US12045701B2
The disclosure describes one or more implementations of a serverless computing management system that utilizes an online learning model to dynamically adjust the number of serverless execution containers in a serverless pool based on incoming data patterns. For example, for each time instance in a given time period, the serverless computing management system utilizes the online learning model to balance computing latency and computing cost to determine how to intelligently resize the serverless pool, such that the online machine-learning models in the serverless pool can update in a manner that improves accuracy and computing efficiency while also minimizing unnecessary delays. Further, the serverless computing management system provides a framework that facilitates state-based training of online machine-learning models in a stateless and serverless cloud-based environment.
US12045700B1
Described herein are systems and methods of generative machine-learning guided by modal classification. An apparatus may receive a characterization datum and output an inquiry as a function of the characterization datum. An apparatus may receive an inquiry response and may output a plurality of draft literature modes as a function of the characterization datum and the inquiry response. An apparatus may receive template feedback and may output a literature mode as a function of the template feedback and the plurality of draft literature modes.
US12045693B2
Techniques for using scoring algorithms utilizing containers for flexible machine learning inference are described. In some embodiments, a request to host a machine learning (ML) model within a service provider network on behalf of a user is received, the request identifying an endpoint to perform scoring using the ML model. An endpoint is initialized as a container running on a virtual machine based on a container image and used to score data and return a result of said scoring to a user device.
US12045692B2
An output-amplifier-based reciprocal quantum logic (RQL) bias-level sensor is used to measure and/or calibrate bias parameters of AC and/or DC bias signals provided to RQL circuitry. The bias signals can include an output amplifier output bias current. The bias-level sensor includes a stack of DC SQUIDs that are supplied their inputs from outputs of respective Josephson transmission lines (JTLs) to which the SQUIDs are transformer-coupled. Staging relative strengths of the bias taps of the JTLs, or the critical currents of the Josephson junctions in the DC SQUIDs, allows an output voltage signal of the bias-level sensor to be indicative of whether a provided bias value is an improvement or optimization of the bias value when varied over a range. The outputs of two such bias-level sensors driven by I and Q clocks can be compared to adjust AC bias amplitudes of the clocks. Relative clock phase can be similarly adjusted.
US12045691B1
An indicia reading system and associated methods discriminate between types of media upon which encoded indicia is rendered. Encoded indicia rendered upon a medium are imaged using different sets of image acquisition parameter settings. An attempt to decode the encoded indicia that are imaged is made and the image acquisition parameter settings corresponding to successfully decoding the encoded indicia are identified. A type of the medium upon which the encoded indicia is rendered is determined based on which of the sets of image acquisition parameter settings correspond to the encoded indicia being successfully decoded.
US12045690B2
A sales item which has an information carrier which can be read by a reader, on said information carrier various sales item states are stored. Expediently, damage to the information carrier causes an irreversible change of state of the sales item. Advantageously, a reliable protection against unauthorized retrieval of the contents is created. Further, a method for verifying an authorization to retrieve an electronically provided content by reading an information carrier of a sales item.
US12045687B2
Methods and systems include using three-dimensional imaging apparatuses to capture three-dimensional images and analyze resulting three-dimensional image data to enhance captured two-dimensional images for scanning related processes such as object identification, symbology detection, object recognition model training, and identifying improper scan attempts or other actions performed by an operator. Imaging systems such as bi-optic readers, handheld scanners, and machine vision systems are described using three-dimensional imaging apparatuses and described capturing three-dimensional images and using with captured two-dimensional images.
US12045664B1
Techniques for a cloud-based workload optimization service to identify customer workloads that are optimized to run on burstable instance types. The techniques include identifying workloads that are successfully running on burstable instance types, and using historical-utilization data for those workloads to train classification models. The optimization service can extract feature data from the historical-utilization data, where the feature data represents utilization characteristics that are indicative of burstable workloads. The feature data is then used to train classification models to receive utilization data for candidate workloads, and determine whether the candidate workloads would be optimized for burstable instance types. The optimization service can then migrate suitable workloads to burstable instance types, and/or provide users with recommendations that their workloads are optimized or suitable for burstable instance types.
US12045663B2
A serverless computing-based, continuous gateway watch of a data store for data change process is provided. The process includes the gateway interface of the computing environment receiving a watch request from a user system to monitor the data store for data change. Based on receiving the watch request, the gateway interface invokes a serverless setup service to establish a connection between the gateway interface and the data store of the computing environment to be monitored for data change. Based on receiving, at the gateway interface, a data change indication from the data store, the gateway interface invokes a serverless message process service to mutate the data change indication from the data store into a mutated data change message indicative of a data change at the data store for return to the user system pursuant to the watch request, with the serverless message process service terminating thereafter.
US12045648B2
Operating methods of computing devices which include a central processing unit and a plurality of sub-processors configured to execute a machine learning model, and computer-readable media storing instructions. For example, an operating method may include dynamically assigning one of a blocking mode or a non-blocking mode to each task of a plurality of tasks of the machine learning model to establish a policy, and executing the machine learning model and the tasks thereof based on the policy.
