US12026920B2
Disclosed are a point cloud encoding and decoding method, an encoder and a decoder. The method comprises: acquiring geometric information and attribute information of an input point cloud; determining a maximum allowable value of a sampling period when the input point cloud is subjected to level-of-detail (LOD) division; determining a preset value of the sampling period on the basis of the maximum allowable value of the sampling period; processing the input point cloud according to the preset value of the sampling period and the geometric information, so as to obtain at least one refinement layer and at least one detail layer; and encoding the attribute information by using the at least one refinement layer and the at least one detail layer, so as to generate a code stream, and writing the preset value of the sampling period into the code stream.
US12026916B2
A stereo camera calibration method includes: controlling a stereo camera assembly to capture a sequence of stereo image pairs; simultaneously with each capture in the sequence, activating a rangefinder; responsive to each capture in the sequence, updating calibration data for point cloud generation by: detecting matching features in the stereo image pair, and updating a first portion of the calibration data based on the matched features; updating an alignment of the rangefinder relative to the stereo camera assembly, based on the updated first portion of the calibration data, and a detected position of a beam of the rangefinder in a first image of the stereo image pair; and updating a second portion of the calibration data based on the detected position of the beam of the rangefinder in the first image of the stereo image pair, the updated rangefinder alignment, and a depth measurement captured by the rangefinder.
US12026913B2
Automatically validating the calibration of an visual sensor network includes acquiring image data from visual sensors that have partially overlapping fields of view, extracting a representation of an environment in which the visual sensors are disposed, calculating one or more geometric relationships between the visual sensors, comparing the calculated one or more geometric relationships with previously obtained calibration information of the visual sensors, and verifying a current calibration of the visual sensors based on the comparison.
US12026902B2
A method and a system for monitoring a spatial area in a personnel interlock are provided. Image data are acquired which represent a plurality of depth images of the spatial area which have been acquired simultaneously and from different positions in the area of the personnel interlock, in each case by a respective 3D image sensor arranged at the corresponding position. For each of the depth images, an associated characteristic depth image value is calculated. A total image value is obtained by combining the characteristic depth image values of the various depth images in accordance with a predetermined monotonic combination rule. An estimation result for the probability that more than one person is present in the spatial area is then determined.
US12026898B2
A method for image fusion may include obtaining a first image including a plurality of first pixels and a second image including a plurality of second pixels. Each of the plurality of second pixels may correspond to one of the plurality of first pixels. The method may further include classifying the plurality of first pixels into different categories which at least includes a first category and a second category. The method may further include fusing the first image with the second image based on a fusion operation between each of the plurality of first pixels and its corresponding second pixel to generate a fused image. The fusion operation associated with a first pixel belonging to the first category and the fusion operation associated with a first pixel belonging to the second category are performed according to different fusion rules.
US12026893B1
A method implements image background removal. The method includes receiving an image and processing the image using a first color distance threshold to generate a first alpha mask. The method further includes processing the first alpha mask using a cartesian edge threshold and a second color distance threshold to generate a second alpha mask. The method further includes presenting the image combined with the second alpha mask in a combined image.
US12026885B2
A computer-implemented method and system for automated segmentation of anatomical structures of a biological object, include acquiring an MRI image of the object constructed from a set of slices of the object, dividing the set of slices into overlapping groups of consecutive slices, and feeding each overlapping group of consecutive slices as input into a neural network for outputting a labelled map for each inputted slice. For each slice belonging to several overlapping groups, determining for each voxel a final label from specific labels assigned to the voxel by the neural network when considering the labelled maps outputted for the considered slice and assigning to each voxel the final label previously determined for the considered voxel and outputting a final segmentation map of final labels assigned to the voxels of the considered slice. A final 3D segmented image of the object is created from previously obtained final segmentation maps.
US12026875B2
The method includes receiving a plurality of digital images each depicting a tissue sample; splitting each of the received images into a plurality of tiles; automatically generating tile pairs, each tile pair having assigned a label being indicative of the degree of similarity of two tissue patterns depicted in the two tiles of the pair, wherein the degree of similarity is computed as a function of the spatial proximity of the two tiles in the pair, wherein the distance positively correlates with dissimilarity; and training a machine learning module—MLM—using the labeled tile pairs as training data to generate a trained MLM, the trained MLM being configured for performing an image analysis of digital histopathology images.
US12026873B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a computer program stored in a computer readable storage medium is disclosed. The computer program includes instructions for causing one or more processors to estimate bone age from a bone image, and the instructions include: estimating a RUS score for each of one or more partial bone images using a partial bone RUS score estimation model comprising one or more layers, and wherein the one or more partial bone images are generated from a whole bone image; and estimating bone age corresponding to the whole bone image using one or more RUS scores estimated for each of the one or more partial bone images, in which the partial bone RUS score estimation model is trained by using a labeled partial bone image as training data, and is trained by adjusting feature values calculated from the one or more layers.
US12026871B2
A method for identifying a wellbore condition includes capturing a first image of cuttings on or downstream from a shale shaker using a first camera. A size, shape, texture, or combination thereof of the cuttings in the first image may be determined. A wellbore condition may be identified based on the size, shape, texture, or combination thereof of the cuttings in the first image.
US12026870B2
A manufacturing management device 100 includes an acquisition unit 121 that acquires unique information of a product from a captured image of the product captured in a manufacturing step included in a manufacturing process of the product, and acquires operation information representing an operation of a person who performs a manufacturing work on the product in the manufacturing step, and an association unit 122 that sores the acquired unique information of the product and the acquired operation information in association with each other.
US12026866B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for rechecking a defective product. The method includes: a display terminal receives sent image information of at least one detection image corresponding to the defective product (S110). The image information includes: an ID of the at least one detection image, and defect information corresponding to the at least one detection image. The defect information includes: a defect type of a defect in the at least one detection image, and defect coordinates of the defect in the at least one detection image. The display terminal displays the at least one detection image that is pre-stored corresponding to the defective product and marks the defect information corresponding to the at least one detection image according to the image information (S120).
US12026862B2
At least some embodiments of the present disclosure directs to a method for processing an input image having an embedded element, comprising the steps of: computing one or more histograms of the input image; identifying a range of interest in one of the one or more histograms; and determining, by the processor, a threshold based on the range of interest. In some embodiments, a computing device processes the input image using the threshold to generate an output image.
US12026842B1
The headband-mounted dual camera system is worn on the head of a client. The headband-mounted dual camera system forms a communication link between the client and a personal data device. The headband-mounted dual camera system captures images from the environment surrounding the client. The headband-mounted dual camera system transmits the captured images over the communication link. The headband-mounted dual camera system comprises a head mount and a control circuit. The control circuit mounts on the head mount.
US12026836B2
A method and apparatus for simulating clothes receive a user setting for an area in which shirring is to be expressed in a two-dimensional (2D) pattern of clothes modeled with a mesh including a plurality of polygons, obtain a first line and a second line parallel to the first line from the area based on the user setting, generate inner lines that are perpendicular to at least one of the first line and the second line of the area between the first line and the second line and that have regular intervals, align polygons included in the area of the 2D pattern based on the inner lines, and perform a draping simulation of three-dimensional (3D) clothes corresponding to the 2D pattern in which the shirring is expressed by the aligned polygons.
US12026826B2
An information processing apparatus includes at least one memory storing instructions and at least one processor that, upon execution of the instructions, is configured to operate as an instruction acquisition unit configured to acquire an instruction with respect to a virtual object in a mixed reality space from a user who is one of a plurality of users in the mixed reality space, a mode determination unit configured to determine, based on the acquired instruction, a display mode of the virtual object for another user in the mixed reality space, a viewpoint determination unit configured to determine, based on the determined display mode, a viewpoint with respect to the virtual object in the mixed reality space, and an image generation unit configured to generate an image of the mixed reality space including the virtual object viewed from the determined viewpoint.
US12026816B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to determine at least one image including a first face corresponding to a designated face, among one or more images stored in the memory, obtain first values of a plurality of attributes related to the first face, compare, for each attribute, the first values of the plurality of attributes related to the first face with second values of a plurality of attributes corresponding to graphic objects constituting an avatar, the graphic objects being stored in the memory, identify whether at least one first attribute exists among the plurality of attributes related to the first face, the at least one first attribute having a first value among the first values, a difference between the first value and a second value of the at least one first attribute being equal to or greater than a threshold, the second value being included the second values, and based on identifying that at least one first attribute exists among the plurality of attributes related to the first face, update the avatar, based on the first value of the at least one first attribute.
US12026815B2
In one embodiment, a method includes displaying one or more objects on a display device and receiving a user input corresponding to a movement along the display device. The method further includes determining a motion of each of the one or more objects on the display device. The determined motion corresponds to the user input and includes: a first motion that includes a translation of each of the objects along a particular path across at least a portion of the display device and a second motion that includes a decaying oscillatory motion of each of the objects where an amplitude of the decaying oscillatory motion decreases with time. The method also includes applying the determined motion to the one or more objects displayed on the display device.
US12026803B2
A system is configured to obtain multiple images (83) of a plant and store a plurality of the multiple images of the plant with a grow protocol (71) for growing the plant. Each of the images is associated with a different capture moment. The system is further configured to select the grow protocol separately from the plant and render the plurality of images upon selection of the grow protocol. Each of the images is rendered along with one or more desired and/or measured conditions (74-76) of a growth stage (84). The growth stage corresponds to a capture moment of the respective image. The grow protocol comprises a plurality of growth stages and the one or more desired and/or measured conditions are included in the grow protocol.
US12026802B2
An augmented reality (AR) effect system can improve application of AR effects by sharing resources between AR effects. The AR effect system can employ manifests for AR effects that define which resources are required to render each AR effect. The AR effect system can organize rendering operations used by selected AR effects into a pipeline and can use the manifests of the AR effects to determine when each resource will be needed. Based on this pipeline, the AR effect system can create a cache order defining a resource schedule which specifies, when a resource is freed, conditions for whether to save the resource to a local cache or unload the resource. As rendering of the video with the AR effects progresses, the resource schedule can control whether resources not currently being used to render an AR effect should be unloaded or cached for fast access for future render operations.
US12026777B2
Systems and methods for transforming an electronic portfolio. A system includes an electronic crossing platform that receives data defining trade orders of the electronic portfolio during an initial time period; compares portions of the data to determine an imbalance of the trade orders remaining after the initial time period and receives, during a final time period, a final trade order from a fund agent device to offset the remaining imbalance. The platform receives, after the final time period, a benchmark value of the electronic portfolio from a fund device; compares the final trade order with the remaining imbalance to determine an adjustment value; converts the benchmark value to a final value by applying the adjustment value to the benchmark value; and transforms the electronic portfolio into the transformed portfolio by creating paired buy and sell orders among the trade orders received during the initial time period at the final value.
US12026771B1
A system includes a computing system associated with a financial institution and communicatively coupled with one or more automated teller machines (ATMs), where the computing system is configured to authenticate an account holder via an ATM of the one or more ATMs based on identification information of the account holder, identify an event associated with the account holder, determine a message relating to the event to be displayed to the account holder based on the event, and display the message to the account holder via the ATM where the message being displayed is based on the account holder accessing the ATM within a threshold time period associated with the event.
US12026769B2
A front-end image acquisition component acquires photographs and/or videos of the exterior of a vehicle traveling on a path between a first predefined location and a second predefined location. In one aspect, an image acquisition system comprises a first camera support structure, a second camera support structure, an image processor, and a memory. Cameras are affixed to each of the camera support structures for acquiring image data of a subject vehicle. Image data is controlled by the image processor and the memory. In another aspect, an image acquisition system comprises a first camera tower, a second camera tower, a camera boom. Cameras are affixed to each of the camera towers. In another aspect, a method of identifying features of the exterior of a vehicle includes acquiring a series of images from a front-end component, accessing previously acquired images and associated metadata stored in a database, executing machine learning algorithms using the previously acquired information to identify at least one exterior vehicle feature, and executing machine learning algorithms using the presently acquired series of images to identify at least one exterior feature of the vehicle.
US12026768B2
Provided herein are methods whereby item provider services can define unique offerings, including categories of products, individual products, and information requests, and link them to a trigger, enabling the item provider service promote the offerings to the end users. A trigger can include any unique and specially formatted media entity that, in conjunction with software on a mobile device, can be detected using sensors to initiate a workflow. Triggers may include, for example, specially formatted images, videos, audio signals, QR codes, GPS locations, Bluetooth beacons, or similar mobile-detectable entities, among others. Triggers may be defined and associated with an offering.
US12026763B2
Methods and systems for an augmented reality conversion system. In one aspect, A augmented reality conversion system includes a computing device including a memory storage device, the memory storage device storing instructions that, when executed by the computing device, cause the computing device to generate and display a furnishing planner, receive inputs to select a furnishing product and one or more customizations for the furnishing product, and generate and display a machine-readable code which when scanned by an augmented reality device allows the augmented reality device to display the selected furnishing product with the one or more customizations in an augmented reality viewer.
US12026755B2
Techniques for resource allocation with content creators are described that overcome the challenges of conventional techniques by supporting customized digital content generation and resource allocation specified by content creators of digital content. In one example, a content provider system, based on user input received via a control, specifies the portions of a resource allocation to be shared. A first portion is configured to be shared with a content creator of digital content, the digital content including service access data configured to access a digital service. A second portion is also configured to be shared with a client device that utilizes the service access data to access the digital service. Digital content is generated based on the specified portions and is transmitted. Upon access by the client device to the digital service, an indication of receipt of the first portion of the resource allocation is displayed by the content provider system.
US12026743B2
This disclosure provides aspects and embodiments of methods, services, and platforms for prompting users with a zero account balance to send a callback message to a contact informing the contact that the user cannot call them and asking the contact to call the user. This disclosure further provides location determining platforms and rewards platforms for users.
US12026741B2
Allocating bids for providing content within a segmented campaign is controlled to ensure that an event rate associated with the provided content meets or exceeds a threshold rate. A campaign-level event rate, associated with the provided content, is estimated and provided as a feedback signal. This feedback signal is employed to dynamically update bid allocations for each of the segments, which in turn varies the number or rate of provided impressions and events. Such feedback enables the control of the campaign-level rate and ensures that the campaign-level rate meets or exceeds the rate threshold. To control these rates, the number of total impressions, as well as the number of associated events, is temporally sampled across the campaign segments. Based on the number of impressions and events, the campaign-level event rate is estimated and employed as the feedback signal. Updating the bid allocations may be based on the Beta Distribution.
US12026740B1
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for tracking content across multiple content outlets. Content items, characterized by first metadata, and content slots, characterized by second metadata, can be received. Third metadata for digital content slots can be generated. Fourth metadata can be received. A recommended content item package can be provided based on a comparison between a combination of the first metadata, the second metadata, and the third metadata and the fourth metadata. The recommended content item package can include a content file and a metadata file. A performance and a measurement of the recommended content item package can be determined by executing the metadata file to track the content file across one or more of the content slots and the potential digital content slots. The performance and the measurement can be provided.
US12026737B2
A management server includes: a reception section that receives, from a second user terminal, a rental request for use of a battery; and an incentive management section that, when a first battery or a second battery is rented to a second user, gives an incentive, according to return of the battery from the second user, wherein the incentive management section gives a first incentive to the second user when the second user returns the first battery to a first user, and gives a second incentive to the second user when the second user returns the second battery to the first user or when the second user returns the first battery to a place of return that is different from the first user, and the first incentive is an incentive having a higher value than the second incentive.
US12026730B2
A transaction information aggregation system includes raw transaction and enriched transaction databases. The raw transaction database comprises transaction information for a plurality of transactions, including for each transaction an account holder identifier and at least one transaction parameter. The enriched transaction database comprises an indexed transaction record for each of the plurality of transactions, each record including a plurality of search terms associated with each of the at least one transaction parameter. A transaction information processing server is in data communication with the raw transaction and enriched transaction databases and is configured to receive raw transaction information for a new transaction, parse the raw transaction information to determine, associate search terms with a characteristic for each of the at least one transaction parameter, and establish a new indexed transaction record in the enriched transaction database for the new transaction, the new indexed transaction record including the additional searchable terms.
US12026718B1
Anomalies can be detected and related mitigation actions can be executed. For example, a computing device receives, from a first source, first data associated with a first process of a payment service in support of transactions of a first plurality of users. The computing device generates first aggregated metrics based on the first data. The computing device determines, by using the first aggregated metrics as first input to a machine learning engine, an anomaly associated with the execution of the first process. The computing device determines, based on the anomaly and a history of anomalies associated with the execution of the first process, an indication of an outage associated with the first process. The computing device causes an execution of a mitigation action based on the indication of the outage. The execution of the mitigation action is in support of transactions of a second plurality of users.
US12026709B2
Example embodiments of systems, methods, and computer-accessible mediums for transaction authorization are provided. An exemplary system can comprise a card including an input device and a display device in data communication with a server. The server can generate an authorization passcode upon an initiation of a transaction session, and the card can receive an entered passcode through the input device, display the entered passcode on the display device, and transmit the entered passcode to the server for comparison to the authorization passcode. Upon a determination that the entered passcode is a match for the authorization passcode, the server can transmit a match notification indicating the transaction session is valid, and upon a determination that the entered passcode is a mismatch for the authorization passcode, the server can transmit a mismatch notification terminating the transaction session.
US12026703B2
The invention provides a blockchain-implemented control method and corresponding system(s). The invention may control access to an internet-enabled resource such as an IoT device that is provided with computing capabilities enabling it to communicate with other computer-based resources and interact with a distributed ledger such as a blockchain. In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for controlling the use of an internet-enabled resource comprising providing a first blockchain transaction comprising at least one output which is redeemable only by provision of at least: i) a secret value selected by a user; and ii) a signature associated with a resource provider; sending use-related information to the resource; generating a second blockchain transaction requesting at least the secret value; and modifying the second blockchain transaction to include the secret value.
US12026700B2
Method for the secure execution of programs (smart contracts) implemented between a first wallet node (WN) (WN1) and a second wallet node (WN2), at least the second WN being implemented in an enclave of a processor, and the WNs being capable of executing programs designated in the messages that reach them, the method comprising the following steps: a) sending by WN1 to WN2 of a pre-message; b1) in response to this pre-message, execution in the enclave of a first program (WNRoT); b2) generation by the enclave of a certificate of authenticity of said first program and of the integrity of its execution; b3) sending said certificate to WN1; c) verification by WN1 of said certificate; d) in the event of successful verification, sending by WN1 to WN2 of a message intended to trigger the execution of a given program in WN2, and e) execution of said program in WN2.
US12026699B2
Systems and methods for secure digital asset transactions. An offline system includes a custodian computer, digital asset accounts accessible by the custodian computer and a centralized ledger maintained by the custodian computer. The custodian computer is in communication with public ledger computers of a public ledger, and receives transaction data associated with digital assets from among entity computers. Each account is prefunded with digital asset funds. The custodian computer monitors a transaction parameter of the transaction data and, in accordance with the monitoring, generates a transfer instruction indicating transfer of funds between the first and second accounts, updates the centralized ledger responsive to the transfer instruction, and transfers the funds between the first and second accounts, responsive to the transfer instruction. The transfer instruction remains offline and is not transferred to the public ledger.
US12026698B2
Electronic transfers of value may be secured via verification of locations of parties, and/or progressive trust building, while maintaining privacy of sensitive personal information of parties via separate communications by parties with a payment network server. Locations may be fixed geolocations, proximities, and/or positions relative to markers/beacons that are in motion. Transfers may be made from party to party, party to place and place to party, and/or party to a virtual point-of-sale at a place. Transferred items may be electronic funds in fiat and/or crypto currencies, Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)/data associated NFTs, electronic data, and/or securities/financial instruments, for example. Transactions may be multiparty and may comprise multiple exchanges of value.
US12026697B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for onboarding digital content to a platform designed specifically for seamless creation and user-friendly management of non-fungible tokens. The invention allows for users with zero knowledge of decentralized protocols to leverage the benefits of such technologies by providing a system for uploading existing digital content, automating the creation of one or more non-fungible tokens, managing permissioned access to the non-fungible tokens, and facilitating the ownership verification of the non-fungible tokens.
US12026695B2
A transaction system and process includes providing financial transactions based on a single card. The transaction system and process further including providing prepaid wireless service based on the single card and providing long-distance service based on the single card.
US12026691B2
Methods and systems associated with facilitating transactions based on proximity between devices, the methods and systems including ranking distances between a first device and a plurality of other devices based on wireless signal strengths; presenting a representation of a first user of the first device on one of the first device or a second device based on the ranking when the distance between the first device and the second device satisfies a threshold; causing server(s) of a payment service system (PSS) to identify user accounts of the first user and/or a second user of the second device based on selection of the representation and a user identifier in a wireless signal transmitted by a transceiver of one of the devices; processing a transaction using stored payment data associated with the user account(s); and presenting an indication of the transaction on at least one of the devices.
US12026684B2
An apparatus for transferring virtual resources comprises a processor associated with a server. The processor is configured to conduct an interaction between a first user and an entity to transfer a physical object and a non-fungible token (NFT) to the first user, wherein the NFT is associated with the physical object. The processor is further configured to receive the NFT for storage in a first digital folder and to receive a request to establish an interaction session between a first avatar in a virtual environment and a second avatar associated with a second user. The processor is further configured to authorize the interaction session in response to authenticating the NFT and to conduct the interaction. The interaction includes initiating a transfer of the physical object from the first user to the second user and transmitting the NFT to a second digital folder associated with the second user.
US12026672B2
A computing device for organizing a collaborative workspace for a user implements providing, using a display of the computing device, an interactive user interface associated with the collaborative workspace in which the user may work on a shared task in a coordinated fashion with other users; identifying, based on one or more factors, one or more activities specific to the user from within the collaborative workspace; assigning the identified one or more activities to a catch-up list associated with the user; displaying, within the interactive user interface, the catch-up list; detecting that at least one of the one or more activities has been addressed from within the collaborative workspace or the catch-up list; and updating, based on the detection, the collaborative workspace and the catch-up list.
US12026671B2
Systems and methods for generating an agenda for a group meeting are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment, the collaboration environment being configured to facilitate interaction by users with the collaboration environment; obtain user input information conveying user input to initiate individual group meetings with individual groups of users; responsive to obtaining the user input information: identify the individual groups of users corresponding to the individual group meetings, and/or identify the work unit records corresponding to the individual group meetings; generate agenda information defining individual agendas for the individual group meetings, the individual agendas including individual sets of agenda items, an individual agenda item corresponding to an individual work unit record; and/or perform other operations.
US12026665B2
A method for identifying an inventory item is provided. The method includes using first one or more sensors to produce first one or more outputs indicative of an inventory item, using second one or more sensors to produce second one or more outputs indicative of the inventory item, generating, based on the first one or more outputs and independent of the second one or more outputs, a first confidence level of the inventory item being a first inventory item, generating, based on the second one or more outputs and independent of the first one or more outputs, a second confidence level of the inventory item being a second inventory item, and identifying, based on the first confidence level and the second confidence level, the inventory item as one of the first inventory item or the second inventory item.
US12026661B2
Systems and methods are provided for automatic inventory tracking such that items placed into a container/bin are automatically tracked and wherein the container/bin is moveable. The system including automatic tracking of items removed from the container/bin and automatic tracking of the container/bin. The system may further include audio/visual indications when an asset tag is validated.
US12026660B2
A secured container is can be configured to accept deliveries of goods, parcels or other items ordered by a user. The container is secured such that a delivery may be made whist the delivery location is unattended whilst ensuring the delivery is safe. The secured container may be accessed by autonomous vehicles such as drones or quadcopters or other flying platforms.
US12026657B2
A system for handling hazmat products in a fulfillment center. The system includes a conveyance and packing equipment assembly that facilitates physical acquisition and consolidation of inventory items into a container, a labeling applicator that automatically applies hazmat labels, a scan tunnel, and a server. The server includes computing hardware of a processor, a memory, an input/output engine, a database, and a hazmat handling engine. The input/output engine is configured to receive a customer order and communicate between the server and the conveyance and packing equipment assembly, the labeling applicator, and the scan tunnel. The hazmat handling engine determines customer orders with exceptions requiring specialized handling. The hazmat handling engine marks determined customer orders with exceptions and forwards the remaining orders for allocation and cartonization. The labeling applicator automatically applies one or more hazmat labels to the packaged container containing hazmat items based on compliance labeling criteria.
US12026655B2
Embodiments of systems and approaches for managing post-harvest crop quality and pests are described. Such a system may include a plurality of edge devices each comprising sensor components and collectively forming a mesh network, for measuring the local physical environment within stored crops and, for example, transmitting the measurements to a service from within the crop storage area. In certain embodiments, such a system may be used to manage post-harvest crops and storage areas—for example, approaches are described for determining fumigation treatment duration, determining phosphine dosage, determining heat treatment duration, and determining safe storage time for crops.
US12026647B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for scheduling tasks to field professionals include a memory configured to store historical data associated with past demand for field professionals, a network interface, and at least one processor connectable to the network interface. The at least one processor is configured to access the memory and to: receive a set of requests reflecting a current demand for on-site services; predict imminent demand for on-site services based on the historical data; generate a schedule for a set of field professionals based on the current demand for on-site services; and reserve in the schedule availability based on the predicted imminent demand for on-site services.
US12026638B2
A software solution for managing, sorting and ranking lists of tasks and integrating task and time management, such that tasks can be automatically or manually assigned to specified time blocks. Users can monitor the relationship between volume of tasks and available time in which to complete them. The solution and method can be applied to individual task lists as well as to the management of time across multiple projects and can be employed either by individuals or by collaborative groups. The solution and method employ multiple filters, sorts and handling rules to embody users' personal planning preferences. It can be used to manage task lists both with and without employing a scheduling component. The solution can interoperate with existing computer- and web-based calendar software and can use third-party calendar clients to display its output and to accept input from users.
US12026627B2
A computer vision (CV) training system, includes: a supervised learning system to estimate a supervision output from one or more input images according to a target CV application, and to determine a supervised loss according to the supervision output and a ground-truth of the supervision output; an unsupervised learning system to determine an unsupervised loss according to the supervision output and the one or more input images; a weakly supervised learning system to determine a weakly supervised loss according to the supervision output and a weak label corresponding to the one or more input images; and a joint optimizer to concurrently optimize the supervised loss, the unsupervised loss, and the weakly supervised loss.
US12026622B2
Embodiments of the present invention train multiple Perception models to predict contextual metadata (tags) with respect to target content items. By extracting context from content items, and generating associations among the Perception models, individual Perceptions trigger one another based on the extracted context to generate a more robust set of contextual metadata. A Perception Identifier predicts core tags that make coarse distinctions among content items at relatively higher levels of abstraction, while also triggering other Perception models to predict additional perception tags at lower levels of abstraction. A Dense Classifier identifies sub-content items at various levels of abstraction, and facilitates the iterative generation of additional dense tags across integrated Perceptions. Class-specific thresholds are generated with respect to individual classes of each Perception to address the inherent sampling bias that results from the varying number and quality of training samples (across different classes of content items) available to train each Perception.
US12026619B1
Disclosed are systems and methods to perform neural architecture search (“NAS”) that automatically optimizes for the number of channels to allocate to each layer of a deep neural network. Some implementations include a pairwise slimming that includes a global optimization step. Likewise, in some implementations, a bias toward a region of interest may be applied to channel path selection during training.
US12026615B2
Systems and methods for training photonic neural networks in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for training a set of one or more optical interference units (OIUs) of a photonic artificial neural network (ANN), wherein the method includes calculating a loss for an original input to the photonic ANN, computing an adjoint input based on the calculated loss, measuring intensities for a set of one or more phase shifters in the set of OIUs when the computed adjoint input and the original input are interfered with each other within the set of OIUs, computing a gradient from the measured intensities, and tuning phase shifters of the OIU based on the computed gradient.
US12026614B2
A method of interpreting tabular data includes receiving, at a deep tabular data learning network (TabNet) executing on data processing hardware, a set of features. For each of multiple sequential processing steps, the method also includes: selecting, using a sparse mask of the TabNet, a subset of relevant features of the set of features; processing using a feature transformer of the TabNet, the subset of relevant features to generate a decision step output and information for a next processing step in the multiple sequential processing steps; and providing the information to the next processing step. The method also includes determining a final decision output by aggregating the decision step outputs generated for the multiple sequential processing steps.
US12026607B1
A neural network accelerator executes instructions to: load a first weight data element of an array of weight data elements from a memory into a systolic array; extract, from the instructions, information indicating a first number of input data elements to be obtained from a first address of the memory and a second number of input data elements to be skipped between adjacent input data elements to be obtained, the first address being based on first coordinates of the first weight data element, and the first and second numbers being based on a stride of a convolution operation; based on the information, obtain first input data elements from the first address of the memory; and control the systolic array to perform first computations based on the first weight data element and the first input data elements to generate first output data elements of an output data array.
US12026605B2
A circuit structure includes a first ferroelectric field effect transistor (FeFET) having a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode and a second FeFET having a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode. The first gate electrode is connected to a wordline, and the first source electrode and the second source electrode are connected to a bitline. The first drain electrode is connected to the second gate electrode and the second drain electrode is connected to a bias line. A weight synapse structure is constructed by combining two circuit structures. A plurality of weight synapse structures are incorporated into a crossbar array.
US12026603B2
A system for incorporating predictive health data into a mission timeline receives a predictive health event, identifies a time frame for the event, and incorporates the event into a mission timeline. The event may define a probability window with weighted probabilities overlaid onto the mission timeline. The event may define an uncorrected outcome. The uncorrected outcome is rendered onto the mission timeline at a point when the uncorrected outcome will likely occur if no remedial action is taken.
US12026600B2
Systems and methods for target region evaluation and feature point evaluation are provided. The methods may include obtaining an image including a target region and extracting a plurality of feature points associated with the target region. The methods may further include, for each of the plurality of feature points, determining a sub-region including the feature point. The methods may further include performing a first grouping operation on the plurality of feature points to generate a plurality of first groups of sub-regions according to a first rule, and determining, based on the plurality of first groups of sub-regions, a confidence level associated with the target region using a plurality of trained models for processing the plurality of first groups of sub-regions, respectively. Each of the plurality of trained models may be associated with a set of model parameters. At least two sets of model parameters may be different.
US12026597B2
An example method can include tracking, by a network device, a plurality of attributes associated with a plurality of unique client device identifiers stored in a tracking table; deriving, by the network device, a training data set based on the plurality of attributes; and generating, by the network device, a plurality of clusters by inputting the derived training data set to an unsupervised machine learning mechanism. The example method can include receiving, by the network device, a labeling of the plurality of unique client device identifiers in the tracking table based at least on the plurality of clusters; generating, by the network device, a plurality of classifiers by inputting the labelled tracking table to a supervised machine learning mechanism; and classifying, by the network device, a new unique client device identifier in the tracking table based at least on the plurality of classifiers.
US12026594B2
An electronic device is described. The electronic device includes a signal input, a user interface, a signal processing circuit, and an artificial intelligence circuit. The user interface is configured to detect a first user input, wherein the first user input is associated with an automatic setting of processing parameters of the signal processing circuit. The artificial intelligence circuit is configured to automatically adapt the processing parameters of the signal processing circuit based on the first user input, thereby obtaining a first set of processing parameters. The user interface is configured to detect a second user input, wherein the second user input is associated with an adjustment of the processing parameters of the signal processing circuit. The user interface is configured to adapt the processing parameters of the signal processing circuit based on the second user input, thereby obtaining a second set of processing parameters. The artificial intelligence circuit is configured to adapt the first set of processing parameters based on the first set of processing parameters and the second set of processing parameters, thereby obtaining an adapted set of processing parameters. Further, a method of setting processing parameters of an electronic device is described.
US12026585B1
A tensor network decoder accounts for correlated noise between qubits of a two-dimensional code. The tensor network decoder is generated using a graphical noise model for a quantum device that is used (or to be used) to implement the two-dimensional code. For example, an input graphical noise model, such as a hypergraph, may be used to generate a tensor network decoder. Whereas other decoders assume noise is independent and identically distributed (e.g. iid noise), a tensor network decoder accounts for correlated noise not considered in such decoders that assume iid noise.
US12026582B2
A crowd-sourced fake identification (ID) reporting system is provided. A central host communicates with a plurality of scanning devices over the internet. Each scanning device having an electronic visual display coupled to an ID scanner configured to scan an ID and obtain the information from the ID's barcode and/or magnetic strip. The plurality of scanning devices are configured to connect to the fake ID reporting software of the one or more internet-connected central servers and the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). A number of users each having a scanning device of the plurality of scanning devices; and, wherein the scanning device is configured to determine if an ID has been previously scanned by a scanning device of the plurality of scanning devices, to make a determination and provide the results of the validity of the ID. If the ID has not been previously scanned the system makes a determination of the validity of the ID by comparing the ID's data pattern to valid ID patterns in a data repository. The scanning device has a real-time DMV button configured to facilitate a real-time validation of the scanned ID with the DMV.
