US12020693B2
An electronic device includes an audio sensor, a memory, and at least one processor coupled to the audio sensor and the memory. The at least one processor is configured to receive, via the audio sensor an audio input. The at least one processor is further configured to perform, using an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model and an entity prediction model, out-of-vocabulary prediction of an entity. The at least one processor is further configured to receive an ASR hypothesis including the predicted entity. The at least one processor is further configured to output text including the predicted entity.
US12020688B1
An evaluation method and system of an air traffic control (ATC) speech recognition system are provided, the method includes: S1, obtaining, grading and inputting ATC speech data; S2, constructing an evaluation index system; S3, determining weights of utility layer indexes and support layer indexes under different levels ATC speech data; S4, calculating a utility layer score and a support layer score, and adding the scores of the utility layer and the support layer to obtain comprehensive scores of the utility layer and the support layer; S5, determining, weights of the utility layer and the support layer; S6, adding a product of the utility layer weight with the utility layer comprehensive score and a product of the support layer weight with the support layer comprehensive score to obtain a comprehensive score of the speech recognition system; and S7, determining a level of the recognition performance of the speech recognition system.
US12020683B2
A real-time name mispronunciation detection feature can enable a user to receive instant feedback anytime they have mispronounced another person's name in an online meeting. The feature can receive audio input of a speaker and obtain a transcript of the audio input; identify a name from text of the transcript based on names of meeting participants; and extract a portion of the audio input corresponding to the name identified from the text of the transcript. The feature can obtain a reference pronunciation for the name using a user identifier associated with the name; and can obtain a pronunciation score for the name based on a comparison between the reference pronunciation for the name and the portion of the audio input corresponding to the name. The feature can then determine whether the pronunciation score is below a threshold; and in response, notify the speaker of a pronunciation error.
US12020682B2
A method for Parametric resynthesis (PR) producing an audible signal. A degraded audio signal is received which includes a distorted target audio signal. A prediction model predicts parameters of the audible signal from the degraded signal. The prediction model was trained to minimize a loss function between the target audio signal and the predicted audible signal. The predicted parameters are provided to a waveform generator which synthesizes the audible signal.
US12020680B2
Provided is a sound image localization device capable of flexibly controlling directivity with a short calculation time. A sound image localization device that reflects, on a reflector 50, a sound signal radiated from a speaker array 40 arranged with a plurality of speakers SP1 to SPQ on a straight line to localize a sound image includes an expansion coefficient calculation unit 10 configured to analytically calculate expansion coefficients by performing a spherical harmonic function expansion on a window function representing desired directivity, a filter coefficient generation unit 20 configured to convert the expansion coefficients into filter coefficients corresponding to each of the speakers SP1 to SPQ, and a speaker drive unit 30 configured to generate a speaker drive signal for driving each of the speakers SP1 to SPQ by convolving the filter coefficients in a voice signal.
US12020679B1
One disclosed example method includes a device receiving an audio signal recorded in a physical environment and applying a machine learning model onto the audio signal to generate an enhanced audio signal. The machine learning model is configured to simultaneously remove interference and distortion from the audio signal and is trained via a training process. The training process includes generating a training dataset by generating a clean audio signal and generating a noisy distorted audio signal based on the clean audio signal that includes both an interference and a distortion. The training further includes constructing the machine learning model as a generative adversarial network (GAN) model that includes a generator model and multiple discriminator models, and training the machine learning model using the training dataset to minimize a loss function defined based on the clean audio signal and the noisy distorted audio signal.
US12020663B2
A display panel, a display module, and a display device are provided. The display panel includes multiple pixel units arranged in an array. Each of the multiple pixel units includes sub-pixels emitting lights of three colors. Multiple sub-pixels are arranged in rows in a first direction, and sub-pixels emitting lights of a same color are arranged in columns. In any pixel unit of the array, the third-color sub-pixel has a charging rate higher than each of the first-color sub-pixel and the second-color sub-pixel.
US12020661B2
Various example embodiments described herein relate to a method for synchronizing liquid crystal display (LCD) screens. In some examples, the method includes establishing, by a first device comprising a processor, a master/slave relationship with one or more other devices; determining, by the first device, a frequency associated with turning on a first LCD screen on the first device; and sending, by the first device, a signal to each of the one or more other devices, wherein the signal comprises an instruction to turn on an LCD screen on each receiving device at a same time as the first LCD screen.
US12020655B2
Provided is a method for controlling a display apparatus. In the method, the display apparatus receives at least two pieces of data to be displayed from at least two terminals respectively, wherein the at least two pieces of data to be displayed include screen projection data and status parameters of the at least two terminals, and then displays the status parameter, and performs a screen projection based on the screen projection data.
US12020649B2
A display can include a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, and a gate driver circuit including a plurality of row drivers configured as a shift register that sequentially and individually addresses the rows. The display panel can also include a first clock circuit configured to provide a first set of clock signals to a first portion of the row drivers to address a respective first portion of the rows. The first clock circuit can include a signal distribution circuit having a first input impedance. The display panel can also include a second clock circuit configured to provide a second set of clock signals to a second portion of the row drivers to address a respective second portion of the rows. The second clock circuit can include a signal distribution circuit having a second input impedance that is matched with the first input impedance.
US12020645B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a power supply which provides a driving voltage to the pixels, and a controller which outputs a first signal by comparing a sensing driving current generated by sensing driving currents flowing through the pixels with a limit current, outputs a second signal by comparing a load of previous frame data with a limit load, and outputs a driving voltage control signal for controlling the driving voltage to the power supply based on the first signal and the second signal.
US12020641B2
A light emitting device driving circuit and a display panel both include a light emitting device, a driving transistor, a data signal write module, a light emitting control module, a reset module, a compensation module, and a storage capacitor. A threshold voltage of the driving transistor can be compensated by the compensation module, and a first node can be reset by the reset module. This can solve the technical problem that the existing light emitting drive circuit cannot compensate for the threshold voltage of the driving transistor.
US12020640B2
A pixel for an organic light emitting display device includes an organic light emitting diode that emits light by a driving current, a driving transistor configured to control the driving current, a first transistor to connect the second node and the third node, a second transistor to apply a data voltage to the first node, a third transistor to apply a high-potential driving voltage to the second node, a fourth transistor that forms a current path between the driving transistor and the organic light emitting diode, a fifth transistor to apply an initial voltage to the driving transistor, a sixth transistor configured to apply a reset voltage to a fourth node which is an anode electrode of the organic light emitting diode, a seventh transistor configured to apply the high-potential driving voltage to the fifth node, and an eighth transistor configured to apply a reference voltage to the fifth node.
US12020639B2
Provided are a drive method of a display panel, a storage medium, a drive device and a display device. The drive method includes: in an Nth frame, applying a first voltage to the second electrode and a first data signal matched with a first voltage to the first electrode through the pixel drive circuit based on grayscale data of the Nth frame; wherein N is a positive integer; in an (N+1)th frame applying a second voltage to the second electrode and a second data signal matched with the second voltage to the first electrode through the pixel drive circuit based on grayscale data of the (N+1)th frame, wherein the first voltage is different from the second voltage.
US12020632B2
A display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a data write device, a drive device and a bias adjustment device. The display panel further includes a bias adjustment signal line, a reset signal line or an initialization signal line. At least one side frame of the display panel includes a bias adjustment signal bus, a reset signal bus or an initialization signal bus. The bias adjustment signal bus is disposed in a first side frame of the display panel, the reset signal bus or the initialization signal bus is disposed in a second side frame of the display panel; and the first side frame is adjacent to the second side frame, or is opposite to the second side frame, or, the bias adjustment signal bus is disposed in a same side frame with the reset signal bus or the initialization signal bus.
US12020628B2
A display module including: a module substrate; a plurality of pixels provided on the module substrate; and a plurality of micro pixel controllers provided in spaces between the plurality of pixels, and configured to supply driving current to at least two pixels of the plurality of pixels, wherein each micro pixel controller of the plurality of micro pixel controllers includes a plurality of pixel circuits configured to, based on a first voltage and a second voltage being applied to the micro controller, control an amplitude of the driving current based on the first voltage and control a pulse width of the driving current based on the second voltage, and, based on the display module being in a power saving mode, the first voltage is adjusted to decrease a brightness of the plurality of pixels.
US12020626B2
A display apparatus includes a panel driver; a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines through a plurality of switching elements; and a processor configured to control the panel driver to output a gate signal through the plurality of gate lines, and display an image in the display panel by controlling the panel driver to apply, through the plurality of data lines, data voltage to pixels, from among the plurality of pixels, connected with switching elements, from among the plurality of switching elements, to which the gate signal is output, wherein the processor is further configured to control, based on a user input for selecting a ratio of the image, the panel driver to output the gate signal to at least one first gate line connected with a first subset of pixels, from among the plurality of pixels, for displaying the image according to the user input.
US12020623B2
The gamma correction method for a display device measures a first driving current according to a first grayscale voltage corresponding to the low grayscale value, determines a predicted luminance based on a driving current-luminance calibration function and the first driving current, compares the predicted luminance and a first target luminance for the low grayscale value, determines a first offset value based on the first driving current and the first target luminance when the predicted luminance is different from the first target luminance, and corrects the first grayscale voltage based on the first offset value. That is, the gamma correction method may measure the driving current to perform gamma correction for the low grayscale value, and shorten a process time of the gamma correction compared to performing the gamma correction for the low grayscale value by measuring luminance.
US12020615B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a data driver, a driving controller and a power voltage generator. The display panel displays an image. The data driver outputs a data voltage to the display panel. The driving controller controls an operation of the data driver. The power voltage generator outputs a power voltage of the display panel. The data driver outputs a clock recovery signal representing whether a clock recovery operation is normal or abnormal to the driving controller. The driving controller generates an overcurrent signal representing an overcurrent based on the clock recovery signal and outputs the overcurrent signal to the power voltage generator.
US12020607B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel including pixels, a gate driver outputting gate signals to the pixels, a data driver outputting data voltages to the pixels, a sensing circuit receiving sensed signals from the pixels, a power voltage generator applying a power voltage, and a driving controller for stopping the display panel, the gate driver, the data driver, and/or the power voltage generator when the display panel is determined to be defective. The driving controller selects a first-mode threshold set or a second-mode threshold set based on an initial value set related to the sensed signals for determining whether the display panel is defective. Thresholds in the first-mode threshold set respectively correspond to and are respectively unequal to thresholds in the second-mode threshold set.
US12020604B2
A display device comprising a first interface receiving a first image, a second interface receiving a second image, and at least one processor executing, generating a first composite image including the first image and a part of the second image, and displaying the first composite image on a display surface, the first composite image including a first area, and a first superimposition area that is a different part from the first area and that includes the part of the second image, the first superimposition area being superimposed on the part of the second image displayed by another display device at the display surface.
US12020603B2
An electronic device may have a display with pixels configured to display an image. The pixels may be overlapped by a cover layer. The display may have peripheral edges with curved cross-sectional profiles. An inactive area in the display may be formed along a peripheral edge of the display or may be surrounded by the pixels. Electrical components such as optical components may be located in the inactive area. An image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or Anderson localization material. The image transport layer may overlap the pixels, may have an opening that overlaps portions of the inactive area, may have an output surface that overlap portions of the inactive area, and/or may convey light associated with optical components in the electronic device.
US12020602B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic device including a substrate, a first circuit layer, and a plurality of diodes. The substrate has a plurality of first through holes. The first circuit layer is disposed on the substrate and has a plurality of light through holes. The diodes disposed on the first circuit layer. One of the light through holes is located between two adjacent ones of the diodes, and the light through holes overlap a portion of the plurality of first through holes and do not overlap another portion of the plurality of first through holes in a normal direction of the substrate.
US12020595B2
A method of making a decorative enclosure including providing a display portion having a top opening, a front portion and a back portion. A screen is disposed over the top opening of the display portion. The screen slopes downwards from the back portion to the front portion of the display portion and includes a plurality of screen openings configured to allow passage of particles for the simulation of falling snow within the display portion.
US12020581B2
A method for operating an at least temporarily unmanned aircraft, wherein a flight is performed according to a prior flight plan in an airspace controlled by a control instance. A flight direction is determined during the flight via a control device influenced via a data connection by a control instance. The data connection is temporarily unavailable, and a hazardous or emergency situation requiring deviation from the flight plan, is identified by the control device based on first sensor data. An avoidance route is determined by the control device based on a second sensor data, the avoidance route including a avoidance manoeuvre avoiding the hazardous or emergency situation, the avoidance route is used in the meantime to fly towards a destination area with the least possible volume of air traffic; and the necessary avoidance manoeuvre(s) are performed based on the second data by the control device in an autonomous staggering procedure.
US12020572B2
In a case where it is determined that there is a possibility of a collision between a subject vehicle and an other vehicle, an information processing device causes a first alert device for issuing an alert to a driver of the subject vehicle to issue the alert when the first alert device is in an active state, and transmits alert information to the other vehicle when the first alert device is in an inactive state.
US12020566B2
A method of modifying or controlling a highway traffic system may include training a machine learning model using historical traffic data corresponding to a roadway traffic system in which the historical traffic data is indicative of traffic patterns over a historical time interval. The method may include obtaining, by the machine learning model, traffic data corresponding to the roadway traffic system and determining a probability of traffic congestion occurrence based on the obtained traffic data corresponding to the roadway traffic system. The method may include comparing the probability of traffic congestion occurrence to a traffic control probability threshold, and responsive to the probability of traffic congestion exceeding the traffic control probability threshold, adjusting operations associated with one or more traffic controls that correspond to the roadway traffic system. The machine learning model may be retrained after a time interval using the obtained traffic data corresponding to the roadway traffic system.
US12020560B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one processor, and at least one memory configured to store instructions executable by the at least one processor, wherein when the instructions are executed by the at least one processor, the at least one processor is configured to perform sensing an occurrence of a trigger event, based on an input to the electronic device and an input to at least one Internet of Things (IoT) device connected to the electronic device, collecting weather information in response to the occurrence of the trigger event, estimating an emotion of a user, based on at least one of context information stored for the user and the weather information, receiving, from the user, an audiovisual impairment state of the user or estimating the audiovisual impairment state based on the context information, determining audiovisual content for a disabled to output, based on at least one of the estimated emotion and the audiovisual impairment state, among the at least one IoT device, determining a target IoT device to output the determined audiovisual content for the disabled, and outputting the determined audiovisual content for the disabled through the target IoT device.
US12020548B2
A variety of methods, medical devices, responder network servers, emergency services interfaces and call center related processes are described that can help improve responder networks designed to get a medical device such as an automated external defibrillator and/or volunteer responders to the scene of a potential medical incident.
US12020546B2
A method of communication between a host of an automated teller machine and a device. The process is performed as a result of sensor polling which the host periodically performs to check a state of a device. The process is simplified by employing an interrupt communication scheme in which an interrupt signal for notifying that a change of a sensor value occurs in the device is transmitted from a device to a host. This simplification reduces USB traffic that occurs during a process of communication between the host of the automated teller machine and the device, thereby reducing a load that is applied to a communication hardware chip of the automated teller machine. As a result, the frequency with which a communication failure occurs is decreased, thereby achieving the effect of providing support for seamless communication.
US12020544B2
A method of selecting a wager during a live event on a play by play wagering platform to offer to a user such that a wager includes a win condition, odds, and a wager amount based upon the previous wager history of a user. The user being provided the option to accept or decline the wager as offered.
US12020529B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for improving ease in transmitting information between peer devices. Communications devices establish a peer group. Each communications device in the group assigns different sections of its touchscreen to the other devices in the group. To transfer information to another device in the group, the user swipes on the touchscreen towards the assigned section for the target communications device. Upon detecting the swipe, and determining that the swipe was towards the assigned section, the communications device initiates a transfer of the information to the target communications device. This may involve confirmation at the device or a paired device before transfer, or no confirmation. Receipt of the information at the target communications device may trigger notifications to be displayed. It may also trigger a request for acceptance of the transfer at the target communications device after which receipt is confirmed.
US12020526B2
A system includes a computer programmed to, in response to receiving a parking transmission from a parked vehicle, transmit a parking authorization credential to the parked vehicle for rebroadcast from the parked vehicle, the parking authorization credential confirming that the parked vehicle is authorized for a parking location.
US12020525B2
A property management apparatus for managing visitor access to a managed premises. The apparatus is configured to execute stored instructions to receive visit information of a proposed visitor from a user frontend through a data communication link, to store the visit information on the data storage, and to register the proposed visitor as an authorized visitor after receipt of the visit information. The visit information comprises information of an accessible destination within the premises and visit conditions. The user frontend is pre-registered with the apparatus as associated with an associated address within the premises, and the apparatus is to operate to identify the associated address upon data communication connection with the user frontend.
US12020521B2
A system include a server configured to: receive a request from a computing device to unlock a delivery box; determine whether the request is authenticated; and send an unlock signal to the delivery box in response to the request being authenticated, such that when the unlock signal is sent to the delivery box, the delivery box is remotely unlocked in response thereto. The delivery box may include a container comprising an interior configured to hold an item; an access door configured to close the container; a UV LED configured to be activated to disinfect the interior when the access door is closed relative to the container; and a controller that controls the UV LED. The controller is connected to a network and a user is configured to control the controller over the network.
US12020520B2
A data collection device that collects data transmitted by serial communication from an on-board instrument connectable to a vehicle information management device that collects data from the on-board instrument includes a data collection unit that collects data transmitted from the on-board instrument.
US12020514B2
A power supply equipment provided for each of parking slots is configured to be able to be stored under a ground, and is configured to supply power to a vehicle parked in a corresponding parking slot with the power supply equipment protruding from the ground. A server that manages each of the parking slots and the power supply equipment is configured to receive a reservation request that specifies a reservation start time of the parking slot. The server is configured to reserve, from a vacant slot, out of the parking slots, that is unreserved at the reservation start time, a parking slot with a neighboring parking slot on at least one side unreserved at the reservation start time with priority over a parking slot with neighboring parking slots on both sides reserved at the reservation start time, when the server receives the reservation request.
US12020512B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for determining that a subject is a live person using a color-coded sequence including a sequence of colors. A subject is illuminated in accordance with the sequence of colors. A sequence of images of the subject is captured, where the sequence of images are temporally synchronized with illumination by the color-coded sequence. A filtered response image is generated, by a matched filtering process on the sequence of images using the selected color-coded sequence. A determination is made, based on structural features around an eye region of the filtered response image, that the subject is a live person. Responsive to determining that the subject is a live person, initiating an authentication process to authenticate the subject.
US12020507B2
A system and method for determining a facial expression including a facial mask generator arranged to detect a plurality of facial points from one or more facial images to generate one or more associated facial point masks, arranged to represent the facial features of an associated face of the one or more facial images; and a learning network arranged to receive and input of the one or more facial images and the one or more associated facial point masks to obtain a classification result for each of the one or more facial images, wherein the classification result is one of a plurality of predefined facial expressions.
US12020502B2
A display device includes a base layer. A circuit layer is disposed on the base layer and includes at least one insulating layer and at least one transistor. An element layer is disposed on the circuit layer and includes a light emitting element and a light sensing element. The circuit layer includes a data line connected to the light emitting element and a readout line connected to the light sensing element. The readout line outputs a sensing signal in a sensing section of the display device. The readout line receives a reference voltage in a non-sensing section of the display device.
US12020496B2
Systems and methods for mobile enrollment in automated clearing house (ACH) transactions using mobile-captured images of financial documents are provided. Applications running on a mobile device provide for the capture and processing of images of documents needed for enrollment in an ACH transaction, such as a blank check, remittance statement and driver's license. Data from the mobile-captured images that is needed for enrolling in ACH transactions is extracted from the processed images, such as a user's name, address, bank account number and bank routing number. The user can edit the extracted data, select the type of document that is being captured, authorize the creation of an ACH transaction and select an originator of the ACH transaction. The extracted data and originator information is transmitted to a remote server along with the user's authorization so the ACH transaction can be setup between the originator's and receiver's bank accounts.
US12020494B2
A method is provided for non-invasively predicting characteristics of one or more cells and cell derivatives. The method includes training a machine learning model using at least one of a plurality of training cell images representing a plurality of cells and data identifying characteristics for the plurality of cells. The method further includes receiving at least one test cell image representing at least one test cell being evaluated, the at least one test cell image being acquired noninvasively and based on absorbance as an absolute measure of light, and providing the at least one test cell image to the trained machine learning model. Using machine learning based on the trained machine learning model, characteristics of the at least one test cell are predicted. The method further includes generating, by the trained machine learning model, release criteria for clinical preparations of cells based on the predicted characteristics of the at least one test cell.
US12020489B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to performing depth estimation and object detection using a common network architecture. In one embodiment, a method includes generating, using a backbone of a combined network, a feature map at multiple scales from an input image. The method includes decoding, using a top-down pathway of the combined network, the feature map to provide features at the multiple scales. The method includes generating, using a head of the combined network, a depth map from the features for a scene depicted in the input image, and bounding boxes identifying objects in the input image.
US12020488B2
A map in a cloud service stores physical objects previously detected by other vehicles that have previously traveled over the same road that a current vehicle is presently traveling on. New data received by the cloud service from the current vehicle regarding new objects that are being encountered by the current vehicle can be compared to the previous object data stored in the map. Based on this comparison, an operating status of the current vehicle is determined. In response to determining the status, an action such as terminating an autonomous navigation mode of the current vehicle is performed.
US12020482B2
An embodiment of the disclosure provides a live steam sampling method and device and electronic equipment, which belong to the technical field of image processing. The method comprises: extracting multi-frame sampled images from live stream; screening out forward similar images from all sampled images, wherein the forward similar images are sampled images similar to a sampled image of a previous adjacent frame; and taking the rest of the sampled images, except from the forward similar images, in all sampled images as sampled images of the live stream. According to the solution of the disclosure, a solution of effectively eliminating the forward similar images in sampling operation based on a FPS is realized, thereby avoiding the leakage conditions, reducing total workload of sampling and checking, and improving efficiency of live stream sampling.
US12020478B1
A thermal image-based hybrid object detection method using a YOLO model and an object tracking technique includes: a) a step of obtaining a plurality of thermal image data by means of a thermal image camera; b) a step of extracting an object region from a thermal image data of the thermal image camera using an installed YOLO model and then creating an object region coordinate data by returning coordinates of the object region by means of an image processor; and c) a step of outputting a first image reflecting an object region coordinate data to each of thermal image data received from the image processor by means of an output device when the output device requests transmission of the first image.
US12020474B2
A connected layer feature is generated by connecting outputs of a plurality of layers of a hierarchical neural network obtained by processing an input image using the hierarchical neural network. An attribute score map representing an attribute of each region of the input image is generated for each attribute using the connected layer feature. A recognition result for a recognition target is generated and output by integrating the generated attribute score maps for respective attributes.
US12020473B2
A method and apparatus for pedestrian re-identification, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes that: a pedestrian image to be detected is acquired; global feature information of the pedestrian image to be detected is extracted through multiple convolutional layers of a convolutional neural network; multiple pieces of intermediate feature information of the pedestrian image to be detected are extracted through the multiple convolutional layers of the convolutional neural network respectively, and the multiple pieces of intermediate feature information are merged as local feature information; and the global feature information and the local feature information are assigned as a classification feature of the pedestrian image to be detected, and a classification result of the pedestrian image to be detected is determined according to the classification feature.
US12020471B1
A method includes storing a database comprising a plurality of pointers to web pages and identifiers of entities associated with the plurality of pointers; receiving a first request comprising a first identifier; identifying subset of the plurality of pointers from the database responsive to each pointer of the subset having a stored association with a first identification that matches the first identifier; responsive to identifying the subset of the plurality of pointers, establishing, via one or more pointers, a connection with a server hosting a set of web pages associated with the subset of the plurality of pointers; retrieving one or more images or videos from each of the set of web pages over the established connection; calculating a performance score for each of the one or more images or videos; and generating a record identifying the performance score for each of the one or more images or videos.
US12020467B2
The present disclosure provides a method for optimizing a tag of a point of interest s(POI). The method includes: obtaining first portrait feature data of each POI in a plurality of POIs and second portrait feature data of each tag in a plurality of marked tags corresponding to the plurality of POIs; mapping the first portrait feature data of each POI and the second portrait feature data of each tag to a metric space to obtain a first feature vector of each POI and a second feature vector of each tag; and optimizing at least one marked tag corresponding to a target POI based on a vector similarity between a first feature vector of the target POI and a second feature vector of at least one tag. The present disclosure provides an apparatus for optimizing a tag of a POI, an electronic device and a computer readable medium.
US12020465B2
A method of real-time plant selection and removal from a plant field including capturing a first image of a first section of the plant field, segmenting the first image into regions indicative of individual plants within the first section, selecting the optimal plants for retention from the first image based on the first image and the previously thinned plant field sections, sending instructions to the plant removal mechanism for removal of the plants corresponding to the unselected regions of the first image from the second section before the machine passes the unselected regions, and repeating the aforementioned steps for a second section of the plant field adjacent the first section in the direction of machine travel.
US12020459B2
Systems and methods for determining a dominant color in a digital image are provided and include dividing a digital image into a first and second set of pixels and selecting pixels from the first and second sets based on first and second sample rates, respectively, the first set of pixels being closer to the center of the image than the second set and the first sample rate being greater than the second sample rate. A chroma and/or lightness filter is applied to the selected pixels. The remaining pixels after filtering are grouped based on hue, chroma, and lightness. A dominant color for the digital image is determined based on a color associated with the that has the greatest number of pixels.
US12020454B2
The present application discloses an image processing method and apparatus for an electronic device, and the electronic device. The method includes; acquiring a pose change quantity of the electronic device from a previous frame moment to a current frame moment; judging whether the pose change quantity is less than a set threshold; acquiring, in the case where the pose change quantity is less than the set threshold, to-be-rendered image data at the current frame moment according to a current value of a near viewport distance at the current frame moment; rendering the to-be-rendered image data at the current frame moment to acquire a changed image at the current frame moment; and merging a previous frame of image with the changed image to acquire a current frame of image at the current frame moment.
US12020451B2
Examples provide a system and method for autonomously placing items into non-rigid containers. An image analysis component analyzes image data generated by one or more cameras associated with picked items ready for bagging and/or a non-rigid container, such as, but not limited to, a bag. The image analysis component generates dynamic placement data identifying how much space is available inside the bag, bag tension, and/or contents of the bag. A dynamic placement component generates a per-item assigned placement for a selected item ready for bagging based on a per-bag placement sequence and the dynamic placement data. Instructions, including the per-item assigned placement designating a location within the interior of the non-rigid container to the selected item and an orientation for the selected item after bagging, is sent to at least one robotic device. The robotic device places the selected item into the non-rigid container in accordance with the instructions.
US12020450B2
An endoscopic imaging system for use in a light deficient environment includes an imaging device having a tube, one or more image sensors, and a lens assembly including at least one optical elements that corresponds to the one or more image sensors. The endoscopic system includes a display for a user to visualize a scene and an image signal processing controller. The endoscopic system includes a light engine having an illumination source generating one or more pulses of electromagnetic radiation and a lumen transmitting one or more pulses of electromagnetic radiation to a distal tip of an endoscope.
US12020448B2
A system for updating continuous image alignment of separate cameras identifies a previous alignment matrix associated with a previous frame pair captured at one or more previous timepoints by a reference camera and a match camera. The previous alignment matrix is based on visual correspondences in the previous frame pair. The system also identifies a current matrix associated with a current frame pair captured at one or more current timepoints by the reference camera and the match camera. The current matrix is based on visual correspondences in the current frame pair. The system also identifies a difference value associated with the reference camera or the match camera relative to the one or more previous timepoints and the one or more current timepoints. The system also generates an updated alignment matrix by using the previous alignment matrix, the current matrix, and the difference value as inputs.
US12020440B2
A device receives a two-dimensional (2-D) image that depicts a cross-sectional view of a retina that includes a macula comprised of layers and boundaries used to segment the layers. The device converts the 2-D image to a standardized format, determines features for voxels included in the 2-D image, and generates, by using a data model to process the features, probability maps that indicate likelihoods of the voxels being in positions within particular boundaries. The device analyzes the probability maps to determine an initial set of boundary positions and to generate directional vectors that point in directions based on values included in the set of probability maps, determines a final set of boundary positions by performing a layer boundary evolution technique using the directional vectors to refine the initial set of boundary positions, and provides data that identifies the final set of boundary positions for display via an interface.
US12020424B2
An image inspection device includes a hardware processor executing an inspection for a first read image generated by reading a first sheet on which one image is formed, based on a reference image. When an operation for newly generating the reference image is performed in association with the inspection for the first read image, the hardware processor acquires second read images generated by respectively reading second sheets on each of which the one image is formed and generates the reference image using the inspection for the first read image. When an operation for using the generated reference image stored in a storage unit is performed in association with the inspection for the first read image, the hardware processor uses the reference image in the storage unit for the inspection for the first read image, without newly acquiring the second read images.
US12020422B2
A system for producing a textile component of an article includes an additive manufacturing device in selective communication with a processor and memory. The processor and memory are configured to determine a strain value in a region of the textile component of the article based on images of the article from a camera in selective communication with the processor and memory and to generate a strain map based on the strain value. The additive manufacturing device is configured to apply a reinforcement to a textile substrate to variably reinforce the textile substrate according to the strain map and to form the textile component of the article.
US12020417B2
Method and system for classifying defects in wafer using wafer-defect images, based on deep learning
The present disclosure provides method and system 100 for classifying defects in wafer using wafer defect images, based on deep learning network. Embodiments herein uses synergy between several modalities of the wafer defect images for the classification decision. Further, by adding a mixture of modalities, information may be obtained from different sources such as color image, ICI, the black and white image, to classify the defect image. In addition to mixture of modalities, a reference image may be used for each modality. The reference image of each modality image is provided to deep learning models to concentrate on the defect itself and not on the related underlying lithography of the defect image. Further, the reference image may be provided to the training process of the deep learning models that may significantly reduce the number of labelled images and the training epochs required for convergence of the deep learning model.
US12020416B2
An optical inspection system is provided for an ultraviolet laser and associated optics forming a planar laser sheet directed to a glass sheet. The planar laser sheet intersects a surface of the glass sheet thereby causing the surface of the glass sheet to fluoresce and form a visible wavelength line on the surface. A camera has an image sensor for detecting the visible wavelength line. A control system in configured to receive image data indicative of the visible wavelength line, analyze and triangulate the data to determine a series of coordinates associated with the line, and create a three-dimensional map of the surface of the glass sheet as a function of the series of coordinates. Methods for using an optical inspection system, for gauging a surface using an optical inspection system, and for providing optical reflectance information for a surface using an optical inspection system are also provided.
US12020414B2
The present disclosure relates to an object selection system that accurately detects and automatically selects target instances of user-requested objects (e.g., a query object instance) in a digital image. In one or more embodiments, the object selection system can analyze one or more user inputs to determine an optimal object attribute detection model from multiple specialized and generalized object attribute models. Additionally, the object selection system can utilize the selected object attribute model to detect and select one or more target instances of a query object in an image, where the image includes multiple instances of the query object.
US12020411B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for remapping for mixed dynamic range content. In one aspect, a method for remapping for mixed dynamic range content, the method includes obtaining an image to be displayed that includes both first dynamic range content and second dynamic range content, determining that the image includes first dynamic range content at a first pixel, determining a first remapped value for the first pixel based on a lookup table for first dynamic range content and an initial value for the first pixel, providing the first remapped value for the first pixel for display, determining that the image includes second dynamic range content at a second pixel, determining a second remapped value for the second pixel based on a second initial value for the second pixel, and providing the second remapped value for the second pixel for display.