US12045641B1
Described are systems and methods that may be used to compare virtual machine manager-level system operations in a host environment to verify to a guest environment, such as a virtual machine, that the requested operations have been performed and the data managed by the host on behalf of the guest is secure. The implementations may include a security monitor that interfaces with a trusted platform module included in a hardware of the host. The security monitor may work with the TPM to verify consistency between a VM operation and a corresponding VMM-level operation of the host. This verification provides transparency that the host machine is complying with its responsibility to properly manage and secure data of the VM.
US12045638B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a method for providing an encounter via a virtual assistant with artificial intelligence, the method including detecting, by one or more processors, an encounter request from a user.
US12045637B2
Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to provide an assistive user interface. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method to provide an assistive user interface includes identifying a user journey that includes a plurality of operations to perform a computer-mediated task by analyzing data comprising user interaction data. The method further includes analyzing one or more of application programming interface (API) definitions of a plurality of software applications or user interface (UI) elements of the plurality of software applications to identify a plurality of executable units. The method further includes generating an execution block that defines a sequence of two or more of the plurality of executable units based on the user journey and the plurality of executable units. Execution of the execution block completes the computer-mediated task. The method further includes providing an assistive user interface that includes the execution block.
US12045628B2
A method for providing an artificial intelligence service based on a serverless platform is provided. The method includes the operations of determining a container into which artificial intelligence models are to be loaded, on the basis of features of a plurality of containers and features of a plurality of artificial intelligence models registered in a model store, loading the artificial intelligence models into the container, upon receiving a request for an artificial intelligence service from a client, obtaining a function corresponding to the requested artificial intelligence service from a database, determining the container in which the artificial intelligence model corresponding to the requested artificial intelligence service is loaded, by executing the obtained function on the container, acquiring data with regard to the request, from the artificial intelligence model loaded in the container, and transferring the acquired data to a client.
US12045626B2
In an example embodiment, a technique is disclosed to describe generic capabilities in the ORD standard. In addition, this new ORD resource type may be explicitly supported by a Central ORD aggregator (or Central Management Plane), which can be used to discover and retrieve the information centrally. Having a central metadata service also eliminates the need for many point-to-point integrations.
US12045620B2
A data processing apparatus is provided that comprises rename circuitry for performing a register rename stage of a pipeline in respect of a stream of operations. Move elimination circuitry performs a move elimination operation on the stream of operations in which a move operation is eliminated and the register rename stage performs an adjustment of an identity of registers in the stream of operations to compensate for the move operation being eliminated and demotion circuitry reverses or inhibits the adjustment in response to one or more conditions being met.
US12045611B1
In one example, a method comprises: receiving input codes, wherein the input codes represent a computational dataflow graph; traversing the computational dataflow graph to identify single-entry-single-exit (SESE) subgraphs of the computational dataflow graph, wherein each SESE subgraph has a sequence of nodes comprising a root node and a child node and representing a sequence of element-wise operators, wherein the root node receives a single input tensor, and wherein the child node outputs a single output tensor; determining a merged operator for each SESE subgraph; and generating executable instructions for the computational dataflow graph to be executed by a hardware accelerator having a first execution unit and a second execution unit, wherein the executable instructions comprise first executable instructions for the merged operators targeted at the first execution unit, and second executable instructions for other operators of the computational dataflow graph targeted at the second execution unit.
US12045610B1
The systems and methods provide a model deployment criterion. The model deployment criterion indicates a difference in a value against which the proxy model may be measured to determine when, if ever, the proxy model should be deployed to replace the existing rule engine. The model deployment criterion may be keyed to the proxy model (e.g., based on a difference in its size, throughput speed, number of changes, etc.), the existing rule engine (e.g., based on a difference in its age, update occurrences to its rule base, etc.), and/or comparisons between models (e.g., based on differences in results, throughput speed, efficiency, etc.).
US12045592B2
An automated system for translating source code written in one programming language into a different programming language utilizes a neural transformer with attention trained on semi-supervised data. The model is jointly pre-trained with a masked language model objective and an autoregressive objective on a large unsupervised source code corpus to learn to comprehend the syntactic structure and semantics of source code. The pre-trained model is then fine-tuned with a token-type prediction objective and an autoregressive objective on supervised translation tasks and data augmented tasks to learn to translate source code from one programming language into a different programming language.
US12045589B2
Some embodiments automatically detect a software development code improvement stage. Improvement stage detection may be based on computational events involving a development tool, such as a testing tool, a debugger, or a performance profiler. Program analysis tools driven by artificial intelligence functionality may then be automatically invoked to provide code improvement options, which may be presented to a developer in a tool user interface. Options may include source code edits, configuration changes, or test coverage changes, for example. Analysis results and corresponding code improvement options are thus presented when the developer is prioritizing program performance, program behavior accuracy, program security, or programming style, as opposed to prioritizing code creation or code integration. Programs under development, as well as quality reviews of such programs, may accordingly be optimized by performing performance and security analysis, testing, and coding style analysis during the code improvement stage.