US12026577B2
Systems and methods for user identification (ID) document verification are provided. An exemplary method includes receiving, by a client device, an image of an ID document. Based on the image of the ID document, a determination is made whether the ID document includes a near-field communications (NFC) chip that stores an ID photo associated with the ID document. Based on this determination of whether the ID document includes an NFC chip, the ID document is verified by selectively using at least one of NFC chip authentication and optical authentication, to obtain a verification result.
US12026575B2
A computer system and method for identifying and monitoring animals in a confined space. A tracking apparatus is provided in proximity to the confined space that defines a plurality of separate individual tracking regions for the confined space. Each of a plurality of animals to be disposed in the confined space is associated respectively with a detection component operable to identify and detect a temperature of an animal it is associated with when detected by the tracking apparatus. Data is received in a computer monitor system from a detection component when detected by the tracking apparatus in the confined space wherein the received data includes motion and temperature data relating to an animal when located in the confined space. The tracking apparatus detects multiple animals simultaneously located in an individual tracking region. Utilizing the received data associated with an animal in the confined space, an animal's motion and temperature data is correlated to an individual tracking region an animal is located within.
US12026567B2
A circuit for a passive radio-identification tag operating in a UHF band is described, configured for a radio communication with a reader that emits a reading signal. The circuit is produced as a single chip, comprising one or more transducers for measuring a strain, a first sub-circuit configured for the acquisition of the transducer measurement, and a second sub-circuit configured for the radio transmission of the acquired measurement to the reader.
US12026564B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet of perforated paper; an input unit configured to receive first information and second information; and a processor configured to display an alarm display without performing sheet-passing of the sheet of perforated paper. The first information is information concerning the sheet of perforated paper on which an image is to be formed by the image forming unit and the second information is information concerning whether to perform automatic double-sided printing on the sheet of perforated paper or not. The processor is configured to display the alarm display in a case where the automatic double-sided printing is instructed and it is determined that the sheet of perforated paper has a cut-off portion.
US12026561B2
The present technology addresses a need in the art for an automated and scalable mechanism to authorize a containerized process. An aspect of the present technology deals with authorizing an unprivileged process by a privileged process without embedding credentials or network access at the time of validation. The present technology provides the possibility for the privileged process to continuously (dynamically) validate the authenticity of the unprivileged process by performing a plurality of operations to ensure the unprivileged process has maintained its authenticity while having access to sensitive information.
US12026558B2
Systems and methods for integration of applications are provided. A request for data associated with a second application is received from a first application. The data associated with the second application is generated using one or more process extension APIs. The one or more process extension APIs generate the data using one or more native APIs of the second application. The data is transmitted to the first application.
US12026557B2
Method and system for a utilizing a proxy service to generate a composed information handling system
In general, the invention relates to providing computer implemented services using information handling systems. One or more embodiments of the invention includes identifying a hardware resource requirement in a composition request for a composed information handling system, wherein the hardware resource requirement specifies a hardware resource with data transformation functionality (DTF), identifying a hardware resource that does not have the DTF, connecting the hardware resource to a DTF container, wherein the DTF container implements the DTF and emulates the hardware resource with DTF, and initiating composition of the composed information handling system using the DTF container, wherein the DTF container satisfies the hardware resource requirement.
US12026551B2
A scalable Internet of Things (IoT) system may include multiple instances of an IoT manager, each instance respectively configured to connect to a respective edge system of multiple edge systems. The IoT system may further include a containerized system configured to allow any instance of the IoT manager to deploy data pipelines to any edge system of the multiple edge systems in delta communications. Any instance of the IoT manager may send a change message to any edge system via a publish/subscribe notification method. In some examples, a centralized IoT manager may form a secure communication with an edge system, synchronize an object model with an edge object model for the edge system, and maintain the edge system using delta change communications. The IoT system may facilitate any instance of the IoT manager to subscribe a communication channel with an associated edge system for receiving update notification.
US12026547B2
A method and a system for arranging business process, a computing device, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving an application module and a business process rule that are transmitted by a user terminal, wherein the application module is configured to indicate a processing logic in a link in a business process, and wherein the business process rule is configured to indicate a processing rule of the application module; determining a target edge device corresponding to the application module; and transmitting the application module and the business process rule to the target edge device for the target edge device to execute the application module according to the business process rule.
US12026546B2
A system and method that provides fine grained parallelization to serial pipelines and serial data processing with one or more threading and synchronization models whereby data object or packet processing is orchestrated by a parser identifying the various layers of the input data object and dispatching worker threads to perform the processing of the various layers of the data object, wherein the worker threads may execute in parallel.
US12026542B2
A system for optimizing deployment of a machine learning workload is provided. A computer device receives information pertaining to a machine learning workload to be processed for a client device. The computer device determines a machine learning model for the workload and a processing location for the workload based, at least in part, on the information. The computer device generates a request to process the workload at the determined processing location utilizing the determined machine learning model.
US12026531B2
Provided are methods and systems which transform a general purpose computer into a secure and dedicated remote work station by enabling the computer to be booted using an operating system stored on a connected portable storage device and by executing the operating system from volatile memory in a secure and efficient manner.
US12026530B2
Methods and apparatus directed to utilizing an automated messaging system to initiate and/or adapt a dialog with at least one user, where the dialog occurs via user interface input and output devices of at least one computing device of the user. In some of those implementations, the automated messaging system identifies at least one task associated with the user and initiates the dialog with the user based on identifying the task. The automated messaging system may initiate the dialog to provide the user with additional information related to the task and/or to determine, based on user input provided during the dialog, values for one or more parameters of the task. In some implementations, the automated messaging system may further initiate performance of the task utilizing parameters determined during the dialog.
US12026529B2
Example embodiments described herein relate to an interactive interface system to maintain a user support profile, wherein the user support profile comprises a plurality of media content that includes user support content, receive a message request from a client device wherein the message request includes an identification of the user support profile and corresponding message content that includes a natural language request, convert the natural language request to a query term, perform a query upon the plurality of media content associated with the user support profile based on the query term, identify relevant media content based on the query, and cause display of the relevant media content within a chat interface at the client device. The interfaces generated and displayed by the interactive interface system therefore enable a user to access user support without having to navigate to a separate interface.
US12026514B1
Disclosed herein are memory device, method for managing a storage system. In an aspect, a memory device comprises an address register to store addresses and a processor coupled to the address register. The processor is configured to receive a first multi-plane program operation command of a set of multi-plane program operation commands. The processor is further configured to latch a first address of the first multi-plane program operation command into the address register. In addition, the processor is further configured to receive a read operation command that includes a second address and refrain from latching the second address into the address register.
US12026501B2
A device configured to identify automated process instructions for a first network device. The automated process instructions include instructions for performing a series of actions on the first network device. The device is further configured to identify a first time instance for executing the automated process instructions that is before a time interval associated with a system update for the first network device, to identify a second time instance corresponding with a start time of the time interval associated with the system update for the first network device, and to identify a third time instance corresponding with an end time of the time interval associated with the system update for the first network device. The device is further configured to execute the machine-executable code at the first time instance, to pause the execution of the machine-executable code at a breakpoint at the second time instance, and to resume execution of the machine-executable code after the breakpoint at the third time instance after the system update is complete.
US12026499B2
A device and a method for controlling OTA update of a vehicle, to automatically set an optimal current consumption regardless of a vehicle model and an option for each vehicle model, includes a sensor configured for measuring a current consumption of a battery provided in the vehicle, and a controller that sets an initial current consumption to the vehicle, determines whether the OTA update is possible based on the initial current consumption and an expected over the air (OTA) update time, and determines an optimal current consumption based on the initial current consumption and an average current consumption during the OTA update.
US12026498B2
A control system comprises a mobile object control unit for controlling a mobile object; and an update control unit for controlling receiving an update program of the mobile object control unit by means of wireless communication and controlling instructing to update a control program of the mobile object control unit, wherein when a power switch of the mobile object is turned off during receiving the update program, the update control unit is for: continuing receiving the update program, provided that receiving the update program is predicted to be completed within a predetermined time; and stopping receiving the update program if receiving the update program is predicted not to be completed within the predetermined time.
US12026491B2
Systems and methods for providing a pattern-based cloud architecture facilitating deployment of pattern-based cloud applications are presented. The pattern-based cloud architecture comprises a base layer having one or more bases, a landing zone layer comprising one or more landing zones within each base, and an application pattern layer comprising one or more application patters for each landing zone. Each base provides base services and/or parameters common to all landing zones associated with such base. Each landing zone adds services and/or parameters specific to such landing zone, while inheriting those of the associated base. Application patterns define the requirements and capability of cloud-based applications that can be run within each associated landing zone.
US12026490B2
Provided are a method for obtaining vehicle diagnosis software, a server and a diagnosis device. In the method, the diagnosis device sends an acquisition request of target diagnosis software to the server based on a target vehicle, where the acquisition request includes a vehicle identification code; the server determines whether the target vehicle has an authorization qualification of the target diagnosis software based on the acquisition request, to obtain a determination result; the server performs an operation based on the determination result. Only the target vehicle with the authorization qualification can download the software, realizing the flexible configuration of the diagnosis device and configuring the diagnosis device based on user's actual requirement to complete the vehicle diagnosis, and reducing waste of resources.
US12026479B2
A Unit Element (UE) has a digital X input and a digital W input, and comprises groups of NAND gates generating complementary outputs which are coupled to differential charge transfer lines through respective charge transfer capacitor Cu. The number of bits in the X input determines the number of NAND gates in a NAND-group and the number of bits in the W input determines the number of NAND groups. Each NAND-group receives one bit of the W input applied to all of the NAND gates of the NAND-group, and each unit element having the bits of X applied to each associated NAND gate input of each unit element. The NAND gate outputs are coupled through a charge transfer capacitor Cu to charge transfer lines. Multiple Unit Elements may be placed in parallel to sum and scale the charges from the charge transfer lines, the charges coupled to an analog to digital converter which forms the dot product output.
US12026466B1
A method for entity relations extraction including applying entity markers to a set of sentences included in a data bag to generate a token sequence for a subset of the set of sentences, the token sequence including a beginning position mark and an ending position mark of a corresponding sentence, as well as a front position mark and a rear position mark of at least one entity included in each of the subset of the set of sentences; using the generated token sequences of the set of sentences with a pre-trained language representation model to generate a sentence feature vector for each sentence included in the data bag; aggregating, in a data encoding module, the sentence feature vectors of the set of sentences into a bag encoding vector; and classifying data entity relations of the set of sentences included in the data bag through decoding and inferencing the bag encoding vector.
US12026465B2
There is disclosed a method and system for classifying a word as an obscene word, the method comprising, at a training phrase: acquiring a first word, the first word corresponding to a given obscene word; generating a first set of misspelled words, the first set of misspelled words comprising a plurality of misspelled variations of the first word; generating a training pairs, the training pairs comprising: a set of positive training pairs comprising the first word paired with each misspelled variations of the first word; training a machine learning algorithm, the training comprising: determining, for each training pairs, a set of features representative of a property of the training pairs; generating an inferred function based on the set of features, the inferred function being configured to assign, in use, an indecency score, the decency score being indicative of a likelihood of the word being obscene.
US12026464B2
An improved system and method for address entry are provided for a user to enter a plurality of addresses into a recipient field associated with an electronic communication. According to embodiments described herein, a first user input is received. The first user input is indicative of a first recipient for an electronic communication, where the first recipient includes a first name and a last name. A second user input is received in addition to the first recipient while the electronic communication is currently addressed to the first recipient. The second user input is indicative of a portion of a second recipient for the electronic communication. An auto-complete list of one or more suggested recipients that correspond to the second user input is displayed while the electronic communication is currently addressed to the first recipient. The one or more suggested recipients do not include the first recipient.
US12026460B2
To make it possible to generate dialogue data for generating a question sentence to deeply delve conversation at a low cost. For each of a plurality of pieces of data each including a set of a first utterance sentence that is a sentence uttered by a first user, a second utterance sentence that is a sentence uttered by a second user and is a response to the first utterance sentence, and a third utterance sentence that is a sentence uttered by the first user and is a response to the second utterance sentence, a dialogue data generation unit 110 generates a set of the first utterance sentence of the data and the second utterance sentence of the data as dialogue data when the second utterance sentence of the data is a question sentence using an interrogative.
US12026456B2
Systems and methods for using optical character recognition (OCR) with voice recognition commands are provided. Some embodiments include receiving a user interface that includes a text field, capturing an image of at least a portion of the user interface, and performing OCR on the image to identify the text field and a word in the user interface. Some embodiments include mapping a coordinate of the word in the text field, receiving a voice command that includes the word, and navigating, by the computing device, a cursor to the coordinate to execute the voice command.
US12026454B2
A method can be performed by a browser. The method can include presenting at least a portion of a resource address; presenting a rendered webpage in a browser content window, the rendered webpage being associated with the resource address; presenting an annotation area, the annotation area being outside the browser content window; receiving, in association with a user account, an annotation in the annotation area; and storing the annotation in association with the user account and the resource address.
US12026450B2
A method for adding dimensions to a visual representation is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method obtains a data set containing data in a plurality of rows and columns (i.e., dimensions). The method divides the dimensions into a plurality of groups and determines a coordinate system for each group. For each row in the data set, the method determines data points for each group in the corresponding coordinate system. The method then connects the data points for each row with lines to create a visual representation for the data set. In certain embodiments, each group in the data set utilizes a two-dimensional coordinate system. In other embodiments, each group in the data set utilizes a three-dimensional coordinate system. In yet other embodiments, a mix of two-dimensional coordinate systems and three-dimensional coordinate systems are used. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US12026447B2
A text editor juxtaposes non-adjacent lines of a textual work to be shown as adjacent, later restoring the lines to original position. The text editor presents lines of words as separate columnized syllables, with stressed syllables presented visually different than unstressed syllables, to visualize the lines' rhythm. The lines may later be restored to original format. The text editor allows certain conditions in the text, such as rhyme and consonance, to be detected and visually indicated according to visual indication definitions, and then later restored to original format. A content wizard provides an easy starting point for a new textual work. A textual work uses blank lines and varying indentation levels to distinguish different stanza types. The text editor includes a rhyming engine which offers both perfect and imperfect rhyme options in a hierarchical output fashion based on similarity of consonant sounds.
US12026443B2
A non-transitory computer readable recording medium includes simulation data input into a computing device executing a simulation of a semiconductor device, wherein the simulation data includes part shape information describing shape and terminal information of the semiconductor device, logical model information describing operation and connection information of an element in the semiconductor device, and functional block information describing positional information of a functional block in the semiconductor device, and the computing device causes the part shape information, the logical model information, and the functional block information to correspond to each other to execute the simulation of the semiconductor device.
US12026441B2
A multi-disciplinary optimization (MDO) framework and workflow facilitates analysis and optimization of set of designs of a pressure-controlling component. The MDO workflow generally enables design workflow integration and automation, which can improve engineering efficiency, and enables automated optimization within the workflow automation, which facilitates performance and reliability improvement for product development. The MDO workflow enables the integration of computer-aided design (CAD), finite element analysis (FEA), digital manufacturing simulation (DMS), and optimization packages to facilitate testing and optimization of a set of pressure-controlling component designs. As such, the MDO framework and workflow improve the efficiency of the design process by providing a scalable solution for automating aspects of the design process for a set of designs of a pressure-controlling component, which may represent a product family or a set of competing alternative designs.
US12026439B2
A simulation method, implemented by computer, simulates the optical power of a laminated glass of given shape liable to be obtained by laminating at least two glass sheets and at least one lamination interlayer, the laminated glass being liable to have an edge, a first main face, and a second main face. The method is suitable for determining a minimum value of optical quality index which a combination of glass sheets must satisfy so as to form a laminated glass of given shape with a given optical quality constraint.
US12026433B2
A data processing method and apparatus, and a readable medium and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: collecting a facial image of a user by means of a terminal, and taking the collected facial image as a first facial image, displaying the first facial image in a user display area of a terminal screen; where the terminal screen displays a target object, collecting a sound signal of the user, and taking the collected sound signal as a target sound signal; and if the sound intensity of the target sound signal is within a first intensity range, switching a display state of the target object, and switching the first facial image in the user display area to a second facial image, wherein the second facial image is obtained on the basis of the first facial image.
US12026431B2
A control device is configured to (i) define configuration data corresponding to a zone scene of a media playback system, the configuration data including an identification of at least a first zone player and a second zone player, (ii) cause a remote computing device to (a) receive the configuration data via a wide area network and (b) store the configuration data, (iii) while the first zone player and a third zone player are playing back first audio content in synchrony, display a selectable indication that, when selected, causes the zone scene to be invoked, and (iv) in response to receiving an input indicative of a selection of the selectable indication, cause the remote computing device to invoke the zone scene at the media playback system such that the first zone player and the second zone player play back second audio content in synchrony without the third zone player.
US12026429B2
Method and systems are provided for displaying a control representation in a playback zone representation provided on a playback zones view interface. The playback zones view interface allows a user to view and navigate between playback zones in a media playback system, and the control representation in the playback zone representation is selectable to allow the user to control playback of media content in the corresponding playback zone from the playback zones view interface without having to navigate to a particular playback control interface corresponding to the playback zone.
US12026426B2
A display device including a display panel including a substrate and a pixel array layer disposed on a first surface of the substrate, a sound generation device disposed on a second surface of the substrate opposite to the first surface of the substrate, and a circuit board disposed on the second surface of the substrate, in which the circuit board includes a first hole overlapping the sound generation device.
US12026423B1
A consumables dispenser can include a housing configured to receive a consumables product to be dispensed, a transceiver mounted on the housing and configured to receive selected multimedia data files from a content management system via a multimedia caching server that is in wireless communication with the content management system, and a display screen coupled to the housing and connected to the transceiver. The display screen can be configured to display the selected multimedia data files to a user of the consumables dispensers. The consumables dispenser can further include a sensor configured to detect presence or absence of the user of the consumables dispensers. Display of the selected multimedia data files on the display screen can be enabled upon detection of the user's presence and disabled upon detection of the user's absence.
US12026419B2
A display control method includes: acquiring a standard time; synchronizing an internal time referred to in processing by one display device with the standard time; detecting a reference time, which is the internal time when an image represented by an input image signal satisfies a predetermined condition; outputting the reference time to another display device of a plurality of display devices; acquiring a reference time detected in the another display device; and delaying a vertical synchronization signal by a time period from the reference time of the one display device to the reference time of the another display device, when the reference time of the another display device is later than the reference time of the one display device.
US12026418B1
A collective display and intelligent layout system and processes are disclosed for automatically updating and collectively synchronizing multiple device screens as a single collective graphical output image. The collective display and intelligent layout system and processes perform automatic intelligent layout and alignment of the multiple device screens to form an intended layout for the collective graphical output image. The collective display and intelligent layout system and processes automatically updates the single graphics output in real-time to account for added and removed device screens.
US12026417B2
An information presentation system includes a controller that controls a device included in a production line, a terminal including a display and a camera that captures an image of the device, and a server that communicates with the controller and the terminal. The camera has an image capture range including a view field of the display. The controller transmits a light emission command to the device, the light emission command causing a light emitter included in the device to emit light in a predetermined light emission pattern. The terminal displays information regarding the device in association with a display position in a display area of the display, the display position corresponding to a position of a partial image representing the light emission pattern in a captured image of the camera.
US12026413B1
In one example, a system can receive an order from a client device. The system can also receive data about a set of print queues at a set of printers via a network. The system can then determine a set of queue times corresponding to the set of print queues. Each respective queue time can be determined based on a corresponding print queue. The system can generate an estimated wait time for the order based on the set of queue times. The system can then transmit the estimated wait time to the client device for display in a graphical user interface to a user associated with the order.
US12026412B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided to facilitate connections between devices, such as a printer and a cloud-based server, and to implement an adaptive application framework. In the context of an apparatus, a printer is provided comprising communications circuitry configured to facilitate communications with a network; and processing circuitry configured to transmit a connection request to the network; receive requested connection parameters from the network; transmit printer connection parameters to the network; and establish a first secure connection between the printer and the network. The printer comprising processing circuitry further configured to receive requested connection parameters comprising at least a signed security certificate and a DNS name for a server on the network and to verify the signed security certificate and the DNS name for the server. The printer comprising processing circuitry further configured to transmit printer connection parameters comprising at least a signed security certificate for the printer.
US12026403B1
A method for performing configuration management of a memory device in predetermined communications architecture with aid of electronic fuse (eFuse) data preparation, associated apparatus and computer-readable medium are provided. The method may include: utilizing a memory controller to receive a first command from a host device through a transmission interface circuit of the memory controller; utilizing the memory controller to execute at least one procedure regarding MP initialization of the memory device, for example, operations of a first procedure among the at least one procedure may include obtaining eFuse information from an eFuse circuit, preparing protected eFuse data according to the eFuse information, and storing the protected eFuse data into a non-volatile (NV) memory; and utilizing the memory controller to send a first response to the host device through the transmission interface circuit, wherein the first response is sent to the host device in response to the first command.
US12026399B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a substrate, a first die, and a second die. The substrate includes first and second byte pads of a first channel and first and second byte pad of a second channel. First byte pads of the first die are respectively coupled to the first byte pads of the first channel, and second byte pads of the first die are respectively coupled to the second byte pads of the first channel. The second die, as disposed, is rotated by 180° with respect to the first die. First byte pads of the second die are respectively coupled to the second byte pads of the second channel, and second byte pads of the second die are respectively coupled to the first byte pads of the second channel.
US12026398B2
A memory system may include a storage medium including a buffer region and a main region; and a controller configured to, when performing a flush operation, move normal data from the buffer region to the main region and maintain pinned data in the buffer region, wherein the pinned data is data which is determined by a host device to be maintained in the buffer region irrespective of the flush operation.
US12026385B2
A processing device access a command to program data to a page in a block of a memory device. The processing device determines whether the page is a last remaining open page in the block. The processing device accesses a list that indicates enablement of a function to apply read level offsets to one or more open blocks in the memory device. The processing device determines the list includes an entry that matches to the block. The entry indicates enablement of the function to apply read level offsets to the block. The processing device disables the function based on determining the page is a last remaining open page in the block. The processing device adds the command to a prioritized queue of commands. The memory device executes commands from the prioritized queue in an order based on a priority level assigned to each command.
US12026375B2
This information processing device includes: an analysis unit that parses a program assigned to a task which is periodically executed; and an output unit. The analysis unit classifies each of at least one variable used to execute the task into a first group in which a process of reading a value from a memory is performed first and a second group in which a process of writing a value in the memory is performed first. The analysis unit determines that the necessity for a soft error measure for a variable belonging to the first group is greater than the necessity for a soft error measure for a variable belonging to the second group. The output unit outputs a determination result. Thus, a variable that requires a soft error measure can be identified.
US12026369B2
A flash memory physical interface in a host device may be configured based on a selection signal indicating whether a flash memory system is a first type or a second type. Based on the selection signal, either a first differential memory data signal input of driver circuitry or a second differential memory data signal input of the driver circuitry may be coupled to a differential data input of the flash memory system. Based on the selection signal, a differential data output of the flash memory system may be coupled to either a first differential memory data signal output of receiver circuitry or a second differential memory data signal output of the receiver circuitry.
US12026361B2
A computing system that can operate to implement an interactive graphic design system that enables users to preview and resolve input actions that cause conflict with predefined constraints.
US12026354B2
Some aspects of the disclosure provide a method for video generation. The method includes displaying, in response to an audio input operation in an audio input interface provided by a terminal device, a keyword selection interface based on a first audio that is obtained from the audio input operation. The keyword selection interface includes at least a recommended keyword that is obtained by performing a speech recognition on the first audio. The method further includes determining, in response to an editing operation on the at least the recommended keyword in the keyword selection interface, at least a target keyword, and displaying, in response to a video synthesis operation in the keyword selection interface, a video display interface, the video display interface includes a synthetic video from a video clip, and the video clip matches the target keyword.
US12026350B2
A configuration system uses multiple depth cameras to create a volumetric capture space around an electronically controllable industrial machine or system, referred to as a target system. The output of the cameras is processed to create a live 3D model of everything within the space. A remote operator can then navigate within this 3D model, for example from a desktop application, in order to view the target system from various perspectives in a live 3D telepresence. In addition to the live 3D model, a configuration system generates a 3D user interface for programming and configuring machines or target systems within the space in a spatially coherent way. Local operators can interact with the target system using mobile phones which track the target system in augmented reality. Any number of local operators can interact with a remote operator to simultaneously program and configure the target system.
US12026347B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and mobile terminals for displaying multiple application windows. One example method includes determining a window width and a window height of a first application window in a current placement direction. If a value relationship between the window width and the window height is that the window width is greater than the window height, loading a landscape display resource of the first application in the current placement direction. If a value relationship between the window width and the window height is that the window width is less than the window height, loading a portrait display resource of the first application in the current placement direction.
US12026342B2
An electronic device can include a housing, a back cover, a structural member, and a sensing circuit. The housing can at least partially define an internal volume of the electronic device and the back cover can define at least a portion of the internal volume and be connected to the housing. The structural member can be disposed against the back cover and at least partially within the internal volume, the structural member including an electronic component. The sensing circuit can be disposed in the internal volume and electrically coupled to the electronic component. The sensing circuit can detect an amount of charge of the electronic component as part of a user proximity sensor of the electronic device.
US12026336B2
Disclosed are a touch display panel and a display device, comprising touch wires. The touch wires comprises first sub-parts arranged along the first direction; the first sub-part comprises a first wiring sub-part arranged along the first direction and a first connecting sub-part connecting adjacent first wiring sub-parts. The widths of the two first connecting sub-parts connected to one first wiring sub-part are different, and/or the widths of the two first connecting sub-parts connected between two adjacent first wiring sub-parts are different.
US12026334B2
A touch panel display driver includes a source driver circuit, a touch detection circuit, a selector circuit, a register a plurality of source terminals, a plurality of touch detection terminals, and a plurality of selection terminals. The selector circuit electrically connects the source driver circuit to each of the source terminals, electrically connects the touch detection circuit to each of the touch detection terminals, and electrically connects each of the selection terminals to the source driver circuit or the touch detection circuit.
US12026317B2
An electronic device includes air input sensors that gather air input from a user's fingers, a stylus, or other object in a volume of air near the electronic device. The air input sensors include ultrasonic transducers that emit ultrasonic signals towards the volume of air and that detect the ultrasonic signals after the signals reflect from the external object. Using time-of-flight measurement techniques, control circuitry tracks the movement of the external object in the volume of air near the electronic device. A display provides visual feedback of the air input, such as shadows that preview where the input will be directed to on the display. The volume of air where input is detected is divided into multiple input zones that trigger different actions from the electronic device. The ultrasonic transducers include acoustic lenses.
US12026316B2
The present invention provides a tactile feedback device that detects a user operation based on touch without erroneous detection, providing stable tactile feedback. This device includes: an operated section that receives a user operation based on touch; a touch detection section for detecting touch on the operated section; a load detection section that detects a load on the operated section due to touch; a vibration actuator that generates vibration and outputs the vibration to the operated section; and a driving control section that drives, in response to the detection of touch and detection of load, the vibration actuator to vibrate the operated section, feeding back tactile sensation to a user, wherein the load detection section stops detection of a load during vibration.
US12026299B2
An adaptive VR system is provided, which includes a headset and a handle, the headset comprises a headset camera, a control end, and an electromagnetic receiving module, and the control end comprises a control end database and a data selection module; the handle comprises a handle camera and an electromagnetic transmitting module; the headset camera is configured to acquire an external environment image in a headset coordinate system; the handle camera is configured to acquire an external environment image in a handle coordinate system; the control end database is configured to store the external environment image of the handle coordinate system; the data selection module is configured to determine a tracking mode used for tracking the handle, the tracking mode comprising optical tracking; and the electromagnetic receiving module is connected to the data selection module.
US12026295B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to pictograms as digitally recognizable tangible controls. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a user system can include a processing component and a memory component. The memory component can include instructions of a pictogram digitization module. The user system can capture, via a camera component, an image containing a pictogram that is a digitally recognizable tangible manifestation of a digital control. The user system can determine, via the pictogram digitization module, the digital control associated with the pictogram. The user system can implement, via the pictogram digitization module, the digital control. The digital control can include a digital content, an action, or a context. The user system can create, via the pictogram digitization module, a digital interface that includes the digital control. In some embodiments, the pictogram includes a formal pictogram. In other embodiments, the pictogram includes an informal pictogram.
US12026288B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for using confidential computing to execute code on sensitive data in an encrypted area of an apparatus limiting access to data and code to only their respective owners. Methods may include: generating an outer enclave and at least one inner enclave within the outer enclave; providing an outer enclave key and an inner enclave key to a service provider; providing an inner enclave key to a data provider; receiving, from the data provider, a data retrieval location; processing data from the respective retrieval location at the data provider inner enclave using data provider code to generate data provider processed data; providing the data provider processed data to the service provider inner enclave; and processing the data provider processed data with service provider code to generate resultant data; decrypting the resultant data in the outer enclave.
US12026287B2
This document describes systems and techniques for improving the integrity and protecting the security of information in content selection and distribution. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a first server of a secure multi-party computation (MFC) system from an application on a user device, a request for a digital component. The request is parsed into distinct sub-requests. Each sub-request is transmitted to a different server. A set of candidate selection values is received from a separate server. The first server performs, in collaboration with one or more second servers of the MFC system, a selection process to generate a selection result for a winning digital component, including merging, the first set of candidate selection values and a set of cached selection values to create a final set of candidate selection values and sorting the final set according to the values of the candidate selection values.
US12026282B2
The disclosure relates to a method for processing data recorded by a motor vehicle. In a first step, at least one set of parameters for a temporal and spatial obfuscation of the recorded data is received. An item of data recorded by a motor vehicle is additionally received. A temporal and spatial obfuscation is then applied to the received item of data using the at least one received set of parameters. The obfuscated item of data is finally forwarded for further processing. The obfuscation may take place within the motor vehicle or in a back end connected to the motor vehicle.
US12026281B2
The present invention relates to a method for creating avatars from an initial sensitive data set stored in a database of a computer system, the initial data comprising attributes relating to a plurality of individuals, the method comprising: a) choosing a number {k} of nearest neighbors to be used from all the individuals in the initial data set, b) identifying, for attributes relating to a given individual, the k nearest neighbors from among the other individuals in the data set, c) generating, for at least one attribute relating to said individual, a new attribute value from quantities which are characteristic of the attribute in the identified k nearest neighbors and weighted by a coefficient, and d) creating avatar data comprising the new attribute value(s), so as to ensure the sensitive data relating to the individual are non-identifiable.
US12026278B2
A system for securely storing personal information and memories of a user, such as through a software application, is disclosed. In particular, the system may utilize the application to transition the personal information and memories from cloud storage to cold storage and/or to an air-gapped data storage system. The personal information and memories of the user may be secured by the system using blockchain technology, multi-factor authentication, and/or other security technologies. The system may ensure that the information is highly secured until the user has passed and a next of kin of the user and/or other intended recipient of the user's information successfully authenticates with the system, such as by presenting a valid death certificate and/or acceptable credential. If the intended recipient of the data successfully provides a valid death certificate and/or credential, the intended recipient may be provided with access to the data associated with the user.
US12026277B2
An electronic device includes a communication module, a processor, and a memory storing instructions, and the processor executes instructions to implement operations including: receiving a request to update first user information from an external electronic device through the communication module, identifying a processing order of the update of the first user information for the plurality of service servers, based on the stored relationship information, and transmit the request for processing the first user information to at least a first service server from among the plurality of service servers through the communication module, based on the identified processing order.
US12026275B2
In a method for electronic data card enhancements, at least one electronic data card may be requested containing data within a plurality of data elements. At least one value adding feature may be determined applicable to the data. Additionally, the at least one value adding feature may be applied to the data, and the at least one electronic data card may be presented containing data and the applied at least one value adding feature of the data.
US12026274B2
A method includes receiving a permission request from a user to perform an operation in a computer environment. Data elements of operations previously performed by a plurality of users are received. A set of operation types are generated by identifying data elements of operations previously performed by other users of the plurality of users having operation types performed by the user. The data elements in the set are mapped into a graph database. Permission messages are generated with a correct response identified from a data attribute from a specific operation type previously performed by the user, and wrong responses identified from the specific operation type previously performed by the other users. An accumulated probability based on the permission respond message is computed using the graph database. The user is tagged based on the accumulated probability as a permissioned user for performing the operation, or a non-permissioned violator user.
