object.
US12008141B2
A method for privacy preserving synthetic string generation using recurrent neural networks includes receiving input data that includes a plurality of strings with private information. A neural network model is trained using the plurality of strings. The neural network model includes a recurrent neural network (RNN). An anonymous string is generated with the neural network model after training the neural network model with the plurality of strings from the input data. The anonymous string is validated to preclude the private information from the anonymous string. Anonymous data is transmitted that includes the anonymous string and precludes the private information in response to a request for the anonymous data.
US12008139B1
Disclosed herein is a method of facilitating sharing of medical information associated with a patient among user devices. Accordingly, the method may include transmitting a software plugin to a first user device and a second user device, transmitting indicators corresponding to a plurality of users to the first user device, receiving a communication message from the first user device, retrieving a second user information associated with a second user, analyzing the second user information and a message content based on a medical compliance guideline, determining a compliance score, retrieving a second device characteristic, transforming the communication message according to the second device characteristic, generating a transformed communication message, and transmitting the transformed communication message to the second user device.
US12008132B1
A method for confidential computing is provided, which is performed by a security core including one or more processor, and includes storing first encrypted data associated with a first tenant in a first memory, in which the first encrypted data is obtained by performing encryption of the first plaintext data using a first encryption key associated with the first tenant, in response to receiving a request to access the first plaintext data, decrypting the first encrypted data using the first encryption key so as to generate the first plaintext data, and providing the first plaintext data to a main core that processes data stored in the first memory.
US12008128B2
An image archiving facility creates an image and other data archive relating to an event at a location when prompted by a downloaded application for a host user. The host user may approve guest users to upload to the archive, Approval may come from an image of a person uploaded to the data archive and recognized from biometric data as an approved user. The host may control viewing of images in the archive either individually or generically.
US12008124B2
A method is provided that permits user to submit a password to the private key that is to be used to decrypt files either at the time of user account setup or at the time of submitting the files. The password is stored securely in the system, permanently or temporarily, and is used later to decrypt the files right before the system is ready to process the files.
US12008122B2
The system may include a method comprising requesting, by a computer, a receiver identifier associated with a receiver; receiving, by the computer, the receiver identifier in association with content; constructing, by the computer, a URL link comprising access to DICOM viewer code, DICOM data for the selected images, a sender identifier and the receiver identifier; generating, by the computer, a notification to the receiver, wherein the notification includes the URL link; and transmitting, by the computer, the notification to a receiver based on the receiver identifier.
US12008109B2
Boot integrity of a storage platform is verified by comparing observed boot data values with expected boot data values stored in a secure remote cloud. The boot data values include hashes of software that runs at each stage of a boot sequence, e.g., BIOS, bootloader, kernel, and runlevel programs. The observed boot data values may be provided by a TPM using an AIK and nonce. If the observed boot data values fail to match the expected boot data values then a boot integrity service running on the storage platform limits functionality such as by disabling IO services, disabling remote data replication, enabling a diagnostic service, enabling a data collection service, disabling access by non-service accounts, and protecting a management database.
US12008105B2
Apparatus and methods for root-level enforcement of quick response (“QR”) code validation are provided. The apparatus may include a QR code reader for receiving an instruction from a user to scan a QR code and transmitting a request to an operating system (“OS”) running on the apparatus to instruct a camera to capture an image. The apparatus may include an operating system configured to receive the image from the camera and store the image in a temporary cache. While the image is stored in the temporary cache, the operating system may transmit the image to a QR code validator to decode a QR code included in the image and execute a routine to validate a URL included in the QR code. The image may only be transmitted back to the QR code reader by the OS when the URL was validated by the routine.
US12008103B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for detecting malware via analysis of a screen capture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions. The processor circuitry is to detect execution of a process, capture a portion of a screen buffer as a captured image, after the execution of the process is detected, analyze the captured image to determine an image similarity to a stored image in a database, the database to at least store malicious images, and perform a responsive action when the image similarity satisfies a similarity threshold.
US12008096B2
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for authenticating a user. A security device may use an object associated with a user and a device of the user to authenticate the user, for example, if the user has forgotten a password. A user may insert the object (e.g., a card, or other object) into the security device and may select an option to authenticate via a device that is trusted by both the security device and the user, rather than authenticating by entering a password at the security device.
US12008095B2
Provided are methods and systems for controlling access to a property via one or more electronic locks.
US12008092B2
A system and method are disclosed for identifying a user based on the classification of user movement data. An identity verification system receives a sequence of motion data characterizing movements performed by a target user. The sequence of motion data is received as a point cloud of the motion data. The point cloud is input a machine-learned model trained based on manually labeled point clusters of a training set of motion data that each represent a movement. The machine-learned model identifies a movement represented by the point cloud of the motion data and assigns a label describing the movement the point cloud. The system generates a labeled representation of the sequence of motion data comprising the label identifying a portion of the sequence of motion data corresponding to the identified movement.
US12008084B2
A new approach is proposed to support software validation and licensing management. An instance of a software component deployed to a physical computing device is configured to request a copy of license of the software component from a license server out-of-band before the software component can be installed and/or booted up on the physical computing device. Upon receiving a request for the copy of license from the instance of the software component, the license server is configured to grant or deny the request based on the current number of copies of license of the software component available. If the request is granted, the instance of the software component is booted up on the physical computing device. During its operation, the instance of the software component continues to communicate with the license server periodically to indicate whether the copy of license assigned by the server is still in use.
US12008078B2
Examples relate to a concept for anonymous re-identification, more specifically, but not exclusively, to systems, apparatuses, methods and computer programs for performing anonymous re-identification and for training a machine-learning model for use in anonymous re-identification. An apparatus for re-identification comprises processing circuitry configured to obtain media data via an interface. the processing circuitry is configured to generate a re-identification code representing at least a portion of the media data using a hashing algorithm. The processing circuitry is configured to transform the re-identification code using a transformation functionality to obtain a transformed re-identification code. The transformation functionality is configured to transform the re-identification code such that, if the re-identification code is similar to a further re-identification code generated by the hashing algorithm according to a similarity metric, the transformed re-identification code is similar to a further transformed re-identification code being a transformed version of the further re-identification code. The transformation functionality is configured to transform the re-identification code based on a transformation parameter, with the transformation parameter being dependent on a time and/or a location. The processing circuitry is configured to provide the transformed re-identification code.
US12008072B2
A control system includes: a generation unit that generates a dataset for each unit section; a feature extraction unit that generates feature quantity data on the basis of the dataset; and a score calculation unit that calculates a score indicating a degree of deviation of the feature quantity data from learning data, by referring to the learning data. The feature quantity data and the score are output as compression results of the dataset. The control system includes a restoration unit that selects pattern data corresponding to a class determined according to the score contained in the compression result, and after adjusting the pattern data using the feature quantity data contained in the compression results, restores the pattern data as a temporal change in the dataset corresponding to the compression results.
US12008061B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for communicating between an electronic tag and a computer connected to the internet, wherein the electronic tag: encrypts at least part of the information to be transmitted, using a data format preserving algorithm; generates a URL comprising at least the encrypted part of the information; and transmits the URL to an NFC reader.
US12008059B2
Representative embodiments of a computer server system and method provide for personalization and customizable filtering of network search results and search result rankings. A representative server system includes: a network interface to receive a query from a respondent or co-respondent; at least one data storage device storing a plurality of return queries; and one or more processors configured, using the query, to select the return queries for transmission; to search the data storage device for corresponding pluralities of responses to the return queries from other co-respondents or respondents; to pair-wise score the responses and generate pair-wise alignment scores for respondent and co-respondent combinations; to sort and rank the combinations according to the alignment scores; to time duration filter the plurality of respondent and co-respondent combinations; and to output a listing of the sorted and ranked respondents or co-respondents to form the personalized network search results and search result rankings.
US12008057B2
A media application determines, based on pixels of images or videos from a collection of media items, clusters of media items such that the media items in each cluster have a visual similarity, wherein the collection of media items is associated with a user account. The media application selects a subset of the clusters of media from corresponding clusters of media items based on the media items in each cluster having a visual similarity within a range of threshold similarity values. The media application causes a user interface to be displayed that includes the subset of the clusters of media.
US12008052B2
The present invention concerns a method of encapsulating images in a file, wherein the method comprises determining a grouping type based on a capture mode of the images; generating a grouping data structure describing the images as a group, the grouping data structure comprising image identifiers of the images of the group; and embedding the grouping data structure, the grouping type and the images in the file.
US12008042B2
A method for multi-intent searching includes surfacing, via a web browser provided through a network, a search engine UI in a first browser tab, where the search engine UI includes a search box for specifying a search query. The method includes, responsive to user input, entering keystrokes into the search box, surfacing an autocomplete menu adjacent to the search box, and populating the autocomplete menu with suggested search queries related to the entered keystrokes. The method also includes surfacing a pop-out icon corresponding to each suggested search query within the autocomplete menu and, responsive to additional user input including a selection of the pop-out icon corresponding to one of the suggested search queries, launching a second browser tab including search results for the suggested search query, where the autocomplete menu with the suggested search queries is maintained within the first browser tab after the launching of the second browser tab.
US12008041B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a processing unit, from a first tenant, a query to retrieve data from a nonrelational database system. The method further includes determining, by the processing unit, that an index associated with the query is cached in a shared index cache, wherein the shared index cache stores indexes for a plurality of tenants. The method further includes retrieving, by the processing unit, a result of the query based on the index in the shared index cache. The method further includes outputting, by the processing unit, the result of the query.
US12008034B2
A computer implemented method to present digital images may include storing a digital image in a database and applying a digital image processing technique to the digital image to identify a region of interest of the digital image. The method may also include storing region data that identifies the region of interest of the digital image in the database and receiving a request for information associated with the digital image from a digital device. In response to the request, the method may include providing the digital image and the region data for transmission to the digital device, the digital device configured to adjust a cropping view of the digital image based on the region data to display the region of interest of the digital image.
US12008032B2
This application is directed to a method for automatically identifying and transferring relevant image data. The method includes obtaining a plurality of content items from a personal content collection and determining attributes based on the plurality of content items. The method includes generating a plurality of relevance rules. The method further includes obtaining unclassified content items and determining for a first unclassified content item a plurality of aggregate relevance scores using the plurality of relevance rules. The method include determining whether a first aggregate relevance score and/or a second aggregate relevance score satisfy threshold score. The method includes, in accordance with a determination that the first aggregate relevance score and the second aggregate relevance score do not satisfy the threshold score, forgoing determining the attributes corresponding to the first unclassified content item, and storing the first unclassified content item in a candidate list of the personal content collection.
US12008029B1
In some examples, a system performs a delimiter identification process that includes identifying candidate record delimiters and candidate field delimiters in the input data, and providing different pairs of candidate record delimiters and candidate field delimiters. For each respective pair of the different pairs, the system identifies records using the corresponding candidate record delimiter of the respective pair, and computes a collection of measures including a measure indicating a quantity of unique fields observed in the records identified using the corresponding field delimiter of the respective pair. The system selects, based on values of the collection of measures computed for corresponding pairs of the different pairs, a record delimiter and a field delimiter in a pair of the different pairs.
US12008022B2
A data processing method includes: acquiring time series data; acquiring evaluation values; performing classification; and performing extraction. In the acquiring of the time series data, a plurality of time series data acquired by a substrate processing device are acquired. In the acquiring of the evaluation values, the evaluation values of the plurality of time series data are acquired. In the performing of classification, each of the plurality of time series data is classified into one of a plurality of classifications based on the evaluation value. In the performing of extraction, the time series data corresponding to one of the plurality of classifications is extracted as extracted time series data.
US12008018B2
Snapshots from a first LSU (R1) on a first storage system (A1) may be replicated to a second replica LSU (R2) on a second storage system (A2), for example, concurrently to remotely replicating (e.g., synchronously) write operations for R1 to R2. A process, P, on A1 executing the replication of the snapshots from R1 to R2 may be a separate process than the one or more processes on A1 executing remote replication of write operations for R1 to R2. During a consistency window on A1, outstanding write operations for R1 at the time the consistency window opened may be logged, and a pair of snapshots, SS11 and SS12 may be activated on R1 and R2, respectively. After the consistency window has closed, the SS12 snapshot metadata and snapshot data may be updated based on the outstanding write operations.
US12008015B2
Importation and exportation allows software services in blockchain environments. Blockchains may import data and export data, thus allowing blockchains to offer software services to clients (such as other blockchains). Individual users, businesses, and governments may create their own blockchains and subcontract or outsource operations to other blockchains. Moreover, the software services provided by blockchains may be publically ledgered by still other blockchains, thus providing two-way blockchain interactions and two-way ledgering for improved record keeping.
US12008012B2
Computer-implemented methods, systems and products, the method comprising receiving, at a data server associated with a database, a command for data transfer between a client machine and the data server over a communications network, the data being stored in at least a data table comprising one or more columns; in response to receiving the command for data transfer, determining whether one or more columns of the data table are designated; identifying the one or more designated columns, such that data associated with the one or more designated columns is either considered or not considered for purpose of the data transfer; and executing the command to transfer the data in the database according to the designated columns.
US12008002B2
System and method for associating user-entered consumable item description to an entry in a consumable item database. In one embodiment, formally structured restaurant menu item is matched to a large database of food items that has been constructed via crowd-sourcing. A novel, practical, and scalable machine learning solution architecture, consisting of two major steps is utilized. First a query generation approach is applied, based on a Markov Decision Process algorithm, to reduce the time complexity of searching for matching candidates. That is then followed by a re-ranking step, using deep learning techniques, to ensure matching quality goals are met.
US12007991B2
An automation device for process automation, with a server containing one or more process automation variables, wherein the server is configured to receive read and/or write requests from a client in communication with the automation device for at least one variable. The automation device adapted to: specify the time period between two read requests for the same read request variable and/or between two write requests for the same write request variable; specify a sampling time for the read or write request variable as a function of the specified time period; and enable read access to the read request variable in the address space of the server at the respective sampling time, independently of future read requests and/or to prepare write access to the write request variable in the address space of the server at the respective sampling time, independent of the previous write request.
US12007988B2
Interactive assistances for executing natural language queries to data sets may be performed. A natural language query may be received. Candidate entity linkages may be determined between an entity recognized in the natural language query and columns in data sets. The candidate linkages may be ranked according to confidence scores which may be evaluated to detect ambiguity for an entity linkage. Candidate entity linkages may be provided to a user via an interface to select an entity linkage to use as part of completing the natural language query.
US12007985B2
A distributed database system receives and executes a transaction including a first modification statement describing a first modification operation on a subset of records, a second modification statement describing a second modification operation on the subset of records, and a commit statement. Responsive to executing the first and second modification statements, the system receives a copy of the subset of records from data servers; performs the first modification operation to generate a first modified subset of records; and performs the second modification operation on the first modified subset of records. Responsive to executing the commit statement, the system stores the second modified subset of records in a commit table and causes the subset of records to be updated at the data servers.
US12007978B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for validating a set of input data used by a software application, the method comprising: determining a first validation class for a first portion of the set of input data; determining a first validation operation to be performed on the first portion of the set of input data based on the first validation class; causing the first validation operation to be performed on the first portion of the set of input data; determining that the first validation operation is unsuccessful; and generating a validation report indicating that the set of input data includes an error.
US12007963B1
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for processing resources and associated metadata in the metaverse using knowledge graphs. The invention relates to a method for processing and converting documents from a digital data source, involving the following steps: receiving one or more documents from the data source; storing the documents in a network attached storage using a file transfer protocol; converting the documents into an extensible markup language (XML) format; storing the converted documents in an API-accessible document database; generating a downstream process API for accessing the document database; creating an abstract document delineation for the converted documents based on data extracted via the downstream process API; and finally, transforming the abstract document delineation and associated metadata into a semantic, immersive, actionable ontological modeling language, facilitating enhanced document representation and interaction.
US12007953B2
A performance adjusting method and apparatus for a file system architecture. The method includes: determining a plurality of internet bandwidths among a client, an Object Storage Server (OSS), and a storage controller in a file system architecture; determining an overall network architecture of the file system architecture and a maximum transmission bandwidth of the file system architecture; testing read-write performance of a single Object Storage Target (OST) to calculate an Input/Output (IO) processing capability of a storage node; determining whether the maximum transmission bandwidth matches the IO processing capability of the storage node to add or reduce a storage array accordingly to adjust a number of OSTs; executing a performance benchmark test to determine IO read-write performance of the file system architecture; and determining whether the maximum transmission bandwidth matches the IO read-write performance to adjust a number of OSSs or a number of storage arrays accordingly.
US12007950B2
Systems and methods for cloud-based file sharing, where templates are provided for creating workflow instances which enable the sharing of managed objects. Reusable workflow templates are stored in the repository of a cloud-based file sharing system as objects that define components of the workflow, or placeholders for these components. A user instantiates a workflow instance from one of the templates and configures the workflow instance to identify content objects or forms, tasks related to the content objects, and users assigned to perform the tasks. The workflow instance is stored as an object in the repository. Users assigned to tasks are authorized through the workflow instance to access the content objects or forms to perform the tasks.
US12007947B2
A computing device is described which has at least one application access record storing references to content items stored at the computing device. At least one local store stores other content items. A processor of the computing device executes at least one application, the application having ability to access the content items referenced in the application access record and restricted from accessing the other content items. An operating system of the computing device is configured to search the local store to identify at least one of the other content items on the basis of criteria, and to suggest the identified other content item(s) to a user of the computing device for access by the application.
US12007937B1
In a system with control logic and a processing element array, two modes of operation may be provided. In the first mode of operation, the control logic may configure the system to perform matrix multiplication or 1×1 convolution. In the second mode of operation, the control logic may configure the system to perform 3×3 convolution. The processing element array may include an array of processing elements. Each of the processing elements may be configured to compute the dot product of two vectors in a single clock cycle, and further may accumulate the dot products that are sequentially computed over time.
US12007925B1
A device includes a serial interface, such as Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, having two operating modes. The first operating mode has a higher data transfer rate than the second operating mode, but also causes greater interference affecting use of a wireless network. To prevent loss of connectivity from the wireless network, when a detected signal strength associated with the wireless network is less than a threshold value, the interface is switched from the first operating mode to the second operating mode to reduce interference to use of the wireless network. During times when detected signal strength for the wireless network is high, the interface is switched to the first operating mode to allow for higher data transfer rates.
US12007922B2
The invention relates to an IO-Link system comprising at least one IO-Link master (1), at least one IO-Link device (2) and at least one IO-Link-capable infrastructure component (30). The at least one IO-Link master (1) and the at least one IO-Link device (2) are connected via the at least one infrastructure component (30) and exchange data via a data channel (K1). The infrastructure component (30) has an apparatus (61, 62) for recording diagnostic data. A diagnostic channel (K2) is provided in the IO-Link system, via which diagnostic channel (K2) the diagnostic data can be sent and received between the at least one infrastructure component (30) and the at least one IO-Link master (1) separately from the data channel (K1).
US12007918B2
Provided are a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface device and a method of operating the same. The PCIe interface device may include a performance analyzer and a traffic class controller. The performance analyzer may be configured to measure throughputs of multiple functions executed on one or more Direct Memory Access (DMA) devices. The traffic class controller may be configured to allocate traffic class values to transaction layer packets received from the multiple functions based on the throughputs of the multiple functions.
US12007905B2
A hinter data processing apparatus is provided with processing circuitry that determines that an execution context to be executed on a hintee data processing apparatus will require a virtual-to-physical address translation. Hint circuitry transmits a hint to a hintee data processing apparatus to prefetch a virtual-to-physical address translation in respect of an execution context of the further data processing apparatus. A hintee data processing apparatus is also provided with receiving circuitry that receives a hint from a hinter data processing apparatus to prefetch a virtual-to-physical address translation in respect of an execution context of the further data processing apparatus. Processing circuitry determines whether to follow the hint and, in response to determining that the hint is to be followed, causes the virtual-to-physical address translation to be prefetched for the execution context of the data processing apparatus. In both cases, the hint comprises an identifier of the execution context.
US12007903B2
Methods, systems, and devices for dual address encoding for logical-to-physical mapping are described. A memory device may identify a first physical address corresponding to a first logical block address generated by a host device and a second physical address corresponding to a second (consecutive) logical block address generated by a host device. The memory device may store the first physical address and second physical address in a single entry of a logical-to-physical mapping table that corresponds to the first logical block address. The memory device may transmit the logical-to-physical table to the host device for storage at the host device. The host device may subsequently transmit a single read command to the memory device that includes the first physical address and the second physical address based on the logical-to-physical table.
US12007889B2
Methods, systems, and devices for valid data identification for garbage collection are described. In connection with writing data to a block of memory cells, a memory system may identify a portion of a logical address space that includes a logical address for the data. The memory system may set a bit of a bitmap, which may indicate that the block includes data having a logical address within a portion of the logical address space corresponding to the bit. The logical address space may be divided into any quantity of portions, each corresponding to a different subset of a logical-to-physical (L2P) table, and the bitmap may include any quantity of corresponding bits. To perform garbage collection on the block, the bitmap may be used to identify one or more subsets of the L2P table to evaluate to determine whether different sets of data within the block are valid or invalid.
US12007884B2
In a method of allocating and protecting a memory in a computational storage device including a first computing engine and a buffer memory, a memory allocation request is received from a host device that is disposed outside the computational storage device. Based on the memory allocation request, a memory allocation operation in which a first memory region is generated in the buffer memory and a first key associated with the first memory region is generated is performed. A program execution request is received from the host device. Based on the program execution request, a program execution operation is performed in which a first program is executed by the first computing engine by accessing the first memory region based on an encryption or a decryption using the first key.
US12007881B2
A method of populating a test environment for integration testing of a production database. The production database includes a plurality of tables, and may be represented by a directed acyclic graph (DAG), in which each of the plurality of tables is represented by a respective node of the DAG and schema-level constraints of the plurality of tables are represented by edges of the DAG. The method may involve constructing the DAG, topologically ordering the plurality of tables of the production database according to the DAG, randomly generating test data in accordance with the schema-level constraints of the plurality of tables, and populating the randomly generated test data to the test environment according to the topological ordering of the plurality of tables.
US12007880B2
Large and complex software projects may be distributed over multiple repositories and may use test automation of equivalent scale in continuous integration frameworks to maintain quality of the project. Such test automation often has significant hardware and time costs to run, which may mean that a failure of the software in the test automation takes longer to detect. Delay in fixing the software may increase the chance of more failures getting checked into the software repositories and perpetuating software failures. To address this issue, a ranking of historical test data is determined based on a number of failures for each test and a test configuration is determined based on the ranking such that tests that are ranked higher are performed before tests that are ranked lower. The test may be exited upon detection of failure instead of continuing.
US12007878B2
Methods and apparatuses are described for testing and deploying targeted versions of application libraries within a software application. A computing device selects a software application comprising application libraries each associated with a current version identifier. The computing device identifies a target version of one or more application libraries, the target version associated with a different version identifier than the current identifier. The computing device defines a software application build for the software application incorporating the identified target versions of the application libraries, and deploys the application build to a test computing environment. The computing device executes tests of the software application build in the test environment, and captures test execution data for the target versions of the libraries in the software application build. The computing device deploys the software application build including the target versions of the application libraries to a production computing environment based upon the test execution data.
US12007872B2
A debug information abstraction unit (32) of a proxy server (30) adds, when a predetermined rule of an extension program is embodied into a program, a program for outputting debug information regarding the predetermined rule to the embodied program. Then, a debug information transmission unit (41b) of a terminal device (40) transmits, to a debug support device (10), the debug information regarding the predetermined rule for which the program has been added.
US12007871B2
Provided is a computer-implemented method for determining at least one quality attribute for at least one defect of interest, including the steps: a. providing an input data set including the at least one defect of interest; b. determining the at least one quality attribute for the at least one defect of interest using a classification algorithm based on the input data set; and c. providing the determined at least one quality attribute and/or additional output information as output. Further, a computing unit and a computer program product are provided.
US12007870B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for providing interfaces for altering operation of remote devices. In some implementations, a system stores monitoring parameter values for a monitoring program, where the monitoring parameter values specify data collection to perform using remote devices. The system collects monitoring data from remote devices over a communication network according to the monitoring parameter values for the monitoring program. The system provides user interface data for a user interface that presents or describes at least a portion of the monitoring data collected for the monitoring program. In response to user interaction with a displayed element in the user interface, the system can present (i) a monitoring parameter value used to collect data represented by the displayed element and (ii) an interactive user interface element configured to adjust collection of the type of data represented by the display element.
US12007863B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to include a system condition engine and non-volatile memory. The system condition engine is configured to monitor a condition associated with an electronic device and non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory can store a predetermined specification range or a specification threshold for the condition and when the condition is outside of the predetermined specification range or exceeds the specification threshold, the system condition engine can record that the condition was outside of the predetermined specification range or exceeded the specification threshold in the non-volatile memory. In an example, the non-volatile memory may be a fuse, especially a field programmable fuse.
US12007861B2
A test control device includes a test variable generation device and a test processing device. The test variable generation device uses a test prediction model to generate a first manipulated variable based on a difference between a target value and a first controlled variable value from a device under test. The test processing device acquires a second controlled variable value from the device under based on use of the first manipulated variable value. The test variable generation device notifies the device under test of end of a test if the second controlled variable value is equal to or greater than the target value or uses the test prediction model to generate a second manipulated variable based on a difference between the target value and the second controlled variable value when the second controlled variable value is less than the target value.
US12007860B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, memory devices, and machine-readable mediums for using a non-defective portion of a block of memory on which there is a defect on a different portion. Rather than disable the entire block, the system may disable only a portion of the block (e.g., a first deck of the block) and salvage a different portion of the block (e.g., a second deck of the block).
US12007854B2
A “backup services container” comprises “backup toolkits,” which include scripts for accessing containerized applications plus enabling utilities/environments for executing the scripts. The backup services container is added to Kubernetes pods comprising containerized applications without changing other pod containers. For maximum value and advantage, the backup services container is “over-equipped” with toolkits. The backup services container selects and applies a suitable backup toolkit to a containerized application to ready it for a pending backup. Interoperability with a proprietary data storage management system provides features that are not possible with third-party backup systems. Some embodiments include one or more components of the proprietary data storage management within the illustrative backup services container. Some embodiments include one or more components of the proprietary data storage management system in a backup services pod configured in a Kubernetes node. All configurations and embodiments are suitable for cloud and/or non-cloud computing environments.
US12007851B2
A configuration file specifies a percentage value of data to validate. A synthetic full backup image of a source volume on cloud storage is accessed. The synthetic full backup is created by merging changed blocks of an incremental backup with another previous backup. A bitmap specifying locations of the changed blocks is examined. A region on the synthetic full backup beginning at a location corresponding to an initial changed block and ending at a location corresponding to a last changed block according to the bitmap is identified. The region is partitioned into a set of portions. Each portion is validated by randomly selecting blocks in a respective portion to validate. The validating of the respective portion continues until an amount of data validated in the respective portion reaches a size equal to the percentage value of a size of the incremental backup divided by a number of portions.
US12007849B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a method for managing file based backups (FBBs). The method may include obtaining a FBB mount request for a FBB mount of a FBB from an application, wherein the application is executing in a production host environment and the FBB is stored on backup storage; in response to the FBB mount request: enabling access to a portion of the FBB by the application; notifying a cyber sense device that the access is enabled; providing, to the cyber sense device, a storage location of the portion of the FBB for which access was enabled; receiving, from the cyber sense device, a security event notification; and performing, in response to the security event notification, a security action set.
US12007831B2
Devices and components for machine learning-based signal error correction and methods of use thereof
The present disclosure enables signal error correction using a first processor and a memory on a first substrate, where the first processor is operationally connected to a second processor on a second substrate and the memory stores computer code having a machine learning model. The first processor executes computer code to: automatically receive from the second processor, a first output signal intended to be received by a target recipient device. The first processor automatically inputs the first output signal into the machine learning model, where the machine learning model determines that the first output signal includes an error signal that would cause a malfunction in the target recipient device, and output an instruction to cause the first processor to generate a second output signal that corrects the error signal. The first processor automatically generates the second output signal and transmits the second output signal to the target recipient device.
US12007827B2
The method includes: a primary terminal may select a target secondary terminal from at least one secondary terminal when detecting that the primary terminal currently runs a power consuming process and/or will run a power consuming process, and migrate the currently running power consuming process and/or the to-be-run power consuming process to the target secondary terminal.
US12007820B2
A controller chip includes a first cluster including one or more first controller units, a first power supply grid, a first clock tree structure to supply one or more clock signals, and at least a first power supply input. A second cluster includes one or more second controller units, a second power supply grid, a second clock tree structure to supply one or more clock signals, and at least a second power supply input. A monitoring cluster includes a monitoring circuit configured to: monitor the power supply and the clock signal supply of each of the first cluster and second cluster, and in the event of determining at least one of a power supply failure or a clock signal supply failure in one cluster of the first cluster or the second cluster, indicate the failure to the other cluster to take one or more actions.
US12007816B2
A heat dissipation module is adapted for a circuit board, which has an M.2 bonding hole. The heat dissipation module includes a supporting bracket and a heat dissipation element. The supporting bracket has a first side and a second side opposite to each other, and an accommodating space, which is located between the first side and the second side, and is adapted for installing an SSD interface card. The first side has a first mounting hole and a second mounting hole. The heat dissipation element is combined to the first side through the first mounting hole. When the SSD interface card is installed in the accommodating space, the SSD interface card and the supporting bracket are combined to the M.2 bonding hole through the second mounting hole so that the second side faces the circuit board.