US12045582B2
A Radix-3 butterfly circuit includes a first FIFO input configured to couple to a first FIFO. The circuit includes a first adder and first subtractor coupled to the first FIFO input, and a second FIFO input configured to couple to a second FIFO. The circuit includes a second adder and second subtractor coupled to the second FIFO input, and an input terminal coupled to the first adder and first subtractor. The circuit includes a first scaler coupled to the second adder and a first multiplexer, and a second scaler coupled to a third adder and second multiplexer. The circuit includes a third scaler coupled to a third subtractor and third multiplexer. An output of the first multiplexer is coupled to a complex multiplier. An output of the second multiplexer is coupled to a second FIFO output. An output of the third multiplexer is coupled to a first FIFO output.
US12045580B2
A translation pen includes: a pen body, an indication component, an image collector and a first processor. The pen body has a pen tip end. The indication component is arranged on the pen tip end. The image collector is arranged on the pen body, and the image collector is configured to: collect an image including a text to be translated according to a position indicated by the indication component, and send the image collected. The first processor is arranged in the pen body and electrically connected to the image collector, and the first processor is configured to: receive the image sent by the image collector, and recognize the text to be translated in the image.
US12045570B2
A method, system, and product for multi-class text classification. The method includes receiving an uncoded shipping container description comprising an uncoded text; and assigning a predicted HS code segment to the uncoded container description. Assigning includes cleaning the uncoded text of the uncoded container description by removing 1-2 letter words, numbers and symbols from the text; tokenizing the cleaned uncoded text to define a plurality of unencoded tokens by parsing the cleaned uncoded text into single words and bigrams; summing the scores for each of a plurality of HS code segments associated with each of the plurality of unencoded tokens across all of the plurality of unencoded tokens; and determining the predicted HS code segment based on the highest summation. The method can include receiving an uncoded shipping container description comprising an uncoded text; and assigning a predicted HS code segment to the uncoded container description.
US12045565B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an information provision system and an information provision method by which a user is able to easily acquire desired knowledge data. In an information provision system 1, a suggestion server 400 stores question text strings associated with response contents in advance, receives an input text string input by a user 10 by using a user terminal 100, performs morphological analysis for the input text string and each of the question text strings, calculates a score indicating to what extent each of the question text strings is related to the input text string based on results of the morphological analysis for the question text strings and a result of the morphological analysis for the input text string, and causes the user terminal 100 to display at least one of the question text strings. The score of the at least one of the question text strings satisfies a predetermined condition.
US12045560B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for manually and programmatically remediating websites to thereby facilitate website navigation by people with diverse abilities. For example, an administrator portal is provided for simplified, form-based creation and deployment of remediation code, and a machine learning system is utilized to create and suggest remediations based on past remediation history. Voice command systems and portable document format (PDF) remediation techniques are also provided for improving the accessibility of such websites.
US12045552B2
A layout method of a chip includes: determining a logic diagram corresponding to a chip to be laid out and a device list corresponding to the logic diagram; and determining a layout diagram of the chip to be laid out, according to the logic diagram, the device list, and a pre-trained layout mode. The layout diagram includes at least an arrangement position, in the chip to be laid out, of each device in the device list.
US12045550B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for analyzing software delta changes based on functional line-of-code behavior and relation models. Techniques include identifying a prompt to change a first version of code on a controller to a second version of code; constructing, based on the identified prompt, a line-of-code behavior and relation model representing execution of functions of the controller based on the second version of code; performing a signature operation on the generated line-of-code behavior and relation model to produce a signature value; and sending the signature value to the controller; wherein the controller is configured to compare the signature value to a computed signature value that the controller is configured to compute based on the second version of code and determine, based on the comparison, whether to validate the second version of code.
US12045543B2
Techniques include a method of providing a user interface on a device. The user interface has at least a first display portion, a second display portion and a third display portion, the second display portion including a link to the third display portion that, when activated by a user, cause the device to present the third display portion of the user interface, the first display portion not including the link to the third display portion. The method includes causing the first display portion to be displayed. The method further includes receiving audible input while the first display portion is being displayed. The method further includes determining that the third display portion corresponds to an utterance in the audible input based at least in part on labels determined to match the utterance. The method further includes causing the third display portion to be displayed.
US12045541B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to power management techniques for reducing the power consumption of playback devices. Additionally, aspects of the present disclosure related to distributed processing techniques for processing audio across two or more processors.
US12045526B2
A printer includes: a print head configured to perform printing; and a controller configured to control the print head, wherein the controller executes: code acquisition process of acquiring code information obtained from an identification code, specifying process of specifying, based on the code information, first print data and second print data different from the first print data, and printing process of printing a first label based on the first print data specified in the specifying process and printing a second label based on the second print data specified in the specifying process by controlling the print head.