US12020402B2
Described are systems and methods for direct sun imaging by a star tracker. Disclosed in a certain example is a direct sun imaging star tracker that includes an imaging sensor and a baffle. The baffle includes a star port, a sun port, and a beam splitter. The star port is configured to image first viewing environment while the sun port is configured to image a second viewing environment that includes the sun. The beam splitter is configured to combine electromagnetic radiation from the star port and the sun port into a combined image. In various examples, the systems and techniques described herein allow a star tracker to simultaneously view both the sun and the stars.
US12020401B2
In a data processing system, when displaying a foveated image, a producer processing unit generates plural different resolution versions of the frame to be displayed. A display processor then generates a view orientation transformed output version of the frame to be displayed using data from the plural different resolution versions of the frame to be displayed generated by the producer processing unit based on data indicative of which resolution version of the frame is to be used for respective regions of the view orientation transformed output version of the frame to be displayed provided to the display processor.
US12020381B2
A method performed by an augmented reality (AR) system includes receiving a command that is input by the user through the AR system. The augmented reality (AR) system includes a hardware processor and an AR display configured to present virtual content in an environment of a user. The command specifies a type of virtual object to be presented in the environment. In response to the command, virtual objects of the specified type are presented in the environment, and a presentation of at least one of the virtual objects is altered in response to detecting a movement of the user in proximity to the at least one virtual object.
US12020376B2
A system used for generating a three-dimensional representation from one or more two-dimensional images includes a plurality of imaging devices arranged to image a real object whose three-dimensional representation is to be generated; and a marker utilized in calculating a pose of the imaging device, the pose being utilized in generating the three-dimensional representation of the real object. At least one of the plurality of imaging devices is arranged to image the real object and the marker from below to obtain a two-dimensional image including the real object and the marker.
US12020371B2
An apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire specular reflection information about specular reflection light on an object, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire diffuse reflection information about diffuse reflection light on the object, and a compression unit configured to compress the diffuse reflection information based on the specular reflection information.
US12020365B2
A three-dimensional (3D) content refactoring system may maintain the external look and behavior of a donor model, while changing the underlying data to conform the donor model to content standards of a modeling application. The 3D content refactoring system may make the donor model adhere to the content standards by mapping the donor model to a target model that is already formatted for the modeling application.
US12020362B2
Methods and control stream generators for generating a control stream for a tile group comprising at least two tiles, the control stream identifying primitive blocks that are relevant to rendering at least one tile in the tile group. Information is received identifying one or more primitive blocks relevant to rendering at least one tile in the tile group, each primitive block comprising one or more primitives; generating a primitive block entry for each of the identified primitive blocks; and adding each primitive block entry to the control stream; wherein generating the primitive block entry for at least one of the identified primitive blocks comprises: (i) identifying a bounding box encompassing the one or more primitives of the primitive block; (ii) generating a coverage mask that indicates which tiles of the tile group that intersect the bounding box for the primitive block are valid for the primitive block, a tile being valid for a primitive block if at least one primitive of the primitive blocks falls, at least partially, within the bounds of the tile; and (iii) including the coverage mask in the primitive block entry.
US12020360B2
A method for displaying a virtual character includes: displaying the virtual character, a first character part on the virtual character including a first clothes component and a first body component that are associated with each other; obtaining a second clothes component in response to a clothes component replacement instruction, the first clothes component and the second clothes component being corresponding to a same clothes part; updating display to perform a clothes component replacement, the first character part on the virtual character including the second clothes component and a second body component that are associated with each other. The first clothes component is different from the second clothes component in length, the first body component is different from the second body component in length, and a length of the first character part remains unchanged or changes by a value less than a threshold.
US12020358B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations for generating a custom sticker. The operations include receiving, by a messaging application implemented on a first device, an image. The operations include receiving, by the messaging application, input that selects a region of the image. The operations include generating, by the messaging application, a graphical element comprising the region of the image selected by the input. The operations include applying, by the messaging application, one or more visual effects to the graphical element. The operations include causing the graphical element to be animated according to a given animation pattern selected from a plurality of animation patterns to generate an animated custom graphic. The operations include sending the animated custom graphic with the one or more visual effects from the first device to a second device.
US12020355B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to systems and methods for artificially rendering images using viewpoint interpolation and extrapolation. According to particular embodiments, a method includes moving a set of control points perpendicular to a trajectory between a first frame and a second frame, where the first frame includes a first image captured from a first location and the second frame includes a second image captured from a second location. The set of control points is associated with a layer and each control point is moved based on an associated depth of the control point. The method also includes generating an artificially rendered image corresponding to a third location outside of the trajectory by extrapolating individual control points using the set of control points for the third location and extrapolating pixel locations using the individual control points.
US12020354B2
According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the disclosure relates to an application system and server kit that create and serve digital twin-enabled applications. This disclosure also relates to a hub-and-spoke classification system. This disclosure also relates to a location-based services framework that leverages a generative content process to improve location prediction. This disclosure also relates to virtual reality and augmented reality applications, as well as digital agents that support various types of applications.
US12020352B2
In some implementations, a device may receive project management data including information related to project elements associated with one or more projects and associations among the project elements associated with the one or more projects. The device may generate one or more data structures representing the project elements associated with the one or more projects and the associations among the project elements associated with the one or more projects. The device may receive a request to visualize project data, wherein the request may indicate a view to use in order to visualize the project data and/or specify criteria related to the project data to be visualized in the view. The device may search the one or more data structures to obtain the project data to be visualized based on the criteria specified in the request. The device may render the project data using the view indicated in the request.
US12020347B2
A method and an apparatus for text effect processing, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises: sending to a server a request to acquire a text effect resource, the text effect resource being used to implement a display effect of text associated with multimedia; receiving a text effect resource sent by the server; and on the basis of the text effect resource, performing effect processing on text, causing the text to be displayed on a terminal screen following playback progress of the multimedia, and gradually disappear from the terminal screen.
US12020343B2
A vehicle device includes an application as a determiner configured to determine whether a frame buffer has been updated. The application is further configure to set a determination region, prepare a determination image to be drawn in the determination region, request a GPU to draw the prepared determination image, read the determination image that is actually drawn in the frame buffer by the GPU, and determine that the frame buffer has been updated when the prepared determination image matches the read determination image.
US12020341B2
Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for identifying and matching requestors and providers. For example, embodiments can display an identification pattern that is unique for a matched requestor and provider to allow the providers and requestors to quickly, easily, and accurately validate one another's identities prior to a service being provided. In some embodiments, the identification element may be presented on a provider communication device to clearly display graphics associated with an identification element to all requestors in an area so that the requestors may easily identify a matched provider.
US12020339B2
The present disclosure describes system and methods for determination of building code performance. One such method comprises performing design model validation, wherein design model validation comprises entering building permit application file information and checking the building permit application file information against relevant codes and regulations, using a taxonomy or neural natural language processing techniques or artificial Intelligence; performing exchange model code checking, wherein exchange model code checking comprises using a plurality of exchange models; performing code conformance checking, wherein the code conformance checking comprises receiving a request from the exchange models and passing the building permit application file information to code checking modules configured to check building code provisions and one or more regulations per local, state, national or international requirements; performing verification reporting based on input provided from the code checking modules; and performing results reporting based on findings of the verification reporting. Other methods and systems are also provided.
US12020336B2
A system and associated methods that enable social media representation and collaboration platform of enterprise information technology (IT) components that enables human-to-human, human-to-machine and machine-to-machine communications to help easily understand the set of enterprise IT components, its configuration(s), its intra/inter relationship(s), better navigation and visibility across various related components, and augmenting system troubleshooting.
US12020334B2
A system for explaining tax questions for an electronic tax return preparation program includes a computing device having a tax logic agent and a user interface controller. The computing device executes the tax logic agent, which analyzes a completeness graph to identify a required variable. The tax logic agent also determines whether an explanation asset is indexed to the required variable in the completeness graph, and sends an identity of the required variable to a user interface controller. The user interface controller generates a tax question corresponding to the required variable. When the tax logic agent determines that an explanation asset is indexed to the required variable in the completeness graph, the computing device presents the tax question and the explanation asset. When an explanation asset is not indexed to the required variable in the completeness graph, the computing device presents the tax question without the explanation asset.
US12020320B1
Systems and methods are provided for credit dispute processing, resolution, and reporting. Credit dispute resolution requests may be received, processed, and sent to a credit bureau for submission to creditors. Status of credit dispute resolutions may be reported to consumers. If a creditor's response time is longer than its average response time or if a creditor does not respond to a credit dispute resolution request within a regulatory response period, alerts and reports may be sent to consumers to provide consumers with further options.
US12020314B1
A system comprising a server and a camera. The server may be configured to receive a rental offer for a location from a first user, receive a rental request for the location from a second user, generate a rental agreement comprising conditions in response to the rental offer and the rental request and generate a feature set based on the conditions. The camera may be configured to receive the feature set from the server, convert the feature set to parameters for the camera, generate a plurality of video frames of the location, perform video operations to detect objects in the video frames, extract data about the objects using the video operations, compare the data to the parameters and generate a notification in response to the data matching the parameters. The video frames may be discarded after performing the video operations. The video operations may be performed locally by the camera.
US12020313B2
In some embodiments, systems manage databases for multiple event shopping, comprising: a plurality of distributed database management systems comprising: a management control circuit; a filter control circuit; customer event databases; and a plurality of product databases maintaining current product information sets, each product information set comprises: product information corresponding to one of the hundreds of thousands of retail products, and an association to at least one of a plurality of different event filter categorizations; wherein the filter control circuit is configured to filter product information sets, and identify a limited subset of products; wherein the management control circuit is configured to: maintain the plurality of customer event databases; cause a graphical user interface to limit a display of potential products to display a subset of product representations; and incorporate within a first event database a product identifier for each selected product.
US12020307B2
A heuristic engine includes capabilities to collect an unstructured data set, including document image data and correlate the image data with known valid data to detect document fraud. Notifications of fraud detection may include particular signature images, or characteristics of a document image. By feeding back indications of document fraud with correlations to past instances of fraud into the heuristic algorithm, the algorithm may learn and improve in fraud detection accuracy.
US12020303B1
A method of providing a preview version of a book over a computer network, the method comprising: apportioning the book into a plurality of content segments; modifying the book by rearranging at least a subset of the plurality of content segments to create a shuffled configuration of the book; initiating a preview session and displaying at least a first content segment from said shuffled configuration of the book in a preview window; displaying a next group of content segments from said shuffled configuration of the book during said preview session upon receiving a prompt from user to continue browsing; and controlling the availability of said shuffled configuration of the book during said preview session. A user may further customize preview version by providing a search input or by selecting a page range. Shuffled preview version may include one or more advertisements.
US12020295B2
Techniques and systems for beacon triggered processes are disclosed. A described technique includes causing a beacon device to broadcast a beacon message, the beacon device being within the vicinity of an establishment; detecting a presence of a user of a mobile device based on receiving from the mobile device a first message that is responsive to the beacon message; retrieving a transaction record based on a user or mobile device identifier in the first message; generating and transmitting a second message based on the transaction record to facilitate a completion of a transaction associated with the transaction record at the establishment; the second message being configured to provide notification of an arrival of the user and dispatch an employee to meet the user and handle the transaction; and generating and transmitting a third message based on the transaction record to facilitate the completion of the transaction at the mobile device.
US12020290B1
A computer-implemented method for generating a proposed bid includes receiving an input generated by a first content provider as part of a bidding process where content providers bid for opportunities to provide content for publication. The input indicates (i) a resource for publishing first content from the first content provider and (ii) a campaign characteristic associated with the first content. The method includes determining a proposed bid for the first content provider based on the input and on historical data from the bidding process associated with the resource. The method includes presenting the proposed bid to the first content provider.
US12020283B2
Advertisement user feedback data may be collected and provided to an advertisement decision engine. Advertisements may be presented to users via various electronic media such as digital television, Internet, software, etc., and advertisement feedback user interfaces may be provided to users in connection with such advertisements. An advertisement feedback user interface may be provided via the same electronic medium and device as the corresponding advertisements, or via a different electronic medium and/or device. User feedback data regarding electronic advertisements, as well as additional related data, may be received and provided to one or more advertisement decision engines. An advertisement decision engine may use the advertisement user feedback data to determine a future advertisement to be presented to one or more users at an advertisement insertion opportunity identified in one or more various electronic media.
US12020277B2
A set of values and a condition are provided. The values are sorted and placed in zones based on the condition and first rules. The values are grouped into combinations within select ones of the zones based on second rules while other zones are excluded. Sizes of the combinations are modified and the values are regrouped into new combinations and re-evaluated in view of the second rules. A final combination of the values is identified using third rules. The final combination representing an optimal grouping of the values based on the condition.
US12020275B2
A method for providing an offer to a potential recipient is provided. The method includes obtaining first information, such as demographic information and/or shopping history information, that relates to the potential recipient; assigning a respective value to each of a plurality of first parameters based on the first information; assigning a respective value to each of a plurality of second parameters based on second information that relates to the offer; determining a composite score based on the assigned first parameter values and the assigned second parameter values; and determining, based on the composite score, whether to provide the offer to the potential recipient.
US12020273B2
Systems and methods for providing campaign driven offer distribution include receiving, from a service provider device associated with a service provider, first campaign information for a first campaign. A first offer that has been configured to be irredeemable by the first customer and that includes a first offer condition associated with the first campaign information that must be satisfied to reconfigure the first offer to be redeemable by the first customer is provided for display on a first customer device. A notification indicating the first offer condition has been satisfied is received. In response to receiving the notification indicating the first offer condition has been satisfied, the first offer is reconfigured to be redeemable by the first customer. A notification indicating a status change with the first offer that causes the first offer to be displayed on the first customer device is communicated to the first customer device.
US12020271B2
Some embodiments provide a method for identifying competitors of a particular company. The method identifies a set of potential competitors of a particular company. For each potential competitors, the method calculates a score quantifying the competitive relationship of the potential competitor to the particular company. When the calculated score is above a particular threshold, the method associates the potential competitor as a competitor of the particular company.
US12020267B2
A method includes: acquiring user characteristic data of a first user and user characteristic data of at least two second users, each of the at least two second users having a social relationship with the first user; clustering the at least two second users to obtain at least two user sets, a similarity between the user characteristic data of any two second users in each user set satisfying a similarity condition; determining first key user characteristic data corresponding to the each user set according to the user characteristic data of the second users in the each user set; and generating a user profile of the first user according to the first key user characteristic data corresponding to the each user set and the user characteristic data of the first user.
US12020264B2
A system and a method are disclosed for tracking user activity with products in an environment. In an embodiment, a processor detects that a user has entered an environment, and responsively uniquely identifies the user. The processor determines that the user interacts with a product of a plurality of products within the environment, and responsively updates a profile of the user with indicia of the product. The processor determines whether the user is attempting to exit the environment, and, in response to determining that the user is attempting to exit the environment, prompts the user to confirm that the user intends to remove the product from the environment based on the updated profile. The processor receives input from the user confirming that the user intends to remove the product from the environment, and responsively further updates the profile based on the input.
US12020263B2
A digital pricing display includes a digital display unit having in interoperable communication a central processing unit, a display screen, a memory, a communication module having an antenna associated therewith, and an instruction set hosted on the memory and executable by the central processing unit, the instruction set operational to receive pricing and product information for a product and to display the product pricing and product information on the display screen. An elongate strip is attached to and extends downwardly from the digital display unit. The elongate strip has a plurality of hooks substantially in vertical alignment formed therealong; the purpose of each hook is for receiving thereon a product package corresponding to the product pricing and product information displayed by the digital display unit.
US12020259B2
A method facilitating a customer exercising post-purchase rights associated with a purchase made by the customer of a product. The method includes: receiving first documentation related to the purchase of the product; extracting purchase data from the first documentation, where the extracted purchase data describes the purchase including a vendor identify, purchase date, and product type; conducting search using terms derived from the extracted purchase data to connect to a vendor web site; conducting a search of the vendor web site using terms derived from the extracted purchase data to locate a first vendor policy of the vendor that defines a first post-purchase right of the customer; determining a milestone date associated with the first post-purchase right of the customer; and sending a notification to the customer appraising the customer of the milestone date and the material change.
US12020255B1
The described financial institution computing system provides services to customers through an application programming interface (“API”). The services include user identification services to customers. The user identification services allow the customers to verify the identity of users as non-fraudulent users. Further the user identification services allow the financial institution to provide known user information to the customers for purposes of prepopulating registration forms, completing transactions, and the like. Further services, such as user account validation services, payment services, and the like are also possible through the financial institution APIs. In some situations, users are registered with the financial institution. For example, a user may also be an account holder with the financial institution. In other situations, the users are not registered with the financial institution.
US12020249B2
The invention relates to distributed ledger technologies such as consensus-based blockchains, for example, a Bitcoin blockchain. Computer-implemented methods for a trustless, deterministic state machine that is embodied by the locking script of a spending transaction are described. The spending transaction transfers control of at least one digital asset or portion thereof. The spending transaction references a previous transaction that includes a locking script with a bytecode sequence. The spending transaction also includes a locking script with the same bytecode sequence. The spending transaction can be validated by verifying that the bytecode sequences of the locking scripts of the spending and previous transactions match one another. Control of the at least one digital asset or portion thereof can be transferred as a result of execution of the locking script. For example, the locking script can impose a set of conditions for validation of the spending transaction.
US12020239B2
A method for conversion of digital assets to fiat currency using a secondary blockchain and mirrored accounting includes: receiving transaction data corresponding to a first blockchain transaction processed using a first blockchain, the transaction data including a payer identifier, recipient identifier, and blockchain currency amount; validating an entity as an authorized entity associated with the payer identifier; determining a fiat currency amount based on the blockchain currency amount; generating a second blockchain transaction, the second blockchain transaction including an unspent transaction output, destination address associated with the authorized entity, and the blockchain currency amount and/or the fiat currency amount; confirming addition of the second blockchain transaction to a second blockchain; and initiating a transfer for the fiat currency amount from a first transaction account to a second transaction account, the second transaction account being associated with the authorized entity.
US12020226B2
According to various aspects, a self-service terminal (100) may include: a user interface (1008) accessible to a user of the self-service terminal (100); a sensing device (206) configured to sense information about the user; a control device (106) configured to: determine a physiological condition of the user based on the information; select an interface profile from a plurality of predefined (e.g., saved) interface profiles based on the physiological condition; instruct a reconfiguration of the user interface (1008) based on the selected interface profile.
US12020222B1
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for event-based payment orchestration are provided. An example method includes receiving, via an orchestrator device, a request for a payment process configuration from a first participant device. The orchestrator device includes a plurality of payment process configurations stored locally by the orchestrator device, each of the plurality of payment process configurations include configurable instructions for performing an associated portion of a payment process, and the request includes a plurality of first participant requirement parameters. The method includes determining a first payment process configuration based upon the plurality of participant requirement parameters and providing the first payment process configuration to the first participant device. Modifications to the first payment process configuration by the first participant device are stored locally by the first participant device.
US12020217B2
Systems and methods for estimating the repair cost of one or more instances of vehicle damage pictured in a digital image are disclosed herein. These systems and methods may first use a damage detection neural network (NN) model to determine location(s), type(s), intensit(ies), and corresponding repair part(s) for pictured damage. Then, a repair cost estimation NN model may be given a damage type, a damage intensity, and the repair part(s) needed to determine a repair cost estimation. The training of each of the damage detection NN model and the repair cost estimation NN model is described. The manner of outputting results data corresponding to the systems and methods disclosed herein is also described.
US12020215B2
A system for applying an artificial intelligence engine to affect course corrections and influence outcomes of a meeting may include a network interconnecting a facilitator device, a teammate participant device, and a computing system operating a recurrent neural network. The facilitator device may receive parameters of a meeting including one or more of a meeting start time, a meeting location, a meeting duration, a meeting topic, and a list of teammate participant names. The teammate participant device may be a binary meeting score indicating if the meeting was either productive or not productive. The computing system may correlate the meeting score with the meeting parameters to create parameter scores. As scores are stored in the memory of the computing system, over time, the recurrent neural network may transform the parameter scores into parameter suggestions which may be conveyed to a meeting facilitator in real time.
US12020209B2
As digital assets are created and shared, design components that comprise those digital assets are curated, organized, and tracked so as to allow meaningful relationships to be established between shared assets and design components. The tracking that underlies such relationships is provided by metadata associated with a given design component. This metadata may include information such as an asset identifier that identifies a source digital asset from which the design component was extracted; a version identifier that identifies a version of the source digital asset; an author identifier that identifies an author of the source digital asset; and a layer identifier that can be used to reveal the context in which the design component was derived from the source asset. This metadata allows relationships to be established between a design component and the digital assets that incorporate that design component, thus facilitating asset and component tracking and update notification broadcasting.
US12020205B2
A method of managing inventory comprising generating a list of inventory items, identifying removal of one of the inventory items from inventory, updating the list of inventory items as inventory items are removed, predicting a future rate of removal of inventory items, and developing purchasing plan for inventory items based on predicted rate of removal.
US12020193B1
A system, comprising: a computing device configured to obtain video signals of a worker performing a hand-related job at a workplace; and a computing server system configured to receive and process the video signals to identify hand grips and wrist bending involved in the job, determine a hand grip type for each identified hand grip, obtain force information relating to each identified hand grip, determine neutral or hazardous wrist bending based at least upon the wrist bending and the hand grip force information, calculate a percent maximum strength for each identified hand grip, calculate frequencies and durations of each identified hand grip and wrist bending, and determine ergonomic risks of the hand-related job accordingly.
US12020191B2
This application relates to employing trained machine learning processes to predict sales across various sale channels. For example, a computing device may generate features based on historical sales information, and trains the machine learning processes based on the generated features. In some examples, the computing device determines fixed cost effects from selling items across various sales channels, and adjusts the sales information based on the fixed cost effects. The computing device also generates features based on the adjusted sales. The computing device may apply the trained machine learning processes to sales information for one or more items to predict the sales of one or more items across one or more sales channels during a future temporal period. In some examples, the trained machine learning processes generate a ranking of items for a sales channel based on the output generated from the trained machine learning processes.
US12020187B2
Provided is a process including: receiving a tank-nearly-full message indicating that a tank at an oil or gas related facility is or will be ready for a truck to unload and transport fluid accumulating in the tank; in response to the tank-nearly-full message, creating a tank-run record; sending a description of the tank-run to a mobile device of a driver of an oilfield truck; receiving, from the mobile device of the driver of the oilfield truck, a tank-run claimed message indicating that the driver will drive to the oil or gas related facility and transport at least some of the fluid accumulating in the tank; and after the tank-run claimed message, performing steps including: confirming that the tank-run has not yet been claimed; after the confirmation, designating the tank-run as claimed by the driver; and sending confirmation to the mobile device of the driver.
US12020185B1
A system includes software that mimics a paper based allocation process. Business objects can be presented graphically on a touch screen, and users can allocate business objects with other business objects using a drag and drop motion. For example, a symbol representing a business object can be dragged and dropped onto a symbol representing another business object. This will trigger a relationship to be created in the PLM database between the two business objects.
US12020183B2
An Internet-based and computer-implemented system and method operated by multiple users utilizing an electronic computing device, operably configured to efficiently streamline and consolidate the event and vacation planning, selecting, deliberating, and booking process, particularly among groups of users. Beneficially, the system and method comprise instant messaging, polling, and budgeting features which aid users within a travel group in deliberating and selecting various trip accommodations, e.g., destination, lodging, transportation, excursions, etc., related to a travel event. Recommended trip accommodations are generated based on event-identifying information and a personalized user budget of a user, wherein the personalized user budget may be visually and graphically compared to a simulated user budget to assist the user in calculating the cost of a travel event, an expense category, or a trip accommodation.
US12020177B2
Embodiments generate digital plans for agricultural fields. In an embodiment, a model receives digital inputs including stress risk data, product maturity data, field location data, planting date data, and/or harvest date data. The model mathematically correlates sets of digital inputs with threshold data associated with the stress risk data. The model is used to generate stress risk prediction data for a set of product maturity and field location combinations. In a digital plan, product maturity data or planting date data or harvest date data or field location data can be adjusted based on the stress risk prediction data. A digital plan can be transmitted to a field manager computing device. An agricultural apparatus can be moved in response to a digital plan.
US12020170B2
Disclosed embodiments provide a framework for intent discovery based on user input and execution of processes based on the discovered intents. An intent processing system provides, via an interface, a graphical representation of different intent clusters corresponding to different intents. An intent cluster includes a set of intent terms and/or phrases that can be used to submit a request or issue that is associated with an intent. As a user selects intent terms and/or phrases from an intent cluster via the interface, the intent processing system can identify actions that can be performed to address the user's request or issue.
US12020154B2
Disclosed are a data processing method, a device and a medium. The method includes: acquiring first feature data and a source identification of data to be processed; determining a first unshared hidden unit, corresponding to the source identification, in an autoencoder, wherein the autoencoder includes a plurality of first unshared hidden units that do not share a parameter with each other; inputting the first feature data into the determined first unshared hidden unit, to perform noise cancellation, and outputting second feature data meeting a set standard; inputting the second feature data into a first shared hidden unit of the autoencoder to map the second feature data to a set feature space through the first shared hidden unit, and outputting mapping data; and inputting the mapping data into a shared feature layer of the autoencoder, and outputting common feature data in the first feature data, extracted by the shared feature layer.
US12020152B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for neural network-based optical character recognition. An embodiment of the system may generate a set of bounding boxes based on reshaped image portions that correspond to image data of a source image. The system may merge any intersecting bounding boxes into a merged bounding box to generate a set of merged bounding boxes indicative of image data portions that likely portray one or more words. Each merged bounding box may be fed by the system into a neural network to identify one or more words of the source image represented in the respective merged bounding box. The one or more identified words may be displayed by the system according to a standardized font and a confidence score.
US12020147B2
Effectively training machine learning systems with incomplete/partial labels is a practical, technical problem that solutions described herein attempt to overcome. In particular, an approach to modify loss functions on a proportionality basis is noted in some embodiments. In other embodiments, a graph neural network is provided to help identify correlations/causations as between categories. In another set of embodiments, a prediction approach is described to, based on originally provided labels, predict labels for unlabelled training samples such that the proportion of labelled labels relative to all labels is increased.
US12020141B2
A deep learning apparatus for an artificial neural network (ANN) having pipeline architecture. The deep learning apparatus for an ANN simultaneously performs output value processing, corrected input data processing, corrected output value processing, weight correction, input bias correction, and output bias correction using pipeline architecture, thereby reducing calculation time for learning and reducing required memory capacity.
US12020140B1
The systems and methods described herein relate to generative artificial intelligence systems using retrieval-augmented generation pipelines to supply information to large language models (LLMs). The potential for failures by such LLMs to return responses to prompts significantly increases with system complexity. To improve the resilience of the pipelines in handling such failures, various aspects described herein provide mechanisms for early detection and remediation of such prompt failure events. Thus, prompt failure events may be identified based upon (i) an elapsed time between sending a prompt and receiving a first token from the LLM exceeding a first threshold or (ii) an elapsed time between receiving such first token and receiving a last token exceeding a second threshold. Remediation may be achieved by causing a copy of the failed prompt to be sent to the LLM, without waiting for an error from the LLM provider or a standard network request timeout.
US12020133B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for triggering an update to a machine-learning model upon detecting that a distribution of particular (e.g., recently collected) input data set is sufficiently different from a distribution training input data set used to train the model. The distributions may be determined to be sufficiently different when a classifier can identify to which distribution individual data elements belong (e.g., to at least a predetermined degree). An update to the machine-learning model can include morphing weights used by the model and/or retraining the model.
US12020131B2
Techniques are provided for sparse ensembling of unsupervised machine learning models. In an embodiment, the proposed architecture is composed of multiple unsupervised machine learning models that each produce a score as output and a gating network that analyzes the inputs and outputs of the unsupervised machine learning models to select an optimal ensemble of unsupervised machine learning models. The gating network is trained to choose a minimal number of the multiple unsupervised machine learning models whose scores are combined to create a final score that matches or closely resembles a final score that is computed using all the scores of the multiple unsupervised machine learning models.
US12020130B2
Embodiments are directed to a machine learning engine that determines training documents and validation documents from a plurality of documents. The machine learning engine may determine attributes associated with the documents. In response to receiving a request to predict attribute values of a selected document the machine learning engine may train a plurality of ML models to predict the attribute values based on the training documents and the attributes and associate the trained ML models with an accuracy score. The machine learning engine may determine candidate ML models from the trained ML models based on the training accuracy scores. The machine learning engine may evaluate and rank the candidate ML models based on the request and the validation documents. The machine learning engine may generate confirmed ML models based on the ranked candidate ML models such that the confirmed ML models may answer the request.
US12020126B2
A method, system, and computer program product for implementing automated pressure level detection and correction is provided. The method includes retrieving from sensors, measurement attributes associated with geological conditions occurring during a mining process. Subsequently, threshold levels configured to activate an alarm associated with measurement attributes exceeding the threshold levels are determined and code is executed with respect to the threshold levels. A combined threshold severity level associated with the safety threshold levels is determined and code is executed with respect to the safety threshold levels. A combined clustering level associated with the safety threshold levels is determined and a difference value between the combined threshold severity level and combined clustering level is generated. A relationship between the difference value and a threshold value is determined and automated software and hardware control systems are enabled for controlling machinery associated with the mining process resulting in operation of the machinery.
US12020125B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for information processing. In an information processing method, a first network state representation and a first content request event of an emulated network are provided from an emulator to an agent for reinforcement learning, wherein the first content request event indicates that a request node in the emulated network requests target content stored in a source node. The emulator receives first action information from the agent, wherein the first action information indicates a first caching action determined by the agent, the first caching action including caching the target content in at least one caching node between the request node and the source node. The emulator collects, based on the execution of the first caching action in the emulated network, first training data for training the agent.
US12020122B1
A method, system and computer program product for mitigating errors in measurements from a quantum system. A discriminator is trained to classify the measurement results of the quantum states of qubits as corresponding to a first quantum state (e.g., quantum state of 0) or a second quantum state (e.g., quantum state of 1). A first region of trust (corresponding to trusted measurements of a first quantum state) with a first discriminator boundary and a second region of trust (corresponding to trusted measurements of a second quantum state) with a second discriminator boundary are defined using the trained discriminator. If a shot-to-shot measurement result of a qubit state falls outside such regions of trust, the measurement result is rejected. In this manner, measurement errors from a quantum system are effectively mitigated, including measurement errors involving shot-to-shot measurement results of the quantum states read from the execution of the quantum circuits.
US12020121B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to systems and methods for use in the implementation and/or operation of quantum information processing (QIP) systems, and more particularly, to techniques for removing or correcting for translation errors between a programmed strength and an applied strength of quantum gates. A method is described that includes determining, for each quantum gate in a quantum operation, a non-linearity between an applied strength of a laser beam used for the respective quantum gate and a programmed strength intended to be applied by the laser beam for the respective quantum gate. The method further includes linearizing the non-linearity for each quantum gate and storing linearization information in memory. Moreover, the method includes applying the linearization information to correct for the non-linearity when implementing each quantum gate as part of the quantum operation. A system is also described that is configured to implement the method described above.
US12020113B2
Scanning assemblies are disclosed herein. An example scanning assembly includes a slot scanner and a mounting system. The slot scanner includes an imaging assembly configured to capture an image frame appearing in a field of view (FOV) and a housing having a cavity configured to accommodate the imaging assembly. The mounting system includes a flange member at least partially surrounding an opening formed within the mounting system, and at least two support arms extending from the flange. The at least two support arms engage a portion of the housing of the slot scanner to retain the slot scanner within the opening formed by the flange.
US12020110B2
A method for estimating channel parameters includes: sending a paging signal for identifying the tag device; sending training sequence information, receiving first training sequence feedback information during a non-working period of the tag device, receiving, during a working period of the tag device, second training sequence feedback information modulated by the tag device, and estimating the channel parameters of the tag device according to the training sequence feedback information and the second training sequence feedback information. The tag device having at least one antenna of the present disclosure can modulate carrier signals to transmit information, has advantages such as a fast transmission rate, a large amount of transmission data and a strong anti-interference capability, and can adapt to different application scenarios.