US12007812B2
A flexible display panel and a flexible display device are provided. The flexible display panel includes a flexible display screen and a support provided on a backside of the flexible display screen. The flexible display screen includes a first bending region and a second bending region disposed on two opposite sides of the first bending region, and the second bending region is positioned at an edge of the flexible display. The support includes a first folding portion corresponding to the first bending region and a hollowed-out structure corresponding to the second bending region.
US12007805B2
A foldable display panel and a manufacturing method of the display panel are provided. A plurality of photo spacers are disposed in a first region of the foldable display panel, i.e., the plurality of photo spacers are disposed at a folded position. Widths of the photo spacers gradually decrease from a flexible substrate to a direction away from the flexible substrate. When the foldable display panel is folded, the photo spacers can cooperate with a folding curve to contact with each other, thereby reducing extrusion between the plurality of photo spacers.
US12007792B2
Described is a method that involves operating an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to begin a flight, where the UAV relies on a navigation system to navigate to a destination. During the flight, the method involves operating a camera to capture images of the UAV's environment, and analyzing the images to detect features in the environment. The method also involves establishing a correlation between features detected in different images, and using location information from the navigation system to localize a feature detected in different images. Further, the method involves generating a flight log that includes the localized feature. Also, the method involves detecting a failure involving the navigation system, and responsively operating the camera to capture a post-failure image. The method also involves identifying one or more features in the post-failure image, and determining a location of the UAV based on a relationship between an identified feature and a localized feature.
US12007789B2
A vertical take-off and landing aircraft using a hybrid electric propulsion system, according to an embodiment of the present invention, includes: a first control step (S1) of changing a destination when an engine (10), a power generator (20), an engine control unit (30), a power management device (40), a control unit (50), a battery management system (60), a main battery (62) and the like malfunction, thereby causing a normal flight to be difficult; a second control step (S2) of performing control so that an aerial vehicle (1) glides to a point (T), at which same has entered a first space (CEP-1) required for landing or a wider second space (CEP-2) considered safe, and maintains lift and has minimized flight air resistance after passing through the point (T); a third control step (S3) of performing control so that lift is increased and performing control so that a nose cone is switched into an upward direction; and a fourth control step (S4) of performing control so that lift is gradually reduced, and controlling a second variable-pitch control device (122) so that thrust does not act on the aerial vehicle at the moment the aerial vehicle lands, and thus the present invention can vertically land while minimizing impact to be applied to the aerial vehicle.
US12007786B2
The subject disclosure relates to techniques for real-time lane validation. A process of the disclosed technologies can include steps for receiving a route from a remote computing system, the route indicating lanes on the route that an autonomous vehicle must traverse, traversing at least one lane of the lanes on the route, and sending sensor data to the remote computing system after traversing the at least one lane, the sensor data indicating whether the at least one lane is in accordance with a virtual lane of a virtual map, the virtual lane corresponding to the at least one lane.
US12007783B2
A system and method for forecasting perceived transitions to the four annual seasons in geographic areas is disclosed. The perceived transitions are identified by comparing forecasted daily temperatures in each geographic area to thresholds generated based on normal daily temperatures in those geographic areas. The forecasted daily temperatures may be calculated using both forecasted temperatures and forecasted perceived ambient temperatures (calculated using both temperature and humidity, cloud cover, sun intensity, and/or wind speed).
US12007775B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for installing a floor finishing material using an autonomous driving robot. According to the present disclosure, there is provided a system for installing a floor finishing material using autonomous driving including: a floor surface cleaning and adhesive application robot that cleans a floor surface and applies adhesive while moving with autonomous driving; a finishing material installation robot that installs the floor finishing material on an upper side of the adhesive surface; a finishing material loading robot that loads the floor finishing material loaded in an installation site, on a pallet; a finishing material transport robot that transports and delivers the loaded floor finishing material to the finishing material installation robot; and a 3D positioning device that sets a position thereof as an origin and recognizes positions of a plurality of active markers installed in a work site.
US12007771B1
A steering system on a marine vessel includes at least one outboard drive configured to propel the marine vessel, a steering actuator configured to rotate the at least one outboard drive, at least one trim device coupled to the marine vessel and movable with respect to a hull of the marine vessel to adjust a running angle thereof, and at least one trim actuator. A control system configured to determine a desired roll angle and at least one of a desired turn rate and desired turn angle for the marine vessel based on a steering instruction and control the steering actuator to rotate the at least one outboard drive based on the desired turn rate and/or the desired turn angle and control the at least one trim actuator to move the at least one trim device based on the desired roll angle to effectuate the steering instruction.
US12007768B2
This disclosure relates to providing flight control for an unmanned aerial vehicle based on opposing fields of view with overlap. The UAV may include a housing, a motor, a first image sensor, a second image sensor, a first optical element having a first field of view greater than 180 degrees, a second optical element having a second field of view greater than 180 degrees, and one or more processors. The first optical element and the second optical element may be carried by the housing such that a centerline of the second field of view is substantially opposite from a centerline of the first field of view, and a peripheral portion of the first field of view and a peripheral portion of the second field of view overlap. Flight control for the UAV may be provided based on parallax disparity of an object within the overlapping fields of view.
US12007765B2
A method for assisting a user in the remote control of a motor vehicle by a remote-control device is disclosed. Depending on sensor data provided by means of at least one environment sensor of the motor vehicle, a first surroundings image of at least one part of the surroundings of the motor vehicle from a determined perspective is provided and displayed by means of the remote-control device. In this case, the determined perspective is selected from a number of selectable perspectives as a perspective that is independent of a position of the at least one environment sensor, depending on a user input effected by the user and detected by means of the remote-control device.
US12007761B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for an unmanned aerial system inspection system. One of the methods is performed by a UAV and includes obtaining, from a user device, flight operation information describing an inspection of a vertical structure to be performed, the flight operation information including locations of one or more safe locations for vertical inspection. A location of the UAV is determined to correspond to a first safe location for vertical inspection. A first inspection of the structure is performed is performed at the first safe location, the first inspection including activating cameras. A second safe location is traveled to, and a second inspection of the structure is performed. Information associated with the inspection is provided to the user device.
US12007760B2
A computer-implemented pre-processed time-delay autoencoder based anomaly detection method are provided for detecting anomalous states of machines arranged in a factory automation (FA) system or a manufacturing production line. The method includes acquiring source signals from the machines via an interface performing a data pre-processing process for the acquired source signals by normalizing value ranges of the acquired source signals and filtering undesired features from the acquired source signals performing a time-delayed data reform process for the pre-processed source signals based on a time-delay window to generate pre-processed time-delay data submitting pre-processed time-delay testing data to a pre-processed time-delayed autoencoder (Prep-TDAE) neural network, wherein the pre-processed time-delay testing data are collected online while the machines are operated, wherein the Prep-TDAE neural network has been pre-trained by using the pre-processed time-delay training data detecting, if an anomaly state is encountered with respect to the machines, by computing anomaly scores of the pre-processed time-delay testing data, and determining, when the anomaly state is detected, anomaly occurrence time, duration and severity with respect to the anomaly state of each of the machines.
US12007758B2
A process state monitoring device incudes a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: separate two or more components from time series data of a value indicating a state of a process; compute a characteristic value from each of the separated components; and classify the state of the process on the basis of the computed characteristic values.
US12007744B2
A plurality of system control devices respectively include network interfaces for communicating with each other via a network. One of the plurality of system control devices functions as a master system control device, and the remaining system control devices function as slave system control devices. The master system control device transmits a control command to the slave system control devices by means of the network interface. The slave system control devices receive the control command by means of the network interfaces and supply an operation command to abatement devices in accordance with the control command. When unable to communicate with the master system control device, the slave system control devices either function as master system control devices or enter stand-alone operation mode.
US12007741B2
A system analyzes crops provided by a truck on a transport device. The truck enters the transport device to transport and unload the crops. The system includes sensors to detect an identifier of the truck, detect a temperature of the crops, and determine components of the crops. A programmable-logic controller sends paired information between the detected identifier of the truck and the detected location of the crops to a non-transitory storage medium for storage. The processor also sends the detected temperature of the crops and the determined components of the crops to the non-transitory storage medium for storage.
US12007734B2
Disclosed techniques relate to managing power within a power distribution system. Power consumption corresponding to devices (e.g., servers) that receive power from an upstream device (e.g., a bus bar) may be monitored (e.g., by a service) to determine when power consumption corresponding to those devices breaches (or approaches) a budget threshold corresponding to an amount of power allocated to the upstream device. If the budget threshold is breached, or is likely to be breached, the service may initiate operations to distribute power caps for the devices and to initiate a timer. Although distributed, the power caps may be ignored by the devices until they are instructed to enforce the power caps (e.g., upon expiration of the timer). This allows the power consumption of the devices to exceed the budgeted power associated with the upstream device at least until expiration of the timer while avoiding power outage events.
US12007714B2
In an image forming apparatus, a process frame is movable into and out of a main casing in a first direction. The process frame includes a first wall and a second wall spaced apart from the first wall in a second direction. A first cartridge is detachably mountable to the process frame in a third direction crossing the second direction. A first electrode protrudes from an outer surface of the first cartridge outwardly in the second direction. In a state where the first cartridge is mounted to the process frame, the first cartridge is positioned between the first wall and second wall of the process frame in the second direction and a portion of the first wall aligns with the first electrode in the third direction such that the portion of the first wall is overlapped with the first electrode as viewed in the third direction.
US12007709B2
An image heating apparatus includes: a tubular film; a heater disposed in an inner space of the film; a roller that is in contact with the outer surface of the film and forms a nip between the roller and the film together with the heater; and a holder including an adhesion portion to which the heater adheres through an adhesive and supporting the heater. The image heating apparatus heats, using heat of the heater, an image formed on a recording material held and conveyed by the nip in case where the roller rotates. The adhesion portion includes a surface having an uneven shape of projections and recesses repeating in each of a conveyance direction of the recording material and in a longitudinal direction of the heater perpendicular to the conveyance direction, and a depth of the projections and recesses is 50 μm to 300 μm.
US12007682B2
An image stabilization apparatus includes a movable member configured to hold an image stabilization optical element, a fixed member holding the movable member movably in a direction crossing an optical axis, an electrical element mounted on the movable member, and a flexible sheet member electrically connecting the electric element to the fixed member. The flexible sheet member is fixed to the movable member and the fixed member so that the flexible sheet member is bent between the movable member and the fixed member.
US12007681B2
A camera actuator according to an embodiment includes a housing; a prism unit disposed in the housing; a first driving unit disposed in the housing and controlling a tilt of the prism unit; and a second driving unit disposed under the housing and controlling a tilt of the housing, wherein the first driving unit includes a first piezoelectric device disposed in a region overlapping a center of the prism unit in a first direction, wherein the second driving unit includes a second piezoelectric device disposed in a region overlapping the center of the prism unit in a second direction different from the first direction, wherein the prism unit is provided to be tiltable in the second direction by the first driving unit, and wherein the housing is provided to be tiltable in the first direction by the second driving unit.
US12007672B2
Folded cameras and dual folded-upright cameras that reduce a mobile electronic device and specifically a smartphone bump footprint and height. In some examples, the bump footprint is reduced by reducing the height of a back focal plane section of the folded camera. In some examples, the bump footprint is reduced by reducing the height of a back focal plane section and a lens subsection of the folded camera.
US12007668B2
Mobile electronic devices comprising a first camera with a first field of view FOV1, a second, Macro camera with a Macro field of view FOVM smaller than FOV1, and a device screen that includes a first screen section configured to display first image data from the first camera and a second screen section configured to display second image data from the Macro camera when both cameras are focused to a distance equal to or smaller than 30 cm.
US12007666B2
A wavelength conversion element manufacturing method capable of realizing, in a wavelength conversion element having a structure in which a thin film substrate having a periodic polarization inversion structure and a support substrate are laminated, highly efficient wavelength conversion by confining light in a cross-sectional area smaller than in the known art. The manufacturing method includes steps of forming a periodic polarization inversion structure on a first substrate made of a second-order nonlinear optical crystal and forming a damage layer in the first substrate by implanting ions from one substrate surface to obtain a first substrate for bonding, directly bonding a second substrate having a bonding surface having a smaller refractive index than the first substrate to the one substrate surface of the first substrate at the bonding surface, and peeling the first substrate directly bonded to the second substrate being the support substrate with the damage layer as a boundary to remove a part of the first substrate.
US12007660B2
Some embodiments are directed to a light modulator comprising transparent or reflective substrates, multiple electrodes being applied to the substrates in a pattern across the substrate. A controller may apply an electric potential to the electrodes to obtain an electro-magnetic field between the electrodes providing electrophoretic movement of the particles towards or from an electrode.
US12007658B2
A process for protecting a glass substrate coated with an electrochromic stack, includes depositing a temporary protective layer on the electrochromic stack, the temporary protective layer including an organic polymeric matrix and having a thickness of between 1 μm and 30 μm, and the temporary protective layer being removable by heat treatment at a temperature of between 300° C. and 500° C., fora period of between 180 s and 240 s.
US12007655B2
Examples are disclosed relating to tunable attenuation of incident light using a switchable grating. One example provides an optical attenuator comprising a switchable grating configured to diffract light within a wavelength band at a diffraction angle. The optical attenuator further comprises an electrode pair configured to apply a voltage across the switchable grating to tune a proportion of incident light diffracted at the diffraction angle, and an optical dump to receive the proportion of incident light diffracted.
US12007644B2
Provided is a liquid crystal display device that includes a first substrate including a microlens corresponding to each pixel, a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate, and a liquid crystal material layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate. A first transparent material layer including a material having a first refractive index is formed in the first substrate, and a material having a second refractive index different from the first refractive index is disposed in a portion of the first transparent material layer corresponding to a region between adjacent pixels. A second transparent material layer including a material having a third refractive index is formed in the second substrate, and a material having a fourth refractive index different from the third refractive index is disposed in a portion of the second transparent material layer corresponding to the region between the adjacent pixels.
US12007637B2
Display units for digital out of home advertising with orientation monitoring features are disclosed. The units include an electronic display, an orientation detection device, and a controller. The controller receives orientation data from the orientation detection device, determines a baseline orientation of the display unit, and where a subsequently detected orientation is not within a predetermined margin of the baseline orientation, electronically generates an alert.
US12007626B2
An object is to not lose an effect of suppressing the progression of myopia or hyperopia even in a peripheral area of a spectacle lens. A spectacle lens and a technology related thereto are provided, the spectacle lens including: a first area that causes light rays incident on an object-side face of the lens to exit from an eyeball-side face of the lens and to converge at a predetermined position A on a retina of a wearer; and a plurality of second areas configured to cause light rays to converge at a position B on the object side or a position C on the distal side relative to the position A, wherein, in the first area in a peripheral area of the spectacle lens that is a radius range from 4.5 mm to 25 mm of a lens center, a refractive power error in a meridional direction and a refractive power error in a sagittal direction have values that cause light rays to converge in a direction extending from a vicinity of the position A toward the position B if the second areas cause the light rays to converge at the position B, or have values that cause light rays to converge in a direction extending from the vicinity of the position A toward the position C if the second areas cause the light rays to converge at the position C.
US12007622B2
An optical unit including a reflection portion, a movable body, a fixed body; and a rotation support mechanism that rotates the movable body with respect to the fixed body in an axial direction as a rotation axis, in which the rotation support mechanism has a U-shaped spring member disposed between the fixed body and the movable body in the axial direction and applies a force in a direction that widens the space between the fixed body and the movable body, the spring member has a rotation-axis first forming member, the movable body has a rotation-axis second forming member, and the rotation-axis first forming member and the rotation-axis second forming member are arranged at positions where a rotation axis passes through a center of gravity position of the movable body.
US12007618B2
Autofocus assembly and related methods are described. One example of an autofocus assembly includes a housing element. The housing element including a hall housing wall configured to secure a hall sensor. The autofocus assembly includes a lens carriage configured to secure a hall magnet and configured to be received within the housing element and configured to define a receiving space between the lens carriage and the housing element to receive one or more bearing elements. The autofocus assembly includes a magnetic element disposed at the hall housing wall and configured to magnetically attract the hall magnet and to secure the hall housing wall to the housing element and secure the one or more bearing elements between the hall housing wall and the lens carriage.
US12007614B2
Provided is a medical observation system capable of preventing disconnection of metal cables without increasing the thickness of a braided shield wire. The medical observation system includes a transmission cable including: an optical cable having one or more optical fiber cores; a plurality of metal cables arranged around the optical cable; and a tension member made of a high-strength fiber, and disposed in parallel with an extending direction of the optical cable.
US12007610B2
Waveguide combiners having a pass-through in-coupler grating are described herein. The waveguide combiners include at least one microdisplay and a stack of at least two waveguide layers. In one configuration of a waveguide combiner described herein, the green FOV and the blue FOV only propagate in a first waveguide and the red FOV only propagates in a second waveguide. In another configuration of a waveguide combiner described herein, the blue FOV, the red FOV, and the green FOV only propagate in the first waveguide, the second waveguide, and a third waveguide respectively. The waveguide combiners including the stack of waveguide layers reduces luminance non-uniformity, color non-uniformity, double-images, and other non-uniformities of the overlayed images from a first microdisplay and, in some embodiments, a second microdisplay.
US12007609B2
A dustcap comprises a body having a cylindrical portion configured to receive a ferrule of an optical fiber connector, and an end portion opposite the cylindrical portion. The end portion includes a receptacle. The dustcap has a built-in cleaner disposed within the receptacle. The dustcap further comprises a removable cover configured to couple to the end portion of the dustcap. In another embodiment, the end portion includes a flat surface, the cleaner is disposed on the flat surface of the end portion, and the cover is configured to receive the end portion of the dustcap. In another embodiment, the cover has a receptacle and the cleaner is disposed within the receptacle, whereas the body comprises an end portion configured to receive at least a portion of the cover with the built-in cleaner. Embodiments encompass cleaner assemblies and adapter dustcaps having built-in cleaners.
US12007601B2
An MCF or the like according to the present disclosure ensures sufficient manufacturing tolerance, is excellent in mass productivity, and is also capable of suppressing degradation of splice loss. The MCF includes four cores that extend along a central axis, and a common cladding. On a cross-section, the common cladding has a circular outer periphery, the four cores are arranged at positions to be line symmetric with respect to a straight line that intersects with a central axis and that intersects with none of the four cores, and a core arrangement defined by the four cores has rotational symmetry once with central axis being a center of rotation.
US12007590B2
A two-dimensional diffraction grating for a phase-stepping measurement system for determining an aberration map for a projection system comprises a substrate provided with a square array of through-apertures, wherein the diffraction grating is self-supporting. It will be appreciated that for a substrate provided with a square array of through-apertures to be self-supporting at least some substrate material is provided between each through-aperture and the adjacent through apertures. A method of designing a two-dimensional diffraction grating for a phase-stepping measurement system for determining an aberration map for a projection system comprises: selecting a general geometry for the two-dimensional diffraction grating, the general geometry having at least one parameter; and selecting values for the least one parameter that result in a grating efficiency map for the two-dimensional diffraction grating so as to control the contributions to a first harmonic of a phase stepping signal.
US12007584B2
Provided is an image sensor including a color separating lens array. The image sensor includes: a sensor substrate including a first pixel configured to sense light of a first wavelength and a second pixel configured to sense light of a second wavelength; a transparent spacer layer on the sensor substrate; and a color separating lens array on the spacer layer, wherein the color separating lens array condenses the light of the first wavelength toward the first pixel, and includes a first lens layer on the spacer layer, a second lens layer on the first lens layer, and an etch prevention layer between the first lens layer and the second lens layer.
US12007582B2
Actuators for actuating a lens in a folded camera, folded cameras including such actuators and dual-cameras including such folded cameras. The actuators actuate a lens having a lens optical axis for auto-focus (AF) and optical image stabilization (OIS) and comprise a stationary sub-assembly that includes an OIS coil having an OIS coil plane and an AF coil having an AF coil plane, and a lens actuating sub-assembly movable relative to the stationary sub-assembly with a lens holder holding the lens, wherein the OIS coil plane is perpendicular to the AF coil plane and wherein the lens optical axis lies between the OIS coil plane and the AF coil plane. Some actuators have a design using VCM actuation and a reduced height due to top and/or bottom openings in actuator envelopes.
US12007578B2
A laser pointer accessory having a housing and a laser diode assembly including an actuation button. The housing including a top and bottom surface, and an internal chamber such that the laser diode assembly is disposed within the internal chamber of the housing. The top surface of the housing including an actuator capable of being depressed such that it engages the actuation button in order to activate the laser diode assembly.
US12007576B2
An optical system may include an emitter array to emit a plurality of beams of light, and a lens array. The lens array may be arranged to collimate and direct each of the plurality of beams of light. A pitch between lenses of the lens array may be larger than a pitch between emitters of the emitter array in order to cause the plurality of beams of light to be directed such that they diverge after exiting the lens array. The optical system may include a diffractive optical element to distribute each of the plurality of beams of light into a plurality of beamlets in association with creating a light pattern. The divergence of each of the plurality of beams of light may cause a plurality of zero-order beamlets, each corresponding to one of the plurality of beams of light, to diverge after exiting the diffractive optical element.
US12007564B2
An apparatus configured to be head-worn by a user, includes: a screen configured to present graphics for the user; a camera system configured to view an environment in which the user is located; and a processing unit coupled to the camera system, the processing unit configured to: obtain locations of features for an image of the environment, wherein the locations of the features are identified by a neural network; determine a region of interest for one of the features in the image, the region of interest having a size that is less than a size of the image; and perform a corner detection using a corner detection algorithm to identify a corner in the region of interest.
US12007562B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to optical systems with ergonomic presentation of content for use in head-worn computing systems. A method for controlling a head-worn computer when viewing virtual images, including image content, that encourages an ergonomic head position to reduce neck pain, includes determining an angle of the head-worn computer relative to horizontal, determining an angle of a line of sight to the center of the virtual image as presented to a user's eye, determining a deviation between the determined angle of the line of sight and a predetermined ergonomic angle, and shifting the image content of the virtual image vertically as displayed to the user's eye so that a portion of the image content is not viewable, wherein the amount of shifting is in reverse correspondence to the magnitude of the determined deviation.
US12007561B2
A method performed by an XR rending device (124) having an NCOD (199) for generating, for a first user, XR content for an XR environment with which the first user is interacting. The method includes obtaining first user preference information for the first user, the first user preference information comprising sensory permission information indicating, expressly or implicitly, one or more sensory stimulations to which the first user agrees to be exposed. The method also includes obtaining XR scene configuration information for use in generating XR content for the first user. The method also includes generating XR content for the first user based on the sensory permission information and the XR scene configuration information such that the generated XR content does not comprise XR content for producing any sensory stimulation to which the first user has not agreed to be exposed. The method further includes providing the generated XR content to an XR user device worn by the first user, wherein the XR user device comprises one or more sensory actuators for producing one or more sensory stimulations.
US12007558B2
A cleaning unit for a sensor with a sensor housing and a drive shaft comprises a holding element which extends along an axis and is suitable for being mounted on the drive shaft so that the cleaning unit can be moved by the drive shaft and a wiper element which is fastened to the holding element and has a ring which axially surrounds the holding element, so that the ring is in contact with the sensor housing of the sensor when the holding element is mounted on the drive shaft, wherein the ring has at least one tooth which extends radially to the axis.
US12007556B2
An light deflection device includes an light deflector having first and second piezoelectric actuators which cause a mirror unit to reciprocatingly turn around a resonant axis and a non-resonant axis, respectively, a drive unit which supplies first and second drive voltages, a swing angle fluctuation width detection unit which detects a first swing angle fluctuation width of the mirror unit around the resonant axis, a sensitivity equivalent value detection unit which detects a sensitivity equivalent value on the basis of a detected value of a second drive voltage fluctuation width and a detected value of the first swing angle fluctuation width, and a determination unit which determines whether a non-resonant axis side swing state of the mirror unit around the non-resonant axis is normal on the basis of a detected value of the sensitivity equivalent value.
US12007554B2
A vertical comb drive assembly may include a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly may include a comb anchor to attach the rotor assembly to a base, a comb rotor attached to the comb anchor, and a movable element attached to the comb rotor. The vertical comb drive assembly may include a stator assembly. The stator assembly may include a plate anchor to attach the stator assembly to the base, a plate, wherein the plate forms a comb stator, and a plate hinge to connect the plate to the plate anchor. The plate hinge and the plate may be configured for moving the plate from a first position where the comb rotor and the comb stator are both in a first plane to a second position where the comb rotor is in the first plane and the comb stator is in a second plane.
US12007553B1
An anti-peeping assembly and an anti-peeping display device. The anti-peeping assembly includes an anti-peeping component, two frames arranged at a periphery of the anti-peeping component, and two drive modules. The anti-peeping component includes two first substrates and a louver layer sandwiched between the two first substrates. The louver layer includes a plurality of light transmitting parts and a plurality of shading parts adjacent to the plurality of light transmitting parts. The drive module is configured to drive at least one of the two first substrates to move relative to the louver layer in a thickness direction of the first substrates so as to cause the louver layer to be compressed or be recovered from deformation, thereby realizing adjustment of a dimension of each of the light transmitting parts in the thickness direction. The anti-peeping assembly solves a problem that the conventional anti-peeping assembly has fixed and non-adjustable visual angle.
US12007548B2
A system for characterizing at least one particle from a fluid sample is disclosed. The system includes a filter disposed upstream of an outlet, and a luminaire configured to illuminate the at least one particle at an oblique angle. An imaging device is configured to capture and process images of the illuminated at least one particle as it rests on the filter for characterizing the at least one particle. A system for characterizing at least one particle using bright field illumination is also disclosed. A method for characterizing particulates in a fluid sample using at least one of oblique angle and bright field illumination is also disclosed.
US12007542B2
An assembly for switching optical paths, which assembly includes multiple optical channels for guiding an illuminating light to a specimen and for guiding the light coming from the specimen to an image recording unit. The assembly also includes a plurality of light guiding mirrors and at least one light modifying element in each optical channel for directing the illuminating light and the light coming from the specimen. In each of the multiple optical channels the at least one light modifying element includes a stationary dichroic mirror. Further details regarding the arrangement and rotation of the mirrors, and how the mirrors direct the illuminating light and light coming from the specimen, are defined herein.
US12007531B2
The present disclosure relates to a contact lens containing ceria particles. Further, the present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a contact lens containing ceria particles. The method includes preparing ceria particles; preparing poly-2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (PHEMA or poly-HEMA) in a form of cross-linked hydrogel; mixing the ceria particles and the monomer mixture for poly-2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (PHEMA or poly-HEMA) with each other to form a mixture; and injecting the mixture in a mold having a contact lens shape; and performing photo-curing polymerization of the mixture. The contact lens effectively eliminates the reactive oxygen species and harmful radicals that are identified as a cause of eye diseases.
US12007525B2
A body for a handheld metal detector includes a lower end configured to engage with a sensor head; an upper end including an armrest connected to an upper shaft element; and a grip element intermediate to the lower end and the upper end, the grip element including a grip portion configured to allow a user to hold the body, and a first retaining means for slidably retaining the upper shaft element such that the distance between the armrest and the grip element is able to be adjusted.
US12007524B1
A method and system are provided for non-destructive testing of a tunnel lining, and relate to the field of tunnel quality testing technologies. The method includes: obtaining tunnel design information; extracting rebar arrangement information and lining information; determining theoretical arrangement interval information; determining location information of a signal conducting bar group; pre-embedding signal conducting bars in sequence based on the location information of the signal conducting bar group; and manufacturing the lining, mounting an interface slot based on a location of the signal conducting bar, and marking a location of each interface slot as input point location information or receiving point location information, wherein the input point location information indicates a location corresponding to the signal input connection point, and the receiving point location information indicates a location corresponding to the signal receiving point.
US12007499B2
Systems and methods are provided for validating a sensor system associated with a vehicle. The vehicle is equipped with a set of replica sensors selected and positioned to emulate an optical path of a master set of sensors that has already been validated. The second vehicle is driven for a distance less than that required for validation of the sensor system to acquire a first set of data associated with the set of replica sensors and a second set of data associated with the sensor system. A machine learning model is trained on the first and second sets of data to provide an image transfer function. The image transfer function is applied to a set of master validation data produced during validation of the master vehicle to produce a set of transformed validation data. The new sensor system is validated with the set of transformed validation data.
US12007495B2
A method and a safety system for localizing at least two objects has a control and evaluation unit, and at least one radio location system. The radio location system has at least three arranged radio stations, wherein at least two respective radio transponders are arranged at the objects. The two radio transponders are arranged spaced apart from one another. Position data of the radio transponders and thus position data of the objects can be determined by means of the radio location system, and the position data can be transmitted from the radio station of the radio location system to the control and evaluation unit and/or the position data can be transmitted from the radio transponder to the control and evaluation unit. The control and evaluation unit is configured to cyclically detect and compare the position data of the radio transponders.
US12007493B2
The invention relates to a technical stage device (1), comprising a fastening element (2), a bearing element (3) and a functional element (4), in particular a camera or a spotlight, wherein the functional element (4) is arranged on the bearing element (3) so as to be pivotable about a tilt axis (14) and wherein the bearing element (3) is arranged on the fastening element (2) so as to be rotatable about a pan axis (13), wherein a position determination arrangement is provided, which is designed in such a way that a relative movement between the bearing element (3) and the fastening element (2) as well as between the bearing element (3) and the functional element (4) can be determined. Further, the invention relates to a method for determining the correlation function of predetermined tilt and pan values of a functional value (4), in particular a camera or a spotlight, to absolute motion values of the functional element (4).