US12045525B2
An information processing apparatus that permits login of a user by transmitting authentication information on the user to a server that provides an authentication service and based on response results from the server performs output control by selecting a user interface based on a predetermined condition, which is one of a first user interface prepared in advance and a second user interface obtained by rendering by a browsing function, both for causing the user to input the authentication information. Here, the information processing apparatus transmits first authentication information input by using the first user interface to the server and receives first response results for the transmission from the server. Further, the information processing apparatus transmits second authentication information input by using the second user interface to the server and receives second response results for the transmission from the server.
US12045523B2
At least one of the first notification and the second notification is provided via a display device, based on a fact that, by the editing of an object, an object with a transmission property is overlapped on the front surface of an object to be printed by use of a spot color ink, the first notification being provided for warning that the object with the transmission property is in a state of being overlapped on the front surface of the object to be printed by use of the spot color ink, the second notification being provided for asking whether or not a predetermined overlapping state in which the object with the transmission property is overlapped on the front surface of the object to be printed by use of the spot color ink is to be maintained.
US12045521B1
A printing system is disclosed. The printing system includes at least one physical memory device to store halftone modification logic and one or more processors coupled with at least one physical memory device to execute the halftone modification logic to receive a first halftone design comprising a first threshold array associated with a plurality of pel forming elements, receive a flush pattern comprising a flushing array defining a plurality of flush drop locations associated with the plurality of pel forming elements and generate a second halftone design based on the first threshold array and the flush pattern, wherein the second halftone design defines the plurality of flush drop locations.
US12045513B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system checks a first total size indicative of a sum of data lengths specified by first write commands stored in a first submission queue of a host corresponding to a first stream. When the first total size is greater than or equal to a minimum write size, the memory system fetches a set of first write commands stored in the first submission queue, transfers first write data associated with the set of first write commands from a memory of the host to the memory system, and writes the first write data into a first write destination block allocated for the first stream.
US12045511B2
The memory device has a plurality of memory blocks including a plurality of memory cells arranged in a plurality of word lines. The memory device also includes control circuitry that is in communication with the plurality of memory blocks. The control circuitry is configured to receive a data write instruction. The control circuitry is further configured to program the memory cells of the memory blocks to an SLC format. In response to the data programmed to the memory cells of the memory blocks in the SLC format reaching an SLC limit prior to completion of the data write instruction, without erasing the memory cells programmed to the SLC format, the control circuitry is configured to program the memory cells of at least some of the plurality of memory blocks from the SLC format to a TLC format.
US12045510B2
A Near Memory Processing (NMP) module including: a plurality of memory units; an Input/Output (I/O) interface configured to receive commands from a host system, wherein the host system includes a host memory controller configured to access the plurality of memory units; a decoder configured to decode the commands and generate a trigger; and an NMP memory controller configured to: receive the trigger from the decoder; and generate a signal in response to the trigger to synchronize the NMP module with the host system.
US12045508B2
A data storage device and method for device-initiated hibernation are provided. In one embodiment, the data storage device comprises a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive, from a host during a set-up phase of a hibernation process, a plurality of write commands with a current state of a volatile memory in the host; store the plurality of write commands in a queue, wherein the plurality of write commands are not executed during the set-up phase of the hibernation process; receive a trigger from the host to perform an execution phase of the hibernation process; and in response to receiving the trigger, execute the plurality of write commands to store the current state of the host's volatile memory in the non-volatile memory of the data storage device. Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
US12045504B2
A memory sub-system, such as a solid state drive (SSD), having host interface configured to receive at least read commands and write commands from an external host system. The SSD has memory cells formed on at least one integrated circuit die, and a processing device configured to control executions of the read commands to retrieve data from the memory cells and executions the write commands to store data into the memory cells. During a burn-in operation of the memory sub-system in a manufacturing facility, the memory sub-system is configured to perform read/write operations for the generation of a proof of space plot. After the burn-in operation, the memory sub-system is provided as a product of the manufacturing facility; and the proof of space plot stored in the memory sub-system is provided as a by-product of the burn-in operation.
US12045495B2
Methods, systems, and devices for read latency and suspend modes are described. A memory system may operate in a first mode of operation associated with a first set of access operations including executing read operations, executing write operations, and suspending write operations. The memory system may receive, from a host system, an indication to switch to a second mode of operation associated with a decreased latency for executing write operations based on limiting a suspension of write operations. For example, the host system may transmit a command including the indication to switch to the second mode of operation. In another example, the host system may write a value to a register at the memory system including the indication to switch to the second mode of operation. Based on receiving the indication from the host system, the memory system may then operate according to the second mode of operation.
US12045494B2
The present disclosure generally relates to validating memory devices. Rather than using debug hardware (HW) to consume, record, and decode firmware (FW) events, standard non-volatile memory express (NVMe) asynchronous event request (AER) and NVMe asynchronous event notification (AEN) is used. The NVMe AER results in initiating a particular function to be performed by a device under test (DUT) and triggering a cross feature (CF) that should at least partially overlap in time with the particular function. Using NVMe AER and AEN will eliminate the need for debug HW, reduce FW custom logic, and reduce latency.