US12020109B2
A writing device is provided to prevent or substantially reduce an occurrence of inconsistency in a destination even when a specification of an apparatus is changed after packaging. According to one embodiment, the writing device includes a first command processor and a second command processor. The first command processor commands a first wireless tag attached to an apparatus to rewrite specification information that is stored in the first wireless tag and that shows a specification of the apparatus. The second command processor commands a second wireless tag attached to a package of the apparatus to rewrite destination information that is stored in the second wireless tag and that relates to a destination of the apparatus, in response to a command given by the first command processor being executed.
US12020107B2
A card reader's motorized transport is controlled by firmware of the reader so as to control a distance that any card can be pulled into the reader during a transaction on a host device. The distance is sufficient enough to allow an embedded chip on the card to be read by a chip read interface but is insufficient to be read by a magnetic read interface. Furthermore, the entire length of the card is prevented from completely passing over the magnetic read interface during the transaction such that any skimmer placed within the reader is physically unable to read the magnetic card information from the magnetic strip of the card. In an embodiment, the firmware is configured to permit only chips from the cards to be read for transactions or configured to turn off chip only reading by permitting both chip reads and magnetic strip reads for each transaction.
US12020104B2
An antenna for a radio frequency identification transponder includes an electrically conductive main portion, an electrically conductive first transverse portion and an electrically conductive second transverse portion. The first and second transverse portions are connected to opposite portions of the main portion, extend in an antenna width direction and are spaced apart from each other in an antenna length direction. The antenna further includes an electrically conductive first tail portion extending in the antenna length direction and being connected to an end of the first transverse portion distal of the main portion. The main portion includes a loop and a plurality of meanders. The loop includes a pair of contacts configured for connecting the antenna to a radio frequency identification chip. An extension of the meanders in the antenna width direction is smaller than an extension of the loop in the antenna width direction.
US12020087B2
Systems and methods for content management wherein a client can submit requests to a first API which the forwards the requests to either an IMDB or a gateway to a distributed cluster-computing framework. Requests to the IMDB are serviced and responses from the IMDB are returned to the client. Requests that are forwarded to the gateway are first modified for the distributed cluster-computing framework, and are then parsed by the gateway and used to instantiate processors that generate corresponding requests to the distributed cluster-computing framework. Responsive data from the distributed cluster-computing framework is used to generate responses to the client requests that are forwarded to the first API which modifies them to appear as if they were generated by the IMDB. These modified responses are returned by the first API to the client.
US12020085B2
Examples described herein include systems and methods for prioritizing workloads, such as virtual machines, to enforce quality of service (“QoS”) requirements. An administrator can assign profiles to workloads, the profiles representing different QoS categories. The profiles can extend scheduling primitives that can determine how a distributed resource scheduler (“DRS”) acts on workloads during various workflows. The scheduling primitives can be used to prioritize workload placement, determine whether to migrate a workload during load balancing, and determine an action to take during host maintenance. The DRS can also use the profile to determine which resources at the host to allocate to the workload, distributing higher portions to workloads with higher QoS profiles. Further, the DRS can factor in the profiles in determining total workload demand, leading to more efficient scaling of the cluster.
US12020078B2
Technologies for providing a multi-tenant local breakout switching and dynamic load balancing include a network device to receive network traffic that includes a packet associated with a tenant. Upon a determination that the packet is encrypted, a secret key associated with the tenant is retrieved. The network device decrypts a payload from the packet using the secret key. The payload is indicative of one or more characteristics associated with network traffic. The network device evaluates the characteristics and determines whether the network traffic is associated with a workload requesting compute from a service hosted by a network platform. If so, the network device forwards the network traffic to the service.
US12020075B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to dispatching compute work from a compute stream. In some embodiments, a graphics processor executes instructions of compute kernels. Workload parser circuitry may determine, for distribution to the graphics processor circuitry, a set of workgroups from a compute kernel that includes workgroups organized in multiple dimensions, including a first number of workgroups in a first dimension and a second number of workgroups in a second dimension. This may include determining multiple sub-kernels for the compute kernel, wherein a first sub-kernel includes, in the first dimension, a limited number of workgroups that is smaller than the first number of workgroups. The parser circuitry may iterate through workgroups in both the first and second dimensions to generate the set of workgroups, proceeding through the first sub-kernel before iterating through any of the other sub-kernels. Disclosed techniques may provide desirable shapes for batches of workgroups.
US12020073B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device that is configured to obtain a metadata structure corresponding to a workflow automation. The metadata structure defines a first tier comprising individual tasks, a second tier comprising a plurality of workflows each comprising a grouping of the individual tasks and a third tier comprising an orchestration comprising a grouping of the workflows. The processing device is configured to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) based on the metadata structure that is configured to present the plurality of tiers to a user. The GUI comprises a plurality of elements each activatable to enable or disable corresponding individual tasks and workflows. The GUI is presented to a user and an activation of a given element is received from the user. The activation disables the corresponding individual task or workflow for the workflow automation. The workflow automation is executed based at least in part on the activation.
US12020069B2
There is provided a computer implemented method of allocation of memory, comprising: issuing an allocation operation for allocation of a region of a pool of a memory by a first process executed on a first processor, sending a message to a second processor indicating the allocation of the region of the pool of the memory, wherein the first processor and the second processor access the region of the pool of the memory, issuing a free operation for release of the allocated region of the pool of the memory by a second process executed on a second processor, and releasing, by the first processor, the allocated region of the pool of the memory as indicated in the free operation, wherein the region of the pool of the memory allocated by the first process and released by the second process is a same region of memory.
US12020065B2
A multi-processor system includes a plurality of processors, a scheduler, and a selector. Each of the plurality of processors is included in at least one of a plurality of domains. The plurality of domains include three or more domains and are defined based on a hierarchical domain structure. The scheduler receives and manages at least one task performed by the plurality of processors. The selector selects one of the plurality of domains based on states of the plurality of domains to assign the at least one task to the selected domain, and selects at least one processor among processors in the selected domain based on states of the processors in the selected domain to assign the at least one task to the selected processor, when the at least one task is received.
US12020063B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for performing preflight checks of a distributed computing system, are described. In one aspect, a method includes assigning a computing workload to a first subset of hardware accelerator machines each having one or more hardware accelerators. A preflight check on the first subset is performed before performing the computing workload to verify the functionality of each machine in the first subset. For each hardware accelerator machine of the first subset, a program code package is installed, including a task action based at least in part on characteristics of the computing workload. The task action including a sequence of operations is performed on the hardware accelerator machine to determine whether the task action fails. Whenever the task action fails, the computing workload is re-assigned to a second subset of hardware accelerator machines different from the first subset.
US12020061B2
A system and its methods are described for implementing meta-transactional interactions across one or more decentralized computing networks (“blockchains”) with a managed (“custodial”) wallet, satisfying an important need of lowering the barrier of entry for interacting with smart contracts across multiple blockchain networks. First, the method of encoding and storing a transactional request created by a user's managed account, representing an intention to broadcast the invocation of a specific function of a specific smart contract on one or more peer nodes of a specific blockchain. Then, calculating a cost for processing the encoded transaction within the specific blockchain via analysis including the value and type of cryptocurrency, complexity of transaction, historical trend of transaction fees, and analyses to eliminate the chance of loss due to insufficient transaction fees. Next, obtaining a payment from the user for the transfer of the amount to successfully process their queued transaction. Then, confirming the payment was received in its correct and sufficient form resulting in a transfer of cryptocurrency from a reserve to the user's managed account. Subsequently, determining the transfer is completed and a sufficient balance exists for the execution of the queued transaction. Finally, dequeuing and executing the stored transaction on a specific blockchain by the system on behalf of the managed account, where transaction fees are paid by the managed account and unspent fees are accrued in the balances of the managed wallet.
US12020057B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for performing a hitless upgrade of executable code in the absence of an orchestrator or other upgrade manager. A mechanism is disclosed that utilizes containers to update software functionality, features, or the like without interrupting a service provided by a container and without relying on an orchestrator or other upgrade manager to coordinate the upgrade process. State information indicative of a current state of module(s) within a container is maintained in an external data store such as a state database. A hand-off from a current container to a new container that updates module code/functionality of the current container can be initiated upon determining that a state metric calculated by the old container at a future timestamp matches a state metric independently calculated by the new container at the same timestamp.
US12020050B2
The disclosed technology is generally directed to virtualization technology. The disclosed technology includes providing processor feature ID information requested by, or from, a virtual machine (VM), virtualized application, Virtualization Based Security (VBS) user mode process, VBS kernel mode process, or other guest partition, by a processor. Such information may be provided based on information provided a priori to the processor, for example, by a supervisory partition, such as a hypervisor. The disclosed technology also includes a supervisory partition, for example, that provides such information to the processor, and includes guest partitions that receive such information.
US12020046B1
A method, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a user indication to start a teaching mode in which the user can teach an instance of a process; configuring the computing device to start the teaching mode in response to receiving the indication; capturing, when in the teaching mode, first information corresponding to a first stream of events captured by the computing device during performance of a first plurality of actions by the user when interacting with the computing device to perform the process; generating, using the first information, a first visualization of at least some of the first plurality of actions; and displaying the first visualization on a graphical user interface of the computing device.
US12020037B2
The techniques disclosed herein implement a centralized lighting module configured to control a diverse set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices. The set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices is diverse with respect to a type and a manufacturer. The lighting module is referred to as a centralized lighting module because the lighting module is part of an operating system of a computing device. Consequently, a user of the computing device no longer has to download and learn to use multiple different lighting applications if the user wants to create a diverse lighting ecosystem in which lighting-enabled peripheral devices from different manufacturers are connected to the computing device. Similarly, a developer of a computing application no longer has to engage and interact with multiple application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) if the developer wants users of their computing application to be able to create a diverse lighting ecosystem.
US12020034B2
An instruction execution method for a microprocessor is provided. The microprocessor includes a model specific register (MSR). And, the instruction execution method includes the following steps. A target instruction is received using an instruction cache. The target instruction is decoded using an instruction translator to determine whether the target instruction is a specific instruction is a specific instruction. When the target instruction is the specific instruction, a model specific register index of the target instruction is obtained to directly read or write the model specific register.
US12020027B2
A method is described that includes executing a convolutional neural network layer on an image processor having an array of execution lanes and a two-dimensional shift register. The two-dimensional shift register provides local respective register space for the execution lanes. The executing of the convolutional neural network includes loading a plane of image data of a three-dimensional block of image data into the two-dimensional shift register. The executing of the convolutional neural network also includes performing a two-dimensional convolution of the plane of image data with an array of coefficient values by sequentially: concurrently multiplying within the execution lanes respective pixel and coefficient values to produce an array of partial products; concurrently summing within the execution lanes the partial products with respective accumulations of partial products being kept within the two dimensional register for different stencils within the image data; and, effecting alignment of values for the two-dimensional convolution within the execution lanes by shifting content within the two-dimensional shift register array.
US12020024B2
To understand/reverse engineer the code, knowledge of cryptic terms (variable names) present in the code is mandatory. The reverse engineering to understand the code is a very complex task which has infinite variations. A method and system for identifying meaningful terms in a domain context from a plurality of cryptic forms of a variable name in a program code is provided. A machine learning model that understands the cryptic form of a variable name and relates the co-occurring cryptic terms and expands them is provided. These expanded forms of cryptic terms directly aid in understanding of each term and its usage in a more accurate way. This knowledge is used in many downstream task of reverse engineering the program code. Linking of the multiple usages of the same variable and aims to reduce the gap of naming convention mismatches introduced by developers is provided.
US12020018B2
Disclosed are a system and method for controlling the update of software of a motor-driven power steering (MDPS) apparatus, the system includes a central communication controller configured to download the latest version of new SW through wireless communication with a server outside a vehicle and an MDPS controller including a first memory in which an old version of SW has been stored and a second memory and configured to download the new SW from the central communication controller, store the new SW in the second memory, and perform the update of the new SW by swapping the first memory and the second memory.
US12020017B2
A method and an electronic device for scheduling software upgrade of network devices in an internet protocol (IP) based network are provided. The method includes predicting traffic directed towards at least one of the network devices, predicting at least one event to be occurred at the at least one of the network devices, determining a time period to schedule the software upgrade based on the predicted traffic and the determined at least one event, and scheduling the software upgrade in the time period.
US12020009B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems can include obtaining a first computing environment specific application deployment software code instance associated to a first computing environment, the first computing environment specific application deployment software code instance for deployment of a certain application on the first computing environment; parsing the first computing environment specific application deployment software code instance, wherein the parsing includes determining attributes of the first computing environment specific application deployment software code instance and generating, using the determined attributes of the first computing environment specific application deployment software code instance, a computing environment agnostic semantic tree data structure that expresses a workflow pattern for deployment of the certain application; and composing, with use of the computing environment agnostic semantic tree data structure, a second computing environment specific application deployment software code instance associated to a second computing environment for deployment of the certain application on the second computing environment.
US12020007B2
Information received from a graphical user interface (GUI) and a list of user-curated command line patterns are received by an auto-wrapper system, wherein the auto-wrapper system is associated with an analytics workflow service. A module including a parameter space having one or more parameters and options used in the list of user-curated command line patterns is generated, by the auto-wrapper system, wherein content for each parameter is derived from the parameter's presence in the list of user-curated command line patterns combined with the information received from a GUI.
US12019998B1
The various implementations described herein include methods and devices for recommending phrases for data visualizations. In one aspect, a method includes presenting a data visualization page to a user, the page including a first region for displaying a data visualization and a second region for phrase recommendations. The method further includes obtaining a dataset selected by the user, the dataset including a plurality of fields; and generating a first set of phrase recommendations based on the dataset, each phrase recommendation corresponding to a respective field. The method also includes displaying the first set of phrase recommendations in the second region; and receiving a user selection of a first phrase. The method further includes, in response to the user selection: presenting a data visualization in the first region using the first phrase; and displaying a second set of phrase recommendations generated based on the first phrase.
US12019995B2
A computer-implemented method for generating an ontology-driven conversational interface includes generating an ontology from a description of a domain schema of a Data Analysis (DA) model, in which the DA model is a defined in terms of quantifiable, qualifying or categorical entities and their relationships as described by the domain schema. Conversational artifacts of a conversation space including a conversational pattern framework are generated by extracting DA-related intents, entities, and a dialog from the generated ontology for the conversational interface. A dialog logic table maps DA-related patterns to intents, extracted quantifiable, qualifying or categorical attributes to entities, and the dialog to user-prompts for one or more parameters in an identified DA pattern. The conversation space is integrated with at least one of an external data source or an analytics platform that stores and processes data.
US12019986B2
Acquisition of an utterance pair for expanding a set of utterance pairs for outputting an output utterance in response to receiving a given utterance is described. A keyword extraction unit is configured to compare a degree of characteristic of a word in expansion source utterance pair data and a degree of characteristics of a word in the given utterance data. The expansion source utterance pair data represents a set of expansion source utterance pairs including an input utterance and an output utterance for the input utterance. The present technology includes extracting, based on a comparison result, a keyword list including a keyword that is characteristic of the expansion source utterance pair data. An utterance pair extraction unit is configured to extract, based on the keyword list, an utterance pair from a set of given utterance pairs as an addition for expanding the set of utterance pairs.
US12019984B2
A method that includes receiving an input at an interactive conversation service that uses an intent classification model. The method may further include generating, using an encoder model of the intent classification model, a set of output vectors corresponding to the input, where the encoder model is configured to determine a set of metrics corresponding to intent classifications. The method may further include determining, using an outlier detection model of the intent classification model, whether the input is in-domain or out-of-domain (OOD) based on a first vector of the set of output vectors satisfying a domain threshold relative to one or more of the intent classifications. The method may further include outputting, by the intent classification model, a second vector of the set of output vectors that indicates the set of metrics corresponding to the intent classifications or an indication that the input is OOD.
US12019981B2
A machine reading system is described herein that includes a framework in which grammar rules can be developed using a concise language that combines syntax and semantics. The resulting technology thus reduces the development time for new grammars in a new domain. An enormous amount of information appears in the form of natural language across millions of academic papers and other literature sources. For example, in the biological domain, there is a tremendous ongoing effort to extract individual chemical interactions from these texts, but these interactions are only isolated fragments of larger causal mechanisms such as protein signaling pathways. The proposed rule-based event extraction framework can model underlying syntactic representations of events in order to extract signaling pathway fragments. Though application to the biomedical domain is herein described, the framework is domain-independent and is expressive enough to capture most complex events annotated by domain experts.
US12019979B2
A non-transitory, computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a first input indicative of a request to generate a storyboard including one or more visualizations associated with operation of one or more industrial automation systems, wherein the request identifies first and second data from one or more data sources, retrieve the first and second data from the one or more data sources, generate a first dataset based on the first data retrieved from the one or more data sources, generate a second dataset based on the first data retrieved from the one or more data sources, and generate for display via the GUI, the storyboard based on the first dataset and the second dataset.
US12019976B1
Systems and methods disclosed relate to contextually tagging statements associated with calls. In particular, the contextual tagging is directed to training a call tagging model for predicting one or more categories associated with a statement for tagging. The disclosed technology generates training data for training the call tagging model based on a list of known phrases used in contacts in a contextual category and matching phrases and words in the list of known phrases against words and phrases used in statements in sample call transcripts. The call tagging model is fine-tuned by using sample statements that appear in contacts. Once trained, the call tagging model is used to determine a probability distribution of categories associated with statements in a contact and further determine contact-level category distributions using multi-dimensional vectors. The tagged contacts are used to determine contacts that are contextually similar to a given contact.
US12019973B2
Methods for reticle enhancement technology (RET) for use with variable shaped beam (VSB) lithography include determining an initial mask pattern from a desired pattern for a substrate; calculating a first substrate pattern from the initial mask pattern; determining an initial set of VSB shots that will form the initial mask pattern; calculating a simulated mask pattern from the initial set of VSB shots; calculating a second substrate pattern from the simulated mask pattern; and adjusting the initial set of VSB shots, wherein the adjusting of the initial set of VSB shots creates an adjusted set of VSB shots.
US12019972B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device including: providing a first circuit cell including a first pin cell; forming a connecting path originated from the first pin cell of the first circuit cell; performing an Electromigration (EM) checking process with a first parasitic capacitance of the first pin cell and a second parasitic capacitance of the connecting path by loading a loading capacitance file to determine whether the loading capacitance of the first pin cell is larger than a first predetermined capacitance; and substituting a second pin cell for the first pin cell when the loading capacitance of the first pin cell is larger than the first predetermined capacitance, wherein the second pin cell is different from the first pin cell.
US12019967B2
The disclosure provides a general solution for determining connections between terminals of various types of circuits using machine learning (ML). A ML method that uses reinforcement learning (RL), such as deep RL, to determine and optimize routing of circuit connections using a game process is provided. In one example a method of determining routing connection includes: (1) receiving a circuit design having known terminal groups, (2) establishing terminal positions for the terminal groups in a routing environment, and (3) determining, by the RL agent, routes of nets between the known terminal groups employing a model that is independent of a number of the nets of the circuit. A method of creating a model for routing nets using RL, a method of employing a game for training a RL agent to determine routing connections, and a RL agent for routing connections of a circuit are also disclosed.
US12019963B2
An operations and maintenance (O&M) system, and related method, for a plurality of unique objects characterized by distinct digital twins. The O&M system includes: a database subsystem for storing at least first and second distinct digital twins for each of the plurality of unique objects; at least one of the digital twins has an identifier that uniquely associates it with one of the plurality of unique objects and defines a unique virtual representation thereof. The system further includes a virtual sensor subsystem operative to emulate operational data for ones of the plurality of objects; the virtual sensor subsystem is not dependent on sensors physically associated with ones of the plurality of unique objects. A digital twin comparison subsystem is operative to compare outputs of the at least first and second distinct digital twins for each of the plurality of unique objects; the output of at least one of the first and second digital twins is a function of the emulated operational data for its associated object, and the O&M system makes an operational or maintenance decision with respect to an object as a function of the comparison.
US12019950B2
A soft decision audio decoding system for preserving audio continuity in a digital wireless audio receiver is provided that deduces the likelihood of errors in a received digital signal, based on generated hard bits and soft bits. The soft bits may be utilized by a soft audio decoder to determine whether the digital signal should be decoded or muted. The soft bits may be generated based on the detected point and a detected noise power, or by using a soft-output Viterbi algorithm. The value of the soft bits may indicate confidence in the strength of the hard bit generation. The soft decision audio decoding system may infer errors and decode perceptually acceptable audio without requiring error detection, as in conventional systems, as well as have low latency and improved granularity.
US12019947B2
Projection methods and systems are disclosed in this disclosure. In an implementation, a method includes: A first device that displays first content, detects a first gesture operation, and recognizes the detected first gesture operation, where the first gesture operation is a continuous and moving gesture operation; a second device detects the first gesture operation, and recognizes the detected first gesture operation, where the second device establishes a communication connection to the first device; if recognizing that the first gesture operation is a projecting gesture, the first device projects, to the second device, the first content displayed by the first device; and if recognizing that the first gesture operation is a projected gesture, the second device receives the first content projected by the first device, and displays the first content on the second device.
US12019944B2
The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for operating a mirrored content under a mirror mode and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: enabling a touch capturing function on the smart device, wherein the touch capturing function intercepts a touch event inputted to the smart device; in response to determining that a raw touch event is intercepted by the smart device, translating the raw touch event to a first touch event and sending the first touch event to a host, wherein a display screen of the smart device is mirrored to a visual content shown by the host, and the first touch event triggers the host to report a second touch event happened in the visual content; disabling the touch capturing function and receiving the second touch event from the host; and performing a first operation in response to the second touch event and enabling the touch capturing function on the smart device.
US12019943B2
A method provides concurrent transmission of a virtual action center with a primary segment cropped from a video image, enabling remote participant control of aspects of the primary segment. The method includes identifying a primary region of interest (ROI) within a video image and delineating the video image into a primary segment encompassing the primary ROI and a secondary segment. The method includes associating a virtual action center within a location of the secondary segment and assigning control features of the virtual action center to the second device connected via a video communication session. The method includes transmitting the primary segment and concurrently transmitting the features/functions of the virtual action center to the second device, enabling the second device to concurrently present, on its display, the primary segment and the virtual action center as portions of a received video stream, providing second device control of content within the primary segment.
US12019939B1
Various embodiments set forth a computer-implemented method of displaying content of a visualization environment, comprising receiving, by a display controller coupled to a display device included in a plurality of display devices, a configuration that includes a display mode and identifies a dashboard to be displayed, determining a position of the display device relative to positions of other display devices, retrieving a set of values associated with the dashboard, where the set of values is provided by a remote data source based on a query executed on raw machine data associated with the dashboard, determining, based on the position, at least a portion of the dashboard to display in the display device, and causing, by the display controller, the display device to display at least a portion of the set of values within at least the portion of the dashboard.
US12019938B2
An information method includes obtaining a display object and a display area, wherein the display area is at least part of a display output area of a display screen; displaying the display object in the display area; changing a display state of the display object in the display area in response to an input operation, wherein the input operation includes at least a moving operation; and determining that the display state of the display object satisfies a target display state, and that the display object in the target display state includes a target item responding to the moving operation, stopping an edge of the display object in the target display state within the display area.
US12019932B2
An information processing apparatus is provided, which performs: acquiring an inspection result obtained by inspecting quality of a print product; receiving quality request data including an evaluation criterion; specifying a quality level of the print product based on the evaluation criterion included in the quality request data and the inspection result; creating quality report data including the inspection result and the quality level; and transmitting the quality report data to a predetermined external apparatus.
US12019931B2
An information processing apparatus includes a layer-group determining unit configured to determine, from a printing layer that is a plurality of layers printed using a head that ejects ink, the printing layer including the layer formed by specific color ink and the layer formed by color ink, a layer group that is a plurality of the layers printed in one scanning by the head, a receiving unit configured to receive an input of printing conditions for each of the layer group included in the printing layer and other layers that are zero or more of the layers not included in the layer group, and a setting unit configured to perform setting for applying, to the layer group, a first input value of the printing condition input for the layer group and applying, to the other layers, a second input value of the printing condition input for the other layers.
US12019927B2
The first server issues, in response to an issuance request, identification information that corresponds to a printing apparatus and is used for registration processing to use the printing apparatus from a messaging application, and manages first information of the printing apparatus and the identification information, and the second server manages the first information of the printing apparatus and second information of the messaging application and registers the second information of the messaging application so that the printing apparatus corresponding to the identification information from the messaging application can be used if the identification information is determined to be valid by referring to information managed by the first server when the identification information is input via the messaging application, wherein the first server issues, for one printing apparatus, a different piece of identification information for each issuance request.
US12019920B2
A memory controller circuit is disclosed which is coupleable to a first memory circuit, such as DRAM, and includes: a first memory control circuit to read from or write to the first memory circuit; a second memory circuit, such as SRAM; a second memory control circuit adapted to read from the second memory circuit in response to a read request when the requested data is stored in the second memory circuit, and otherwise to transfer the read request to the first memory control circuit; predetermined atomic operations circuitry; and programmable atomic operations circuitry adapted to perform at least one programmable atomic operation. The second memory control circuit also transfers a received programmable atomic operation request to the programmable atomic operations circuitry and sets a hazard bit for a cache line of the second memory circuit.
US12019918B2
A storage device includes an input stage receiving a first command, a queue manager allocating a first queue entry for the first command, a pre-processor storing the first command in the first queue entry and updating a task list with the first command and a core executing the first command in accordance with an order specified in the updated task list. At least one of the queue manager and the pre-processor is implemented in a customized logic circuit.
US12019916B2
In a method of scheduling commands for a memory device including a plurality of storage regions, a plurality of host commands used to access the plurality of storage regions are received from a host device. The plurality of host commands are queued in a first command queue. A first scheduling associated with the plurality of host commands is performed based on a mapping table and operation states of the plurality of storage regions. The mapping table includes a correspondence between the plurality of host commands and the plurality of storage regions. The plurality of host commands are executed based on a result of the first scheduling. In response to a bank collision occurring while the plurality of host commands are executed, a second scheduling associated with the plurality of host commands is performed.
US12019913B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The memory device is arranged in a plurality of logical planes and the controller is configured to write log data and user data to separate planes within the memory device, such that the log data and user data are isolated from each other on separate planes. The controller is configured to read log data from one plane and user data on another plane simultaneously, where the log data and the user data are isolated from each other on separate planes.
US12019909B2
Disclosed is an IO request pipeline processing device. The device mainly includes: an IO state buffer and a pipeline controller, wherein the IO state buffer includes multiple elements, for storing context information including a module calling sequence generated by a CPU; and the pipeline controller is configured to perform pipeline control on an IO request according to the context information. The device performs pipeline management on an IO processing state by arranging hardware modules, which shares the huge workload during an original CPU software control process, and also reduces the requirements for CPU design. At the same time, processing logic of the pipeline controller is triggered by the module calling sequence recorded in the IO state buffer, which may reduce the implementation power consumption and improve the implementation efficiency.
US12019896B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to upgrade groups. A node of a computer system may access metadata assigned to the node during deployment of the node. The node may be one of a plurality of nodes associated with a service that is implemented by the computer system. The node may perform an operation on the metadata to derive a group identifier for the node and the group identifier may indicate the node's membership in one of a set of groups of nodes managed by the service. The node may then store the group identifier in a location accessible to the service.
US12019889B2
Provided are a task allocation method and system for a solid state drive, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The task allocation method includes: dividing data managers into a plurality of data management groups; determining a service scenario according working states of all sibling master data managers; when the service scenario is a high-band-width scenario, controlling the sibling master data managers and sibling slave data managers to work in corresponding Central Processing Unit (CPU) cores, and allocating tasks to all the sibling master data managers and all the sibling slave data managers; and when the service scenario is a high-quality-of-service scenario, controlling the sibling master data managers to work in corresponding CPU cores, and allocating tasks to all the sibling master data managers.
US12019886B2
A decrease in responsiveness when storing content in a flash memory is reduced. A storage management apparatus includes a flash memory including a plurality of blocks that include a plurality of usable blocks and one or more spare blocks. The apparatus is configured to acquire a new data set; change at least a part of the one or more spare blocks into a usable block and store the new data set in the thus changed usable block, in a case where a size of the new data set is larger than the writable area of the plurality of usable blocks and where the size of the new data set is larger than the writable area when an unnecessary data set contained in the plurality of usable blocks is deleted; and change the usable blocks all the data sets of which are deleted into spare blocks through garbage collection.
US12019870B2
A computer system implements a memory unit, which includes first DRAM devices, second DRAM devices, a first memory controller, and a second memory controller. Each of the first DRAM devices have a first individual memory capacity and each of the second DRAM devices have a second individual memory capacity. The first memory controller is in signal communication with the first DRAM devices and the second memory controller is in signal communication with the second DRAM devices. Each of the first DRAM devices and the second DRAM devices are selectively operable as one of an active DRAM device to stare application data or a spare DRAM device reserved to receive the application data from the active DRAM devices to dynamically over-provision a total memory defined by a sum of the first and second individual memory capacities.
US12019839B2
In some implementations, a system may obtain a graphical user interface (GUI) template that includes tiles corresponding to plug-ins. The system may generate, from the GUI template, category GUIs corresponding to categories and including a subset of the tiles. The system may identify account identifier(s) associated with a user identifier and one or more of the categories. The system may generate a user-specific GUI associated with a user account associated with the user identifier and including a subset of the category GUIs based on the account identifier(s). The plug-ins corresponding to the subset of the tiles may incorporate account data associated with at least one of the user account or the account identifier(s). The system may transmit, to a user device associated with the user account, the user-specific GUI.
US12019838B2
An augmented reality (AR) device is interfaced to an Internet of Things (IoT) device by receiving IoT device information in a standardized schema from the IoT device. The IoT device information includes device inputs and available output information for the IoT device. A predetermined AR user interface widget to render for the IoT device is determined from the received IoT device information. The predetermined AR user interface widget converts user inputs to the AR device into the device inputs for the IoT device. Upon selection of the IoT device by the AR device, the predetermined AR user interface widget for the selected IoT device is provided to the AR device as an overlay on a display of the AR device. Device input received in response to user interaction with the AR user interface widget is provided to the IoT device in an input type expected by the IoT device.
US12019835B2
Visibility of the metal mesh touch electrodes can be mitigated using one or more mitigation techniques. In some examples, the boundary between touch electrodes and/or the boundary between a touch electrode and a routing trace of another touch electrode and/or the boundary between two routing traces can be non-linear. In some examples, dummy cuts can be made within an area of a touch electrode region (e.g., while maintaining the same electrical potential for the touch electrode region). In some examples, notches can be made in the metal mesh. In some examples, the location of cuts and/or notches can be optimized to mitigate visibility of the metal mesh. In some examples, some or all of the visibility mitigations may be used in combination in a touch screen.
US12019828B2
A touch controller, a touch screen device, and an operating method of the touch controller are provided. A touch controller, performing a touch sensing operation of sensing a touch of a touch panel in a touch sensing period, includes a first clock generator configured to generate a low frequency clock signal for calculating the touch sensing period, a second clock generator configured to generate a high frequency clock signal for performing the touch sensing operation, and a first calibration circuit configured to calibrate a frequency of the low frequency clock signal by using the high frequency clock signal.
US12019812B1
An active stylus includes a haptic feedback subsystem, an accelerometer, and a controller that controls the haptic feedback subsystem to generate a haptic pulse having predefined haptic characteristics. The controller receives a detected acceleration profile from the accelerometer. The detected acceleration profile is caused at least partially by propagation of the haptic pulse through a stylus body of the active stylus, and caused at least partially by attenuation of the haptic pulse by an external object contacting the stylus body. A current usage state of the active stylus is identified based at least in part on a comparison between the detected acceleration profile and a acceleration context model.