US12026271B2
A processor of a medical device configured to communicate with a remote server can be programmed to protect the medical device from exposure to unauthorized or malicious software. A system or method to implement this form of protection can include, for example, at least one processor on the medical device, a control software module that controls the operation of the medical device and is executable on the processor, a data management module that manages data flow to and from the control software module from sources external to the medical device, and an agent module that has access to a limited number of designated memory locations in the medical device. In addition, a hemodialysis apparatus can be configured to operate in conjunction with an apparatus for providing purified water from a source such as a municipal water supply or a well. A system for controlling delivery of purified water to the hemodialysis apparatus can comprise a therapy controller of the hemodialysis apparatus configured to communicate with a controller of a water purification device, and a user interface controller of the hemodialysis apparatus configured to communicate with the therapy controller, and to send data to and receive data from a user interface.
US12026269B2
Image processing device security is provided herein. A method can include assembling, by a first system comprising a processor using a first virtual machine enabled via the first system, raw input data captured by an image capture device from an input image, resulting in assembled input data; generating, by the first system using a second virtual machine that is enabled via the first system and distinct from the first virtual machine, an output image from the assembled input data; reading, by the first system in response to the generating, the output image; and preventing, by the first system, a second system, distinct from the first system, from accessing the output image in response to the reading resulting in execution of unauthorized instructions at the first system.
US12026249B2
Methods, media and systems for screening content for malicious content in a web browser are disclosed. Document object model (DOM) elements are retrieved from the content displayed in the web browser. A link to visit a web site included in the DOM elements is identified. The identified link is compared to a list of permitted sources. Information is scanned to determine whether the information matches records of content transmitted by a primary source among the permitted sources. An alert is generated after determining a mismatch between the information in the DOM elements and records of content transmitted by the primary source.
US12026248B2
A system and method for identifying device attributes based on string field conventions. A method includes applying at least one machine learning model to an application data set extracted based on a string indicated in a field of device data corresponding to a device, wherein each of the at least one machine learning model is trained based on a training data set including a plurality of second strings and a plurality of device attribute labels, wherein each device attribute label corresponds to a respective second string of the plurality of second strings, wherein each of the at least one machine learning model is configured to output a predicted device attribute for the device based on the first string; and identifying, based on the output of the at least one machine learning model, a device attribute of the device.
US12026245B2
Methods and devices are disclosed. A method, performed in a user application, of creating a trusted bond between a hearing device and the user application is disclosed, wherein the method comprises obtaining first authentication material; transmitting a first authentication request comprising a first authentication type identifier and first authentication data to the hearing device; receiving an authentication response comprising an authentication key identifier; storing an authentication key and the authentication key identifier, wherein the authentication key is based on the first authentication material; and connecting the user application to the hearing device using the authentication key and the authentication key identifier.
US12026234B2
The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented systems and methods for training and using generative adversarial networks. In one implementation, a system for training a generative adversarial network may include at least one processor that may provide a first plurality of images including representations of a feature-of-interest and indicators of locations of the feature-of-interest and use the first plurality and indicators to train an object detection network. Further, the processor(s) may provide a second plurality of images including representations of the feature-of-interest, and apply the trained object detection network to the second plurality to produce a plurality of detections of the feature-of-interest. Additionally, the processor(s) may provide manually set verifications of true positives and false positives with respect to the plurality of detections, use the verifications to train a generative adversarial network, and retrain the generative adversarial network using at least one further set of images, further detections, and further manually set verifications.
US12026231B2
Provided is a method of creating a local database for local optimization of an object detector based on a deep neural network. The method includes performing preprocessing on an image extracted from real-time collected or pre-collected images from an edge device, modeling a static background image based on the image received through the pre-processing unit and calculating a difference image between a current input image and a background model to model a dynamic foreground image, detecting an object image from the image based on a training model, and creating a local database based on the background image, the foreground image synthesized with the background image, and the object image synthesized with the background image.
US12026229B2
A method is provided. The method includes generating a set of candidate training data based on a simulated environment and a first set of environmental parameters. The method also includes training a machine learning model based on the set of candidate training data. The method further includes obtaining a set of segmentations based on the machine learning model and a set of test data. The method further includes determining whether a mean intersection-over-union (MIOU) of the set of segmentations has increased by more than a threshold change. The method further includes generating a next set of candidate training data based on the simulated environment and a second set of environmental parameters for the simulated environment, in response to determining that the MIOU has increased by more than the threshold MIOU amount.
US12026223B2
A method and a computer system for preflighting a graphics artwork file. The method includes storing rules corresponding to an object, a set of recognition inputs for identifying the object, and a graphics artwork file to be preflighted. An image is rendered from the graphics artwork file and machine vision identifies a representation of the object in the rendered image, a characteristic of the object, and a value for the characteristic. The identified characteristic value is checked against corresponding values embodied in the rules, and an output of the checking step is provided. The system comprises at least one computer processor, an input, an output, and a plurality of computer memory modules for storing the rules, the recognition inputs, the artwork file, and instructions for performing the rendering, the machine vision, and the checking method.
US12026220B2
Techniques for an iterative singular spectrum analysis are provided. In one technique, a first analysis, of time series data, is performed that results in a first reconstructed version of the time series data. The first analysis, of the time series data and a portion of the first reconstructed version, is then performed that results in a second reconstructed version of the time series data. Based on a termination condition, it is determined whether to perform the first analysis relative to a portion of a third reconstructed version of the time series data. A second analysis, of the time series data and a portion of a fourth reconstructed version of the time series data, is performed that results in a fifth reconstructed version of the time series data. The second analysis is different than the first analysis. A difference between the time series data and the fifth reconstructed version data is computed.
US12026216B2
A method and system for a website building system (WBS) integrating at least one third party application includes detecting the presence of a spider associated with a search engine; parsing the output of said least one third party application to determine non-text components according to a request from said search engine spider, said non-text components having encoded or interleaved text, extracting said encoded or interleaved text from said non-text components; creating a search engine friendly page containing said extracted text; and providing said search engine friendly page to said spider.
US12026214B2
Certain aspects of the technology disclosed herein involve managing a connection between users of a first profile class and users of a second profile class based on proximity. Location data from a first mobile device is used to determine that a first user of a first class is within a first proximity of a property. The property has at least one parameter identified in a user profile of the first user of the first class. Location data from a second mobile device is used to determine that a second user of a second class is within a second proximity of the property. A notification is transmitted to the first mobile device identifying the property, and at least the second user of the second class. A message is received from the first mobile device indicating selection of the second user. The first mobile device connects with the second mobile device.
US12026212B2
Systems and methods to generate creator page recommendations for content creators within a membership platform based on classification of content creators are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: obtain new creator information; obtain existing creator information; classify individual existing content creators into modality classes and/or genre classes based on the existing creator information; classify individual new content creators into the modality classes and/or the genre classes based on the new creator information; generate relationship information establishing relationships between the new content creators and the existing content creators; generate one or more creator page recommendations based on the relationship information; effectuate presentation of the one or more creator page recommendations; and/or perform other operations.
US12026206B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for creating custom system generated hyperlinks for predefined search queries at an external website. The system stores, in a data storage device, a set of custom URL templates, the custom URL templates defining required data fields to concatenate as parameters for a website link. The system obtains user information about a user where the information includes at least a first name and last name of the user. The system retrieves from the data storage device the set of custom URL templates. The system generates multiple website links based on the retrieved custom URL templates, where the generated website link includes a domain name of a website, and concatenated fields that are parameter specific to the website. The system then displays, via a user interface, a representation of the generated website links for selection by a user.
US12026196B2
An audio file associated with a user voice query may be received at a user device. The audio file may be compared to a plurality of references, such as cache entries, corresponding to a plurality of other voice queries. Based on a determination that the voice query corresponds to one of the references, an operation associated with the voice query may be executed. An indication may be received that the operation was not an intended operation associated with the voice query. Based on receiving this indication, the incorrectly identified operation, associated reference, e.g., voice query, may be disabled for the user or the device. However, the cache entry may remain enabled for one or more of a plurality of other devices.
US12026191B2
A system (100) for processing biology-related data comprises one or more processors (110) coupled to one or more storage devices (120). The system (100) is configured to receive biology-related image-based search data (103) and configured to generate a first high-dimensional representation of the biology-related image-based search data (103) by a trained visual recognition machine-learning algorithm executed by the one or more processors (110). The first high-dimensional representation comprises at least 3 entries each having a different value. Further, the system (100) is configured to obtain a plurality of second high-dimensional representations (105) of a plurality of biology-related image-based input data sets or of a plurality of biology-related language-based input data sets. Additionally, the system (100) is configured to compare the first high-dimensional representation with each second high-dimensional representation (105) of the plurality of second high-dimensional representations by the one or more processors (110).
US12026183B2
Generating a compliance framework. The compliance framework facilitates an organization's compliance with multiple authority documents by providing efficient methodologies and refinements to existing technologies, such as providing hierarchical fidelity to the original authority document; separating auditable citations from their context (e.g., prepositions and or informational citations); asset focused citations; SNED and Live values, among others.
US12026182B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to select a first data field of a first type that is associated with a second data field of a second type in a document, to determine an embedding of terms of unstructured text data in the first data field and to identify a subset of paired data fields from an unstructured text database based at least in part on metrics characterizing similarity between (i) the embedding of terms in the first data field and (ii) embeddings of terms in data fields of the first type in the paired data fields. The processing device is further configured to determine syntactic differences between the unstructured text data in the first data field and the identified subset of paired data fields, and to provide recommendations for unstructured text data to fill the second data field in the document based on the syntactic differences.
US12026180B2
An online system leverages stored interactions with items made by users after the online system received queries to determine display of items satisfying the query. For example, the online system trains a model to predict a likelihood of a user performing an interaction with an item displayed after a query was received. As different items receive different amounts of interaction from users, limited historical interaction with certain items may limit accuracy of the model. The online system generates embeddings for previously received queries and uses measures of similarity between embeddings for queries to generate clusters of queries. Previous interactions with queries in a cluster are combined, with the combined data being used for determining display of items in response to a query.
US12026172B2
An apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The processor receives a request to validate target data against source data. The processor identifies a disagreement between an element of source data and a corresponding element of target data. The disagreement indicates that the ordered set of alphanumeric characters representing the source element is different from the ordered set of alphanumeric characters representing the target element. In response to identifying the disagreement, the processor determines that the source element does not match the target element, where the source element includes a first value stored according to a first format, and the target element includes a second value stored according to a second format. In response, the processor extracts an element of the source data corresponding to the source element, transforms this element from the first format to the second format, and loads it into the target data.
US12026164B1
Systems and techniques are provided for processing streaming data. For example, a process can include obtaining, by an edge device, a plurality of data streams corresponding to objects, activities, or events registered in an edge environment associated with the edge device. One or more machine learning networks implemented on the edge device can generate a plurality of features and/or embeddings corresponding to each respective data stream of the plurality of data streams. The edge device can determine a subset of salient content from the plurality of data streams, based on analyzing the plurality of features and/or embeddings generated for each respective data stream. The edge device can generate index information corresponding to the determined subset of salient content. The subset of salient content and the generated index information can be stored locally at the edge device for search and retrieval based on local queries received at the edge device.
US12026156B2
Systems, methods, and related technologies for classification are described. Network traffic from a network may be accessed and an entity may be selected. One or more values associated with one or more properties associated with the entity may be determined. The one or more values may be accessed from the network traffic. A search query based on the one or more values associated with the one or more properties associated with the entity is determined and performed. A search query result is received and the search query result comprises a plurality of webpages. Data from a webpage of the plurality of webpages is accessed. A classification result of the entity is determined, by a processing device, based on the data from the webpage of the plurality of webpages. The classification result is stored.
US12026153B2
Systems, methods, and devices for tracking a series of changes to database data are disclosed. A method includes executing a transaction to modify data in a micro-partition of a table of a database by generating a new micro-partition that embodies the transaction. The method includes associating transaction data with the new micro-partition, wherein the transaction data comprises a timestamp when the transaction was fully executed, and further includes associating modification data with the new micro-partition that comprises an indication of one or more rows of the table that were modified by the transaction. The method includes joining the transaction data with the modification data to generate joined data and querying the joined data to determine a listing of intermediate modifications made to the table between a first timestamp and a second timestamp.
US12026142B2
A method for processing data, applied in an electronic device, obtains dimensions of a target data set by dimensionality reduction processing, and creates a search index based on the target data set. A denominator d of a noise ratio is set. An unlabeled data point P is selected from the target data set, and neighbors of the data point P are searched for according to the search index to obtain a neighbor data set. A number of data in the neighbor data set of a type which is different from type of the data point P is calculated, the calculated number is set to be a numerator c of the noise ratio. The noise ratio A=c/d is calculated, and if greater than a preset noise ratio, the data point P is labeled as noise data. The present disclosure shortens the time of processing training data.
US12026141B2
Data storage system conflict management techniques are described. In one example, data is sent by client devices to both a repository system and a search index system of a data storage system. Each of the client devices maintains, locally, records of changes to data of the repository system, e.g., through use of an invertible Bloom lookup table. The records are used as a basis by the client devices to send reports to an arbiter system and used to detect conflicts When detected, a conflict request is communicated to client devices involved in the conflict as well as to the repository system and responses used to generate a correction that is communicated to update the repository system and search index system.
US12026135B1
A data management system includes a computing device. The computing device includes one or more processors to execute instructions stored in memory of the computing device. The instructions, when executed by the computer device, cause the computing device to receive an indication that multiple data elements are ready for evaluation, as well as determine whether metadata registration for the multiple data elements is valid. The instructions also cause the computing device to determine a data quality of the multiple data elements by evaluating multiple data elements based on multiple data quality dimensions including at least two of: validity, completeness, uniqueness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness. The instructions also cause the computing device to provide an indication of the data quality of the multiple data elements via a graphical user interface (GUI) generated via a centralized data mart.
US12026134B2
Embodiments of the system in includes data set analytics to identify one or more dataset utilized by a workflow. The data set analytics identifies upstream data sets referenced by the data sets utilized by the workflow. The set of all data sets relevant to the workflow are considered applicable data sets, and are analyzed. The data set analytics determines a usage pattern of each of the applicable data sets by the workflow, and identifies one or more data quality assertions for each of the applicable of data sets based on the usage pattern. The data set analytics further perform a quality evaluation of the applicable data sets by applying data quality assertions to the applicable data sets used by the workflow.
US12026128B2
An online document system can allow users to participate in collaborative negotiation of documents stored with in the online document system. To facilitate negotiations between multiple entities (each potentially including multiple users with different roles in the negotiation), the online document system includes a permissions system that allows per-clause control over user's access to propose and approve changes to a negotiated document. Similarly, the user interfaces for viewing a negotiated document provided by the online document system to users can depend on the role of that user in editing the document and the current stage of the negotiation of the document. Finally, the online document system can track agreement between sides in a negotiation on a per-clause basis and can otherwise help facilitate the negotiation of the document.
US12026125B2
In an example of an embodiment of the invention, data is replaced by a digest of the data to decrease storage requirements. When the format of the data is not known, a repeating pattern is identified within stored data comprising a plurality of data files, each data file comprising at least a header section and a data section. At least one occurrence of the repeating pattern is identified as a header section of a respective data file, and a data section of the respective data file is identified based, at least in part, on a location of the at least one occurrence of the repeating pattern. The identified data section of the respective data file is backed up. Systems are also disclosed.
US12026116B2
Examples described herein include a system comprising: a processing unit package comprising: at least one core and at least one offload processing device communicatively coupled inline between the at least one core and a network interface controller, the at least one offload processing device configurable to perform packet processing. In some examples, the at least one offload processing device is to allow mapping of packet processing pipeline stages of networking applications among software running on the at least one core and the at least one offload processing device to permit flexible entry, exit, and re-entry points among the at least one core and the at least one offload processing device.
US12026111B2
A low pin count (LPC) bus serial interrupt system includes: an interrupt direction signal generator configured to determine a current interrupt direction signal according to whether a host currently sends a first interrupt signal to an external device; and a level-shifter configured to convert a voltage level of a signal exchanged between the host and the external device according to the current interrupt direction signal.
US12026107B2
A command control system is provided which is configured to optimally set an output timing of a RAS command and an output timing of a CAS command for access requests different from each other. The command control system is configured to, when an output timing of a second RAS command is set in a first cycle time period which is a cycle starting from the reference time point, determine whether or not the second RAS command is output to a storage device in the first cycle time period in accordance with whether or not an output timing of a first CAS command is set in a second cycle time period constituted by a prescribed number of the cycles subsequent to the reference time point.
US12026103B1
A resource request is received by a peripheral device from host processing logic. The resource request includes a requested resource size. The peripheral device allocates resource of the peripheral device in response to the resource request. A resource response is sent by the peripheral device to the host processing logic. The resource response includes a location of the allocated resource.
US12026101B2
A method of operating a host device includes monitoring execution of a command sequence corresponding to a specific situation, determining whether working file set information for the command sequence is present in a database, transferring a logical address corresponding to the working file set information to a device driver driving a storage device when the working file set information is present in the database, requesting map information corresponding to the logical address from the storage device, receiving the map information from the storage device, and storing the map information in a buffer memory.
US12026091B2
A technique includes allocating, by a memory manager, a first region of a memory. The allocation includes selecting a logically contiguous first lane of the memory. The first lane is associated with a first identifier. The allocation further includes selecting a logically contiguous second lane of the memory. The second lane is a child of the first lane, and the second lane is orthogonal to the first lane. The second lane is associated with a second identifier. The technique includes, responsive to a request to access the first region, managing, by the memory manager, the access to the first region based on the first identifier and the second identifier.
US12026090B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for performing Telecom Day 0 tasks as concrete examples of the general model-based, event-driven, policy-controlled platform that generates a customized DevOp automation plan from a generic template, which describes a single platform-based workflow for automating related DevOps tasks end-to-end (e.g., across stages and teams) and top-to-bottom (e.g., across all layers—application, infrastructure and network) for an efficient, seamless, transparent and scalable process. The single, platform-based process commences with a submission that is the onboarding of a new or updated code-package or a composition of objects as a service (higher-level object). The single, platform-based process ends with the registration of the application in a catalog or returns the submission to the submitter for re-working. These capabilities automate continuous delivery, enabling agile development with a consistent developer experience.
US12026088B2
An approach for assisting software developers to fill the data gap and reproducing client application issue using reported reproducing steps is disclosed. The approach involves constructing service request/response sequence (from the developer's side based on the limited data) from customer's reproducing steps and developer's running inspection result and perform UI-service mapping, redirecting service call to data simulator which replay the service request and response, and adjusting service response with multiple data sources and policies. Lastly, the approach can transform the issue to an automatic test script with the service response in a mockup function (e.g., can be used to extend test data and enhance test cases).
US12026085B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for debugging program code using a computing system. The disclosed method includes designating a control point in a software application subject to a debugging procedure, and then executing the program code for the software application as a guest application executing within a virtual machine. Upon detection of a virtualization event, the hardware processor transfers program control to a hypervisor which then determines whether the virtualization event corresponds to the designated control point based on an execution state of the guest application. If so, the virtualization event handler may generate a debugging event that is used by a debugger.
US12026082B2
Systems and methods for providing an automated quality assurance framework for infrastructure as code (“IaC”) implementations are provided. Pull requests with proposed change to existing IaC source code (“changed code”) are received from user devices, each associated with either a service enablement team member or an applications development team member. Team specific versions of the quality assurance framework are automatically triggered for the changed code which require successful passage through multiple modules in a successive manner before automatically being merged into the existing IaC source code.
US12026075B2
A power supply health check system for checking a health state of an under-test power supply is provided. The under-test power supply supplies power to a main board which has a voltage signal during operation. The health check system includes a detecting module, a deep learning model, and a processing unit. The detecting module is electrically connected to the main board to detect the voltage signal and convert the voltage signal into a digital signal. The deep learning model is established by using frequency-domain voltage data of a plurality of healthy power. The processing unit is configured to: collect the digital signal and store the digital signal as under-test time-domain voltage data; convert the under-test time-domain voltage data into under-test frequency-domain voltage data; and calculate, based on the under-test frequency-domain voltage data and the deep learning model, a health indicator for determining the health state of the under-test power supply.
US12026071B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for storage management, an electronic device, and a computer program product. According to an example implementation of the present disclosure, a method for storage management is provided, which comprises receiving an access request for target metadata from a user at a node among a plurality of nodes included in a data protection system, wherein the access request includes an identification of the target metadata; based on the identification, acquiring target access information corresponding to the identification from a set of access information for the user, wherein the target access information records information related to access to the target metadata; and if the target access information is acquired, determining the target metadata based on the target access information.
US12026065B1
A method for managing network attached storage (NAS) assets includes obtaining, by a backup manager, a backup request for backing up the NAS assets, in response to the backup request: determining a number of streams available to be performed in parallel by a set of backup agents, assigning a pre-backup operation to a first stream of the streams to obtain a set of slices for a first NAS asset of the NAS assets, initiating a first slice distribution of the set of slices to the set of backup agents based on the number of streams, assigning a second pre-backup operation to a second stream of the streams to obtain a second set of slices for a second NAS asset of the NAS assets, and storing the set of slices and the second set of slices in a backup storage system.
US12026061B1
Restoring a cloud-based storage system to a selected state, including: generating, over a period of time, one or more snapshot states of a cloud-based storage system, wherein each of the one or more snapshot states describes a respective configuration of the cloud-based storage system at a respective point in time within the period of time; providing, to a computing process, one or more selectable states corresponding to the one or more snapshot states of the cloud-based storage system; and transitioning, in response to a selection of a particular snapshot state from among the one or more snapshot states, the configuration of the cloud-based storage system from a current state to the particular snapshot state.
US12026059B2
A method for managing a block-based backup (BBB) includes: obtaining file system metadata, in which the file system metadata is for a file system on a production host; obtaining application metadata from the production host on which an application is executing; identifying assets in the file system metadata based on the application metadata to generate identified assets; generating a virtual file system for the application using the identified assets, in which the virtual file system does not include assets that are not part of the identified assets; receiving a request from the application to access a selected asset, in which the selected asset is one of the identified assets; and providing, using the file system metadata, access to the application for the selected asset in the BBB.
US12026050B2
A double data rate dual-in-line memory module (DDR DIMM), a memory system and an operation method thereof using a data buffer for error correction are disclosed. In an example, the DDR DIMM includes a first channel including a first group of DRAM chips and a first data buffer corresponding to the first group of DRAM chips; wherein: the first data buffer is configured to obtain all write data signals input to the first channel, encode write data of all the write data signals to generate a first ECC, and send the first ECC and the write data to the first group of DRAM chips in a write operation. The disclosure can realize excellent error detection and error correction within the memory module and can greatly reduce bit error rate of the entire memory module.
US12026045B2
An example method of propagating fault domain topology information in a distributed container orchestration system includes: receiving, at control plane software executing in a data center, the fault domain topology, which includes tags for a protection group and fault domains for remote sites in communication with the data center; deploying, by a master server of the distributed container orchestration system that executes in the data center, a node pool comprising virtual machines (VMs) executing in servers of the remote sites, the VMs being nodes of the distributed container orchestration system in which containers execute; determining, by a controller of the master server, relationships among the VMs, the servers, the protection group, and the fault domains based on state of resources maintained by the master server; and providing, by the controller, labels to the servers for associating the tags of the protection group and the fault domains to the VMs.
US12026035B2
A computing system for adjusting voltage regulation including a main processing module, a secondary processing module that executes requested computation tasks, and a voltage regulation module connected to the secondary processing module that regulates its output voltage according to a regulation law depending on at least one regulation parameter. The system also includes a first digital bus that transfers requested computation tasks from the main processing module to the secondary processing module and transfers results of the requested computation tasks from the secondary processing module to the main processing module. The system also includes a second digital bus that transfers regulation parameters from the main processing module to the voltage regulation module.
US12026026B2
An electronic device includes a heat generating body including a first heat dissipation member on a first surface, a battery including a second heat dissipation member on a second surface, a third heat dissipation member in contact with a support body, and a fourth heat dissipation member. The fourth heat dissipation member is sandwiched between the first heat dissipation member and the third heat dissipation member in a state in which at least a portion of the fourth heat dissipation member is in contact with the first surface via the first heat dissipation member, and an other portion of the fourth heat dissipation member is in contact with the second surface of the battery via the second heat dissipation member.
US12026020B2
Dust mitigation techniques are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first component coupled in a movable relationship with a second component. The first component or the second component includes a recess accessible through an aperture. The apparatus also includes a brush disposed at the aperture and comprising fibers configured to prevent intrusion of dust into the recess. The apparatus also includes a vibration device configured to deliver a vibrational stimulus to the brush, wherein the vibration device activates a dust collection mode in response to a first movement of the first component relative to the second component and activates a dust shedding mode in response to a second movement of the first component relative to the second component.
US12026019B2
A portable information handling system having a portable housing with first and second housing portions rotationally coupled by a hinge having an adjustable torque and a sensor disposed at a front corner of a housing portion reduces torque provided by the hinge when in a closed position and an indication is sensed of an end user opening the housing portions. Reducing torque of the hinge that resists housing rotation from the closed position aids an end user in a single handed rotation of the housing to an open position by allowing the weight of the housing to be sufficient to hold the housing in place on a support surface while the housing rotates open.
US12026015B2
This display device comprises: a housing; a roller; a display panel; a module cover that has a plurality of segments sequentially arranged in the vertical direction of the display panel from the rear side of the display panel, and winds or unwinds from the roller together with the display panel; a foldable link that is located on the rear side of the display panel, and has one side pivotably connected to the housing and the other side pivotably connected to the upper side of the module cover so as to keep the display panel and the module cover erect while unwinding the same from the roller; a speaker assembly that is installed inside the housing and has a curved surface corresponding to the curvature of the roller and spaced apart from the outer circumferential surface of the roller; and a buffering member that is fixed to the curved surface of the speaker assembly between the curved surface of the speaker assembly and the outer circumferential surface of the roller.
US12026012B2
A head-mounted device includes a first housing, two second housings, a lacing assembly and a tightness adjustment mechanism. The lacing assembly comprises a first head band and a second head band, and one end of the first head band and one end of the second head band are overlapped and connected to form an overlapping portion. A ratchet pawl mechanism of the tightness adjustment mechanism has a ratchet pawl mechanism, and the tightness adjustment mechanism is matched with the overlapping portion through the ratchet pawl mechanism to adjust a length of the overlapping portion. The present disclosure provides a tightness adjustment mechanism, which can adjust the tightness of the first head band and the second head band by adjusting the length of the overlapping portion of the ratchet pawl mechanism.
US12026009B2
Quadrature clock generation circuits and techniques are disclosed. An example quadrature clock generator includes an in-phase (I) clock generation circuit to generate an I clock signal based on a reference clock signal, the I clock signal and the reference clock signal each having a first frequency, a quadrature phase (Q) clock generation circuit to generate a Q clock signal based on the reference clock signal, a rise time control signal, and a fall time control signal, the Q clock signal having the first frequency, and a control circuit to generate the rise time control signal and the fall time control signal based on the I clock signal and the Q clock signal.
US12026003B2
Proposed is an operation apparatus for a vehicle, the apparatus includes a panel with an opening, an operation module capable of moving, through the opening, between a first position and a second position spaced apart from each other in a front-back direction, a first rotary link and a second rotary link, each configured to be rotatably provided at a rear of the operation module and to be paired with each other, a drive source configured to provide a driving force for rotating the first rotary link and the second rotary link, and a cam mechanism configured to connect the first rotary link and the second rotary link to the operation module, to induce an angular motion in which the first rotary link and the second rotary link are rotated in opposite directions, and to move the operation module to the first position or the second position.
US12025997B2
A pressure regulator device for use within a pressure-regulated fluid storage and dispensing vessel primarily in low flow, low delivery pressure applications. Regulator stiction challenges have been solved with an improved poppet assembly using different poppet element configurations as well as an improved bellows structure in the pressure-sensing assembly that provides more flexibility during contraction and expansion of the diaphragm elements.
US12025993B2
An example method involves determining an expected demand level for a first type of a plurality of types of transport tasks for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the first type of transport tasks associated with a first payload type. Each of the UAVs is physically reconfigurable between at least a first and a second configuration corresponding to the first payload type and a second payload type, respectively. The method also involves determining based on the expected demand level for the first type of transport tasks, (i) a first number of UAVs having the first configuration and (ii) a second number of UAVs having the second configuration. The method further involves, at or near a time corresponding to the expected demand level, providing one or more UAVs to perform the transport tasks, including at least the first number of UAVs.
US12025989B2
A traveling vehicle system includes a plurality of traveling vehicles, a controller that controls the plurality of transport vehicles, a traveling region of the traveling vehicles having a plurality of blocking sections each of which undergoes exclusive control to prohibit another traveling vehicle from moving thereinto. The traveling vehicle makes a request to the controller for occupation permissions regarding a plurality of blocking sections to be occupied by the traveling vehicle and are designated by instructions. The controller then determines, among the plurality of blocking sections for which the traveling vehicle makes a request for occupation permissions, one or more of the blocking sections that are able to allow permissions consecutively from an end thereof to be primarily occupied, based on the traveling direction of the traveling vehicle, and the controller grants the traveling vehicle the permissions for one or more blocking sections determined to allow the permissions.
US12025987B2
Described herein are systems and methods for operating a mobile robot in an environment according to a coverage path generated using an environment map. The path includes a set of linear path segments connected by a number of turns therebetween, and the path minimizes or reduces the number of turns that the robot makes as it traverses the environment. An exemplary system includes at least one controller that partitions the environment map into regions with respective orientations based on the region's dimensional information and neighboring regions' properties, decomposes the regions into parallel ranks, and generates a coverage path using the ranks. One or more mobile robots can accomplish designated missions such as cleaning in the environment when moving along their respectively identified path.
US12025985B2
Apparatus and methods for controlling a path of an autonomous mobile device based upon defining a series of origination positions and destination positions, each destination position correlating with position coordinates. A current position of an autonomous vehicle is determined via location automation such as real time communication systems and an approved pathway is generated to guide the autonomous vehicle. The position coordinates may be a set of values that accurately define a position in two dimensional 2D or three-dimensional (3D) space. Position coordinates may include cartesian coordinates.
US12025965B2
A system, a device, a method, a communication protocol, and/or the like, for energy management in a fragment, heterogeneous, electrical grid. The grid may include multiple types of power generation systems, electrical energy storage systems, electrical loads, and efficiently managing these systems may require elements that will bridge the technology gap of these systems, as well as provide best-effort power generation and consumption in order to stabilize the grid. These techniques are especially important in differentiated electric energy networks, such as micro-grids, island grids, virtual power plants, and/or the like.
US12025958B2
A control method includes acquiring time information including a wake-up set time; acquiring a sleep state of a sleeper who is stimulated by a stimulation device; determining a change of the sleep state; causing the stimulation device to start increasing a stimulus which urges the sleeper to awake at a control start time as time before the wake-up set time by a predetermined time period; and controlling a change amount of the stimulus based on the change of the sleep state with the stimulus.
US12025957B2
A method for controlling an electronic watch that includes a first pointing hand, a first motor configured to move the first pointing hand, a second pointing hand, a second motor configured to move the second pointing hand, and a pressure sensor configured to measure a pressure, the method including, when start of diving is detected based on a pressure measured by the pressure sensor, controlling the first motor and the second motor, and indicating with the first pointing hand and the second pointing hand a water depth based on the pressure and a diving time period.
US12025954B2
A display mechanism for n moonphases for a timepiece, where n≥3, includes a first wheel and pinion having a night-time background and a portion of lunar background and a second wheel and pinion superposed on the first, the second having a night-time background and moonphase profiles, with the first and second pivoting about one axis. The first wheel and pinion is driven at a constant velocity, and that the second can be driven in rotation at the same velocity and direction as the first during a moonphase display period during which a portion of lunar background of the first and a moonphase profile of the second corresponding to the moonphase to be displayed are superposed, revealing the moonphase. The second wheel and pinion is offset from the first by a repositioning angle during a transitional period between the current and following display periods, revealing the following moonphase.
US12025949B2
A sheet cooling apparatus includes: a fixing device that fixes a toner image on a sheet; an ejection section that ejects the sheet on which the toner image has been fixed; a stacking section that stacks the sheet ejected by the ejection section; an air blowing device that blows air; a first air blowing path that guides the air from the air blowing device so that the air passes through the ejection section; and a second air blowing path that guides the air so as to suppress inflow of the air into the stacking section in a state where the first air blowing path is blocked by the sheet ejected by the ejection section.
US12025947B1
A toner container according to one example embodiment includes a latch catch projecting upward on a top of a body of the toner container. The latch catch is spaced from a second longitudinal end of the body and positioned closer to the second longitudinal end of the body than to a first longitudinal end of the body. The latch catch includes a first contact surface that faces toward the second longitudinal end of the body for contacting a first corresponding surface of a latch in an image forming device to restrain the toner container along a longitudinal dimension of the toner container in a direction from the first longitudinal end of the body toward the second longitudinal end of the body when the toner container is in an installed position in the image forming device.