US12045483B2
A method of operating a storage device which communicates with a host device, includes receiving a request for an access to target data from the host device, executing an indirect access module based on the request, determining, by the indirect access module, a target address indicating a location of the target data based on an access parameter of the request, accessing, by the indirect access module, a data block based on the target address, and providing, by the indirect access module, the host device with the accessed data block or the target data in the accessed data block.
US12045481B2
Systems and methods for reducing read application in a virtual storage system are provided. According to one embodiment, read amplification is reduced when AZCS compression is being utilized by avoiding restarting of a read process via a slow path via a RAID layer of the virtual storage system when a data block associated with a read request and obtained via a first fast path read has been found not to be compressed. Instead, a second fast path read may be performed to obtain the corresponding checksum. Alternatively, or additionally, heuristics may be used to predict the odds of the data block being compressed. For example, when information encoded within a PVBN of the data block that identifies the PVBN as being within a compressed AZCS zone has shown to be sufficiently/insufficiently predictive of the data block being compressed, then a flag may be set to enable/disable fast path reads.
US12045474B2
Systems and methods providing efficient dirty memory page expiration. In one implementation, a processing device may identify a storage device. The processing device may determine a value of an indicator associated with the storage device. The indicator may indicate a level of consistency between a volatile memory device and a non-volatile memory device of the storage device. In view of the value of the indicator, the processing device may modify a synchronization timeout value associated with the volatile memory device.
US12045471B2
A single input/output (I/O) controller for both secure partitionable endpoints (PEs) and non-secure PEs is enabled in a trusted execution environment (TEE) where secure memory portions are isolated from non-secure PEs. Security attributes for certain endpoints indicate secure memory access privilege of owning entities of the certain endpoints. A security monitor has exclusive access to the address translation control tables (TCE) stored in secure memory associated with a secure endpoint. When owning entity reassignment occurs, the endpoints are reinitialized to support a change in ownership from an outgoing owning entity having secure memory access and an incoming owning entity not having secure memory access.
US12045469B2
A memory device is disclosed herein that leverages high ratio column MUXES to improve SEU resistance. The memory device may be utilized in an integrated circuit die and chip packages having the same. In one example, as semiconductor memory device is provided that includes first and second arrays of semiconductor memory cells, a plurality of sense amplifiers configured to read data states from the first and second arrays of memory cells, and a first plurality of high ratio MUXES connecting the first and second arrays of memory cells to the plurality of sense amplifiers.
US12045466B2
An embodiment of an electronic apparatus may include one or more substrates, and logic coupled to the one or more substrates, the logic to receive a current access request for a storage media associated with a stream, identify a hint in the current access request which indicates one or more stream characteristics for future access requests from the stream, and handle the current access request based on the indicated one or more stream characteristics for future access requests from the stream. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12045460B2
A temperature control method and a data storage system are disclosed. The method includes: detecting whether a memory device is in a busy status; detecting whether a temperature of the memory device is higher than a first threshold value; instructing the memory device to perform a cool down procedure in response to that the memory device is in the busy status and the temperature of the memory device is higher than the first threshold value; and instructing the memory device to stop the cool down procedure in response to that the memory device is not in the busy status and the temperature of the memory device is lower than a second threshold value.
US12045459B2
In some implementations, a user device may receive, from a first other device, a first message, wherein the first message includes information indicating an event associated with an account of a user of the user device. The user device may provide, based on receiving the first message, a virtual keyboard for display on a display screen of the user device. The user device may obtain, based on providing the virtual keyboard, particular input. The user device may send to a second other device, and based on the particular input, a second message, wherein sending the second message is to cause the second other device to perform one or more actions associated with the event that is associated with the account of the user.
US12045455B2
A method including receiving a command to display a modal dialog. The modal dialog is displayed using both first and second scrolling frames. The first scrolling frame permits scrolling when a modal dialog height exceeds a first scrolling frame constraint. The second scrolling frame permits scrolling of a content section when a content section height exceeds a second scrolling frame constraint. The first scrolling frame constraint has a first and second priorities. The second scrolling frame constraint has a third priority. An orientation of the display screen is determined as being either in a portrait orientation or a landscape orientation. Responsive to determining the physical orientation, an applicable priority that is applicable to the first scrolling frame constraint is assigned. The applicable priority is the first priority in the portrait orientation, and is the second priority in the landscape orientation. After assigning the applicable priority, the modal dialog is displayed.
US12045454B2
The information processing apparatus of the present invention is an information processing apparatus that outputs viewpoint information for generation of a virtual viewpoint image based on image data obtained by performing image capturing from directions different from one another by a plurality of image capturing apparatuses and comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire viewpoint information having a plurality of virtual viewpoint parameter sets respectively indicating positions and orientations of a virtual viewpoint at a plurality of points in time; a change unit configured to change a virtual viewpoint parameter set included in the viewpoint information based on a user operation during playback of a virtual viewpoint image in accordance with viewpoint information acquired by the acquisition unit; and an output unit configured to output viewpoint information having a virtual viewpoint parameter set changed by the change unit.