US12019810B2
A shelf bracket is provided. The shelf bracket includes a shelf member and opposing side flanges extending from a back plate. A front flange extends from each of said opposing side flanges. The back plate, shelf member, side flange, and front flange define a cavity configured to receive an enclosure, such as by moving the enclosure in a vertical direction in and out of engagement with the cavity. The shelf member defines a bottom limit of the cavity such that movement of the enclosure into the cavity is limited to a first vertical direction and movement of the enclosure out of the cavity is limited to a second vertical direction, the second vertical direction being diametrically opposed to the first vertical direction. A support flange is optionally included, which is configured to engage with a support structure so as to provide support for the shelf bracket.
US12019806B2
Method for generating haptic and audio feedback responses starts with processor causing communication interface for communication session to be displayed on first user interface and on a second user interface. Processor detects first touch input on first user interface and second touch input on second user interface. Processor monitors location of the first touch input on the first user interface and location of the second touch input on the second user interface. Processor determines distance between location of first touch input on first user interface and location on first user interface corresponding to location of second touch input on second user interface. In response to determining that the distance is below predetermined threshold, processor causes first user interface and second user interface to generate an initial haptic feedback response and an initial audio feedback response. Other embodiments are described herein.
US12019805B2
Provided is an input feedback-based smart pen including: a main body having a shape that enables manipulation of a user; an input unit connected to the main body and performing an input operation by a manipulation of the user; an input information recognition unit configured to recognize information input by a user through the manipulation of the input unit; and an expression unit including one or more expression members formed in an area of an outer surface of the main body to be detectable by the user to express information corresponding to input information recognized by the input information recognition unit.
US12019799B2
Described are various embodiments of a light field device, pixel rendering method therefor, and vision perception system and method using same. One embodiment describes a method to adjust user perception of an image portion to be rendered via a set of pixels and a corresponding array of light field shaping elements (LFSE), the method comprising: projecting an adjusted image ray trace between a given pixel and a user pupil location to intersect an adjusted image location for a given perceived image depth given a direction of a light field emanated by the given pixel based on a given LFSE intersected thereby; upon the adjusted image ray trace intersecting a given image portion associated with the given perceived image depth, associating with the given pixel an adjusted image portion value designated for the adjusted image location based on the intersection; and rendering for each given pixel the adjusted image portion value associated therewith.
US12019788B2
Method for registering and updating an electronically stored and versioned alpha digital document (A) in a digital document register by storing, for each version, not the document but a public ownership key; a digital document hash value; and a digital document signature. The invention is characterised by the steps a) providing a first document version, defined in a document description language to have a defined rendered graphic representation; b) registering said first version; c) providing a second document version by adding a reversibly added part to said first document version, said second version comprising a second set of metadata; and d) registering said second version, in that said second metadata is embedded in the second version without affecting said graphic representation, in that at least a part of the reversibly added part can be unambiguously generated based on the second metadata, and in that the registering in step d comprises storing a hash of the second metadata. The invention also relates to a system.
US12019771B2
There are proposed a method, device, apparatus, and medium for protecting sensitive data. In a method, to-be-processed data is received from a server device. A processing result of a user for the to-be-processed data is received, the processing result comprising sensitive data of the user for the processing of the to-be-processed data. A gradient for training a server model at the server device is determined based on a comparison between the processing result and a prediction result for the to-be-processed data. The gradient is updated in a change direction associated with the gradient so as to generate an updated gradient to be sent to the server device. Noise is added only in the change direction associated with the gradient. The corresponding overhead of processing noise in a plurality of directions can be reduced, and no excessive noise data interfering with training will be introduced to the updated gradient.
US12019768B2
An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include one or more substrates, and logic coupled to the one or more substrates, the logic to process memory operation requests from a memory controller, and provide a front end interface to remote pooled memory hosted at a near edge device. An embodiment of another electronic apparatus may include local memory and logic communicatively coupled the local memory, the logic to allocate a range of the local memory as remote pooled memory, and provide a back end interface to the remote pooled memory for memory requests from a far edge device. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12019754B2
Ahead of time application launching for cybersecurity threat intelligence of network security events
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices are disclosed for improve cybersecurity intelligence by launching applications ahead of time. One method including: receiving, over a communications network, at least one threat model; determining whether a performance of an orchestrated response is triggered based on the at least one threat model, wherein the orchestrated response includes a plurality of applications to be executed in a predetermined sequence; and launching, when the performance of the orchestrated response is triggered, a first application and a second application of the plurality of applications of the orchestrated response, wherein the second application executes after execution of the first application has completed execution.
US12019746B1
An adaptive malware writing system includes a targeting engine that classifies malware candidates as a malicious candidate or a benign candidate through a surrogate model. The surrogate model assigns a weight to each byte of the malware candidates through a saliency vector. The sum of the weights render a malware classification score. An alteration engine alters a binary form of the malware candidates classified as malware by executing a functional analysis that traces application program interface calls and memory. The alteration engine alters the binary form of the malware candidates classified as malware to render a synthesized malware. The malware analysis determines if the synthesized malware is operational by comparing an image of the synthesized malware to an image of at least one of the plurality of malware candidates. A target classifier engine identifies the vulnerabilities of a targeted computer.
US12019743B2
A controller system includes a controller that executes a control operation in order to control a control target, and a security unit that is in charge of a security function for the controller system. The security unit includes a detector that detects a presence or absence of an incident regarding security in the controller system. The controller transitions a control mode to a degeneration mode when the detector detects the incident, and the controller maintains the control mode in the degeneration mode until cancellation of the incident is detected by the detector.
US12019740B2
The systems and methods described herein generally relate to techniques for automated detection, aggregation, and integration of cybersecurity threats. The system ingests multiple data feeds which can be in one or numerous different formats. The system evaluates information based on defined scores to display to users threats and risks associated with them. The system also calculates decay rates for expiration of threats and indicators through various methods.
US12019738B2
Disclosed is a fault injection attack method including determining a trigger start point in time based on an input signal for a crypto device; determining a trigger end point in time based on an output signal of the crypto device; setting a trigger based on the trigger start point in time and the trigger end point in time; and performing a fault injection attack based on the set trigger.
US12019729B2
A method for facilitating user authentication via a graphical user interface is provided. The method includes receiving, via the graphical user interface, a request, the request including an access request; generating a graphical element based on a predetermined guideline; displaying, via the graphical user interface, the generated graphical element in response to the request; receiving, via the displayed graphical element, an input, the input including an alphabetic character, a numeric character, and a symbolic character; determining a dimensionality factor for the input; and authenticating the request by using the input and the corresponding dimensionality factor.
US12019722B2
A user authentication system uses an information code such as a two-dimensional information code. The authentication system includes an authentication device, and the user is authenticated by combining the authentication device with a user's mobile terminal. In the mobile terminal, an authentication code in which facial feature points extracted from user's facial images are recorded is stored in the memory. In the authentication device, facial feature points are extracted from images of a human's face captured by an imaging unit, after being determined to be in a facial recognizable state, and the authentication code is displayed on the screen of the mobile terminal. The e facial feature points recorded in the authentication code are read from the captured images of the authentication code. The extracted facial feature points and the read facial feature points are subject to matching with each other in order to authenticate the user.
US12019720B2
A behavioral biometrics deep learning (BBDL) pipeline is provided, comprising a plurality of stages of machine learning computer models that operate to provide a behavioral biometric based authenticator operating based on spatiotemporal input data. The BBDL pipeline receives spatiotemporal input data over a plurality of time intervals, each time interval having a corresponding subset of the spatiotemporal input data. For each time interval, machine learning computer model(s) of a corresponding stage process a subset of the spatiotemporal input data corresponding to the time interval to generate an output vector having values indicative of an internal representation of spatiotemporal traits of the entity. Output vectors are accumulated across the plurality of stages of the BBDL pipeline to generate a final output vector indicative of the spatiotemporal traits of the entity represented in the spatiotemporal input data. The entity is authenticated based on the final output vector.
US12019718B2
An identity authentication method is provided, including: acquiring a raw feature of a user; calling an identity authentication model to extract a primary attribute feature vector in the raw feature, the primary attribute feature vector being an unbiased feature representation for selectively decoupling m−1 domain discrepancy features in the raw feature, and m being an integer greater than 2; and performing unbiased identity authentication based on the primary attribute feature vector to obtain an identity authentication result.
US12019715B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for identifying a target object. The method may include receiving, from a first antenna, a first signal associated with at least one candidate object and receiving, from a second antenna, a second signal associated with the at least one candidate object. The first antenna may be associated with a first acquisition region. The second antenna may be associated with a second acquisition region that is different from the first acquisition region. The method may further include identifying a target object located in a target region from the at least one candidate object by comparing a first parameter determined from the first signal with a second parameter determined from the second signal.
US12019703B2
A method includes receiving, on a computer-implemented system and from user, an identification of data and an identification of an algorithm and, based on a user interaction with the computer-implemented system comprising a one-click interaction or a two-click interaction. Without further user input, the method includes dividing the data into a data first subset and a data second subset, dividing the algorithm (or a Boolean logic gate representation of the algorithm) into an algorithm first subset and an algorithm second subset, running, on the computer-implemented system at a first location, the data first subset with the algorithm first subset to yield a first partial result, running, on the computer-implemented system at a second location separate from the first location, the data second subset with the algorithm second subset to yield a second partial result and outputting a combined result based on the first partial result and the second partial result.
US12019696B2
Described is a system for obtaining Universal Resource Locators (“URLs”) of specific locations, events, public services, businesses and other locations that maintain a URL (website) having a geolocation associated with the URL, wherein the system may utilize computing devices for implementing the system. The system automatically processes the location information of a user computing device and determine what websites have a geolocation near the location of the user computing device. The system may automatically deliver the website to websites to the user computing device as a selectable element, that when selected opens a web browser on the user computing device directly to the website selected.
US12019695B2
Techniques for using contextual information relating to content presented by a television as part of a search query for an information search are presented. A search management component, at a given moment in time during presentation of television-related content by a communication device in or associated with a television, identifies contextual information associated with a section of the television-related content and generates a content identifier timestamp associated with the contextual information and the section of television-related content. A search component augments a search query using the contextual information to facilitate customization of a subset of search results based on the contextual information. The contextual information in the search query can facilitate disambiguating the search query or promoting a search result over another search result in the subset of search results, based on the contextual information, to facilitate customization of the subset of search results.
US12019686B2
Embodiments are described for a comprehensive and real-time document sharing, editing, analyzing, coding, and processing platform using online databases. The system includes a data storage and retrieval process as well as a graphical user interface (GUI) component that displays small graphical representations of documents or file elements, referred to as “thumbnail” images to provide a quick recognizable reference to a document, as well as a link to the document or file itself. User access control determines whether a searching user can access a document based on the user role and context of the document. A real-time collaboration component allows various disparate users to access the same document and simultaneously make notes and changes as well as see other notes and changes made by other users.
US12019680B2
This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for generating a communication associated with or based on optimization data. Generating a communication may include (i) receiving first data associated with a first computing device or a first computing device user; (ii) generating at least two of: verification data, consistency data, and activity data; and (iii) generating optimization data.
US12019669B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a method, apparatus, apparatus, readable storage medium and product for media content processing, the method comprising: receiving a source sent by a second user; in response to a media content rendering command triggered by a first user on a receiving interface of the source, providing a rendering source to the first user, wherein the rendering source is the source sent by the second user to the first user; obtaining a source to be integrated that is uploaded by the first user and determining synthesis mode information, the synthesis mode information selected by the first user or pre-selected based on the rendering source; performing an integration operation on the rendering source and the source to be integrated according to the synthesis mode information to obtain a target media content; and posting the target media content.
US12019662B2
A computerized system and methods are provided for the automated extraction of contextually relevant information, and the automatic processing of actionable information from generic document sets. More specifically, automated systems and techniques for the extraction and processing of opportunity documents, are provided, which avoid inaccuracies and inefficiencies resulting from conventional and/or human-based document processing techniques.
US12019657B1
An apparatus for rapid data retrieval and heuristic processing of limited starting input information is disclosed. The apparatus comprises at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to receive ability data as it relates to an entity's ability to execute specified remedial measures, receive emergent incident data which includes the details of the triggering incident, generate an incident remediation profile based on the emergent incident data, generate a remediation resolve profile based on the amalgamation of the entity and ability data and the incident remediation profile, then display the results for a user.
US12019653B2
A method generating a blockchain clock to store event data, as well as a method for using the generated blockchain clock are proposed. In particular, as a blockchain clock is utilized for storing event data, the transparency of the stored event data and relationships between event data may be preserved. Moreover, event data is stored on the blockchain clock based on a risk value computed based on the event data. In this way, event data associated with potentially risky events is stored, and thus may be used for reference when deciding whether to execute a potential event. Accordingly, system security may be improved.
US12019651B2
A centralized database management system performs data synchronization with lower bandwidth consumption and higher efficiency. The system manages data synchronization and data reconciliation across multiple databases managed by multiple DBMS across different client servers. The system generates and sends instructions that encode each data table into an invertible bloom filter and identifies differences between the two databases by performing a subtraction operation on the two invertible bloom filters. The system may generate a third invertible bloom filter comprising information associated with differences between the two data tables. The system may send instructions to the source and the destination databases, where a first and a second invertible bloom filters are encoded for the source and the destination databases, respectively. The system may decode the third invertible bloom filter, identify the different elements, and generate instructions to the source and/or the destination database.
US12019638B2
Systems and methods are described herein for extrapolating trends in trust scores. A trust score may reflect the trustworthiness, reputation, membership, status, and/or influence of the entity in a particular community or in relation to another entity. An entity's trust score may be calculated based on data from a variety of data sources, and this data may be updated periodically as data is updated and new data becomes available. However, it may be difficult to update a trust score for an entity due to a scarcity of information. The trust score for such entities may be updated based on trends observed for the updated trust scores of other entities over a similar period of time. In this manner, trust scores may be updated for entities for which updated data is not available.
US12019630B2
Provided is a method and system for converting graphql query into gremlin comprising microservices based architecture, that may convert a query input in a graph query language (graphql) or natural language into gremlin queries that may get executed in any graph database required by a user. Hence a user may not need to have any knowledge of the query language. In one example of the present technology, multiple gremlin supporting backend graph databases with a uniform interface may be supported, along with more than one instance of backend database in the same instance.
US12019627B2
A computer-implemented method of performing an incremental specification of a query includes extracting text from each of a plurality of participants in a dialog. A contextual information is determined of the extracted text of one or more of the plurality of participants. A dialog understanding operation is performed by processing at least the contextual information of the extracted text in a knowledge graph to identify in the dialog at least one or more of a structural gap, an information about entities, relationships, and actions. Query information is provided responsive to the dialog for at least one of filling the identified structural gap, or for providing additional information about one or more of the identified entities, relationships or actions in the dialog.
US12019619B2
An apparatus and method of performing a time-based operation on a row in a database table includes receiving a function to be applied to a particular row in a table within the database management system. The method may also include, in response to receiving the function, adding a new column to the table. A new cell in the new column includes a timer indicating a time that the processing device will call the function, and the new cell references the function. The method may also include, upon expiration of the timer, determining that the database management system is available for execution of the function, and executing the function on the particular row in the table.
US12019617B2
A computer-implemented method executed using a first networked computer and comprising receiving a digitally stored workflow pattern that specifies at least an input data source, a data transformation process, an output data destination, a data quality assertion and a data quality source; the workflow pattern comprising a structured plurality of name declarations and value specifications that are human readable and machine readable; the data transformation process specified in the workflow pattern including one or more references to processing logic, a processing logic source outside the workflow pattern at which the processing logic is stored, and one or more available process engines that are capable of processing the processing logic; machine parsing the workflow pattern and dividing the workflow pattern into a plurality of execution units, each execution unit being associated with a particular process engine among the one or more available process engines; accessing the input data source specified in the workflow pattern and loading at least a portion of data from the input data source into main memory; accessing the processing logic source at a second networked computer and loading a copy of the processing logic specified in the workflow pattern from the second networked computer; for each of the execution units, selecting a particular process engine among the plurality of available process engines, calling the particular process engine, programmatically providing access to the portion of data and the copy of the processing logic, and receiving output data that has been created by the particular process engine after transforming the portion of data; translating the data quality assertion into a data quality request and automatically forwarding the data quality request to the data quality source at a third computer, the data quality request comprising the data quality assertion, and receiving a response to the request that specifies whether the output data conforms to the data quality assertion.
US12019616B2
Techniques are provided for evaluating one or more anomaly detection models using aggregated time-series signals. One method comprises obtaining discrete transactions; determining feature values for the discrete transactions; applying the feature values to at least one anomaly detection model that generates an anomaly score for each discrete transaction; generating a reduced set of the discrete transactions using the anomaly score for each of the plurality of discrete transactions; aggregating the discrete transactions of the reduced set to create an aggregated time-series signal; training a forecast algorithm using a first portion of the aggregated time-series signal; generating a prediction of a second portion of the aggregated time-series signal using the trained forecast algorithm; calculating a performance metric of the forecast algorithm based on a difference between: the second portion of the aggregated time-series signal and the prediction of the second portion; and initiating an automated action using the performance metric.
US12019615B2
Transaction validation includes assigning respective asset stake values to computing assets of network services. A request to assign a transaction validation stake to a transaction validator is received. At least some of the computing assets are assigned to the transaction validator. Responsive to a request for one or more transaction validators, a response that includes an indication of the transaction validator is provided. The transaction validator is selected using the respective asset stake values of the at least some of the computing assets that are assigned to the transaction validator.
US12019607B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are provided for managing geographically distributed data storage in a group-based communication system. In some embodiments, an apparatus physically located in a first geographic area defined by a first geographic boundary is provided. In embodiments, upon determining that an entity identifier associated with a message is associated with a geographic data storage policy, the apparatus is configured to transmit a geographic data residency message package comprising message data of the message to a geographic data residency server physically located within a second geographic area defined by a second geographic boundary. The second geographic area is associated with the geographic data storage policy. In some embodiments, the apparatus is configured to update the message data of the message with residency token data received from the geographic data residency server.
US12019602B2
A key-value storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device and a memory controller. The nonvolatile memory device stores a value, a key which is referenced to identify the value, and key age data which are changed based on an erase operation of the value, and the memory controller that receives an erase command directing erasing of the value corresponding to the key from a host, generates hash data, a size of which is smaller than a size of the key, in response to the erase command, and transmits a complete message to the host. The memory controller accesses the key and the key age data stored in the nonvolatile memory device based on the hash data and erases the value based on the accessed key and the accessed key age data during an idle time after the transmission of the complete message.
US12019591B2
Viewing and editing operations on a file having an unsupported file type are enabled through a method of opening the file through a remoting session. The method includes the steps of receiving login information from a user and determining if there is a recent open file request. In response to determining there is a recent open file request, the method includes the step of determining whether the file is synchronized. If the file is synchronized, the method includes the steps of launching an application within which the file can be opened, and opening the file within the application.
US12019577B2
Aspects relate to link speed for a peripheral component interconnect. In one aspect, an apparatus includes an interface circuit configured to provide an interface with a multiple lane data link, the data link having a first set of lanes in an active state and a second set of lanes in an idle state and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a request at the controller to change a data rate of the data link to a requested data rate, change the second set of lanes from an idle state to an active state, train the second set of lanes to the requested data rate, transfer data traffic from the first set of lanes to the second set of lanes after the training, and transmit the data traffic on the second set of lanes.
US12019575B2
A switch fabric is disclosed that includes a serial communications interface and a parallel communications interface. The serial communications interface is configured for connecting a plurality of slave devices to a master device in parallel to transmit information between the plurality of slave devices and the master device, and the parallel communications interface is configured for separately connecting the plurality of slave devices to the master device to transmit information between the plurality of slave devices and the master device, and to transmit information between individual ones of the plurality of slave devices. The parallel communications interface may comprise a dedicated parallel communications channel for each one of the plurality of slave devices. The serial communications interface may comprise a multidrop bus, and the parallel communications interface may comprise a cross switch.
US12019569B1
An apparatus has first-in, first-out (FIFO) buffer circuitry to transfer data from a source domain to a sink domain across a clock domain boundary. The FIFO buffer circuitry has data transfer circuitry to store the data to be transferred across the clock domain boundary; and source and sink domain data transfer control circuitry to maintain respective state vectors indicative of a state of the FIFO buffer circuitry in the respective domain. At least one of the source domain transfer control circuitry and the sink domain transfer control circuitry is operable to perform a multi-item transfer to transfer two or more data items in a single clock cycle of a respective domain by placing the data items into, or reading the data items from, respective data storage elements; and advancing a state vector of the respective domain by two or more state vector encodings in the single clock cycle.
US12019567B2
A method includes enabling a manufacturing mode at least partially based on a first signal provided via one of a number of reserved pins of an interface connector. The method can further include providing, in response to enabling the manufacturing mode, a second signal to a memory component coupled to the interface connector via a number of other pins of the interface connector.
US12019563B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods provide for technology that determines that first data associated with a first security domain is to be stored in a first permutated cache set, where the first permuted cache set is identified based on a permutation function that permutes at least one of a plurality of first cache indexes. The technology further determines that second data associated with a second security domain is to be stored in a second permutated cache set, where the second permuted cache set is identified based on the permutation function. The second permutated cache set may intersect the first permutated cache set at one data cache line to cause an eviction of first data associated with the first security domain from the one data cache line and bypass eviction of data associated with the first security domain from at least one other data cache line of the first permuted cache set.
US12019558B2
A solid state drive with a Logical To Physical (L2P) indirection table stored in a persistent memory is provided. The L2P indirection table has a plurality of entries, each entry to store a physical block address in the block addressable memory assigned to a logical block address. The solid state drive including solid state drive controller circuitry communicatively coupled to the persistent memory and the block addressable memory. The solid state drive controller circuitry including a volatile memory to store a logical to physical address indirection table cache and circuitry to monitor the logical to physical address indirection table cache and to write dirty logical to physical entries in the logical to physical address indirection table cache to the logical to physical address indirection table in the persistent memory.
US12019553B2
In one embodiment, a processor includes: one or more execution circuits to execute instructions; a stream prediction circuit coupled to the one or more execution circuits, the stream prediction circuit to receive demand requests for information and, based at least in part on the demand requests, generate a page prefetch hint for a first page; and a prefetcher circuit to generate first prefetch requests each for a cache line, the stream prediction circuit decoupled from the prefetcher circuit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12019552B2
Systems and methods of multi-chip processing with low latency and congestion. In a multi-chip processing system, each chip includes a plurality of clusters arranged in a mesh design. A respective interconnect controller is disposed at the end of each column. The column is linked to a corresponding remote column in the other chip. A share cache controller in the column is paired with a corresponding cache controller in the remote column, the pair of cache controllers are configured to control data caching for a same set of main memory locations. Communications between cross-chip cache controllers are performed within linked columns of clusters via the column-specific inter-chip interconnect controllers.
US12019548B2
Provided is a data storage system including a host including a host cache portion of a mirror cache, the host cache portion for storing metadata indicating a location of a data node that is stored in a kernel cache portion of the mirror cache, and a storage device including the kernel cache portion located in a common memory area.
US12019542B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to high performance connection cache eviction for reliable transport protocols in data center networking. Connection priorities for connection entries are determined to store the connection entries in a cache based on their connection priority. During cache eviction, the connection entries with a lowest connection priority are evicted from the cache. Cache eviction can be achieved with low latency at a high rate.
US12019539B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems including an adaptive configuration manager for controlling configurations of memory devices. The adaptive configuration manager receives a plurality of payloads from a host. The adaptive configuration manager identifies a profile of the host from a plurality of pre-determined host profiles. The adaptive configuration manager identifies a distribution of the plurality of memory access requests, the distribution including a set of sequential payloads and a set of random payloads. The adaptive configuration manager generates a memory access command using the profile of the host including a distribution of random and sequential access. The adaptive configuration manager executes the memory access command using the profile and a payload of the plurality of payloads.
US12019538B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for testing software. A testing system may use test case data describing a first test case failed by a first build of the software application, the first build generated by a first commit operation of the plurality of commit operations to execute a fault localization operation, the fault localization operation to identify a first suspect program element of a first build. The testing system may use the first suspect program element and commit data to select a second commit operation from the plurality of commit operations. The testing system may determine an error-inducing commit operation from the plurality of commit operations and executing a corrective action.
US12019537B2
Techniques for feature-based deployment pipelines are disclosed. The feature-based deployment pipelines use a service file as well as other manifest files to set up a repository, a continuous integration service to initiate testing, and a container orchestration system to build images and establish version control over the system. The feature-based deployment pipelines invoke sequential stages to enable feature branches of an application to be fully tested before proceeding to a succeeding stage. At each stage, relevant stakeholders are able to evaluate the new features before they become part of the master image of the tested application. A variety of validation and performance tests are conducted at each stage, resulting in a fully vetted application available for a consumer.
US12019536B2
A debugging management platform and an operating method for the same are provided. In the operating method, the debugging management platform operates a debugging agent service for establishing a debugging channel between a software development platform and a test platform. When receiving debugging packets are issued by the software development platform or the test platform, the debugging agent service analyzes the debugging packets and checks if the debugging packets meet an information security standard. The debugging packets are forwarded to the test platform or the software development platform if the debugging packets meet the information security standard. If the debugging packets do not meet the information security standard, the debugging packets are not forwarded, so as to ensure information security of the debugging packets that are forwarded between different environments.
US12019528B2
An apparatus includes a communications interface and a management server. The management server is configured to access servers through the interface, determine that additional resources are needed for execution by a system, and determine that one of the servers is in a standby mode. In the standby mode, the server is powered down and a baseboard management controller (BMC) therein is only powered through a connection from the apparatus or another server of the network. The management server is configured to determine that additional resources for execution by the system from the server are to be activated and cause a wake-up signal to be sent to the BMC, wherein the wake-up signal is configured to cause the BMC to wake and provision the operating environment of the server.
US12019521B2
Backing up logical data from a storage system to a backup system includes accessing data on the storage system corresponding to logical file structures of data stored on the storage system, using machine learning to ascertain file access patterns and frequency of file backups, determining backup data based on the logical file structure of data stored on the storage system and the file access patterns and frequency of file backups, and directly transferring data corresponding the backup data from the storage system to the backup system. The logical file structures may be provided by file metadata. The file metadata may include at least one of: a VTOC (volume table of contents), an IXVTOC (indexed VTOC), VSAM (virtual storage access method) information, a VVDS (VSAM volume data set), file attributes, and/or catalog data. The file attributes may include management class information for each of the files.
US12019519B2
A method of distributing data in a distributed storage system includes receiving a file, dividing the received file into chunks, and determining a distribution of the chunks among storage devices of the distributed storage system based on a maintenance hierarchy of the distributed storage system. The maintenance hierarchy includes maintenance levels, and each maintenance level includes one or more maintenance units. Each maintenance unit has an active state and an inactive state. Moreover, each storage device is associated with a maintenance unit. The determining of the distribution of the chunks includes identifying a random selection of the storage devices matching a number of chunks of the file and being capable of maintaining accessibility of the file when one or more maintenance units are in an inactive state. The method also includes distributing the chunks to storage devices of the distributed storage system according to the determined distribution.
US12019511B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus is allowed to access a storage device storing time-series data generated by a first device. The information processing apparatus includes a processor holding a first public key and a first private key. The processor is configured to acquire a program for correcting an error in first data on a first product from a first entity. The processor is configured to correct the correction target first data, using data in a predetermined range of the time-series data. The processor is configured to generate ground data indicating correction grounds for the corrected correction target first data, based on the data in the predetermined range, and add the ground data to the corrected correction target first data.
US12019508B2
An error revision suggestion method for customized software integration applications may comprise storing a plurality of customized software integration applications for specific integration processes for transforming data to enable electronic data exchange, generated from a customized visual model with a plurality of visual modeling elements representing customized executable code sets. The method may further comprise transmitting an executable run-time engine for a first of the plurality of customized software integration applications and a first customized code set for execution at a specific user business process system, receiving an indication an error has occurred during execution of the first customized code set, and transmitting an instruction to the user indicating a correction to erroneous user input is required to resolve the error if the error is associated in a resolve database with a previously executed correction to erroneous user input.
US12019502B2
A method comprises collecting parameters corresponding to at least one microservice operation processed by a first instance of a microservice, and analyzing the parameters using one or more machine learning algorithms. Based at least in part on the analyzing, a prediction is made whether the at least one microservice operation is anomalous. In the method, the first instance of the microservice is designated as being in an anomalous state responsive to predicting that the at least one microservice operation is anomalous. One or more microservice requests for the microservice are routed to a second instance of the microservice responsive to the anomalous state designation.
US12019500B2
An integrated circuit includes; a core configured to process an instruction in accordance with a voltage-frequency level, an instruction complexity calculation circuit configured to calculate an instruction complexity for at least one instruction to-be-processed after a reference time in relation to heating information related to the core acquired before the reference time, wherein the instruction complexity calculation circuit is further configured to generate a control signal corresponding to the instruction complexity, and a dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) controller configured to adjust the voltage-frequency level after the reference time in response to the control signal.
US12019491B2
A protection system for abnormal power down of a child node in a rack-scale server includes a logic control module and a plugging/unplugging trigger module. The plugging/unplugging trigger module is configured to detect a contact state, at a second plugging depth, between a power supplying clamp of the child node and the power supplying copper bar through a metal probe, generate a detection signal by conversion, and send the detection signal to the logic control module; the logic control module is configured to successively turn off a main power supply and a standby power supply of the child node after determining that the power supplying clamp is disengaged from the second plugging depth of the power supplying copper bar and before the power supplying clamp is disengaged from the third plugging depth of the power supplying copper bar, so as to execute power down logic of normal power off.
US12019490B2
A system comprising a microcontroller located on a communication bus, a power consumption circuit configured to determine power consumption of the microcontroller, wherein a processor is programmed to determine if a clock associated with the microcontroller is paused and whether an average operational power has exceeded a power threshold, and in response to the average operational power exceeding the power threshold and in response to identifying an attacked message or attacked electronics control unit, in response to determining the microcontroller is under the suspected attack, output an alert associated with an event causing change in the bit patterns of messages on the communication bus.
US12019477B2
In at least one example, an electronic device can include a display film and a retention assembly for the display film. The retention assembly can include an aperture defined by the display film with the display film encircling the aperture. The retention assembly can further include a post extending towards the aperture and a bracket having a first portion adhered to the display film and a second portion abutting the post.
US12019473B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for use with expandable displays. In some implementations management techniques and/or systems are provided that allow for access to expandable display functionality to be managed to as to potentially prolong device battery life. In other or additional implementations, techniques and/or systems are provided for potentially safeguarding devices with expandable displays from damage in the event of a fall or drop event. In yet other or additional implementations, techniques and/or systems are provided for determining the expansion state of an expandable display, thereby allowing corrective measures to be taken if the actual expansion state of the expandable display does not align with the expected expansion state of the expandable display.
US12019470B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a device magnet designed to magnetically couple with an accessory device magnet. The electronic device further includes a display assembly and a magnetic field sensor configured to detect the accessory device magnet, thereby providing an indication that the accessory device is covering the display assembly. The electronic device further includes a shunt assembly designed to reduce the magnitude of the magnetic field of the device magnet, as determined by the magnetic field sensor, while allowing the magnetic field from the accessory device to sufficiently reach the magnetic field sensor. As such, the magnetic field sensor can be placed near the device magnet without triggering the magnetic field sensor. The electronic device may further include a microphone. Communication between the microphone and an integrated circuit can cease based on the magnetic field sensor detecting the accessory device magnet.
US12019468B2
A screen fixing apparatus is provided, for fixing a screen on a support base. The screen fixing apparatus includes a plurality of fixing holes, a plurality of screw hole structures, a plurality of position limiting structures, and a buckling structure. The fixing holes is provided on a back plate of the screen. The screw hole structures is respectively disposed in the fixing holes. The position limiting structures is disposed on the support base, and correspond to the fixing holes. The buckling structure includes a plurality of fasteners, where the fasteners movably extend into the fixing holes, to buckle the position limiting structures to the corresponding fixing holes.