US12007492B2
Apparatus for processing a voice radio signal with a transcription unit configured to convert the voice radio signal into a text signal; an object determination unit configured to determine an object from which the voice radio signal originates; an object localization unit configured to determine position information of the object from which the voice radio signal originates; and an output unit configured to allocate the text signal to the object and to provide the same. The object determination unit is configured to determine a detection probability for at least one object whose position at least partly matches the determined position information. The object determination unit is configured to determine the object with the highest detection probability as the object from which the voice radio signal originates, or, with a very similar detection probability, to determine all objects with the similar detection probability as the object.
US12007490B2
A fully self-contained portable location tracking device autonomously compares a current location with a latitude-longitude map stored in memory. The latitude-longitude map stores guidance zone values indicative of a predetermined safe zone, progressive alert zones, and a predetermined reference point. The guidance zone values represent actions to be taken based upon current location. When initiated by some combination of current location or zone value, location history, and time, or when otherwise queried, the tracking device transmits the offset from reference location, rather than actual current location data, to at least one wireless communications monitoring apparatus. When further security is desired, the transmitted offset is also digitally encrypted or otherwise obfuscated. The monitoring apparatus also stores a copy of the latitude-longitude map and reference point. Using the received offset, the monitoring apparatus knows both the location of the location tracking device and the actions to be taken based upon current location.
US12007484B2
A vehicular driving assist system includes a plurality of lidar sensors having respective fields of sensing exterior the vehicle. The lidar sensors emit light pulsed at a respective pulse rate and provide a respective output to an electronic control unit based on sensed light that is reflected by objects present in the field of sensing of the respective lidar sensor. The pulse rates of light emitted by the lidar sensors are different. The vehicular driving assist system, via processing at the ECU of the outputs from the lidar sensors, generates a three dimensional (3D) point cloud. The vehicular driving assist system controls the vehicle based at least in part on light sensed by the lidar sensors that is reflected by the objects when light is emitted by the lidar sensors at the respective pulse rates.
US12007471B2
The present invention includes systems and methods for a continuous-wave (CW) radar system for detecting, geolocating, identifying, discriminating between, and mapping ferrous and non-ferrous metals in brackish and saltwater environments. The CW radar system generates multiple extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic waves simultaneously and uses said waves to detect, locate, and classify objects of interest. These objects include all types of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, as well as changing material boundary layers (e.g., soil to water, sand to mud, rock to organic materials, water to air, etc.). The CW radar system is operable to detect objects of interest in near real time.
US12007470B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for sensor auto-location using phased antenna array beamforming are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a method of sensor auto-location using phased antenna array beamforming includes sending a radio frequency (RF) signal beam directed towards a given tire placement direction of a vehicle. In this embodiment, the method includes receiving an acknowledgement from a sensor and determining whether one or more signal attributes indicated in the acknowledgement are within one or more predefined ranges for the one or more signal attributes and corresponding to the given tire placement direction. In response to the one or more signal attributes being within the one or more predefined ranges, the method includes determining that the sensor is fitted on the given tire placement direction.
US12007467B2
A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system, including: a plurality of transmit channels configured to sequentially transmit signals with transmit-channel-designated Doppler division multiplexing (DDM) modulations; and processing circuitry configured to: determine, for each of the transmit channels, an impulse response of phase modulation errors due to DDM coupling of the respective transmit channel from each of the other transmit channels; and generate, based on the impulse response, a reconstruction matrix of modulation DDM coupling factors.
US12007464B2
A method for determining at least one physical parameter of a system comprising at least two reflection objects is presented, comprising: producing a transmission signal comprising at least one modulated electromagnetic or acoustic wave; receiving a first reception signal that is based on the transmission signal reflected by a first reflection object; receiving a second reception signal that is based on the transmission signal reflected by a second reflection object; receiving a third or further reception signal(s) that is/are based on the transmission signal reflected by a first or second or further reflection object(s); ascertaining the at least one physical parameter of the system on the basis of the first reception signal and further reception signals; ascertaining unknown distances between reflection objects or material properties, composition or nature of the media between the reflection objects of the system on the basis of the first reception signal and further reception signals.
US12007463B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a location management function that receives, from a sensor system, a sensing-based profile that includes a sensing-based observation of a UE and receives, from a communication system, a reference-signal-based observation of the UE. The location management function may derive, from the sensing-based observation, a position hypothesis and may determine, from the reference-signal-based observation, UE identity information for the UE. By processing the reference-signal-based observation in conjunction with the sensing-based observation, the location management function may determine an association between the sensing-based observation and the reference-signal-based observation. The location management function may then transmit, to the UE having the UE identity information determined from the reference-signal-based observation, an indication of the position hypothesis derived from the sensing-based observation.
US12007461B2
A shared aperture antenna array including an array of antennas is disclosed. Elements of neighboring antennas are shared to create additional antennas. The shared elements include radiating patches and apertures. Each antenna shares an aperture with neighboring antennas. The array of antennas may be linear or two-dimensional. A phase shifting network with single-pole-single-throw reflective switches may be coupled to the antennas.
US12007460B2
A method for actuating a magnetic resonance device according to an MR control sequence, wherein the MR control sequence includes a bipolar gradient pulse between an excitation pulse and a first refocusing pulse, and the bipolar gradient pulse induces a defined Maxwell phase and generates a dephasing gradient moment for a readout gradient.
US12007458B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes sequence controlling circuitry and processing circuitry. The sequence controlling circuitry acquires a first piece of data by executing a first pulse sequence having a first Echo Time (TE) value, to acquire a second piece of data by executing a second pulse sequence having a second TE value different from the first TE value, and to acquire a third piece of data by executing a third pulse sequence having a third TE value different from the first and the second TE values. The processing circuitry extracts a signal related to water, a signal related to a first fat, and a signal related to a second fat, on the basis of the first piece of data, the second piece of data, and the third piece of data.
US12007457B2
A method for actuating a magnetic resonance system having a radiofrequency unit designed to generate a radiofrequency pulse for the saturation of nuclear spins in an area under examination of an object under examination. The method includes loading a B0 map of the magnetic resonance system; loading frequency information on nuclear spins to be saturated in the area under examination; ascertaining at least one global RF saturation pulse for the global saturation of the nuclear spins to be saturated on the basis of the B0 map and the frequency information; and outputting the RF saturation pulse via the radiofrequency unit of the magnetic resonance system.
US12007445B2
A plurality of driving circuits drive a plurality of contactors for connecting the battery pack and an external apparatus, respectively, based on a supply voltage. A processing circuitry control the plurality of driving circuits to sequentially close the plurality of contactors in a predetermined order, and check the supply voltage before closing each of the contactors.
US12007442B2
A circuit breaker monitoring system and method includes a vibration sensor, a processing unit, and an output unit. The vibration sensor is configured to be mounted to a circuit breaker and to acquire a temporal vibration signal over at least a temporal portion of a closing operation of the circuit breaker. The closing operation comprises: initiation of the closing operation; latch release; movement of a moveable contact towards a fixed contact; contact touch of the moveable contact with the fixed contact; stop of movement of the moveable contact. The sensor provides the temporal vibration signal to the processing unit, which determines a plurality of physical switch events and corresponding plurality of time points of the plurality of physical switch events over the closing operation of the circuit breaker.
US12007424B2
A device comprises a planar substrate having conductive formations defining a substrate integrated waveguide test resonator; the test resonator comprising a three-dimensional region formed at least partly within the substrate having first and second planar conductive layers extending parallel to the plane of the substrate and one or more conductive sidewall formations perpendicular to the plane of the substrate defining a resonator side wall extending around the three-dimensional region; in which one of the first and second planar conductive layers comprises a test port comprising a conductive test connection electrically isolated from the rest of that planar conductive layer.
US12007416B2
The invention relates to an assembly of a T-shaped connector (1) comprising a line input (4), a line output (5) and a measuring socket (2), wherein a measuring device (3), in particular an electrical voltage sensor, is arranged in the measuring socket (2), wherein the measuring device (3) comprises a coupling element (6) for connecting the measuring device (3) to the measuring socket (2), as well as a capacitor assembly with two electrodes (7, 8) located opposite one another, wherein the first electrode (7) is arranged on the coupling element (6) and wherein the second electrode (8) is arranged on an grounding element (9), wherein the measuring socket (2) has a receiving area (10) with a receiving area depth (10′) and wherein the measuring device (3) has an insertion area (11) with an insertion area length (11′), wherein the insertion area depth (10′) is smaller than or equal to the insertion area length (11′), and wherein the second electrode (8) extends into the insertion area (10) of the measuring socket (2).
US12007415B2
A current transducer including a Rogowski cable extending between a free end and a signal output connection end, a signal output cable connected to the signal output connection end of the Rogowski cable, and a connector comprising an electrically conductive magnetic core having a first cable end lodging cavity receiving the signal output connection end of the Rogowski cable therein, and a second cable end lodging cavity receiving the free end of the Rogowski cable therein, the Rogowski cable comprising an outer shielding layer connected to a conductor of the signal output cable configured for a ground connection. The current transducer further comprises a conductive grounding connection establishing an electrical contact between the magnetic core and the shielding conductor of the Rogowski cable.
US12007414B2
A semiconductor test apparatus includes a chuck top on which a semiconductor wafer is mounted, and contact probes that contact measurement points of semiconductor chips formed on the semiconductor wafer, the chuck top includes a conductor that contacts a lower surface of the semiconductor wafer, a mounting table arranged below the conductor, and a first vacuum tube and a second vacuum tube connected to the mounting table, the conductor has a plurality of suction holes that are arranged in a spiral form in top view, in the mounting table, a flow pass communicating with the plurality of suction holes and having a spiral form in top view, the first vacuum tube is connected to an inner circumference portion of the flow pass, and the second vacuum tube is connected to an outer circumference portion of the flow pass.
US12007406B1
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for activity detections based on device orientation and user handedness. A method may include determining, by a wearable device, first and second accelerometer data, the first accelerometer data associated with a first axis, and the second accelerometer data associated with a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. The method may include determining a first mean acceleration value based on the first accelerometer data, and determining a second mean acceleration value based on the second accelerometer data. The method may include determining, based on the first mean acceleration value and the second mean acceleration value, an orientation of the wearable device, the orientation indicative of a user wearing the wearable device on a right limb or a left limb. The method may include sending an indication of the orientation to an application of the wearable device.
US12007405B2
Provided is a novel material analysis technique using a chemical sensor. By reversing the conventional approach, a material to be measured is provided as a receptor of the chemical sensor, and a response signal of the chemical sensor obtained by supplying a known gas or the like to the chemical sensor is obtained. From the response signal, it is possible to identify and distinguish the receptor material, and to obtain its composition and the like. By analyzing the response signal by means of a statistical or machine learning technique such as principal component analysis, linear discriminant analysis, or a support vector machine, the above-mentioned identification and the like can be performed with high accuracy.
US12007404B2
The invention relates to a sample acquiring device holder (3) for a housing (2) of an analysis apparatus (1). The sample acquiring device holder (3) may comprise an activating element (5) and a reception recess (11) for receiving a sample acquiring device (4). A first portion (10) of the activating element (5) may protrude into the reception recess (11), if the activating element (5) is in a non-activating position. The activating element (5) may be adapted to be moved into an activating position by the sample acquiring device (4), if the sample acquiring device (4) is inserted into an intended measurement position within the reception recess (11). The activating element (5) may be adapted to activate a measurement triggering element (15), if the activating element (5) is in its activating position, such that the measurement triggering element (15) activates a measurement of the analysis apparatus (1).
US12007396B2
The present application provides methods and systems to identify host cell protein (HCP) impurities in a sample containing high-abundance proteins. The HCP impurities can be enriched using interacting peptide ligands which have been attached to solid support. The HCP impurities can be eluted from the solid support using solution containing phase transfer surfactants. The isolated HCP impurities can be digested to generate components of the isolated HCP impurities which can subsequently be identified using a mass spectrometer.
US12007385B2
Embodiments herein include a method for detecting a brain condition in a subject. The method can include obtaining a breath sample from the subject and contacting it with a chemical sensor element, where the chemical sensor element includes a plurality of discrete graphene varactors. The method can include sensing and storing capacitance of the discrete graphene varactors to obtain a sample data set and classifying the sample data set into one or more preestablished brain condition classifications. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US12007378B2
A soil testing device includes a housing, a display unit, and at least one sensor assembly. The display unit is disposed on the housing. The at least one sensor assembly is rotatably connected to the housing, and the at least one sensor assembly is electrically connected to the display unit. The at least one sensor assembly is configured to insert into soil and output an electrical signal corresponding to a soil parameter, and the display unit is configured to display a value of the soil parameter corresponding to the electrical signal output by the at least one sensor assembly.
US12007357B2
The present disclosure relates to an electrochemical sensor for determining a measurand correlating with a concentration of an analyte in a measuring fluid, comprising: a sensor membrane designed to be in contact with the measuring fluid for detecting measured values of the measurand; a probe housing which has at least one immersion region designed for immersion into the measuring fluid, wherein the sensor membrane is arranged in the immersion region of the probe housing; and a measurement circuit which is at least partially contained in the probe housing and is designed to generate and output a measurement signal dependent on the measurand, wherein the sensor membrane contains an optically detectable substance for marking the sensor membrane.
US12007356B2
A field effect transistor sensor includes: a source-drain channel, a semiconductor layer on said source-drain channel, a first gate electrode arranged above said semiconductor layer, a first well enclosing said source-drain channel, said semiconductor layer and said first gate electrode, the first well being configured to be filled, in use, with a first liquid, particularly a gating electrolyte, a second gate electrode arranged above the first gate electrode and exposed to an interior of the first well. Also disclosed is an array device including an array of field effect transistor sensors according to the above.
US12007353B2
A method for producing a gas sensor element, for covering a detection portion (150) by an inner protection layer (21) and an outer protection layer (22), including: a first dipping step of dipping the gas sensor element into a first slurry S1 for the inner protection layer, to form a first coating film (700) on a front end surface (100c) and a peripheral surface (100d); a drying step of drying and solidifying the first coating film; a second dipping step of dipping, without removing the first coating film, the gas sensor element into a second slurry S2 for the outer protection layer, to form a second coating film (800) on a surface of the solidified first coating film; and a scraping-off step of performing scraping-off on the second coating film so as not to scrape-off the first coating film, to remove a part of the second coating film.
US12007349B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sensor structure formed on a substrate comprising a sensor frame, comprising electric contacts for sensors, an active sensor within the sensor frame comprising at least a capacitive humidity sensor. In accordance with the invention the active sensor is connected to the sensor frame only by a thin thermally isolating layer supporting the active sensor, the thermally isolating layer including electric contacts from the sensor frame.
US12007347B2
A sensor comprises a group of four memristors arranged in an array. Two of the memristors are connected in series as a first pair, and the other two memristors are connected in series as a second pair. The first and second pairs are connected in parallel between two connection points. Each memristor acts as a sensor element because it has an electrical resistance characteristic that is related to exposure to a species to be sensed. In the sensor, the resistance characteristic of the array between the first and second connection points is related to exposure to the species to be sensed. A sensor comprising a larger array can be composed of multiple groups of four memristors.
US12007336B2
A sensing apparatus monitors a cover optic on a laser processing head for contamination, indicating the need to replace the cover optic. The apparatus includes at least one reflector and at least one sensors that are disposed in the processing head adjacent a periphery of the cover optic. The reflector reflects radiation from the laser beam deflected from contamination on the cover optic and incident thereagainst. The sensor is offset from the reflector and detects at least a portion of the radiation reflected by the reflector. A controller in communication with the sensor can determine the contamination on the cover optic based on the detected radiation.
US12007335B2
A method of automatic optimization of an examination recipe includes obtaining inspection data of a given layer of a semiconductor specimen acquired by an inspection tool during runtime examination, the inspection data including inspection images representative of defect candidates from a defect map of the given layer, extracting inspection features characterizing the inspection images, and using a classifier to classify the defect candidates based on the inspection features, giving rise to a list of defect candidates having a higher probability of being defects of interest (DOIs). The semiconductor specimen includes multiple layers, and the classifier is a general-purpose classifier (GPC) usable for runtime classification of inspection data from any layer of the multiple layers of the semiconductor specimen, the GPC being previously trained using training data including inspection features characterizing training inspection images of various types of DOIs and nuisances collected from the multiple layers and label data associated therewith.
US12007333B2
A system for inspecting thin glass includes: a housing including a body and a cover; a first shuttle which fixes an edge portion of the thin glass and reciprocates in a first axis direction; a first inspection part disposed on the body and which measures a position of a defect formed in the thin glass by taking a picture of the thin glass; a transport shuttle which separates the thin glass from the first shuttle, a second shuttle which separates the thin glass from the transport shuttle, fixes the thin glass, and reciprocates the upper surface of the body; and a second inspection part disposed on the body and spaced apart from the first inspection part and which inspects the position of the defect by taking an enlarged picture of the position of the defect. The first shuttle tensions and fixes the thin glass.
US12007331B2
An inspection device includes: an illumination device that irradiates standard and inspection objects with near-infrared light; a spectroscope that disperses reflected light; an imaging device that takes images of first and second optical spectrums of the reflected light dispersed by the spectroscope to obtain standard spectroscopic image data and inspection spectroscopic image data; and a processor. The processor executes a predetermined arithmetic operation with regard to at least one of (i) each pixel row of the standard spectroscopic image data perpendicular to a wavelength dispersion direction and (ii) each pixel column of the standard spectroscopic image data parallel to the wavelength dispersion direction. The processor, based on luminance values of pixels belonging to the pixel row or column, determines a characteristic of the pixel row and grasps a wavelength sensitivity characteristic of the imaging element under the near-infrared light emitted from the illumination device.
US12007328B2
Methods and systems for determining extracellular concentration data of an analyte are disclosed. A method for determining extracellular concentration data of an analyte includes receiving sensor data from one or more arrays of functionalized plasmonic nanostructures on a localized surface plasmon resonance imaging chip in contact with a fluid containing at least one living cell for a plurality of times, determining intensity data for the one or more arrays, determining fractional occupancy based on the intensity data, and determining extracellular concentration data based on the fractional occupancy data. A system for determining extracellular concentration data of an analyte includes a LSPRi chip, a sensor component, an intensity component, a fractional occupancy component, a concentration component, and a processor to implement the components.
US12007320B2
The present invention is related to, among other things, the devices and methods that improve the accuracy and reliability of an assay, even when the assay device and/or the operation of the assay device has certain errors, and in some embodiments the errors are random.
US12007313B2
Provided herein is a method for determining a soil classification comprising: obtaining a soil sample; conducting two or more field tests on the soil sample to obtain raw data for each field test; and calculating the soil classification from the raw data by applying a previously obtained validation dataset obtained from a training and validation soil classification calculation using samples of known soil classification, wherein the validation dataset is obtained using a feed-forward backpropagation neural network.
US12007311B2
The disclosure relates to a system for monitoring wind influences on a working machine, such as a mobile crane or crawler crane, comprising at least one detection unit that is arranged on the working machine and by means of which a current wind speed can be detected, a recording unit that is configured to receive, to store, and to transmit data of the detection unit during and outside the operation of the working machine, a controller of the working machine that is configured to determine a current working machine state, an external processing unit that is configured to directly or indirectly receive and process data from the detection unit relating to an current wind speed and data from the controller, and an output device that is configured to receive data from the external processing unit.
US12007305B2
A system is provided for collection, detection and containment of leaked liquid. The system may include a spout connected to a liquid cooling manifold for channeling liquid. The system may also include a collection tray positioned under the spout and configured to contain the liquid from the spout. The system may further include a leak detection rope having a first end coupled to the liquid cooling manifold, a middle portion extending along the spout, and a second end placed inside the collection tray for detection of liquid.
US12007304B2
The present disclosure relates to a device and a method for pipeline leakage detection. The device for pipeline leakage detection includes a metal powder storage box, a plurality of ribs, and a signal collection and processing device. The metal powder storage box is ring-shaped and made of insulating material, which is configured to be sleeved on a pipeline. Metal powder is stored inside of the metal powder storage box, and inner and outer peripheral walls of the metal powder storage box are of mesh structure, which allows the metal powder to be ejected from the metal powder storage box under the push of leakage fluid of the pipeline. The plurality of ribs are made of insulating material, which are distributed evenly along an outer peripheral wall of the metal powder storage box, and fixed on the metal powder storage box respectively, and a plurality of coils arranged in a layer are configured inside the plurality of ribs. The signal collection and processing device is connected to each coil for collecting and monitoring electromagnetic signal of each coil and obtaining leakage parameters based on the abnormal signal when an abnormal signal occurs. The present disclosure can well detect whether the pipeline leaks and obtain the leakage parameters efficiently, portably, and accurately in the case of leakage.
US12007294B2
An operation processing apparatus that calculates a rotation angle based on a first output signal and a second output signal, which differ in signal frequency from each other, is provided with a first cross-coupled operation part that performs a first cross-coupled operation and a second cross-coupled operation part that performs a second cross-coupled operation based on the first and second output signals. A first Lissajous curve generation part generates a first Lissajous curve based on the result of operation by the first cross-coupled operation part, and a second Lissajous curve generation part generates a second Lissajous curve based on the result of operation by the second cross-coupled operation part. A rotation angle computing part calculates the rotation angle based on the first Lissajous curve and the second Lissajous curve.
US12007290B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to reliably determine a temperature, such as in the time domain. In this regard, an apparatus includes a delay line having a temperature dependent measurement invertor configured to stretch a clock pulse that was generated by an oscillating circuit during circulation of the clock pulse through the delay line. The amount by which the clock pulse is stretched during a cycle about the delay line is dependent upon temperature. The apparatus also includes detection circuitry configured to detect an instance in which clock pulse has been stretched so as to equal or exceed a period of the clock pulse. The apparatus further includes processing circuitry configured to determine the temperature based at least in part upon a number of cycles completed to stretch the clock pulse so as to equal or exceed the period of the clock pulse.
US12007284B2
The invention relates to a method for determining data characterizing at least one change in the temperature of a motor vehicle component during a time interval, using a computer system, and to a system (100) using such a method.
US12007266B2
An add-on module for a sensor, such as a fill and/or limit level sensor, comprising a coupling unit, which is arranged to be communicatively couplable to at least one predetermined sensor, and a control unit, which is configured to enable and/or disable data processing of the at least one predetermined sensor. Furthermore, the invention also relates to a sensor unit for detecting a fill level and/or limit level, comprising at least one sensor, and such an additional module, as well as a method for controlling such a sensor unit.
US12007258B2
A flexible capacitive touch sensing device comprising a first, a second sensing region and a capacitance detection circuit. Each of the first, second sensing region comprises: flexible material; and electrodes, in or on the flexible material. Capacitance sensed by the capacitance detection circuit is used for detecting if an object causes capacitance variation to the first sensing region and the second sensing region. The first sensing region comprises a first side region with a first side which is adjacent to a second side of the second sensing region Shapes of the electrodes are changeable after provided on the flexible material. The electrodes are overlapped in normal directions of the first side region and the second side region. An angle which is not 0 degree exists between the electrodes which are overlapped. Such flexible capacitive touch sensing device can be applied to generate a HOD device with different sizes.
US12007251B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an Internet of Things (IoT) system for diagnosing accuracy of a smart gas ultrasonic meter. The method is implemented by a smart gas device management platform of the IoT system for diagnosing accuracy of the smart gas ultrasonic meter. The method includes: acquiring gas attribute data of gas passing through a metering device based on a distributed sensor deployed in a gas pipeline network; determining a first accuracy risk of the metering device through performing pre-diagnosis on the metering device based on the gas attribute data and metering device information; determining a second accuracy risk of the metering device through performing precision diagnosis on the metering device based on a pre-diagnosis result; and displaying detection indication information to the smart gas device management platform based on a precision diagnosis result.
US12007247B2
A method for creating a map of at least one parking infrastructure. Unoccupied parking spaces inside the parking infrastructure are registered. Items of path information and items of environmental information are received by an external server unit. Items of path information are subdivided into path segments. The path segments are rectified by the external server unit. A loop recognition is carried out in order to create a geometrical map of the parking infrastructure. On the basis of the items of environmental information, occupied and unoccupied parking spaces along the path are acquired in order to ascertain unoccupied parking spaces inside the parking infrastructure. An external server unit and a system are also described.
US12007242B2
Method and system for providing carbon offsets. For example, the method includes collecting mindful driving data for one or more vehicle trips made by a user, analyzing the mindful driving data to determine a level of mindful driving of the user, determining a level of carbon offset reward based at least in part upon the level of mindful driving of the user, determining an amount of total carbon emission of the user, and providing an amount of carbon offset reward based at least in part upon the level of carbon offset reward and the amount of total carbon emission.
US12007232B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for monitoring the health of a battery cell. Specifically, the method includes receiving, by a controller communicatively coupled a pressure sensor positioned proximate to a battery housing having an initial volume and an initial shape and containing a battery cell, a pressure value indicative of a current volume or a current shape of the battery' housing. The pressure sensor is configured to measure the pressure value indicative of the current volume or the current shape of the battery' housing. The method also involves comparing, by the controller, the pressure value to a predetermined threshold pressure value. The method further involves adjusting, by the controller and based on the comparison, at least one parameter associated with operations of the battery cell.
US12007230B2
A measurement unit module includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and electronic components being mounted on a front face of the PCB, a plurality of measurement unit modules are arranged at intervals in an extending direction of a stripped flat cable, the stripped flat cable is electrically connected to back faces of the plurality of PCBs in sequence to form a measurement unit cluster, the measurement unit cluster is packaged and molded by an extrusion technology of silica gel to form the flexible sensing strip, and the flexible sensing strip can be wound into a sensing strip reel. The packaging structure has the beneficial effects that connection integrity between the measurement unit modules is enhanced, connection strength is improved, and reliability of a flexible clinometer is improved. The flexible sensing strip can be wound into the sensing strip reel so as to be convenient to carry and convey.
US12007229B2
A sensor for detecting an object is provided that has a detection unit for detecting a sensor signal and a control and evaluation unit that is configured to determine an object property by evaluating the sensor signal, to determine a correction value for interference of the sensor environment from the sensor signal using a method of machine learning, and to take the correction value into account in the determination of the object property.
US12007222B2
A system for determining field surface conditions may include a frame member and a ground engaging tool coupled thereto. The ground engaging tool may be configured to engage soil within a field as an agricultural implement is moved across the field. The system may further include a vision sensor having a field of view directed towards a portion of a surface of the field and being configured to capture vision-based data indicative of a field surface condition of the field. The system may also include a secondary sensor coupled to the ground engaging tool and configured to capture secondary data indicative of the field surface condition. Additionally, the system may include a controller configured to determine an initial surface condition as a function of the vision-based data and to adjust the initial surface condition based at least in part on the secondary data received from the secondary sensor.
US12007220B2
Methods, systems and devices for optical structural health monitoring of a subject, including the utilization of pointillism to provide a design or painting of the surface of the structure to be monitored, which also serves as a mechanism for conducting SHM, implementing digital image correlation (DIC) by applying a pattern comprising a random dot pattern and/or codes. The subject is imaged using imaging equipment to capture images of the pattern. For some applications, the captured images of the pattern and codes are stored in a CAD file that represents the subject or portion thereof to which the pattern and codes are applied, and includes the locations of the pattern and codes. Indicia applied to a structure may be applied using a paintjet or inkjet, or robotic mechanism, while some applications implement pre-patterning of a composite sheet that is used to form the structure.
US12007218B2
A device for an avalanche triggering system adapted to cooperate with a blasting chamber and including a support frame adapted to be detachably mounted on the blasting chamber, a diffusion chamber, partially delimiting an inner mixing cavity in which is housed a gas mixer configured to produce a gas mixture, the diffusion chamber further having a diffusion opening configured to allow the passage of the gas mixture to the outside of the diffusion chamber, and an ignition system configured to trigger an explosion of the gas mixture, where the diffusion chamber allows placing the device in an operating position configuration in which the device rests, by gravity, on the blasting chamber.
US12007212B2
In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, an actuation system for a guided munition, includes a reservoir disposed in a guided munition body housing a compressible fluid in a compressed state, a fluid path connecting the reservoir in fluid communication with a heat exchange volume, a throttling orifice disposed in the fluid path configured to expand the compressible fluid, and an actuation path connecting the heat exchange volume in fluid communication with a moveable component. The actuation path can be configured to supply pneumatic pressure to the moveable components.
US12007205B2
A system for disabling or destroying an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is provided. The system comprises an anti-UAV system and an anti-UAV computing platform. The anti-UAV system comprises: a plurality of laser devices configured to generate a plurality of laser beams at a plurality of different wavelengths; a coarse wavelength division multiplexing (CWDM) combiner configured to combine the plurality of laser beams from the plurality of laser devices into a combined laser beam; and a tracking device configured to detect a UAV. The anti-UAV computing platform is configured to: detect, using the tracking device, an object within range of the tracking device; and based on detecting the object, direct, using the anti-UAV system, the combined laser beam from the CWDM combiner onto the detected object.
US12007200B2
A foldable dot sight device is provided that includes a body capable of being assembled into a firearm. A dot generator is disposed on the body, and is capable of generating a dot for aiming at a target. A reflective mirror is provided, which transmits an image of a target toward the user and reflects the dot generated by the dot generator. A housing is connected to the reflective mirror. A protective cover includes a sliding guide rotatably connected to the body and rotates the housing in a folding or unfolding direction according to a rotational position.