US12045452B2
Techniques described herein may involve modification of playback based on the proximity of a user to a playback device. An example technique involves a device determining that a listener is within a given proximity of a first playback device and based on determining that the listener is within the given proximity of the first playback device, causing the first playback device to begin playback of first media and causing a second playback device to modify playback of second media.
US12045450B2
A method and an apparatus for adjusting sizes of split-screen windows including: detecting a first operation on a first display widget, in response to a first split-screen window and a second split-screen window for an application being displayed in a display area; displaying a second display widget, in response to the first operation being detected, wherein the second display widget comprises at least one icon and the at least one icon indicates a ratio of a size of the first split-screen window to a size of the second split-screen window; detecting a second operation on the at least one icon; and adjusting the size of the first split-screen window and the size of the second split-screen window based on the ratio indicated by the at least one icon, in response to the second operation being detected.
US12045445B2
A communication system is implemented to provide multiple application services for a group of users, where each user of the group is able to access each of the multiple application services using a corresponding computing device. For each user of the group, the communication system provides the multiple application services by generating, on the user's computing device, a user-interface that includes multiple content views. The communication system operates to maintain one or more notification aggregation view for each user account, where individual users can view notifications generated by different application services and/or for different projects.
US12045443B2
Some embodiments are directed to a data filtering device configured to select for a widget of visualizing type out of multiple widgets, the controlling widgets of filtering type, wherein a widget is controlling according to a control rule, said control rule depending on the widget location of the widget of visualization type and the widget location of the widget of filtering type.
US12045437B2
An example process includes: while displaying a user interface different from a digital assistant user interface, receiving a user input; in accordance with a determination that the user input satisfies a criterion for initiating a digital assistant: displaying, over the user interface, the digital assistant user interface, the digital assistant user interface including: a digital assistant indicator displayed at a first portion of the display; and a response affordance displayed at a second portion of the display, where: a portion of the user interface remains visible at a third portion of the display; and the third portion is between the first portion and the second portion.
US12045433B2
According to one embodiment, a plurality of spatial publishing objects (SPOs) is provided in a multidimensional space in a user interface. Each of the plurality of spatial publishing objects is associated with digital media data from at least one digital media source. The user interface has a field for the digital media data. A user is provided via the user interface with a user presence that is optionally capable of being represented in the user interface relative to the plurality of spatial publishing objects. The digital media data associated with the at least one spatial publishing object are combined to generate a media output corresponding to the combined digital media data.
US12045429B2
A touch substrate and a display device are provided. The touch substrate includes a touch electrode layer with a mesh type structure; the touch electrode layer includes first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes; a first touch electrode includes first touch sub-electrodes, and a second touch electrode includes second touch sub-electrodes; a first touch sub-electrode includes first touch electrode meshes, and a second touch sub-electrode includes second touch electrode meshes; the touch electrode layer further includes boundary meshes located between adjacent first touch sub-electrode and second touch sub-electrode; each boundary mesh includes at least two first mesh lines; each first mesh line is provided with a first break; second mesh lines are arranged in a first touch electrode mesh and/or a second touch electrode mesh; the second mesh lines are provided with second breaks; and a mesh line in a boundary mesh is provided with a protruding part.
US12045426B2
The disclosure discloses a touch display device including a plurality of X-touch electrode lines extending in a first direction and receiving a touch driving signal, a plurality of Y-touch electrode lines extending in a second direction and transmitting a touch sensing signal, a plurality of X-touch lines extending in the second direction and transmitting the touch driving signal, and a plurality of touch contact holes electrically connecting the plurality of X-touch lines and the plurality of X-touch electrode lines to a plurality of X-touch electrodes.
US12045416B2
Various embodiments for detecting and rejecting false, unintended rotations of rotary inputs of electronic devices are disclosed herein. In one example, an electronic device is provided with an optical detector that measures the distance between the electronic device and the wearer's forearm or hand, and when the distance is smaller than a threshold distance, the turns of the rotary input are false, unintended turns. In another example, a crown of a rotary input includes a plurality of capacitive sensors that detects the presence of a wearer's finger, which when absent, the turns of the rotary input are false turns. In another example, deflections or positions of a shaft of the rotary input are measured and if the deflections/positions indicate an upward force on the rotary input (which are likely caused by the wearer's forearm or hand), the turns of the rotary input are false turns. Other embodiments are described herein.
US12045414B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a chip on flex (COF), a touch assembly, and a display device. The chip on flex includes a flexible base provided with a first opening, the flexible base includes a bonding area provided with a plurality of metal bonding pads; on the flexible base, a spacing area with a preset range is provided between the first opening and the bonding area; wherein, the flexible base is provided with a reinforcement sheet thereon, the reinforcement sheet is located on a portion of the flexible base other than the first opening, the spacing area and the bonding area.