US12019460B2
A system includes a source that provides air, a first compressor stage that receives the air from the source and is configured to compress the air to a first pressure, and a second compressor stage that receives the air from the first compressor stage and is configured to compress the air to a second pressure. The system also includes a first component, a second component, valves that control flow of the air, and a controller that is configured to control the valves according to a first control mode, in which the air is supplied to the first component by the first compressor stage, and a second control mode, in which the air is supplied to the second component by the second compressor stage.
US12019457B2
A mobility service system plans an itinerary including movement from a first takeoff and landing site to a second takeoff and landing site in response to a reservation request from a user. Specifically, the mobility service system identifies a first eVTOL available at the first takeoff and landing site, and estimates a first amount of battery charge of the first eVTOL at a time of start of use by the user. When a first flight from the first takeoff and landing site to the second takeoff and landing site is not achievable with the first amount of battery charge, the mobility service system searches for a second flight from the first takeoff and landing site to a third takeoff and landing site that is achievable with the first amount of battery charge, and plans a second itinerary that goes through the third takeoff and landing site.
US12019456B2
Methods and systems for controlling a bank angle, a heading angle and an altitude of an aircraft during flight are provided. The methods and systems disclosed herein make use of sliding mode control and feedback linearization control (nonlinear dynamic control) techniques. The methods and systems can provide autopilot-type functions that can autonomously execute aggressive maneuvers as well as more gentle maneuvers for aircraft.
US12019451B2
An electric cart is provided. The electric cart includes a body, an operating unit disposed in the body, an obstacle sensor to generate an obstacle stop signal by sensing an obstacle, a wheel provided to move the body, a motor to control a driving of the wheel, and an electronic control unit to control the motor.
US12019445B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling a motion of a counter balance forklift truck, the method comprises: detecting that a steering command generated with an endless rotating steering device corresponds to a reference steering point, in response to the detection providing at least two states for selecting a travel direction of the counter balance truck, detecting a selected state in accordance with a detection of a change in a steering command, and generating control signals individually to a plurality of electric drive motors for controlling the motion of the counter balance truck to meet the travel direction selected with the steering device. The invention also relates to a forklift truck implementing the method and to a computer program product.
US12019440B2
According to an aspect, there is provided elevator control system coupled to an autonomous vehicle control system. The elevator control system is configured to receive an elevator call associated with a user; receive an indication of a demand for an autonomous vehicle, the indication being associated with the elevator call; and transmit a request for an autonomous vehicle to an autonomous vehicle control system based on the elevator call and the indication.
US12019429B2
A scalable industrial data ingestion and analysis architecture integrates and collects data from multiple diverse sources at one or more industrial facilities. Data sources can include plant-level industrial devices and higher-level business systems. The data can be integrated and collected from multiple sources at an on-premise edge or gateway device, which sends the data to event queues on the cloud platform. The data queues orchestrate and store the data on cloud storage, and an analytics layer performs business analytics or other types of analysis on the stored data to produce various outcomes. Similar analytic platforms can also be implemented at the device level, and analytic functions can be scaled between the device level and higher levels in accordance with the scope of a given analytic function.
US12019428B2
A plant diagnostic system and method for plant process control and analysis comprising one or more sensors configured to collect and report compositional operation information of the equipment in the plant or refinery in real-time. At least one of the one or more sensors may be selected from a group of GC, GCxGC, micro GC, micro GCxGC, or combinations thereof. The diagnostic system may comprise a detection platform, an analysis platform, a visualization platform, and/or an alert platform.
US12019424B2
A method for numerical control milling, forming and polishing of a large-diameter aspheric lens to solve the problems of long time-consuming and severe tool wear in the machining of a meter-scale large-diameter aspheric surface is disclosed. An aspheric surface is discretized into a series of rings with different radii, and the rings are sequentially machined through generating cutting by using an annular grinding wheel tool; the rings are equally spaced, there are a total of N rings, and the width of any ring is jointly determined by the Nth ring, the (N−1)th ring, positioning accuracy, and a generatrix equation of the aspheric lens, and the nth ring has a curvature radius of Rn=sqrt(R02−k*(n*dx)2); and the aspheric surface is enveloped by a large number of rings.
US12019423B2
A facility employing systems, methods, and/or techniques for dynamically and adaptively configuring configurable energy consuming and producing devices (e.g., smart energy devices) based on user profiles and user presence information is disclosed. In some embodiments, the facility periodically detects the presence of users, and retrieves preference information for those users. For each of one or more configurable energy devices in the area, the facility generates a combined setting based on the preferences of each user present and adjusts the devices based on the combined settings. For example, if User A, User B, and User C are present in a room and User A's preferred temperature setting is 75° F., User B's preferred temperature setting is 68° F., and User C's preferred temperature setting is 70° F., the facility may generate a combined setting for a thermostat by taking the average value of the users in the room.
US12019420B2
Methods and systems are provided for a power tool in control of a vacuum. In response to activation input, the power tool controls a motor for driving power tool operation and wirelessly transmits a control signal to a vacuum. In response to receiving the control signal, the vacuum controls a motor for driving operation of the vacuum. The power tool, the vacuum, or both include a wireless communication pairing butting for paring the power tool and the vacuum. The power tool and/or the vacuum may be cordless and powered by a battery pack.
US12019418B2
A method for managing access control within a modular automation system including at least two automation modules. Each automation module is associated with an operation or a set of operations for carrying out a specific task. The method includes: receiving a schema of a common process including at least the order of processing steps of the modular automation system, wherein each processing step includes one or more of the specific tasks of the automation modules; generating privilege associations for each processing step with one or more automation modules, based on the schema; and generating an access control policy for the automation modules based on the privilege associations.
US12019414B2
A method for generating a training data set for training an artificial intelligence (AI) module. An image sequence is provided in which surroundings of a robot are recorded. A trajectory in the recorded surroundings is determined. At least one future image sequence is generated which extends to a time segment in the future, and, based on the at least one determined trajectory, encompasses a prediction of images for the event that the determined trajectory was followed during the time segment in the future. At least one sub-section of the determined trajectory in the generated image sequence is assessed as positive or as negative when a movement predicted by following the trajectory corresponds to a valid movement situation, or as an invalid movement situation, respectively. The generated future image sequence with the assessment assigned thereto of the trajectory are combined for generating a training data set for the AI module.
US12019412B2
An autonomous module for processing stored data includes a multithreaded processor core (MPC) and a plurality of autonomous memories. Each of the plurality of autonomous memories has a memory bank, a data operator (DO) configured to implement a plurality of selectable memory behaviors, an autonomous memory operator (AMO) configured to implement a state machine to control the memory bank independently of the MPC, and at least one memory input/output (IO) port communicatively coupled with the memory bank, the AMO, and the DO. The at least one memory IO port is configured to receive a read instruction from the AMO, retrieve data from the memory bank, and send the data to the DO. The DO is configured to implement one of the plurality of selectable memory behaviors to update the data and send the updated data to the AMO via the at least one memory IO port.
US12019411B2
Automatically generating a compensation factor for adjusting an operating parameter such that a measured carbon potential, dew point, or other controlled parameter matches the controller's set point value by inputting the measured parameter directly to the controller.
US12019398B2
An elastic securing organ for fastening a horological component on a support element including an outer peripheral wall capable of being connected to said horological component and an inner peripheral wall defining a triangular-shaped opening wherein the support element is capable of being inserted, the elastic securing organ includes elastic arms each forming one side of the triangular opening and helping ensure the gripping of the support element in the opening, each arm including: at least one cut-out defined completely or partially along the body of said arm, an elastic contact zone with the support element, and elastic peripheral zones which extend between this contact zone and the ends of this elastic arm, the contact zone having a greater quantity of material than the quantity of material forming each of the peripheral zones thereof.
US12019396B2
Techniques related to generating holographic images for a holographic heads up display are discussed. Such techniques include application of a machine learning model to the target image to generate data that is used to enable the determination of a phase pattern via an iterative propagation feedback model. The iterative propagation feedback model is used to generate a feedback strength value, which is then used to generate a phase diffraction pattern for presentation at a holographic plane of the heads up display.
US12019391B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a frame; a cover movable between a closed position and an open position; a fixing unit including a heating member and a pressure roller configured to form a nipping region therebetween; an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a nipping pressure between the heating member and the pressure roller in conjunction with movement of the cover; and a link mechanism connected to both the adjustment mechanism and the cover. The adjustment mechanism includes an arm pressing the heating member such that the heating member and the pressure roller form the nipping region. The link mechanism includes: a first link connected to the cover; a second link connected to the first link and pivotally movable about an axis extending in a width direction; and a third link connected to both the second link and the adjustment mechanism. The third link is movable in a front-rear direction.
US12019386B2
A heating unit includes a to-be-engaged portion. A fixing unit includes an engagement portion. The heating unit or the fixing unit includes an engagement guide portion. A movement mechanism retains the heating unit in a tilted attitude when causing the heating unit to move at a position set apart from the fixing unit. The engagement guide portion causes the heating unit to rock from the tilted attitude to a reference attitude while guiding the to-be-engaged portion to the engagement portion. The engagement portion engages with the to-be-engaged portion to restrict a movement of the heating unit in a longitudinal direction. A unit bias portion retains an engagement state between the engagement portion and the to-be-engaged portion.
US12019376B2
A method of making an adhesion layer of an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) stack is presented. The method includes grafting an ultraviolet (UV) sensitive polymer brush on a hardmask, the polymer brush including a UV cleavable unit, depositing EUV resist over the polymer brush, exposing the EUV resist to remove the EUV resist in exposed areas by applying a developer, and flooding the exposed area with a UV light and a solvent developer to remove exposed portions of the polymer brush.
US12019373B2
The present disclosure can provide a photosensitive resin composition, film, and electronic device having excellent high-resolution patterning at low light intensity, excellent pattern adhesion, fine patterning, and excellent cured film properties.
US12019370B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a photoresist layer comprising a photoresist composition over a substrate to form a photoresist-coated substrate. The photoresist layer is selectively exposed to actinic radiation to form a latent pattern in the photoresist layer. The latent pattern is developed by applying a developer to the selectively exposed photoresist layer to form a patterned photoresist layer exposing a portion of the substrate, and a purge gas is applied to the patterned photoresist layer.
US12019369B2
A coloring composition contains a halogenated zinc phthalocyanine pigment A, an isoindoline pigment B, a resin C, and a curable compound D having an ethylenically unsaturated bonding group, in which the resin C includes a resin Cl having a repeating unit formed by polymerizing a polymerizable compound Cm having a CLogP value of 3.0 or more with the CLogP value being a calculated value of a LogP which is the common logarithm of a partition coefficient P of 1-octanol/water, and having a cyclic structure in a molecule thereof, and the ratio of the mass of the halogenated zinc phthalocyanine pigment A to the mass of the isoindoline pigment B is 55:45 to 85:15 in terms of the mass of the halogenated zinc phthalocyanine pigment A:the mass of the isoindoline pigment B.
US12019368B2
An aqueous cleaning composition containing sulfonic acids and a source of chloride ions is used to clean contaminants from EUV masks used in the manufacture of semiconductors. Optionally, the aqueous cleaning composition can include oxidizing agents and surfactants. The aqueous cleaning composition removes tin as well as other contaminants from the mask. Such other contaminants include, but are not limited to, aluminum oxide, etch and photoresist residues.
US12019365B2
A variable aperture module includes a blade assembly, a positioning element, a driving part and pressing structures. The blade assembly includes movable blades disposed around an optical axis to form a light passable hole with an adjustable size. Each movable blade has a positioning hole and a movement hole adjacent thereto. The positioning element includes positioning structures disposed respectively corresponding to the positioning holes. The driving part includes a rotation element disposed corresponding to the movement holes and is rotatable with respect to the positioning element. The pressing structures are disposed respectively corresponding to the movable blades. Each pressing structure is at least disposed into at least one of the positioning hole and the movement hole of the corresponding movable blade. Each pressing structure at least presses against at least one of the corresponding one positioning structure and the rotation element.
US12019361B2
A virtual and augmented reality system comprising an immersive sound system, sensors, a power source, communications, data processing, and an optical system that delivers photoreceptor density resolution, wide angle, high contrast, binocular vision, continuous depth of field images, is integrated for a fully immersive experience. In one embodiment, an optical system comprises a miniaturized array of projectors geometrically arranged to cover retina photoreceptive areas. Projectors provide full spectrum, amplitude modulated, and controllably divergent beams of light that can be steered with one or more degrees of freedom. Segmented projector arrays greatly improve dynamic performance. An adaptive optics reflector includes an array of fixed, or independently controllable optical elements, that can alter reflected beam properties such that a virtual object may appear to be nearer or further from the viewer. A direct projection, two dimensional array of micro projectors are positioned to deliver a fully immersive image directly into the eye.
US12019359B2
A light blocking member according to the present disclosure is for a projection video display device provided with an optical system that projects video light and a projection lens on which the video light is incident, the light blocking member being disposed between the optical system and the projection lens, the light blocking member including: a first light blocking portion that absorbs and converts into heat a part of unnecessary light unnecessary for the projection lens in the video light; and a reflector that reflects, as reflected light, light that is a part of the unnecessary light and that is not absorbed by the first light blocking portion.
US12019356B2
A lens barrel is provided with: a stationary barrel having a large-diameter section and a recessed section which is recessed further toward the inner diameter side than the large-diameter section; a printed circuit board which is mounted so that at least part thereof is disposed along the outer peripheral surface of the stationary barrel; movable barrels positioned further toward the outer diameter side than the stationary barrel and moving relative to the stationary barrel; and a cable member having flexibility which allows the cable member to deform flexibly, the cable member being provided with a mounting section which is mounted on the printed circuit board, and also with a passage section which passes between the printed circuit board and the stationary barrels.
US12019355B2
A camera module includes an imaging lens assembly and an image sensor, wherein the image sensor is located on an image side of the imaging lens assembly. The imaging lens assembly has an optical axis and includes a plastic lens barrel and a plurality of plastic lens elements, wherein the plastic lens elements are disposed in the plastic lens barrel. The plastic lens barrel includes an object-side outer surface, a lens barrel minimum opening, an object-side outer inclined surface and a reversing inclined surface. The object-side outer surface is a surface of the plastic lens barrel facing towards an object side being closest to the object side and is annular. The reversing inclined surface expands from the lens barrel minimum opening to the image side, wherein a connecting position of the reversing inclined surface and the object-side outer inclined surface forms the lens barrel minimum opening.
US12019341B2
An array substrate and a display panel are disclosed. In the array substrate, array electrodes of at least a portion of pixel units that are adjacent to a base plate edge have areas that are gradually decreased from a base plate center toward the base plate edge. The portion of the array electrodes gradually decreased are arranged in a region of a display panel in which the brightness is relatively bright. If the areas of the array electrodes are decreased, the aperture ratios of the pixel units are reduced. After the aperture ratios of the pixel units are reduced, light transmission rate in an edge zone of the array substrate can be lowered. As such, the portion of the base plate edge of which light is relatively bright is made corresponding to the brightness of the base plate center, thereby realizing the improvement on the nonuniformity of periphery displaying.
US12019338B2
A display device comprises an upper base substrate; a lower base substrate which protrudes from the upper base substrate along a first direction in a plan view; a first printed circuit film which is attached to a first pad area in a portion of the lower base substrate protruding from the upper base substrate along the first direction; and an upper common electrode which is disposed between the upper base substrate and the lower base substrate, wherein the first printed circuit film is provided in plural numbers, the first printed circuit films are arranged to be spaced apart from each other along a second direction intersecting the first direction, and the upper common electrode overlapping a space between adjacent first printed circuit films along the first direction is recessed further inwardly in the first direction than the upper common electrode overlapping the first printed circuit film along the first direction.
US12019332B2
Provided is a barrier film that can suppress a change in color when applied to a wavelength conversion sheet. A barrier film for a wavelength conversion sheet that is a barrier film comprising at least one inorganic oxide layer and at least one organic coating layer on one surface of a light-transmitting base material, wherein a value of a water vapor transmission rate according to JIS K7129-2:2019 is 0.20 g/m2·day or less, and when a spectral transmittance of the barrier film is measured with a surface of a side comprising the inorganic oxide layer and the organic coating layer as a light coming-in surface, the barrier film comprises a spectral transmittance bottom at which the spectral transmittance changes from decreasing to increasing, or a spectral transmittance peak at which the spectral transmittance changes from increasing to decreasing, in the range of 450 nm±7 nm.
US12019331B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a light source, a light collection part, a liquid crystal part, and an anisotropic diffusion layer. The light source emits light. The light collection part collects the light emitted from the light source in the front direction of the liquid crystal display device so that, when an image is displayed, the light collecting property in a left-right direction is different from the light collecting property in an up-down direction. The liquid crystal part controls a transmission state of the light collected by the light collection part using a liquid crystal. The anisotropic diffusion layer anisotropically diffuses the light transmitted through the liquid crystal part.
US12019329B2
The present application provides a backlight module and a quantum dot display device. The present application improves energy efficiency by modifying a backlight of the quantum dot display device. Specifically, energy efficiency of a light-emitting element is improved by adding a small amount of phosphors in the backlight module or setting a diffuser plate as a transparent diffuser plate. In addition, the quantum dot display device provided by the present application not only has a backlight device, but also has a quantum dot film layer and a polarizer.
US12019327B1
Display modules and display devices are provided. The display module includes a display panel and a lens layer disposed on a light-emitting side of the display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of visual pixel groups, and the lens layer includes a plurality of cylindrical lenses each covering one of the visual pixel groups. The cylindrical lens extends along a first direction and has a first virtual centerline parallel to the first direction and dividing the cylindrical lens into a first area and a second area. The visual pixel group includes at least one first subgroup corresponding to the first area and at least one second subgroup corresponding to the second area. In a top view direction of the display module, the first subgroup and the second subgroup are partially overlapped or not overlapped in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US12019326B2
Embodiments of the present application provides a display panel and a display device, the display panel includes a display panel body; a first dimming layer is disposed on one side of the display panel body, the first dimming layer includes a plurality of light shielding members and a plurality of light receiving members, the plurality of light shielding members are disposed at intervals, each light receiving member is disposed between two adjacent light shielding members; wherein the plurality of light receiving members is a lens structure in a first mode. A display effect of the display panel at a specific viewing angle is improved, and the display panel has an anti-peep function.
US12019323B2
A display device according to one aspect of the present invention comprises: a display panel; a front frame to which the display panel is attached; and a rear frame coupled to the rear of the front frame, wherein the front frame comprises a rectangular-band-shaped seating part pressing towards the rear frame and formed along the edge of the device, and the rear frame comprises a coupling part mechanically joined to the seating part.
US12019319B2
An optical path control member according to an embodiment comprises: a lower substrate; a lower electrode disposed on the upper surface of the lower substrate; an upper substrate disposed on the lower substrate; an upper electrode disposed on the lower surface of the upper substrate; a light conversion unit disposed between the lower electrode and the upper electrode; and an adhesive layer provided between the light conversion unit and the upper electrode, wherein the light conversion unit includes partition wall parts and accommodation parts that are alternately disposed, the accommodation part has a light transmission rate that varies according to the application of voltage, and, when the ratio of the thickness of the accommodation part to the dielectric constant thereof (thickness/dielectric constant) is defined as A and the ratio of the thickness of the adhesive layer to the dielectric constant thereof (thickness/dielectric constant) is defined as B, the value of A is greater than the value of B.
US12019308B2
Apparatuses and systems for wearable devices such as eyewear are described. According to one embodiment, the wearable device includes a frame, onboard electronics components, and an antenna disposed around an eyepiece area of the frame that is configured to hold an optical element. The antenna is configured for inductive coupling. In some embodiments, a switch coupled to the antenna allows selection between circuitry for inductive charging of a battery and near-field communication (NFC) circuitry for communicating data via the antenna.
US12019304B2
An objective optical system which forms an observation optical system consists of, in order from the object, a first lens group that has positive refractive power, a second lens group that has positive or negative refractive power, and a third lens group that has negative refractive power. Focusing is performed by moving the second lens group along an optical axis, the third lens group is configured to move in a direction that is perpendicular to the optical axis to correct image blur, and the following conditional expression is satisfied: 0.70≤f1/f12≤1.50, where f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens group, and f12 denotes a combined focal length of the first lens group and the second lens group.
US12019300B2
An optical fiber distribution system including a rack and elements which populate the rack including fiber terminations. Each element includes a chassis and a movable tray. The movable tray includes a synchronized movement device for moving a cable radius limiter. The tray includes cable terminations which extend in a line generally parallel to a direction of movement of the movable tray. Each of the cable terminations are mounted on hinged frame members positioned on each tray. The cables entering and exiting the movable tray follow a generally S-shaped pathway.
US12019298B2
The present disclosure relates to features of a telecommunication enclosure. Example features can include mounting plate attachment features, housing latching features, housing hinge features and fiber routing features.
US12019293B2
A photonic system includes a first photonic circuit having a first face and a second photonic circuit having a second face. The first photonic circuit comprises first wave guides, and, for each first wave guide, a second wave guide covering the first wave guide, the second wave guides being in contact with the first face and placed between the first face and the second face, the first wave guides being located on the side of the first face opposite the second wave guides. The second photonic circuit comprises, for each second wave guide, a third wave guide covering the second wave guide. The first photonic circuit comprises first positioning devices projecting from the first face and the second photonic circuit comprises second positioning devices projecting from the second face, at least one of the first positioning devices abutting one of the second positioning devices in a first direction.
US12019282B2
A fiber optic cable assembly includes a fiber optic cable and a fiber optic connector. The cable includes a jacket having an elongated transverse cross-sectional profile that defines a major axis and a minor axis. Strength components of the cable are anchored to the connector. The fiber optic connector includes a ferrule defining a major axis that is generally perpendicular to the major axis of the jacket and a minor axis that is generally perpendicular to the minor axis of the jacket. Certain types of connectors include a connector body defining a side opening that extends along a length of the connector body; a ferrule configured for lateral insertion into the connector body through the side opening; and a cover that mounts over the side opening after the ferrule has been inserted into the connector body through the side opening.
US12019281B2
Sealed optical cable assemblies are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical connector includes an optical cable having an end, a connector body coupled to the end of the optical cable, and a sealing grommet disposed over the optical cable. The optical connector further includes a connector housing having a first housing end portion, a second housing end portion, an internal cavity. The internal cavity has an interior surface proximate the second housing end portion. The connector body is disposed within the internal cavity of the connector housing. The sealing grommet is positioned within the internal cavity such that an outer surface of the sealing grommet is in contact with the interior surface of the second housing end portion. The connector body and the optical cable are movable relative to the connector housing in an axial direction of the optical connector, and the sealing grommet is deformable to accommodate movement of the connector body and the optical cable relative to the connector housing.
US12019274B2
The invention concerns a polarization rotator. The inventive polarization rotator comprises an optical coupler comprising a waveguide having at one first end at least a first port configured as an input port for polarized light and a second port configured as an output port for reflected polarized light, said waveguide having a second end opposite to said first end. It further comprises a birefringent waveplate having on one side a reflective surface, which waveplate is arranged to receive light from said second end of said waveguide and to reflect light transmitted out from said coupler back into said coupler. According to the invention, the waveplate is further configured to cause said birefringent material to rotate the polarization of said reflected light, which amount of rotation depends on an angle of rotation of said birefringent waveplate with respect to said optical coupler.
US12019269B2
A multi-chip package assembly includes a substrate, a first semiconductor chip attached to the substrate, and a second semiconductor chip attached to the substrate, such that a portion of the second semiconductor chip overhangs an edge of the substrate. A first v-groove array for receiving a plurality of optical fibers is present within the portion of the second semiconductor chip that overhangs the edge of the substrate. An optical fiber assembly including the plurality of optical fibers is positioned and secured within the first v-groove array of the second semiconductor chip. The optical fiber assembly includes a second v-groove array configured to align the plurality of optical fibers to the first v-groove array of the second semiconductor chip. An end of each of the plurality of optical fibers is exposed for optical coupling within an optical fiber connector located at a distal end of the optical fiber assembly.
US12019240B2
An apparatus installed in a head-mounted display (HMD) has a coupling prism formed by packing diagonally-reflective (DR) prisms together. Each DR prism has an internal diagonal plane that is at least partially reflective. A captured image of eye or environmental scene received by a DR prism is reflected to an image-leaving end surface thereof. Image-leaving end surfaces of all DR prisms are oriented along a same direction to optically multiplex the captured images to create a multi-channel image. An imaging sensor on the coupling prism images the multi-channel image, avoiding inter-channel interference caused by spillover of captured-image signals while allowing one imaging sensor instead of multiple ones to image the captured images. A micro display displays a visible image to one DR prism, whose internal diagonal plane reflects the visible image along a direction towards an eye. Hence, the apparatus also enables image displaying to a HMD wearer.
US12019226B2
An optical system includes a first optical element including a first reflective area having a convex shape toward a magnification side, a second optical element including a second reflective area having a convex shape toward the magnification side, and a light shielding member disposed between the first optical element and the second optical element. Light from the magnification side travels to a reduction side through the second reflective area, the first reflective area, and a refractive area of the second optical element in order. The light shielding member is disposed between light entering the second reflective area and light entering the first reflective area in a first cross-section including an optical axis.
US12019223B2
The imaging optical system consists of a first optical system and a second optical system in order from a magnified side. The second optical system forms an image on an image display surface as an intermediate image, and the first optical system forms the intermediate image on a magnified-side conjugate plane. A height of a principal ray of light having a maximum angle of view becomes maximum on a lens surface of the whole system on the most magnified side, among heights of principal rays of light having a maximum angle of view on respective lens surfaces. The imaging optical system satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
US12019221B2
An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to an eighth lens element, and each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The first lens element has positive refracting power, an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the first lens element is concave, the second lens element has negative refracting power, a periphery region of the object-side surface of the second lens element is concave, and an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the eighth lens element is convex. The lens elements having refracting power included by the optical imaging lens are only the eight lens elements described above. The optical imaging lens satisfies the following conditions: D61t82/D21t42≥1.750.
US12019212B2
An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element and a fourth lens element. The first lens element has negative refracting power, the periphery region of the object-side surface of the second lens element is concave and the optical-axis region of the object-side surface of the third lens element is concave. The Abbe number of the first lens element is υ1, the Abbe number of the second lens element is υ2, the Abbe number of the third lens element is υ3 and the Abbe number of the fourth lens element is υ4 to satisfy υ1+υ2+υ3+υ4≤150.000.
US12019210B2
An optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element and a third lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex, and the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The second lens element with negative refractive power has an image-side surface being concave, and an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The third lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface being concave, and the object-side surface and an image-side surface thereof are aspheric. The optical lens assembly further includes a stop with no lens element having refractive power disposed between the stop and the first lens element. The optical lens assembly has a total of three lens elements with refractive power.
US12019201B2
A method for configuring a logging module for logging sensors deployment based on a sensing data acquisition objective includes selecting a tool body, selecting at least one type of sensor, and selecting at least one type of roller. The method also includes incorporating the at least one selected type of sensor onto the at least one selected type of roller to provide at least one sensor roller, and mounting the at least one sensor roller into a compressible mounting assembly provided in the tool body to provide the logging module.
US12019197B2
A multi-axis acceleration sensor comprises a frame, a central mass disposed within the frame, and a plurality of transducers mechanically coupled between the frame and the central mass. At least a first set of the transducers are arranged between the frame and the central mass in a manner configured to measure translational and rotational motion with respect to a first predefined axis.
US12019189B2
A system and method for providing a dynamic composite field of view in a scanning lidar system, such as to improve a signal-to-noise ration of detected light. The dynamic composite field of view can include a subset of the available detector pixels, and can thereby reduce noise introduce by noise sources that can scale with a detector area, such as dark current and gain peaking that can be caused by a capacitance of the photodetector.
US12019188B2
An eye-safe light detection and ranging system includes a virtual protective housing. A short range pulse is emitted at every measurement point in a field of view before conditionally emitting a long range pulse. Short range pulses result in accessible emissions that are eye-safe at short distances and long range pulses result in accessible emissions that are eye-safe at longer distances.
US12019185B2
A LIDAR system concurrently outputs multiple LIDAR output signals that concurrently illuminate the same sample region in a field of view for a data period. The sample region is one of multiple sample regions included in the field of view. The LIDAR system also includes electronics that use the multiple LIDAR output signals to generate LIDAR data for the sample region. The LIDAR data includes a distance and/or a radial velocity between the LIDAR system and an object that reflects the LIDAR output signals.
US12019184B2
A vehicle lidar assembly includes a casing having a front cover and a back cover connected to the front cover defining a casing cavity between the front cover and the back cover. The front cover has an attachment feature designed to directly connect to a vehicle. The back cover is supported by the front cover and has fins designed to dissipate heat. The assembly includes a laser module disposed in the casing cavity. The laser module includes a housing having a hermetically-sealed cavity. The housing includes a base that is connected to the back cover. The laser module includes a laser disposed in the hermetically-sealed cavity 30 and supported by the base.
US12019181B2
Provided is an iterative focused millimeter wave integrated communication and sensing method, which converts an environmental sensing problem into a compressed sensing reconstruction problem, and realizes the initial coarse sensing of the environment based on an approximate message passing algorithm; according to a background determining method, the present disclosure divides and determines a target object, removes the influence of background scatters on a receiving signal, and removes the background scatters repeatedly and iteratively, so as to obtain a more accurate focus sensing result of the target object. Compared with existing environment sensing reconstruction algorithms, the iterative focused millimeter wave environment sensing algorithm of the present disclosure significantly improves the accuracy of environment sensing, solves the problem that a large-scale environment cannot be accurately sensed due to limited system resources, and provides an efficient environment sensing method for the future design of integrated sensing and communication systems.
US12019177B2
A method of handling radar signals of a radar system having a plurality of antennas is provided. The method may include generating a plurality of time-based radar signals based on a radar signal received by an associated antenna of the plurality of antennas, and transforming each time-based radar signal of the time-based radar signals into radar signals that each comprise a plurality of pairs of a frequency-based-value and an associated intensity value. The method includes storing the frequency-based-values and the intensity values of one frequency-based radar signal corresponding to one time-based radar signal of one antenna of the plurality of antennas; and storing each intensity value of the plurality of intensity values of another of the plurality of frequency-based radar signals based on a corresponding intensity value of the one frequency-based radar signal, wherein a stored representation of the intensity value of the other of the plurality of frequency-based radar signals has fewer bits than the corresponding stored intensity value.
US12019167B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for determination of multipath for determining a location of user equipment (UE) are presented. In some embodiments, the UE may, based on a first indication of signal strength associated with a first polarization type, and a second indication of signal strength associated with a second polarization type, determine an indication of multipath reflection along a path of signal propagation between a space vehicle (e.g., GNSS satellite) and the UE. Circularly polarized positioning signals may be received by the UE via natively present linearly polarized antennas and converted into circularly polarized signals. Converted circularly polarized signals may include right-handed and left-handed components, and signal strengths for each component may be compared to determine the presence of multipath. Positioning signals may be given a weight or disregarded based on the multipath determination when determining the position of the UE.
US12019164B1
This invention relates to an emergency locator transmitter (ELT) that transmits an emergency signal to a global navigational satellite system (GNSS) indicating an aircraft crash location, or an aircraft distress tracker event signal that triggers the ELT to provide location of the aircraft, the ELT including a GNSS RF receiver. The invention ELT includes 406 MHz RF signal blanking switch, a GNSS high pass filter, RF radiator and EMI filter protection for the GNSS receiver to protect the GNSS receiver from 406 MHz emergency signals, unintentional RF radiators and electromagnetic interference (EMI) typically found in aircraft.