US12025942B2
An image forming apparatus is configured to perform image forming processing. The image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a main motor configured to generate a driving force, a drum clutch having a transmission state in which the driving force is transmitted to the photosensitive drum and a disconnected state in which the driving force is not transmitted to the photosensitive drum, a sheet sensor configured to detect a rear edge of a sheet upstream of the photosensitive drum in a sheet conveying direction, and a controller. In a case where a start command for subsequent image forming processing is not received after the sheet sensor detects a rear edge of a last sheet in image forming processing performed based on received print data, the controller executes drum clutch disconnection processing, and then executes main motor rotation stop processing.
US12025939B2
An image forming apparatus includes a sheet conveyance passage, an image forming apparatus, a sheet discharge unit, an apparatus body, a sheet discharge port, a pair of sheet pressing members, a discharge tray, and an overhang portion. The image forming unit includes an image carrying member. The sheet discharge unit is disposed above the image forming unit. The sheet discharge port is provided in the sheet discharge unit and has an upper edge and a lower edge. The pair of sheet pressing members press the sheet passing through the sheet discharge port. The overhang portion protrudes from the upper edge of the sheet discharge port in the sheet discharge direction beyond the lower edge. The overhang portion is disposed such that the straight line passing through the distal end of the overhang portion and the lower edge of the sheet discharge port passes above the image carrying member.
US12025928B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, an image bearing member, a transfer member, a voltage applying portion, a detecting portion, and a controller capable of executing an operation in an adjustment mode in which a chart on which a plurality of test images are transferred by stepwise changing a test voltage applied to the transfer member by the applying portion is formed on a recording material and then a transfer voltage applied to the transfer member by the voltage applying portion during transfer of the toner image is adjusted. The controller is capable of changing a change width per level of the test voltage applied during formation of the chart[[,]] on the basis of a detection result of the detecting portion when the voltage is applied to the transfer member when the recording material on which the chart is formed is in the transfer portion.
US12025924B2
Provided is a method of determining, out of a plurality of shot regions of a substrate, a set of sample shot regions in each of which a position of a mark is to be actually measured. The method includes setting an initial arrangement of the set of sample shot regions, and adding, to the set of sample shot regions, a shot region, among the shot regions other than the sample shot regions in the initial arrangement, in which a value indicating uncertainty of an estimate of a measurement value of a position of a mark obtained using an estimation model exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
US12025923B2
A method includes shooting a primary droplet and a satellite droplet from a droplet generator along a common initial direction; applying a force to the primary droplet and the satellite droplet, wherein after applying the force, the primary droplet has a first deflection toward a first direction different than the common initial direction, and the satellite droplet has a second deflection toward a second direction different than the common initial direction, wherein the second deflection of the satellite droplet is greater than the first deflection of the primary droplet; and generating an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light using an excitation laser hitting the primary droplet with the first deflection.
US12025922B2
An apparatus for reducing hydrogen permeation of a mask is provided when generating extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation. The apparatus includes a mask stage configured to hold the mask, a hydrogen dispensing nozzle configured to eject hydrogen below the mask, and a trajectory correcting assembly. The trajectory correcting assembly includes a correcting nozzle and a gas flow detector. The correcting nozzle is configured to dispense at least one flow adjusting gas to adjust a trajectory of the hydrogen away from the mask to reduce hydrogen permeation at an edge of the mask. The gas flow detector is configured to measure a variation of an airflow of the hydrogen adjusted by the at least one flow adjusting gas.
US12025913B2
A method of making a bonded polymeric assembly by transfer printing comprises contacting a stamp with a solid-phase ink comprising a photoresist to form an inked stamp, where the solid-phase ink is reversibly bound to the stamp. The inked stamp is aligned with an object comprising the photoresist and is stamped onto the object. The stamp is then removed, thereby transferring the solid-phase ink onto the object. The solid-phase ink is thermally joined with the object. Thus, a bonded polymeric assembly comprising a bonded joint between the solid-phase ink and the object is formed.
US12025905B2
A camera platform track provides running surfaces for independent movement of two or more camera platforms, improves strength to weight ratio, improves torsional rigidity, restricts camera platforms from wandering during filming, and improves traction. The camera platform track includes top running surfaces for a first camera platform, and one or more lower running surfaces for additional camera platforms, allowing desired versatility in filming. The camera platform tracks include a box base and an I-beam reaching up from the base to provide strength and torsional rigidity without excessive weight. The running surface lateral spacing may vary from camera platform wheel spacing providing centering to reduce or eliminate wandering, and may include grooves to improve traction. wandering, and may include grooves to improve traction.
US12025894B2
Provided is a display device. The display device comprises: a substrate including a display area having a plurality of pixels and a non-display area, a plurality of data lines connected to each of the plurality of pixels and extending in a first direction, a plurality of first gate lines connected to each of the plurality of pixels and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, a plurality of second gate lines extending along the first direction from one end of the display area to a line contact portion contacting each of the plurality of first gate lines, and a plurality of off voltage lines extending in a direction opposite to the first direction from the other end of the display area opposite to one end of the display area to a periphery of the line contact portion and insulated from the plurality of second gate lines.
US12025886B2
The disclosure relates to a display panel, a method of manufacturing a display panel, and a display device. The display panel includes a first polarizer, an array substrate and a color film substrate that are sequentially stacked. The array substrate includes a binding region. A first sealing adhesive is filled between the binding region and the first polarizer, covers an end of a flexible circuit board away from a mainboard, and covers the binding region, which avoids using a decorative member, reduces a wide frame of a fourth side of the display panel, and increases a real frameless display effect.
US12025876B2
A display panel and a display device are provided and relates to the display technology field. The display panel includes a temperature detection module, a timing control module, and a power management module. The timing control module identifies a real-time temperature of the display panel according to different combination signals outputted by the temperature detection module and controls the power management module to generate and output a corresponding common voltage according to the real-time temperature. The common voltage can follow a minimum flicker common voltage in real time.
US12025875B2
A common electrode for a display, which is originally provided in a liquid crystal display element, is also used as one (drive electrode) of a pair of electrodes for a touch sensor, and the other (detection-electrode-for-the-sensor) of the pair of electrodes is newly formed. An existing common drive signal as a drive signal for display is used in common for a drive signal for the touch sensor. A capacitance is formed between the common electrode and the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and touch detection is performed by utilizing a change of this capacitance caused by a finger touch of a user. Thus, a display device with a touch sensor is also applicable to a mobile device in which electric potential of the user is inconstant in many cases. The newly-provided electrode is only the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and it is unnecessary to newly prepare a drive signal for the touch sensor.
US12025873B2
A spliced panel is disclosed. At least two display panels are spliced to each other. Each of the at least two display panels includes a bending part and a non-bending part. The bending part is bent from a side of the non-bending part to a back surface of the at least two display panels. The non-bending part is configured to display an image. In the at least two display panels spliced to each other, the bending part of one of the at least two display panels is correspondingly spliced to the bending part of another of the at least two display panels to form a support structure. A light-emitting diode (LED) substrate is disposed on the support structure.
US12025859B1
Optical apparatuses for enhancing scotopic vision. The optical apparatuses include a lens. In some instances, the optical apparatuses include a frame. The lens has an optical power adapted to focus light specifically under scotopic vision conditions in a user's eye. In some examples, the optical apparatuses include a spectral filter adapted to allow transmission of selected wavelengths of light through the spectral filter.
US12025858B2
A contact lens fluid delivery device having a liquid reservoir connected to a channel with a flow regulator is described. Other eye hydration and variable dioptric power contact lenses are described herein. Also described are implantable liquid delivery apparatuses having a liquid storage reservoir connected to a channel with a flow regulator. These devices and apparatuses are useful for specific, targeted delivery of therapeutic liquids within a subject. In some embodiments, the devices incorporate actuation chambers which provide a driving force releasing the fluid into the targeted area e.g., the eye. The actuation chambers described herein can contain phase change materials or osmotic chambers or a combination thereof to drive the release of fluid.
US12025856B1
A vented eyeglass frame is provided having a front frame extending laterally from a first end to a second end and for connecting to a temple at each of the first end and the second end. The front frame has first and second lens openings, with each lens opening being defined by a respective opening boundary at least partially circumscribing the corresponding lens opening. A bridge is defined between the first and second lens openings, and outer vents are provided at each end adjacent the corresponding lens openings. Inner vents are then provided at the bridge adjacent the lens openings. The lens opening boundaries each have a lens channel for at least partially enveloping a lens located at the respective lens opening, and each vent is defined by a gap in the corresponding lens opening.
US12025850B2
The present embodiment relates to a camera module comprising a first lens driving device and a second lens driving device, wherein a first lateral surface of the first lens driving device faces a second lateral surface of the second lens driving device, a first housing comprises a first lateral part corresponding to the first lateral surface of the first lens driving device and a second lateral part disposed at the opposite side of the first lateral part, a first magnet comprises a first magnet unit disposed in the first lateral part and a second magnet unit disposed in the second lateral part, each of the first magnet unit and the second magnet unit comprises an inner surface facing a first coil, an outer surface disposed at an opposite side of the inner surface, and both lateral surfaces connecting the inner surface and the outer surface, and the distance between the both lateral surfaces of the first magnet unit is shorter than the distance between the both lateral surfaces of the second magnet unit.
US12025847B2
A device may provide, to a user device, a first message instructing a technician to move fiber cables and may receive a first signal based on the technician moving the fiber cables and a rest signal based on the technician stopping movement of the fiber cables. The device may calculate a distance, an average peak signal, and a baseline signal based on the first signal and the rest signal and may calculate a data collection window based on the distance, the average peak signal, and the baseline signal. The device may provide, to the user device, a second message instructing the technician to move one fiber cable at a time and may receive second signals based on the technician moving one fiber cable at a time. The device may provide, for display to the user device, the data collection window and indications of the second signals.
US12025842B2
An optical module includes: a circuit board with a recess; a laser box disposed in the recess and electrically connected to the circuit board; a fiber ribbon, wherein one end of the fiber ribbon is connected to the laser box; and a silicon photonic chip electrically connected to the circuit board and to the other end of the fiber ribbon. The laser box includes: a flat base disposed in the recess, with one end of the flat base being coupled to the fiber ribbon; a conductive substrate disposed at the other end of the flat base and electrically connected to the circuit board; a laser chip attached on the conductive substrate; and an upper cover including a top plate and side plates, so that the upper cover caps/is covered on the flat base. A fitting between the flat base and the upper cover facilitates assembly of the conductive substrate and the laser chip in the laser box.
US12025830B2
An integrated mode converter and multiplexer (/demultiplexer) combines a multimode interference coupler, at least one phase-shifter and a symmetrical Y-junction. The dispersion of the multimode interference coupler is engineered through subwavelength structures in order to achieve a very wide bandwidth. Several phase-shifter topologies for further bandwidth enhancement are disclosed, as well as architectures for multiplexing a greater number of optical modes.
US12025829B2
A resin composition for coating an optical fiber comprises: a base resin containing a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator; and hydrophobic inorganic oxide particles, wherein the photopolymerizable compound comprises urethane (meth)acrylate and aliphatic epoxy (meth)acrylate, and the content of the aliphatic epoxy (meth)acrylate is 1.0% by mass or more and 45% by mass or less based on the total amount of the photopolymerizable compound.
US12025824B2
The application relates to a light guide film, a production method thereof and a light guide device. An upper surface of the light guide film is a light exit surface and a lower surface is a light incident surface; the lower surface of the light guide film is smooth and is used for being connected with the substrate; a plurality of hollow ultrastructures are disposed in the light guide film, the hollow ultrastructure close to the lower surface of the light guide film is a conduction reflecting surface, and a gap between every two adjacent ultrastructures is a light exit gap.
US12025820B2
Provided is a transmissive liquid crystal diffraction element that can diffract different polarized light components in the same direction and has high diffraction efficiency with respect to unpolarized light. The transmissive liquid crystal diffraction element includes first to fourth optically-anisotropic layers each of which has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, in which the optical axis in each of the first to the fourth optically-anisotropic layers is twisted in a thickness direction, rotation directions of the optical axes in the liquid crystal alignment patterns and twisted directions of the optical axes in the thickness direction are opposite to each other in the first optically-anisotropic layer and the second optically-anisotropic layer, rotation directions of the optical axes in the liquid crystal alignment patterns and twisted directions of the optical axes in the thickness direction are opposite to each other in the third optically-anisotropic layer and the fourth optically-anisotropic layer, single periods of the liquid crystal alignment patterns are the same in the first optically-anisotropic layer and the second optically-anisotropic layer, single periods of the liquid crystal alignment patterns are the same in the third optically-anisotropic layer and the fourth optically-anisotropic layer, and the single periods of the liquid crystal alignment patterns are different in the first optically-anisotropic layer and the third optically-anisotropic layer.
US12025812B2
Multi-wavelength light is directed to an optic including a substrate and metasurface optical components deposited on a surface of the substrate. The metasurface optical components comprise a pattern of silicon dielectric resonators with nonperiodic gap distances between adjacent dielectric resonators. Incident light directed to the metasurface optical components is scattered and phase-shifted by the configuration of the gap distances and the widths and thicknesses of the dielectric resonators. Each dielectric resonator has a rectangular cross-section such that a first phase shift is imparted for a transverse-electric (TE) component of the incident light and a second phase shift is imparted for a transverse-magnetic (TM) component of the incident light.
US12025811B2
A system including an optical path length extender (OPLE) having two light paths having different path lengths, such that light entering the OPLE with a first polarization is directed through a first light path, and light entering the OPLE with a second polarization is directed through a second light path through the OPLE. The OPLE includes a first polarization sensitive reflective element at a first angle to the light entering the OPLE and a second angled polarization sensitive reflective element at a second angle to the light entering the OPLE, the second angled polarization sensitive reflective element intersecting the first polarization sensitive reflective element.
US12025793B1
Disclosed is a wavefront correction system based on a Runge-Kutta (RUN) optimization algorithm. The system includes a wavefront corrector, an image sensor, a lens, a computer control module, an image collection card, a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter, and a high-voltage amplifier. A performance index function representing a wavefront distortion correction degree is used as an optimization algorithm objective function, a RUN algorithm is used as a closed-loop correction system control algorithm, and the wavefront corrector is used as a wavefront distortion correction system device. The RUN algorithm controls the wavefront corrector to correct a wavefront aberration. During each iteration, a voltage control signal obtained through the algorithm is amplified and applied to the wavefront corrector, such that a mirror shape of the wavefront corrector is changed, and a corresponding corrected wavefront is generated.
US12025792B2
A sleeve for absorbing moisture from lenses is revealed. A sleeve body is divided into an upper space and a lower space for mounting a lens by a partition. A mounting cavity in which a moisture absorption material is disposed is in the upper space. An upper cover with a moisture detecting unit is fastened on an open end of the mounting cavity. The lower space provides a stretchable space to have a tight fit on the lens with different sizes. The moisture absorption range of the moisture absorption material extends to the periphery of the lens through air channels so that the moisture absorption material absorbs moisture from the lens through gaps of a lens end, a focus ring, and an iris ring of the lens for keeping the lens dry. The moisture detecting unit allows users to replace or treat the moisture absorption material in time.
US12025788B2
An imaging device includes an alignment platform configured to hold a cell culture plate having a plurality of wells and an imaging assembly including a plurality of imaging units, each of which is configured to image one well of the plurality of wells.
US12025787B2
An augmented reality microscope (ARM) includes an objective lens, an eyepiece, an N-ocular observation tube, where N is a positive integer greater than 2, an image obtaining assembly physically connected to the N-ocular observation tube by a physical interface on the N-ocular observation tube, and an image projection assembly including, an image projection apparatus, a lens apparatus, and a light splitting apparatus. Light generated by an observed object during observation that enters an optical path through the objective lens and light generated by the image projection apparatus that enters the optical path through the lens apparatus converges at the light splitting apparatus in the image projection assembly, the converged light passes through the N-ocular observation tube.
US12025785B2
A medical-optical observation apparatus is provided, which includes an image recording device with an optical system and an optical field of view, for recording optical signals from an operating region, and a microphone device with an acoustic directional area, for the directed recording of acoustic signals with reference to the operating region, and wherein the acoustic directional area includes the optical field of view.
US12025782B2
The present invention relates to the field of optical lenses and provides a zoom lens consisting of, from an object side to an image side in sequence, a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens group having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having positive refractive power, and a sixth lens having negative refractive power. During zooming, a distance between adjacent lenses or between lens and adjacent lens group in a direction of an optic axis varies. The second lens group consists of a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having negative refractive power, and a fourth lens having negative refractive power, and following conditions are satisfied: f_Tele/f_Wide≥1.80; −1.75≤f3/f2≤−1.35; −1.75≤f4/f2≤−1.35. The present invention becomes compact when contracted, while during imaging, FNO is bright, and has good optical properties.
US12025771B2
Beam steering devices include a laser and a metasurface for dynamic beam shaping of laser light. A steering actuator may adjust a metasurface with respect to a laser to dynamically shape the beam. Lasers in a plurality of lasers may be selectively activated to generate a desired beam shape.
US12025765B2
A method for evaluating saturation of a kerogen bearing subterranean formation includes obtaining conductivity and permittivity values of the formation and providing an effective medium model relating the conductivity and the permittivity to a water filled porosity of the formation and an effective aspect ratio of graphitic kerogen particulate in the formation. The obtained conductivity and the permittivity values are input into the model which is in turn processed to compute the water filled porosity. The method may further optionally include evaluating the water filled porosity to estimate a hydrocarbon producibility of the formation.
US12025756B2
A method to operate an ultrasonic sensor includes the step of sending an ultrasonic burst as a series of ultrasonic pulses that have a pulse length and a pulse spacing. The sum of the pulse length and pulse spacing represents the pulse period length. The ultrasonic burst starts at a first time and ends at a second time. The current pulse frequency corresponds to an inverse of the current pulse length. The current pulse frequency, during a first time period passes through a first frequency range, in a following middle time period a middle frequency range and in a following second time period a second frequency range. The length of time of the middle time period is equal to or longer than the sum of the first time period and the second time period.
US12025753B2
A test device for testing a distance sensor operating with ultrasonic waves, wherein the distance sensor to be tested comprises at least a sensor radiating element for emitting a transmission signal and a sensor receiving element for receiving a reflected signal. For effective and accurate testing and stimulation of the distance sensor, the test device has a test receiving element for receiving ultrasonic waves emitted from the distance sensor to be tested, and at least one test radiating element for radiating test ultrasonic waves, and a signal processing unit, wherein ultrasonic waves received by the test receiving element are transmitted as a received signal to the signal processing unit and the signal processing unit, as a function of the received signal and simulation distance information relating to a distance to be simulated, and determines an excitation signal for the test radiating element.
US12025736B2
A method for controlling an opto-electronic measuring device for radiation based object point measuring such as a laser tracker, laser scanner, multi beam scanner, laser profiler, scanning total station, flash lidar, airborne scanning lidar or scanning multi station. The power of the emitted measurement radiation is object individually automatically varied specific for a direction and distance to respective objects whereby the power is adjusted in such a way that it does not exceed a predefined distance dependent power limit applying to the respective object distance precisely when the measurement radiation is emitted in the respective object direction.
US12025734B2
A radar target simulation system for simulating at least one moving radar target is disclosed. The radar target simulation system includes an analog to digital converter and at least one digital processing channel. The digital processing channel includes a delay circuit or unit, a resampling circuit or unit and a frequency shifting circuit or unit. Moreover, a method for operating a radar target simulation system is disclosed.
US12025716B2
A GNSS emergency monitoring error suppression method for an alpine canyon complex environment is provided. Through three steps of GNSS optimization design of the alpine canyon complex environment, derived error suppression of emergency monitoring criteria in the alpine canyon complex environment, and error suppression measurement and result correction, GNSS measurement errors in the alpine canyons can be effectively suppressed. Through improving measurement accuracy, GNSS technology can be widely applied to the alpine canyons, outstanding advantages of high efficiency and high accuracy in a coordinate transmission process of the GNSS technology are brought into full play, and a cost is effectively reduced. Meanwhile, by processing the errors of the emergency monitoring criteria, it is possible to protect workers from on-site operation risks.
US12025713B2
A method for detecting a GPS spoofing attack using a difference between output values of a GPS receiver, which is generated due to inaccuracy of a GPS spoofer, and an apparatus therefor are provided. The method includes receiving a GPS signal; and determining the received GPS signal as a GPS satellite signal or a GPS spoofing signal using a learning model learned based on a difference between output values of a GPS receiver. The method further includes labeling and collecting dispersion degree data including a position, a speed, and a time output from the GPS receiver with whether the GPS signal is the GPS satellite signal or the GPS spoofing signal and modeling the learning model using the collected data.
US12025706B2
Disclosed herein is a highly identifiable material that includes a physical body with an original spectral signature and an artificial tag incorporated on the physical body, which modifies the original spectral signature of the body. The artificial tag is configured to emit passively at least two spectral signatures in response to a source of energy received by the artificial tag. The spectral signatures are signals of interest for imaging technology. The artificial tag spectrally codifies all the information necessary to detect and/or identify a first predetermined feature of the highly identifiable material. The artificial tag may include a spatial pattern, and the spatial pattern may include a predetermined combination of the at least two spectral signatures. Also disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing such a material and a method for identifying such a material.
US12025703B2
A surgical robotic visualization system comprises a first robotic arm, a second robotic arm, a photoacoustic receiver coupled to the first robotic arm, an emitter assembly coupled to the second robotic arm, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to cause the emitter assembly to emit electromagnetic radiation toward an anatomical structure at a plurality of wavelengths capable of penetrating the anatomical structure and reaching an embedded structure located below a surface of the anatomical structure, receive an input of the photoacoustic receiver indicative of an acoustic response signal of the embedded structure, and detect the embedded structure based on the input from the photoacoustic receiver.
US12025695B2
An electronic device 1 comprises: a transmitting antenna configured to transmit transmitted waves; a receiving antenna configured to receive reflected waves obtained by reflection of the transmitted waves; and a controller. The controller detects, based on transmitted signals transmitted as the transmitted waves and received signals received as the reflected waves, an object reflecting the transmitted waves. The controller determines frequencies of transmitted waves to be transmitted from the transmitting antenna based on results of receiving, from the receiving antenna, each of reflected waves obtained by reflection of a plurality of transmitted waves with different frequencies transmitted from the transmitting antenna.
US12025694B2
A method for calculating a sensitivity of a displacement of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) along line-of-sight direction to a slope gradient and a slope aspect is provided, comprising: obtaining SAR data and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data covering slope bodies, and extracting a local incident angle of an image by utilizing a satellite side-looking imaging principle; carrying out geometric distortion on the slope bodies under ascending and descending orbits by utilizing the local incident angle, to obtain specific locations of geometric distortion areas under ascending and descending orbit; calculating sensitivities of detections to changes of the slope gradient and the slope aspect under ascending and descending orbits according to the extracted parameter information of the SAR satellite in ascending and descending orbits and satellite heights, and dividing a sensitivity distribution by combining the sensitivity and the specific locations of the geometric distortion.
US12025691B2
The disclosed system and method for smart detection of an armament projectile can mitigate the detection of its radar by counter-radar systems. Particularly, the system may include an array of acoustic sensors for sensing one or more volleys associated with an armament projectile. An intelligent filtering module, coupled to the array of acoustic sensors, may select a volley based upon a learning algorithm, which can be applied to a target profile of historical system data logs. Based upon sensed parameters of the volley, the intelligent filtering module can calculate a radiation duration and a search fan width for radar transmission. Specifically, a controller, within the intelligent filtering module, may couple to actuate the radar at the calculated search fan width for the calculated radiation duration. In some embodiments, the intelligent filtering module can selectively actuate one radar based upon highest expanded detection probability relative to location and status.
US12025688B2
A method for managing the transmission of geographical locations from a geolocation beacon during the movement thereof. The method includes: defining a first reference communication network associated with a first value and with a reference frequency used for the transmission of the locations over the first network; locating the beacon in a second network during the movement thereof; obtaining a second value associated with the second network; comparing the first and the second value, and when the values differ, the method includes modifying the reference frequency for the transmission of the locations over the second network.
US12025686B2
A technique for slice-specific correction of scan data recorded for at least two slices simultaneously of an examination object via an EPI-SMS is provided. The technique comprises recording slice separation reference scan data, generating scan data that is to be corrected, and recording phase-encoded navigator signals simultaneously for the at least two slices after an RF excitation pulse radiated into the examination object and before the recording of scan data to be corrected. The at least one navigator signal is recorded for each possible polarity and different phase-encoding of the navigator signals that is used. The technique further comprises separating the navigator signals simultaneously recorded for the at least two slices into single-slice navigator signals using the slice separation reference scan data, determining slice-specific correction data from the single-slice navigator signals, and correcting scan data that is to be corrected by means of the slice-specific correction data.
US12025685B2
An MRI apparatus equipped with a magnetic shield structure to reduce flux leakage. The MRI apparatus includes: a pair of static magnetic magnets that are disposed on opposite sides of an imaging space; and a pair of gradient coils that are disposed on opposite sides of the imaging space. Each static magnetic magnet has a disk-shaped magnetic material pole 201 and a ring-shaped magnetic material pole 202. Each gradient coil has a first coil 204 that applies a magnetic field gradient in a Z axis direction in an imaging region, and a laminate 301 that shields the disk-shaped magnetic material pole from magnetic flux produced in the first coil. The laminate has a smaller thickness in the Z axis direction on the ring-shaped magnetic material pole side than that in a center portion of the imaging space. A vertical lowest portion of a laminate end portion on the ring-shaped magnetic material pole side of the laminate is in a higher position than a position of a lowest portion of a laminate central portion on the imaging region side of the laminate.
US12025679B2
An electronic device includes input circuitry that obtains an input signal. The electronic device includes processing circuitry that has an integrating memory dropout (IMD) timer. The IMD timer generates an extended output signal that is asserted an extended amount of time that varies based at least in part on integration of the received input signal.
US12025675B2
One or more circuits and/or methods are provided. In an example, a circuit includes a first sampling capacitor connected to a first battery terminal for connecting to a battery, an excitation circuit connected to the first battery terminal and configured to generate a first excitation signal, and a measurement circuit connected to the first sampling capacitor and configured to measure charge transferred to the first sampling capacitor by the first excitation signal to generate a charge transfer measurement and to determine a first impedance measurement across the first battery terminal and a second battery terminal for connecting to the battery based on the charge transfer measurement.
US12025663B2
A method is provided for testing the functionality of a device under test interface circuitry located between automated testing equipment (ATE) and a device under test (DUT). The method includes disconnecting the device under test from the device under test interface circuitry, utilizing a Source Measurement Unit (SMU) that generates and measures voltage and current and uses force and sense lines, and testing a switch located in the device under test interface circuitry using a two-state alarm process. The method also includes applying a voltage using the a voltage source measurement device in a first state in which force and sense lines of the voltage source measurement device are connected in the device under test interface circuitry. The method further includes detecting whether an alarm signal due to an open circuit has been activated, and determining that the switch being tested in the device under test interface circuitry is operating properly by the absence of the alarm signal being activated.
US12025661B1
A method of scan-chain testing of an integrated circuit device having a plurality of respective scan-chain paths, at least some of the respective scan-chain paths being designated as having resource constraints, includes propagating a respective scan-chain data pattern through each of the respective scan-chain paths, and gating each respective scan-chain path designated as having resource constraints, to reduce a rate of scan-chain data propagation through the respective scan-chain path, without gating any scan-chain path not designated as having resource constraints. Scan-chain paths may be designated as having resource constraints because of high power consumption or data congestion.
US12025654B2
An electronic component testing apparatus for testing a device under test (DUT) includes: a socket unit that is electrically connected to the DUT; a first wiring board that includes a board opening; and a tester that includes a test head in which the first wiring board is mounted. The socket unit includes a first socket that faces a first main surface of the DUT and is electrically connected to the DUT and the first wiring board. The second socket that is exposed from the first wiring board through the board opening, contacts a second main surface of the DUT on a side opposite to the first main surface, and includes: a base that contacts the second main surface; and a test antenna unit that is electrically connected to the tester and faces a device antenna unit of the DUT.
US12025650B2
An apparatus may include an upper transparent plate to hold a wafer of bottom-emitting or bottom-detecting optical devices, wherein the upper transparent plate comprises a set of holes in an area of the upper transparent plate for holding the wafer. The apparatus may include a lower transparent plate and a structure supporting the upper transparent plate and the lower transparent plate to form a cavity bounded by the upper transparent plate, the lower transparent plate, and the structure, wherein the structure comprises an opening in fluid communication with the cavity, wherein applying suction through the opening, via the cavity and the set of holes, holds the wafer flat on the upper transparent plate, and wherein an optical path, between a bottom-emitting or bottom-detecting optical device of the bottom-emitting or bottom-detecting optical devices of the wafer and a testing device, passes through the upper transparent plate, the cavity, and the lower transparent plate.
US12025645B2
A portable electronic device for detecting an electromagnetic pulse generated by a tesla coil, and selectively a pulse from natural lightning. The device has a detection circuit for electromagnetic pulses, operating to detect an observed electromagnetic pulse having a frequency at least within a range of about 50 kilohertz (kHz) to about 300 megahertz (MHz). The detection circuit generate an output signal corresponding to the observed electromagnetic pulse. A microcontroller analyzes the output signal from the detection circuit against a tesla profile that identifies a detected electromagnetic pulse as a tesla coil pulse when the observed electromagnetic pulse has a frequency within the range of about 50 kHz to about 300 MHz with a pulse duration of at least 0.50 seconds. The microcontroller then generates an indication that the detected electromagnetic pulse is that of a tesla coil, and generates a tesla coil alert, typically flashing of an LED.
US12025644B2
A wireless power transmission device includes: a power transmission antenna to transmit power by radiating a radio wave; a radiation direction determiner to determine a radiation direction. The power transmission antenna is a phased array antenna including: a plurality of element antennas to radiate the radio wave; and a plurality of element modules, each of the plurality of element modules including a phase shifter to change a phase of the transmission signal. An orientation direction is changed to the radiation direction by controlling a phase shift amount of the phase shifter. A phase offset value for the phase shifter included in each of the plurality of element modules is calculated by performing a REV method using a hovering aerial moving body hovering above the power transmission antenna. The phase shifter changes the phase by an amount obtained by subtracting the phase offset value from the phase shift amount.
US12025638B1
An oscilloscope includes a memory that stores instructions; and a processor that executes the instructions. When executed by the processor, the instructions cause the oscilloscope to obtain a measurement of a first radio frequency signal; perform a first Fourier transform to compute a first new spectrum based on the measurement of the first radio frequency signal; and compute a first waveform of the first new spectrum with noise of the oscilloscope reduced by performing a first inverse Fourier transform based on the first new spectrum.
US12025637B2
The present invention provides a probe card comprising a probe base, at least one impedance-matching probes, and a plurality of first probes. The probe base has a probing side and a tester side opposite to the probing side. Each impedance-matching probe has a probing part and a signal transmitting part electrically coupled to the probing part, wherein one end of the signal transmitting part is arranged at tester side, and the signal transmitting part has a central probing axis. Each first probe has a probing tip and a cantilever part coupled to the probing tip, wherein the cantilever part is coupled to the probe base and has a first central axis such that an included angle is formed between the central probing axis and the first central axis.
US12025624B2
A device for detecting cotinine includes (a) a film that includes a plurality of molecularly-imprinted-polymer (MIP) coated conductive nanoparticles having specific affinity for binding with cotinine, and (b) two electrodes in contact with the film for passing electrical current through the film to detect binding with cotinine as a change in electrical conductivity of the film. A MIP coated conductive nanoparticle for detecting cotinine includes (a) a conductive nanoparticle, (b) a silicon dioxide coating formed on the conductive nanoparticle and forming a first shell around the conductive nanoparticle, and (c) an MIP coating formed on the silicon dioxide coating and forming the second shell, wherein the MIP coating includes a polymer molecularly imprinted with cotinine to provide specific affinity for binding of cotinine to the MIP coated conductive nanoparticle such that the cotinine is detectable as a change in electrical conductivity of the MIP coated conductive nanoparticle.
US12025621B2
The disclosure provides biomarker proteins, a change in the concentration or activity level of which are associated with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) or clinically meaningful treatment of aHUS with a complement inhibitor. Also provided are compositions and methods for interrogating the concentration and/or activity of one or more of the biomarker proteins in a biological fluid. The compositions and methods are useful for, among other things, evaluating risk for developing aHUS, diagnosing aHUS, determining whether a subject is experiencing the first acute presentation of aHUS, monitoring progression or abatement of aHUS, and/or monitoring response to treatment with a complement inhibitor or optimizing such treatment.
US12025618B2
Systems and methods that facilitate the automatic (or substantially automatic) preparation of a sample of a product containing polypeptides for glycan analysis and automatic (or substantially automatic) performance of a glycan assay of that sample. Thus, the preparation and analysis can be performed substantially in-real time, or, in other words, much more quickly than presently allowed by conventional systems and methods.