US12045398B2
A point-of-sale device including an adjustable screen, an accelerometer, and a processor is provided. The adjustable screen is arranged in a cashier position or a customer position. The accelerometer generates orientation data corresponding to the adjustable screen. The processor determines, via an accelerometer driver, an adjustable screen position based on the orientation data. The processor then generates, via the accelerometer driver, a position change notification if the adjustable screen changes position. The processor then provides the position change notification and the adjustable screen position to an application selector. The processor then launches, via the application selector upon receiving the position change notification, an application based on the adjustable screen position. In one example, the launched application is a point-of-sale application if the adjustable screen position is the cashier position. In another example, the launched application is a self-checkout application if the adjustable screen position is the customer position.
US12045393B2
A hand-worn data-input device is provided. The hand-worn data-input device is wearable on a hand, for entering data-inputs into electronic/computing devices by reading and interpreting, via electromagnetic sensing, static/dynamic user-inputted gestures between digits, other portions of the hand and other hand-worn components of the data-input device, relative to each other, wherein sensing units are configured to be placed at/by specific spots/regions of the hand and comprise fixation, insulating and/or electromagnetic shielding means, and wherein the hand-worn data-input device comprises at least one energy unit, at least one thumb-worn sensing unit, at least one body-contact sensing unit, at least one signals/data connection unit and at least one data-inputs connection unit, and wherein when fingertip sensing units are worn, the fingertip sensing units are uniquely identified and simultaneous multi-channeled electromagnetic coupling between the fingertip sensing units and other sensing units is enabled.
US12045390B2
A system includes at least one wearable device having a housing, at least one sensor disposed within the housing, at least one output device disposed within the housing, and at least one processor operatively connected to the sensors and output devices, wherein one or more sensors are configured to detect electrical activity from a user's facial muscles and to transmit a data signal concerning the electrical activity of the user's facial muscles to one of more of the processors. A method of controlling a wearable device includes determining facial muscular electrical data of a facial gesture made by a user, interpreting the facial muscular electrical data to determine a user response, and performing an action based on the user response.
US12045389B2
An adaptive calibration method in a brain-computer interface is disclosed. The method is used to reliably associate a neural signal to an object whose attendance by a user elicited that neural signal. A visual stimulus overlaying one or more objects is provided, at least a portion of the visual stimulus having a characteristic modulation. The brain computer interface measures neural response to objects viewed by a user. The neural response to the visual stimulus is correlated to the modulation, the correlation being stronger when attention is concentrated upon the visual stimulus. Weights are applied to the resulting model of neural responses for the user based on the determined correlations. Both neural signal model weighting and displayed object display modulation are adapted so as to improve the certainty of the association of neural signals with the objects that evoked those signals.
US12045388B2
Provided are a detection device and a detection method that more reliably detect attitudes of fingers of a user. The detection device of the present disclosure includes: a first sensor that is disposed in a space between a thumb and an index finger and detects first information obtained by sensing a first finger that is a finger included in a first detection area; and a second sensor that is disposed on a palm and detects second information obtained by sensing a second finger that is a finger included in a second detection area.
US12045385B2
A wearable tracking system is provided. The wearable tracking system includes a wearable device, an external camera, and a processor. The wearable device is adapted to be worn on a body part of a user. The wearable device is configured to detect a body movement of the body part based on a tracking sensor. The external camera is configured to obtain a body image of the body part. The processor is configured to obtain a first moving track of a body moving track of the body part based on the body movement, obtain a second moving track of the body moving track of the body part based on the body image, and determine a body pose of the body part based on the first moving track and the second moving track.
US12045383B2
Described are virtual AR interfaces for generating a virtual rotational interface for the purpose of controlling connected IoT devices using the inertial measurement unit (IMU) of a portable electronic device. The IMU control application enables a user of a portable electronic device to activate a virtual rotational interface overlay on a display and adjust a feature of a connected IoT product by rotating a portable electronic device. The device IMU moves a slider on the virtual rotational interface. The IMU control application sends a control signal to the IoT product which executes an action in accordance with the slider position. The virtual rotational interface is presented on the display as a virtual object in an AR environment. The IMU control application detects the device orientation (in the physical environment) and in response presents a corresponding slider element on the virtual rotational interface (in the AR environment).
US12045380B2
There is provided a method and apparatus for controlling a privacy setting of at least one sensor. A signal is acquired from one or more sensors. A characteristic of one or more subjects is detected in the acquired signal. A privacy level is set based on the detected characteristic of the one or more subjects. A privacy setting of at least one sensor is controlled based on the set privacy level.
US12045368B2
A method, system and product including communicating a first report associated with a first temporary identifier of a user device; upon receiving the first report from the user device, storing the first report with the first temporary identifier; communicating a message comprising a second temporary identifier of the user device; communicating a second report that is associated with the second temporary identifier of the user device, wherein the second report is not associated with the first temporary identifier; upon receiving from the user device a second report, storing the second report with the second temporary identifier, whereby the first report cannot be directly matched with the second report based on respective identifiers thereof.