US12007193B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided that include linear motors and controllers configured to simulate haptic feedback for gaming devices and simulations systems, including gaming firearms and other peripheral devices used in various gaming environments.
US12007188B2
A firearm that automatically controls the release of bullets, including one or more sensors that provide real-time sensor data of the view in front of the firearm, a computer that identities legitimate targets in the real-time sensor data, without user intervention, a trigger sensor that determines directly or indirectly if the trigger is engaged, wherein as long as the trigger is engaged, the firearm is configured to continuously acquire real-time sensor data, identify legitimate targets and automatically release bullets when the firearm is directed toward the identified targets.
US12007186B2
A trigger lock for a trigger of a firearm, components thereof, and associated methods. The trigger lock comprises a first guard including a bolt having a catch. The trigger lock includes a second guard comprising a bolt receiver configured to receive the bolt to connect the first and second guards with the trigger between the first and second guards for obstructing access to the trigger. The bolt receiver includes a keeper arranged to engage the catch when the bolt is in the bolt receiver to maintain the first and second guards connected to each other. The second guard includes a shield overlying the bolt receiver and configured to obstruct cutting of the bolt receiver to disengage the keeper from the at least one catch.
US12007183B2
A heat exchanger includes a fin arranged in a first passage and a tubular tank portion formed so as to penetrate plate members stacked in a stacking direction. An inflow port is formed in a peripheral wall of the tank portion to allow a refrigerant to flow into the first passage. When the fin is arranged in a fin installation portion in the first passage, a passage reduction portion is formed at the inflow port and is narrower than a width of the fin installation portion in the stacking direction.
US12007181B2
The present invention provides a heat storage member which is excellent in a heat storage property and of which a chronological change in a tint is suppressed. A heat storage member according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a heat storage sheet containing a microcapsule encompassing a heat storage material, and a colored layer.
US12007175B2
A thermal transfer blanket includes a flexible container comprising a thermally insulating material. A thermal energy storage media is disposed within the flexible container.
US12007174B2
A method for producing a sector plate for a rotary heat exchanger is disclosed. The method includes defining overall dimensions of a sector plate. A number of a plurality of tapered ribs to be included on the top surface is determined based on a surface area of the sector plate and/or a sealing to be provided by the sector plate. Additionally, a root height of the plurality of tapered ribs is determined based on at least a plate thickness of the sector plate and the number of the plurality of tapered ribs. With the root height, the plurality of tapered ribs cause the sector plate to deform parabolically in response to an actuation. The plurality of tapered ribs also return the sector plate to a rest position and the sector plate supports its weight in a cantilevered fashion when in the actuated position and the rest position.
US12007172B2
A heat sink includes a casing and a capillary structure. The casing includes a chamber filled with a working fluid. The capillary structure is located in the chamber. The capillary structure includes a plurality of capillary pores of different diameters. The capillary structure includes at least one supporting portion connected to a substrate. The substrate and the at least one supporting portion abut two opposite inner faces of the casing, respectively.
US12007170B2
Disclosed herein are structures and assemblies that may be used for thermal management in integrated circuit (IC) packages.
US12007167B1
The present disclosure relates to environmentally-clean thermal drying systems and methods. In accordance with one aspect, a method for thermal drying includes receiving a grease-related waste, burning the grease-related waste in a furnace to generate heat energy, receiving a bio-waste in an indirect dryer at an adjustable feed rate, drying the bio-waste in the indirect dryer using at least some of the heat energy, and metering the bio-waste into the indirect dryer at the adjustable feed rate. The adjustable feed rate is adjusted based on a percentage of solids of the bio-waste before entering the indirect dryer and a temperature within the indirect dryer, where the indirect dryer and the adjustable feed rate are coordinated to achieve a predetermined percentage of solids in a dried bio-waste exiting the indirect dryer.
US12007160B2
An appliance door including an outer skin extending between first and second distal edges thereof, and an inner liner disposed adjacent the outer skin such that a space is formed therebetween. A first endcap is disposed at the first distal edge of the outer skin and the first endcap partially enclose the space formed between the outer skin and the liner. A wireless module is positioned on the first endcap and is configured to wirelessly communicate with a mobile device. The wireless module includes a printed circuit board and an antenna, wherein the antenna faces outwards and away from the first endcap.
US12007157B2
A transportable refrigerated container has an interior chamber sub-divided into separate compartments by movable partitions that allow free air circulation to maintain the compartments at the same temperature and a plurality of security doors in at least one of the sides of the container, each door affording access only to a selected respective compartment or group of compartments. A method of distributing perishable goods from a supply depot to a plurality of customers utilizes such a container. At the supply depot, goods for different customers are loaded into separate compartments and the container is then transported to a location convenient to all the customers. There, delivery drivers who can each only open a door leading to a compartment containing goods intended for a specific customer, transfer the goods from the compartment onto a smaller vehicle and deliver them to their respective customer.
US12007144B2
Disclosed are a ventilation apparatus and an air conditioner including the same. The air conditioner includes a main body including a heat exchanger and a blower fan blowing indoor air to pass through the heat exchanger, and a ventilation apparatus mounted on the main body to ventilate a room, the ventilation apparatus includes a case configured to accommodate a ventilation fan, a ventilation pipe including an inlet tube mounted on an outdoor air inlet of a building and an extension tube connecting a flow path of the case and the inlet tube and detachably connected to the inlet tube, and a ventilation filter installed in the ventilation pipe through a connection portion between the inlet tube and the extension tube to filter out foreign substances in air.
US12007142B2
An air conditioner may include a case having a supply channel therein through which external air flows into an interior space; a first heat exchanger disposed on the supply channel and in which the air and refrigerant exchange heat; a second heat exchanger disposed at a downstream side of the first heat exchanger in the supply channel, and in which the air and refrigerant exchange heat; and a refrigerant distributor that sends refrigerant to the first heat exchanger or the second heat exchanger. The refrigerant distributor may include a liquid pipe connected with the first heat exchanger and through which liquid-state refrigerant flows; a first gas pipe connected to the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and through which gas-state refrigerant flows; a second gas pipe through which gas-state refrigerant discharged from the first heat exchanger flows; a first gas pipe valve disposed on the first gas pipe and that sends refrigerant flowing through the first gas pipe to the first heat exchanger or the second heat exchanger; and a second gas pipe valve disposed on the second gas pipe and that opens and closes the second gas pipe.
US12007141B2
A system for controlling the flow of air through ductwork includes a foldably tensioned boot loadable air damper device and a method of installing same. The damper device includes an actuator having a retractable member and a pivoting member, wherein the pivoting member is operatively connected to the retractable member of the actuator. The damper device also includes at least one support base supporting the actuator and the pivoting member with respect to each other, a foldable damper blade attached to the pivoting member, and at least one tensioned hinge member operatively connected to the foldable damper blade for unfolding the damper blade. The damper device may be inserted through a register boot and into a ductwork when folded.
US12007139B2
A building system includes a building space defined by a structural ceiling and a flooring of a building, and a ceiling system. The ceiling system includes an air permeable suspended ceiling arranged below the structural ceiling, and a plenum space is formed between the suspended ceiling and the structural ceiling and a flooring space is formed between the flooring and the suspended ceiling. A plurality of partition wall sections is arranged in the plenum space extending between the structural ceiling and the suspended ceiling and forms a plurality of plenum modules distributed across the plenum space. Each plenum module includes equipment. The equipment of each plenum module includes a supply air device for delivery of supply air to the associated plenum module for pressurization thereof such that the supply air delivered to the plenum module is supplied to the flooring space through the air permeable suspended ceiling.
US12007135B2
An air conditioning system includes an air conditioner, a remote controller, and a system controller. The air conditioner performs air conditioning for a room. The remote controller displays an operation state of the air conditioner and controls operation of the air conditioner. The remote controller is placed in the room. The system controller controls the remote controller. The system controller causes the remote controller to change a display form for the operation state according to a first language used when a user makes a reservation for staying in the room.
US12007128B2
An outdoor unit for an air conditioner, and an air conditioner are provided. The outdoor unit has a housing and a draught fan. The housing is provided with a first air exchange port and a second air exchange port. The draught fan is arranged in the housing and located between the first air exchange port and the second air exchange port. The draught fan has an electric motor, a first fan, and a second fan. The electric motor has two rotors which rotate independently of each other, and a first output shaft and a second output shaft connected to the two rotors respectively. The first output shaft and the second output shaft are respectively fixedly connected to the first fan and the second fan for driving the first fan and the second fan to rotate independently of each other.
US12007127B2
A method of forming a sound attenuator around a compressor of an air conditioning system includes covering the compressor with a flexible protective cover and depositing a plurality of materials proximate an outer surface of the flexible protective cover such that at least some of the plurality of materials can chemically react to create a self-forming foam that abuts at least some of the flexible protective cover to thereby create the sound-attenuating structure around the compressor.
US12007124B2
A distribution pump arrangement for a bi-directional hydraulic distribution grid can include a hot conduit control valve in a hot conduit; a first distribution pump having an inlet connected to the hot conduit at a first side of the hot conduit control valve, and an outlet connected to the hot conduit at a second side, opposite the first side, of the hot conduit control valve; a pressure difference determining device arranged beyond the second side of the hot conduit control valve and configured to determine a local pressure difference, Δp, between a local pressure of heat transfer liquid in the hot conduit and a local pressure of heat transfer liquid in the cold conduit; and a controller configured to set the distribution pump arrangement based at least in part on Δp.
US12007119B2
A grill cleaning tool assembly for effectively cleaning rounded grills and smokers includes a curved ash scoop apparatus and a curved ash scraper apparatus. The curved ash scoop apparatus comprises a scoop back having an arcuate scoop back bottom edge conforming to the contour of a rounded grill or smoker. A scoop body is coupled to the scoop back and extends from a scoop back bottom edge perpendicular to a scoop back front side. A scoop handle is coupled to the scoop back back side. The curved ash scraper apparatus comprises a scraper blade having a blade front side, a blade back side, a blade top edge, and a blade bottom edge. The blade bottom edge is arcuate and conforms to the contour of the scoop back bottom edge. A scraper handle is coupled to the blade back side.
US12007107B2
An LED growth light and method for providing light to plants incorporating an LED arrangement, a growth light housing, and a power source. The LED arrangement includes LEDs arranged in individually powered columns to provide relatively uniform disbursement of the light to the plants. The housing includes an accessory rail to attach a variety of optional accessories and internal cooling fins to cool the housing to prevent damage to the power supply and/or to prevent overheating the plants. In addition, the housing includes a fan and end caps which permit the movement of air for the displacement of heat and reduce the intake of moisture or debris into the interior of the LED growth light.
US12007105B2
The present invention relates to a mounting rail system (100) comprising a mounting rail (1) with an elongate profiled mounting rail (2) which has a longitudinal extent (L), delimits an interior (I) and has an elongate coupling opening (20), and an elongate busbar (4), which extends longitudinally (L) in the interior (I) of the profiled mounting rail (2), wherein the busbar (4) has at least one electrical conductor (40) for electrically connecting electrical or electronic components (30) via the coupling opening (20). The mounting rail system (100) further has a tapping element (10), which is detachably inserted into the interior (I) via the coupling opening (20) and byway of a contact portion (5) is electrically coupled to the busbar (4). The tapping element (10) further has a supply element (6), which is provided on the outside in relation to the mounting rail (1) and is electrically connected by way of electrical connecting element (7) to the contact portion (5) via an opening (24), independent of the coupling opening (20), in the profiled mounting rail (2) in order to supply the electrical tapping by the contact portion (5) from the busbar (4) via the supply element (6) on the outside.
US12007074B2
The disclosure relates to an electrically powered mobile fluid supply system (MFSS) for supplying fluid to a host unit. The MFSS comprises at least one pressurized fluid volume, a fluid dispenser fluidly connectable to the host unit and configured to supply fluid from the at least one pressurized fluid volume to the host unit in a fluid supply operation, and at least one compressor configured to build sufficient pressure for the fluid supply operation in the MFSS. The MFSS is configured to be electrically connected to the host unit and the at least one compressor is configured to be electrically connected to the MFSS and electrically powered by the host unit during the fluid supply operation. The disclosure further relates to a method for supplying fluid to a host unit, to a control unit configured to control the fluid supply operation, and to the MFSS.
US12007066B2
An assembly for supporting an article is disclosed. The assembly may include one or a combination of a pillar member, a first cap member, a second cap member; and a fastener. In some configurations, the pillar member may be utilized alone for supporting the article; as such the first cap member, the second cap member, and the fastener may be individually or collectively optional. A method for assembling the assembly is also disclosed.
US12007061B2
Air brake tubing is provided having an air brake tube body comprising at least one layer formed from a composition comprising a copolyester, polyethylene terephthalate or polybutylene terephthalate; and a thermoplastic polyurethane.
US12007059B2
A process is for insulating an appliance, in particular a three-dimensional appliance likely in particular to be exposed to high temperatures, such as a domestic oven. The appliance has one or more internal spaces to be insulated. Flakes and/or nodules of wool(s) and/or fibers, in particular mineral wool(s) and/or fibers, are blown into the space(s) to be insulated without adding binder or water.
US12007042B2
A method may include receiving, from a first restroom appliance of a plurality of restroom appliances arranged in an environment, environmental data comprising an ambient light level, the first restroom appliance comprising a sensor configured to detect the ambient light level and a communication device configured to transmit the ambient light level; determining, with at least one controller, an adjusted infrared pulse frequency based on the ambient light level received from the first restroom appliance; and modifying, with the at least one controller, an infrared pulse frequency of a second restroom appliance of the plurality of restroom appliances based on the adjusted infrared pulse frequency.
US12007041B2
A liquid dispensing device includes a body, a nozzle on an end of the body, a liquid container coupled to the body, and a piston configured to move in the body so as to control an ejection of liquid from the nozzle. The piston and the nozzle are configured to be detached from the body as an assembly.
US12007040B2
An overfill-prevention valve system includes a testing mechanism, operable by a user from the inlet end of the drop tube, which can be used to verify proper valve function without actually filling the storage tank. The testing mechanism allows the user to actuate the valve manually using a test probe, such as by elevating a float to simulate a full storage tank. The testing mechanism may be located upstream of the valve to facilitate the testing operation without interfering with the valve body. The mechanism may further provide non-contact functionality, such as with magnetic actuators on either side of the drop tube wall, to eliminate a potential test mechanism leak points. The test probe used to actuate the test mechanism may be shaped to define a desired rotational position at the test location within the drop tube, ensuring proper rotational alignment of the magnetic actuators.
US12007032B2
The invention relates to a method of operating a mechanical seal assembly (1) having a mechanical seal (2) with a rotating sliding ring (3) and a stationary sliding ring (4), defining a sealing gap (5) between the sliding surfaces thereof, comprising the steps of: collecting operating data and/or environmental data of the mechanical seal (2), transmitting the collected operating data and/or environmental data to a digital twin (31) of the mechanical seal (2), simulating and monitoring the operation of the mechanical seal (2) using the digital twin (31) based on the transmitted operating data and/or environmental data of the mechanical seal (2), and retransmitting a simulation result and/or data of the digital twin.
US12007023B2
A variety of transmission mechanisms are provided that include split pulleys nested within each other in order to reduce the size of the transmissions, to provide infinitely variable transmission ratios that include forward and reverse ratios, or to provide some other benefits. These transmissions include “W”-shaped belts, having both contact surfaces that are directed outward from the belt and inward, toward a center-line of the belt, to contact the pulleys with respective different inward- and outward-directed contact surfaces. Accordingly, the surfaces at which the belt contacts the different pulleys may be substantially the same with respect to a hinge or other structure of the belt. This improvement may permit higher levels of power transmission, increased efficiency, and increased transmission lifetime. Additionally, variable-eccentricity variable transmissions are provided wherein the eccentricity of rotation of an inner, nested pulley varies with changes in the transmission ratio of the transmission.
US12007019B2
A modified hydraulic circuit for an OEM vehicle transmission, which transmission has a forward clutch, a forward clutch hub and a forward sprag having an inner sprag race and an outer sprag race, an overrun clutch and an overrun clutch hub, the forward clutch and the forward sprag providing a link to a planetary gear train to propel the vehicle forward, the forward clutch hub defining the outer sprag race, the overrun clutch hub defining the inner sprag race, a hydraulic valve body having a plurality of passages and a separator plate, and a 1-2 shift valve, a 2-3 shift valve, a 3-4 shift valve and a 3-4 relay valve, and a gear shift valve, includes a blockage in the passage fluidically connecting the 2-3 shift valve to the overrun clutch, a blockage in the passage fluidically connecting the gear shift valve to the 2-3 shift valve, removal of a movable element from the first check valve body and a passage from the gear shift valve to the overrun clutch via the first check valve body, wherein when operating in the D4 mode, the forward clutch is applied and the overrun clutch is applied and are locked to one another, such that the forward sprag clutch is ineffective. A method of modifying the hydraulic circuit is disclosed.
US12007016B2
An axle drive for a motor vehicle, comprising an electric machine coupled by a rotor shaft to a transmission for the axle drive, wherein a torque can be transferred from the electric machine to an intermediate shaft with a first gear stage and from the intermediate shaft to another gear train, in particular a differential, with a second gear stage, wherein the rotor shaft or a shaft segment coupled to the rotor shaft is supported in a bearing element, wherein a fluid supply is designed to convey a liquid, in particular oil, into an intermediate space between the bearing element and a side shaft on the axle drive through a fluid channel, and from the intermediate space into the rotor chamber in the electric machine.
US12007013B2
A gear-based mechanical metamaterial with continuously adjustable elastic parameters in a large range is provided. The gear-based mechanical metamaterial includes a gear array, a frame and connecting shafts. The gear array is formed by periodically extending mechanical metamaterial cells along an x direction and a y direction. Each of the mechanical metamaterial cells is formed by arranging a multiple gears. Adjacent gears of the multiple gears are meshed with each other. Each of the multiple gears includes a center hole and two centrosymmetric irregularly-shaped holes. A thickness of an elastic arm between the each of two centrosymmetric irregularly-shaped holes and an outer wall of a corresponding one of the multiple gears is uniformly increased or decreased. Each of the connecting shafts is arranged in a center hole of a corresponding one of the multiple gears.
US12007012B2
The present disclosure relates to a reducer. The reducer includes a casing, an internal ring gear and an elastic cushion. The casing has an inner circumferential wall provided with a first limiting part. The internal ring gear is arranged in the casing and has an outer circumferential wall provided with a second limiting part. The first limiting part is fitted with the second limiting part to limit rotation of the internal ring gear. The elastic cushion has at least a portion located between the second limiting part and the inner circumferential wall of the casing and abutting against the second limiting part and the inner circumferential wall of the casing.
US12007011B2
A gearbox assembly includes a first gear and a second gear. The first gear includes a plurality of first gear teeth. The second gear includes a plurality of second gear teeth. The plurality of first gear teeth and the plurality of second gear teeth mesh with each other as the first gear and the second gear rotate. A profile shape of at least one first gear tooth of the first gear is characterized by a total profile modification between 66 micrometers and 120 micrometers.
US12007002B2
A power transmission device is provided including: a base, provided with a pair of left and right drive pulleys; an intermediate member, rotatably supported by the base about a first axis; and a driven member, rotatably supported by the intermediate member about a second axis. A pair of left wires wound in opposite directions are fixed to the left drive pulley and the driven member. A pair of right wires wound in opposite directions to each other are fixed to the right drive pulley and the driven member. By the drive pulleys, when the driven member is rotated in the same direction about the second axis, torque in opposite directions about the first axis is applied to the driven member, and when the driven member is rotated in opposite directions about the second axis, torque in the same direction about the first axis is applied to the driven member.
US12006996B2
According to some embodiments, a vibration-isolating system comprises a case, one or more environmental buffers, a platform suspended within the case by a plurality of wire rope isolators, a crumple zone beneath the platform and configured with one or more shock-absorbing structures, and a container assembly configured on the platform. The container assembly is operable to protect a payload comprising a flexible panel. The container assembly comprises a back panel positioned behind the flexible panel and offset by a first substantially airtight compartment, a front panel positioned in front of the flexible panel and offset by a second substantially airtight compartment, and a stiffener panel positioned in front of the front panel and offset by a third substantially airtight compartment.
US12006995B2
A suspension strut includes a cylinder having a piston moveable in the cylinder, a coil spring arranged around the cylinder, and an abutment element for mounting the coil spring. The position of the abutment element is adjustably fixable along the longitudinal direction of the cylinder with respect to one direction, the cylinder has a male thread, and the abutment element has a female thread corresponding to the male thread. A thread insert is arranged in the abutment element, the thread insert has a holding region and an actuating region, and the region between the holding region and the actuating region can be arranged in the threads of the male thread of the cylinder. A holding means for the holding region is in the abutment element, the actuating region is mounted moveably in the abutment element, and the diameter of the thread insert is variable by movement of the actuating region.
US12006991B2
A parking brake apparatus including a bolt screw rotated by a driving force transmitted from an actuator, one or more pistons disposed at one side or both sides of the bolt screw, one or more screw nuts accommodated in the piston, screwed to an end of the bolt screw, and moved along with the rotation of the bolt screw, one or more elastic members disposed around the screw nut within the piston, and elastically deformed, in response to a displacement of the screw nut while the screw nut is moved by a set distance, to press the piston toward a shoe, and a load transfer unit disposed in the piston, and configured to transmit, to the piston, a displacement of the screw nut when the screw nut moves more than the set distance, thereby pressing the piston toward the shoe.
US12006986B2
An assembly that includes a rotating component and flexible coupling. The flexible coupling includes a flexible torque disc having a first plurality of fixing points so that it can be mounted upon a first rotatable component, in use, and a second plurality of fixing points so that it can be mounted upon a second rotatable component, in use. The coupling also includes a support ring, and mounting means so that the flexible torque disc is secured to the support ring. The mounting means restrict deflection of the flexible torque disc relative to the support ring.
US12006985B2
In a part having a rotationally symmetric region and a machining surface, and a method for manufacturing the part from a blank, the machining surface is finished in a planar manner. The normal direction of the machining surface is oriented parallelly to the axis of symmetry, e.g., an axis of rotation, of the rotationally symmetric region. The part includes an annular groove that extends around in a circumferential direction, e.g., with respect to the axis of symmetry. In a circumferential angular region covered by the machining surface, the annular groove is incomplete, e.g., removed down to the groove base of the annular groove, and in a circumferential angular region not covered by the machining surface, the annular groove is complete, e.g., the machining surface bordering on the annular groove and/or leading into the annular groove.
US12006984B2
The invention provides an operator for a roller closure. The operator includes an output drive comprising a rotating crown wheel. The crown wheel is configured to receive for attachment at least one output drive extension element selected from at least one first output drive extension element of a first size and shape or at least one second output drive extension element of a second, different size and shape, based on one or more physical characteristics of the particular drum wheel of the roller closure.
US12006982B2
A motor assembly includes a shaft, a bearing, at least one fluid channel, a temperature sensor, a lubricant supply pump, and a controller. The bearing defines a bearing interface against which the shaft rotates. The at least one fluid channel is fluidly coupled with the bearing interface. The temperature sensor detects a temperature of the bearing. The lubricant supply pump is fluidly coupled with the at least one fluid channel to transport lubricant from a lubricant supply to the bearing interface via the at least one fluid channel. The controller receives the bearing temperature from the temperature sensor, determines a difference between the bearing temperature and a supply temperature of the lubricant, determines a lubricant flow rate based on the difference, and transmits a control signal to the lubricant supply pump to cause the lubricant supply pump to transport the lubricant to the bearing interface at the lubricant flow rate.
US12006981B2
A non-locating bearing assembly includes a bearing unit configured to support a rotating component relative to a stationary component, and the bearing unit includes a first stationary bearing ring and a second rotatable bearing ring that is fixedly connectable to the rotating component. The bearing assembly also includes a bearing carrier to which the stationary bearing ring is attached in a rotationally fixed but axially displaceable manner, and the bearing carrier is configured to be fixedly connected to the stationary component.
US12006973B2
Bearings and valves are provided that include diamond engagement surfaces that are engaged with opposing, metal engagement surfaces that include diamond solvent-catalyst. Also provided are methods of making and using the bearings and valves.
US12006969B2
A hinge, a left rotating bracket and a right rotating bracket of the hinge are provided on a left linkage mechanism and a right linkage mechanism and are connected to a middle support frame by the linkage mechanisms. A synchronization structure is provided between the linkage mechanisms such that the rotating brackets simultaneously rotate in a reverse direction. The rotating brackets are respectively provided with sliding connection slots. The sides of the middle support frame are provided with mechanisms for providing rotational resistance. Rotating members in the mechanisms providing rotational resistance on the sides are each provided with a connection arm. The mechanisms are slidably connected to the sliding connection slots of the rotating brackets by the connection arms, respectively. The rotating brackets of the hinge are in direct sliding connection with the rotating members in the resistance mechanisms hinged to the middle support structure by guiding slots.
US12006968B2
A component mounting device includes a nozzle shaft. The nozzle shaft includes a filter and a filter state checking portion. The filter state checking portion is configured to allow light to pass therethrough from a first side to a second side of the nozzle shaft in an axially orthogonal direction according to an inserted state of the filter.
US12006958B2
A rivet fastener assembly is configured to securely clamp together one or more components. The rivet fastener assembly includes a pin and a rivet body having a collar and a column extending from the collar. The rivet body further includes a collar stop configured to provide a positive locating feature for the pin once assembled.
US12006956B2
The invention relates to an actuator device comprising at least one solid-state actuator and a hydraulic unit connected mechanically to the solid-state actuator in series, wherein said hydraulic unit comprises a hydraulic volume which is filled with a hydraulic fluid. In the method of clamping a clamping body, an actuator device of this type is used and the solid-state actuator of the actuator device is controlled, in particular, depending on a movement variable of the clamping body.
US12006948B2
A pump device includes a first pump, a second pump, and a casing. The first pump and the second pump are centrifugal pumps. The casing includes a first pump chamber in which the first pump is located and a second pump chamber in which the second pump is located. The first pump chamber includes a first bottom surface, a first side surface, a first inlet, and a first outlet. The first bottom surface is located on one side in the first direction with respect to a first motor of the first pump. The first side surface is connected to the first bottom surface and extends in the first direction. The first outlet is open with respect to the first side surface. The second pump chamber includes a second bottom surface, a second side surface, a second inlet, and a second outlet.
US12006930B2
A system for managing liquid waste includes a first liquid container that receives waste liquid, a liquid transfer pump fluidly connected to the first liquid container; and a second liquid container fluidly connectable to the liquid transfer pump. The liquid transfer pump is can be selectively activated to transfer liquid waste from the first liquid container to the second liquid container when the second liquid container is fluidly connected to the liquid transfer pump. A method for managing liquid waste includes the steps of receiving waste liquid into a first liquid container, monitoring the amount of liquid in the first container, connecting a second liquid container to a liquid transfer pump that is connected to the first liquid container, after the amount of liquid received into the first liquid container reaches a predefined level, transferring liquid from the first liquid container into the second liquid container with the liquid transfer pump, and removing liquid transferred to the second liquid container.
US12006929B2
A multi-plunger coordinated gas lift liquid drainage system and liquid drainage method thereof, the system operates in a reciprocating manner. A large-section liquid column and a gas column within a tubing is divided into multiple units of liquid columns, plungers and gas columns by a plurality of plungers; the units form a series connection, and the plungers in the tubing move up and down respectively to transfer the liquid load cooperatively. A liquid is drained from a wellbore step by step, and the pressure formed by a small section of liquid column disappears each time a small section of liquid column is drained. The pressure of each stage of gas column thereunder is reduced, and the gas columns are expanded step by step.
US12006927B2
Automatic electric actuation of the pumping mechanism of a liquid dispenser apparatus is provided by configuring a hollow tube to cooperate with an electromagnetically driven actuator and further configuring the hollow tube to inter-fit with a stem of a liquid dispensing pump. Actuation of the actuator may, for example, drive the pump stem downwardly to cause a pumping action. Suitable actuators include, for example, solenoids, voice coil actuators and stepping motors.
US12006926B1
The anti-cavitation device comprises a housing and valve assembly. A fluid end comprises one or more intake chambers, one or more exhaust chambers, a compression chamber, a plunger chamber, and one or more intake manifolds. The intake manifolds are fluidly connected to the intake chambers such that the intake manifolds are adapted to deliver the hydraulic fracturing fluid to the intake chambers. The intake chambers comprise intake valve assemblies adapted to regulate flow from the intake chambers to the compression chamber. One of the intake chambers comprises an anti-cavitation chamber positioned across from and co-planar with the plunger chamber. The anti-cavitation device is positioned within the anti-cavitation chamber. A method of reducing cavitation is provided, the method comprises the step of inserting the anti-cavitation device into the access opening of the fluid end. The anti-cavitation device may be used in existing, previously used, or new fluid ends.
US12006925B2
A fracturing apparatus includes: a plunger pump having a hydraulic end and a power end, wherein the power end comprises a power end oil outlet and at least one power end oil inlet that are coupled to each other; a power end lubricating system, including a lubricating oil tank defining an accommodation space, at least one lubrication pump having a lubrication pump oil inlet and a lubrication pump oil outlet that are coupled to each other, and at least one lubrication motor configured to provide power for the at least one lubrication pump; a temperature detector disposed on any one of the oil return pipeline, the power end oil outlet, and the lubricating oil tank; and a control system connected to the temperature detector and the power end lubricating system and configured to control the power end lubricating system.