US12025612B2
Brown adipose tissue (“BAT”) progenitor cells and methods for identifying BAT progenitor cells in a population of cells are provided. Methods are also provided for inducing differentiation of BAT progenitor cells into differentiated brown adipocytes, inducing expression or increased activity levels of BAT uncoupling protein-1 (“UCP1”), and for identifying agents capable of inducing differentiation of BAT progenitor cells into brown adipocytes and/or inducing expression or increased activity levels of UCP1. Differentiated brown adipocytes and agents and methods for inducing differentiation of BAT progenitor cells can be used for treatment of or the making of medicaments for the treatment of metabolic diseases or conditions in a patient such as obesity, overweight, impaired glucose tolerance, insulin-resistance, type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, metabolic syndrome, and the like. Differentiated brown adipocytes and agents and methods for inducing differentiation of BAT progenitor cells can be used for prevention of hypothermia.
US12025589B2
A method for measuring multiple rock properties using a multi-stage indentation test is provided. The method includes measuring load and displacement versus time on an indentation measurement unit, while preforming the multi-stage indentation test. The multi-stage indentation test includes indenting a saturated specimen to full load to generate a line segment 1, releasing the load on the saturated specimen to generate a line segment 2, indenting the saturated specimen to full load to generate a line segment 3, holding the loading until the displacement curve levels off to generate a line segment 4, and reducing the loading to zero to generate a line segment 5.
US12025558B2
A freshness label in an embodiment includes a base material having a fluid retention capacity and a phosphor layer on a surface of the base material. The phosphor layer includes an aggregation-induced phosphor. The base material has a porous or mesh structure. The aggregation-induced phosphor comprises a phosphor having a polar functional group or the like. The freshness label can be used to detect spoilage and/or deterioration of fresh food according to changed in fluorescence intensity provided by the aggregation-induced phosphor.
US12025549B2
A system includes a microchannel analysis region, a first fluid actuation device, a second fluid actuation device, a sensor, and a controller. The first fluid actuation device is at a first end of the microchannel analysis region. The second fluid actuation device is at a second end of the microchannel analysis region opposite to the first end. The sensor is within the microchannel analysis region between the first fluid actuation device and the second fluid actuation device. The sensor measures an impedance of a fluid within the microchannel analysis region. The controller activates the first fluid actuation device to generate a first pressure wave in the fluid and activates the second fluid actuation device to generate a second pressure wave in the fluid. The first pressure wave and the second pressure wave converge at the sensor.
US12025543B1
A blood sample platelet uniform-mixing device for a blood analyzer includes a vortex oscillation device, the vortex oscillation device includes a fixing assembly, a rotating assembly and a vibrating assembly. The fixing assembly is used for fixing sample test tubes. The rotating assembly includes a rotating motor and a rotating disc. A rotating shaft of the rotating motor is connected with the rotating disc, the rotating disc is matched with the fixing assembly. A central axis of each of the sample test tubes fixed on the fixing assembly deviates from the rotating shaft of the rotating motor. The rotating assembly is used for rotating the fixing assembly and making a blood sample in each of the sample test tubes be in a vortex shape. The vibrating assembly is arranged on the fixing assembly.
US12025535B2
A pneumatic leak detector operates by submerging a nozzle in oil. Airflow from the nozzle results in simultaneous cavitation and atomization of the oil. Microscopic oil droplets form a fog, which is used to detect leaks in closed duct systems. The integrated valve and nozzle includes a stem on one end for air input, the nozzle on the other end for air output, and a check valve between the stem and the nozzle to prevent the backflow of air or oil. The exterior body of the integrated valve and nozzle is a convex body wedge. A smaller concave wedge is cut at the orifice of the nozzle. The critical parameters of the nozzle are its orifice diameter, body wedge angle, orifice cut angle, and orifice cut depth, all of which have been optimized by experimentation to yield maximal fog density.
US12025523B2
There is provided a pressure sensing device including a plate-shaped member, plural strain sensitive materials arranged on the plate-shaped member, and a connection electrode electrically connected to a predetermined circuit. The plate-shaped member includes a surface portion having a center portion that receives force applied to a tip portion of a stylus. The plural strain sensitive materials include first and second strain sensitive materials arranged at different distances from the center portion of the surface portion of the plate-shaped member. The plural strain sensitive materials are formed on at least one surface portion of the plate-shaped member along with a conductive pattern that connects the first and second strain sensitive materials. The connection electrode is electrically connected to the plural strain sensitive materials, and the connection electrode is crimped and electrically connected to the predetermined circuit housed in the stylus.
US12025522B2
A hybrid large-area pressure sensor with a capacitive sensor and a resistive sensor integrated thereinto. The sensor includes a first electrode pattern, a second electrode pattern spaced apart from the first electrode pattern by a predetermined distance, a third electrode pattern spaced apart from the second electrode pattern by a predetermined distance, and a controller, wherein a part of the first electrode pattern, a predetermined unit area of the second electrode pattern, and a predetermined unit area of the third electrode pattern form a single unit sensing cell, a change in distance between the first electrode pattern and the second electrode pattern causes a change in the capacitance of the second electrode pattern, a contact between the second electrode pattern and the third electrode pattern causes a change in the resistance of the second electrode pattern.
US12025521B2
A torque sensor including a shaft that receives an applied torque is disclosed. The shaft includes a magnetoelastic region that generates a non-negligible magnetic field responsive to the applied torque and null regions that generate a negligible magnetic field. The torque sensor includes null region sensors that generate a null region magnetic field measure corresponding to an ambient magnetic field. The torque sensor includes a magnetoelastic region sensor that generates a magnetoelastic region magnetic field measure corresponding to the ambient magnetic field and the non-negligible magnetic field. The torque sensor includes a controller that determines whether a null region sensor has entered an intense ambient magnetic field condition and whether a magnetoelastic region sensor has entered a magnetoelastic region sensor saturation condition. The controller also calculates a magnitude of the applied torque based on the null region magnetic field measures and the magnetoelastic region magnetic field measure.
US12025508B2
A system and method for monitoring a container environment using a control device for communicably coupling a data collection unit and an external device, the data collection unit having one or more openings for receiving one or more containers and configured to: monitor parameters of the at least one container; compare the monitored parameters with predetermined upper or lower limits; detect that the monitored parameters are within the predetermined upper or lower limits and indicate an in-range condition; detect that the monitored parameters exceed the predetermined upper or lower limits and indicate an out-of-range condition; and transmit, to the external device, a signal indicative of at least one of the in-range condition and the out-of-range condition.
US12025504B2
Methods and systems for non-contact temperature measurement of an object on which is attached or etched a diffraction grating. The diffraction grating expands and contracts as the object expands and contracts upon there being a change in temperature of the object. Upon a light beam being received on the diffraction grating, the diffraction grating produces a pair of complementary light beams and one of the light beams is reflected back onto the diffraction grating and then onto the other light beam in a manner that causes the reflected light beam to propagate alongside and non-parallel to the other light beam. The resultant two light beams are thereafter impinged onto a camera at respective first and second impingement locations. The temperature of the object is then determined based on the separation distance between the first and second impingement locations.
US12025503B2
A sensor detects presence and temperature of a measurement object. The sensor includes: a temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the measurement object; a sensor holder that holds the temperature sensor in a movable manner; and a detector that detects the presence of the measurement object in response to a movement of the temperature sensor. The detector includes a shield that moves in response to the movement of the temperature sensor, the sensor holder includes a pipe that holds the shield and controls a movement of the shield such that the shield moves in a predetermined direction in response to the movement of the temperature sensor, and the shield and the pipe are different in hardness.
US12025498B2
The invention discloses a Trace Microanalysis Microscope System for high throughput screening. A multimodal imaging sensor arrangement acquires color, multispectral, hyperspectral and multi-directional polarized imaging, independently and in combinations thereof. In one aspect of this disclosure, the multimodal acquisition is combined with a plurality of sample illumination modes, further expanding the dimensionality of the generated data. In another aspect of this invention, machine learning-based methods combining and comparing a-priori data with the acquired multimodal data space, provide unique identifiers for the composition of the analyzed target objects. In yet another aspect of this invention, projection mapping of the identified compositional features navigates secondary sampling for subsequent analyses.
US12025494B2
An optical element includes an optical block constructed of a first material having a % transmission of at least 50% throughout a spectral range of 300 nm to 2700 nm through at least a thickness of the optical block. The optical block comprises a surface. A grating layer constructed of a second material is disposed on the surface of the optical block, the grating layer comprising a second surface that is directly in contact with the surface of the optical block and a first surface comprising a plurality of diffraction features forming a diffraction grating.
US12025491B2
An optoelectronic sensing device may include an optoelectronic detection device configured to detect light and provide an electrical signal as a function of detected light. The device may further include a signal detection device configured to store at least one signal value of the electrical signal in a memory during a time interval of repeating time intervals and to output an indication signal after the time interval has elapsed.
US12025486B2
A sensing system implements one or more MEMS microphones in order to measure mechanical waves. The sensing system can be part of a larger system used to determine motion and position of a user's hand or other body part. The MEMS microphones can be part of a plurality of MEMS microphones. There may additionally be MEMS microphones that transmit mechanical waves at certain frequencies that can be measured by the MEMS microphones and subsequently distinguished from other mechanical waves and used to determine additional information regarding movement and position.
US12025482B2
A system includes an optical pressure sensor. A controller is operatively connected to receive input from the optical pressure sensor. An output connection is operatively connected to communicate output data from the controller. The controller includes machine readable instructions configured to cause the controller to receive data from an optical pressure sensor, detect an accumulation of contaminant on the optical pressure sensor, and initiate a corrective action through the output connection in response to detecting the accumulation of contaminant.
US12025481B2
A device for measuring a mass flow rate of a multiphase flow based on ray coincidence measurement includes a support frame and a plurality of ray detection assemblies. The support frame includes a central through hole and an outer wall, and the central through hole is configured to receive a fluid pipe. The plurality of ray detection assemblies is distributed along the circumferential direction of the outer wall and is perpendicular to the axis of the central through hole. The plurality of ray detection assemblies each includes a scintillation crystal and a detector, and the scintillation crystal is disposed between the outer wall and the detector.
US12025460B2
The invention relates to a method, a device and a computer-readable storage medium with instructions for controlling a display of a mobile augmented reality device of a user. First a static navigation display for a destination is generated, which is positioned in a stationary manner in a real environment. If a situation is detected that requires an adaptation of the display of the mobile augmented reality device, a static navigation display adapted to the situation or a supplementary navigation display is generated.
US12025455B1
Transport communication comprising, associating a wireless device and a user, associating a transport and the wireless device, determining a characteristic of the user based on at least one of a user search history and a user preference selection, determining a probable route the transport based on at least one of a route history and an input destination and ranking at least one suggestion of a route deviation based at least one of the determined probable route and determined characteristic.
US12025451B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for locating an obstacle in a semantic map, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring obstacle coordinates of an obstacle and a travel velocity of the obstacle; selecting an initial region in the semantic map according to a preset selection radius and according to the obstacle coordinates; and performing screening on a plurality of waypoints in the initial region by using a preset screening rule so as to obtain a target waypoint matching a position of the obstacle in the semantic map, and using the target waypoint as the position of the obstacle in the semantic map.
US12025441B2
A system uses range and Doppler velocity measurements from a lidar system and images from a video system to estimate a six degree-of-freedom trajectory of a target. The system estimates this trajectory in two stages: a first stage in which the range and Doppler measurements from the lidar system along with various feature measurements obtained from the images from the video system are used to estimate first stage motion aspects of the target (i.e., the trajectory of the target); and a second stage in which the images from the video system and the first stage motion aspects of the target are used to estimate second stage motion aspects of the target. Once the second stage motion aspects of the target are estimated, a three-dimensional image of the target may be generated.
US12025440B2
A photogrammetry target includes a base including a first base side, configured to be fixedly mounted directly to a surface of a component, and a convex second base side opposite the first base side. The convex second base side is defined by a dome. The photogrammetry target further includes a plurality of retroreflective targets fixedly mounted to the dome. Each retroreflective target of the plurality of retroreflective targets includes a retroreflective surface facing a direction which is different than each other retroreflective surface of the plurality of retroreflective targets.
US12025428B2
A method for calibrating a CNC processing apparatus is provided that can significantly reduce the amount of operation time required for sensor calibration. A method of the present invention for calibrating a non-contact sensor in a CNC processing apparatus 1 includes a first step, a second step and a third step. In the first step, the center coordinates of a reference instrument are measured with a contact probe and thereby the machine coordinates of the center of the reference instrument are determined. In the second step, after a non-contact sensor 110 is mounted onto a spindle 26, the center coordinates of the reference instrument are measured only one time with the non-contact sensor 110, and thereby the non-contact sensor coordinates of the center of the reference instrument are determined. In the third step, calculations are made to determine the amount of displacement required to bring the non-contact sensor coordinates obtained in the second step into agreement with the machine coordinates obtained with the contact probe in the first step.
US12025427B2
The invention relates to an optical measuring method for the three-dimensional detection of the surface of an object using an optical recording unit. The optical recording unit is moved relative to the object during a first measurement time interval, height maps are successively detected by the recording unit at a recording frequency, and at least some of the detected height maps are each added to an overall height map and displayed. The recording frequency is regulated by control signals during the measurement time interval. The control signals are generated spaced apart in time and for the purposes of producing each control signal, a statistic for the quality of the height map is determined for the respectively last detected height image and used for producing the control signal. The statistic is the overall intensity and/or the maximum intensity and/or the contrast and/or the number of extracted data points and/or a quality of extracted data points and/or the signal-to-noise ratio and/or the contrast of an additionally generated color image.
US12025424B2
An optical device for sensing a surface profile of an object surface of an object by means of interferometric distance measurement, including a beam splitter for splitting a light beam of a light source into first and second sub-beams, a beam divider for dividing each sub-beam into a reference and a measuring beam, a mirror for reflecting the two reference beams, wherein each measuring beam is directed onto a measuring area on the object surface for reflection and after reflection is directed as object beam to the beam divider, each reference beam reflected by the mirror and directed as mirror beam to the beam divider, the object and mirror beams each interfere and are each fed as an evaluation beam to a detector unit for evaluation. Further include a light source for generating a monochromatic light beam, a detector unit, a signal evaluation unit and for determining the surface profile.
US12025414B2
Shaped charge devices, systems, and related methods of use. A housing sheet is configurable to form at least part of a shaped charge enclosure enclosing a shaped charge and biasing an explosion in a desired direction. The housing sheet can include one or more incisions in at least one surface thereof. The housing sheet can have at least one connection mechanism integrally formed therein, and the housing sheet can be configurable to form a plurality of sizes of shaped charge housing portions. The housing sheet can also provide for forming a plurality of dimensions of the shaped charge enclosure.
US12025412B2
A target apparatus including a post having a point on a first end, and an opposing second end; a plurality of support members, each having a first end connected to the second end of the post, and an opposing second end; and a central deflector having a point; and wherein each of the second ends of each of the plurality of support members is spaced apart from each of the other second ends of the plurality of support members; and wherein the central deflector is located within a perimeter defined by second ends of the plurality of support members. The target apparatus may further include a ring, which may be connected to the second ends of the plurality of support members.
US12025408B2
Embodiments include active protection systems and methods for an aerial platform. An onboard system includes one or more radar modules, detects aerial vehicles within a threat range of the aerial platform, and determines if any of the plurality of aerial vehicles are an aerial threat. The onboard system also determines an intercept vector to the aerial threat, communicates the intercept vector to an eject vehicle, and causes the eject vehicle to be ejected from the aerial platform to intercept the aerial threat. The eject vehicle includes a rocket motor to accelerate the eject vehicle along an intercept vector, alignment thrusters to rotate a longitudinal axis of the eject vehicle to substantially align with the intercept vector, and divert thrusters to divert the eject vehicle in a direction substantially perpendicular to the intercept vector. The eject vehicle activates at least one of the alignment thrusters responsive to the intercept vector.
US12025405B2
A canister for storing and launching a self-propelled projectile comprises: a) an inner layer comprising an aluminum foil; b) a top layer consisting of an injected thermoplastic polymer; and c) optionally, a primer and/or a topcoat.
US12025404B1
A firearm assembly includes an upper receiver housing a bolt carrier group that is translatable within the upper receiver, and a lower receiver including a first hinge portion defining a first hinge opening. A second hinge portion is pivotally connected to the first hinge portion, and a buffer assembly is attached to the second hinge portion. A carrier block is positioned within the first hinge portion and is configurable in a blocking configuration and an unblocking configuration. The second hinge portion is in mechanical communication with the carrier block when the second hinge portion is configured in a folded position. At least a portion of the carrier block is positioned within the first hinge opening when the carrier block is in the blocking configuration. The carrier block prevents translation of the bolt carrier group when the carrier blocking member is in the blocking configuration.
US12025401B2
An archery accessory guard and method are disclosed herein. The archery accessory guard, in an embodiment, includes a coupler and a body coupled to the coupler. The coupler is attachable to a support. The body is configured to at least partially guard an archery accessory element that has a front element surface, a rear element surface, and an element part. The body has at least one body surface configured to at least partially face toward the front element surface or the rear element surface. The archery accessory guard is configured to maintain a gap between the body and the element part. The body is configured to receive a force directed toward the element part and then transmit the force to the support.
US12025395B2
An electronic device for simulating gunfire. The device includes a discharge chamber, a first electrode, and a second electrode. A high voltage circuit may be connected to the first and second electrodes, and may be configured to generate an electrical arc between the first and second electrodes, thereby creating percussive sounds that travel through the opening in the body. Also disclosed are embodiments where multiple discharge chambers are provided to generate electrical arcs in various discharge sequences, as well as embodiments where the device incudes a housing that is shared as a rifle scope or an AR upper barrel assembly.
US12025386B2
Method for controlling heat transfer between a mainly solid base and the ambient medium This invention belongs to the field of construction of shielding and heat-shielding structures. The technical result is changing the degree of useful effect from the regulation of heat transfer depending on the temperature of the plates of the heat control structure. In the method for regulating heat transfer between a mainly solid base and ambient medium, one plate (2) or at least two plates (2, 5) stacked in layers and interconnected are installed on base (1) at rest temperature, while at least one (2) of the said plates, when its temperature changes relative to the rest temperature, is capable of deforming so that a cavity is formed between this plate and the base or the plate adjacent in the layer, filled with particles of the ambient medium, and fixation points (3) of plate (2) to base (1) or plate (5) adjacent in the layer are selected so that this plate (2) takes a convex shape during deformation.
US12025383B2
An air-to-air heat recovery core, comprising: a core assembly having parallel first and second channels that are open to first and second sides of the core assembly, respectively, the first and second channels interleaved, and each first channel sharing a wall with an adjacent second channel; first and second sealants formed along opposite first and second edges, respectively, of the core assembly perpendicular to a running direction of the first and second channels, the first and second sealants respectively blocking first and second ends of the channels; and first and second panels secured to first and second sides of the core assembly, respectively, the first and second panels blocking a middle portion of the first and second channels, respectively, such that air can enter and leave the first and second channels via the first and second end portions of the first and second channels but not via the middle portions.
US12025379B2
Embodiments of a hydraulic reservoir cooler include a backward curve centrifugal fan located rearward of a vented front cover of the cooler, the centrifugal fan having a center point “c” and a radius “r”; and a core area including fins and a manifold in fluid communication with a hydraulic fluid tank, the core area being located between the vented front cover and the backward curve centrifugal fan and including: a straight vertical portion extending in height less than an uppermost upper end of the centrifugal fan; a straight horizontal portion located above the uppermost upper end of the centrifugal fan; and a curved portion connecting the straight vertical and horizontal portions, the curved portion having a center point “C” and a radius “R”; where C is located above c and R is greater than r. The cooler may be adapted for use with an agricultural pumper truck.
US12025376B2
A method for continuous estimation an instantaneous weight of a graphite electrode being consumed in an electric arc furnace. The method includes the steps of continuously sensing a hydraulic pressure acting on a mast holding the graphite electrode; converting each one of the sensed hydraulic pressures to a corresponding weight of the graphite electrode; and determining from the corresponding weights of the graphite electrode the instantaneous weight of the graphite electrode.
US12025372B2
A method for separating air by cryogenic distillation in a system of columns comprising a first column and a second column operating at a lower pressure than the first column, comprising the steps of compressing all of the feed air in a first compressor to a first output pressure of at least 1 bar greater than the pressure of the first column, sending a first portion of the air under the first output pressure to the second compressor, and compressing the air to a second output pressure, cooling and condensing at least a portion of the air under the second output pressure in a heat exchanger, withdrawal of a liquid from a column of the system of columns, pressurising the liquid and evaporating the liquid by heat exchange in the heat exchanger, and pressure reduction of a portion of the compressed air to a second output pressure, at least partially evaporating said air in the heat exchanger, optionally additional heating of said air in the heat exchanger, and sending at least a portion of this air to the second compressor.
US12025371B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for processing liquefied natural gas (LNG). In one implementation, a solvent is injected into a feed of natural gas at a solvent injection point. A mixed feed is produced from a dispersal of the solvent into the feed of natural gas. The mixed feed contains heavy components. A chilled feed is produced by chilling the mixed feed. The chilled feed includes a vapor and a condensed liquid. The condensed liquid contains a fouling portion of the heavy components condensed by the solvent during chilling. The liquid containing the fouling portion of the heavy components is separated from the vapor. The vapor is directed into a feed chiller heat exchanger following separation of the liquid containing the fouling portion of the heavy components from the vapor, such that the vapor being directed into feed chiller heat exchanger is free of freezing components.
US12025363B2
Disclosed is a refrigerator (100) preventing an air supply duct (141) from falling down, which includes a top cover (103) that divides a lowermost storage liner (130) into a storage space (132) located above and a cooling space located below, an evaporator (101) arranged in the cooling space, and the air supply duct (141) arranged at an inner side of a rear wall of the storage liner (130). The top cover (103) includes a top cover body (103a) and a supporting portion (103b) protruding upward from a rear end of the top cover body (103a); a bearing portion (141b) protruding forward is formed on a front wall surface of the air supply duct (141); and the top cover (103) and the air supply duct (141) are arranged such that the supporting portion (103b) supports the bearing portion (141b) to prevent the air supply duct (141) from falling down.
US12025349B2
A method of determining and responding to an overcast sky condition during daylight hours in a solar tracker installation utilizing a single, fixed-position irradiance sensor associated with a set of solar tracker assemblies of the solar tracker installation and, if a series of irradiance levels communicated by the irradiance sensor to an array controller of a solar tracker control system of the installation indicates that an overcast sky condition has been present for a predetermined overcast sky duration period, the array controller transmitting control signals to a set of solar tracker controllers associated with the set of solar tracker assemblies to deviate from a normal solar tracking mode to an overcast sky mode by pivoting respective tables of the associated set of solar tracker assemblies to one or more predetermined overcast sky condition angles of inclination, and a solar tracker control system for implementing the foregoing method.
US12025348B2
An apparatus includes a high-pressure tank, a controller, a valve, controlled by the controller, and a heater.
US12025347B2
A condensate drain system for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a heat exchanger having a plurality of tubes configured to receive ambient air and fluidly coupled to a drain via a conduit, a valve positioned along the conduit between the plurality of tubes and the drain, where the valve is configured to enable a flow of condensate from within the plurality of tubes toward the drain in an open position and the block the flow in a closed position, and a controller configured to adjust a position of the valve based on feedback indicative of an operational state of the HVAC system.
US12025340B2
This document describes a high efficiency dehumidification system (HEDS) and method of operating the same. The HEDS systems and physical implementations can include a variety of equipment, such as fans, fluid-conveying coils, tubing and pipes, heat transfer coils, vents, louvers, dampers, valves, fluid chillers, fluid heaters, and/or the like. Any of the implementations described herein can also include controls and logic, responsive to one or more sensors or other input devices, for controlling the equipment for each implementation described herein. The HEDS system utilizes heat transfer between the fluid within the fluid-conveying coils and air passing over the coils to convert humid air into dehumidified air.
US12025335B2
An air damper assembly for an air duct having an interior wall and an exterior wall is provided. The air damper assembly includes a damper plate having a periphery and multiple teeth spaced at least partially around and extending from the periphery. The multiple teeth vary in length from a maximum to a minimum over a span of approximately 90 degrees around the periphery. The air damper assembly further includes an axle assembly fixedly coupled to the damper plate and rotatably coupled to the air duct. Rotation of the axle assembly causes the damper plate to rotate within the air duct between a fully open position and a fully closed position to increase or decrease a flow of fluid through the air duct.
US12025327B2
Techniques for providing an adaptive energy management system for responding to extreme weather conditions are described herein. In an embodiment, a server computer stores multiple policy datasets each representing HVAC control policy for different structure locations and one or more extreme weather conditions. The server computer receives weather condition data comprising a condition identifier of a then-current extreme weather condition in association with a location identifier specifying a particular geographical region. Based on the location identifier, a particular structure location, being within the particular geographic region, is identified. Based on the particular structure location, a particular policy dataset from among the policy datasets is identified. The particular policy dataset is transformed into HVAC equipment instructions, which the server computer transmits, over a network, to HVAC equipment at the particular structure location which, when executed, cause the HVAC equipment to execute an action in accordance with the particular policy dataset.
US12025326B2
A damper system includes a damper housing configured to flow air, a damper blade disposed in the damper housing and having an orifice, the damper blade being rotatable in the damper housing between a closed position and an open position. The orifice is configured to allow air to flow through the damper blade while the damper blade is in the closed position. An auto-balancing damper is disposed in the damper housing apart from the damper blade, and the auto-balancing damper is configured to regulate a flow of the air through the damper housing.
US12025323B2
A solar photovoltaic (PV) water heating system includes a tank including at least a first heating unit having at least first and second heating elements, at least one of which is switchable; a PV solar collector; an inverter adapted to convert the output from the PV collector to an alternating power supply; a modulator to modulate the alternating power supply from the inverter; a controller adapted to control the modulator and the switching of the or each switchable heating element; wherein the controller is adapted to control the modulator and the switchable heating elements to maximize the energy drawn from the PV collector.
US12025319B2
An apparatus includes a high-pressure tank, a controller, a valve, controlled by the controller, and a heater.
US12025315B2
An annular dome assembly for a combustor. The annular dome assembly includes an annular dome including one or more dome panels defining the annular dome. A first dome panel includes a dome upstream surface and a dome downstream surface opposite the dome upstream surface. One or more dome arms extend from the dome upstream surface. One or more apertures extend from the dome upstream surface to the dome downstream surface. The annular dome assembly also includes a deflector assembly including one or more deflector panels defining the deflector assembly. A first deflector panel includes a deflector upstream surface and a deflector downstream surface opposite the deflector upstream surface. One or more deflector arms extend from the deflector upstream surface. Each of the one or more deflector arms are mounted within a respective aperture of the annular dome.
US12025314B2
A method of operating a combustor of a turbomachine on a total fuel input that contains a concentration of hydrogen that is greater than about 80% is provided. The method includes injecting a first mixture of air and a first fuel containing a first amount of hydrogen into the primary combustion zone of the combustor to generate a first flow of combustion gases having a first temperature. The method further includes injecting, with one or more premix injectors disposed downstream of the fuel nozzles, a second mixture of air and a second fuel containing a second amount of hydrogen into the secondary combustion zone of the combustor to generate a second flow of combustion gases having a second temperature. The method further includes separately injecting a third fuel into secondary combustion zone to generate a third flow of combustion gases having a third temperature.
US12025308B1
The present disclosure provides a combustion furnace with adjustable firepower, including a furnace body. The furnace body is provided with a combustion chamber in which combustible materials are placed. The furnace body further includes an adjusting mechanism and an air inlet, the air inlet is provided on the side wall of the furnace body, and communicated with the combustion chamber so that external air enters the combustion chamber through the air inlet. The adjusting mechanism is configured to control the air inlet to be turned on or off. Through the above structural arrangement, users can control the air inlet to be turned on or off by controlling the adjusting mechanism, so as to adjust the firepower of the combustion furnace.
US12025290B1
The present invention generally relates to the field of acoustically absorbing lighting devices, and in particular to an acoustic lighting tiles. Such an acoustic lighting tile (100) comprises a first light source (101) and a light guide panel (102). The first light source (101) is configured to provide, in operation, a first light source light. The light guide panel (102) comprises a bottom surface (111), a top surface (112) opposite to the bottom surface (111), and a first edge surface (113) that extends between the bottom surface (111) from the top surface (112), the first edge surface (113) being configured to receive the first light source light from the first light source (101). The light guide panel (102) comprises a plurality of slits (114), and at least part of each slit of the plurality of slits (114) tapers towards the first edge surface (113).
US12025287B2
A multi-function lighting assembly provides multiple vehicle lighting functions (e.g., rear vehicle tail light and fog light) using a single printed circuit board substrate having mini or micro chip scale package LEDs or their unpackaged LED dies. LEDs for respective ones of the different lighting functions are separately controlled. LEDs controlled for respective functions can be interspersed, or disposed in different areas of LEDs having the same lighting function. A layer of optic components is disposed relative to the outputs of the LEDs and has different optic components for the LEDs of the respective lighting functions (e.g., collimator optics over LEDs controlled to provide a bright concentrated light output, and a diffuser over the LEDs controlled to provide a diffused light output). The multi-function lighting assembly can be employed as a universal board for seamless and convenient integration into various rear lamps having specific inner tail lenses.
US12025283B2
A headlamp for a motor vehicle is provided, the headlamp including a plurality of first light sources for a high beam, emitting light during operation of the headlamp, and a plurality of second light sources for a low beam, emitting light during operation of the headlamp. The headlamp also includes a first light guide having a plurality of light entry surfaces for the light emitted from the first light sources and a first light exit surface, as well as a second light guide having a plurality of light entry surfaces for the light emitted from the second light sources and a second light exit surface. An optical component is also provided, which may be a monolithic optical component, and which comprises both the first and the second light guide.
US12025282B1
The present invention discloses an omnidirectional bending light source system and light strip including a strip-shaped PCB and a plurality of LED chips, the PCB comprises an interconnected first bend and a second bend, and an angle A is formed therebetween; a first notch is on the first bend, while a second notch is on the second bend, wherein the first notch and the second notch are in an alternating arrangement uniformly along a longitudinal direction of the PCB; the plurality of LED chips are mounted on the first bend or the second bend, wherein at least one of the LED chips is located between the adjacent first and second notches; regardless of the direction in which the PCB is twisted, the angle allows a sufficient room for deformation, thereby ensuring that the electronic components and LED chips mounted on the PCB remain undamaged even during arbitrary bending or twisting.
US12025281B1
A see-through flame imitation device comprises a casing, a control device, a light emitting device, a flickering device, a flame imitation board, and at least one projection board. The casing includes a receiving chamber and two transparent panels respectively mounted on two sides of the receiving chamber. The light emitting device includes a lamp base disposed in the receiving chamber and light emitting members disposed on the lamp base and electrically connected to the control device. The flickering device is disposed in the receiving chamber to reflect light rays emitted from the light emitting members. The flame imitation board is disposed below the receiving chamber and includes through-holes permitting passage of the light rays reflected by the flickering device. The at least one projection board is disposed in the receiving chamber and includes a translucent projection section at a lower portion thereof and a see-through section above the projection section.
US12025276B2
Methods, apparatus, and device, for a cryogenic storage system that stores and/or transports a liquid or gas at a temperature below ambient temperature. The cryogenic storage system has an enclosure assembly. The cryogenic storage system has a dewar that is positioned within the enclosure assembly. The enclosure assembly may comprise be configured to provide little to no friction between the dewar and the enclosure assembly. The enclosure assembly may be configured for shock absorption and/or vibration damping for the dewar during transferring of the cryogenic storage system.
US12025275B2
A monolithic pressure regulator may comprise a body comprising a base wall, an end wall, and a side wall, a cavity within the body, an input port in fluid communication with the cavity, an output port in fluid communication with the cavity, a first vesicle configured to regulate a flow of fluid through the input port into the cavity at a source pressure to exit through the output port at a regulated pressure, wherein the first vesicle comprises a first vesicle wall contiguous with a bulkhead and at least one of the base wall or the end wall.
US12025274B2
The invention relates to a tank device (1) for storing a gaseous medium, in particular hydrogen, comprising at least one tank reservoir (3), wherein said at least one tank reservoir (3) comprises a tank housing (30) having a tank neck (2). Furthermore, a tank pressure bottom (8) is arranged in the tank neck (2), which tank pressure bottom (8) separates a tank neck space (7) and a tank interior (6) from one another, and wherein said tank neck (2) has an outer thread (10) as an abutment on an outer side (20).
US12025270B2
In some embodiments, a controller is configured to be operably coupled to a series of safety relays. Each safety relay is coupled to a machine from a plurality of machines. The controller is configured to receive a signal indicative of a potential collision between any machine from the plurality of machines that is coupled to the at least one of the safety relays that was activated. The controller is configured to send, in response to the signal indicative of the potential collision, a signal to at least one of the safety relays from the series of safety relays to activate the at least one of the safety relays, thereby stopping motion of any machine from the plurality of machines that is coupled to the at least one of the safety relays that was activated.