US12019156B2
A method for ultrasound data processing includes transmitting an ultrasound excitation signal from each element of a transducer array and receiving a response signal from each element of a transducer array. Each response signal corresponds to a respective channel. Each response signal is sampled at one or more time points in the response signal to create a plurality of samples, each sample corresponding to a channel and a time point. The samples are divided into at least two groups. Response signals from the first group are beamformed and response signals from the second group are beamformed separately. The process is repeated over multiple data frames. The beamformed signals of each group are correlated over the multiple data frames and beamformed signals having a lower degree of correlation or negative correlation are selectively attenuated. An image output is generated from the correlation output.
US12019154B2
A system where a large number of underwater devices can transmit their precise position relative to a fixed underwater beacon, by transmitting two short duration, precisely timed acoustic tones (pings). The arrival time of the pulses at the fixed underwater transceiver beacon will relay the transmitter's precise position relative to that beacon. The two pings code for two numbers; either the range and bearing or an X, Y coordinate of each object with respect to the beacon. Data messages can be sent to and received from the beacon, used for command, control and status. The pulses can be a single frequency and have duration of around a 1 ms and operate one or many frequencies to allow multiple cycles to be overlapped in time. This coding scheme allows many devices to send the data simultaneously in the cycle for group tracking from last position or as independent cycles for unambiguous tracking. The transducers used in the system can be omni-directional hydrophones. The tracking grid size is a function of the acoustic frequency chosen and range from 1000 m for 40 KHz and 6000 m for 8 kHz. The system requires that all nodes in the system keep precise synchronized time.
US12019153B2
A dual-polarization radar is disclosed. Selected embodiments provide a radar structure having a single receiving channel and enabling alternate transmission and simultaneous reception. Selected embodiments use a first polarization direction antenna and a second polarization direction antenna to transmit and receive a first polarization direction echo signal and a second polarization direction echo signal. The first polarization direction echo signal and the second polarization direction echo signal are received and synthesized by a synthesis module, which transmits the synthesized signal as the backscattered echo signal to a receiving module.
US12019149B2
Techniques and apparatuses are described that enable low-power radar. The described techniques enable a radar system to reduce overall power consumption, thereby facilitating incorporation and utilization of the radar system within power-limited devices. Power consumption is reduced through customization of the transmission or processing of radar signals within the radar system. During transmission, different duty cycles, transmit powers, or framing structures can be utilized to collect appropriate data based on detected activity in an external environment. During processing, different hardware or different radar pipelines can be utilized to appropriately analyze the radar data. Instead of disabling the radar system, the described techniques enable the radar system to continuously monitor a dynamic environment and maintain responsiveness while conserving power.
US12019142B2
A radar system includes first, second, and third transmitter branches. The first transmitter branch transmits a first frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) signal having a first set of chirps having a first phase setting such that phase values of consecutive chirps differ by a first phase difference. The second transmitter branch transmits a second FMCW signal having a second set of chirps having a second phase setting such that phase values of consecutive chirps differ by a second phase difference. The third transmitter branch transmits a third FMCW signal having a third set of chirps having a third phase setting such that phase values of consecutive chirps differ by a third phase difference. The first phase difference, the second phase difference, and the third phase difference are different phase differences. The first phase difference, the second phase difference, and the third phase difference are asymmetrically distributed relative to each other.
US12019131B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes sequence control circuitry and processing circuitry. In CEST imaging the sequence control circuitry performs a first sequence and a second sequence under different saturation pulse conditions. The first sequence is for acquiring first magnetic resonance signals corresponding to a first frequency region of a k-space and second magnetic resonance signals corresponding to a second frequency region of the k-space. The second sequence is for acquiring third magnetic resonance signals corresponding to at least the first frequency region. The processing circuitry assigns the third magnetic resonance signals and the second magnetic resonance signals to a single k-space generated for the second sequence. Frequency including the first frequency region is lower than frequency including the second frequency region.
US12019130B2
Chemical-shift nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy involves measuring the effects of chemical bonds in a sample on the resonance frequencies of nuclear spins in the sample. Applying a magnetic field to the sample causes the sample nuclei to emit alternating current magnetic fields that can be detected with color centers, which can act as very sensitive magnetometers. Cryogenically cooling the sample increases the sample's polarization, which in turn enhances the NMR signal strength, making it possible to detect net nuclear spins for very small samples. Flash-heating the sample or subjecting it to a magic-angle-spinning magnetic field (instead of a static magnetic field) eliminates built-in magnetic field inhomogeneities, improving measurement sensitivity without degrading the sample polarization. Tens to hundreds of small, cryogenically cooled sample chambers can be integrated in a semiconductor substrate interlaced with waveguides that contain color centers for optically detected magnetic resonance measurements of the samples' chemical-shift NMR frequencies.
US12019121B2
A load testing device includes a first load test section having one or more resistor group sets provided with a plurality of resistor groups each including one or more resistors and receiving power supply from a test target power source, and a second load test section having one or more coil groups each including a plurality of coils and receiving power supply from the test target power source. The plurality of coils are connected in a state switchable between series connection and parallel connection.
US12019113B2
An electrical grid system including a phase conductor, a neutral conductor, and a neutral-to-ground conductor configured to conduct current flow between the neutral conductor and a ground. The electrical grid system further includes a fault detection sensor including a current sensor configured to sense current flowing along the neutral-to-ground conductor. The fault detection sensor further includes a controller having an electronic processor that is configured to receive signals indicative of the current flowing through the neutral-to-ground conductor from the current sensor, monitor the received signals for an occurrence of an event associated with the current flowing along the neutral-to-ground conductor; and output an occurrence of a fault in the electrical grid system based on detecting occurrence of the event.
US12019108B2
Embodiments presented in this disclosure generally relate to a ground device. More specifically, embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a grounding device for indicating whether there is proper grounding for electrical equipment. One embodiment presented in this disclosure provides an apparatus. The apparatus generally includes a lug configured to be coupled to a physical ground node, the lug having one or more bolts for coupling the lug to a surface of a plate such that the physical ground node is electrically coupled to an electrical ground node. The apparatus also includes a sensing circuit configured to detect whether the physical ground node is electrically coupled to the electrical ground node, and provide an indication of whether the physical ground node is electrically coupled to the electrical ground node based on the detection.
US12019107B2
Loop resistance is measured in a live-earth conductor loop comprising a residual current device powered by an alternating current mains supply. A measurement circuit having a low-pass filter characteristic arranged to substantially remove signal components at the frequency of the alternating current mains supply is used to measure, in a first period, a voltage across live and earth conductors of the live-earth conductor loop to determine a first voltage. A current application circuit is used to apply a unipolar test current having a magnitude below a trip current value of the residual current device for a second period and the measurement circuit is used to measure a second voltage between the live and earth conductors. Based on a difference in test current between the first and second periods and a difference in voltage between the first voltage and the second voltage, the resistance of the live-earth conductor loop is calculated.
US12019100B2
An object is to provide a shunt resistor module that is reduced in size, can handle a large current, and can accurately detect current. A shunt resistor module of the present invention includes: a shunt resistor that includes a plurality of resistor bodies having a columnar shape, and electrodes that are located at both ends of each of the plurality of resistor bodies; and a circuit board that includes a plurality of through-holes that can house the plurality of resistor bodies, and a plurality of voltage detection terminals that detects a voltage between the electrodes of the shunt resistor that has been inserted into the plurality of through-holes, and each of the plurality of voltage detection terminals is collected near a center of gravity of the shunt resistor.
US12019098B2
An equivalent-time sampling test and measurement instrument for acquiring a repeating pattern signal under test at or near a maximum sampling speed of the test and measurement instrument. The test and measurement instrument includes a first input configured to receive repeating pattern information about a signal under test, a second input configured to receive the signal under test, one or more processors configured to determine an optimized trigger holdoff period that is set based on a minimum trigger holdoff period of a test and measurement instrument, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire a portion of the signal under test every optimized trigger holdoff period.
US12019085B2
An automatic analysis device and an automatic analysis system capable of executing separate operations by respective analysis units even in a device configuration where a same control part controls two or more analysis units, the automatic analysis device including a biochemistry analysis unit; an electrolyte analysis unit; one analysis unit control CPU for controlling operations of the biochemistry analysis unit and the electrolyte analysis unit; and a storage part for storing time charts of operations having different purposes for the biochemistry analysis unit and the electrolyte analysis units. Two or more of the biochemistry analysis units and the electrolyte analysis units operate independently to each other based on the time charts stored in the storage part.
US12019082B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for measuring glycated A1c hemoglobin. A glycated hemoglobin level measuring system includes a sample testing apparatus having a microchannel that compresses a blood sample traveling through, a first pair of electrodes coupled to the microchannel, and a second pair of electrodes coupled to the microchannel. The glycated hemoglobin level measuring system further includes an analysis apparatus having sensors coupled to the first and second pairs of electrodes and configured to calculate a travel time taken by a red blood cell to pass through the first and second pairs of electrodes. The glycated hemoglobin level measuring system can use the travel time to measure a rigidity of the red blood cells and the corresponding glycated hemoglobin level.
US12019074B2
A method of analysing a sample for at least one analyte in histology, such as histopathology, or cytopathology, particularly for immunohistochemistry or immunocyto-chemistry is described. The method comprising contacting the sample with at least one targeting moiety or probe, wherein each different targeting moiety or probe of the at least one targeting moiety or probe specifically binds a different analyte of the at least one analyte. Each different targeting moiety or probe of said at least one targeting moiety or probe is conjugated to a different luminescent particle. Detecting a signal from the luminescent particle associated with the at least one targeting moiety bound to the sample. The presence or amount of at least one analyte may thereby be detected in the sample.
US12019072B2
Described herein are systems and methods for extending the dynamic range of assay methods and systems used for determining the concentration of analyte molecules or particles in a fluid sample. In some embodiments, a method comprises spatially segregating a plurality of analyte molecules in a fluid sample into a plurality of locations. At least a portion of the locations may be addressed to determine the percentage of said locations containing at least one analyte molecule. Based at least in part on the percentage, a measure of the concentration of analyte molecules in the fluid sample may be determined using an analog, intensity-based detection/analysis method/system and/or a digital detection/analysis method/system. In some cases, the assay may comprise the use of a plurality of capture objects.
US12019070B2
Bead-based assays for measuring protein biomarkers of proteolytic activity in biological systems are disclosed. In an embodiment, an assay involves incubating a sample containing multiple fragments of a naturally occurring protein with a bead array and subsequently analyzing individual reactive sites of the bead array by mass spectrometry.
US12019065B2
Sample processing methods and systems to collect a biological sample. A device may be configured collect a predetermined volume of a sample in sample chamber and seal the chamber upon activation. The device may be further configured to mix the mix the sample with a predetermined volume of a reagent and/or mix the sample and the reagent in a pre-determined ratio.
US12019056B2
Disclosed are methods and devices for analyzing aerosol particles in exhaled breath using diagnostic tools that enable rapid, low cost and autonomous point of care assays for several diseases including respiratory tract diseases. Disclosed are methods and devices for capturing exhaled breath aerosols in a packed bed column and analyzing exhaled captured breath aerosols for tuberculosis diagnosis.
US12019055B2
A cyclic dynamic loading-confining pressure instantaneous unloading test device includes a load-supporting frame system, a cyclic dynamic loading system, a confining pressure loading system, a monitoring system, a control system and a data analysis system; the top of the load-supporting frame system is equipped with the cyclic dynamic loading system, the cyclic dynamic loading system is connected with the control system, the bottom of the load-supporting frame system is equipped with the confining pressure loading system, the cyclic dynamic loading system and the confining pressure loading system are equipped with the monitoring system, the monitoring system and the control system are connected with the data analysis system.
US12019052B2
A method for monitoring machine operation for various machine speed and loads includes measuring vibration information at a sensor associated with a machine and an associated machine speed. The machine is a rotating machine. The method includes performing an operational frequency analysis of the vibration information and comparing results from the operational frequency analysis with a vibration signature for the machine. The vibration signature is for a machine speed that matches the machine speed of the measured vibration information. The vibration signature is one of several vibration signatures for the machine where each is for a different machine speed. The method includes identifying a potential failure mode based on a frequency range where the frequency analysis of the measured vibration information exceeds, by a threshold amount, the vibration signature of the plurality of vibration signatures that matches the machine speed, and transmitting an alert comprising the identified potential failure mode.
US12019048B2
A sensor having one or more stopbands and method of using the same for detecting damage, cracking and debonding in a cement structure comprising a cementitious material and a plurality of periodic structures located in the cementitious material.
US12019047B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for using chemical tags which have two or more sites for ionization to improve quantification and identification of components of interest from a complex mixture. This method relies on first selectively reacting one or more component in a sample with a chemical tag having two or more sites for ionization, followed by separation of components based on charge status, and finally characterization of each component to identify the same. Additionally disclosed are compounds useful as chemical tags in the disclosed methods.
US12019040B2
The present application is directed to a system for collecting or extruding a cell-containing biological material. The system includes an extrusion/collection device comprising: an orifice and a chamber operably connected to the orifice and an electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) device, operably connected to the extrusion/collection device. The EIS device monitors biologically relevant attributes of a cell-containing biological material as it is extruded from or collected into the extrusion/collection device. Also disclosed are methods of using the system disclosed herein.
US12019032B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic system with defect identification function and a method of qualifying a photoresist pattern formed using a lithography process. The electronic system includes an inspection apparatus and a processor associated with the inspection apparatus. The inspection apparatus is used for acquiring at least one image of the specimen on which a photoresist pattern is formed using a lithography process. The processor is configured to automatically apply machine learning processes implemented through one or more neural networks to identify at least one defect present in the photoresist pattern.
US12019028B2
A method of foreign object debris discrimination includes illuminating a particle located within a sensing volume with a modulated electromagnetic radiation pulse emitted from a source; receiving one or more electromagnetic radiation return signals that have been scattered by the particle illuminated by the modulated electromagnetic radiation pulse at a detector; mixing, using a controller, the electromagnetic radiation return signal of amplitude IRS and frequency fRS with a reference signal of amplitude ILS and frequency fRS; analyzing, using the controller, an amplitude of the mixed signal √{square root over (ILSIRS)}, and frequency of the mixed signal, fRS−fLS; and classifying, using the controller, a particle position, a velocity, and electromagnetic characteristic of the particle based on the amplitude, √{square root over (ILSIRS)}, and frequency, fRS−fLS of the mixed signal.
US12019026B2
This disclosure describes various system and methods for monitoring photons emitted by a heat source of an additive manufacturing device. Sensor data recorded while monitoring the photons can be used to predict metallurgical, mechanical and geometrical properties of a part produced during an additive manufacturing operation. In some embodiments, a test pattern can be used to calibrate an additive manufacturing device.
US12019020B2
A method of analysing crystals is described. The method comprises focusing a laser into a crystal to induce the creation, modification, dissociation, or diffusion of one or more defects within a focal region of the laser. A signal dependent on the creation, modification, dissociation or diffusion of the one or more defects within the focal region of the laser is measured during or after the aforementioned process and used to determine one or more characteristics of the crystal being analysed. In one configuration, one or more fluorescent defects are created, modified, or dissociated and the fluorescent signal is analysed to determine the type of crystal being analysed.
US12019019B2
A light source device includes a light source unit that emits laser light, a condensing lens, and a transmissive fluorescent body. The condensing lens condenses laser light emitted from the light source unit. The transmissive fluorescent body is provided with, inside thereof, a condensing point of laser light condensed by the condensing lens, and emits fluorescent light from a portion through which laser light passes.
US12019014B2
An optical measurement system measurement system for examining a sample. The measurement system comprises an internally reflective element, a stage, an optical assembly, a chassis, and a sensor. The internally reflective element has a contact surface. The stage is positioned below the internally reflective element. The stage and the internally reflective element are configured to apply a force to the sample. The optical assembly comprises a light source and a light detector. The optical assembly is configured to scan the sample by directing source light from the light source towards the contact surface and detecting source light optically interacting with the contact surface by the light detector. The chassis is configured to support the optical assembly and the internally reflective element. The sensor is mounted to the chassis and configured to detect the force applied to the sample by the internally reflective element and the stage.
US12019013B1
The disclosed subject matter relates to a method of treating of asbestos or asbestos-containing material, comprising applying to the asbestos or asbestos-containing material a composition including a treatment compound comprising at least one of hexafluoro titanium di-ammonium, potassium hexafluoro zirconate. ammonium hexafluoro phosphate. ammonium hexafluoro stannate, ammonium hexafluoro germanate, ammonium tetrafluoro borate or ammonium heptafluoro tantalite; and a fluorine scavenger compound.
US12019011B2
A laser system for blood assessment is provided. Another aspect of a laser system includes a container within which is blood, a laser operable to emit a laser beam at the container to vibrate the blood, a detector operable to detect a vibrational characteristic of the blood, a controller connected to the detector operable to automatically determine a characteristic of the blood based at least in part on the vibrational characteristic detected by the detector, and a display operable to indicate a determination result from the controller. Another aspect of the present blood or tissue assessment laser system includes a laser, a power supply, a detector, a controller and an electronic display, all contained within or coupled to a handheld and portable housing.
US12018992B2
A pressure sensor configured to prevent tearing or cracking of an insulating film for insulating between a stem and a detection circuit from occurring. A stem having a planar outer bottom surface, an outer side surface intersecting the outer bottom surface, and a pressure receiving inner surface that is the opposite surface to the outer bottom surface and receives pressure from a fluid to be measured; and a detection circuit provided to the outer bottom surface with an insulating film interposed therebetween. The stem has a foot part that: is formed to surround the outer bottom surface; consists of a surface which, when observed parallel to the outer bottom surface, faces a direction different from the direction of the outer bottom surface and the outer side surface; and connects between the outer bottom surface and the outer side surface. The insulating film covers a portion of the foot part.
US12018991B2
A pipeline for conveying concrete determines a pressure in and/or a wall thickness of the pipeline, wherein a first length portion of the pipeline has a first wall thickness and a second length portion of the pipeline has a second wall thickness greater than the first wall thickness. The determination is made using a first strain gauge on an outer side of the first length portion and a second strain gauge on an outer side of the second length portion, wherein the strain gauges are each fixedly applied to the outer side of the length portions. A strain gauge and/or the second longitudinal section of the pipeline are/is at a spacing from at least one end of the pipeline, which spacing corresponds to at least an internal diameter of the pipeline. By comparing strain gauge measurements, the wall thickness is determinable.
US12018982B2
A radiation-sensitive device configured to determine an ambient radiation intensity is disclosed. The device includes at least one set of optical filters comprising: a first optical filter having a first passband spanning a portion of a spectrum associated with a radiation-emitting device and a portion of an ambient radiation spectrum; and a second optical filter having a second passband spanning a portion of the spectrum associated with the radiation-emitting device and a portion of the ambient radiation spectrum, the second passband different to the first passband. The device also includes processing circuitry configured to determine, from an intensity of incident radiation sensed using the first and second optical filters and based on the spectrum associated with the radiation-emitting device, a contribution of ambient radiation to the intensity of incident radiation sensed using the first and second optical filters.
US12018981B2
A device includes a scattering structure and a collection structure. The scattering structure is arranged to concurrently scatter incident electromagnetic radiation along a first scattering axis and along a second scattering axis. The first scattering axis and the second scattering axis are non-orthogonal. The collection structure includes a first input port aligned with the first scattering axis and a second input port aligned with the second scattering axis. A method includes scattering electromagnetic radiation along a first scattering axis to create first scattered electromagnetic radiation and along a second scattering axis to create second scattered electromagnetic radiation. The first scattering axis and the second scattering axis are non-orthogonal. The first scattered electromagnetic radiation is detected to yield first detected radiation and the second scattered electromagnetic radiation is detected to yield second detected radiation. The first detected radiation is phase aligned with the second detected radiation.
US12018977B2
In a horizontal combination weighing device in which weighing units are arranged next to each other, a horizontally long base is equipped with the weighing units each including a weighing hopper and is supportably mounted to a support frame in a manner that the base is pivotable around a fulcrum vertically extending at lateral one end of the base.
US12018969B2
A volume measurement apparatus comprises: a point group conversion part converting depth information from a depth sensor into point group data; a raw material heap detection part detecting a point group related to a raw material heap from the point group data, using repose angle information; and a raw material heap volume calculation part that calculates a volume of the raw material heap non-occlusion part based on the point group related to the raw material heap; estimates a volume of the raw material heap occlusion part in the raw material heap, using at least the point group related to the raw material heap; and calculates a volume of the raw material heap, which is a sum of the calculated volume of the raw material heap non-occlusion part and the estimated volume of the raw material heap occlusion part.
US12018939B2
Embodiments included herein are directed towards a system and method for analyzing an oilfield casing using an apparent thickness approach. Embodiments may include providing an induction instrument having at least one of a transmitter and a receiver configured to operate at one or more frequencies. Embodiments may further include generating, using data acquired by the induction instrument, one or more apparent thickness transforms for at least one of a measured attenuation and a phase response associated with an oilfield casing, wherein generating includes assuming a proportionate increase in all casing thicknesses.
US12018935B2
Systems and methods for tactile output estimation are provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a depth map module, an estimation module, and a surface module. The depth map module is configured to identify a region of interest (RoI) of an object. The area of the RoI corresponds to a tactile sensor size of a tactile sensor. The depth module is further configured to receive depth data for the RoI from a depth sensor and generate a depth map for the RoI based on a volume of the depth data relative to a frame of reference of the RoI. The estimation module is configured to estimate a tactile sensor output based on the depth map. The surface module configured to determine surface properties based on the estimated tactile sensor output.
US12018931B2
A surface profile inspection method and a surface profile inspection system are provided. The surface profile inspection method includes capturing a plurality of interferograms of a surface profile depicting interference between a specimen beam reflected from a surface having the surface profile and a modulated reference beam, wherein each of the plurality of interferograms corresponds to a phase of modulation of the modulated reference beam; extracting pixel values of the plurality of interferograms; calculating phase information of each of the plurality of interferograms based on the extracted pixel values, the phase information of each of the plurality of interferograms related to the phase of modulation of the modulated reference beam at a time the interferogram was captured; and reconstructing the surface profile based on the calculated phase information.
US12018924B2
The present invention relates generally to a new and improved projectile. More specifically, the invention relates to a compact and durable projectile that has a singular shaft-like body that is manufactured from stainless steel or other suitable materials. The projectile has a pointed tip, a handle, and a notch that allows the projectile to be pulled back against an elastic or tensioned member to ultimately propel the projectile towards its intended target upon its release. Differing embodiments of the projectile may also have various removable aerodynamic fins and arrow-head-like tips.
US12018921B2
A gas generator in which, between an ignition device and an inner cylindrical member, on a side of the lid wall portion, a transfer charge chamber is formed, and on a side of another end portion of a peripheral wall portion, a flow space is formed, the flow space being a space configured to allow combustion gas to flow in from the transfer charge chamber when an igniter is actuated, and being a space configured to allow the combustion gas to flow out to the outside of the inner cylindrical member when the igniter is actuated, and a total cross-sectional area of an inflow path serving a flow path through which the combustion gas flows from the transfer charge chamber into the flow space is configured to be smaller than a cross-sectional area of the flow space.
US12018919B2
A compact, inflatable and portable ballistic shield and stretcher device is disclosed herein. The combination device comprises one or more inflatable panels, a protective cover, one or more straps for handling the combination device, a protective layer, a housing, and an optional wheel assembly for easily transporting the device, and that may also serve as a pump for purposes of inflating the inflatable panels if a source of compressed gas is not readily available. The panels of the portable ballistic shield and stretcher device can be selectively inflated on demand and as needed, and the portable ballistic shield and stretcher device can also be removably attached to other portable ballistic shield and stretcher devices to form a barrier to protect a user from arms fire and other unwanted projectiles.
US12018916B1
A slide capture handgun sight pusher can include a handgun sight adjustment device that can include a frame having a front and back face where a central opening can be disposed therethrough, along with a first and second side. Further included can be a firearm slide catch mechanism that can be structured to attach to the internal rails of a firearm's slide, having an adjustable sight. The firearm slide catch can include a cap, an adjustment knob, and a shaft that can be disposed between the cap and adjustment knob, where the adjustment knob can be configured to change a distance between the cap and the first side. The firearm slide catch can work in conjunction with various shims to adjust to fit the firearm slide with the sight adjustment device. This may include a sight pusher that may include a press-block tooth having multiple engagement surfaces.
US12018914B2
A sighting device is configured to be mounted on a firearm and comprises a core unit that includes a source of electrical power; a hood removably secured to the core unit and enclosing a portion of the core unit and at least partially defining a sight window through the hood; and an electrical connection between the core unit and the hood, wherein electrical power is transmitted between the core unit and the hood. The electrical accessory may be one of a solar charging cell; a laser pointer sighting device powered by the core unit; or a laser range-finding device powered by the core unit.
US12018910B1
A polymer holster has an index finger slot on a distal wall portion of the holster for allowing a user to grip a handgun therein with a master grip before withdrawing the handgun therefrom. A thumb actuated release may be positioned on a proximal wall portion of the holster.
US12018908B2
An upper receiver assembly includes an outer member with an upper rail and an inner member with at least one of a pivot pin lug and a takedown pin lug. The inner member is disposed at least partially inside the outer member. The outer member includes an ejection port, and the inner member includes an ejection port. The ejection port of the inner member is at least partially aligned with the ejection port of the outer member.
US12018895B2
A supercooling release device releases a supercooled state of a heat storage material. The supercooling release device includes a first member having a concave portion on a surface and a second member facing the surface and covering the concave portion. The second member can be for example brought into close contact with the first member. The supercooling release device for example applies a load to at least one of the first member and the second member to bring the first member and the second member into close contact with each other.
US12018890B2
A kiln for firing cement clinker may include a tubular rotary drum that can be rotated about its central axis. The tubular rotary drum may have a discharge end at which the cement clinker leaves the kiln. A protective segment may be attached at the discharge end and may have an outward-facing wear surface and an inward-facing cooling surface. The kiln may include a cooling device for generating a cooling air flow that flows along the inward-facing cooling surface of the protective segment. The inward-facing cooling surface can include profile bodies that are pin-shaped. The profile bodies may be uniformly spaced apart, parallel to one another, and/or present over 20% to 60% of the inward-facing cooling surface.
US12018885B2
A refrigerator is proposed. When a drawer of the refrigerator is completely opened, the center of an opening-detection magnet provided at the lower surface of the drawer may be disposed by exceeding the center of the sensor of a reed switch, in a moving direction of the drawer, installed at the bottom surface of the inside of the cabinet. Accordingly, the sensor may accurately detect the magnet, and even if external impact is applied to the drawer in the completely opened state of the drawer, the malfunction of the drawer which is closed unintentionally may be prevented.
US12018884B2
A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet, a first side support, a second side support, a first adapter plate, a second adapter plate, and a water tank. The cabinet defines an internal cavity. The first and second side supports are disposed within the internal cavity, define a drawer receptacle therebetween, and have first and second laterally inward facing surfaces defining first and second longitudinally extending slots, respectively. The first and second longitudinally extending slots are configured to receive drawer rollers. The first and second adapter plates are secured to the first and second laterally inward facing surfaces, respectively, and have third and fourth laterally inward facing surfaces defining third and fourth longitudinally extending slots, respectively. The water tank is disposed within the drawer receptacle and slidably engages the third and fourth longitudinally extending slots such that the water tank is adjustable in a longitudinal direction.
US12018865B2
An insulation and cooling system for temperature sensitive materials is disclosed. The system removes the risk of heat back-flow from the powered down cooler to the cooled volume, and in doing so increases the potential battery life of the device and removes the risk of the contents rapidly heating when the cooler loses power.
US12018859B2
An HVAC duct ozone generator includes at least two ozone generation plate stacks, where each plate stack includes at least two independently electrically addressable plate groupings, where a primary plate grouping includes fewer ozone generation plates than a secondary plate grouping. Thus, the generator includes at least four independent ozone generation control channels to energize the primary and secondary plate groupings of each of the at least two plate stacks. The number of plates in a plate grouping may optionally be altered to reduce the ozone generation capacity of the primary plate grouping in relation to the secondary plate grouping through the movement of insulators between the stacked ozone generation plates.
US12018852B2
A monitoring system for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system of a building is disclosed. The monitoring system includes at least one processor and a computer readable medium that includes instructions executable by the at least one processor. The instructions include: determining a capacity of a filter of the HVAC system based at least on dimensions of the filter; determining a threshold based on the capacity of the filter; monitoring a state of a circulator blower of the HVAC system; and calculating a filter usage based on the state of the circulator blower and one of (i) a power consumed by the circulator blower and (ii) an operation mode of the HVAC system. The instructions also include generating, in response to the filter usage exceeding the threshold, an alert suggesting replacement of the filter.
US12018842B1
A stove including spiraling walls to create multiple vertical inlets, spiraling layers of spaces that can self-draw and self-heat the air from outside of the stove into the burn zone, and a rim that covers the top area of the spiraling walls and leaves an opening above the fire. From burning, a convection draft draws air from the side-environment of the stove through the vertical inlets to circulate in the spiraling layered space, and to supply to the fire horizontally. The circling of air will be heated by the fire through conduction and irradiation. This design enables extra heated air directly for an enhanced primary burn. The stove can include side walls of different profiles, e.g., straight, tilted and curved walls and different spiraling profiles of spiraling layered spaces, e.g., linear, exponential, and exponential-polynomial.
US12018841B1
A method of operating a gas turbine engine including a combustor. The combustor includes a combustion chamber and a plurality of fuel spray nozzles configured to inject fuel into the chamber. The nozzles include a first and second subset of fuel spray nozzles. The combustor is operable in a condition wherein the first subset is supplied with more fuel than the second. A ratio of the number of nozzles in the first subset to the second is 1:2 to 1:5. The method includes operating the engine so a reduction of 20-80% in an average of particles/kg of nvPM in the exhaust when the engine is operating at 85% available thrust for given operating conditions and when the engine is operating at 30% is obtained when fuel provided to the nozzles is a sustainable aviation fuel instead of a fossil-based hydrocarbon fuel. Also, a gas turbine engine for an aircraft.
US12018834B2
A light-emitting device includes: a light guide that includes (i) a light-transmissive member that is light-transmissive at least in a visible light region and (ii) a light control layer that is disposed on at least a part of a surface of the light-transmissive member; and a light source that emits light toward at least one end surface of the light-transmissive member. The light control layer has reflected-wavelength selectivity that makes a wavelength of reflected light dependent on an incident angle of incident light.
US12018831B2
The purpose is to realize a lighting device of thin, small light distribution angle, and less leak light. Further, the purpose is to realize a lighting device which can control light beam accurately with liquid crystal lenses. The structure of the invention is as follows. A lighting device including: a reflector cylinder including a mirror thereinside; and a liquid crystal lens assembly that is disposed at a light emitting surface of the reflector cylinder and includes a plurality of liquid crystal lenses being stacked, in which the liquid crystal lens assembly includes a light shading film which defines a light emitting area of the liquid crystal lens assembly and which is formed in parallel with the light emitting surface of the reflector cylinder.
US12018829B2
Embodiments herein relate to high output LED light sources with heat sinks. In an embodiment, a high-output LED light source is included having at least one LED; a circuit board, wherein the at least one LED is mounted on a first side of the circuit board; and a coil shaped heat sink, wherein the coil shaped heat sink is thermally bonded to a second side of the circuit board. In an embodiment, a high-output LED light source is included having at least one LED, a circuit board, wherein the at least one LED is mounted on a first side of the circuit board and a continuous flat wire heat sink. The continuous flat wire heat sink can be soldered to a second side of the circuit board and the continuous flat wire heat sink can be oriented perpendicular to the circuit board. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US12018828B2
An electronic module can include a first housing defining a housing cavity, the first housing defining a first end and a second end positioned opposite from the first end, the first end defined by a shaft of the first housing, the shaft defining external threading, the first housing defining a housing opening to the housing cavity at the second end; an LED lamp board positioned within the housing cavity, the LED lamp board configured to emit light through the housing opening; a power supply driving module positioned within the housing cavity at least partially between the LED lamp board and the shaft; and a first concentric terminal connected in electrical communication with the power supply driving module, the first concentric terminal extending at least partially through the shaft, the first concentric terminal configured to rotatably connect in electrical communication with a second concentric terminal.