US12006924B2
A hydraulic pump or motor includes a mounting flange that is disposed at the first end of the housing. The mounting flange defines a pair of fastener receiving apertures that are disposed along the X-axis on either side of the shaft. The pair of fastener receiving apertures each define a radius center that are spaced away from each other a X dimension, and a pilot projection extends longitudinally away from the mounting flange, defining a pilot projection diameter. A ratio of the X dimension to the pilot projection diameter ranges from 1.07 to 1.11.
US12006918B2
A continuous fluid flow power generator includes an electrical generator with submersible turbine blades in communication with a flow of fluid in a body of water to generate electricity. The generator may include a water tower and a hydro turbine generator to generate electricity through kinetic actions; a float and piston assembly activated by wave action to deliver water to the water tower; kick turbines to create water flow to the water tower through submersible pumps; and a rechargeable battery in communication with the electrical generator and the hydro turbine generator. The generator may also include solar assemblies and windmills to provide supplemental electricity generation for charging the rechargeable battery. The generator may be connectable to a battery bank aboard a vessel or to an electrical grid.
US12006917B2
A nacelle-mounted multiple-appliance lift system has a first lifting appliance and a second lifting appliance mounted in a nacelle of a wind turbine. The first and second lifting appliances are each mounted on main bearing housing securements, gearbox pillow blocks, or both the main bearing housing securements and the gearbox pillow blocks. The first and second lifting appliances share one or both of the main bearing housing securements and the gearbox pillow blocks.
US12006905B2
A method of detecting the breakdown voltage between the electrodes of a spark plug connected to an ignition coil for a cylinder ignition system, in an internal combustion engine, includes a detection of an opening of the switch on the primary winding and a detection of a voltage on that primary winding, with the generation of a first signal representative of the voltage trend following the opening of the switch. The first signal is then integrated and, following an identification of a breakdown at the ends of the spark plug, a breakdown voltage value is determined as a function of the value of the integrated signal at the time of the breakdown.
US12006900B1
A system for measuring fuel delivery from a multi-fuel injector of a device includes a fuel injector for injecting a first fuel and a second fuel, a first fuel pump for supplying the first fuel to the fuel injector, a first sensor including a first measurement reservoir for measuring a volume of flow of the first fuel to the injector, the first measurement reservoir having a supply chamber that that decreases in volume upon actuation of the fuel injector, a second fuel pump for supplying the second fuel to the fuel injector, and a second sensor for measuring a volume of flow of the second fuel to the fuel injector.
US12006889B2
Embodiments describe a method of controlling a two-stroke internal combustion engine is shown. The method includes selecting one set of two or more sets of engine parameter inputs or a weighted value of two or more sets of engine parameter inputs, determining an engine output parameter from the selection, and utilizing the determined engine output parameter to control one or more engine operations; re-selecting one set of two or more sets of engine parameter inputs or a weighted value of two or more sets of engine parameter inputs during engine operation, utilizing the reselected output parameters to adjust one or more engine operations. Each set of engine parameter inputs includes a direct measurement of crankcase pressure and engine speed and optionally one or more of barometric pressure, exhaust valve position, air temperature, engine coolant temperature, exhaust temperature, boost pressure, crankshaft position and direction of rotation, humidity, fuel pressure, fuel temperature, detonation sensor level, exhaust oxygen content, and throttle valve angle.
US12006887B2
A system, method and circuit restricts the amount of a first fuel being provided to a duel-fuel engine, for example a diesel-natural gas engine; wherein a secondary circuit is provided, in parallel, to the circuit formed between the engine control unit, first fuel injector, and ground comprising a dummy load, and a normally closed switch inserted in the first fuel injection circuit; such that when the normally open switch is in a closed state the dummy load provides a resistance to the second sub-circuit, such that a total resistance in the second sub-circuit is equal to a total resistance in the first sub-circuit when the normally closed switch is in a closed state.
US12006882B1
A rotary engine, has: an outer body defining a rotor cavity; a rotor within the rotor cavity and defining at least one chamber; a pilot subchamber defined by the outer body and having an outlet in communication with the rotor cavity; a main fuel source of a heavy fuel; an alternative fuel source of an alternative fuel; a main injector having a tip in communication with the rotor cavity at a location spaced apart from the outlet of the pilot subchamber, the main injector selectively fluidly connectable to the main fuel source or to the alternative fuel source; and a controller configured for: determining that the rotary engine is in a vicinity of a city or an airport; and operating the main injector in a first configuration in which the main injector fluidly connects the alternative fuel source to the rotor cavity while disconnecting the main fuel source.
US12006876B2
A turbofan engine includes a geared architecture for driving a fan about an axis. The geared architecture includes a sun gear rotatable about an axis, a plurality of planet gears driven by the sun gear and a ring gear circumscribing the plurality of planet gears. A carrier supports the plurality of planet gears. The geared architecture includes a power transfer parameter (PTP) defined as power transferred through the geared architecture divided by gear volume multiplied by a gear reduction ratio.
US12006874B2
In some examples, acoustic panels (such as for gas turbine engines) and techniques for forming acoustic panels. In some examples, the acoustic panel including a coversheet including an outer face, an inner face, and a plurality of apertures extend from the outer face to the inner face. The acoustic panel also includes a 3D-printed support layer including a lattice structure formed at least partially of a polymer, the lattice structure defining a plurality of cells of the support layer, wherein a first side of the support layer is coincident with the inner face of the coversheet.
US12006870B2
A heat exchanger for an aircraft includes an inlet plenum housing defining an inlet plenum configured to receive a fluid and an outlet plenum housing defining an outlet plenum configured to discharge the fluid. Furthermore, the heat exchanger includes a core configured to heat or cool a first portion of the fluid, with the core defining a plurality of fluid passages extending from the inlet plenum to the outlet plenum. Moreover, the heat exchanger includes a passive bypass defining a passive bypass flow path fluidly coupled to and extending between the inlet plenum and the outlet plenum. As such, the passive bypass flow path is in parallel with at least a portion of the core such that a second portion of the fluid bypasses at least a portion of the core and flows continuously and unobstructed through the passive bypass flow path to the outlet plenum.
US12006866B2
Turbine engine systems include a core assembly having a compressor section, a burner section, and a turbine section arranged along a shaft, with a core flow path through the turbine engine such that exhaust from the burner section passes through the turbine section and exits through a nozzle. A core condenser is arranged downstream of the turbine section and upstream of the nozzle and configured to condense water from the core flow path. A fuel cell is operably connected to the core assembly. A fuel source is configured to supply a fuel to each of the burner section for combustion and the fuel cell for reaction to generate electricity. At least one electric motor is operably coupled to the core assembly and configured to impart power to a portion of the core assembly and the fuel cell is configured to supply electrical power to the at least one electric motor.
US12006862B2
The disclosure relates to a fuel supply device for supplying a fuel to an internal combustion engine comprising: a fuel store for storing a primary fuel; and at least two parallel fuel supply paths that are connected to the fuel store, on the one hand, and to the internal combustion engine, on the other hand, wherein the primary fuel can be supplied from the fuel store to the internal combustion engine by means of the first fuel supply path for the purpose of combustion, and the second fuel supply path has at least one reforming device that reforms the primary fuel supplied from the fuel tank into a secondary fuel, and to supply at least a portion of the produced secondary fuel to the internal combustion engine for the purpose of combustion.
US12006852B1
Described herein is a combustion process waste receptacle having a fluid lock that has an open state (in which fluid contaminants can pass into a fluid contaminant reservoir) and a closed state (in which fluid contaminants are prevented from entering into a fluid contaminant reservoir). The fluid lock preferably transitions from the open state to the closed state when the fluid contaminant reservoir is full. The fluid lock preferably includes a float chamber and a floatable float.
US12006847B2
An energy system having a) one or more catalyst sources which store a catalyst; b) one or more water sources which store water; c) one or more heat sources which store a heat storage medium; d) one or more reaction chambers into which the water, the catalyst, and the heat storage medium are introduced, which are configured for an exothermic reaction between the catalyst and the water to take place while in the presence of the heat storage medium, and in which steam is generated from the exothermic reaction; and f) one or more turbines downstream of the one or more reaction chambers which are adapted to be driven by the steam generated within the one or more reaction chambers.
US12006846B2
An intermediate duct (10) for disposition between an outlet of a low-pressure compressor and an inlet of a high-pressure compressor of a turbomachine, in particular of an aircraft engine is provided, the intermediate duct including an outer wall (2) and an inner wall (3) between which are disposed an optional exit stator ring (4) and at least one strut (12) extending radially with respect to a central axis of the intermediate duct (10). The intermediate duct (10) is at least partially manufactured by additive manufacturing. A method for manufacturing such an intermediate duct (10), and a turbomachine having such an intermediate duct (10) are also provided.
US12006842B1
An airfoil for a gas turbine engine includes an airfoil section and a platform that has a non-gaspath side and a gaspath side from which the airfoil section extends. The platform is comprised of a sandwich composite that has first and second ceramic matrix composite (CMC) skins that each include at least one 2-D ceramic fiber ply. The first and second CMC skins are disposed, respectively, on the gaspath side and the non-gaspath side, and there is a cellular core disposed radially between the first and second CMC skins.
US12006839B2
A rotor blade in an embodiment includes: a suction surface side projecting portion projecting from a suction surface on a leading edge side at a blade tip of the blade effective portion; and a pressure surface side projecting portion projecting from a pressure surface on a trailing edge side at the blade tip of the blade effective portion. The suction surface side projecting portion includes: a leading edge side end surface including a contact surface that comes into contact with the pressure surface side projecting portion of the adjacent rotor blade and a non-contact surface that does not come into contact with the pressure surface side projecting portion of the adjacent rotor blade during rotation; a groove portion formed from the non-contact surface to the trailing edge side; and a joining member joined to the groove portion, the joining member being formed of an erosion-resistance material.
US12006837B2
A ceramic matrix composite component includes a ceramic matrix composite wall; a coating disposed on the wall; and a cooling hole formed in the wall. The cooling hole has a metering section defined along a first axis and a diffuser section defined along a second axis that is offset from the first axis. The cooling hole has a total length defined along the first axis, the total length being the sum of a length of the metering portion and a length of the diffuser portion. The length of the metering portion is between about 40 percent and about 85 percent of the total length. A ceramic matrix composite airfoil and a method of applying a coating to a ceramic matrix composite component are also disclosed.
US12006836B2
An airfoil for a gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes an airfoil section extending in a radial direction from a root section to a tip portion. The airfoil section has an external wall and an internal wall. The airfoil section establishes an internal cooling arrangement including a first cooling passage having a first section and a tip flag section. The tip flag section extends in the chordwise direction along the tip portion from the first section. The first section includes a plurality of branched paths established by at least one turning vane.
US12006833B2
A turbomachine including a turbine rotor, a compressor rotor, and a shaft, and at least one balance weight assembly connected to the shaft. The shaft drivingly connects the turbine rotor with the compressor rotor to rotate the compressor rotor about a rotational axis when the turbine rotor rotates about the rotational axis. The at least one balance weight assembly including a first chamber, at least one additional chamber, and a balance weight movable between the first chamber and the at least one additional chamber.
US12006825B2
Cutting tools (14) and cutting tool assemblies (10) include a friction ring (79). The friction ring (79) is provided in (disposed/secured within) a retaining groove (32) of a shank (30) of the cutting tool (14). The friction ring (79) can be formed from a resilient material or materials (150). The friction ring (79) can be secured in the retaining groove (32) by a retainer ring (80). The cutting tools (14) can also include a shank (30) having an increased diameter to provide increased strength and allow for a heavier cutting portion (28) of the cutting tool (14). The cutting tools (14) and cutting tool assemblies (10) can also include a washer (100) fitted about the shank (30) and positioned adjacent to a back side (26) of the cutting portion (28) of the cutting tool (14) for stabilizing the cutting tool body (22) in relation to a cutting tool holder (12).
US12006813B2
A method and system for estimating a wellbore curvature. The method may include disposing a rotary steerable system (RSS) into a borehole, storing a real-time curvature estimation for the borehole in an information handling system, wherein the information handling system is disposed on the RSS, taking a first attitude measurement at a first sensor, and taking a second attitude measurement at a second sensor. The method may further include applying a filter to at least the first attitude measurement and the second attitude measurement to form a filtered measurement set, performing a curvature estimation with the filtered measurement set to form an estimated curvature signal, comparing the estimated curvature signal to a curvature set point to find a difference, and adjusting at least one operating parameter of the RSS based on the difference.
US12006812B2
A method may include determining a portion of a microscale fracture using a well log acquired for a stratigraphic interval of interest. The method may further include obtaining seismic data for the stratigraphic interval of interest. The method may further include determining a seismic attribute that correlates the microscale fracture to a subset of the seismic data. The method may further include generating an attribute volume using the seismic attribute with a seismic volume for a region of interest. The method may further include generating, using the attribute volume, a fracture image of the microscale fracture throughout the region of interest.
US12006807B2
An electric driven hydraulic fracking system is disclosed. A pump configuration that includes the single VFD, the single shaft electric motor, and the single hydraulic pump that is mounted on the single pump trailer. A power distribution trailer distributes the electric power generated by the power generation system at the power generation voltage level to the single VFD and converts the electric power at a power generation voltage level to a VFD voltage level and controls the operation of the single shaft electric motor and the single hydraulic pump. The power distribution trailer converts the electric power generated by the power generation system at the power generation level to an auxiliary voltage level that is less than the power generation voltage level. The power distribution trailer distributes the electric power at the auxiliary voltage level to the single VFD that controls an operation of the of the auxiliary systems.
US12006803B2
A wellbore material transfer system is disclosed, and comprises a downhole fluid conductor defining a downhole-conducting fluid passage, an uphole fluid conductor defining an uphole-conducting fluid passage, a flow controller for opening and closing the uphole-conducting fluid passage, and a completion disposed within a wellbore and defining a wellbore interval between the completion and the wellbore, the completion including selectively openable first and second flow communicators. While the flow communicators are open and the uphole-conducting fluid passage is closed, a subterranean formation zone may be fractured, and flow communication is absent, via the second flow communicator and the uphole-conducting fluid passage, between the wellbore interval and the surface. While the flow communicators and the uphole-conducting fluid passage are open, the wellbore interval may be gravel packed, and a solids-depleted fluid is conductible, via the second flow communicator and the uphole-conducting fluid passage, from the wellbore interval to the surface.
US12006802B2
An electrical connection system for providing an electrical signal to a detonator of a perforating gun is provided. The system includes a tandem sub operatively coupled to a gun housing and having a sub body having a bore defined therethrough, a bulkhead assembly having a bulkhead electrical connector securable within the bore, and a printed circuit board assembly. The PCB assembly includes a cartridge having a connection bore adapted to receive the bulkhead electrical connector and define a sliding connection between the cartridge and the bulkhead assembly, and an addressable switch located within the cartridge body and in electrical communication with the bulkhead electrical connector. The detonator is located within the cartridge body and is in electrical communication with the addressable switch. The bore, the bulkhead electrical connector, the cartridge and the detonator are concentrically disposed relative to one another and extend along a common axis.
US12006796B2
Provided is an inner string, an outer string, and a well system. The outer string, in one aspect, includes an outer tubular configured to extend at least partially around an inner tubular, the outer tubular including a seal surface. The outer string, according to one aspect, further includes two radial orientation slots located along an inside surface of the outer tubular, the two radial orientation slots offset from one another by a distance (d1), the two radial orientation slots configured to align with an orientation port in the inner tubular that it is configured to engage with to provide two pressure readings indicative of a relative location of the inner tubular to the outer tubular.
US12006768B2
A battery-powered, motorized window treatment may include a fascia that pivots between a conceal position wherein the fascia covers a window treatment assembly and a battery compartment, and an expose position wherein the fascia does not cover the battery compartment. The fascia may be a two part fascia that includes an arm and a cover that pivots relative to the arm when the battery compartment is operated between respective opened and closed positions. The arm may be attached to the battery compartment such that the arm remains in a fixed orientation relative to the battery compartment. The arm and the cover may define complementary pivotally interlocking connectors that define a pivot axis about which the cover may pivot relative to the arm. The fascia may be configured to generate a perceptible indication when the fascia pivots into the conceal position, and/or when the fascia pivots into the expose position.
US12006765B2
A window covering includes a headrail, a covering material located below the headrail, a rotating member connected to the covering material and provided in the headrail, a motor provided in the headrail and coupled to the rotating member, and a control device provided in the headrail and electrically connected to the motor. The headrail has a longitudinal direction. The rotating member is adapted to drive the covering material to expand or collapse. The motor drives the rotating member to rotate. When a moving speed of a lower end of the covering material decreases and such a situation lasts for a predetermined time, the control device controls the motor to stop operating. Whereby, no matter whether the covering material is fully expanded, fully collapsed, or encounters resistance somewhere in between, the motor can be stopped.
US12006761B2
A panel frame (10) is provided, comprising a first profile (100) having a first structure (102) to support a first side (52) of an associated panel (50), and a second structure (104) to support an edge (56) of the same panel (50), and a second profile (200) being configured to connect to the first profile (100) and comprising a first structure (202) to support a second side (54) of the panel (50). The first profile (100) comprises at least one magnetic portion (120), such that a magnetic member (300) can be attached to the magnetic portion (120) in order to temporary clamp the panel (50) between the magnetic member (300) and the first structure (102) of the first profile (100).
US12006759B1
A wire gate operational system providing remote opening and closing of a post and wire gate having a winch and cable assembly with a power source and an operational controller. A remote-control actuator provides long range remote operation to open and close the gate by controlled dropping and raising of the lead wire gate post by the winch. A bottom wire loop between a brace post and the lead wire post acts as a pivot point for the lead gate posts and interconnected directional end cut composite intermediate posts (dancers) allow for controlled wire gate lowering direction allowing ranchers and livestock to pass directly over the lower gate.
US12006754B2
A method (1000) for testing of a door operator (100), the door operator (100) being configured to via a mechanism (104) move at least one door leaf (200) between a first position and a second position. The door operator (100) includes a first drive unit (102) configured to optionally move the door leaf (200) into said first position and a control unit (103) connected to a sensor (105). The method includes the steps of initiating a simulated powerless mode, measuring operation of the door leaf by the sensor, and comparing measured values of movement with reference values.
US12006749B2
A displaceable rotating shaft structure and a foldable device having the rotating shaft structure are disclosed. The displaceable rotating shaft structure comprises a support, a rotating shaft, a connecting rod assembly, a guide assembly, and a torsion assembly. The support has a supporting portion. The connecting rod assembly has a first outer end that is rotatably connected to the linking section of the rotating shaft and a second outer end that is pivotally connected to the supporting portion. The guide assembly has a guide rod. The guide rod is configured to displace relative to the supporting portion. When the rotating shaft is rotated, the rotating shaft drives the connecting rod assembly to adjust the angle and the total length of a joint of connecting rods of the connecting rod assembly, a distance between the rotating shaft and the support is changed through the guide assembly.
US12006739B2
A security apparatus for securing a portable electronic device comprises a support and a guide positioned within the support and defining a plurality of surface features. At least two holders are partially positioned between the guide and the support and define a plurality of complimentary surface features. A lock assembly is configured move between an unlocked state and a locked state. In an unlocked state, the at least two holders are enabled to move in a first direction that is away from the support and in an opposing second direction to move the at least two holders towards the support. In a locked state, the lock assembly moves the guide to clamp the at least two holders between the guide and the support to engage the surface features of the guide with those of the holders and inhibit movement of the at least two holders in the first direction.
US12006734B2
A rotation converter according to certain embodiments generally includes a case, an input member, a shuttle, and an output member. The input member is rotatably mounted to the case, and is rotatable from an input member home position in each of a first rotational direction and a second rotational direction. The shuttle is movably mounted in the case, and is engaged with the input member such that rotation of the input member from the input member home position in each of the first rotational direction and the second rotational direction drives the shuttle from a shuttle home position to a shuttle actuated position. The output member is rotatably mounted to the case and engaged with the shuttle such that the output member rotates in an output member rotational direction in response to movement of the shuttle from the shuttle home position to the shuttle actuated position.
US12006732B2
A pull handle structure includes a carrier mounted on a first object, a pull handle movably assembled to the carrier, and a limiting section located on the pull handle for connecting to, interfering with or engaging with a second object, or the limiting section connects to, interferes with or engages with the carrier, wherein the carrier loads the pull handle by folding. By operating the pull handle to move the carrier, the first object can be engaged with or separated from the second object. Therefore, the pull handle structure has the advantages of being securely lockable in place and operable in an easy, convenient, effortless and quick manner.
US12006719B2
Disclosed is a folding tent capable of being unfolded and folded rapidly, comprising leg tubes and an tent ejector rod part, wherein one end of the tent ejector rod part is hinged to an upper connecting disk, the other end of the tent ejector rod part is hinged to an upper portion of the leg tube; the tent ejector rod part comprises at least two ejector rod units hinged to each other, each ejector rod unit hinged to the upper connecting disk is provided with a supporting rod in a fitting manner, and the other end of the supporting rod is hinged to a lower connecting disk; a connecting rod is further arranged between at least one supporting rod and the ejector rod unit installed on the supporting rod in a fitting manner, and one end of the connecting rod is used to be in hinge fit with the ejector rod unit. A hinge joint is located at a position between a hinge joint of the supporting rod and the ejector rod unit and the upper connecting disk, and the other end of the connecting rod is in hinge fit with a sliding part; the sliding part slides along the supporting rod, and the sliding part is locked by a locking mechanism when the folding tent is fully unfolded.
US12006712B2
A real estate unit in accordance with a particular embodiment of the present technology includes an interior region of a retrofitted garage, a reusable bathroom operably associated with the interior region, and a fenestrated barrier also operably associated with the interior region. The reusable bathroom can be removably disposed within or outside the interior region. The fenestrated barrier can be stationarily and removably disposed between the interior region and an outdoor area. The retrofitted garage can include a wall between the interior region and the outdoor area. The wall can include an opening having a width within a range from 2 meters to 7 meters. A path permitting a user of the real estate unit to move between the interior region and the outdoor area can extend through the opening and through the fenestrated barrier.
US12006706B2
A knob (1), for correctly laying tiles, comprises a first jaw (10) and a second jaw (20) which are connected to each other in such a way that said knob (1) can adopt a clamped configuration, in which the first and the second jaw (10,20) are in contact with each other, and a wide apart configuration, in which the first and the second jaw (10,20) are not in contact with each other.
US12006699B2
The invention is related to a method of manufacturing a wall panel and a wall panel system. The method includes: forming a glass-fiber reinforced rigid magnesium oxide layer including the steps of: pouring or injecting a slurry of uncured magnesium oxide into a mold, embedding glass fiber reinforcing material therein, and curing the magnesium oxide to obtain the glass-fiber reinforced rigid magnesium oxide layer having a first side and a second side; applying, to the second side of the rigid magnesium oxide layer, an insulation layer, the insulation layer comprising a foam; and applying to the first side of the rigid layer a veneer layer.
US12006694B2
A louver roof system having a simplified assembly and installation methods. The louver roof system is constructed with multi-functional mechanical components by means of pre-molded parts to reduce skilled installation time. Louvers of the roof system each include a louver body defining an integrally formed channel configured to direct water internally from the louver body, through the integrally formed channel of the respective louver, within a frame, and out of the louver roof system when the louvers are in a closed position. The louver body of each of the louvers includes a top surface with an uppermost portion of the top surface that defines, when in the closed position, a non-perpendicular angle relative to the vertical direction such that water is directed to the integrally formed channel of the respective louver Thus, a water drainage path is an integral part of the main structural assembly.
US12006670B2
A vessel rinsing apparatus including a mounting base, a fluid discharge member including a plurality of nozzles, a valve member operably coupled to the fluid discharge member and configured to control water flow through the nozzles, and an escutcheon supported by the mounting base.
US12006668B2
A connecting device for a shower apparatus includes a shower column and a waterway switching device. The shower column is composed of a bending segment and a straight rod segment. A projection length of the shower column along the vertical projection plane Y is L1, L1 is between 210 mm and 310 mm, and a projection length of the shower column along the horizontal projection plane X is L2, L2 is between 290 mm and 350 mm, the length of the shower column of the present application is significantly shortened, and the logistics cost for transporting the same number of products is greatly reduced.
US12006667B2
A non-invasive thermal dispersion flow meter with chronometric monitor for fluid leak detection includes a heater, an ambient temperature sensor and a flow rate sensor which are configured to sense the temperature of a fluid in a conduit, and then monitor the flow of that fluid through the conduit. The fluid flow sensor is incorporated into a Wheatstone bridge circuit which is used to provide increased sensitivity to the outputs of the sensors. Based upon the ambient temperature sensor readings, the flow rate sensor and heater may be adjusted to optimize the operation of the system to detect leaks. An alternative embodiment utilizes a single sensor and separate heater which work together to determine heat propagation times which in turn is used to calculate flow rate.
US12006659B2
A hydraulic system for a work machine, which includes a first hydraulic pump to deliver operation fluid, a second hydraulic pump to deliver pilot fluid, a first hydraulic actuator configured to control flow rate of the operation fluid based on the pilot pressure applied to the pressure receivers, a manual operator configured to operate the first hydraulic actuator, having an operation lever to move toward both directions, operation valves to change pressure of the pilot fluid in accordance with movement of the operation lever, and a discharge fluid tube to drain the pilot fluid from the operation valves. The hydraulic system includes an actuating valve in the discharge fluid tube and configured to reduce pressure of the pilot fluid in the discharge fluid tube.
US12006655B2
A work vehicle that operates on a surface comprising an implement and an optical sensor. The optical sensor is configured to capture image data that includes the implement. An electronic processor is configured to perform an operation by controllably adjusting a position of the implement relative to the work vehicle, receive image data captured by the optical sensor, apply an artificial neural network to identify whether the implement is in contact with the surface based on the image data from the optical sensor, wherein the artificial neural network is trained to receive the image data as input and to produce as the output an indication of whether the implement is in contact with the surface, access operation information corresponding to whether the implement is in contact with the surface from a non-transitory computer-readable memory, and automatically adjust an operation of the work vehicle based on the accessed operation information.
US12006636B2
A method of making a package including forming a moisture barrier coated paper material that includes a moisture barrier coated paper material including a base substrate, a first polymer coating, a second polymer coating, and a third polymer coating, the first polymer coating, the second polymer coating, and the third polymer coating applied over a first side of the base substrate, the first polymer coating, the second polymer coating, and the third polymer coating providing a barrier for moisture and air exchange through the paper material, the first polymer coating, the second polymer coating, and the third polymer coating providing heat and pressure sealability capabilities to the paper material, cutting a packaging blank from the paper material; folding the packaging blank into the package, and sealing the package by providing heat and pressure to overlapped portions of the paper material.
US12006635B2
A tissue product including a laminate of at least two plies of a multi-layer tissue web, the tissue product having a softness value (HF) of 92.0 or greater, a lint value of 4.5 or less, and an Sdr of greater than 3.0.
US12006632B2
An object is to provide a monitoring system capable of preventing the occurrence of a defect in paper by monitoring the device. The present invention is directed to a monitoring system A having a papermaking machine 1 for manufacturing paper X, an applying device 2 for applying a chemical solution to a site of the papermaking machine directly or indirectly in contact with the paper while the papermaking machine 1 is operated, a control panel 3 for setting an application condition of the applying device 2, a monitoring camera 4 for monitoring a monitoring target site, and a control device 5 connected to the monitoring camera 4 via a network. The monitoring target site is the site of the papermaking machine 1 directly or indirectly in contact with the paper X and/or the applying device 2, and the control device 5 has a computing unit S1 which converts a state of the monitoring target site into a numerical form by using video taken by the monitoring camera 4, a display unit S2 which displays detection data obtained by conversion into the numerical form at the computing unit S1, and a storage unit S3 which stores the detection data.
US12006616B2
The present disclosure relates to a drain pump driving apparatus and a laundry treatment machine including the same. A drain pump driving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a converter; an inverter to output converted AC voltage to a drain pump motor; an output current detector to detect an output current flowing in the motor; and a controller to control the inverter, wherein in case in which the speed of the motor increases and the output current flowing in the motor decreases during a predetermined period among an operation period of the drain motor, the controller controls the inverter to be turned off. Accordingly, it is possible to protect internal circuit elements in case the motor loses its synchronism.
US12006615B2
A washing machine is provided. The washing machine includes an inner tub, a motor connected to the inner tub through a rotating shaft, an inverter circuit operatively connected to the motor and comprising three pairs of bridged switching elements, and at least one processor configured to provide a modulation signal to the inverter circuit to turn on or off the three pairs of bridged switching elements so as to convert DC power into AC power. The at least one processor is further configured to provide the modulation signal to two pairs of switching elements among the three pairs of bridged switching elements for a first time period in a first mode, provide the modulation signal to the three pairs of bridged switching elements for a second time period in a second mode, ad alternately perform the first mode and the second mode.
US12006614B2
Disclosed is a clothes care apparatus capable of preventing the spreading of fire when a fire occurs on a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly. The clothes care apparatus may comprise: a PCB assembly; a PCB housing having an accommodation space for accommodating the PCB assembly, the PCB housing including a sidewall that forms the accommodation space; and a protective body filled into the accommodation space to cover the PCB assembly, wherein the sidewall may include guide wall having a height lower than or equal to a height of the protective body filled in the accommodation space.