US12025264B1
A ceiling mount support tool for temporarily mounting an electrical device, such as a ceiling fan to a ceiling bracket. The ceiling mount support tool has a shaft, a ball joint at the proximal end of the shaft, and a socket at the distal end of the shaft. The ceiling mount support tool is mounted to a ceiling flange, and the ceiling fan is mounted to the ceiling mount support tool. Thereafter, electrical wires can be connected, and then the ceiling fan and the ceiling mount support tool can be removed. The ceiling fan with the wires connected can then be mounted to the ceiling bracket.
US12025263B2
A clip for removably attaching a cubicle wall extension element to a top surface of a cubicle wall includes two elongate arms rotatably coupled together at an attachment portion. Each one of the arms has an upper portion and a lower portion, and the attachment portion is disposed between the upper portion and the lower portion. Each one of the arms also has a first angled portion between the lower portion and the attachment portion, and a second angled portion between the attachment portion and the upper portion. A space between the lower portions of the arms is sized and shaped to fit over the top surface of the cubicle wall. A torsion spring is disposed between the two arms so that the two arms are spring biased to have a resting configuration in which the lower portions of the arms are open and the upper portions of the arms are closed.
US12025259B1
The present utility model discloses a multifunctional clamping device, comprising a clamping assembly, a connecting member and a base, wherein the clamping assembly is rotatably connected to one end of the connecting member, the clamping assembly is provided with a first clamping opening used to clamp an object, one side that is of the connecting member and that is far away from the clamping assembly is provided with a second clamping opening, the other end of the connecting member is rotatably connected to the base through a fixing assembly, the fixing assembly comprises a fixing member, the fixing member is provided with a first toothed disc and a second toothed disc, and the connecting member and the base are respectively provided with first concave teeth and second concave teeth corresponding to the first toothed disc and the second toothed disc.
US12025258B2
A bonded multilayer article including: (a) at least one first layer of a silicone-containing rubber substrate material bonded to (b) at least one second layer of a substrate material bondable to the first layer; wherein at least a portion of the surface of the first layer is activated for adhesion to increase the bond strength of the first layer to a second layer such that the bond strength of the first layer bonded to the second layer is increased; and a process for producing the above bonded multilayer article.
US12025257B2
A filtration system is used with a pipe repair system, such as a cured-in-place pipe lining system. Before, during, and/or after the repair of the pipe with the pipe lining system, air from inside the pipe is directed into a filtration system. The filtration system removes contaminants, such as VOCs and other harmful gases, particles, and the like, with a filter, and then the filtered air is exhausted from the system. The filter can be a carbon filter or other filter that can remove harmful or hazardous materials and particles from the air prior to exhaust. The air is also sensed to acquire information, such as temperature, pressure, composition, flow, or the like.
US12025254B2
A clamp wherein the clamp is configured to prevent relative rotation of a plurality of hose portions at an interface of the hose portions, can include a base plate; a collar configured to attach to a first hose portion and slidably attached to the base plate; and a first fork configured to attach to a first portion of the hose interface and slidably attached to the base plate.
US12025250B1
A rigid tube support having no flexing sections comprised of an elongated rectangular shape having arcuated round ended slots for restraining multiple PEX (crosslinked polyethylene) tubes used in construction for hydronics and plumbing. These slots have openings to allow the tubes to be freely inserted radially into the openings. These slots further have within each of them a single semicylindrical protrusion axially oriented with the tube trapping the tube from sliding out radially once inserted. The protrusion forces the tube to be temporarily deformed during insertion. When in final position the slots are large enough to allow the tubes to freely rotate and slide axially within the support accommodating linear thermal expansion of the tubes. These larger slots also allow for tube rotation for ease of installation. The curved opening enables the support to be used horizontally as well as vertically. The support keeps the multiple tubes spaced apart and offset from the mounting surface to allow for insulation to be later applied to the tubes. Placed perpendicular and in between each of the tube openings are apertures through which fasteners are inserted. Although there are multiple apertures only two fasteners are required.
US12025246B2
A connector for use in vacuum system is configured to fluidly connect a first opening formed in a first vacuum chamber to a second opening formed in a second vacuum chamber, the first opening of the first vacuum chamber being provided within the second vacuum chamber. The connector comprises a tube and a biasing O-ring. The tube has an outer wall to define a fluid flow path between first and second ends of the tube. Towards the first end, a sealing portion of the outer wall of the tube is provided. Towards the second end, an O-ring retaining point is provided along the tube spaced apart from the second end of the tube. The biasing O-ring is provided around and tensioned by the outer wall of the tube. The biasing O-ring is moveable along the axial direction between the O-ring retaining point and a sealing position where it seals the connector.
US12025242B2
A sliding subsea foundation comprises a polymeric shoe layer on the underside of a mudmat or subsea structure. The shoe layer defines a soil-engaging face that comprises an array of parallel grooves. The grooves are shallower than the thickness of the shoe layer such that each groove has a closed top, defined by and integral with the shoe layer, that spans the groove. Where a subsea structure is supported on the foundation with a subsea pipeline attached to the structure, the grooves are substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the pipeline.
US12025236B2
A rotor device, in particular a stepper motor rotor device, with at least one hollow body, in particular a pressure pipe of a valve, and with at least one rotor assembly group that is fixated, in particular at least partially in a rotationally fixed and translationally fixed manner, in the hollow body, including at least one rotor element, which is at least configured to convert a magnetic field change into a rotational movement of the rotor element, further including a support element, which is at least configured for a rotational support of the rotor element, and including at least one fixation element, which is at least configured for a fixation of the rotor assembly group within the hollow body, in particular within the pressure pipe, wherein the support element is arranged in the hollow body in such a way that axial forces pulling at least towards the rotor element and/or axial forces pulling and pressing the support element along at least two opposing directions are transmittable via the support element.
US12025232B2
A valve has a housing that delimits an interior, a first connection, a second connection, a passage that fluidically connects the first and second connections, first and second closing elements received in the interior and surrounding an intermediate space connected to a third connection, and an adjustment device that, in a closed position, brings the first closing element into sealing contact with a first valve seat formed in the passage and the second closing element into sealing contact with a second valve seat formed in the passage. The first closing element is sealingly received in the second closing element. For cleaning, the adjustment device forms a gap that connects the intermediate space to the interior, between the first and second closing elements and simultaneously releases the first and second closing elements from the first and second valve seats in an open position. A cleaning method is also described.
US12025217B2
A vehicle control apparatus includes: (a) a shift control portion for controlling switching of a power transmission apparatus between a parking position and a non-parking position; (b) a fail-safe portion for executing a fail-safe operation for inhibiting an electric actuator from being re-driven, when detecting an abnormality of the electric actuator; (c) a power-supply control portion for switching a supplier of an electric power to the electric actuator, from a first power supply to a second power supply, in case of determining a power supply failure of the first power supply; and (d) an abnormality-detection stop portion configured, in case of occurrence of a power-supply failure state of the first power supply during the switching from the non-parking position to the parking position, to stop the fail-safe portion from detecting the abnormality of the electric actuator, until the electric power supplier has been switched to the second power supply.
US12025216B2
A control system for preventing a drop in driving force in a vehicle having a momentary type shifting device. In the shifting device, the N position corresponding to the N range and the default position are located between the D position corresponding to the D range and B position corresponding to the B range. The controller is configured to establish the neutral range in a case that the shift lever which is moved to the N position is maintained thereto for the threshold, and the neutral range maintaining action is executed after the lapse of the threshold time.
US12025210B2
A continuously variable powertrain device for a work vehicle includes a hydraulic static transmission to output a continuously shifted motive power while continuously varying a velocity of a motive power received from an engine, a planetary transmission to receive the motive power from the engine and the continuously shifted motive power and to output a compound motive power, a pressure detector to detect a hydraulic pressure in a closed circuit of the hydraulic static transmission, a planetary clutch mechanism to switch a shift level of the planetary transmission, and a powertrain controller to control actuation of the hydraulic static transmission and the planetary transmission based on a shift command.
US12025208B2
Safety device with sliding cable, to secure an installation. The device includes a sliding cable with a first attachment eyelet and a second attachment eyelet formed by two end portions, of the sliding cable, respectively closed by a first sleeve and a second sleeve. The first and second attachment eyelet allow to attach and connect the device to two adjacent parts of the installation. The safety device further includes signaling and activation means.
US12025207B1
A non-crimping cable pulling device may be provided. The non-crimping cable pulling device may be a cap and a body attached to the cap. The body may be an interior that may have a sleeve section and a jaw assembly section. A sleeve may be disposed in the sleeve section of the body and a jaw assembly may be disposed in the jaw assembly section of the body. The jaw assembly may be a plurality of jaws and a grip ring. The plurality of jaws may each have an exterior side and an interior side. Each of the plurality of jaws may have a spring groove on its exterior side. The grip ring may have a plurality of grip ring legs. Ones of the plurality of grip ring legs may respectively engage the spring groove on each of the plurality of jaws.
US12025204B2
The present disclosure relates to a valve arrangement for a shock absorber. The valve arrangement comprises a valve member axially moveable relative a housing, and a triple spring arrangement including a first spring, a second spring and a coil spring arranged between the valve member and a coupling member coupled to the first spring and the second spring. The valve arrangement is adapted so that when the valve member moves no more than a first stroke length relative a predetermined reference position the first spring deflects to adjust a force equilibrium of the valve member, when the valve member moves more than the first stroke length the second spring deflects to adjust said force equilibrium, and when the valve member moves beyond a second stroke length greater than the first stroke length, the coil spring compresses to adjust said force equilibrium. A shock absorber comprising such a valve arrangement and a method for controlling a damping medium flow in a shock absorber is disclosed as well.
US12025202B2
A spindle drive for a motorized adjustment of an adjustment element of a motor vehicle includes a tubular or half-shell-like spindle drive housing. An annular or disk-like connection portion is inserted and secured in one end region of the spindle drive housing. The annular or disk-like connection portion is connected via a damping element comprising a resilient damping material to a connection for discharging axial drive movements. The connection portion has a coaxial recess with an inner radially peripheral wall having a radially peripheral groove. The connection with the end region thereof facing the spindle drive housing protrudes axially into the recess of the connection portion and has a radially peripheral flange which protrudes radially into the groove. The damping element is arranged in a gap disposed between the side walls of the groove and the side walls of the flange.
US12025201B2
The present invention relates to a displacement-controlled earthquake-resistant transformer employing a friction damper, including: a device body; an upper frame disposed in an upper portion of the device body to fix the device body; a lower frame disposed in a lower portion of the device body to fix the device body to a base while supporting the device body; and a friction damper unit disposed between the device body and the base to interwork with the device body and the base, and configured to buffer a vibration transmitted to the device body through the base fixed to a ground surface. According to the present invention, seismic energy is absorbed by using a frictional force of a damper in the event of an earthquake, so that damage that may be caused to the transformer by an earthquake shock is prevented.
US12025200B2
A method for sealing a liquid composite spring, includes the steps of: placing a sleeve-shaped outer wall around an upper portion of a core shaft, and forming an upper liquid chamber and a lower liquid chamber inside the outer wall; and arranging a sealing member at a bottom of the outer wall to seal the lower liquid chamber, wherein the sealing member is made of flexible material. The liquid composite spring is provided with the rigid outer wall and the flexible sealing member. The volume and shape of the lower liquid chamber can be changed through the flexible sealing member, so that the chamber is formed as a flexible chamber.
US12025199B2
A contact element for contacting at least one long molded part, in particular a cable, in the unassembled state includes a plurality of first windings and a plurality of second windings which are geometrically different from the first windings, and a through-opening for the passage of a long molded part.
US12025194B2
The disclosure provides a brake including a magnetic yoke iron core, a movable plate, a friction disk, a coil, an armature and an elastic part; a first mounting space penetrates through a center position of the magnetic yoke iron core in the axial direction; an opening of a second mounting space faces a second shaft end; the movable plate is located in the first mounting space and close to a first shaft end; the friction disk is arranged in the first mounting space and located at a side of the movable plate close to the second shaft end; the coil is arranged in the second mounting groove; the armature is located at the second shaft end, and the armature is connected with the movable plate through a connector; and the elastic part has pre-tightening force that enables the armature to be far away from the magnetic yoke iron core.
US12025188B1
An actuator includes a housing having an input shaft, a transmission, an output shaft, a shaft collar assembly, and an encoder. The shaft collar assembly has an annular body for holding an encoder target and a fastening assembly for affixing the assembly to the output shaft. The location of the encoder target can be adjusted during assembly via an internal bore so that it is in a desired position relative to an encoder sensor when assembly is complete.
US12025186B2
A bearing assembly includes a bearing unit configured to support a rotatable component relative to a stationary component which may be a bearing carrier, the bearing unit including a stationary bearing ring and a rotatable bearing ring. The rotatable bearing ring is connectable to the rotatable component and the stationary bearing ring is connectable to the bearing carrier such that they are rotationally fixed. At least part of the bearing unit is not covered by the bearing carrier.
US12025184B2
A sealing device for a bearing unit that includes an inner ring, an outer ring, a plurality of rolling bodies interposed between the inner ring and the outer ring, the sealing device having a radially outer anchoring portion, an intermediate portion, and a radially inner sealing portion distal to the radially outer anchoring portion, the sealing device being made of a single polymer plastic material.
US12025177B2
A system and process for removably and replaceably coupling two hollow carbon fiber composite structures without the need for adhesives or welding. A universal coupling makes use of reciprocating catches in the end regions of the universal coupling. The reciprocating catches engage receiving features provided in the hollow carbon fiber composite structures to couple the hollow carbon fiber composite structures to the universal coupling, and through the universal coupling, couple the hollow carbon fiber composite structures together. The hollow carbon fiber composite structures can be uncoupled by disengaging the reciprocating catches of the universal coupling from the receiving features of the hollow carbon fiber composite structures.
US12025168B2
A shear bolt for a junction of electrical conductors includes a tool seat for engagement of the shear bolt by a screwing tool, an externally threaded portion to be screwed in a terminal body of the junction, along a screwing axis, and a tightening portion for engaging an electrical conductor to be tightened in the terminal body. The tool seat is formed at the threaded portion and the tightening portion is connected to the threaded portion on an opposite side with respect to the tool seat. The shear bolt can be sheared in one or more programmed rupture areas in the threaded portion when exceeding a predetermined tightening torque for each of the programmed rupture areas, respectively. Even with the screw unscrewed, the tightening portion is connected to the threaded portion and is rotatable with respect to the threaded portion about the screwing axis and non-detachable from the threaded portion.
US12025166B2
In an embodiment, a self-locking pin includes a cylindrical shaft having a slot at a front end, an enlarged head at the rear end of the shaft, first and second toggles mounted within the slot, a compressible biasing member mounted between the toggles, and a mounting pin extending through the shaft and the toggles. The mounting pin is fixed in position on the shaft and the toggles are movable relative to the mounting pin. Each toggle is movable from a first position in which the respective toggle extending outwardly from an open end of the slot to a second position in which each toggle is pushed inwardly into the slot. The biasing member is compressed when the toggles are in the second positions. A single toggle can also be provided.
US12025165B2
A fastening device (100), for fastening to a plate-like element, has a head (110) and a foot (120). The foot (120) has: a core (121) extending from the head (110) along an axis of rotation; and at least one group of blades (122) which are elastic at least in regions and extend outwards from the core (121). Each of the blades (122) has an oblique shoulder (123) or a shoulder with a finely stepped gradation, formed on the outer edge of the corresponding blade (122), said outer edge being arranged towards the head (110). The oblique shoulder (123) or the individual steps of the gradation of the shoulder is inclined with a slope with respect to a plane which has the axis of rotation of the core as a perpendicular. The shoulders (123) of the blades are arranged at different heights from one another along the axis of rotation.
US12025163B2
A fastening means having a blind rivet element and a sealing element, wherein the blind rivet element has a head portion and a shaft adjoining the head portion in an axial direction, wherein the shaft has an internal thread or a connecting portion for a threaded bolt and, between the internal thread or the connecting portion for the threaded bolt and the head portion, a deformation portion for forming a closing head when the deformation portion is deformed. The sealing element has a closed lateral portion and a closed cover portion adjoining the lateral portion in the axial direction, wherein the lateral portion circumferentially encloses the shaft of the blind rivet element at least in the region of the deformation portion, and the cover portion is formed at an end of the shaft of the blind rivet element facing away from the head portion.
US12025158B1
The disclosure provides a flow self-compensating load sensing pump/valve coordinated electro-hydraulic system, including a prime mover, an electronically controlled variable pump, a flow control valve, a hydraulic actuator, a shuttle valve, an electronic control joystick, a bypass control valve, two pressure sensors, a bypass throttle valve, and a control system, where an oil outlet of the shuttle valve is connected to a right spring chamber of the bypass control valve, a left chamber and an oil inlet of the bypass control valve are connected to an oil outlet of the electronically controlled variable pump, an oil inlet and an oil outlet of the bypass throttle valve are connected to an oil outlet of the bypass control valve and an oil tank, two ends of the oil inlet and the oil outlet of the bypass throttle valve are provided with the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor, respectively.
US12025152B2
A blower assembly for a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a centrifugal fan having a fan wheel. A plurality of blades are coupled to the fan wheel at an inner blade boundary and extend radially to an outer blade boundary. The blower assembly includes a first housing panel and a second housing panel disposed on opposite sides of the centrifugal fan and extending transverse to the centrifugal fan. The blower assembly includes a wall extending between the first housing panel and the second housing panel and a flange extending from the wall at a vertex. The flange extends outwardly from the wall. A first radial distance from the vertex to the outer blade boundary is between 4 percent and 20 percent of a second radial distance from a rotational axis of the centrifugal fan to the outer blade boundary.
US12025133B2
Provided is, e.g., a compressor with a high reliability. A compressor (100) includes a hermetic container (1) sealed with lubricant oil, an electric motor (6) placed inside the hermetic container (1) and having a stator (6a) and a rotor (6b), a crankshaft (3) configured to rotate integrally with the rotor (6b), a compression mechanism (2) configured to compress refrigerant in association with rotation of the crankshaft (3), a discharge pipe (Pb) configured to guide the refrigerant compressed in the compression mechanism (2) to the outside of the hermetic container (1), and a tubular oil ring (15) provided between the compression mechanism (2) and the electric motor (6). A cutout (s1) is, at a lower portion of the oil ring (15), provided as a first insertion portion into which the discharge pipe (Pb) is inserted.
US12025129B2
A liquid-supply-type screw compressor can suppress a rise in temperature of a liquid while reducing work for stirring the liquid. The compressor has male and female rotors, male- and female-rotor-side working chambers formed at grooves of the male and female rotors, respectively. The compressor also has a liquid supply nozzle arranged on one side in the rotor axial direction which is a low-pressure side of an intersection at which a high-pressure-side cusp intersects a ridge line of a trailing lobe tip of the female rotor that defines a female-rotor-side working chamber, the nozzle supplying liquid to the male-rotor-side working chamber; and a liquid-supply nozzle arranged on the other side in the rotor axial direction which is a high-pressure side of the intersection, and supplies the liquid to the male-rotor-side working chamber, and the liquid supply amount of the nozzle is made greater than the amount of the other liquid-supply nozzle.
US12025118B2
Devices and methods for operating a diaphragm compressor system provide high output pressure and high throughput. In some embodiments, modular diaphragm compressors are stacked with a clamping mechanism pressing the compressor modules together. In embodiments, multiple stacks are provided as stages of a pressurization process. In embodiments, a main stage valve controls one or more pressure circuits for one or more hydraulic actuators of compressor modules. In embodiments, orifices configured for damping are incorporated to control actuator piston movement within a compressor module.
US12025117B2
Provided is a tube holding member including: an insertion portion that is inserted into an insertion groove that has a first width in a width direction; and a pair of arm portions that project from the insertion groove, in which the insertion portion includes a pair of wall portions that hold a tube in a pinched state, and a coupling portion that couples the pair of wall portions, the coupling portion is elastically deformable, and the pair of wall portions are disposed to be in contact with the insertion groove such that the pair of wall portions have a second width that is longer than the first width in the width direction in a state in which the insertion portion is not inserted into the insertion groove and have the first width in the width direction in a state in which the insertion portion is inserted into the insertion groove.
US12025116B2
A pump apparatus includes a piezoelectric pump, an outer housing, and an adhesive sheet. The piezoelectric pump has a principal surface at which a discharge port for a fluid is formed. The outer housing has a housing channel that communicates with the discharge port, and the outer housing is formed at least partially using a resin having water-containing properties. The adhesive sheet adheres the principal surface of the piezoelectric pump to the outer housing. The outer housing includes a main plate. The main plate has a principal surface that opposes the principal surface of the piezoelectric pump and is in contact with the adhesive sheet. The main plate also has a through-hole that communicate with the discharge port and with the housing channel. The principal surface is formed as a surface of a metal portion.
US12025102B2
The invention relates to a controller for a wind turbine with an operating software for operating the wind turbine, wherein the operating software is set up to regulate or control at least an electrical output of a wind turbine generator, a speed of a wind turbine rotor, an azimuth angle of a wind turbine nacelle, and a pitch angle of at least one rotor blade of the wind turbine rotor, wherein the operating software comprises a core module and at least one customer application. The customer application is set up to determine a parameter, in particular a control variable, in particular a target value, depending on at least one function of the customer application, and provide it for the core module. The core module is set up to detect and/or predict a load acting on the wind turbine during an operation of the wind turbine, and in a case where a detected or predicted load lies below a predefined load limit, to operate the wind turbine as a function of the parameter provided by the customer application, and in a case where a detected or predicted load exceeds the predefined load limit, to adjust the prepared parameter and leave the wind turbine unconsidered as a function of the adjusted parameter or the provided parameter, and operate the wind turbine with a parameter determined in the core module. The controller further has a first programming interface and a second programming interface, wherein the first programming interface is set up to program the core module, in particular the load limits, and wherein the second programming interface is set up to program the customer applications, in particular their function, and prevent the core module from being reprogrammed via the second programming interface. The invention further relates to a method for a controller and a computer program product.
US12025092B2
Disclosed is a wind turbine blade and a method for its manufacture. The wind turbine blade comprises an upwind side shell part, a downwind side shell part, a leading edge and a trailing edge. A flatback web is arranged at the trailing edge, which couples the upwind side shell part with the downwind side shell part, wherein the flatback web comprises at least one U-shaped end section with a recess, into which the upwind side shell part and/or the downwind side shell part is inserted and bonded to the U-shaped end section by an adhesive.
US12025091B2
A rotor (1) for a wind turbine is disclosed. The rotor (1) comprises a hub (11) and at least one wind turbine blade (10), each wind turbine blade (10) being mounted on the hub (11) via a bearing unit (2). Each bearing unit (2) comprises a C-shaped bearing element (3) forming an inner ring and a T-shaped bearing element (4) forming an outer ring. The C-shaped bearing element (3) comprises a first bearing element part (12) and a second bearing element part (13). An interface (14) between the first bearing element part (12) and the second bearing element part (13) is positioned in such a manner that a third raceway pair (8) is formed between a protruding portion (5) of the T-shaped bearing element (4) and the first bearing element part (12) of the C-shaped bearing element (3) and the hub (11) or the wind turbine blade (10) is attached to the second bearing element part (13) of the C-shaped bearing element (3).
US12025087B2
A control device of a vehicle, the vehicle includes an engine, a hydraulic clutch disposed on a power transmission path between the engine and driving wheels, a starter motor for use in startup of the engine, an electric oil pump device discharging hydraulic oil generating oil pressure supplied to the clutch, and a power supply device supplying electric power driving each of the starter motor and the electric oil pump device. The control device includes a startup control unit that performs starter startup control of starting discharge of the hydraulic oil by the electric oil pump device after determining that output voltage of the power supply device or input voltage of the electric oil pump device is higher than or equal to a fixed voltage after completion of cranking by the starter motor upon startup of the engine using the starter motor.
US12025084B1
In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a system includes an in-tank fuel pump configured to be disposed in a fuel tank to supply fuel from the fuel tank to a fuel line at a first pressure. A boost pump is configured to be disposed in the fuel line to receive fuel from the in-tank fuel pump and supply the fuel to one or more downstream components at a boost pressure. An augmentation pump system is configured to be disposed in the fuel line to receive fuel from the boost pump and to supply fuel at a second pressure to one of, at least one fuel consuming component downstream of the augmentation pump system, or an in-tank ejector pump, based on an operational state of the in-tank fuel pump.
US12025076B1
A rocket engine is provided with a propellant valve controlling the output of a propellant tank. The valve is configured to induce a vortex in the propellant as it passes the propellant valve. Plural rocket engines may be supplied by a single valve, the valve inducing a vortex in the propellant which is then supplied to plural propellant lines configured to enhance the vortex induced by the valve.
US12025064B2
The ECM calculates a peak value of an in-cylinder pressure before ignition based on the operating state of the hydrogen engine. When the peak value of the in-cylinder pressure before ignition exceeds a threshold value, the ECM performs an advancement correction of the ignition timing such that the peak value becomes less than or equal to the threshold value.
US12025060B2
Methods and systems for operating an aircraft engine having a compressor are described. The method comprises determining, based on actual operating parameters of the aircraft engine, a compressor mass flow limit for an aerodynamic stability of the aircraft engine; determining an actual compressor mass flow of the compressor of the aircraft engine, wherein the actual compressor mass flow is based on measured values of the aircraft engine; comparing the actual compressor mass flow to the compressor mass flow limit; and governing operation of the aircraft engine to cause an alternative compressor mass flow when the actual compressor mass flow reaches or is anticipated to reach the compressor mass flow limit.
US12025044B2
The honeycomb catalyst structure to be used for exhaust gas of a marine engine includes an SCR catalyst supported on a metal honeycomb unit having a shape divided by cell walls into a plurality of cells extending from one end face to the other end face. The SCR catalyst contains TiO2 alone, or contains TiO2 as a principal component and any one type or two or more types of V2O5, WO3, MoO3, SiO2, and Al2O3 in combination. The cell density of the plurality cells is 100 to 500 cpsi, and the slope of a straight line represented by a relationship between the flow velocity and the pressure loss of the exhaust gas passing through the cells is 30 or more and 180 or less.
US12025038B2
A connector system includes an adaptor with a magnetic target surface, and a nozzle that is configured to be connected to the magnetic target surface of the adaptor by a magnetic coupling. The nozzle has a housing having an inlet end and an outlet end, and a throughgoing channel having an axial extension therebetween. The housing includes one or more magnets that are arranged at the inlet end and configured to direct or indirect engage the magnetic target surface in a condition when the nozzle is connected to the adaptor. Further, the housing includes one or more air vents that are arranged at the outlet end and which have an axial extension being radially displaced in view of the axial extension of the throughgoing channel.
US12025032B2
This stationary vane ring comprises a vane group having a plurality of vanes arrayed in the circumferential direction of an axis, a shroud segment in which the radial ends of the plurality of vanes of the vane group are connected to form an arc so as to connect the plurality of vanes in the circumferential direction, and a pressing portion that applies radial pressure to the vane group so that the vane group is pressed against the shroud segment, the pressing portion having pressure distribution such that the pressure at the circumferential center of the shroud segment is less than the pressure at both circumferential ends of the shroud segment.
US12025029B1
A vane assembly includes a vane having an outer platform with mount structure and an airfoil extending inwardly from the outer platform and formed of ceramic matrix composites (“CMC”). The vane having an internal cooling chamber. A metal baffle is received within the internal cooling chamber and extends beyond the outer platform. A bathtub seal has a central portion receiving the metal baffle. The metal baffle has a central chamber and cooling air holes to deliver cooling air into the internal cooling chamber. The bathtub seal having an inner wall and an outer wall outward of the metal baffle. The inner wall, the outer wall and a base wall define a bathtub seal chamber. The base wall is in contact with the outer platform. The vane is connected to the outer wall. The static structure is received within the bathtub seal chamber. A connection is configured to deliver pressurized air to the bathtub seal chamber. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US12025025B2
A turbine engine assembly including a first rotor element and a second rotor element extending around a longitudinal axis X and coupled to one another by a gear coupling, the first rotor element including teeth and the second rotor element including complementary teeth which extend along the longitudinal axis and form the gear coupling. The first and second rotor elements each include a first and a second radial flange which are annular and arranged facing one another, and the assembly includes a sealing device configured to ensure that the gear coupling is sealed at the first and second flanges.
US12025024B2
A turbine wheel according to at least one embodiment is a turbine wheel connected to a rotational shaft and configured to rotate about an axis and includes: a hub having a hub surface oblique to the axis in a cross-section along the axis; and a plurality of blades disposed on the hub surface. The turbine wheel includes a plurality of passages each of which is formed between two adjacent blades of the plurality of blades, and a relationship of Aen/Aave>1.01 is satisfied, where Aen is an area of a throat portion of a throat enlarged passage which is at least one of the plurality of passages, and Aave is an average area of throat portions of the plurality of passages.
US12025023B2
One or more cooling systems for ventilating a turbine and rotary shaft of a gas turbine system is provided. The gas turbine system includes a gas turbine engine and a turbine exhaust collector in separate enclosures. A first cooling system includes an educator that sucks exhaust gas through a diffuser and directs it out of the turbine exhaust collector enclosure based on suction pressure created from the high velocity of exhaust gas. A second cooling system include struts that enable the exhaust gas to flow from the diffusers to a ventilation flow stack. A third cooling system includes exhaust gas sucked from an opening to a top duct based on suction pressure created from the rotation of the rotary shaft disposed about a coupling. A guideway associated with the third cooling system also directs the exhaust gas to flow to the top duct.
US12025021B2
A system includes a retention system configured to support a heat exchanger along a flow path within a duct. The retention system includes a first sleeve configured to extend between opposite first and second walls of the duct, a first cable extending through the first sleeve, and a first bumper coupled to the first sleeve. The first bumper is configured to contact the heat exchanger. The retention system includes a first tensioner coupled to the first cable, wherein the first tensioner is configured to provide a first tension in the first cable. The first tension is adjustable to detune the natural frequency of the heat exchanger away from any excitation load frequencies caused by an exhaust gas flow through the duct.
US12025019B2
A heatshield for a gas turbine engine, includes a main body having a leading edge, a trailing edge, lateral edges, a first surface and a second surface. The first surface being exposed to a hot working gas in use passing through the gas turbine engine. The heatshield having a leading hook and a trailing hook each extending between the lateral edges, the leading hook and the trailing hook extending from the second surface. A stiffening structure extends from the leading hook to the trailing hook and free from direct contact or attachment to the second surface.
US12025017B2
A bearing system for supporting a shaft, comprising: a bearing including: an inner race about an axis, the inner race having an interior coupled to the shaft; rolling elements about the axis and around the inner race; and an outer race about the axis and around the rolling elements; a housing having a cavity defining an axial location relative to the axis, the bearing received by the cavity; a first axial loading structure in the cavity and operatively connected to the bearing; and a second axial loading structure in the cavity extending axially away from the axial location in a first axial direction, the second loading structure opposing movement of the bearing relative to the axial location in a second axial direction when the bearing loads the second axial loading structure in the second axial direction, the first and second axial loading structures operationally independent from one another.
US12025015B2
A cleaning system for cleaning gas paths in an engine core of a gas turbine engine includes a source of an engine cleaning liquid, an engine cleaning mist forming unit, a delivery device, a pump, and a mist collecting arrangement. The forming unit vapourises the cleaning liquid to form a cleaning mist and delivers the mist into the engine core. The delivery device delivers the cleaning liquid to the forming unit. The pump draws the mist through the engine core to clean the gas paths within the engine core. The mist collecting arrangement includes a condensing chamber, collects the mist that has passed through the engine core, and condenses the collected mist in the condensing chamber. The pump is arranged between and interconnects a rear engine core exhaust nozzle of the engine core and the condensing chamber.
US12025014B2
There is provided a pit initiation evaluation system or the like capable of predicting pit initiation effectively and at low cost. In a pit initiation evaluation system of an embodiment, a pit initiation evaluation unit creates and retains, based on a dry-wet alternate time data, a deposit impurity concentration data, and a pit initiation data on pitting corrosion initiated in each of a plurality of turbine stages when an operation is actually performed in the steam turbine, a pit initiation evaluation table presenting a relationship between a dry-wet alternate time, a deposit impurity concentration, and pit initiation. Further, the pit initiation evaluation unit is configured to evaluate, by using the pit initiation evaluation table, pitting corrosion to be initiated in each of the plurality of turbine stages in an operation planned for the steam turbine.
US12025011B2
Clearance control systems with thermal actuators are disclosed. An example thermally-actuated clearance control system for a gas turbine engine includes a compliant material; a high-conductive material coupled to a first surface of the compliant material, the high-conductive material thermally coupling the compliant material to a heated substance, the compliant material to expand radially-inward toward a fan blade when the high-conductive material provides heat; and an abradable material coupled to a second surface of the compliant material facing the fan blade.