US12018813B1
A lamp shade assembly, including: (a) a frame sub-assembly; (b) a shade sub-assembly; and (c) wherein the lamp shade assembly is readily convertible between a low-profile, substantially flat storage/collapsed configuration and a fully articulated use/expanded configuration.
US12018789B2
Replaceable wear inserts of a material resisting abrasive wear due to particulates within pumped fluid are used for the inlet and/or outlet of a pulsation dampener coupled to the outlet of a land-base or mobile-mounted pump. The wear inserts may be integrated with pressure orifice devices contributing to pressure pulsation dampening. The wear inserts may have internal passages or be mounted to create turbulent flow through the pulsation dampener to mitigate the risk of dead spots accumulating particulates. The wear inserts may be sized for either “loose” or “tight” fit within the inlet and outlet to facilitate removability despite the potential for particulates embedding within the gap. Grooves may be provided with O rings to seal against pressure leaks.
US12018769B2
A diaphragm valve is provided, and includes a diaphragm moveable over a range from a first position to a second position, to open and close an outlet. A control bleed hole extends from a first side of the diaphragm to a second side, opposite the first side. A closing member is moveable to open and close the control bleed hole, to modify the pressure on either side of the diaphragm, and to cause the movement the diaphragm over at least part of the range. A mechanical means is arranged to move the closing member to open and close the control bleed hole. The mechanical means is configured to engage the diaphragm and cause movement of the diaphragm over at least part of the range.
US12018765B2
An assembly is provided that comprises: at least one valve cassette block (20) comprising a plurality of valves (25) which are controllable via a control surface (24) of the valve cassette block (20); a valve control block (10) having an operation surface (11), the valve control block (10) being configured to control each of the plurality of valves (25) when the operation surface (11) is in contact with the control surface (24) of the at least one valve cassette block (20), the valve control block (10) comprising at least one sliding trench (14) formed in the operation surface (11); at least one sliding component (30) configured to slidably interlock with the at least one sliding trench (14) such that the at least one sliding component (30) is movable relative to the valve control block (10) in a sliding direction parallel to the operation surface (11), at least one pulling bracket (40, 50) configured to embrace the at least one valve cassette block (20) and to interact with the at least one sliding component (30) such that a sliding movement of the at least one sliding component (30) in the at least one sliding trench (14) causes the pulling bracket (40, 50) to pull the at least one valve cassette block (20) with its control surface (24) against the operation surface (11) of the valve control block (10).
US12018754B2
A number of tacky polyurethane or other gel comprising composites are provided. The composites have foam carriers, which may be open cell, semi-open cell, reticulated or closed-cell foam. The tacky gel which, in one embodiment, may be polyurethane, typically comprising a thin surface coating on the foam gel and the foam is partially or fully saturated with the same gel comprising the thin surface layer of the foam. The skeletons may be included in the composite to provide additional structure integrity, and a moisture proof layer may be added to the top and/or bottom surfaces of the foam/gel.
US12018740B2
A strain wave gearing has three components and a temporary-fixing jig, three components being an internally toothed gear, a cup-shaped externally toothed gear, and a wave generator. The temporary-fixing jig is securely fastened to an output shaft fixed to the externally toothed gear by a temporary-fixing bolt and is securely fastened to an input shaft fixed to a cam plate of the wave generator by a temporary-fixing bolt. The temporary-fixing jig engages with the output shaft and the input shaft and maintains the three components in an assembled state. There is no need for an operation for adjusting the positions of the three components in an operation for attaching the strain wave gearing to a motor. After the strain wave gearing has been attached to the motor, the temporary-fixing jig is removed from the strain wave gearing, wherefore less space is required for installation.
US12018734B2
A link plate of a pin, bush, or roller chain, the link plate having two through-holes for one pin each, and wherein the through-holes are formed between two link plate base areas, and wherein a distance-indicating marker is applied to at least one base area.
US12018731B2
The disclosure relates to a crankshaft assembly for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, comprising a crankshaft segment and a vibration damper accommodated on the crankshaft segment. The vibration damper has a support fastened to the crankshaft segment and a damping unit accommodated on the support. A retaining plate of the support, which plate is secured to an end face of a flange region of the crankshaft segment, has a screw receiving hole for receiving a fastening screw that connects the support to the crankshaft segment. The retaining plate also has a centering region that is offset relative to the screw receiving hole in a circumferential direction and is intended to accommodate, or so as to directly form, a centering means supporting the support relative to the crankshaft segment in a centered manner.
US12018718B2
An active magnetic bearing apparatus for supporting a rotor of a rotary machine comprises an axial magnetic bearing unit and a radial magnetic bearing unit mounted directly to one another. One of the axial magnetic bearing unit and the radial magnetic bearing unit is mounted to a support for attachment to a housing of the rotary machine.
US12018716B2
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to bearing assemblies, related bearing apparatuses, and related methods. An example of a bearing assembly disclosed herein may include a support structure having a first end and a second end. The bearing assembly also includes a superhard bearing element secured to the first end of the support structure. The superhard bearing element includes a superhard sealing surface that may be configured to contact a sealing surface of an opposing bearing element, a base surface contacting the support structure and opposing the superhard sealing surface, and at least one lateral surface extending between the superhard sealing surface and the base surface. The support structure and the superhard bearing element may both include at least one conduit extending therethrough through which a fluid may flow.
US12018715B2
A hydrodynamic bearing in the form of a flex pad bearing includes configurations structured to change a bearing characteristic. One form of the bearing includes a nonlinear back wall that includes a circular arc and a transition, where the back wall extends radially outward of a ligament. The bearing can include an opening for the deposit of a weighted mass, wherein the opening can threadingly receive a threaded weighted mass. In one form a sidewall that includes the back wall segment can have an average outer radius which determines a thickness of the flex pads.
US12018713B2
A wind power plant which is equipped with novel elastic self-aligning ball bearings. The self-aligning ball bearings can, in principle, be used for the cardanic suspension of a pendulum absorber, preferably in a tower of a wind power plant, as well as for rope attachment of floating off-shore plants at the bottom of a body of water. Correspondingly equipped vibration pendulum absorbers per se and to corresponding installations and pendulum absorbers, which have additional damping devices, are disclosed.
US12018711B1
A two-piece fastener used to combine two substrates of the same or differing thickness. The fastener may include a bolt portion and a locking base. The bolt portion and locking base may include complimentary sets of teeth that mechanically engage with one another when the bolt is passed through the two substrates and affixed to the locking base.
US12018709B2
A T-nut for a toilet bowl flange bolt is an apparatus that fastens a bolt for a toilet bowl flange without additional tools. The apparatus includes a T-nut body and a wing nut. The T-nut body tightens the bolt with the toilet bowl flange. The wing nut secures the bolt with the T-nut and the toilet bowl flange. The T-nut includes a cavitated base, a handle, and a first threaded hole. The cavitated base engages the bolt through the first threaded hole. The handle allows a user to maneuver the cavitated base until the cavitated base securely presses against the toilet bowl flange. The wing nut includes a nut member, at least one wing member, and a second threaded hole. The nut member engages with the bolt through the second threaded hole as well, and the at least one wing member latches the nut member into the cavitated base.
US12018708B2
An anti-slippage fastener that utilizes a plurality of engagement features to prevent slippage and facilitate torque transfer between a torque-tool and the fastener. The fastener includes a shank, a fastener head, and an external threading. The fastener head includes a rotation axis and a plurality of engagement walls; wherein the engagement walls are radially distributed about the rotation axis. Each of the engagement walls includes a first transversal line, a second transversal line, and a partially-circular portion. The first transversal line is terminally connected to the partially-circular portion. The second transversal line is terminally connected to the partially-circular portion, opposite the first transversal line. A center of the partially-circular portion is oriented away from the rotation axis. The shank is concentrically connected to the fastener head to act as the body of the fastener. The external threading is laterally connected along the shank, similar to traditional fasteners.
US12018706B2
A composed element, such as a piece of furniture, wherein the composed element comprises at least a rear wall, as well as a number of constructional parts forming a whole in which the rear wall has to be provided. The rear wall forms the rear side of the composed element and includes one or more rear wall parts. The composed element comprises seats for installing at least one of the rear wall parts, which are configured such that the rear wall part can be slid into the seats starting from the rear side of the composed element from a position differing from the final plane in which the rear wall part will be situated in the final condition.
US12018697B2
An impeller seat for a pump, the impeller seat comprising an inlet wall, an inlet radius, a guide pin connected to and extending radially inwards from the inlet wall, and a feeding groove arranged in the upper surface of the impeller seat, extending from the inlet wall to the periphery of the impeller seat. The guide pin includes a tip radius. A 15%-circle is offset radially inwards from a circular intersection fifteen percent of the difference between the inlet radius and the tip radius. A groove inlet upstream edge line of the impeller seat intersects an upstream edge of the feeding groove at the circular intersection, seen in the direction of rotation of the pump. A groove inlet upstream edge angle between a radius of the impeller seat intersecting an upstream edge of the guide pin at the 15%-circle, seen in the direction of rotation of the pump.
US12018694B1
A bearing oil replenishing structure for fan includes a base of a fan and at least one oil reservoir member. The base includes a hollow shaft barrel upward extended from a central area thereof. The shaft barrel internally defines a bearing receiving hole for receiving a self-oiling bearing therein and is provided on its inner wall surface with at least one sidewall recess. The fan also includes an impeller having a shaft, which is pivotally fitted in the self-oiling bearing. The oil reservoir member is correspondingly fitted in the sidewall recess in the shaft barrel for absorbing extra lubricant oil thrown out of the self-oiling bearing due to a centrifugal force produced by the rotating shaft to therefore always store a proper amount of oil. The stored lubricant oil can be released to replenish the self-oiling bearing timely, enabling the latter to have extended service life.
US12018689B2
A squeeze film damper assembly for a compressor includes a damper sleeve configured to be disposed about a rotor shaft of the compressor. The damper sleeve includes a pressure dam pocket formed in an inner circumference of the damper sleeve. The pressure dam pocket is configured to receive a flow of lubricant and to pressurize the flow of lubricant via rotation of the rotor shaft. The damper sleeve includes an outlet passage extending from the pressure dam pocket to an outer circumference of the damper sleeve. The squeeze film damper assembly also includes a bearing housing disposed about the damper sleeve to form a damper gap extending between the outer circumference of the damper sleeve and the bearing housing. The damper gap is fluidly coupled to the outlet passage and is configured to receive the flow of lubricant from the pressure dam pocket.
US12018687B2
A rotor unit for an eccentric screw pump, comprising a drive shaft which is drivable by means of a drive element of the eccentric screw pump, a helical rotor, and a flex shaft connecting the drive shaft to the rotor, wherein the flex shaft is at least in part accommodated within in the drive shaft, and wherein between the flex shaft and the drive shaft a gap extending around the flex shaft is provided, which allows for a radial movement of the flex shaft within the drive shaft.
US12018681B1
An oil box device of a roots vacuum pump with a crossed cooling water tube set includes an oil box; two root vacuum pump transfer gears placed within the oil box; each gear being axially connected to a respective one of shafts of rotors of a roots vacuum pump; one shaft of the rotors being driven by another one shaft of the rotors; a multiple channel crossed cooling water tube set enclosing the two roots vacuum pump gears; two distal ends of the water tube set being crossed over one another; two water boxes installed at two ends of the water tube set; after assembly, the water tube set enclosing the two gears and two ends of the water tube set being crossed over each other at a lateral side of the two gears; and two joints being installed at a bottom side of the rear cover.
US12018679B2
A vane pump includes a casing, a rotor, vanes, a motor, and a fixed member. The casing defines a pump chamber therein. The rotor is disposed in the casing and configured to eccentrically rotate relative to the casing. The vanes are configured to rotate together with the rotor to slidably move on an inner surface of the casing. The motor is configured to rotate the rotor. Both the motor and the casing are fixed to the fixed member. The casing has an outer side wall surface and a flange. The flange protrudes outward from the outer side wall surface at an intermediate position between both ends of the pump chamber in a rotational axis direction of the rotor. The flange is fixed to the fixed member at a plurality of positions. The fixed member has a linear expansion coefficient that is different from that of the casing.
US12018678B2
An oil-injected multi-stage compressor system that comprises at least a low-pressure stage compressor element (2) with an inlet (4a) and an outlet (5a) and a high-pressure stage compressor element (3) with an inlet (4b) and an outlet (5b), whereby the outlet (5a) of the low-pressure stage compressor element (2) is connected to the inlet (4b) of the high-pressure stage compressor element (3) through a pipeline (6), characterized in that the compressor elements (2, 3) are provided with their own drive in the form of an electric motor (2a, 3a), whereby the compressor elements (2, 3) are connected to the electric motor (2a, 3a) either directly or through a gearbox and that an intercooler (9) is provided in the aforementioned pipeline (6) between the low-pressure stage compressor element (2) and the high-pressure stage compressor element (3).
US12018672B2
A precision volumetric pump with a bellows hermetic seal provides compliance time performance comparable to a conventional pump having a dynamic seal. However, the precision volumetric pump with a bellows hermetic seal is enabled to operate over a very long service life with minimal or no maintenance without a propensity to develop leaks over the long service life.
US12018666B2
The discharge valve arrangement (17) includes a valve plate (18) including a discharge passage (22) and a valve seat (23) surrounding the discharge passage (22); a valve housing (24) being secured to the valve plate (18) and including a bottom portion (25) facing away from the valve plate (18), a sidewall (26) extending from the bottom portion (25) and towards the valve plate (18), and a discharge opening (28) formed in the sidewall (26); a valve member (31) displaceable between a closed position in which the valve member (31) closes the discharge passage (22) and an open position in which the valve member (31) opens the discharge passage (22). The valve housing (24) includes a gas damping chamber defined by the bottom portion (25) and the sidewall (26) and being configured to accommodate the valve member (31) in the open position; and an exhaust opening (37) formed in the bottom portion (25) and emerging in the gas damping chamber.
US12018664B2
A compressor includes a cylinder configured to form a compressed space of the refrigerant and having a cylindrical shape, a piston configured to reciprocate axially in the cylinder and comprising a guide portion having a cylindrical shape and a head portion disposed in front of the guide portion, an intake valve disposed at a front of the head portion, a fixing member disposed outside the piston, a rod comprising one end disposed at the head portion and configured to extend axially, a first elastic member connected to the fixing member and other side of the rod, a second elastic member disposed to be spaced apart from a rear of the first elastic member and connected to the fixing member and the other side of the rod, and a first spacer insert-injected with the first elastic member and the second elastic member.
US12018663B2
A capacity control valve includes a valve housing; a main valve including a valve body driven by a solenoid, and a main valve seat between a discharge port and a control port and with which the valve body is contactable; and a pressure sensitive valve member disposed in a pressure sensitive chamber and forming a pressure sensitive valve, together with a pressure sensitive body. The control port and a suction port communicate with each other through an intermediate communication passage by opening the pressure sensitive valve. The pressure sensitive valve member has a through-hole communicating with the intermediate communication passage and has a slide valve body attached thereto such that the slide valve body slides relative to the pressure sensitive valve member to open and close the through-hole. A biasing device is provided on a radially outer side of the slide valve body.
US12018657B2
A jacking tool (70, 162, 174) for a wind turbine component (60) having an outer housing (62) and an internal rotatable member (64) disposed in the outer housing (62) and rotatable about a rotational axis (66) is disclosed. The jacking tool (70, 162, 174) includes a support pin (74, 164, 176) having a proximal end and a distal end that includes a bearing (112). The support pin (74, 164, 176) is configured to be selectively movable relative to the outer housing (62). The bearing (112) is configured to contact the internal rotatable member (64) to support the internal rotatable member (64) relative to the outer housing (62), and to allow the internal rotatable member (64) to rotate within the outer housing (62) while being supported by the jacking tool (70, 162, 174).
US12018646B2
The present invention discloses a large-scale model testing system of a floating offshore wind power generation device, and a method for manufacturing the large-scale model testing system. The large-scale model testing system comprises a floating wind power generation device model, model response measurement systems and environmental parameter measurement systems. The floating wind power generation device model comprises a floating foundation and a tower, wherein a wind turbine is connected to the top of the tower. A plurality of anchoring devices is connected to the side surface of the floating foundation. Each model response measurement system comprises an IMU unit, a wind turbine monitoring unit and an anchoring tension measurement unit. Each environmental parameter measurement system comprises a buoy-type wave height meter, a wind speed and direction meter and a flow velocity and direction meter.
US12018645B2
The present disclosure is related to a device 100 configured for aligning a first hole 131 of a first flange 130 with a second hole 141 of a second flange 140. The device 100 comprises a base 101, a shaft 110 extending from the base 101 and a first and a second pusher 115, 116. The shaft 110 is configured to move between a retracted position and an extended position. The shaft 110 in the extended position extends from the first hole 131 into the second hole 141. The first and second pushers 115, 116 are also configured to be moved radially outwardly from the shaft 110 to exert pressure against an inner wall of the first and second holes 131, 141. Methods for aligning a first and a second hole 130, 140 are also provided.
US12018642B2
A wind turbine rotor blade element includes a connection section with a front face, an inner and an outer surface. A plurality of connection assemblies each have (i) a metal insert with a longitudinal axis, a circumferential outer surface and a joining portion for connecting the rotor blade to a wind turbine rotor hub; and, (ii) a transition material aligned with the metal insert and having a tapering longitudinal section. The longitudinal section has an axial outer surface parallel to the longitudinal axis of the metal insert and an inclined outer surface at an angle with reference to the longitudinal axis. The connection assemblies are embedded in the connection section such that the joining portions of the metal inserts are accessible. The connection assemblies are arranged in an inner row closer to the inner surface of the connection section and an outer row closer to the outer surface thereof.
US12018638B2
A trailing edge panel is configured to be attached to a trailing edge of a wind turbine blade and includes a base element and a number of protruding aerodynamic elements. The base element has an attachment part configured to be attached to and extend from the trailing edge of the wind turbine blade and to an upstream position on a first blade side of the wind turbine blade. The base element further has a serrated part extending from the second side of the attachment part and configured to project out from the trailing edge of the wind turbine blade, wherein the serrated part comprises a number of serrations, including a first serration and a second serration. The number of protruding aerodynamic elements, including a first protruding aerodynamic element, includes a first protruding part attached to the serrated part of the base element.
US12018635B2
The invention involves a power generation system. The system includes at least one power producing module having at least one hollow member. The at least one hollow member is filled with fluid. The system further comprises at least one conductive coil disposed over the at least one hollow member. The system further comprises at least one movable magnet disposed within the at least one hollow member and a magnetic flux field of the magnet is in contact with the conductive coil. The system is configured to generate energy when the magnetic flux field of the magnet passes through the conductive coil.
US12018627B2
An exhaust valve assembly for a two-stroke internal combustion engine has a housing adapted for connection to an engine block of the two-stroke internal combustion engine; an electric actuator having an electric motor, the electric motor being disposed in the housing; and at least one reciprocating exhaust valve operatively connected to the electric actuator. The at least one exhaust valve is linearly movable by the electric motor. A portion of the at least one exhaust valve is disposed in the housing.
US12018620B1
A fan drive turbine drives a drive shaft. A compressor section and a turbine section rotate about a rotational axis, with the turbine section positioned in a downstream direction. A fan has fan blades and a fan hub positioned radially within a fan case, with the fan case defining a bypass duct. A fan inlet guide vane case is upstream of the fan blades and a fan exit guide vane case is mounted downstream. The drive shaft is mounted on at least one input drive shaft bearing inwardly of the fan inlet guide vane case. The drive shaft drives a flexible coupling to in turn drive a gear reduction. The gear reduction drives a fan drive shaft to in turn drive the fan hub. At least two fan drive shaft bearings support the fan drive shaft within the fan exit guide vane case. An aircraft is also disclosed.
US12018619B2
A gear assembly for use with a turbomachine engine comprises a sun gear, a plurality of planet gears, and a ring gear. The gear assembly is connected to an input shaft and an output shaft. The sun gear is configured to rotate about a longitudinal centerline of the gear assembly and is driven by the input shaft. A component of the gear assembly drives the output shaft. The planet gears can be compound planet gears having a first stage and a second stage.
US12018618B1
An aircraft engine comprises a rotor, an engine case having first and second mounting brackets projecting from an exterior surface thereof, an auxiliary engine system. The system includes an electric machine, a belt drive operatively coupled to the rotor, and a gearbox operatively coupled between the belt drive and the electric machine. The gearbox has a gearbox case with a cradle integrated thereto. The gearbox case and the cradle forms a monolithic body. The monolithic body is pivotally mounted to the first and second mounting brackets. A link is provided between the engine case and the monolithic body. A length of the link is adjustable to adjust a tension of the belt drive by setting an angular position of the monolithic body relative to the engine case.
US12018608B2
The invention relates to a cylinder head (1) for an internal combustion engine, with a prechamber (2) which is arranged in the cylinder head (1) and is defined by an inner wall surface (11) of a prechamber wall (5), wherein the prechamber (5) comprises a first chamber portion (3) and a second chamber portion (4), wherein the first chamber portion (3) has a greater maximum diameter (D) than the second chamber portion (4), wherein at least one ignition device (16) opens into the first chamber portion (3), and the second chamber portion (3) comprises at least one overflow channel (7) for the passage of flow into a combustion chamber (8) which adjoins a fire deck (6). Am improved dissipation of heat can be achieved if at least one inner wall surface (11) of the first chamber portion (3) comprises at least one first flattened portion (13).
US12018602B2
Disclosed power systems include an enclosure, an engine within the enclosure, a generator within the enclosure and configured to convert mechanical power from the engine to electrical power, an exhaust system, and one or more of, within the enclosure, welding-type conversion circuitry, an air compressor, a hydraulic pump, or auxiliary power conversion circuitry configured to convert the electrical power from the generator to at least one of AC output power or DC output power. The enclosure defines a rear surface when installed in a predetermined orientation. The exhaust system includes a muffler and a tail pipe, where an exhaust end of the tail pipe is at or near the rear surface of the enclosure.
US12018600B2
A fluid delivery system for an internal combustion engine and a method of monitoring the fluid delivery system are described. The systems and methods monitor and determine various fluid quality parameters and filter element pressure drop, which can be used to determine real-time estimates of remaining useful life for both the filter element and the fluid. The respective remaining useful life calculations are used by the described systems and methods to determine change intervals for the fluid and the filter element. The change intervals can be synchronized by the systems and methods to reduce the amount of down time due to servicing of the fluid delivery system.
US12018597B2
An anti-rotation bracket for an internal combustion engine, including a peripheral wall having formed therein four outer apertures formed proximate to four corners of the bracket and a groove formed in a lower surface of the bracket, the groove forming a contiguous depression around the lower surface of the bracket and passing between each outer bolt aperture and a center of the bracket. The bracket further includes two tappet structures comprising tappet apertures, the tappet structures being centered inward from the peripheral wall, and an inner aperture positioned inward from the peripheral wall.
US12018594B2
A pericritical fluid system for a thermal management system associated with a turbine engine may include one or more sensors configured to generate sensor outputs corresponding to one or more phase properties of a pericritical fluid flowing through a cooling circuit of the thermal management system, and a controller configured to generate control commands configured to control one or more controllable components of the thermal management system based at least in part on the sensor outputs. The one or more sensors may include one or more phase detection sensors, such as an acoustic sensor.
US12018590B1
A method for a turbine blade assembly for a rotor groove is disclosed. A dovetail of the turbine blade includes a mounting arm and an end surface facing radially inward relative to the rotor axis. An extension insert includes a first end configured to contact the end surface of the dovetail and a second end. At least one positioning leg extends radially inward relative to the axis from the second end of the insert. The dovetail and the extension insert are configured to be positioned in the rotor groove to mount the turbine blade to the rotor. The mounting arm engages a radially inward facing rotor hook of the rotor groove and positioning leg(s) engage one of a radially outward facing surface of the rotor groove and a planar plate shim between the positioning leg(s) and the radially outward facing surface of the rotor groove.
US12018588B2
This stator vane is at least provided with a blade body disposed in a combustion gas flow channel through which a combustion gas flows, a shroud that defines a part of the combustion gas flow channel, and an impingement plate attached to the shroud. A partition rib extends from a blade body end to an inner wall surface of a peripheral wall, and a shelf is provided at a rib-less part of the inner wall surface of the peripheral wall excluding at least a part in which the partition rib extends to the inner wall surface of the peripheral wall.
US12018587B1
A turbine airfoil includes a body that has inner and outer platforms and an airfoil section that extends between the inner and outer platforms. Cooling holes define external breakout points from the body. The external breakout points are located in accordance with Cartesian coordinates of at least points 1 through 11, 193 through 201, and 268 through 275 set forth in Table 1 herein.
US12018586B2
An airfoil assembly extends along a radial direction between a root and a tip, the airfoil assembly comprising: a first blade segment positioned proximate the root of the airfoil assembly; a second blade segment positioned adjacent the first blade segment along the radial direction; and a tensioning assembly comprising a plurality of tensioning strings that extend between and mechanically couple the first blade segment and the second blade segment.
US12018585B2
A rotor blade includes an airfoil having an airfoil shape. The airfoil shape has a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in one of Table I, Table II, Table III, Table IV, Table V, Table VI, Table VII, Table VIII, or Table IX. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances expressed in a unit of distance by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a scaling factor of the airfoil in the unit of distance. The X and Y values, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z value. The airfoil profile sections at Z values are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
US12018584B2
The invention relates to an airfoil for a compressor of a turbomachine, which extends starting from a blade root between a leading edge and a trailing edge to a blade tip, wherein the leading edge has a leading-edge thickness and the airfoil has a maximum profile thickness, the ratio of which to each other represents a relative leading-edge thickness, and the airfoil has a leading-edge wedge angle.
US12018583B2
An impeller having a hub, blades extending from the hub along respective spans from roots to tips, the blades extending along respective chords from leading edges to trailing edges, the leading edge of at least one of the blades having a cutback section defining a sweep at the root, the cutback section extending in a spanwise direction from the hub to a location at least about 5% of the span from the hub of the at least one of the blades, and the cutback section extending in a chordwise direction along at least about 5% of the chord of the at least one of the blades.
US12018581B2
A turbine wheel for a gas turbine engine including a compressor impeller and a radial inflow turbine integral to or attached to the compressor impeller is provided. A compressor turbine wheel including features to increase surface area of a surface of the compressor impeller and/or the radial inflow turbine and/or a passage to flow air between the compressor impeller and the radial inflow turbine is further provided. Methods for cooling radial inflow turbines integral to compressor impellers are further provided.
US12018578B1
A bowed rotor prevention system includes a gas turbine engine, and electric motor, and a core turning controller. The gas turbine engine includes a rotor that is rotatably coupled to a drive shaft. The electric motor is rotatably coupled to a motor shaft, which is mechanically coupled to the drive shaft so as to rotate therewith. The core turning controller in signal communication with the electric motor. The core turning controller determines whether a rotor bow is present in the rotor based on an operating time of the gas turbine engine, determines a motoring time based on the operating time, and invokes an anti-rotor bowing mode configured to control the electric motor to rotate the rotor according to the motor time.
US12018576B2
The present document relates to an annular assembly for a turbomachine turbine, in particular of an aircraft, said annular assembly extending about a longitudinal axis X and comprising: a distributor fixed to an external casing; a bladed disc mounted so as to rotate inside the external casing; said bladed disc being surrounded by a circumferentially segmented ring carried by the external casing and formed by a crown arranged radially on the outside of the bladed disc and by an annular deflector that is carried by an upstream edge of the crown and extends radially towards the inside from said upstream edge of the crown; characterized in that it comprises sealing members (56) between two circumferentially adjacent ring segments, these sealing members (56) comprising first circumferential sealing means (58) between two circumferentially consecutive deflector segments.
US12018573B2
A turbine arrangement includes a turbine rotor arrangement, a turbine seal arrangement and a turbine outlet stator vane arrangement. Turbine rotor arrangement includes a rotor and a plurality of turbine blades that extend radially. Each turbine blade has a turbine shroud. Turbine seal arrangement is spaced radially around the turbine shrouds. Turbine outlet stator vane arrangement includes radially inner and outer annular members arranged coaxially and a plurality of vanes extending radially between the radially inner and outer annular members. The vanes are arranged downstream of the turbine blades. Liner is spaced radially inwardly from a radially inner surface of the annular member to define a chamber. Turbine shrouds and the upstream end of the liner are arranged such that in operation any leakage flow of gas between the turbine shrouds and the turbine seal arrangement flows into the chamber to manage the temperature of the radially outer annular member.
US12018569B2
A method and system in which a waste gas or liquid product is combusted or otherwise used at a well site or other source location to drive a generator to produce electrical energy which is then stored in a portable storage device, such as rechargeable battery or an array of rechargeable batteries, which can subsequently be transported, for example, to a charging station for vehicles or other electrical devices or systems, or to a delivery location for downloading the portable stored electrical energy to a power supply grid.
US12018565B2
A wellbore assembly to plug and abandon a wellbore below a setting depth includes a whipstock assembly configured to drill a lateral wellbore from a primary wellbore formed in a subterranean zone. The wellbore assembly includes a tool assembly connected to the whipstock assembly. The tool assembly is configured to be lowered into the primary wellbore during the same trip as the whipstock assembly. The tool assembly is configured to perform wellbore operations downhole of a casing window from which the whipstock assembly is configured to drill the lateral wellbore before the whipstock assembly drills the lateral wellbore.
US12018556B2
A bit used in a downhole environment has an active element that is movable relative to the bit. The bit is rotated in the downhole environment, and at least one downhole parameter is measured. The at least one downhole parameter is compared against a target parameter value, and when the at least one downhole parameter is beyond a threshold value of the target parameter value, the active element is selectively relative to the bit. Movement of the active element alters the proportion of the weight on the active element as compared to the other cutting structure of the bit. Changing the proportion of weight can be used to reduce the depth of cut of the cutting structure and to reduce or eliminate motor stall or stick-slip behavior.
US12018550B2
A lower completion screen, for operating in a wellbore, includes: a body; a screening surface disposed on the body, wherein the screening surface includes a plurality of holes; a plurality of rollers disposed on the body; and a power system. A first group of the plurality of rollers is disposed on a first end of the body, and a second group of the plurality of rollers is disposed on a second end of the body. The power system is disposed on the second end of the body, and controls movement of the lower completion screen in the wellbore.
US12018547B2
A method of operating a valve arrangement of a downhole apparatus (that includes a tubular body having first and second ports in a wall thereof) comprising operating the valve arrangement from a locked first configuration, in which the first port is closed and the second port is closed, to a locked second configuration, in which the first port is open and the second port is closed, wherein the valve arrangement includes a valve member including a first port, the first port associated with the first port of the tubular body, and a second port associated with the second port of the tubular body, wherein the valve arrangement comprises a further retaining member. The method includes operating the valve arrangement from the locked second configuration to a third configuration, in which the first port is closed and the second port is open.
US12018542B2
A seal element for an annular control device includes an elastomer seal sleeve having an annular opening therein and arranged to be radially compressed to contact an exterior of a pipe disposed within the elastomer seal element. The elastomer seal sleeve comprises at least one of a wear resistant material disposed on an interior surface of the annular opening and a lubricant channel on the interior surface.