US12006609B2
A method is disclosed comprising inter alia a method comprising: acquiring at least one set of sensor data, wherein the at least one set of sensor data is acquired from at least one sensor; determining evaluation data indicative of a condition of a treatment chamber of a household appliance, wherein the evaluation data is determined based at least in part on the acquired set of sensor data; and outputting or causing the output of the determined evaluation data. Furthermore, a device for executing and/or controlling this method, a system with several devices for controlling and/or executing this method and a computer program for executing and/or controlling this method are disclosed.
US12006605B2
A non-woven fabric is provided which includes a three-dimensional array of fibers. The three-dimensional array of fibers includes an array of standing fibers extending perpendicular to a plane of the non-woven fabric and attached to a base substrate, where the base substrate is one or more of an expendable film substrate, a metal base substrate, or a mandrel substrate. Further, the three-dimensional array of fibers includes multiple layers of non-woven parallel fibers running parallel to the plane of the non-woven fiber in between the array of standing fibers in a defined pattern of fiber layer orientations. In implementation, the array of standing fibers are grown to extend from the base substrate using laser-assisted chemical vapor deposition (LCVD).
US12006603B2
A facility for forming a fibre batt, in particular nonwoven, provides a device for producing at least one fibre web, and a crosslapper which provides the fibre batt. The production device provides a carding drum and at least one doffer roller collecting the fibres on the drum and supplying the at least one web to at least one outfeed belt. The crosslapper provides an infeed belt for the introduction of the web in the crosslapper, which supplies the fibre batt formed of a stack of layers of the at least one web, and first control means of the profile of the thickness and/or of the area bulk density and/or of the bulk density of the web or of each web. A drafting means is arranged downstream of the outfeed belt of the production device and upstream of the infeed belt. Second control means may be provided to control drafting means.
US12006596B2
The present invention relates to a process for obtaining a spinnable and/or needlable Kapok fibre fraction, and/or Kapok fibre blend with one or more other fibres in a range of from 100% to 10% by weight, comprising the steps of: •a. sorting the longest and cleanest fibres for spinning, by subjecting the fibres to an air stream directed towards a deposition area with a sorting wall, whereby a longer fibre fraction is collected behind the sorting wall, to obtain a short staple Kapok fibre base having an average length of from 10 to 20 mm; •b. adjusting the average moisture content of the kapok fibre base to an average measured moisture content in the range of from 8% to 12% moisture, to obtain moisture- and length-adjusted Kapok fibres, and, optionally •c. blending the moisture-and length-adjusted Kapok fibres with the second fibre base, to obtain a Kapok-comprising fibre blend.
US12006592B2
The invention is directed to products and methods for preparing self-seeding vascular constructs generated as a bi-layered electrospun matrices, conjugated with EPC-specific antibodies and anti-thrombogenic agents on the inner surfaces of their lumens.
US12006588B2
A novel eutectic solvent (NES) includes one or more derivative(s) of methanesulfonic, one or more ammonium salt(s) and one or more hydrogen bond donor(s). The disclosed NES may exhibit qualities such as low freezing and eutectic points, low viscosity, negligible vapor pressure, non-volatility, less water content, high potential window, high thermal stability, high solubility, long shelf life, high recyclability, high biodegradability, high ionic character, air and moisture stability, non-corrosive, non-mutagenic, economical, non-flammable, etc., hence having broader applications.
US12006581B2
A method of monitoring an electrolytic cell including detecting information indicative of a thermite reaction, comparing the information indicative of a thermite reaction to a threshold, generating a thermite response signal according to the comparison, and reacting to the thermite response signal by adjusting the operation of the electrolytic cell.
US12006566B2
A composite tungsten oxide film having high film smoothness, with a function to shield infrared light by reflecting infrared light by a thermal insulation, while maintaining transparency in a visible light region, and a method for manufacturing the composite tungsten oxide film, and a film-deposited base material or an article using these functions. A composite tungsten oxide film including a composition with a general formula MxWyOz as main components, wherein 0.001≤x/y≤1, 2.2≤z/y≤3.0, organic components are not contained substantially, a transmittance in a wavelength of 550 nm is 50% or more, a transmittance in a wavelength of 1400 nm is 30% or less, and also, a reflectance in a wavelength of 1400 nm is 35% or more.
US12006556B2
A method for heat treating a horological component includes the following steps: heating of the component by irradiation, using a laser beam, of at least 80% or at least 90% of the projected surface of the component parallel to the direction of the laser beam, and cooling of the component in a gas stream.
US12006553B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of identifying patients that may be responsive to mitochondrial inhibitor therapies to target and eradicate cancer stem cells. Also described are diagnostic kits that may be used to identify patients responsive to mitochondrial inhibitor therapies.
US12006545B2
Next Generation DNA sequencing promises to revolutionize clinical medicine and basic research. However, while this technology has the capacity to generate hundreds of billions of nucleotides of DNA sequence in a single experiment, the error rate of approximately 1% results in hundreds of millions of sequencing mistakes. These scattered errors can be tolerated in some applications but become extremely problematic when “deep sequencing” genetically heterogeneous mixtures, such as tumors or mixed microbial populations. To overcome limitations in sequencing accuracy, a method Duplex Consensus Sequencing (DCS) is provided. This approach greatly reduces errors by independently tagging and sequencing each of the two strands of a DNA duplex. As the two strands are complementary, true mutations are found at the same position in both strands. In contrast, PCR or sequencing errors will result in errors in only one strand. This method uniquely capitalizes on the redundant information stored in double-stranded DNA, thus overcoming technical limitations of prior methods utilizing data from only one of the two strands.
US12006544B2
The identification of mutations that are present in a small fraction of DNA templates is essential for progress in several areas of biomedical research. Though massively parallel sequencing instruments are in principle well-suited to this task, the error rates in such instruments are generally too high to allow confident identification of rare variants. We here describe an approach that can substantially increase the sensitivity of massively parallel sequencing instruments for this purpose. One example of this approach, called “Safe-SeqS” for (Safe-Sequencing System) includes (i) assignment of a unique identifier (UID) to each template molecule; (ii) amplification of each uniquely tagged template molecule to create UID-families; and (iii) redundant sequencing of the amplification products. PCR fragments with the same UID are truly mutant (“super-mutants”) if ≥95% of them contain the identical mutation. We illustrate the utility of this approach for determining the fidelity of a polymerase, the accuracy of oligonucleotides synthesized in vitro, and the prevalence of mutations in the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of normal cells.
US12006541B2
In one aspect, a computer-implemented automated flow synthesis platform configured to use an artificial intelligence (AI) engine is disclosed and includes a reaction chamber configured to synthesize a sequence, detectors configured to monitor the synthesis of the sequence in the reaction chamber, wherein the synthesis uses an automated flow process, and a computing device communicatively coupled to the detectors. The computing device receives measurements from the one or more detectors, wherein the measurements comprise a spectral profile at each coupling of each amino acid in the sequence, trains, using training data comprising the measurements, machine learning models to determine a synthesizing recipe that enables the sequence to be synthesized, wherein the synthesizing recipe comprises parameters used during the automated flow process to synthesize the sequence, and controls, using the synthesizing recipe, the synthesis of the sequence in the reaction chamber.
US12006532B2
The present technology relates generally to methods and compositions for targeted nucleic acid sequence enrichment, as well as uses of such enrichment for error-corrected nucleic acid sequencing applications. In some embodiments, highly accurate, error corrected and massively parallel sequencing of nucleic acid material is possible using a combination of uniquely labeled strands in a double-stranded nucleic acid complex in such a way that each strand can be informatically related to its complementary strand, but also distinguished from it following sequencing of each strand or an amplified product derived therefrom. In various embodiments, this information can be used for the purpose of error correction of the determined sequence.
US12006527B2
Provided is a microorganism that is able to produce 2-phenylethanol at a high concentration, and a method of efficiently producing 2-phenylethanol by using a saccharide as a raw material. Provided is a coryneform bacterium transformant in which a shikimate pathway is activated, and further, a gene that encodes an enzyme having phenylpyruvate decarboxylase activity is introduced in such a manner that the gene can be expressed. Also provided is a 2-phenylethanol producing method that includes causing the coryneform bacterium transformant according to the present disclosure to react in water containing a saccharide.
US12006525B2
The application relates to the production of RNA of interest, more specifically of messenger RNA of interest or of long non-coding RNA of interest, by yeasts with recombinant pseudo-viral particles. The recombinant yeasts have been genetically modified in order to produce the RNA of interest in the form of a complex, particularly in the form of recombinant pseudo-viral particles. These recombinant pseudo-viral particles are produced from certain elements of yeast Ty retrotransposon, but do not retrotranscribe the RNA that they contain. Thus, the application relates to the components that are thus capable of being implemented or produced, and particularly to the nucleic acid constructs, kits, bacteria cells, yeast cells, culture or transfection media containing them, as well as to a method for producing a pharmaceutical composition, particularly for medical applications, more specifically for vaccines, anti-tumour and pro-regenerative applications.
US12006518B2
Provided herein are engineered variants of archaeal polymerases that exhibit exonuclease-minus activity, enhanced thermostability, enhanced incorporation of 3′ modified nucleotides, improved uracil-tolerance and/or reduce sequence-specific errors in polymerase-catalyzed nucleotide binding and extension reactions relative to wild type polymerase enzymes. Also provided are uses of the engineered polymerases for forming complexed polymerases and forming binding complexes, and uses for conducting nucleic acid sequencing reactions.
US12006517B2
A method of recovering viable phage from, for example, a crude phage preparation such as a lysate resulting from amplification of phage in bacterial cell culture is disclosed. The method may be “universal”; that is, applicable to the purification of a broad range of phage species and strains. The phage product resulting from the method may have an acceptably low endotoxin titer (e.g. less than 500 EU/ml) and sufficiently high phage titer (e.g. >1×109 PFU/ml) for use in therapeutic applications.
US12006516B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods related to differentiation of stem cells into pancreatic endocrine cells. In some aspects, the methods provided herein relate to generation of pancreatic β cell, α cell, δ cells, and EC cells in vitro. In some aspects, the disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions including the cells generated according to the methods disclosed herein, as well as methods of treatment making use thereof.
US12006502B2
Therapeutic compounds for red blood cell-mediated delivery of an active pharmaceutical ingredient to a target cell are described. The therapeutic compounds are configured to bind CD47 on the surface of a red blood cell and to be subsequently transferred to CD47 on the surface of the target cell, the therapeutic compound ultimately being internalized by the target cell via endocytosis. The target cell may be a fibrotic cell.
US12006499B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and pharmaceutical formulations that comprise a binding moiety conjugated to a modified polynucleic acid molecule and a polymer. Also described herein include methods for treating a disease which utilize a composition or a pharmaceutical formulation comprising a binding moiety conjugated to a polynucleic acid molecule and a polymer.
US12006487B2
Process for making a powder or granule containing (A) at least one chelating agent selected from alkali metal salts of methyl glycine diacetic acid (MGDA) and of glutamic acid diacetate (GLDA) and of iminodisuccinic acid (IDS), (B) at least one alkali metal salt of a C10-C20 fatty acid, in a weight ratio of (A):(B) of from 40:1 up to 1,000:1, wherein said powder or granule contains at least 75% by weight of chelating agent (A), said process comprising the steps of (c) mixing the at least one chelating agent (A) and the at least one alkali metal salt of fatty acid (B) in the presence of water, (d) removing most of said water by spray-drying or by spray granulation using a gas with an inlet temperature of at least 125° C.
US12006478B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for processing liquefied natural gas (LNG). A LNG production system may include a contaminant removal process with one or more sets of sorbent beds co-loaded with a metal sulfide sorbent and/or metal oxide sorbent. In some examples, the contaminant removal process may include one or more molecular sieve dehydrators co-loaded with a 3A or 4A sieve and a 3A or 4A sieve impregnated with silver. The one or more sets of sorbent beds may be arranged at various locations throughout the LNG production system including upstream of or downstream of heavy component removal beds having activated carbon. In some instances, the LNG production system may include a regeneration process for moving heated fluid, typically feed gas, through a first heavy component removal bed while maintaining other heavy component removal beds online to reduce downtime for the LNG production system, increase production efficiency, and decrease an amount of greenhouse gases released from defrost and flare-offs.
US12006477B2
Novel catalysts comprising nickel oxide nanoparticles supported on alumina nanoparticles, methods of their manufacture, heavy oil compositions contacted by these nanocatalysts and methods of their use are disclosed. The novel nanocatalysts are useful, inter alia, in the upgrading of heavy oil fractions or as aids in oil recovery from steam-assisted well reservoirs.
US12006473B2
A method and an apparatus for processing and recovering bitumen (42) and aggregate (41) from asphalt (40), in which: a) the asphalt (40) is mechanically comminuted; b) the comminuted asphalt is introduced into an evacuated or evacuatable processing chamber (1); c) the processing chamber (1) is evacuated by adjusting the pressure in the processing chamber (1) to a pressure lower than ambient pressure, preferably 200 mbar or lower; d) the processing chamber (1) is then charged at least once with a liquid organic solvent; e) the liquid organic solvent is then extracted from the processing chamber (1); and then f1) the organic solvent is fed into the evacuated processing chamber (1) in the vapor phase at the reduced pressure, at a temperature at or above the flash point of the organic solvent; and/or f2) liquid organic solvent is fed into the treatment chamber (1).
US12006472B2
A method of producing a hydrocarbon fuel from a soapstock includes supplying a pyrolysis reactor that includes a microwave absorbent bed susceptible to microwave irradiation, applying microwave energy to the pyrolysis reactor, wherein the microwave absorbent bed converts the microwave energy to thermal energy, supplying the soapstock to the microwave absorbent bed, and condensing a vapor generated by pyrolysis of the soapstock sufficient to collect the hydrocarbon fuel.
US12006467B2
A spacer fluid includes an aphron generating component, a polymer, a lost circulation material, and a weighting agent component.
US12006462B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of liquid crystal materials, and in particular relates to a liquid crystal composition and a liquid crystal display element or liquid crystal display containing the liquid crystal composition. The present invention discloses a liquid crystal composition, comprising one or more compounds represented by Formula I, one or more compounds represented by Formula II, and one or more compounds represented by Formula III. The liquid crystal composition of the present invention has a large optical anisotropy and a small ratio of γ1/K11, and can be used for developing a liquid crystal display element or liquid crystal display with a low cell thickness and a fast response.
US12006457B2
The disclosed graphene quantum dot composite includes a dielectric matrix including a metal oxynitride, and a graphene quantum dot dispersed in the dielectric matrix. The graphene quantum dot composite can reduce the aggregation-caused photoluminescence quenching of graphene quantum dots, and can improve a photoluminescence quantum yields of a graphene quantum dot.
US12006452B2
A pressure sensitive adhesive surface that does not adhere to the adherend and can be positioned by sliding it under low pressure, while it can exert a sufficient adhesive force under a pressure above a certain level. The adhesive sheet includes an adhesive layer with a fine structure on a surface thereof. The fine structure includes a plurality of cone or frustum structures, with the cones or frustums having two or more parts joined to each other via an interface. A first part is present on a top of the cones or frustums and is formed from a non-adhesive or a weak adhesive material, and a second part is present below the first part and is formed from a strong adhesive material.
US12006450B2
A moisture-curing composition that is liquid at ambient temperature and optionally highly viscous, containing: at least one polyether urethane polymer (P1) containing isocyanate groups and having a content of at least 80% by wt. 1,2-propyleneoxy units in the polyether segment, and at least one hydrophobic polymer (P2) containing isocyanate groups and being liquid at ambient temperature, obtained by reacting at least one monomeric diisocyanate and a hydrophobic diol having an OH-number ranging between 28 and 120 mg KOH/g, the polymers P1 and P2 being produced separately and said polymers P1 and P2 having a weight ratio ranging between 70/30 and 98/2.
US12006449B2
An adhesive composition, an adhesive film comprising the same, a backplate film comprising the adhesive film, and a plastic organic light emitting display comprising the adhesive film are provided. The adhesive composition includes a (meth)acrylate-based resin; and a polymer having a melting temperature (Tm) of 60° C. or higher, wherein the polymer is a copolymer of a monofunctional polysiloxane and two or more types of monomers.
US12006439B2
An optical member having a porous layer having both low scattering and film strength is provided. The optical member is an optical member, having a porous layer in which a plurality of silicon oxide particles are bound with an inorganic binder on a base material, and the porous layer contains a fluorine-containing organic acid having 5 or more and 11 or less fluorine atoms in one molecule.
US12006435B2
A thermoplastic prepreg is disclosed having fully impregnated filaments. The prepreg is formed by having a plurality of continuous fibers that are substantially oriented in a longitudinal direction, the continuous fibers constituting from about 30 wt. % to about 40 wt. % of the prepreg, a first resinous matrix that contains a first set of one or more thermoplastic polymers and within which the continuous fibers are embedded, wherein the thermoplastic polymers constitute from about 30 wt. % to about 40 wt. % of the prepreg, and a second resinous matrix that contains a second set of one or more thermoplastic polymers, wherein the second set of thermoplastic polymers constitute from about 30 wt. % to about 40 wt. % of the prepreg.
US12006413B2
Polymer polyols (“PMPOs”), processes for their production, and the use of such PMPOs, particularly in the production of flexible polyurethane foams. The PMPOs are produced using an ethylenically unsaturated composition that includes a crosslinker that results in crosslinks in the PMPO polymer particles that may decompose when exposed to flame temperatures. The PMPOs is capable of providing a flexible polyurethane foam that may exhibit combustibility resistance properties.
US12006411B1
Methods of producing a fiber reinforced polymer matrix composite and a composite thermal protection system formed from the same. The method includes forming a polymerized fiber reinforced composite which including a cured thermoset polymer matrix and at least one reinforcement material. The method further includes treating at least a portion of a first face of the polymerized fiber reinforced composite with electromagnetic radiation to raise the temperature of the portion of the first face to at least 800° C. to produce a surface layer of graphitized carbon and a bulk polymerized fiber reinforced composite representing the untreated polymerized fiber reinforced composite. Further, the surface layer of graphitized carbon has an electrical conductivity of 0.25 S m−1 to 2.5 S m−1 where the electrical conductivity and a thermal conductivity are both greater than those of the bulk polymerized reinforced composite.
US12006403B2
Systems and methods are provided that involve a subcritical water reaction to recycle the cellulose and polyester components of waste cotton and cotton/polyester blend textiles that would otherwise be discarded or disposed of. Specifically, the disclosed methods provide for treatment of the waste textiles to produce advanced materials including cellulose and terephthalic acid (TPA) with a low environmental impact. The cellulose and TPA that are produced are of a high quality allowing for production of regenerated cellulose and regenerated polyethylene terephthalate (PET) suitable for fiber spinning and textile applications.
US12006399B1
Aspects relate to a method of particle fabrication, comprising mixing at least one stabilizing compound with an aqueous solution to produce a first mixture, mixing furfuryl alcohol, a derivative of furfuryl alcohol, or a mixture thereof, into the first mixture to produce a second mixture, heating the second mixture, mixing a surfactant comprising an acid moiety (e.g., an alkylbenzene sulfonic acid) and the second mixture to produce a third mixture, initiating a polycondensation reaction of the furfuryl alcohol, the derivative of the furfuryl alcohol, or the mixture thereof, in the third mixture to produce polymer (or polymer-derived) particles comprising polyfurfuryl alcohol, and (optionally) defining or modifying the glass transition temperature of the polymer or polymer-derived particles comprising polyfurfuryl alcohol.
US12006397B2
Polymer compositions with an end-capped polyether-polyester copolymer, a transition metal catalyst and an active material that acts on, interacts or reacts with moisture. The polyether-polyester copolymer has (i) polyether segments where at least one polyether segment contains at least one polytetramethylene oxide segment; (ii) polyester segments; (iii) bridging elements of the structure —CO—R2-CO—, where R2 represents an optionally substituted bivalent hydrocarbon residue consisting of 1 to 100 carbon atoms; and (iv) one or two end-caps R1-O—(C2-C4-O—)e-*, where R1 is an optionally substituted hydrocarbon residue and e is an integer of from 0 to 1000. The polymer composition is capable of scavenging oxygen and can be used in compositions and articles to remove oxygen or to function as an active oxygen barrier.
US12006396B2
The present invention relates to amorphous polyesters on the basis of betulin, a method for producing them and their use.
US12006393B2
Provided herein are thioacetate isobutylene-based polymer compositions comprising thioalkylated functionalized polymer, and a sulfur donor and/or accelerator cure system. The thioalkylated functionalized polymer is produced via nucleophilic substitution reaction in solution. The present thioacetate functionalized isobutylene-based polymer compositions together with various accelerators and sulfur donors can form thermosets useful for pharmaceutical and tire applications without the use of zinc or a zinc oxide activator.
US12006392B2
The present invention relates to a post-processing apparatus configured to post-process latex, the post-processing apparatus including: a receiving tank having therein a receiving part and having an inlet port through which the latex is introduced into the receiving part and a discharge port through which the latex is discharged; an ultrasonic wave generating device configured to generate ultrasonic waves to the latex accommodated in the receiving tank; a pressure reducing part configured to reduce a pressure of the receiving part of the receiving tank to discharge an unreacted monomer to the outside of the receiving tank; and a partition part provided in the receiving part of the receiving tank and comprising a plurality of partitions disposed in a direction from the inlet port toward the discharge port of the receiving tank, in which the latex accommodated in the receiving part moves along upper and lower sides of the plurality of partitions.
US12006387B1
A polymer formed from a first monomer of vinylene carbonate and at least one second monomer different form the first monomer that does not contain a glycidyl group, wherein the molar ratio of the first monomer to the second monomer is from 4:1 to 99:1. The polymer, preferably the copolymer, dissolves metal salts and the composition of the copolymer and metal salt may have an ionic conductivity greater than 0.01 mS/cm. The polymer is suitable for use in various components of solid state batteries.
US12006382B2
A (meth)acrylate includes a reaction product of a thiol compound containing two or more thiol groups, and a (meth)acrylate compound containing two or more (meth)acryloyloxy groups.
US12006381B2
A dielectric elastomeric material having a permittivity of 20-65 at 103 Hz is provided. The dielectric elastomeric material is formed from a composition comprising: a polymer comprising at least one acrylate monomer; a cross-linker; and a photoinitiator. A conductive elastomer comprising the dielectric elastomeric material, as well as a method of forming the dielectric elastomeric material, are also provided.
US12006373B1
The present disclosure is directed to anti-CD3ε peptides, compounds, and methods of using same. A biopanning technique was used to identify several phage clones displaying unique anti-CD3ε peptide sequences. The anti-CD3ε peptide sequences bind to human CD3ε on T cells, allowing the identification, labeling, and delivery of cargo to these T cells. Applications for the disclosed peptides include the labeling of T cells with magnetic particles for MRI detection and targeting of T cells with cargo-laden anti-CD3ε peptides for immunotherapy. Further still, incubation of T cells with anti-CD3ε peptides may result in the activation and increase production of T cells, which may in turn be harvested for applications such as CAR-T therapy.
US12006372B2
The present invention relates to an antibody that binds to GARP and is useful as a therapeutic agent for a tumor, and a method for treating a tumor using the aforementioned antibody. It is an object of the present invention to provide an antibody, which inhibits the function of Treg in a tumor and is thereby used as a pharmaceutical product having therapeutic effects, a method for treating a tumor using the aforementioned antibody, and the like. An anti-GARP antibody that binds to GARP and exhibits inhibitory activity to Treg function and exhibits ADCC activity is obtained, and moreover a pharmaceutical composition for use in tumor therapy, comprising the aforementioned antibody, etc. is obtained.
US12006371B2
The present application discloses humanized antibodies and antibody like proteins and fragments thereof.
US12006364B2
Compositions and methods are provided for treating diseases associated with CD100, including certain autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, and cancers. In particular, anti-CD100 monoclonal antibodies have been developed to neutralize CD100.
US12006359B2
The present invention relates to antibodies that specifically bind pro-myostatin and/or latent myostatin, and methods and uses thereof.
US12006354B2
The present disclosure provides for IL2 engrafted into the CDR sequences of an antibody having preferred therapeutic profiles over molecules known and used in the clinic. In particular, the provided antibody cytokine engrafted protein compositions increase or maintain CD8+ T effector cells while reducing the activity of Treg cells. Additionally, provided compositions convey improved half-life, stability and producibility over recombinant human IL2 formulations such as Proleukin®.
US12006351B2
Provided are compositions and methods for inhibiting extracellular matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) activity. Inhibition of extracellular MMP-2 activity can be useful for restricting extracellular matrix remodeling, tumor cell migration, cell invasion, and/or metastasis. The compositions comprise mutants of Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-2 (TIMP-2), where the tyrosine at position 62, 90 and/or 165 has been substituted with a non-phosphorylatable amino acid or with a phosphomimetic of phosphorylated tyrosine, and/or anti-Src antibodies. The method comprises delivering to an extracellular region of a tissue, a composition comprising a TIMP-2 mutant and/or an anti-Src antibody.
US12006346B2
The application relates to a dual cytokine fusion protein composition, pharmaceutical composition, and/or formulation thereof comprising IL-10 or IL-10 variant molecules fused to a single chain variable fragment scaffolding system and a second cytokine, where the second cytokine is linked in the hinge region of the scFv. The application also relates to methods of using the dual cytokine fusion protein composition for treating cancer, inflammatory diseases or disorders, and immune and immune mediated diseases or disorders.
US12006338B2
Organosilicon quaternary ammonium compounds, their formulations, including powdered and solid formulations, and methods of use to treat infections in humans and animals.
US12006332B2
The invention relates to inhibitors of PI5P4K inhibitors useful in the treatment of cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, inflammatory disorders, and metabolic diseases, having the Formula: where A, B, R1, X1, X2, and W are described herein.
US12006330B2
The present invention provides compounds useful for the treatment of narcolepsy or cataplexy in a subject in need thereof. Related pharmaceutical compositions and methods are also provided herein.
US12006329B2
The present invention provides compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same for the targeted degradation of proteins, and the treatment of target protein-mediated disorders.
US12006310B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of natural medicines, and in particular to a triterpenoid compound with an effect of improving glucose and lipid metabolism disorders, and preparation and application thereof. A novel triterpenoid compound was obtained by separation from Momordica charantia L. for the first time in the present invention. Studies on a mouse primary hepatocyte model and a 3T3-L1 preadipocyte model show that the novel triterpenoid compound in the present invention has activity of regulating glucose and lipid metabolism, and after combination with known triterpenoid compound Momordicoside G, the activity of regulating glucose and lipid metabolism is significantly higher than that of a single compound at the same dose, indicating that the novel triterpenoid compound and a complex thereof in the present invention can be used to improve glucose and lipid metabolism disorders and provide a new way for diabetes treatment.
US12006304B2
The present application relates to novel substituted indazoles, to processes for preparation thereof, to the use thereof alone or in combinations for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, and to the use thereof for production of medicaments for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, especially for treatment and/or prophylaxis of endometriosis and endometriosis-associated pain and other endometriosis-associated symptoms such as dysmenorrhoea, dyspareunia, dysuria and dyschezia, of lymphoma, rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis (especially psoriatic spondyloarthritis and Bekhterev's disease), lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, macular degeneration, COPD, gout, fatty liver disorders, insulin resistance, neoplastic disorders and psoriasis.
US12006303B2
The present application relates to novel substituted indazoles, to processes for preparation thereof, to the use thereof alone or in combinations for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, and to the use thereof for production of medicaments for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, especially for treatment and/or prophylaxis of endometriosis and endometriosis-associated pain and other endometriosis-associated symptoms such as dysmenorrhoea, dyspareunia, dysuria and dyschezia, of lymphoma, rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis (especially psoriatic spondyloarthritis and Bekhterev's disease), lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, macular degeneration, COPD, gout, fatty liver disorders, insulin resistance, neoplastic disorders and psoriasis.
US12006300B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds of Formula (I): and their prodrugs, solvates, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, pharmaceutical compositions, methods of use, and methods of their preparation. The compounds disclosed herein are useful for modulating Sigma receptors and have antiviral activity, and may also be useful in the treatment and/or prevention of pain disorders, neurological disorders (e.g., Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease), and cancer.
US12006297B2
Emmacin-related substituted dihydropyrimidine compounds demonstrate potency at low concentrations and inhibit Methicillin-resistant S. aureus growth. One such compound is:
US12006288B1
A compound 3-(4-chlorophenyl)-5-{[5-methyl-2-(propan-2-yl)phenoxy]methyl}-1,2,4-oxadiazole compound, its synthesis, and its use as an anticancer and/or antimicrobial agent.
US12006279B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing alcohols by hydrogenation of C13 aldehydes. The process according to the invention is performed in two consecutive hydrogenation stages, wherein the first hydrogenation stage employs an activated metal catalyst based on a nickel metal foam and the second stage employs a supported catalyst containing a catalytically active component from the group consisting of nickel, copper, chromium and mixtures thereof.
US12006271B2
A method for sludge dewatering using kitchen waste to synergistically enhance a coupling of an anaerobic biological acidification and a low-temperature hydrothermal of excess sludge is disclosed. The method includes the following steps: first, uniformly mixing the excess sludge from a sewage treatment plant and the kitchen waste for an anaerobic biological acidification reaction at 36.5-37.5° C. for 2-4 days; then, concentrating the acidified mixture by centrifugation at a speed of 3000-5000 rpm for 5-10 min; performing a low-temperature thermal hydrolysis treatment on a residue obtained after removing a supernatant for 15-30 min at 100-140° C.; and after the thermal hydrolysis treatment is finished, cooling and dewatering to obtain a dewatered sludge cake and a dewatered filtrate. The new method realizes high-efficiency sludge dewatering and innocuous utilization of dewatered filtrate and sludge cake without adding chemical reagents and effectively avoids generating hardly-degradable chemical oxygen demand.