US12024996B2
A method of estimating a position of a well path within a subsurface formation of the Earth includes determining a well path estimate using navigation measurements from a downhole tool and a position estimate derived from seismic data. A method of geosteering includes estimating a position of the well path and controlling a drill bit in response to the estimated position of the well path to follow a desired well trajectory.
US12024986B2
A downhole ignition assembly is described herein. The downhole ignition assembly has a switch container having a longitudinal axis, the switch container having a first portion that accommodates a switch circuit in an orientation transverse to the longitudinal axis, and a second portion that contacts an igniter disposed in the second portion, the first portion having a contact that makes electrical contact with a tool coupled to the downhole ignition assembly.
US12024983B2
A method and system for both enhancing oil recovery of a reservoir and permanently sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) is described. The method includes dissolving CO2 in a base fluid at a surface location of an injection formation, forming a dense CO2-brine solution, introducing the dense CO2-brine solution into an injection well, accumulating a volume of the dense CO2-brine solution in a structural low, displacing a native formation fluid from the injection well, increasing a fluid drive pressure from the injection well to a producing well, and displacing hydrocarbons of the producing well. The system includes an injection system in fluid communication with an injection well, a production well of the hydrocarbon production formation, and a dense CO2-brine solution that has a density greater than a native formation fluid of the injection formation.
US12024982B2
A method and apparatus for collecting waste liquid at a wellhead from an above ground source conduit when wireline apparatus and/or associated tools are withdrawn from a well includes providing a manually portable waste liquid containment assembly having a valved conduit subassembly that is connected in fluid-tight relation to the source conduit, and admitting waste liquid into the containment assembly at the drilling site. The waste liquid containment assembly includes a water and flame resistant cellulosic container fitted with a plurality of flexible oil and water impermeable polymer bags nested one inside of the other, the innermost polymer bag containing an oil-absorbent natural product. The valved conduit subassembly has components to safely control the waste liquid during the filling of the polymer bags, including a control valve, a check valve and a pressure relief valve. Conduit couplings join the conduits, which can include flexible sections, in fluid-tight mating relation.
US12024972B2
A backup including a resister articulated to a mounting ring, a support articulated to a support ring and the resister, the resister moving upon one of the mounting ring and the support ring moving away from the other. A seal including a mandrel, an element and a backup disposed on the mandrel adjacent the element. A borehole system including a borehole in a formation, a string in the borehole, a backup disposed within or as a part of the string. A backup including a deformable ring, a resister disposed adjacent the deformable ring, the resister being articulated to a ring mount through a pivot pin having a frustoconical geometry. A backup including a resister articulated to a ring, the resister including a borehole wall engager. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, a backup within or as a part of the string.
US12024971B2
A wear-resistant annular seal assembly has a plurality of interlocking one-piece seal segments interleaved with a plurality of two-piece seal segments. The seal segments are made using wear-resistant rigid material such as steel, stainless steel or a composite material. In one embodiment the seal segments are coated with a fluoropolymer. A straddle packer includes a first and second spaced apart ones of the wear-resistant seal assemblies and a linear force generator for urging the first and second seal assemblies to a seal-set condition.
US12024970B2
A well tool device for forming a permanent well barrier includes a housing having a circular cross-section and a longitudinal extension; a pyrotechnic mixture provided in the housing; a flow generating device provided in the housing; and a motor for driving the flow generating device. After ignition, the pyrotechnic mixture turns into a molten mass; and the flow generating device is configured to generate a forced flow of the molten mass. A method for forming a permanent well barrier using the well tool device includes installing the well tool device in a well; and igniting the pyrotechnic mixture. The pyrotechnic mixture turns into a molten mass upon ignition. The method further includes starting the motor; and generating a forced flow of molten mass by the flow generating device.
US12024962B1
A control system may include a recirculation circuit configured to direct fluid from an outlet of a fluid pump, via a first portion of the recirculation circuit, to an inlet of the fluid pump via a second portion of the recirculation circuit. The control system may include a control valve and a choke valve in the recirculation circuit. The control system may include a controller configured to identify, based on a differential pressure that is based on a first pressure of the fluid in the first portion and a second pressure of the fluid in the second portion while the control valve is closed, a position for the choke valve that is to result in a flow velocity of the fluid through the control valve that is below a threshold, and configured to cause actuation of the choke valve in accordance with the position.
US12024954B2
A system may include a control system disposed on a well surface, a casing disposed in a wellbore, a first electrical wiring coupled to the control system and the casing within a first section of the wellbore, and a second electrical wiring coupled to various flow control devices in a second section of the wellbore. The first section of the wellbore may be disposed at a first predetermined direction that is different than a second predetermined direction of the second section of the wellbore. The system may further include an electrical connector coupled to the first electrical wiring and the second electrical wiring. The electrical connector may include a mechanical receiver that couples with the first electrical wiring, and a stinger assembly coupled with the second electrical wiring and that connects to the mechanical receiver.
US12024948B2
Disclosed herein is an electrostatic shutter system including an electrostatic shutter configured to be selectively raised and lowered based on a voltage applied to the electrostatic shutter, at least one sensor system configured to detect a position of the electrostatic shutter, and a controller communicatively coupled to the electrostatic shutter and the at least one sensor system. The controller is configured to apply an initial voltage to the electrostatic shutter to lower the electrostatic shutter, receive an output signal from the at least one sensor indicating the electrostatic shutter has reached a predetermined position, and based on the received output signal from the at least one sensor, apply an updated voltage to the electrostatic shutter to hold the shutter at the predetermined position.
US12024946B2
In one aspect, a roller shade includes a roller and a shade panel configured to be wound around and unwound from the roller to retract and extend the shade panel, respectively. The roller shade further includes a shade adapter coupled between the roller and the shade panel. The shade adapter includes a first adapter portion configured to be coupled to the roller, a second adapter portion configured to be coupled to the shade panel, and a connector panel portion extending between the first and second adapter portions. The second adapter portion allows the shade panel to be quickly and easily removed from and installed relative to the shade adapter and, thus, the roller.
US12024939B2
A splicing pipe for installing a door or window includes a first frame profile, a second frame profile, a heat insulation strip and at least two fasteners. A first clamping groove is formed on each of two sides of the first frame profile, and a second clamping groove is formed on each of two sides of the second frame profile. The first clamping groove and the second clamping groove are both used to connect to the door or window having glass. At least one of the first frame profile and the second frame profile on the same side is provided with an installation groove, and the fastener is inserted into the installation groove. The splicing pipe provided has the advantages of simple splicing operation and easy implementation, which can not only improve the splicing speed, but also guarantee the performance of the doors or windows after being spliced.
US12024934B2
An opening-closing member controller that solves the problem includes a motor, a speed detection unit, an entrapment determination unit, and a control unit. The motor opens and closes an opening-closing member of a vehicle. The speed detection unit outputs a speed signal corresponding to a rotation speed of the motor. The entrapment determination unit determines whether entrapment of foreign material by the opening-closing member has occurred based on the speed signal. The control unit reverses or stops the motor when the entrapment determination unit determines that entrapment has occurred. The entrapment determination unit performs the determination at shorter time intervals when a remote operation switch that is separated from the vehicle is operated to close the opening-closing member than when a vehicle operation switch that is arranged in the vehicle is operated to close the opening-closing member.
US12024933B2
A pulley includes a main winding portion including an annular main winding groove, where a wire is windable, formed between a first flange and a second flange; and an auxiliary winding portion including an auxiliary winding groove, where the wire is windable, formed between the second flange and a third flange. The auxiliary winding groove includes a closest portion closest to the main winding groove in the radial direction thereof, and a curved portion curved toward the main winding groove in a portion adjacent to the closest portion so that the curved portion joins the main winding groove at the closest portion. The third flange includes an auxiliary guide portion extending in the radial direction of the auxiliary winding groove so that the groove depth of the curved portion becomes larger than that of the closest portion. This structure can provide a pulley allowing easy winding of a wire.
US12024931B2
The door viewport with cross-door locking bar laterally spans the door frame with a viewport exterior lip on the door and an interior face plate near an interior of the door forming, in one instance, a mid-bar capture channel. Alternatively, the viewport has an interior extension coacting with a complementary interlocking element on the cross-bar's midpoint. Either construct holds the cross-door locking bar substantially at its mid-point. Cross-bar terminal end mounts removably attach the cross-bar to the door frame. One type of mount is an L-bracket. Another type of mount is a controllable transverse extension member forcing a door frame plate against the door frame. A user-controlled extension means forces the cross-door locking bar away from the door frame plate, with either a screw drive system or a grooved rod with spring loaded lever control.
US12024929B2
A security apparatus includes a lock body, an actuator assembly supported by the lock body, the actuator assembly having an engagement feature configured to rotate between a first position and a second position. The security apparatus further includes a lock tip removably coupled to the lock body. The lock tip is movable by the actuator assembly between a locked position, in which the lock tip is secured to the portable electronic device, and an unlocked position, in which the lock tip is unsecured from the portable electronic device. Rotating the engagement feature from the second position to the first position locks the lock tip to the lock body and concurrently locks the lock tip to the portable electronic device. Rotating the engagement feature from the first position to the second position unlocks the lock tip from the lock body and concurrently unlocks the lock tip from the portable electronic device.
US12024928B2
Fenestration systems and associated methods include use of a lock assembly having a housing, a cam gear, a reversal gear, and one or more catches. Various aspects relate to enhanced locking/security, including repeatability and overall efficacy.
US12024927B2
A roll up door assembly is mountable in two tracks laterally spaced from one another, each track including a catch, the roll up door assembly including a door sized to be mountable and slidable along the tracks between a closed position and an opened position, the door being a roll up door including a plurality of slats extending between the tracks, one of the slats being a locking slat having an outer surface and an inner surface and defining a passage therethrough between the outer surface and the inner surface. A housing is attached to the outer surface of the locking slat, the housing defining an opening therethrough aligned with the passage. A key cylinder extends through the passage and the opening. A two-point latching assembly has two latches for selectively engaging the catches and is rotatably driven by a rear portion of the key cylinder adjacent the inner surface of the locking slat. A fixing member threadedly engages an outer surface of the key cylinder to secure the key cylinder to the housing, the fixing member being annular and being configured with the housing and the locking slat so that the fixing member has an axial length at least as long as a distance between an inner surface of the housing and the outer surface of the locking slat when the fixing member is positioned to secure the key cylinder to the housing.
US12024925B2
An electro-mechanical unlocking device that includes a locking state, a holding state and an unlocking state. The unlocking device includes an arming solenoid and a holding solenoid. In the locking state the arming solenoid moves an arming assembly, which moves a crank and which moves a holding armature from a second position to a first position. In the holding state the holding solenoid is energized and the arming solenoid is de-energizing, which allows the arming armature to move from the first position to the second position. In the unlocking state the holding solenoid is de-energized, which allows the holding armature and the arming link to move from the first position to the second position. In the locking and holding states a sear blocks the path of the striker and in the unlocking state the sear does not block the path of the striker.
US12024924B2
A cable lock includes a cable, a shackle pin connected to one end of the cable, and a lock body connected to another end of the cable. The lock body includes a channel for the shackle pin, at least one lock member adjacent the channel pivotable from an open position disengaged from the shackle pin to a closed position engaging the shackle pin, and a retainer associated with a lock member driven from a released position disengaged from the lock member to an engaged position retaining the lock member in the closed position.
US12024918B2
Provided is a multiplex water cutoff wall with a simple structure that can control water infiltration into an interior by way of being provided with multiple water cutoff walls and having a configuration to drain water having infiltrated between the water cutoff walls with a drainage means such as a pump. A plurality of water cutoff walls 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D are disposed in a multiplex configuration with gaps in the wall thickness direction. Drain pumps 4a, 4b, 4c are provided as the drainage means for discharging water having infiltrated between the water cutoff walls 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D to the outside. Water that has infiltrated between the water cutoff walls 1A and 1B when a rise in water level is caused outside the multiplex water cutoff wall during flooding is discharged to the outside of the multiplex water cutoff wall by the drain pump 4a. If necessary, the water cutoff wall can be arranged into a multiplex configuration with a third water cutoff wall 1C and a fourth water cutoff wall 1D, and water infiltrating therebetween is discharged with the drain pumps 4b, 4c. Thus, the level of infiltrating water is lower nearer the interior, and water flood damage can be prevented to a structure in the interior protected by the multiplex water cutoff wall.
US12024913B2
A method of modular pole construction an elongate modular pole structure is disclosed. A first step of the method involves providing hollow pole section modules, each module having an elongated structure with a base end and an opposed tip end. The modules are stacked to form an elongated modular pole structure of a selected length by mating the tip end of a base module with the base end of an additional module. One or more than one of the modules forming the elongated modular pole structure comprise a composite material having fire resistant properties.
US12024907B2
Systems, methods, and devices for structural 3D printing. A machine frame with multiple articulated arm segments pivoting within planes substantially parallel to the plane of material deposition are controlled by a controller to move a printhead attached to a material line to convey a construction material to a deposit position for dispensation. The controller is configured to receive 3D printing information and convert it to positional coordinates of the printhead, and to cause movement of the articulated arm segments and support members to position the printhead, while using sensor feedback. Vertical movement of the printhead is facilitated through one or more mechanisms such as elevating the machine platform, elevating the articulating arm segments, and/or the incorporation of a mast on one or more of the arm segments.
US12024902B2
A wallboard-fastening device secures first and second wallboards to a framing member without fasteners passing through the wallboards. The device includes first, second, and third framing panels joined along lengthwise edges to form a three-sided cup sized to fit around the framing member, first and second flat-spring flanges joined along lengthwise edges to form a front seam, and a channel-dividing panel joined lengthwise to the front seam and to the second framing panel to form first and second channels that receive the first and second wallboards. The flat-spring flanges flex to exert restoring forces on the wallboards that push the wallboards against the second framing panel. The device may be configured for edge joints, outside-corner joints, and inside-corners, and thus may be combined for any type of wallboard installation, including both parallel and perpendicular applications.
US12024900B2
A base for supporting raised floors includes a planar part configured to rest and fix the base onto the ground, and a raised part joined to and extending from the planar part. The planar part has a straight first cut and/or at least a first series of holes aligned along a line dividing the planar part in at least two parts, thus defining a line that facilitates a breaking action for the separation of a detachable part from the planar part.
US12024897B2
A spacer (10) for creating a properly dimensioned gap during the installation of a flooring system, the spacer providing four non-adjustable portions to be selectively placed on a subfloor, each non-adjustable portion having a different width corresponding to an intended gap width.
US12024895B2
This invention relates to a method and system of applying a fluid material to a roofing surface. By modifying a peristaltic pump-driven sprayer device, a fluid material having a viscosity of 10,000 to 40,000 centipoise at 25° C. can be effectively sprayed onto a roofing surface. Additionally, the use of a modified peristaltic pump-driven sprayer device allows for the fluid material to be applied onto the roofing surface at a faster rate than other spraying methods.
US12024892B2
A support foot for supporting a free standing structure on a support surface such as a rooftop includes a holding means for holding a profiled section to which other parts of said structure can be mounted. The profiled section includes at least one wall having apertures formed in it. The support foot includes a base part having a socket. The support foot furthermore includes a securing element adapted to be received in the socket and having at least one movable catch member to catch an edge of one of said apertures so as to secure the profiled section element to the support foot. The catch member is movable from a pre-assembly position, in which it can be inserted through the aperture, to a securing position, in which it engages over the edge of the aperture.
US12024891B2
An apparatus for heating structure or areas adjacent such structure, such as a roof on a building for example, exposed to varying weather conditions and methods of making and use of the apparatus. The heating apparatus can include a heating element and heat supplying components. In one embodiment, the heating apparatus also includes a heatable cover panel and fasteners or other fastening components or materials for securing the heating element and cover panel to the structure. The heat supplying components may include one or more heater cable or heater cable sections penetrating one or more heater cable channels in the heating element. The apparatus may also utilize various insulating and other materials, including paint on exposed surfaces of the apparatus.
US12024887B2
A method of producing a granulated product from photopolymer printing plate materials. The method includes the steps of (a) sorting the photopolymer printing plate materials based on an identifiable property, wherein the photopolymer printing plate materials comprise one or more photopolymer layers; (b) grinding the photopolymer printing plate materials to particles; and (c) screening the particles to remove particles above a certain size and create the granulated product.
US12024877B2
An insulation mounting system utilizing a thermal break consisting of radiused and/or straight channels, slots and holes for the purpose of mounting specially shaped formed wire to hold-in-place rigid insulation installed onto walls of buildings. A structural clip for further positioning, holding, bending and/or directing the same formed wire shapes. A sub-girt that attaches to the structural clips vertically or horizontally as needed, a wire bending tool for use at intermediate formed wire locations between assembled thermal clips, and an anti-reversal clip with bendable attachment arm for holding other building materials if needed. Multiple alternate embodiments for the thermal break, formed wires and structural clips show that there's an almost a limitless amount of variations that a person skilled in the art could imagine and not exceed the scope of the application.
US12024874B2
A modular support assembly for hanging exercising and training apparatus includes a pair of vertical elements and a horizontal element. The horizontal element is configured to selectively engage upper ends of the vertical elements so that the two vertical elements extend perpendicularly and codirectionally from opposed ends of the horizontal element to a surface. Exercising or training apparatus can be hung from the horizontal element. The vertical elements are two of a plurality of vertical elements and the horizontal element is one of a plurality of horizontal elements. Each vertical element can selectively engage respective opposed ends of two horizontal elements so that the two horizontal elements extend perpendicularly from the upper end of the vertical element. The set of horizontal elements and the set of vertical elements thus are selectively positionable in a variety of rectangular configurations.
US12024862B2
A controller-implemented method for automated control of at least one of an autonomous or semiautonomous machine to clear at least one windrow along a work surface. The method includes utilizing a visual perception sensor to detect said windrow, generating a plurality of windrow visual detection signals, determining a position of a windrow relative to the machine based upon the plurality of windrow visual detection signals, and generating machine control commands to clear the windrow.
US12024856B2
Tipping over of a work machine is prevented. The work machine includes: a vehicular body; a rear axle attached to the vehicular body to be capable of undergoing a roll motion with respect to an axis extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicular body; and a controller. The controller acquires stability of the center of gravity of the vehicular body, and controls the roll motion of the rear axle with respect to the vehicular body based on the stability.
US12024839B2
A water-salt regulation system for coastal regions, including an irrigation canal, a plurality of drainage channels, and a shaft. The irrigation canal is arranged on a surface farmland. The drainage channels are provided inside a soil. The irrigation canal and the drainage channels are inclined from inland to sea. The shaft is provided with a water port at which a sluice gate is provided. An inner peripheral wall of the water drainage channel is provided with a plurality of filter mesh frames with an accommodating cavity. A filter filling material is provided inside the accommodating cavity. The shaft is provided with a salinity sensor. The shaft has a first state with the sluice gate on the drainage channel closed and a second state with the sluice gate on the drainage channel opened. A water-salt regulation is also provided.
US12024832B2
The present invention relates to a milling drum box unit, in particular a quick-change milling drum box unit, for mounting to a self-propelled base machine to obtain a ground milling machine, the milling drum box unit comprising a part of a fastening device for mounting the milling drum box unit to the base machine, a connection point configured to receive and establish a drive connection to a milling drum rotatable about a rotation axis, on sides of each side wall a lateral shield height-adjustable relative to the side wall, at least two drive energy-consuming consumer elements and/or at least two sensors for detecting an operating parameter.
US12024829B2
A scraper used with a compactor wheel assembly includes an attachment portion, a scraping portion that forms a first oblique angle with the attachment portion, and a transition portion connecting the scraping portion to the attachment portion. The transition portion defines a stress concentrator for allowing the scraper to break before any structure to which the scraper is attached is damaged.
US12024823B2
The invention herein disclosed and claimed is a process for refining fiber from lignocellulosic biomass. The process provides refined fiber and agriculturally amenable co-products, with a virtually waste-free systems design.
US12024822B2
A torque reaction arrangement (50) for twin press-roll pulp washers comprises a first torque reaction arm (10), a second torque reaction arm (20), a first link (19), and a second link (29). The links are provided between the ends of a respective torque reaction arm and a point close to the mounting to a respective stator of the other torque reaction arm. The torque reaction arms are rigidly mounted to a respective stator of a respective press roll motor. A twin press-roll pulp washer with such a torque reaction arrangement is also disclosed.
US12024814B2
A sleeve-folding assistance device for assisting a back-revealing sleeve-folding device is provided. The sleeve-folding assistance device includes a pair of right and left sleeve guide portions which disposes a body portion of a garment having the body portion and both sleeve portions on a loading conveyor to transport the garment from a front to a rear, and moves to approach both sides of the loading conveyor so as to guide both sleeve portions of the garment hung down on both sides of the loading conveyor to a sleeve-folding device for performing back-revealing sleeve-folding, in which when the pair of right and left sleeve guide portions approaches both sides of the loading conveyor and transports the body portion from the front to the rear on the loading conveyor, the pair of right and left sleeve guide portions lifts both sleeve portions of the garment, respectively.
US12024813B1
A steam press system and methods of controlling steam generation and recycling steam therein are provided. The steam press system includes a first steam plate and a second steam plate configured to receive and evacuate steam. The steam press system further includes a first pump configured to draw steam from the first steam plate and the second steam plate, a heat exchanger configured to condense the steam into fresh water and heat the fresh water. The steam press system further includes a third pump to pump the heated water into a storage tank. The steam press system further includes a fourth pump configured to pump the heated water from the storage tank to a steam generator. The steam generator is configured to receive the heated water, boil the heated water to generate steam and to deliver the steam to the first steam plate and the second steam plate.
US12024812B2
Disclosed is a clothing management apparatus. Disclosed clothing management apparatus comprises: memory; a steam generation apparatus for generating steam; a steam discharge member for spraying clothing with the steam generated by the steam generation apparatus; a temperature sensor for sensing the temperature inside the clothing management apparatus; and a processor which, when a clothing management start command is entered, stores the temperature sensed by the temperature sensor in memory, and controls the steam generation apparatus to carry out the action corresponding to the sensed temperature and clothing management start command, wherein, if an additional clothing management command is entered within a previously set time following an execution of an action corresponding to the clothing management start command, then the processor controls the steam generation apparatus to carry out the action corresponding to the temperature data stored in memory and additional clothing management command.
US12024811B2
An air inlet assembly for circulating air in a receiving space for receiving laundry, and a laundry treatment apparatus including the same are provided. An air inlet assembly according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a cover mounted on an air suction part, wherein the air suction part includes a through-hole formed in a portion thereof. The cover includes a base plate configured to cover the air suction part when viewed in a plan view, by forming a portion corresponding to the through-hole as an opened plate shape, an outer wall configured to continuously protrude along the periphery of the base plate, and a rib configured to protrude from an inner portion spaced apart from the outer wall so as to form a water discharge channel in a space between the outer wall and the rib, wherein the water discharge channel extends to the through-hole.
US12024809B2
The present invention relates to a lock device, comprising a housing including a lock hook mounted in the housing, the lock hook pivotally moves to and away from a lock hook locked position; a locking slider for locking the lock hook, the locking slider having a locking slider first end which abuts against an axial surface of the lock hook, the locking slider is reciprocatingly slideable in a first direction parallel to the lock hook pivoting plane following pivoting of the lock hook to move to or away from a locking slider locked position; a slider locking device for locking the locking slider, the slider locking device is reciprocating slideable in a second direction following the reciprocatingly sliding of the locking slider in the first direction, the second direction crosses the lock hook pivoting plane. The present invention further relates to an apparatus mounted with said lock device.
US12024791B2
A high resistance gallium oxide quality prediction method based on deep learning and an edge-defined film-fed crystal growth method, a preparation method and a system; the quality prediction method includes the following steps: obtaining preparation data of a high resistance gallium oxide single crystal prepared by the edge-defined film-fed crystal growth method, the preparation data including seed crystal data, environment data and control data, and the control data including doping element concentration and doping element type; preprocessing the preparation data to obtain preprocessed preparation data; inputting the preprocessing preparation data into a trained neural network model, acquiring the predicted quality data corresponding to the high resistance gallium oxide single crystal through the trained neural network model, the predicted quality data including predicted resistivity.
US12024790B2
A quality prediction method, a preparation method and a system of conductive gallium oxide based on deep learning and Czochralski method. The quality prediction method includes the steps of obtaining preparation data of conductive gallium oxide single crystal prepared by Czochralski method. The preparation data includes a seed crystal data, an environmental data, and a control data. The environmental data includes doping element concentration and doping element type; preprocessing the preparation data to obtain a preprocessed preparation data; preparing the preprocessed data is input to a trained neural network model, and a predicted quality data corresponding to the conductive gallium oxide single crystal is obtained through the trained neural network model, and the predicted quality data includes a predicted carrier concentration.
US12024788B1
The present application relates to the technical field of electroplating, and particularly to a bonding copper wire plated with palladium and gold and an electroplating process thereof. The electroplating process includes: electroplating a first palladium layer on a surface of a copper wire with a first palladium plating solution, electroplating a second gold layer with a first gold plating solution to obtain a semi-finished product, electroplating a third palladium layer onto the semi-finished product with a second palladium plating solution, and electroplating a fourth gold layer with a second gold plating solution to obtain a finished product; and the first palladium plating solution comprises tetraamminepalladium acetate, 4-sulfamoylbenzoic acid and 6-azauracil.
US12024783B2
Producing hydrogen in a PEM water electrolyser system, PEM water electrolyser cell, stack and system
The present invention relates to a method for producing hydrogen in a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) water electrolyser cell. A direct electric current is applied to the water electrolyser cell. Water molecules are allowed to diffuse from a cathode compartment through a polymer electrolyte membrane into an anode compartment, to oxidize water molecules at an anode catalyst layer into protons, oxygen and electrons. The protons are allowed to migrate through a polymer electrolyte membrane into the cathode compartment and the protons are reduced at a cathode catalyst layer to produce hydrogen. The cell is supplied with water to the cathode compartment, and humidified air is supplied to the anode compartment. The invention also relates to a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) water electrolyser cell, a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) water electrolyser stack and a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) water electrolyser system.
US12024777B2
The present disclosure relates to a substrate processing method, and more particularly, to a substrate processing method for improving the physical properties of a thin film formed on a substrate. An embodiment of a substrate processing method according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: carrying a substrate into a first chamber; a first pressurizing step increasing the pressure in the first chamber so that the pressure in the first chamber reaches a first high-pressure that is higher than the normal pressure; a first depressurizing step decreasing the pressure in the first chamber so that the pressure in the first chamber reaches a second high-pressure that is lower than the first high-pressure and equal to or higher than the normal pressure; a first pressurizing/depressurizing repeating step performing the first pressurizing step and the first depressurizing step repeatedly at a predetermined number of times; and a second depressurizing step decreasing the pressure in the first chamber so that the pressure in the first chamber reaches a first low-pressure that is lower than the normal pressure.
US12024773B2
A medical stent, including a squeezable and expandable tubular wire mesh and an anti-sticking atomic layer deposition coating deposited on surfaces of the wire mesh. A method for manufacturing a medical stent, including taking a squeezable and expandable (i.e., deformable) tubular wire mesh, and depositing an anti-sticking atomic layer deposition coating on surfaces of the wire mesh to prevent the wire mesh from being stuck with itself when expanding from a squeezed form to a fully expanded form.
US12024771B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a de-powder device for piping and a method for installing the same, and more particularly, to a method for manufacturing a de-powder device for piping, which is for suppressing attachment and deposition of exhaust matters to an inner circumferential surface of a pipe exposed to the flow of exhaust matters such as unreacted raw material gas, reaction products, and the like exhausted from substrate processing devices for semiconductors and displays, and a method for installing the same. The method for manufacturing a de-powder device for piping according to the present disclosure includes: a heater manufacturing step (S1) including a step (S11) of manufacturing an intermediate product by installing a heating wire connected to a power source inside a metal pipe and filling it with an insulating agent and a step (S12) of cutting the intermediate product and connecting one end portions of exposed heating wires; a winding step (S2) of manufacturing a heating coil which has a predetermined outer diameter by winding the heater around a jig and at least a portion of which is inserted into a pipe; and a coupling step (S3) of coupling the flange and the heating coil by inserting an end portion of the heating coil into an exposed hole formed in a metal flange.
US12024761B2
A component for contacting hydrogen, including at least one surface, which is provided for coming into contact with a hydrogen atmosphere, at least this surface being made from steel, wherein the steel has a microstructure which includes austenite and ferrite, an austenitic structure fraction being present in a range from greater than or equal to 1 wt. % to less than or equal to 50 wt. %, and a ferritic structure fraction being present in a range from greater than or equal to 50 wt. % to less than or equal to 99 wt. %
US12024755B2
Systems and methods for recovering lithium (Li) from a lithium-ion battery waste stream including lithium sulfate (Li2SO4), sodium sulfate (Na2SO4), and water (H2O) are provided. The systems may include an evaporator unit with an optional heating system and a crystallizer unit downstream or upstream of the evaporator unit for cooling and solidifying sodium sulfate (Na2SO4). A lithium recovery unit is disposed downstream of the crystallizer unit or the evaporator unit that generates lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) product. Methods include evaporating a portion of water from the waste stream to generate water vapor and an effluent stream, which is then cooled to solidify sodium sulfate (Na2SO4) in a crystallizer vessel. The solid sodium sulfate (Na2SO4) is removed and the effluent stream is heated, followed by introducing sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) to produce lithium carbonate (Li2CO3) product, which is then recovered.
US12024752B2
This steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which the area ratio of plate martensite is 10% or more, the average grain size of prior austenite grains is 2.0 μm to 10.0 μm, the maximum diameter thereof is 20.0 μm or less, the amount of solid solution C in martensite is 0.20 mass % or less, the average carbide size is 0.25 μm or less, the crystal orientation difference between plate martensite and another martensite adjacent thereto in the same prior austenite grain is 10.0° or less, and the P concentration at grain boundaries of the prior austenite grains is 4.0 at % or less.
US12024751B2
The present invention relates to a method for effectively utilizing fructose raffinate obtained in the process for separating psicose conversion product with a high purity chromatography in the process for preparing psicose, and more specifically, it is utilized for preparation of fructose-containing raw material solution for preparing psicose by supplying the fructose raffinate obtained in the separation step of psicose preparation into the psicose conversion reaction.
US12024743B2
Exemplary embodiments of methods, kits, systems and computer-accessible medium can be provided for facilitating maximum depth enrichment sequencing for identifying rare genomic variants.
US12024735B2
Detection reagents, multi-analyte test elements, test systems, and multi-analyte measuring methods are provided. In particular, multi-analyte test elements have (1) a first working electrode and first counter electrode pair covered with a first analyte-specific reagent that includes an enzyme, a coenzyme and a first mediator and have (2) a second working electrode covered with a second analyte-specific reagent that includes an enzyme, a coenzyme and a second mediator, where the second mediator is different than the first mediator. The single counter electrode can be used as the counter electrode for both the first and second analyte measurements at their respective working electrodes. Moreover, the mediator concentrations, measurement ranges, and applied potential differences are not the same for each analyte-specific measurement.
US12024733B2
The present specification provides a semi-conducting biogenic hybrid catalyst capable of reducing CO2 into fuel precursors. Specifically, the present application involves a method for bio-assisted conversion of CO2 to fuel precursors using the semiconducting biogenic hybrid catalyst in a batch and a continuous mode.
US12024708B2
An ANGPTL4 inhibitor consisting of an oligonucleotide has 12 to 22 nucleotides. At least one of the nucleotides is modified, and the oligonucleotide hybridizes with a nucleic acid sequence of human and/or mouse ANGPTL4 and inhibits the expression of ANGPTL4. Also disclosed herein is a pharmaceutical composition of the ANGPTL4 inhibitor and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, excipient, diluent, or a combination thereof.
US12024695B2
Culture systems and methods of using same. The systems include a housing defining an inner space. The inner space includes a headspace and at least a portion of a reservoir. A surface for immobilizing cells is moveable between the headspace and the reservoir. The systems can be used for coculturing methanotrophs and phototrophs for processing biogas and wastewater, particularly from anaerobic digesters.
US12024694B1
A liquid treatment apparatus imparts a distinctive flavor and scent to beverages and other liquids. In one embodiment, a wooden wave insert body undulates and crosses a center line, while the wood grain runs substantially parallel to the center line and does not undulate materially. In another embodiment, a wooden plug passes through and is affixed to the wall of a beverage container, and imparts a distinctive flavor and scent through an aging process that includes controlled oxidation. The wooden plug includes a hollow bolt having a bolt opening exposed to ambient air, a closed bolt head distal to the bolt opening, and a bolt fluid exchange passage between the bolt opening and the closed bolt head. The bolt passes through the wooden block between the bolt head and container wall. The bolt fluid exchange passage couples ambient air to the wooden block interior.