US12018539B2
The invention relates to a radial driller for drilling a hole in a well tubular, the radial driller comprising a rotating sleeve that is rotated by means an axial drive organ via an angular gear, the rotating sleeve housing a partially closed cylinder, the cylinder housing a hydraulic piston, a first hydraulic chamber situated below the hydraulic piston, and a second hydraulic chamber situated above the hydraulic piston, the hydraulic piston having a connecting rod arrangement extending above the piston and through an opening in a dividing wall dividing the cylinder from a multipurpose section, and a drill bit connected to the hydraulic piston via the connecting rod arrangement. According to the invention, the radial driller further comprises a multipurpose element positioned directly below the drill bit, the multipurpose element defining a retracting chamber between the multipurpose element and the dividing wall.
US12018520B2
A locking mechanism for an opening/closing cover supported by an apparatus case in an openable and closable manner includes a rotational gear, a rack gear, a locking member and a spring member. The rotational gear rotates with an opening and closing operation of the opening/closing cover. The rack gear slides with a rotating of the rotational gear. The locking member has a hooking part facing the rack gear. The spring member pushes the hooking part toward the rack gear. The hooking part restricts a sliding of the rack gear in an opened state of the opening/closing cover.
US12018503B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a roof top tent system, that can include a lower frame portion coupleable with a bed of a truck, an upper frame portion coupleable with the lower frame portion, a platform assembly coupleable with the upper frame portion of the frame assembly, including an upper platform portion, a lower platform portion coupleable with the upper frame portion of the frame assembly along a first end portion of the lower and upper platform portions, and a platform hinge configured to hingedly couple the lower platform portion with the upper platform portion so that the upper platform portion can rotate between a first position in which the upper platform portion is substantially parallel to and adjacent to the lower platform portion and a second position in which the upper platform portion extends at an angle away from the lower platform portion.
US12018485B2
A ceiling façade system includes: a ceiling tile including an interior panel defining a first edge extending along a first side of the ceiling tile and a second edge extending along a second side of the ceiling tile opposite the first edge, a heating element, and an insulator layer arranged over the heating element opposite the interior panel; a first receiver extending along and configured to support the first side of the ceiling tile on a linear lighting track arranged on a ceiling structure and configured to locate the first edge of the interior panel adjacent and partially concealing the linear lighting track; and a second receiver extending along and configured to support the second side of the ceiling tile on a linear seam track arranged on the ceiling structure, the linear seam track laterally offset from the linear lighting track.
US12018472B1
A kit, and an assembly formed with components of the kit, comprises a fitting for the top of a septic tank or water tank, one or more frusto-conical rings shaped to interconnect with an identical ring to form an undulating wall riser that extends upwardly from the tank top fitting, and a lid. The lid is shaped for multi-purpose use: closing off the opening of either the large end or the small end of a ring/riser—whichever is uppermost, or closing off the fitting when there is no riser. Joints between the rings of the riser, and between a ring/riser and the fitting of a tank, are held together by latching tabs and/or screws. A fitting may be integral with a tank top.
US12018471B2
A flush toilet, comprising a washing water supply portion which has a water outlet and a water inlet configured to connect to an external water supply pipe, is disclosed. Water flowing in from the water inlet flows from a first water inlet pipe to a second water inlet pipe, and then flows from the second water inlet pipe to the water outlet, a flow sectional area of the first water inlet pipe is smaller than a flow sectional area of the water inlet, and a flow sectional area of the second water inlet pipe is larger than the flow sectional area of the first water inlet pipe.
US12018470B2
A clicker drain assembly includes a unitary main drain body. The clicker drain assembly further includes a drain stopper assembly, a clicker drain seal, an actuating assembly, and a drain trim ring. The drain trim ring is configured to couple to the main drain body and receive the clicker drain seal and the actuating assembly. The stopper assembly is configured to couple to the actuating assembly and actuate the actuating assembly when pressed by a user.
US12018469B2
Provided are automatic faucet systems with remote activation and kits for retrofitting existing faucets to include remote activation. Automatic faucets systems with remote activation can include a faucet comprising a faucet body and a faucet spout; an outlet hose in fluid communication with a cold water supply line, a hot water supply line, and the faucet spout; an electromechanical valve fluidly coupled to the outlet hose and configured to control water flow to the faucet spout; an activator separate from the faucet body and configured to be placed in a variety of positions during installation of the faucet system; and a controller configured to receive a first signal from the activator and, in response to the first signal, to control the electromechanical valve to control water flow to the spout.
US12018445B2
A first construction module for a modular landing platform is for vertical landing aircraft. The module includes a module body with a resting wall placed on a supporting surface. A landing wall opposite to the resting wall is adapted be contacted by the aircraft during the landing step. First and second interconnecting walls are opposite to each other and interposed between the resting wall and the landing wall. First and second coupling portions protrude laterally outwards from the first interconnecting wall, the first and second coupling portions being of a different type and mutually spaced apart. Third and fourth coupling portions protrude laterally outwards from the second interconnecting wall, and are of a different type and spaced apart. The third and fourth coupling portions of the first module are adapted to couple respectively with the first and second coupling portions of a second module identical to the first module.
US12018438B2
Embossed tissue products having improved strength and softness are disclosed. The products as described have a continuous curvilinear emboss element which carries discrete emboss elements, thereby providing the product with the softness and handfeel benefits associated with the long linear elements, but the visual appearance of discrete emboss elements.
US12018435B2
The present disclosure describes acyl halide liquid dispersions and tunable methods of treating cellulosic materials with compositions that provide increased hydrophobicity and/or lipophobicity to such materials without sacrificing the biodegradability thereof. The methods as disclosed provide for reacting acyl halides with and binding of saccharide fatty acid esters on cellulosic materials, including that the disclosure provides products made by such methods. The materials thus treated display higher hydrophobicity, lipophobicity, barrier function, and mechanical properties, and may be used in any application where such features are desired.
US12018430B2
A flame-retardant ultraviolet-resistant aramid fiber, the preparation method therefor comprising the following steps: adding nanoparticles into a hydrogen peroxide solution, performing magnetic stirring for 0.5-1 h, adding a sulfuric acid solution, and further performing magnetic stirring for 0.5 h; performing filtering to obtain a filter cake, and washing the filter cake with water and drying same to obtain modified particles; modifying the modified particles with curcumin and dopamine to obtain organic substance-modified particles; and finally subjecting the organic substance-modified particles to a reaction with a silicon methoxylated aramid fiber, so as to obtain a surface-modified aramid fiber. The present invention has high ultraviolet absorption and extremely low catalytic activity, avoiding damage to a fiber structure by photocatalysis in a radiation process, and in particular improving flame retardancy of the aramid fiber.
US12018428B2
The present invention relates to linen spreader apparatus including a conveyor defining a machine direction, a pair of spreader clamps movable transversally to said machine direction towards each other, and away from each other for spreading out a piece of linen, at least one charger station, each charger station delivering a corner of a leading portion of a piece of linen to a respective one of said spreader clamps, a transfer beam for transferring a piece of spread out linen from said at least one pair of spreader clamps to said conveyor, said transfer beam having a leading edge and a trailing edge and being arranged to move back and forth in said machine direction between advanced and retracted positions, said leading edge of said transfer beam located in a region below said spreader clamps in said advanced position, said transfer beam being configured for temporarily holding on to a portion of said piece of linen as the transfer beam moves from said advanced position towards said retracted position, and an elongated transverse abutment structure having an abutment face, for holding a portion of said piece of linen between said leading edge of said transfer beam and said abutment face, pressurised air exits for directing said leading portion of said piece of linen onto said transfer beam when said piece of linen is released from said spreader clamps, and one or more gates movable between a first position and a second position, said gates defining a part of said abutment face in said first position.
US12018427B2
Disclosed is a clothes dryer including a main body, a drum accommodating an object to be dried and configured to be rotatable in the main body, a heat exchanger configured to heat exchange air introduced from the drum, and a base disposed below the drum to mount the heat exchanger thereon. The base includes a guide side wall extending along a flow direction of the air, and a discharge port configured to discharge condensed water generated in the heat exchanger to a sump. The discharge port is provided on one side of the guide side wall to prevent air from leaking into the discharge port.
US12018416B2
A sewing machine acquires embroidery data of the embroidery pattern formed from a plurality of partial patterns. The sewing machine selects, as a selected partial pattern, at least one partial pattern from among the plurality of partial patterns forming the embroidery pattern, on the basis of the acquired embroidery data. The sewing machine identifies, on the basis of the embroidery data, an outline of the selected partial pattern that was selected. The sewing machine generates processing data for performing processing following the shape of the selected partial pattern, on the basis of the identified outline.
US12018414B2
A warp knitted fabric formed by a warp knitting machine includes a first knitted portion formed using a first knitting sequence in a machine direction, the first knitted portion formed of a set of continuous textile strands, and a second knitted portion formed of the set of continuous textile strands using a second knitting sequence in the machine direction, the second knitted portion comprising at least two strips extending lengthwise in the machine direction and detached from one another along their lengthwise edges. The first knitted portion and the second knitted portion alternate sequentially in the machine direction. The second knitting sequence differs from the first knitting sequence in that at least one cross connecting stitch is dropped to form the at least two strips.
US12018410B2
The present invention provides a fixed carbon fiber bundle to which a fixing agent is adhered, wherein the fixing agent adheres to an area comprising at least 50% of at least one side of a carbon fiber bundle, the average thickness of the fixed carbon fiber bundle is 180 μm or less, and the separated fiber tear load is 0.02N to 1.00N.
US12018409B2
In one aspect, a textile component including bulking yarn is disclosed. In embodiments, the textile component is a knitted component. In one embodiment, an article of footwear includes a knitted component arch support configured to reduce the rate of pronation. A support structure may include a fusible yarn adjacent to an external surface of the arch support, a bulking yarn, and a nonfusible yarn. In certain embodiments, an arch support includes compartments and flex lines. In another aspect, an article having a knitted component includes a rigid material, a bulking yarn, and a flexible material. The rigid material may be fusible yarn. Methods for forming a textile component are provided. One embodiment involves knitting a first section comprising a fusible yarn, a second section comprising a bulking yarn, and a third section comprising a nonfusible yarn, and heating.
US12018405B2
A protein fiber having a crimp property, such that the protein fiber crimps in response to a stimulus, is immersed in a solution of protein having a different composition from the protein fiber. The protein fiber treated with the different protein composition is infiltrated into the protein and the protein fiber is made to crimp.
US12018404B2
A system and method for optimizing flexible material handling for decorticated agricultural biomass. The method including: receiving decorticated components of the decorticated agricultural biomass, the decorticated components including bast fibre and hurd; analyzing one or more mechanical characteristics of the bast fibre; determining if the bast fibre is above a predetermined quality threshold based on the analyzed mechanical characteristics; where the bast fibre is above the predetermined threshold, directing the bast fibre for cutting, and cutting the bast fibre into one or more lengths; and where the bast fibre is below the predetermined threshold, directing the bast fibre for blending, and blending the bast fibre and hurd in determined proportions.
US12018403B2
The present invention overcomes the inadequacies inherent in the known methods for generating libraries of antibody-encoding polynucleotides by specifically designing the libraries with directed sequence and length diversity.
US12018401B2
A gallium oxide single crystal particle according to the present invention is an α-Ga2O3 single crystal particle and has a diameter and a height that exceed 100 μm.
US12018396B2
In example implementations, a method for coloring an alloy is provided. The method includes anodizing a substrate in an anodizing bath comprising phosphoric acid, at a constant temperature and a constant voltage for a first time period to develop an anodizing layer that includes a barrier layer, reducing the constant voltage applied to the anodizing bath for a second time period to change a thickness of the barrier layer and change a width of pores in the anodizing layer, plating the substrate in a plating bath at a first current that is increased over a third time period in accordance with a current profile of the plating bath, and plating the substrate in the plating bath at a second current for a fourth time period.
US12018390B2
A method is described herein that produces UN from UF6 in at most two steps comprising UF6→intermediate→UN. The principle of the reaction is that in a first step, UF6 would be reduced to UxNy, where x may be an integer selected from 1 and 3, and y is an integer selected from 1 and 2. Reduction occurs at or near the surface of a gaseous membrane electrode where it is also in contact with a nitrogen bearing salt. In a second step, UxNy decomposes to UN and N2 gas, either in the same reactor as the first step or after removal to a separate unit for further processing.
US12018371B2
A processing apparatus includes: a processing container having a substantially cylindrical shape; an injector provided to extend in a longitudinal direction along an inner side of an inner wall of the processing container and including a plurality of introduction ports into which a processing gas is introduced and a plurality of gas holes from which the processing gas introduced from the plurality of introduction ports is ejected into the processing container; and a controller configured to change a flow rate ratio of the processing gas to be introduced into the injector from the plurality of introduction ports.
US12018363B2
Methods for depositing film comprise depositing an aluminum-containing gap-fill film in a bottom-up manner in a feature of a substrate surface. The substrate can be sequentially exposed to an aluminum-containing precursor, a reactant, a fluorinating agent, and an etchant any number of times to promote bottom-up growth of the film in the feature.
US12018361B2
Power supplies, waveform function generators and methods for controlling a plasma process are described. The power supplies or waveform function generators include a component for executing the method in which a waveform shape change index is determined during a plasma process and evaluated for compliance with a predetermined tolerance.
US12018355B2
A method of manufacturing an aluminum alloy forged material from a mixture containing an aluminum scrap, an aluminum virgin metal, and an additive element includes the following steps: a heating and melting step of heating and melting the mixture, a forging step of forging the mixture after heating and melting, and an aging treatment step of performing aging treatment on a material after the forging step under a condition that an aging temperature and an aging time are as follows: (aging temperature, aging time)=within a range of a region surrounded by (185, 4), (185, 7), (200, 1), and (200, −2/25x+8).
US12018349B2
Methods for recovering a metal value from a metal-bearing material are provided. The method comprises agglomerating the metal-bearing material with an agglomeration solution comprising a raffinate, an oxidant, and citric acid or salts thereof to form an agglomerated metal-bearing material; leaching the agglomerated metal-bearing material with a leaching solution comprising the raffinate and the citric acid or salts thereof to produce a pregnant leaching solution and a leached material; re-oxidizing the leached material with a curing solution comprising the raffinate and the oxidant; and recovering the metal value from the pregnant leach solution to produce the raffinate.
US12018345B2
A pyro-metallurgical process for producing a non-ferrous metal or a compound thereof, wherein a metal raw material is fed into a rotary kiln, the metal being one of arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg), silver (Ag), tin (Sn), nickel (Ni), or zinc (Zn). The raw material is heated to produce a volatized material, in which the non-ferrous metal or compound thereof is produced from the volatized material. A magnesium-based additive is additionally fed to the rotary kiln in an amount of between 0.5 wt. % and 9.5 wt. % relative to the total weight of the raw material. The magnesium-based additive is heated together with the raw material to produce the volatized material and a solid product while also counteracting ring formation in the rotary kiln.
US12018342B2
Heat treatment equipment for metal plate strips, and a roller quenching flow zone control device for metal plate strips. The device includes a middle water diversion ring sleeve and edge water diversion ring sleeves; the middle water diversion ring sleeve is installed at the middle processing groove in a slit nozzle rear spiral roller and a high-density nozzle rear spiral roller in a high-pressure cooling section of a roller quenching machine; and the edge water diversion ring sleeves are installed at the processing grooves in ¼ and ¾ positions in the width direction of the slit nozzle rear spiral roller in the high-pressure cooling section of the roller quenching machine. This can effectively realize uniform distribution of cooling water on the surface of the plate strip, reduce the phenomenon of local non-uniform cooling caused by siltation of cooling water.
US12018340B2
Smelting metalliferous feed material process forming molten metal in smelting apparatus including smelt cyclone above and communicating with smelting vessel to contain molten metal and slag bath, including: partially reducing and melting feed material in smelt cyclone, allowing the molten partially reduced feed material flow downwardly into vessel, supplying oxygen-containing gas and carbonaceous material to vessel, smelting molten partially reduced feed material in molten metal and slag bath in vessel forming molten metal discharged from vessel and reaction products projected upwardly from molten bath, at least partially combusting combustible materials in reaction products in vessel space above molten bath, supplying oxygen-containing gas to smelt cyclone. Further combusting reaction products in smelt cyclone, discharging from smelt cyclone offgas including reaction products, supplying oxygen-containing gas into offgas duct upstream high temperature section combusting remaining offgas combustible materials while sufficiently hot for safe ignition and avoiding downstream burner-managed incineration.
US12018339B2
An apparatus for dry-manufacturing recycled leather comprises air-laid material; and recycled leather manufactured using the apparatus for dry-manufacturing recycled leather. The apparatus for dry-manufacturing recycled leather molds leather fibers and general fibers, which are mixed using air-laid material, and thus a conventional carding process is not required, and recycled leather manufactured thereby has a high tensile strength.
US12018337B2
The present invention relates to vesicles derived from bacteria of the genus Catenibacterium and a use thereof, and the inventors experimentally confirmed that the vesicles were significantly reduced in samples obtained from patients with a malignant disease such as colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer or lymphoma, a cardiovascular disease such as myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation, variant angina or stroke, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and depression, compared with a normal individual, and that when vesicles isolated from the strain were administered, the secretion of inflammatory mediators caused by pathogenic vesicles, such as E. coli-derived vesicles, was significantly inhibited. Therefore, it is expected that the vesicles derived from bacteria of the genus Catenibacterium according to the present invention can be effectively used for a method of diagnosing a malignant disease such as colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer or lymphoma, a cardiovascular disease such as myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation, variant angina pectoris or stroke, diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and depression, and for developing a composition for preventing or treating the diseases.
US12018330B2
The invention provides AML-specific methylation biomarkers (SP140, MCCC1, EHMT1 and MTSS1). In one embodiment, a biomarker is differentially methylated, specifically in AML.
US12018327B2
Provided herein are, inter alia, methods and kits for detecting epoxide hydrolase genes. In embodiments, methods and kits for detecting the risk of developing atopy or asthma are included. Also included are methods for preventing or treating atopy or asthma.
US12018324B2
The disclosure provides a method comprising (1) conducting a PCR using a nucleic acid sample obtained from the subject as the template, a forward primer having a nucleic acid sequence of a part of exon 1 of the BCR gene, and a reverse primer having a nucleic acid sequence complementary to a part of exons 2 to 11 of the ABL1 gene, in the presence of a modified nucleic acid having a nucleic acid sequence of a part of exons 2 to 14 of the BCR gene or a nucleic acid sequence complementary thereto; and (2) determining that the subject has the minor BCR-ABL1 gene when the nucleic acid amplification is occurred in the PCR.
US12018321B2
Methods of detecting, probing, mapping and directed sequencing of target nucleic acids are provided using a guide RNA and a Cas9 protein. Methods for detecting the binding of the guide RNA/Cas9 complex to a target nucleic acid where the guide RNA includes a 3′ tail sequence that can hybridize to a probe are provided. Methods for detecting the binding of the guide RNA/Cas9 complex to a target nucleic acid where the complex is physically detected are provided.
US12018315B2
The present disclosure relates to a device, comprising a base and a plurality of microneedles attached to the base, wherein each microneedle has an outer surface; the outer surface of at least one microneedle being coated with a composition comprising at least one polymer and least one Peptide Nucleic Acid (PNA). The present disclosure additionally relates to a method of detecting an analyte in interstitial fluid (ISF), comprising contacting the device to a subject, for example, to human skin.
US12018311B2
The present invention relates to a long-chain dibasic acid with low content of long-chain dibasic acid impurity of shorter carbon chain, to the preparation of a long-chain dibasic acid producing strain by directed evolution of POX gene and homologous recombination, and to the production of a long-chain dibasic acid with low content of long-chain dibasic acid impurity of shorter carbon chain by using the strain. The present invention also relates to a strain containing a mutated promoter, wherein, when a long-chain dibasic acid is produced by fermentation of this strain, the content of the acid impurity of shorter carbon chain in the fermentation product is significantly reduced.
US12018303B2
Described herein is a method for preparing an amino salt compound, the method including: i) providing a carbonyl compound; ii) reacting the carbonyl compound provided according to (i) in the presence of a transaminase with ii-a) at least one primary amine; and ii-b) at least one carboxylic acid; thereby obtaining a mixture including an at least partially crystallized amino salt compound including a cation and a carboxylate anion based on the at least one carboxylic acid added according to (ii-b). Also described herein is an amino salt compound obtained or obtainable by the method and to the amino salt compound, and a composition including a) an amine of general formula (IIa); and b) at least one carboxylic acid of general formula (III).
US12018297B2
Provided herein is technology relating to molecular biological manipulation of genes and genomes and particularly, but not exclusively, to CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) methods, compositions, systems, and kits for improved genetic editing.
US12018293B2
Provided is a method for large-scale preparation of a purified preparation of a recombinant lentiviral vector at the GMP grade. The method comprises: (a) providing raw material feed liquid to be purified that comprises recombinant viral vectors; (b) carrying out a microfiltration treatment on the feed liquid to obtain a microfiltered filtrate comprising the recombinant viral vectors; (c) optionally concentrating the filtrate to obtain a concentrated filtrate; (d) purifying the filtrate obtained in the previous step by means of chromatography to obtain a crude pure product comprising the recombinant viral vectors; and (e) subjecting the crude pure product obtained in the previous step to liquid exchange and elaborate purification to obtain the purified recombinant viral vectors.
US12018286B2
Provided herein are compositions, systems, kits, and methods for generating human podocyte cells by contacting human nephron progenitor cells with an FGFR pathway inhibitor, a BMP pathway inhibitor, and a WNT pathway inhibitor. In certain embodiments, the nephron progenitor cells are further contacted with at least one factor selected from: BMP4, BMP7, lysophosphatidic acid, and gamma-secretase inhibitor XX. In certain embodiments, the contacting the nephron progenitor cells is performed under serum-free conditions.
US12018280B2
The disclosure provides a method of freezing an aggregate of pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes, comprising: (i) immersing an aggregate of pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in a cryoprotective solution; and (ii) freezing the aggregate immersed in the cryoprotective solution. The disclosure also provides a frozen aggregate of pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes frozen by the method.
US12018279B2
This present disclosure relates to a bioengineering approach based on microphysiological culture to mimic tissue-tissue interface. Accordingly, the present disclosure provides methods, compositions and kits related to the approach.
US12018277B2
A filter for filtering nucleated cells that includes a body containing at least either a metal or a metal oxide as its main component; and plural through holes, each of which have a shape other than a square shape, formed therein. An arithmetic average roughness of a first side of the filter part is smaller than a size of a nucleus of the nucleated cells to be filtered.
US12018276B2
In the present invention, lymphocytes are efficiently grown by culturing lymphocytes in the presence of a novel recombinant fibronectin fragment.
US12018274B2
The present disclosure relates to one or more agents, therapies, treatments, and methods of use of the agents and/or therapies and/or treatments for increasing production of a belatacept-similar protein and micro-RNA associated with decreasing production of tumor necrosis factor alpha. Embodiments of the present disclosure can be used as a therapy or a treatment for a subject that has a condition whereby the subject's immune system is, or is likely to become, dysregulated and where the production of the belatacept-similar protein and decreased production of tumor necrosis factor alpha may be of therapeutic benefit.
US12018261B2
Provided are compounds, methods, and pharmaceutical compositions for reducing the amount or activity of FXII RNA in a cell or subject, and in certain instances reducing the amount of FXII protein in a cell or subject. Such compounds, methods, and pharmaceutical compositions are useful to prevent, treat, or ameliorate at least one symptom of a thromboembolic condition. Such thromboembolic conditions include deep vein thrombosis, venous or arterial thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, myocardial infarction, and stroke. Such symptoms include pain, shortness of breath, heart burn, cold sweat, fatigue, lightheadedness, dizziness, swelling, cramping, and death. Such compounds, methods, and pharmaceutical compositions are useful to prevent, treat, or ameliorate at least one symptom of hereditary angioedema.
US12018258B2
Described in this disclosure are CRISPRi systems and methods, along with the related compositions and kits, that combine modularity, stable genomic integration, and ease of transfer to diverse bacteria by conjugation. CRISPRi compositions, methods, systems and kits described herein allow for genetic dissection of bacteria, facilitating analyses of microbiome function, antibiotic resistances and sensitivities, as well as comprehensive screening for host-microbe interactions. Embodiments of the invention comprise compositions, methods, systems, and kits for CRISPRi-based repression of gene expression in bacteria.
US12018237B2
The present invention relates to alpha-amylase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
US12018233B2
A cleaning composition including a preservative formulation having a glycine, a diol and a phospholipid complex is disclosed. The cleaning composition can be loaded on a cleaning wipe and used for personal care. The glycine and diol provide a preservative booster to the preservative system for the cleaning composition containing a phospholipid complex, such as cocamidopropyl PG-dimonium chloride phosphate, which has some limited independent preservation activity, depending on the level in the final formulation.
US12018228B2
The present invention refers to alkoxybenzaldehyde derivatives and precursors thereof. The invention further refers to perfume compositions and fragranced article comprising them.
US12018224B2
The present invention provides a hydraulic fluid comprising: (a) 40 to 150 ppm by weight in terms of nitrogen content of a corrosion inhibiting agent which is one or more compounds of formula (I): and/or tribologically acceptable salts thereof, wherein in formula (I): each R1 is independently a hydrocarbyl group comprising 1 to 10 carbon atoms, x is 0 to 4, and R2 is hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl group containing 1 to 10 carbon atoms; (b) 1500 to 4000 ppm by weight of an ashless nitrogen-containing dispersant; and (c) a major amount of a base oil.
US12018222B2
Lubricity additives for hydrocarbon fuels are presented according to formula I: R1[(—O—R2)n-Q]p (I) wherein p is 3 or greater; each n is independently selected from integers equal to 2 or greater; R1 is a C3-C20 aliphatic hydrocarbon group of valence p which is branched or linear and which is substituted or unsubstituted; each R2 is independently selected from C2-C20 divalent aliphatic or aromatic hydrocarbon groups which are branched or linear and which are substituted or unsubstituted; and each Q is independently selected from —NH2 or a moiety according to formula II: wherein each R3 is independently selected from C8-C60 alkenyl groups which are substituted or unsubstituted, providing that at least one Q is the moiety according to formula II.
US12018221B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for converting CO2 and a reduction gas such as H2 or a hydrocarbon to mixtures of paraffins and aromatics suitable for use as aviation fuel.
US12018218B2
A two-stage hydrocracking process for preferentially making a high-quality middle distillate product such as diesel from a relatively light hydrocarbon feedstock such as light vacuum gas oil.
US12018212B2
A plastic catalytic pyrolysis process that can produce high yields of ethylene, propylene and other light olefins from waste plastics is disclosed. The catalytic product stream is quenched to below catalytic pyrolysis temperature quickly after exiting the reactor or bulk separation from the catalyst. Quench preserves selectivity of light olefinic monomers. The catalytic pyrolysis process can be operated in a single stage or a two-stage process.
US12018206B2
Drill-in fluids disclosed herein comprise an aqueous base fluid, a viscosifier, a fluid loss control additive, and a degradable bridging agent comprising a degradable high strength polymetaphosphate material capable of undergoing an irreversible degradation downhole. The present disclosure further relates to a method for controlling fluid loss through a subterranean surface by using the drill-in fluid for form a filter cake on the subterranean surface. Also provided is a method of degrading a filter cake with an aqueous fluid or aqueous acidic fluid, wherein the filter cake is produced from the drill-in fluid. Further provided is a specific order of addition of constituents of the drill-in fluid, which results in improved filter cake performance and/or filter cake removal.
US12018203B2
According to the present invention, there is provided a composition comprising 1,1-difluoroethylene (R-1132a), difluoromethane (R-32), 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (R-1234yf) and carbo dioxide (CO2, R-744). The invention also provides a composition R-1132a, R-32, R-1234yf and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of: pentafluoroethane (R-125), 1,1-difluoroethane (R-152a), 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a), trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (R-1234ze(E)) and 1,1,1,2,3,3,3-heptafluoropropane (R-227ea); optionally, the composition comprises at least one further compound selected from the group consisting of trifluoroethylene (R-1123), propane (R-290), propylene (R-1270), isobutane (R-600a) and carbon dioxide (CO2, R-744). The present invention also provides a composition comprising R-1132a, R-32 and R-1234yf.
US12018199B2
The invention refers to a flame-retarding and flame-blocking agent in the form of a liquid suspension that efficiently slows down the progress of fire and at the same time, blocks forest fires, acting as a chemical firebreak and as a fire extinguisher, as well as to a method of making the suspension. The application process comprises spraying the diluted aqueous suspension/solution of the invention on a strip of land, forest, or silviculture, without harming the environment, animals, agricultural products, and humans. The product acts for a long time after application, is stable for storage, effective regardless of the water used for dilution, easily dispersible in water, biodegradable without containing toxic products or releasing highly toxic gases, and free of heavy metals. The product has a synergistic action between its components, and it is intended to save lives, natural resources and heritage.
US12018196B2
A method of producing a fluorescent nanodiamond exhibiting a zero phonon line (ZPL) for NV0 and/or NV− on its fluorescence emission wavelength spectrum. The method includes a detonation step of exploding at least one type of explosive in an airtight container to obtain a nanodiamond raw material, a first annealing step of annealing, at a temperature from 1000° C. to 1600° C., the nanodiamond raw material or a nanodiamond which is obtained by removing sp2 carbon through strong acid treatment, ozone treatment, or gas-phase oxidation of the nanodiamond raw material, a vacancy forming step of creating vacancies on the nanodiamond by irradiating the nanodiamond with an ion beam or an electron beam after the first annealing step, and a second annealing step of annealing, at a temperature from 600° C. to 900° C., the nanodiamond containing vacancies to form Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) centers.
US12018195B2
A method for preparing a light sensitive particle that uses at least one metal precursor material and at least one dopant precursor material mixed in solution absent a surfactant. Upon an optional adjustment of pH to about 3 to about 6, a light-sensitive particle comprising a metal-dopant material may be formed and separated from the solution. The light-sensitive particle may comprise a Q-dot particle. Also described are the particles themselves.
US12018189B2
Provided are an outer package material that is for electricity storage devices such as batteries and has such a sufficient anti-electrolytic solution property that the time-dependent reduction of the adhesive strength between a metal foil layer and a sealant layer by an electrolytic solution is suppressed over a long time and a composition for adhesives for giving the outer package material. In an outer package material that is for electricity storage devices and has a structure in which at least a base material layer, a first adhesive layer, a metal foil layer, a second adhesive layer, and a sealant layer are stacked in sequence, a composition containing an isocyanato group and a (meth) acryloyl group and further containing an acid-modified polyolefin (component 1), an active energy ray polymerization initiator (component 3), and a solvent (component 4) is used as a composition for adhesives to form the second adhesive layer.
US12018188B2
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 45° C. or higher, wherein the polymer is a copolymer of a monofunctional polysiloxane and two or more types of monomers.
US12018174B2
The present invention relates to a substrate having (a) a first material applied to at least a portion of the substrate, and (b) a coating layer deposited from a powder coating composition including a film-forming resin, and optionally a crosslinker that is reactive with the film-forming resin, in direct contact with at least a portion of the substrate to which the first material has been applied. The first material is (i) a catalyst that catalyzes cure of the powder coating composition, (ii) a component reactive with the film-forming resin and/or the crosslinker of the powder coating composition, and/or (iii) a rheology modifier.
US12018169B2
A multi-component composition contains a) a polyol component having a1) acrylate polyol and a2) at least one of polyester polyol and polyether polyol, wherein the equivalent ratio of hydroxyl groups of acrylate polyol to hydroxyl groups of the at least one of polyester polyol and polyether polyol is in the range of 0.4 to 3.8, and b) an isocyanate component containing b1) aliphatic polyisocyanate monomer, dimer and/or trimer, and b2) aliphatic polyisocyanate prepolymer, wherein the equivalent ratio of isocyanate groups of aliphatic polyisocyanate monomer, dimer and/or trimer to isocyanate groups of aliphatic polyisocyanate prepolymer is in the range of 0.5 to 2.6. The multi-component composition is suitable for use as a top coat on elastic membranes, in particular roofing membranes, to provide sufficient weathering resistance/protection.