US12006268B2
A method for preparing an ecological foamed ceramic from lepidolite filter mud whole waste belongs to the field of environmental protection and resource reuse. The ecological foamed ceramic with excellent properties can be prepared by using lepidolite filter mud as the main raw materials, including ball milling, homogenization, drying, material distribution, and heat treatment. The amount of lepidolite filter mud in the present invention accounts for more than 90%, which is a whole waste utilization and can achieve high-value utilization of bulk lepidolite filter mud. The present invention uses a composite foaming agent combined with a foaming technology and has the advantages of rapid foaming and controllable pore size compared with a single foaming agent. The ecological foamed ceramic prepared by the present invention meets the industrial standard of CJ/T 299-2008 “Artificial ceramic filter material for water treatment” and has potential application value in domestic sewage treatment.
US12006265B2
Process for the preparation of a ceramic nanowire preform, in particular, a process for the preparation of a ceramic nanowire preform by combining a template technique and a preceramic polymer conversion technique. The process uses carbonaceous material as a template, and prepares an isotropic ceramic nanowire preform by controlling the ratio of a precursor to a solvent, the amount of a catalyst and the ratio of a prepared precursor solution to the carbonaceous template, wherein the preform is isotropic and has lower bulk density and higher volume fraction.
US12006248B2
A glass-ceramic article comprises: a center-volume composition comprising (on an oxide basis): 55-75 mol % SiO2; 0.2-10 mol % Al2O3; 0-5 mol % B2O3; 15-30 mol % Li2O; 0-2 mol % Na2O; 0-2 mol % K2O; 0-5 mol % MgO; 0-2 mol % ZnO; 0.2-3.0 mol % P2O5; 0.1-10 mol % ZrO2; 0-4 mol % TiO2; and 0-1.0 mol % SnO2. Lithium disilicate and either β-spodumene or β-quartz are the two predominant crystalline phases (by weight) of the glass-ceramic article. The glass-ceramic article further comprises tetragonal ZrO2 as a crystalline phase. The composition of the glass-ceramic article from a primary surface into a thickness of the glass-ceramic article can comprise over 10 mol % Na2O (on an oxide basis), with the mole percentage of Na2O decreasing from the primary surface towards the center-volume. The glass-ceramic article exhibits a ring-on-ring load-to-failure of at least 120 kgf, when the thickness of the glass-ceramic article is 0.3 mm to 2.0 mm.
US12006240B2
A method of suspending elemental sulfur in water includes the steps of providing water including elemental sulfur and hydrogen sulfide and adding from about 1 to about 100 parts by weight of a sulfur suspension additive to the water based on one million parts by weight of the water to suspend the elemental sulfur in the water. The sulfur suspension additive is chosen from an alkyldiphenyloxide disulfonate or salt thereof, a secondary alcohol ethoxylate, a non-ionic ethylene oxide and/or propylene oxide copolymer, and combinations thereof.
US12006233B2
The present application provides a method for extracting an extractable component from a feed liquid using a porous membrane. One embodiment of the method includes temperature-swing solvent extraction of water from saline water using a porous membrane.
US12006230B2
Described herein is a process for making a nickel composite hydroxide with a mean particle diameter d50 in the range from 3 to 20 μm including combining (a) an aqueous solution of water-soluble salts of nickel and of at least one of cobalt and manganese, and, optionally, at least one of Al, Mg, B, or transition metals other than nickel, cobalt, and manganese, (b) an aqueous solution of an alkali metal hydroxide and (c) an aqueous solution of alkali metal (bi)carbonate or ammonium (bi)carbonate in the molar ratio of 0.001:1 to 0.04:1, and, optionally, (d) an aqueous solution of alkali metal aluminate, in a continuous stirred tank reactor or in a cascade of at least two continuous stirred tank reactors.
US12006229B2
The present disclosure provides a method for preparing full-gradient particle precursors, and the full-gradient particle precursor prepared thereby. By controlling different types of anion compositions and/or cation compositions gradually changed to other types, and adjusting the pH to match with the species, precipitated particles are deposited to form a slurry, collecting the precipitated particle, treating with water, and drying to yield the particle precursor. After being washed and dried, the particle precursor is further mixed with lithium source, after calcining to yield cathode active particles. The cathode active particles can be used to prepare cathode of lithium-ion battery.
US12006225B2
A Bayer process increases oxalate removal in the red side of the Bayer process and at least substantially minimises, for example by at least substantially suppressing, precipitation of oxalates in the white side of the Bayer process.
US12006221B2
A method of forming a functionalized device substrate is provided that includes the steps of: forming a conductive layer on a growth substrate; applying a polymeric layer to a device substrate, wherein a coupling agent couples the polymeric layer to the device substrate; coupling the polymeric layer to the conductive layer on the growth substrate; and peeling the growth substrate from the conductive layer.
US12006219B2
Described herein are integrated thermochemical processes for the deliberate decomposition, extraction and conversion of coal into high-value products and goods via solvent extraction, chemical reaction and/or separation. The described systems and methods are versatile and may be used to generate a variety of intermediate, derivative and finished high value products including chemicals (aromatics, asphaltenes, naphthalenes, phenols and precursors for the production of polyamides, polyurethanes, polyesters, graphitic materials), polymer composite products (resins, paints, coatings, adhesives), agricultural materials, building materials, carbon fiber, graphene products and other materials that are substantially more valuable that the energy generated via combustion.
US12006214B2
The present invention relates to integrating a hot oxygen burner with an auto thermal reformer of reducing in a system for generating synthesis gas.
US12006201B2
A refrigerator contains a dispenser for ice and/or liquid. A dispenser housing covers an opening in an outer shell of the refrigerator. The dispenser housing delimits a dispenser recess that extends outward and upward over an upper edge of the opening and is assembled from at least one main part, which extends from a lower edge of the opening over a rear wall to a front edge of a ceiling of the dispenser housing, and a filling part, which extends from the front edge to an upper edge of the opening.
US12006195B2
A reach truck comprises two wheel arms each coupled to a load wheel, a thrust mast positioned between the wheel arms, a drive unit comprising a steerable drive wheel, and a counterweight comprised of cast iron and positioned in a front region of the reach truck. The counterweight comprises at least one of: (a) a step positioned on a front side of the reach truck at a mid-height of the counterweight and comprising a horizontal tread having a front edge; (b) two fastening apparatuses positioned on opposite sides of an underside of the counterweight, wherein a supporting element is fastened to each of the two fastening apparatuses; and (c) a splashguard positioned on an underside of the counterweight, wherein the splashguard surrounds the steerable drive wheel forming a ring and positioned away from a lateral edge of the counterweight.
US12006192B1
A power assisted counterweight-balanced rigging device for raising and lowering a load including a sealed arbor, a sprocket driven by a driven gear and laterally adjacent first and second idler gears.
US12006189B2
A dual hoist crane is provided with a heave compensation system that can be used for both the main and for the auxiliary hoisting assembly. The heave compensation system includes a first set of sheaves for guiding the main hoisting cable and a second set of sheaves for guiding the auxiliary hoisting cable. The heave compensation system is configured to individually lock the first set of sheaves and the second set of sheaves to a heave compensation cylinder, for respectively providing the main hoisting assembly and the auxiliary hoisting assembly with heave compensation.
US12006183B2
A mounting bracket for a cord reel assembly is provided. The bracket includes a base plate and a pair of side rails. The base plate has one or more mounting openings. The pair of side rails define a keyway between each of the side rails and the base plate. An assembly of a cord reel and the mounting bracket are also provided, as is a method of a method of installing a cord reel using the mounting bracket. In some embodiments, at least one rail of the pair of side rails includes a tongue extending therefrom. The tongue is configured for securement of a supply device thereto.
US12006178B2
A sheet feed device includes: a conveyor configured to convey a top sheet of sheets floated from a sheet stack; a blower configured to blow air in an obliquely upward direction from a position lower than the conveyor toward the sheet stack; and a direction converter configured to convert a direction of the air blown by the blower to a direction which is downward more than a direction of the air at a position where the air is blown from the blower and let the air flow in between the top sheet and a second sheet subsequent to the top sheet of the sheets floated from the sheet stack.
US12006175B2
A carrier tape holding device is installed in a component supply unit that supplies a component by drawing a carrier tape storing the component from a tape roll body formed by winding the carrier tape in a roll shape. The carrier tape holding device includes a storage portion that stores the tape roll body. The storage portion holds the tape roll body in a state where the component supply unit is able to draw the carrier tape from the tape roll body, and is capable of receiving a tape roll body for replenishment moved from a holder storing the tape roll body for replenishment in a state where the holder is detachably attached.
US12006174B2
A sheet conveyance apparatus includes a conveyance section, the conveyance section including a roller rotatable in a first rotation direction and a second rotation direction, a guide member configured to move between a first position and a second position, a drive source, a drive switching unit including an input unit, an output unit, and a switching unit, a drive interruption unit configured to transition between a transmission state and a non-transmission state. The roller is configured to rotate by the driving force output from the output unit of the drive switching unit while the guide member moves between the first position and the second position.
US12006168B2
An automated storage and retrieval system includes a storage array of storage locations for case units. An in-out case conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting case units to and from the storage array, and an in-out loaded pallet conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting loaded pallets towards and away from the storage array. A palletizer-depalletizer cell includes a bi-directional pallet transport system with more than one independently driven pallet transports, each with a different pallet holder independently movable relative to a cell frame. Placement of case units commissioning a pallet layer loading a pallet, and removal of case units decommissioning a pallet layer unloading another pallet are both effected at the common pallet layer interface at a predetermined level of the cell frame. The pallet transports independently index a first and a second of the different pallet holders, each independently holding the pallet loading at the common pallet layer interface.
US12006162B2
Devices for separating piece goods such as pharmaceutical product packages to be stored in a picking device are provided. The device includes a feed device for piece goods, a recording device for recording 3D images of piece goods, a control device for evaluating 3D images and for determining a piece good to be picked, a conveyor for picking a piece good, a deposit surface, and a lateral recording device. The control device is configured so that the orientation of the picked piece good is ascertained and the preferred storage surface is established and that the conveyor is activated in such a way that a picked piece good is situated on a preferred storage surface on the deposit surface. Methods of separating piece goods to be stored in a picking device are also provided.
US12006159B2
A system includes a storage facility configured to store drones. The system may also include at least one robotic element configured to move the drones to and from the storage facility and a conveyor configured to move the drones to a launching area. The at least one robotic element may include an articulating arm configured to move a first drone from the storage facility to the conveyor, in response to identifying that the first drone is selected for a flight.
US12006158B2
A shield gate includes a door member disposed in a gap region located between an intra-area transport unit and an extra-area transport unit in a transport direction in a closed state in which the shield gate shields an opening, and is disposed at a position displaced from the gap region in an open state in which the shield gate opens the opening. A second interval is a length of the gap region that allows the door member to be disposed, during at least a part of a non-transport period, the length of the gap region is set to be greater than or equal to the second interval, and the shield gate is in the closed state, and, during the transport period, the shield gate is in the open state, and the length of the gap region is set to a first interval that is shorter than the second interval.
US12006150B2
The present disclosure aims to provide a charge unit for a robotic load handling device which reduces the wear/damage experienced by charge contacts of the charge unit and provides a solution whereby easier servicing of the charge unit can be accomplished. A charge unit for a robotic load handling device is operative on top of a grid framework. The charge unit includes a plurality of profiled sections arranged to interface with a hoist element of the robotic load handling device, and a power transfer device is arranged to transfer power to the robotic load handling device.
US12006143B2
A method for retrieving an inventory item based on a handling robot, where the handling robot includes: a storage frame; and a material handling device installed on the storage frame, and including a telescopic arm and a manipulator installed to the telescopic arm; and the method for retrieving an inventory item includes: driving, by the telescopic arm, the manipulator to extend to a preset position of warehouse shelf along a preset horizontal reference line; loading, by the manipulator that is remained on the reference line, the inventory item located in the preset position; driving, by the telescopic arm, the manipulator loaded with the inventory item to move to the storage frame along the reference line; and unloading, by the manipulator that is remained on the reference line, the inventory item to the storage frame.
US12006141B2
Systems and methods for detecting a waste receptacle, the system including a camera for capturing an image, a convolutional neural network, and processor. The convolutional neural network can be trained for identifying target waste receptacles. The processor can be mounted on the waste-collection vehicle and in communication with the camera and the convolutional neural network configured for using the convolutional neural network. The processor can be configured for using the convolutional neural network to generate an object candidate based on the image; using the convolutional neural network to determine whether the object candidate corresponds to a target waste receptacle; and selecting an action based on whether the object candidate is acceptable.
US12006139B2
Systems and methods for sanitizing, cleaning, and deodorizing a garbage can are provided. The sanitization product can include a disposable pad covered in a solution that is inserted into indoor or outdoor garbage cans. The solution may be configured to minimize and prevent the spread of bacteria and other germs within a garbage can, which routinely occurs due to spilling of food, liquids, and other garbage within the can. Additionally, the pad may be made of an absorbable material so that any liquids that enter a garbage can can immediately be absorbed. Different solutions may be applied to the product depending on where the pad will be used. Additionally, a kit may be provided that includes multiple disposable pads. For instance, the kit may include a dozen pads, or more or less pads, that help to keep the user's garbage can clean and void of unpleasant odors.
US12006136B1
A tool for installing and removing an interbox connector into and from a corner fitting of a cargo container positioned on a rail car. The tool includes support structure configured to releasably engage the opening in the upper locking cone of the connector whereby the connector can be delivered to or removed from the corner fitting without the need for the operator to climb onto the rail car.
US12006127B1
Present embodiments relate to an insulating device. More specifically, but without limitation, present embodiments relate to an insulating device that accommodates bottles of differing size and shape by comprising an expandable boot that accommodates bottles of differing size and shape.
US12006123B2
A beverage container includes a base, a sidewall extending from and integrally formed with the base, and an upper region extending from the sidewall and defining an upper opening. The beverage container includes a longitudinal axis extending in a direction from the base to the upper opening. The beverage container further includes a continuous channel formed in and extending continuously around a circumference of the sidewall, wherein the continuous channel includes peaks and troughs connected by diagonal regions. The continuous channel is configured to resist paneling and elongation of the beverage container. The beverage container further includes a central channel formed in and extending continuously around a circumference of the sidewall at a central portion of the sidewall, wherein the central channel is configured to resist paneling of the beverage container.
US12006114B2
Disclosed herein are tethered cap and spout combinations. The tethered cap and spout combinations prevent loss of the cap after opening. In an implementation, the tethered cap and spout combinations may provide mechanisms for puncturing or opening a seal that may be present at a throat or neck of the container which provides both an anti-tampering and freshness function. In an implementation, the tethered cap and spout combinations may provide anti-tampering mechanisms. In an implementation, the tethered cap and spout combinations may provide mechanisms to hold an opened and tethered cap away from the container opening during use.
US12006113B2
The present disclosure is generally related to beverage containers, including cannabinoid and/or alkaloid-infused beverage containers, and associated devices, systems, and methods. In at least some embodiments, a beverage container can include one or more container walls forming the sides and/or bottom of the container, a conditioning component configured to releasably contain an active ingredient and to release at least a portion of the active ingredient into the container, and a lid which may be sealably attached to the container wall to create a sealed container. When a liquid is inserted into the beverage container and the lid is sealed to the container wall, the active ingredient can be held separate from the liquid by the conditioning component unless or until the conditioning component is activated/actuated to cause the active ingredient to mix with the liquid and create a beverage infused with the active ingredient.
US12006109B2
Provided is a system a push and turn child safety container with finger indents. This improved safety container is characterized by a outer body having a first circular element bounded by a first circumferential wall having an inward lip at the distal end. An inner surface of the first circular element providing a plurality of first ridges. Nested within the outer body is an inner body characterized by a second circular element bounded by a second circumferential wall extending normally away from the second circular element. The inner surface of the second circumferential wall having first threads; and an outer surface of the second circular element having a plurality of second ridges for temporarily engaging with the first ridges of the first circular element. The safety container has a screw element screw element characterized by a circular first element having an outer circumferential wall having at least one indent structured and arranged to receive a user's finger tips. The indent provides abutment surfaces for the user's finger tips. A threaded collar extends normally from the circular first element below the indents and is structured and arranged to be disposed within the inner body and engage the first threads of the inner surface of the second circumferential wall to temporarily bind the screw element with the inner body.
US12006105B2
A lid for covering a container has a lid body having a peripheral connection for connecting to the container, a first hole in the lid body, the first body having a first shape, a second hole in the lid body, the second hole having a second shape that is different from the first shape, and a slidable cover member that slides in a groove formed in the lid body between a covered position and an uncovered position to selectively cover and uncover the first hole. The lid includes a pivoting plug that pivots in a space between the ramps between a plugged position and an unplugged position to selectively plug the second hole.
US12006097B2
A container for articles, including: an upper end and a lower end; a first lateral wall and a second lateral wall; a bottom, including a first bottom wall and a second bottom wall. The container includes means for blocking the bottom, including a first abutment flap fixed to the inner surface of the first lateral wall and including a lower abutment edge; and a second abutment flap including an upper abutment edge and connected to the second bottom wall. The second abutment flap is folded against the inner surface of the first lateral wall for abutting, with the relative upper abutment edge, the lower abutment edge of the first abutment flap.
US12006096B2
The present disclosure provides a β-diketone storage container including: a metal storage container to which a liquid β-diketone is charged, the metal being an aluminum material; and an inorganic film on an inner surface of the storage container, the inorganic film containing at least one material selected from the group consisting of silicon dioxide, silicon carbonitride, silicon carbide, silicon nitride, diamond, and diamond-like carbon.
US12006093B2
A pallet having: a pallet body having a first side and an opposing second side; at least one formed portion located on the first side of the pallet body and shaped to receive a rigid elongate first item thereon, the formed portion oriented substantially along a lengthwise axis of the pallet body. When the elongate first item is substantially retained on the formed portion of the pallet body such that when the elongate first item is secured thereon, a lengthwise rigidity of the pallet body is enhanced by the rigid elongate first item.
US12006068B2
A space launch system and method through electromagnetic pushing. The space launch system comprises an energy storage subsystem, an energy conversion subsystem, a linear motor subsystem, and a control maintenance subsystem. The space launch system converts the electric energy into an electromagnetic force. Through the electromagnetic force, a rocket is pushed to be accelerated to a certain speed along an electromagnetic launching track to realize the launching of the rocket.
US12006058B2
A method of and a system for operating a fuel pump management system of an aircraft. The method comprises receiving, from a fuel gauge, an electronic reading of a level of fuel fluid contained in a fuel tank; and analysing the electronic reading of the level of the fuel fluid, the analysing comprising upon determining that the level of fuel fluid is equal or below a predetermined fuel level threshold, causing a fuel pump in communication with the fuel tank to be shut down.
US12006056B2
A dual drive hybrid electric power plant to power an aircraft comprises a propulsion assembly, an internal combustion engine having an output shaft configured to drive the propulsion assembly, and an electric motor configured to drive the propulsion assembly and to be selectively coupled to the output shaft. The power plant may be configured such that the electric motor alone drives the propulsion assembly, or such that the internal combustion engine and the electric motor drive the propulsion assembly.
US12006050B2
A latch hook length adjustment arrangement includes a latch hook body comprising a hook and a rod extending from the hook, an adjustment nut configured to threadingly couple to the rod, a plurality of detent pockets disposed in the first side surface of the adjustment nut, a bearing sleeve comprising one or more bearings, and a spring member configured to bias the adjustment nut against the bearing sleeve. The detent pockets and bearing(s) may retain the nut in a rotational position, thereby maintaining the positional length of the hook.
US12006045B2
A regenerative filter system includes a regenerative filter material arranged to filter air recirculated from an aircraft interior and means for passing a regeneration air stream through the regenerative filter material to regenerate the filter material by removing adsorbed contaminant therefrom, whereby the means for passing the regeneration air stream comprises means for expanding air exhausted from the aircraft interior and using the expanded air to drive a compressor for compressing and conditioning ram air to provide the regeneration air stream to the filter material.
US12006044B2
Heat exchanger of an air-conditioning system of a cabin of a transport vehicle, comprising: a primary circuit supplied by a first air flow, a secondary circuit supplied by a second air flow, a casing defining an air-circulation enclosure, a primary circuit inlet box allowing entry into said air-circulation enclosure, and a primary circuit outlet box allowing exit from the air-circulation enclosure, characterized in that said inlet box is mounted removably on said casing, and in that it houses a three-dimensional structure forming a catalytic and/or adsorbent support for treating the air of said primary circuit, and a means for distributing said first air flow into said heat-exchange matrix.
US12006040B2
Autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle management service may provide a platform to manage groups of unmanned aerial vehicles to work together on a task simultaneously in an autonomous manner.
US12006037B2
An aircraft comprises a fuselage, first and second wing segments each having a leading edge and a trailing edge, a plurality of spokes coupling the fuselage to the first and second wing segments, one or more motors disposed within or attached to the plurality of spokes, and three or more propellers proximate to a leading edge of the plurality of spokes, distributed along the plurality of spokes, and operably connected to the motors to provide lift whenever the aircraft is in vertical takeoff and landing and stationary flight and provide thrust whenever the aircraft is in forward flight. When the aircraft is in vertical takeoff and landing and stationary flight, the fuselage is approximately vertical. When the aircraft is in forward flight, the fuselage is approximately in the direction of the forward flight and extends forward beyond the leading edges of the first wing segment and the second wing segment.
US12006034B2
An aerial vehicle adapted for vertical takeoff and landing using pivoting thrust producing elements for takeoff and landing. An aerial vehicle which is adapted to takeoff with thrust units providing vertical thrust and then transitioning to a horizontal flight path. An aerial vehicle with pivoting thrust units with propellers, wherein some or all of the propellers are able to be stowed and fully nested during forward flight.
US12006033B1
An aerial vehicle includes a fuselage supporting a pair of wings, with each of wings having a pair of booms attached thereto. A tilt rotor is positioned at each of the forward ends of each of the booms, to provide the aerial vehicle with at least four tilt rotors. A fixed rotor is positioned at and secured to the aft (or trailing) ends of each of the booms, to provide the aerial vehicle with at least four fixed rotors.
US12006031B2
An aircraft defines a vertical direction and includes a fuselage and a propulsion system comprising a power source and a plurality of vertical thrust electric fans driven by the power source. A wing extends from the fuselage. The plurality of vertical thrust electric fans are arranged along a length of the wing along a lengthwise direction of the wing. The wing comprises a diffusion assembly along the lengthwise direction of the wing and includes a first diffusion member positioned downstream of at least one of the plurality of vertical thrust electric fans. The first diffusion member defines a curved shape relative to a longitudinal direction of the aircraft. The longitudinal direction is generally perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the wing.
US12006025B2
A leading edge structure (11) for a flow control system of an aircraft (1), including a leading edge panel (13) that surrounds a plenum (17), wherein the leading edge panel (13) has a first side portion (21), a second side portion (27), an inner surface (33) and an outer surface (37), wherein the leading edge panel (13) having micro pores (45) forming a fluid connection between the plenum (17) and the ambient flow (39), wherein a first air inlet/outlet device (49) is arranged in the first side portion (21) and a second air inlet outlet/device (51) is arranged in the second side portion (27), fluidly connected to the plenum (17), and wherein the first air inlet/outlet device (49) comprises a pivotable first door (55) and the second air inlet outlet/device (51) comprises a pivotable second door (61).
US12006016B2
A marine propulsion unit including a rotary casing rotatable about a central axis A, and blades extending axially from the rotary casing for rotation with the rotary casing about the central axis A, wherein each blade is mounted for pivotal movement about blade axes B. A blade shaft portion of each blade is at least partly surrounded by a blade housing and by a blade portion of each blade is outside the blade housing, wherein the blade housing is releasable attached to the rotary casing, and each blade being supported in the blade housing by means of bearings for the pivotal movement.
US12006009B2
An adaptable landing gear assembly for small watercraft such as kayaks and canoes is described supporting transport of such watercraft from a point on land to a body of water. The assembly includes a cross member to secure the assembly to the watercraft, a pair of positioning brackets, and a pair of wheeled leg assemblies that can rotate between a vertical position to transport watercraft on land and a horizontal position to enable unfettered use of watercraft while floating on water. A position holding pin engages with retaining slots in said position brackets to enable fixed positions of the wheeled leg assemblies with respect to the cross member. A convenient release lever enables operator to release the position holding pin and rotate leg assembly from a first position to a second position.
US12005991B2
A brake caliper for a bicycle includes a housing configured to be installed on the bicycle, the bicycle including a disc attached to a wheel of the bicycle. A brake pad is installed within the housing and is configured to move between a braking position and a non-braking position. The braking position is a location within the housing where the brake pad contacts the disc when the housing is installed on the bicycle. The non-braking position is a location within the housing where the brake pad is further from the disc than in the braking position. The caliper also includes a biasing member configured to bias the brake pad in a downstream direction within the housing with the brake pad is in the non-braking position, the downstream direction being parallel to a direction of rotation of the disc when a wheel of the bicycle is rotating to move the bicycle forward.
US12005989B2
The integrated tank and compressor mounting system for a motorcycle has a mount block which has a mounting face, and a compressor clamp. The mount block has a threaded cylindrical section which forms a tank mount for mounting a tank. The tank has a cylindrical tubular section closed at one end and threaded at the other end such that the tank threads correspond to the mount block threads. The tank provides air for an air suspension which includes a forward suspension unit activated by air and an aft suspension unit activated by air. A supply line connects the tank air volume to an inlet valve on the suspension control unit. The suspension control unit has a cylindrical forward control valve passage and the forward control valve passage has a forward transfer chamber.
US12005983B2
A cargo bike transport carrier for transporting persons includes at least one seat element arranged inside the cargo bike transport carrier. The seat element is fastened via a holding means. According to a preferred embodiment, for ensuring good load transmission, the holding means are configured as a circumferential bracket and connecting bars.
US12005979B2
A vehicle platform for a vehicle is provided. The platform includes a platform base extending in a longitudinal direction, and a loading system for laterally loading and unloading an upper body structure onto the platform base. The loading system includes first and second fork arms supporting the upper body structure with respect to a vertical direction, and a lifting mechanism coupled to the platform base and the first and second fork arms. The lifting mechanism moves the first and second fork arms relative to the platform base along the vertical direction. The first and second fork arms are spaced apart in the longitudinal direction and each are movable along a lateral direction between a retracted position, in which the fork arms completely overlap with the platform base, and an extended position, in which the fork arms protrude in the lateral direction from a lateral side of the platform base.
US12005976B2
The hybrid tractor truck can have a cabin supported by a frame, the frame including two transversally spaced apart beams extending behind the cabin, a fifth wheel supported by the frame behind the cabin, a front axle bearing front wheels, at least one rear axle supported by the frame behind the cabin, the at least one rear axle bearing rear wheels, a heat engine located in an engine compartment supported by the frame in front of the cabin, the heat engine drivingly connected to said at least one rear axle; and an electric machine supported by the frame behind the at least one rear axle, the electric machine being drivingly connected to the at least one rear axle, and at least one battery electrically connected to the electric machine.
US12005968B2
A tailgate assembly including at least two tailgate panels that both move between a closed position, a plurality of intermediate open positions, and a fully open position, where the tailgate panels selectively separate and articulate from the back of the cargo bed to the sides of the cargo bed. The tailgate panels move out of the way to provide direct access to the cargo area floor. The tailgate panels articulate in a small envelope of space, improving access to the rear in a confined space at the rear of the vehicle and reducing the risk of contacting objects that may be behind the vehicle.
US12005964B2
A composite structural body (A) includes a first metal member (M1) having a plate-like shape, a second metal member (M2) having a plate-like shape, and a resin member (R) that integrates the first metal member (M1) and the second metal member (M2) with each other. The resin member (R) includes a first resin layer (R1) that coats astride one main surface of the first metal member (M1) and one main surface of the second metal member (M2), and a second resin layer (R2) that coats astride another main surface of the first metal member (M1) and another main surface of the second metal member (M2). The composite structural body (A) is provided as a composite structural body that has satisfactory moldability, that is capable of securing sufficient strength, and that is suitable as a component of a structure such as a vehicle body.
US12005960B2
An objective of the present disclosure is to provide a front pillar outer that is inexpensive, lightweight and strong. In an area in which a first door-side flange part and a second door-side flange part overlap with each other, a first plate part that is connected to a side edge of the first door-side flange part is folded so that a second door-side flange part is sandwiched between the first door-side flange part and the folded first plate part. In an area in which a first glass-face-side flange part and a second glass-face-side flange part overlap with each other, a second plate part that is connected to a side edge of the first glass-face-side flange part is folded so that the second glass-face-side flange part is sandwiched between the first glass-face-side flange part and the folded second plate part.
US12005956B2
A body tie-down for a chassis includes a mounting plate, a spring assembly, and a rigid member. The mounting plate is configured to fixedly couple with a body frame member with one or more fasteners, each of the fasteners including a bolt and a collar that are swaged together. The rigid member is configured to couple with the mounting plate through the spring assembly to provide a semi-resilient joint between the rigid member and the mounting plate, the rigid member configured to fixedly couple with a frame.