US12024687B2
The present disclosure relates to lubricating compositions and, in particular, lubricating compositions suitable for motorcycle applications including select metal dihydrocarbyl dithiophosphates to achieve low copper corrosion, good TBN retention, and good sulfur retention applicable to motorcycle engines and transmissions.
US12024672B2
Methods of cementing, cementing compositions made from the methods, and articles manufacturable by the cementing compositions are disclosed. The method can include mixing a cement composition and water to make a cement slurry and applying to the cement slurry an alternating magnetic field of from 25 mT to 60 mT at a frequency from 50 kHz to 200 kHz in order to set the cement slurry. The cement composition can have a cement and an amount of magnetic nanoparticles from 0.01 wt % to 10 wt % relative to the amount of cement (0.01% to 10% BWOC). The magnetic nanoparticles can have a mean particle size determined by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) from 10 nm to 50 nm and a crystallite size determined by the Scherrer equation which is at least an 80% the mean particle size.
US12024670B2
A method of drilling a subterranean geological formation is described. The method includes driving a drill bit to form a wellbore into the subterranean geological formation thereby producing a formation fluid including hydrogen sulfide (H2S). The method includes injecting a drilling fluid into the subterranean geological formation through the wellbore. The drilling fluid composition includes 0.25 to 2 wt. % of a primary H2S scavenger which is potassium permanganate. The drilling fluid composition includes an invert emulsion which includes a continuous phase including mineral oil and a dispersive phase including water. The potassium permanganate present in the drilling fluid composition reacts with the H2S present in the formation fluid to produce a dispersion of manganese-containing particles which are at least one selected from the group consisting of manganese sulfide and manganese sulfate.
US12024669B2
Methods for making and using an invert-emulsion drilling fluid, and the invert-emulsion drilling fluid are provided. An exemplary invert-emulsion drilling fluid includes a C-36 dimer diamine dihydrochloride salt (CDDH), an aqueous solvent, a non-aqueous solvent, an emulsifier, and calcium chloride.
US12024664B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of liquid crystal materials, and in particular relates to a liquid crystal composition with good frequency dependence and a liquid crystal display element or liquid crystal display containing the liquid crystal composition. The liquid crystal composition of the present invention comprises a compound represented by Formula I, a compound represented by Formula II and a compound represented by Formula III, wherein the mass percentage content of the compound represented by Formula I is not less than 30%. The liquid crystal composition provided by the present invention has an appropriate optical anisotropy, an appropriate dielectric anisotropy, especially a relatively low rotational viscosity, a good low-temperature mutual solubility and a good reliability, especially good frequency dependence.
US12024663B2
Provided is a treatment liquid for a semiconductor wafer or the like used in a process for forming a semiconductor. Namely a treatment liquid containing (A) a hypochlorite ion, and (B) an alkylammonium salt expressed by the following Formula (1), or the like is provided. (In the Formula, “a” is an integer from 6 to 20; R1, R2, and R3 are independently, for example, an alkyl group with a carbon number from 1 to 20; and X− is, for example, a chloride ion.).
US12024662B2
The present invention relates to Mn-activated luminescent materials, to a process for preparation thereof and to the use thereof as luminophores or conversion luminophores in light sources. The present invention further relates to a radiation-converting mixture comprising the luminescent material of the invention and a light source comprising the luminescent material of the invention or the radiation-converting mixture. The present invention further provides light sources, especially LEDs, and lighting units comprising a primary light source and the luminescent material of the invention or the radiation-converting mixture. The Mn-activated luminescent materials of the invention are especially suitable for creation of warm white light in LEDs.
US12024658B2
Provided herein is a water-based hybrid pressure sensitive adhesive composition and a method of producing the same. The composition comprises: (A) 100 parts by mass of a silicone pressure sensitive adhesive; (B) 5 to 80 parts by mass of an acrylic pressure sensitive adhesive; (C) water in a sufficient amount to emulsify or disperse components (A) and (B) in component (C); and (D) 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of an amino-functional alkoxysilane compound, a hydrolysate thereof, or a hydrolyzed condensate thereof. Components (A) and (B) are emulsified or dispersed in component (C). The composition can be cured to form a pressure sensitive adhesive exhibiting good peel adhesion and low silicone migration.
US12024657B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an adhesive tape having flexibility even at a low temperature, having excellent adhesive force at low temperature and after a certain period, and having excellent holding force after a certain period, and suppressing adhesive residue at peeling off even after being left for a certain period. According to the present invention, provided is an adhesive tape comprising a substrate and an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer is formed directly on the substrate or with another layer therebetween, the substrate contains a polyvinyl chloride resin, a plasticizer, and a zinc compound, a content of the plasticizer in the substrate is 30 to 50 mass % with respect to the total mass of the substrate, a content of a zinc atom in the substrate is 0.01 to 0.15 mass % with respect to the total mass of the substrate, and the adhesive layer contains an adhesive component and a vulcanizing agent.
US12024653B2
A method for preparing an aqueous acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive for clothing is provided, which maintains aging peel strength even when stored at a high temperature for a long time and has greatly improved residue properties when the adhesive is removed from clothing fabrics, and the like. An aqueous acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesive for clothing including the composition prepared as above is also provided.
US12024651B2
A CMP slurry composition and a method of polishing a metal layer are provided. In some embodiments, the CMP slurry composition includes about 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a metal oxide, and about 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a chelator. The chelator includes a thiol compound or a thiolether compound.
US12024641B2
A kit of parts is provided, comprising: in one part a) a water-borne stain; and, in another part b) a water-immiscible organic solvent-borne stain, wherein said water-borne stain is essentially free of resin and further contains at least one water-miscible organic solvent. Additionally, a method of coloring a wooden substrate is described, comprising the steps of: a) applying a water-borne stain to a surface of the wooden substrate, wherein the water-borne stain is essentially free of resin and comprises at least one water-miscible organic solvent; and thereafter b) applying a water-immiscible organic solvent-borne stain to said surface.
US12024633B2
The present invention refers to a process for purifying leucoindigo salt solutions, for removal of aromatic amines, particularly aniline and N-methylaniline, comprising: adding to a purification vessel a leucoindigo salt solution containing aromatic amines, said solution in the form of a stationary mass; bubbling with a controlled flow rate an inert gas in the purification vessel, by means of a device submerged at the surface of the stationary mass; injecting with a controlled flow rate a gas purification current into the vessel, by means of a device submerged at the stationary mass; and recovering the purified solution from the vessel. It also refers to the use of inert gas in a process for purifying leucoindigo salt solutions, acting as a gas anti-foaming agent, to reduce foam and chances of product stripping during processing.
US12024631B2
The tread of a civil engineering vehicle tire comprises a rubber composition based on at least one elastomer matrix comprising from 50 to 100 phr of a styrene-butadiene copolymer and from 0 to 50 phr of isoprene elastomer; a reinforcing filler comprising predominantly carbon black with CTAB specific surface area greater than or equal to 90 m2/g; from 1 to 30 phr of at least one hydrocarbon resin predominantly consisting of units derived from aromatic and cycloaliphatic monomers, having an aromatic proton content between 0 and 12%, an ethylenic proton content greater than 3%, a number-average molecular weight above 500 g/mol and a polydispersity index greater than 2; and a crosslinking system.
US12024627B2
A process for manufacturing particles including a stereocomplex of poly-D-lactide (PDLA) and poly-L-lactide (PLLA), including the steps of: extruding a melt including 30-70 wt. % of PDLA and 70-30 wt. % of PLLA through an sc-PLA formation zone in a twin-screw extruder, wherein the formation zone is operated at a barrel temperature above the melting temperature of the PDLA and PLLA and below 220° C.; wherein the sc-PLA formation zone is followed by a finishing zone which is operated at a barrel temperature below 160° C.; wherein the finishing zone is followed by the end of the extruder which has a die-head resistance of 0; and recovering solid stereocomplex particles from the end of the extruder. The stereocomplex particles find use in various applications, e.g., in fracking fluids, as filler, as nucleating agent, in particular in the molding of semi-crystalline PLA, or as a starting material for the manufacture of sc-PLA products.
US12024624B2
The present invention relates to a maleimide resin composition containing (A) one or more selected from the group consisting of a maleimide compound having one or more N-substituted maleimide groups and a derivative thereof; and (B) a polymer having a hydrocarbon chain or a polyether chain in a main chain thereof, wherein the component (A) contains (A1) a maleimide compound having one or more N-substituted maleimide groups and a molecular weight of less than 600 and (A2) a maleimide compound having one or more N-substituted maleimide groups and a molecular weight of 600 or more. The present invention also relates to a prepreg, a laminated board, a resin film, a printed wiring board, and a semiconductor package that are obtained by using the maleimide resin composition.
US12024622B2
Provided are: a composition that can impart a thermoplastic resin with excellent transparency and physical properties; a thermoplastic resin composition containing the same; and a molded article thereof. The composition contains: (A) a cyclic organophosphate aluminum salt represented by Formula (1) below, wherein R1 to R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 9 carbon atoms, and R5 represents an alkylidene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and (B) sodium carboxylate, wherein a molar ratio of the (A) cyclic organophosphate aluminum salt represented by Formula (1) and the (B) sodium carboxylate, (A)/(B), is in a range of 0.20 to 0.56.
US12024610B2
Provided is a method of producing a porous body of a water-insoluble polymer, the method being excellent in terms of simplicity and capable of suppressing formation of a skin layer. A method of producing a porous body of a water-insoluble polymer disclosed here includes the steps of: preparing a solution in which a water-insoluble polymer is dissolved in a mixed solvent containing a good solvent for the water-insoluble polymer and a poor solvent for the water-insoluble polymer; coating the solution on a substrate; coating a slurry containing insulating particles, a binder and a dispersion medium on the coated solution; and simultaneously drying the coated solution and the slurry to porosify the water-insoluble polymer. The poor solvent has a boiling point higher than a boiling point of the good solvent. The dispersion medium can dissolve the water-insoluble polymer.
US12024597B2
Described herein are wound dressing comprising a silicone hydrogel composition and optionally an antimicrobial agent, and methods of making and use thereof. The silicone hydrogel compositions comprise an actinically-crosslinkable polysiloxane-polyglycerol block copolymer crosslinked with a crosslinker. The actinically-crosslinkable polysiloxane-polyglycerol block copolymer being derived from: a polysiloxane prepolymer comprising a polyglycerol side chain, the polyglycerol side chain comprising an ethylenically unsaturated group covalently linked thereto, wherein the ethylenically unsaturated group is actinically curable.
US12024596B2
Methods and systems are provided for recovering an organic solvent from a waste sludge generated during formation of a polyarylene sulfide. Methods include combining the waste sludge with an anti-solvent to create a dispersion, which includes a solid phase that includes a substantial portion of the impurities of the polyarylene sulfide formation and a liquid phase that contains the anti-solvent and organic solvent employed during formation of the polyarylene sulfide. The liquid phase is separated from the solid phase and then subjected to a distillation process to separate the organic solvent from the anti-solvent. Methods can also include forming the polyarylene sulfide by a polymerization process and thereafter purifying a slurry of the polyarylene sulfide. A liquid washing product is formed as a result of the purification process, which can be subjected to a distillation process that forms an organic solvent-rich stream and the waste sludge.
US12024595B2
The present invention relates to novel polymer compositions which are obtained by neutralizing a polymer P having at least one functional moiety of the formula (I) bound to at least one of the termini and/or to the backbone of the polymer, with an oligomeric or polymeric amine PA having at least 2 amino groups per oligomer or polymer molecule.
US12024593B2
A method of making an acid neutralizing polymer includes: a) preparing a first reaction mixture by blending of a polyamide material, a solid strongly basic material, and a halogenated-dimethylalkylamine; b) adding the first reaction mixture to a first compounding machine; c) reacting the first reaction mixture for a time and at a temperature sufficient to produce a first reaction product; d) preparing a second reaction mixture including the polyamide material; e) adding the second reaction mixture to a second compounding machine; f) reacting the second reaction mixture for a time and at a temperature sufficient to produce a second reaction product; g) preparing a third reaction mixture by blending the first reaction mixture and the second reaction mixture; h) adding the third reaction mixture to a third compounding machine; and i) reacting the third reaction mixture for a time and at a temperature sufficient to produce the acid neutralizing polymer.
US12024591B2
The present disclosure provides a method for modifying a polyphenylene ether resin, a laminated film composite, a laminated film, and a substrate. The method for modifying a polyphenylene ether resin using an indene oligomer to reduce the molecular weight of the polyphenylene ether to obtain an indene oligomer-modified polyphenylene ether resin. The modified polyphenylene ether with a smaller molecular weight has a lower softening point and melting point, a better interfacial adhesion, and can be better adhered to a substrate of an integrated circuit. Meanwhile, because it has a lower dielectric constant and dielectric loss, the dielectric constant and dielectric loss of the substrate can be reduced, thereby solving the technical problem of electric leakage and heat generation caused when the existing polyphenylene ether resin is applied to an integrated circuit when the feature size of the integrated circuit is reduced.
US12024582B2
Preparation method for a polyurethane optical resin and applications thereof. The preparation method for the polyurethane optical resin comprises: a raw material composition comprising isocyanate and a polythiol compound undergoes a polymerization to produce the polyurethane optical resin. The turbidity value of the isocyanate used in the raw material composition is controlled at ≤2 NTU. The polyurethane optical resin produced is applicable in manufacturing optical products.
US12024577B2
The present disclosure relates to a preparation method of a super absorbent polymer. More specifically, it relates to a preparation method of a super absorbent polymer capable of significantly reducing the amount of fine powder generated during the process by mixing a hydrogel polymer with an additive having a specific structure, pulverizing it, and then drying it with a paddle-type dryer.
US12024572B2
A polymerization reactor for producing aqueous polymer dispersions by radically initiated emulsion polymerization of one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of one or more protective colloids and/or emulsifiers, is cleaned by initially charging an aqueous mixture comprising one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers, one or more protective colloids and/or emulsifiers, but no oxidation initiator, the proportion of ethylenically unsaturated monomers being 20 to 70% by weight of the aqueous mixture, heating the aqueous mixture to a temperature of 50° C. to 100° C. for 5 minutes to 3 hours, adding one or more initiators and optionally further starting materials, initiating polymerization, removing the aqueous polymer dispersion thus obtained from the polymerization reactor and post-treating the dispersion to remove wall deposits detached during the process.
US12024561B2
The present invention discloses a stable pharmaceutical formulation of an antibody, wherein the formulation contains buffer, surfactant and salt, and wherein the formulation is devoid of free amino acids. The disclosed antibody formulations are liquid formulations that are also suitable for lyophilization.
US12024556B2
Speciated antibodies or antigen-binding fragments that bind staphylococcal antigens are provided, where the antibodies and antigen-binding fragments have attenuated Fc binding to Protein A or homologous protein. Compositions comprising the antibodies and methods of use are also provided. The antibodies and compositions are useful for treating staphylococcal infection, reducing serum or kidney bacterial titers, and treating symptoms associated with staphylococcal infection. The antibodies may also prevent the severity and/or duration of the primary disease.
US12024553B2
In one aspect, this disclosure describes methods of treating or preventing RSV infection in a patient in need thereof. The methods include dosing regiments for administering a composition including a fixed dose of an anti-RSV monoclonal antibody or an antigen binding fragment thereof. In another aspect, this disclosure describes pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment or prevention of RSV infection. In yet another aspect, this disclosure describes a pharmaceutical unit dose including nirsevimab.
US12024547B2
SPINK2 mutant peptide conjugates are provided that inhibit KLK5. The KLK5 inhibitory peptide conjugates are Fc fusion peptides in which, in certain embodiments, the Fc region of the fusion peptides are the Fc region of human IgG1 or a fragment thereof. The KLK5 inhibitory peptide conjugates include an amino acid sequence of one of SEQ ID NOs: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 96, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, or 60. Pharmaceutical compositions that include the KLK5 inhibitory peptide conjugates useful for treating KLK5-related diseases are also provided.
US12024542B2
The present invention is related to Mating Factor α pro-peptide variants useful for the recombinant expression of polypeptides comprising a GLP-1 peptide in yeasts. The invention is also related to DNA sequences, vectors and host cells for use in expressing polypeptides in yeasts.
US12024539B1
The invented non-homologous peptide sequences are able to form dimers with corresponding amyloid beta (Aβ), its precursor protein (APP) and enzyme gamma secretase (GSA) as observed by using fixed z-axis overlay computer modeling. [The dipole moment values of these dimeric peptide structures are increased with respect to individual Aβ peptide (1-42) and APP fragments].
US12024530B2
A sensor and a method of using the sensor are disclosed. The sensor includes a conductive region in electrical communication with two electrodes, the conductive region including single-walled carbon nanotubes, nanosized particles of a metal dichalcogenide, and a mercaptoimidazolyl metal-ligand complex. The sensor can be used to detect volatile compounds that have a double or triple bond.
US12024529B2
Provided herein are compounds that are useful intermediates that may used to synthesize myeloid cell leukemia 1 protein (Mcl-1) inhibitors. Also provided are Mcl-1 inhibitors, methods of their preparation, related pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of using the same. For example, provided herein are compounds of Formula I, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds. The compounds and compositions provided herein may be used, for example, in the treatment of diseases or conditions, such as cancer.
US12024522B2
The present application provides processes for preparing (R)-4-(3-((S)-1-(4-amino-3-methyl-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidin-1-yl)ethyl)-5-chloro-2-ethoxy-6-fluorophenyl)pyrrolidin-2-one, which is useful as an inhibitor phosphoinositide 3-kinase-delta (PI3Kδ), as well as a salt form and intermediates related thereto.
US12024520B2
The present disclosure relates, in general, to improved processes for the preparation of 4-{8-amino-3-[(2S)-1-(but-2-ynoyl)pyrrolidin-2-yl]imidazo[1,5-a]pyrazin-1-yl}-N-(pyridin-2-yl)-benzamide, particularly large-scale processes for manufacturing 4-{8-amino-3-[(2S)-1-(but-2-ynoyl)pyrrolidin-2-yl]imidazo[1,5-a]pyrazin-1-yl}-N-(pyridin-2-yl)benzamide and intermediates used in such processes.
US12024518B1
Novel pyrazolo[4,3-c][1,6]naphthyridine compounds, a method of synthesizing said compounds, a pharmaceutical composition comprising said compounds and a suitable carrier, and a method of using the compounds. The pyrazolo[4,3-c][1,6]naphthyridine compounds, identified as CK2 inhibitors, are useful as anticancer and/or antitumor agents, and as agents for treating other kinase-associated conditions including inflammation, pain, and certain immunological disorders, and other types of diseases such as diabetes, viral infection, neurodegenerative diseases.
US12024509B2
The present invention relates to compounds that are inhibitors of the orexin-1 receptor. The compounds have the structural formula I defined herein. The present invention also relates to processes for the preparation of these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to their use in the treatment of diseases or disorders associated with orexin-1 receptor activity.
US12024505B2
The present invention aims to provide a compound that may be useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of constipation and the like. The present invention provides a compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein each symbol is as described in the specification, or a salt thereof.
US12024503B2
Provided is a novel class of orally and/or topically available, selective and potent JAK inhibitors as safe and effective therapeutics against various diseases and disorders. Also provided is pharmaceutical composition of these compounds and methods of a their preparation and use thereof.
US12024501B2
Disclosed herein are plinabulin polymorphs, compositions, their use and preparation as therapeutic agents. In particular, some embodiments relate to plinabulin monohydrate in a crystalline form.
US12024483B2
The present invention relates to a synthesis method of hydroxybenzylamine, belonging to the technical field of organic synthesis. The principle of the method is a demethylation reaction of methoxybenzylamine in the presence of hydrobromic acid. The present invention has the characteristics that methoxybenzylamine and hydrobromic acid are distilled at reflux to remove redundant water to improve a reaction temperature and increase the concentration of hydrobromic acid in a reaction mixture, thereby enhancing the demethylation of hydrobromic acid on methoxybenzylamine and then shortening a reaction time and increasing a conversion rate; when generation of a methyl bromide gas is not observed, distillation is continued, excess hydrobromic acid is recycled to further improve the reaction temperature and increase the conversion rate and meanwhile reduce the consumption of raw material hydrobromic acid and decrease the processing capacity of the subsequent steps and the consumption of raw material sodium hydroxide.
US12024475B2
The invention relates to a composition for inorganic binders, comprising at least one ketone-formaldehyde condensation product on the basis of a cyclic ketone and at least one anionic or nonionic surfactant and/or a thickener, and also to building material mixtures which comprise this composition, and to the use of the composition. The compositions improve the applications properties of the binder formulations.
US12024472B2
Methods of producing a ceramic article include heating the ceramic green body containing a quantity of one or more organic materials to extract only a fraction of the organic materials from the ceramic green body by exposing the ceramic green body to a process atmosphere which is heated to a hold temperature of from 225° C. to about 400° C. and has from 2% to 7% O2 by volume of the process atmosphere. The method further includes cooling the ceramic green body to a temperature of below 200° C., exposing the ceramic green body to a higher concentration of O2 than in the process atmosphere of the heating step, and firing the ceramic green body to form the ceramic article. Volatile extraction units for implementing the methods are also described.
US12024471B2
The invention relates to A slurry composition, comprising: an inorganic powder; a dispersant; and a solvent wherein the dispersant is a block copolymer comprising at least one hydrophobic block A and at least one hydrophilic block B, and wherein the blocks A and B comprise repeating units represented by the following general formula (I) wherein R1 is selected from a hydrogen atom, a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms and a cyclic alkyl group having 4 to 6 carbon atoms, and wherein at least one carboxylic acid group or a salt thereof is covalently linked to the block copolymer.
US12024457B2
The present invention provides a flexible glass and manufacturing method thereof. The flexible glass includes a first straight part and a second straight part on two opposite ends thereof, a recess formed between the first straight part and the second straight part, and a pre-bent curve connection part disposed corresponding to the recess. The first straight part and the second straight part are not arranged on the same plane. The flexible glass has a first lateral side and a second lateral side, and the recess sinks from the first lateral side toward the second lateral side. Therefore, the flexible glass is provided with a greater bendability.
US12024445B2
An asymmetric system containing a first conductive polymer modified with a redox active moiety and a second conductive polymer modified with a surfactant is used for the separation of organic compounds from aqueous solutions. The asymmetric system has complementary hydrophobicity tunability in response to electrochemical modulations. For example, both materials are hydrophobic in their respective neutral states, therefore exhibiting affinity toward organic compounds. Application of a mild potential drives the desorption of the organic compounds and regeneration of the materials. The asymmetric system can be used in a cyclic fashion, through repeated electrical discharge or shorting of the two electrodes to program the capture of organics from a feed solution, and application of a potential to stimulate the release of the adsorbed organics.
US12024440B2
The invention relates to a method for the precipitation of a solid material, where the method comprises: providing an aqueous metal ion solution, said metal ion solution comprising TiOSO4 and metal ions of a metal M, where M is one or more of the elements: Mg, Co, Cu, Ni, Mn, Fe; providing an aqueous carbonate solution; and mixing said aqueous metal ion solution and said aqueous carbonate solution thereby providing a solid material comprising titanium and a metal carbonate comprising said metal(s) M, where the titanium is homogeneously distributed within the solid material. The invention also relates to a solid material, a method of preparing a positive electrode material for a secondary battery from the solid material and the use of the solid material as a precursor for the preparation of a positive electrode material for a secondary battery.
US12024434B2
Carbon-based composite materials are provided, such as those comprising at least 80 weight % of graphitic carbon comprising functional groups capable of forming hydrogen bonds, the graphitic carbon in the form of a mat of randomly entangled elongated structures; not more than 20 weight % of a polymer or a nanofiber thereof, dispersed within the graphitic carbon, the polymer or the nanofiber thereof comprising corresponding functional groups capable of forming hydrogen bonds with the functional groups of the graphitic carbon; and a plurality of hydrogen bonds at an interface formed between the graphitic carbon and the polymer or the nanofiber thereof, the plurality of hydrogen bonds formed between the functional groups of the graphitic carbon and the corresponding functional groups of the polymer or the nanofiber thereof.
US12024432B2
The application provides a porous carbon block material having high elasticity and high sealing, and provides a method for preparing the same. Particularly, the present application provides a porous carbon block material, wherein the porous carbon block material has a pore size in the range of from 3 nm to 100 nm, a porosity of from 50% to 87%, and the pores in the material are closed pores. In addition, the application provides a method for preparing the porous carbon block material according to the present application. The porous carbon block material according to the present application has small pore size, high porosity, and closed pores, and thus has high strength combined with high elasticity, high sealing property, and low density. Hence, the porous carbon block material according to the present application may be used as a sealing material.
US12024423B2
Provided is a method of fabricating a micro/nanowire having a nanometer- to micrometer-sized diameter at predetermined positions on an object. The method comprises: preparing a micro/nanopipette having a tip with an inner diameter (dpt) which is substantially the same as the diameter of the micro/nanowire to be fabricated; filling the micro/nanopipette with a solution containing a micro/nanowire-forming material; bringing the solution into contact with the object through the tip of the micro/nanopipette; and pulling the micro/nanopipette apart from the object at a pulling speed lower than or equal to a predetermined critical pulling speed (vc) to fabricate a micro/nanowire having substantially the same diameter as the inner diameter of the micro/nanopipette tip (dpt). The critical pulling speed (vc) is defined by a maximum limit of the pulling speed at which the micro/nanowire to be fabricated has the same diameter as the inner diameter of the micro/nanopipette tip (dpt).
US12024422B2
An integrated device includes: a first die; a second die coupled in a stacked way on the first die along a vertical axis; a coupling region arranged between facing surfaces of the first die and of the second die, which face one another along the vertical axis and lie in a horizontal plane orthogonal to the vertical axis, for mechanical coupling of the first and second dies; electrical-contact elements carried by the facing surfaces of the first and second dies, aligned in pairs along the vertical axis; and conductive regions arranged between the pairs of electrical-contact elements carried by the facing surfaces of the first and second dies, for their electrical coupling. Supporting elements are arranged at the facing surface of at least one of the first and second dies and elastically support respective electrical-contact elements.
US12024419B2
A device includes a readout circuit coupled between an input node and an output node; a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) device coupled to the input node; and a first charge controlled clamp circuit coupled between the input node and a first bias node.
US12024416B2
A beverage infusion apparatus includes: beverage infusion apparatus comprising: (a) an infusion module for infusing a nitrogen containing gas into a beverage to form a gas infused beverage, wherein: (i) the infusion module comprises a gas draw venturi device for drawing the nitrogen containing gas into the beverage as a result of flow of the beverage through the gas draw venturi device to form the gas infused beverage; (b) a dispensing valve for dispensing the gas infused beverage and constructed to move between an open position and a closed position, wherein: (i) the open position permits dispensing of the gas infused beverage from the beverage infusion apparatus; (ii) the closed position prevents dispensing of the gas infused beverage from the beverage infusion apparatus; and (iii) the dispensing valve is constructed to move between the open position and the closed position by a user of the beverage infusion apparatus; and (c) a pump constructed to move the beverage, under pressure, from a beverage reservoir, through the dispensing valve to the dispensing valve. A method of forming a gas infused beverage at a location of purchase of the gas infused beverage is provided.
US12024410B1
A handheld lifting device provides a temporary handle designed for use with a container, such as a bucket, that allows a user to have a secure grip on the bottom of the bucket which results in better pouring control and less finger fatigue while pouring. In the preferred embodiment, the handle includes a nylon strap with hooks at either end and a cam buckle tensioner between the opposing ends to vertically attach to a 5-gallon bucket with an upper hook looping over the rim on the top of the container and the lower hook looping over the lip on the bottom of the bucket. To provide a better grip for pouring, a grip section protrudes from the lower hook.
US12024409B2
A winch drum is disclosed. In a first aspect, a first set of teeth are positioned around an outer perimeter of a drum. The first set of teeth taper from a first crown to a first base. A second set of teeth are positioned around the outer perimeter of the drum. The second set of teeth taper from a second crown to a second base. The second set of teeth are offset from the first set of teeth such that a gap between the first bases and the second bases forms a sinusoidal channel for a line to follow the first set of teeth and the second set of teeth becomes a guide for the line so that the line can engage the sinusoidal channel. The line follows the sinusoidal channel and each change of direction along the sinusoidal path causes the line to engage by friction with the first bases and the second bases. In a second aspect, the drum includes a trough that follows a sinusoidal path and wherein the trough is narrower at its bottom than at its top.
US12024403B2
A fastening system has two fastening elements for mounting a bracket of a rail system of an elevator installation. The fastening elements each have a clamping plate having a through-hole and a receiving sleeve receiving an anchor bolt. The receiving sleeves each have a through-opening for the anchor bolt and an angularly movable ball joint is formed between the clamping plate and the receiving sleeve.
US12024371B2
A method of processing organics having a relocatable trailer transporting a hopper, an infeed conveyor, an organics separation unit, an organics conveyor, an inorganics waste conveyor, and a control panel between processing locations of organic material. The control panel regulates the operation of the infeed conveyor, the organics separation unit, the organics conveyor and the inorganics waste conveyor. Following completion of processing the components carried on the trailer may be cleaned and the trailer supporting the processing components may be moved to another processing location.
US12024355B2
An insulative packaging for cold chain marketplace. The insulative packaging includes a base unit, a wall unit, and a top unit, which together form an enclosure. Each the base unit, the wall unit, and the top unit has an inflatable liner, one or more insulative sheets, and a radiant barrier. The inflatable liner can be folded and the one or more insulative sheets can be sandwiched between the two folds of the inflatable liner. An article to be protective can be placed within the enclosure and insulative packaging can provide 360-degree insulation and protection.
US12024350B2
Contact lens packages are provided and each includes a base member having a cavity and a sealing member coupled to the base member. An unworn contact lens is provided in a packaging solution within the sealed cavity. The base member is a thermoplastic or other recyclable material. The base member includes at least one latch and at least one slot. The latch and slot are configured to connect to the slot and latch, respectively, of another base member, after the contact lenses are removed from the cavities. A recyclable thermoplastic contact lens assembly is also provided that includes empty contact lens package base members stacked and connected together. A method to recycle used contact lens package base members, such as by curbside recycling, is also provided.
US12024337B2
Disclosed is a cylinder-retaining apparatus for a breathing apparatus comprising first and second fixing point and a strap apparatus secured to the first fixing point and the second fixing point. The strap apparatus forms a main strap loop for extending around and securing one or more cylinders. The cylinder-retaining apparatus is configurable in: i) an expanded configuration in which the main strap loop provides a first effective length for securing a first number of cylinders; and ii) a contracted configuration in which a portion of a strap of the strap apparatus is folded to form a secondary strap loop and the secondary strap loop is secured to a third fixing point such that the main strap loop forms a second effective length which is shorter than the first effective length and for securing a second number of cylinders less than the first number of cylinders.
US12024334B2
The invention relates to an element (1) to be arranged in a corner of a parallelepipedic cage-like structure where a bottom or a top plane of the structure meets two walls of the structure extending perpendicularly to this plane and to each other. The element (1) comprises a bottom portion (2), outer wall portions (6, 7), inner wall portions (9, 10) and wall members (16, 17) so as to receive components of said structure in the form of first and second board-like members, such as wooden planks, therebetween with wide sides of these board-like members bearing on each other. The inner wall portions (9, 10) each comprises a spring member (90, 100) configured to bear onto and urge a said second board-like member to press a said first board-like member against an outer wall portion (6, 7), so as to clamp these board-like members between a couple of inner (9, 10) and outer (6, 7) wall portions. The invention also relates to a cage-like structure provided with such elements (1) at said corners thereof.
US12024330B1
A stuffing device and method for stuffing a rope or other cord into a water rescue throw bag, a life safety bag, or other bag wherein the stuffing device can be held in or above the mouth of the bag by hand or using a stand, the device can be produced in small or large sizes for use with bags and cords of different size, and the device can be operated by hand or by using a power tool.
US12024321B2
A machine for packaging multiple containers wherein a flexible carrier stock is fed across a jaw drum. A plurality of containers are moved through the machine whereby the carrier is subsequently positioned over the plurality of containers so that flexible carrier stock engages with two or more of the containers to form a package. The jaw drum and other operative components of the machine are preferably vertically adjustable to accommodate a range of container sizes and carrier configurations.
US12024318B1
Rocket components having internal heat fins are described herein. The disclosed components have internal heat fins that mitigate buckling and uneven force application by adding thermal capacity to the component without adding component stiffness. This reduces a thermal force fight (i.e., tension versus compression between cold and hot areas, respectively), which inhibits the buckling loads on the propellant tank. The internal heats fins also provide for a reduced mass of the propellant tank wall relative to a propellant tank wall without internal heat fins. By reducing the thermal force fight, as discussed above, less material can be used which further allows for thinner welds to be used (i.e., less welding material).