US12005945B2
A highway grade crossing gate system comprises a gate arm configured to rotate 90 degrees from a horizontal position to a vertical position and vice versa and a highway grade crossing gate mechanism coupled to the gate arm for controlling rotation of the gate arm without mechanical user adjustments but rather use user angle and time inputs/outputs. The highway grade crossing gate mechanism includes a DC motor to drive the gate arm up and down and a voltage reduction circuit to receive an input voltage from a battery and reduce the input voltage. The highway grade crossing gate mechanism further includes a human machine interface (HMI) to receive a plurality of programmable set points as operational variables for operation of the gate arm without manually adjustable cams on a main shaft that move contacts to open or close at some preset angular rotation. The highway grade crossing gate mechanism further includes a control printed circuit board (PCB) coupled to the HMI, the voltage reduction circuit, the brake, and the DC motor. The control PCB to receive an output based on an angular position of the gate arm as a position indication to have the control PCB provide an output for the operation of the gate arm.
US12005933B2
In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, methods and systems are provided for controlling steering of an autonomous vehicle. The method includes: operating, by a processor, the autonomous vehicle in a path-based automated driving assist mode; receiving, by the processor, driver input including a driver torque; classifying, by the processor, an operation mode based on a type of the path-based automated driving assist mode; determining, by the processor, an override threshold for overriding the path-based automated driving assist mode on a first lateral side of the autonomous vehicle based on the operation mode; determining, by the processor, a driver override status based on the override torque threshold; and generating, by the processor, control signals to control the steering of the autonomous vehicle based on the driver override status and the driver torque.
US12005932B2
A method for automating a driving function. The method includes an activation of a process controlling the driving function is triggered using an activation condition modelled by a trigger, and the process is temporally controlled by an activation manager during the controlling of the driving function.
US12005929B2
An autonomous driving control system of a vehicle includes a processor, a navigation, and a driving controller communicatively connected to one another. The processor is configured to estimate a charging amount of a power source that drives a driving device of a vehicle. The navigation is configured to set a driving route based on a destination and to search for a charging station for the power source based on the set driving route. The processor is further configured to determine a charging strategy of the power source based on the estimated charging amount of the power source, the driving route set by the navigation, and the searched charging station. The driving controller is configured to control driving of the vehicle based on the driving route set by the navigation and the determined charging strategy.
US12005925B1
A teleoperations system that collaboratively works with an autonomous vehicle planning component to generate a path for controlling the autonomous vehicle to pass a situation where the vehicle is unable to identify a vehicle option to proceed and may comprise presenting one or more paths to a teleoperator (e.g., a human user, machine-learned model, and/or artificial intelligence component), such paths being generated either at the vehicle or remote system. The teleoperations system may receive input from the teleoperator indicating a vehicle option to select for the vehicle to proceed in the environment. The teleoperations system may generate a guidance path based on the vehicle options and the input and transmit the guidance path to the autonomous vehicle. Based at least in part on the guidance path, the autonomous vehicle may generate a control trajectory to use to navigate around the obstacle.
US12005921B2
A method for assisting a person to perform a task in a dynamic environment comprises a step of acquiring data on the dynamic environment, and of predicting at least one behavior of an object or event in the dynamic environment based on the acquired data. The method proceeds by determining a relevance measure of the at least one behavior of the object or event based on the prediction. Then a modulation signal is generated, wherein the modulation signal changes at least one signal parameter as a function of the determined relevance. The modulation signal is then used to modulate at least one directional stimulus signal, wherein the at least one modulated directional stimulus signal further depends on a direction of the predicted at least one behavior of the object or event with respect to the assisted person. The at least one modulated stimulus signal is then output to the assisted person.
US12005913B2
A method of controlling vehicle driving, when a plurality of occupants is in the vehicle, by implementing components required for vehicle driving control as holographic images to ensure a maximum space in an autonomous vehicle, may include steps of requesting, by a first occupant currently having no driving control authority, a transfer of the authority by use of a holographic image, accepting, by a second occupant currently having the driving control authority, the transfer of the authority by use of the holographic image, selecting, by the first occupant, a mode by use of the holographic image based on the acceptance by the second occupant, and performing vehicle control in accordance with the mode selected by the first occupant, and the holographic images in the respective steps are displayed to the occupants wearing an HMD device.
US12005898B2
Provided is a mobile body control system capable of improving both the comfort of passengers in each mobile body and the efficiency of cargo transport when a plurality of mobile bodies travel in a formation. A mobile body control system (1) causes a plurality of mobile bodies (21) to travel in a formation along a preset travel route, and comprises a preceding/succeeding acceleration calculation unit (S49) that calculates a preceding/succeeding acceleration of a preceding mobile body (21_n) and a succeeding mobile body (21_n+1) on the travel route. The preceding/succeeding acceleration calculation unit adjusts a gain E of an arithmetic expression used to calculate the preceding/succeeding acceleration on the basis of information about a transported object being transported by each mobile body (21).
US12005896B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and other techniques for damping oscillations of an implement of a vehicle while the vehicle is moving. Sensor data is captured using one or more sensors that are attached to the vehicle. The sensor data is analyzed to extract one or both of symmetric oscillation information or asymmetric oscillation information. One or both of a speed damping signal or a steering damping signal are generated based on analyzing the sensor data. The speed damping signal is generated in response to extracting the symmetric oscillation information and the steering damping signal is generated in response to extracting the asymmetric oscillation information. A movement of the vehicle is modified using one or both of the speed damping signal or the steering damping signal.
US12005895B2
Technologies and techniques for the lateral control of a vehicle. Environment data of a vehicle is detected when travelling a route, and stored environment data, detected when travelling the route by a plurality of other vehicles not currently travelling the route, is received. The plausibility of the stored environment data is checked on the basis of the environment data detected. Lateral control of the vehicle is executed on the basis of the environment data checked for plausibility.
US12005882B2
A control device for controlling a brake of a vehicle includes an arbitrating unit configured to receive motion requests for a plurality of actuators, which are used for controlling a motion of the vehicle, from a plurality of application requesting units related to driving support functions and to arbitrate the received motion requests, a command distributing unit configured to distribute commands to controllers for controlling the actuators based on an arbitration result obtained by the arbitrating unit, and a feedback controller configured to feed back a control record value indicating the motion of the vehicle, which is measured by using sensor units, to the application requesting units and to realize the motion of the vehicle requested by the application requesting units.
US12005876B2
A braking control device includes a stop holding controller and an uneven-ground traveling determination unit. After the vehicle makes a stop and a brake operation performed by a driver who drives the vehicle is canceled, the stop holding controller is configured to perform execution of a stop holding control that includes holding braking force of the vehicle and canceling the braking force in response to a predetermined start operation performed by the driver. The uneven-ground traveling determination unit is configured to determine whether the vehicle is traveling on an uneven ground. The stop holding controller is configured to disable the execution of the stop holding control in a case where the uneven-ground traveling determination unit determines that the vehicle is traveling on the uneven ground.
US12005874B2
The wheel chock includes a locking mechanism that can be held in a locked state when properly positioned on a base plate. The locking mechanism includes a positioning unit having at least one tooth provided to engage a side of a corresponding one of the blocking elements in a latched engagement when the positioning unit is in the fully locked position. The locking mechanism also includes an actuating device to move the positioning unit from the unlocked position towards the fully locked position, and a holding device to selectively hold the positioning unit in the fully locked position.
US12005863B2
A cargo-loading device for a vehicle is an apparatus that facilitates the transportation of a heavy load. The apparatus minimizes the physical force needed to load and unload the heavy load with a vehicle. The apparatus includes a loading platform, a lifting frame, and a lifting mechanism. The loading platform supports and upholds the heavy load from the ground. The lifting frame connects the loading platform with the vehicle. The lifting mechanism positions and operates the loading platform. Furthermore, the lifting frame includes a support base, and extension arm, a frame boom, a frame jib, and a release pinlock mechanism. The heavy load may be released or unloaded by releasing the hinged connection between the support base and the frame boom with the release pinlock mechanism, the frame boom and the extension arm with a safety pin, or both. The frame jib angles the loading platform with the lifting mechanism.
US12005859B2
This disclosure describes techniques that enable a vehicle remote start controller to initiate a remote start of an idle vehicle. The remote start controller may retrieve sensor data associated with a vehicle and analyze the sensor data to determine the current state of the vehicle. In doing so, the remote start controller may determine whether to initiate a remote start of the vehicle based at least in part on the current state. In response to determining to initiate the remote start, the remote start controller may generate computer-executable instructions for delivery to the vehicle that initiates the remote start.
US12005855B2
Systems and methods for machine learning based seatbelt position detection and classification. A number of fiducial markers are placed on a vehicle seatbelt. A camera or other sensor is placed within the vehicle, to capture images or other data relating positions of the fiducial markers when the seatbelt is in use. One or more models such as machine learning models may then determine the spatial positions of the fiducial markers from the captured image information, and determine the worn state of the seatbelt. In particular, the system may determine whether the seatbelt is being worn in one or more improper states, such as not being worn or being worn in an unsafe or dangerous manner, and if so, the system may alert the vehicle to take corrective action. In this manner, the system provides constant and real-time monitoring of seatbelts to improve seatbelt usage and safety.
US12005841B2
The invention relates to an exterior vision unit for a vehicle. The unit includes a base for attachment to the vehicle and a swiveling housing mounted at the base which can be swiveled at least between a park position, a work position, and an extreme overfold position. The housing includes a camera unit with a lens. The exterior viewing unit includes an adjustable cover for temporarily covering the lens. The cover is adjustable between a cover position and a release position. It also includes an adjustment device for adjusting the cover between its cover position and release position or vice versa. The adjustment device is fitted with an adjusting device connected to the cover in such a way that the cover adjusts when the adjusting device is moved. The adjustment device further includes an initial movable gripping device designed for temporary engagement with the adjusting device linked to the cover.
US12005840B2
A vehicular interior rearview mirror assembly includes a mirror head and a mounting assembly. The mirror casing includes a sidewall having an outer end region that circumscribes an open portion of the mirror casing. The outer end region includes a rounded outer surface curving between the open portion and a less-curved outer surface of the sidewall. The mirror reflective element is disposed at the open portion of the mirror casing. The mirror reflective element has a glass substrate having a rounded perimeter edge of at least 2.5 mm and a thickness of less than 2 mm. Curvature of the rounded outer surface of the outer end region of the sidewall matches curvature of the rounded perimeter edge of the glass substrate to provide a curved transition between a flat region at the front surface of the glass substrate and the less-curved outer surface of the sidewall of the mirror casing.
US12005838B2
A mount base for a rearview mirror includes: a base body including a first material; and an insert embedded in the base body and including a second material. The base body has a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, the insert has a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, the first material is softer than the second material, and the second material has higher stiffness than the first material.
US12005833B2
In an aspect, a method of wireless communication performed by a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) device onboard a vehicle includes receiving one or more V2X safety messages indicating a potential safety condition related to illumination of an object; determining, in response to the one or more V2X safety messages, that the object is within or approaching a target area in which illumination of the object by headlights of the vehicle can be adjusted; and controlling an illumination intensity and/or an illumination pattern of the headlights of the vehicle in response to determining that the object is within the target area.
US12005827B2
A bus or trailer with gaming apparatuses installed thereon is shown and described. The bus or trailer with gaming apparatuses installed thereon includes a bus or trailer comprised of at least a compartment having a plurality of sidewalls and at least one door. The compartment is secured to a movable apparatus. A plurality of gaming apparatus is installed around an interior of the compartment. The interior includes at least one sleeper bed, at least one electronic gaming machine, and at least one gaming table.
US12005820B2
A body weight adjustment mechanism for automatic adjustment to a balanced point is provided to improve vibration absorption characteristics and impact absorption characteristics. A torsion angle of a lower frame-side torsion bar when an upper frame is at a balanced point is found in advance, a torsion angle of the lower frame-side torsion bar in a state in which a person is seated is detected, the detected torsion angle is compared with the aforesaid balanced point torsion angle, a control signal is sent to an elastic force adjusting unit, and torsion angles of upper frame-side torsion bars are adjusted so that the torsion angle of the lower frame-side torsion bar becomes equal to the balanced point torsion angle. The upper frame can be set to an appropriate position in an initial state and a static state in which a person is seated and vibration and impact absorption characteristics are improved.
US12005808B2
A diagnostic system for a vehicle includes a vehicle system configured to operate the vehicle in a normal operating mode and a boosted mode. In the boosted mode, the vehicle system increases at least one of a maximum motor torque, a maximum engine torque, and a maximum battery power available to the vehicle. A wear estimation module is configured to collect wear data associated with a component of the vehicle while being operated in the boosted mode, estimate, based on the collected wear data, wear of the component caused by being operated in the boosted mode, and generate a prediction of a remaining lifetime of the component based on the estimated wear of the component.
US12005802B1
A bilevel coordinated optimization method for fixed and mobile charging facilities on highways, includes: constructing an optimization model framework which includes an upper-layer coordinated location optimization model and a lower-layer coordinated capacity optimization model, where the upper-layer coordinated location optimization model is used to optimize locations of charging stations and determine locations and time points of charging demands that require truck mobile charger (TMC) deployment, while the lower-layer coordinated capacity optimization model is used to optimize TMC and fixed charger (FC) capacities at candidate sites, improving an utilization rate of FCs; and performing equivalent linearization on a nonlinear problem using a big-M method and converting the problem into a mixed-integer linear programming model, and implementing a data exchange process between upper and lower layers using analytical target cascading. The present disclosure enhances the utilization and flexibility of charging facilities on highways.
US12005799B2
In a method and a device for charging an electric vehicle with a charging current, having: a connection for connecting to a domestic mains supply connected to a power generating plant, a power supply grid, an energy management device, and possibly an energy storage; a charging connection for connecting to the electric vehicle (11) to be charged; and a control device for controlling the charging current for charging the electric vehicle, at least one device determines the surplus power of the domestic mains supply and the power drawn from the power supply grid and compares them with at least one activation threshold and/or deactivation threshold. The control device is designed so that the charging current for charging the electric vehicle is according to the at least two preset charging currents, by activating or deactivating the corresponding preset charging current when upon reaching the corresponding activation threshold values or deactivation threshold values.
US12005798B2
A charging device for electric vehicles, comprising at least one docking station, at least one charging unit attachable to the docking station. The docking station has plurality of recesses. The charging unit has a plurality of bars insertable into the docking station recesses, each of which comprises at least one first locking element, at least one locking module movable between a locking position and an open position which has a plurality of second locking elements corresponding to the first locking elements. In the open position of the locking module, the bars are insertable into the recesses in such a way that the bars are movable into a snapping position, In the snapping position, the locking module is movable from the open position into the closed position such that the bars are positively fixable to the docking station by an interaction of the second locking elements with the first locking elements.
US12005797B2
An electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) includes a thermal management system that includes a dual-sided heatsink that includes a first side that faces internal ambient air of the EVSE and a second side that faces external ambient air. A first fan circulates the internal ambient air of the EVSE across the first side to reject heat from the internal ambient air into the first side. A first airflow guide guides the internal ambient air across the first side of the dual-sided heatsink. A second fan draws external ambient air that flows across the second side to reject heat from the second side out of the thermal management system. A second airflow guide guides the external ambient air across the second side. An airflow seal prevents the external ambient air and the internal ambient air from mixing.
US12005794B2
An inverter system is configured to mitigate oscillation of a rotary system that drives a generator or electric machine. A torque damping module is configured to receive a commanded torque or an observed torque and to generate a commanded compensating torque to dampen any mechanical oscillation or resonance of the rotary system based on the observed rotational speed of the generator. The torque damping module further comprises a digital filter of order greater than one, a gain adjuster and a limiter.
US12005779B2
In one aspect, there is provided a decoupler for an accessory drive for an engine. The decoupler includes a decoupler input member and a decoupler output member. One of the decoupler input member and the decoupler output member has a clutch engagement surface. The decoupler further includes a wrap spring clutch and an isolation spring that act in series in a torque path between the decoupler input member and the decoupler output member. The wrap spring clutch has a radially inner surface and a radially outer surface. One of the radially inner and outer surfaces engages the clutch engagement surface in an interference fit with the clutch engagement surface. The decoupler further includes a volume of lubricant. During sufficiently high acceleration of the decoupler input member, there is slippage at the wrap spring clutch for a selected period of time after which the slippage stops.
US12005777B2
A suspension element includes a housing, a first joint, and a second joint. The housing is configured to couple a tractive element assembly to a vehicle. The housing has a first end configured to engage a portion of the vehicle and a second end configured to interface with the tractive element assembly. The first joint includes a first actuator and a first resilient member. The first actuator is configured to facilitate linear extension and retraction of the suspension element. The second joint includes a second actuator and a second resilient member. The second actuator is configured to facilitate rotational movement of the suspension element. The first resilient member and the second resilient member are configured to support a static load of the vehicle.
US12005772B2
A hybrid plug-in battery and hydrogen fuel internal combustion engine vehicle with swappable modular hydrogen tanks and integrated with solar power generation system comprises: a plug-in chargeable battery bank; a hydrogen fuel internal combustion engine; a water electrolysis system; a solar electric power generation system; and multiple modular swappable hydrogen tanks. The hybrid electric vehicle can be electrically charged by using electric charging infrastructure and mechanically charged by swapping hydrogen tanks. The introduction of the water electrolysis system into the new structure of the hybrid vehicle enables onboard hydrogen generation. The swappable hydrogen tanks comprise sensors and wireless communication electronic terminals to be shared by all vehicles.
US12005768B2
A deflector member may include a front portion positioned on the front side of the opening and corner portions extending, in a curved manner, rearward from both ends of the front portion, respectively. A lower edge of the deflector member may form a notch between the front portion and the corner portion. The lower edge member can be divided into a front lower edge member attached to a lower edge of the front portion, and an arc-shaped lower edge member attached to a lower edge of the corner portion. The frame structure may be provided with a front attachment body and an arc-shaped attachment body to which the front lower edge member and the arc-shaped lower edge member are detachably attached, respectively.
US12005767B2
A cover for a vehicle roof may have a panel with a surface, a functional insert which is of flexible design, and a foamed-on plastics structure. The functional insert may have two contact regions, which are spaced apart from one another and which are each in direct contact with the surface. The foamed-on plastics structure fixes the functional insert to the panel.
US12005762B2
A vehicle glazing with improved stiffness having a modified structure which comprises at least one stiffening portion, wherein each portion is a recessed portion and/or a raised portion, and wherein each portion has at least a portion of its contour being sharply curved.
US12005761B2
An air discharge device includes an air discharge unit for discharging an air flow. The air discharge unit includes at least one main hole from which an air flow is blown out as a working air flow, and a separation structure configured to separate a central portion of a thickness of a velocity boundary layer of the working air flow from a center line of the main hole at a downstream side of the main hole.
US12005754B2
A method for lowering a vehicle chassis to a required vertical position, the vehicle including only two sets of running gear, namely a front set of running gear and a rear set of running gear, each wheel of the sets of running gear being associated with a parking brake, the method including the following successive steps: when the chassis is in its high running position, actuating the parking brake only for all of the wheels of one of the two sets of running gear; lowering the chassis to its low position resting on the ground; and actuating the parking brake for all of the wheels of the other of the two sets of running gear.
US12005748B2
A tire having a transponder comprises: a crown which has a crown reinforcement with an axial end at each edge, joined at each of its axial ends to a bead, which has an inner end, by a sidewall; a carcass reinforcement which is formed of adjacent first wires and is anchored in each bead around a spiral formed by second wires; the transponder comprising a core defining a first axis, a first cover wire helically wound around the core and an electrical insulation device; and the first cover wire comprising at least two conductive wire elements galvanically connected to an electronic chip comprising a radiofrequency transceiver component. The thickness of the elastomer mixture separating the outer cover wire, which is located furthest outwards from the first axis, and the reinforcements is greater than 0.5 millimeter.
US12005743B2
A tire includes a tread surface portion with inclined grooves, 2ND longitudinal grooves, and shoulder longitudinal grooves; and an indicator portion that indicates a rotation direction of the tire in which a vehicle travels forward. The inclined groove gradually extends forward in the rotation direction toward a tire equator from the outside in the tire width direction. A front surface among inner surfaces defining the inclined groove includes a first side surface with an inner end portion to which the 2ND longitudinal groove is open, a second side surface positioned closer to an inside than the first side surface and of which an outer end portion is positioned closer to a rear side than the inner end portion of the first side surface, and a stepped surface that connects an inner edge of the first side surface to an outer edge of the second side surface and faces the outside.
US12005739B2
A modular hub cover which includes a removable hub cover ring having a plurality of hub cover ring openings located around a periphery of the removable hub cover ring, a removable barrel having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the removable barrel is operatively attached to the removable hub cover ring, a removable insert located within the removable hub cover barrel and located adjacent to the second end of the removable barrel, and a retaining ring located within the removable hub cover barrel and located adjacent to the billet insert in order to retain the insert within the removable barrel.
US12005737B2
State of the art track width adjustment mechanism fail to support track width adjustment while vehicle is in motion. They also require manual intervention, which causes inconvenience. The disclosure herein generally relates to wheel track adjustment, and, more particularly, to a changeable wheel track mechanism for track width adjustment (referred to as TWA mechanism). The TWA mechanism includes a steer and drive unit, a plurality of links, and a sliding unit. The TWA mechanism allows movement of a wheel in inward and outward directions, causing the track width adjustment. The track width is achieved by changing the wheel position to be at a wider position, or a narrower position, or any intermediate position. The TWA mechanism may be associated with any vehicle for which the track width adjustment is to be achieved.
US12005730B2
A writing instrument may include a self-healing sealing component to prevent the internal components of the writing instrument from drying out.
US12005729B2
A writing instrument holder for clip is disclosed. The writing instrument holder for clip is detachable from a clip having a clip body which is bent to have an insertion space into which a document is inserted, is closed by an elastic restoring force, and pressurizes the document, and a pair of handles which are coupled to the clip body and pressurize the clip body to widen, and includes a body unit, a fixing unit, and an elastic unit. The body unit is provided in the insertion space and comes in close contact with the inner surface of the clip body. The elastic unit connects the body unit and the fixing unit.
US12005727B2
A flexographic printing plate includes at least one halftone printing area with a plurality of halftone dots. A halftone dot of said plurality of halftone dots is shaped as a relief area. Said relief area includes a central portion and a surrounding portion. Said central portion has a central dot floor with a first pattern of a plurality of pins protruding upwardly from the central dot floor. Said surrounding portion protrudes upwardly from the central dot floor and has a top side including a second pattern of a plurality of recesses. The first pattern and second pattern are such that the surrounding portion can be distinguished from the central portion.
US12005725B2
The present invention relates to a method of forming a surface covering for example wallpaper or a floor covering and an apparatus for forming a surface covering, in which a surface covering raw material is supplied, the surface covering raw material comprising a substrate and a resin layer comprising a resin and a carrier liquid, the resin being dispersed in the carrier liquid and being capable of gelling or curing with the carrier liquid. A pattern is then applied to the resin layer by inkjet printing, and the surface covering raw material with the pattern formed on the resin layer is heated to gel or cure the resin layer to thereby prepare a surface covering.
US12005723B2
A removable device adapted to cooperate with a conveyor system for the installation of an endless ribbon in the conveyor system, the removable device includes at least two support elements to support the endless ribbon, each support element being movable in rotation around a rotation axis and each support element having a convex portion to support a portion of the endless ribbon.
US12005717B2
A printer valve assembly including a plurality of valves. Each of the valves is actuated between an open state which permits fluid flow though the valve and a closed state which prevents fluid flow though the valve. The plurality of valves includes a first feed valve, a first return valve, a waste valve and a purge valve. The first feed valve controls flow between a source of first print fluid and a feed line to a print head. The first return valve controls flow between a return line from a print head and a source of first print fluid. The waste valve controls flow between a return line from a print head to a waste receiver. The purge valve controls flow between a source of purge fluid and a feed line. The printer valve assembly further includes a valve control member which is mechanically connected to the valves to simultaneously control the state of the valves based on a position of the valve control member.
US12005713B2
A base board includes a board and a controller mounted on the board. A controller is configured to receive signals outputted from a first sensor and a second sensor. A recording head, a case, the first sensor, a maintenance unit, a waste liquid container, the second sensor, and the base board are arranged in an internal space of a housing. The base board has a flat surface extending in a first horizontal direction and in a second horizontal direction. A range occupied by the base board in a vertical direction overlaps each of a range occupied by the first sensor in the vertical direction and a range occupied by the second sensor in the vertical direction. The second horizontal direction is perpendicular to the first horizontal direction. The vertical direction is perpendicular to both the first horizontal direction and the second horizontal direction.
US12005711B2
The method of the present disclosure includes steps of: (S1) providing a silicon substrate; (S2) arranging and disposing an active component layer by utilizing a first type photomask on at least two high-precision regions of each of a plurality of inkjet print head chip regions on the silicon substrate; (S3) arranging and disposing a passive component layer by utilizing a second type photomask on the active component layer; and (S4) cutting the silicon substrate according to the inkjet print head chip regions so as to form the plurality of narrow type inkjet print head chips.
US12005705B2
Misalignment between landing positions is appropriately corrected. A printing device 10 that performs printing by an inkjet method includes an inkjet head 102, a carriage 100, a main scan driving part 18 (carriage drive mechanism), a detection mechanism 106, and a controller 30. The controller 30 detects a position where a concentration is the highest among concentrations of a correction pattern changing depending on positions in a main scanning direction, calculates magnitude of misalignment between a landing position of ink ejected from the inkjet head 102 when the carriage 100 moves to a first direction side and a landing position of the ink ejected from the inkjet head 102 when the carriage 100 moves to a second direction side based on a detection result of the position where the concentration is the highest, and corrects the misalignment between the landing positions based on a calculation result.
US12005704B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for storing digital information by assembling an identifier nucleic acid molecule from at least a first component nucleic acid molecule and a second component nucleic acid molecule. The system may include a first printhead configured to dispense a first droplet of a first solution comprising the first component nucleic acid molecule onto a coordinate on a substrate, and a second printhead configured to dispense a second droplet of a second solution comprising the second component nucleic acid molecule onto the coordinate on the substrate, such that the first and second component nucleic acid molecules are collocated on the substrate. The system may include a finisher that dispenses a reaction mix onto the coordinate on the substrate to physically link the first and second component nucleic acid molecules, provides a condition necessary to physically link the first and second component nucleic acid molecules, or both.
US12005699B2
A recording device includes a recording unit configured to perform recording to a medium, a conveyance belt disposed facing the recording unit and configured to convey the medium, a first blade and a second blade configured to make contact with the conveyance belt and scrape out a residual of the conveyance belt, and a switching mechanism configured to switch the first blade and the second blade. When the first blade is moved to a first position where the first blade makes contact with the conveyance belt, the control unit moves the second blade to a second position where the second blade is separated from the conveyance belt, and when the second blade is moved to the first position where the second blade makes contact with the conveyance belt, the control unit moves the first blade to the second position where the first blade is separated from the conveyance belt.
US12005694B2
Disclosed is a flexographic printing device for a laminating machine, including at least one pair of shoulders mounted on a trolley frame, a blade chamber for containing printing ink; an Anilox roller that rotates in contact with the printing ink, a print roller holding a printing cliché that rotates in contact with the Anilox roller and a counter-pressure roller that rotates in contact with the cliché held by the print roller, wherein at least the Anilox roller and the print roller are supported by respective supports that can slide with respect to the shoulders in a direction substantially orthogonal to their axes, the printing device also including at least one first motor for rotating the Anilox roller, at least one second motor for rotating the print roller and possibly a third motor for rotating the counter-pressure roller.
US12005682B2
Described are various dual-tapered composite laminate structures. These structures may comprise a plurality of finite sub-laminate cards, each one of the plurality of cards having the same shape and size as the other ones of the plurality of cards and having opposing surfaces oriented in a card plane, opposing primary edges of the planar surfaces, and opposing secondary edges of the planar surfaces, the opposing secondary edges being perpendicular to the opposing primary edges. The finite sub-laminate cards are stacked relative to one another in a successively offset manner. Also described are methods of stacking and sliding (for offset) the finite sub-laminate cards. Tapered fuselage skin and fuel tank covers are also considered.
US12005675B2
A medium processing apparatus includes a crimper, a liquid applier, a driving source, and a binding load detector. The crimper presses and deforms a part of a medium bundle, which is a plurality of sheet-shaped media bundled, to bind the medium bundle. The liquid applier applies liquid to a position on the media at which binding is to be performed by the crimper. The driving source operates the crimper. The binding load detector detects a load of the crimper during the binding. The liquid applier adjusts an amount of the liquid to be applied to the media in accordance with a magnitude of the load during the binding detected by the binding load detector.
US12005669B2
A system and method for manufacturing a flexible bulk container. The system includes workstations circumferentially spaced apart from each other. Each of the workstations is operable to perform an operation on a preform of the container. The workstations sequentially modify the preform from an initial version to a final version, the final version of the preform being the manufactured flexible bulk container. A preform manipulation apparatus includes a carrousel disposed centrally and being rotatable about a vertical central axis. Manipulation arms are mounted to the carrousel for common rotation therewith. The manipulation arms each have a proximal end fixed to the carrousel and a distal end having a manipulation tool mounted thereto for seizing and manipulating the preform at each of the workstations. Each of the manipulation arms in operation displaces the manipulation tool and the preform between successive workstations.