US12045365B2
An embodiment includes receiving, at database connectivity (DBC) layer, a request to access data of a data source, wherein the data source is registered with a data catalog that includes data governance artifacts, and wherein the request is made via a connection that bypasses the data catalog. The embodiment also includes comparing, by a governance manager at the DBC layer, an access privilege level for a credential associated with the request to access requirements of requested data included in data protection rules of the governance artifacts. The embodiment also includes masking, by the governance manager, a portion of the data provided in response to the request, wherein the portion of the data has an access requirement that is not met by the access privilege level for the credential associated with the request.
US12045359B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing hardware and software for performing uniform document updates. A computing platform may receive, from a user device, a document change request. The computing platform may authenticate authority of a user of the user device to perform the document change request. Based on authenticating the authority of the user of the user device to perform the document change request, the computing platform may identify storage locations at which documents that are affected by the document change request are located. The computing platform may access the documents at each of the storage locations. The computing platform may scan the documents to identify locations, within the documents, of changes to be made, which may include identifying the locations based on enterprise-adopted change tags. The computing platform may write the changes to the documents at the identified locations based on the enterprise-adopted change tags.
US12045358B2
A system has an intelligent electronic device (TED) and a switch configured to perform operations that include obtaining a rule associating a media access control security (MACsec) port identifier (PI) of the TED with a data flow, receiving a frame comprising data and the MACsec PI, and transmitting the data of the frame based on the data flow associated with the rule.
US12045355B2
A system includes a protected memory, and a processor, operatively coupled to the protected memory, to perform operations including receiving, from a secrets and service provider system via a brokering agent, an encrypted version of a set of secrets data corresponding to a target state of the device, in response to receiving the encrypted version of the set of secrets data, requesting, from the secrets and service provider system via the brokering agent, permission to transition to the target state, receiving, from the secrets and service provider system via the brokering agent, permission to transition to the target state, and in response to receiving permission to transition to the target state, storing the set of secrets data in the protected memory to complete the transition to the target state.
US12045353B2
A microphone controller includes a processor programmed to receive voice input from one or more microphones to be utilized in a voice recognition session initiated by the microphone controller. Further the microphone controller includes a key store including one or more keys configured to encrypt the received voice input to an encrypted voice data.
US12045351B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may: receive firmware of an integrated circuit (IC) of an information handling system; receive a digital signature of the firmware, where the digital signature includes an encrypted hash value, encrypted with a private encryption key; determine a first hash value of the firmware; decrypt the encrypted hash value, via a public encryption key associated with the private encryption key, to obtain a second hash value; determine if the first hash value matches the second hash value; if so, permit the information handling system to boot an operating system; and if not, prevent, by the authentication device, the information handling system from booting the operating system.
US12045340B2
The terminal apparatus comprises a machine learning part that can execute a process of computing a first model update parameter of a first neural network using training data and a process of computing a second model update parameter of a second neural network using training data for a simulated attack; an encryption processing part that encrypts the first, the second model update parameter using a predetermined homomorphic encryption; a data transmission part that transmits the encrypted first, second model update parameters to a predetermined computation apparatus; and an update part that receives from the computation apparatus model update parameters of the first, the second neural networks computed using the first, the second model update parameters received from another terminal apparatus and updates the first, the second neural networks.
US12045338B2
Provided is a method of securing a software code of an application including at least one constant data. The method produces secure software code can then be executed on a processor. The method includes fragmenting current constant data into several valid data chunks of random length, encoding and storing the valid data chunks at random locations in the application software code, identifying all occurrences of the current constant data in the application software code and replacing each of them with a call to a Runtime application self-protection (RASP) agent for reading the current constant data, and inserting, at random locations of a control flow graph of the application software code, RASP check instructions which when executed at runtime. The RASP agent being configured for running in the application runtime environment and being capable of controlling application execution and detecting and preventing real-time attacks.
US12045334B2
The present disclosure relates to an authentication method of a first device by a second device, each first, second device having a processor, at least one memory, and an authentication circuit, in which the authentication circuit is configured to prohibit the processor from reading data stored in at least part of said memory. The authenticating includes generating a first datum, and a second datum. The second device verifies that the first and second data match.
US12045324B2
Systems and methods of cyber hardening software by modifying one or more assembly source files. In some embodiments, the disclosed SME tool transparently and seamlessly integrates into the build process of the assembly source files being modified. For example, upon integration of the disclosed SME tool into the application's development environment, the modifications in the final executable are transparent to the developer and can support other cyber hardening techniques. The SME tool includes a preprocessing tool for identifying attributes (e.g., functions) associated with the assembly source file. The SME tool also includes a transformation tool for making modifications of the assembly source file. In some embodiments, the transformations correspond to applying one or more transformations to the attributes associated with the assembly source file.
US12045315B2
A system and method for neural-network based image-to-image translation is provided. The system includes a generator network which receives an image and generates a first synthetic image based on the received image. The first synthetic image is different from the image in appearance, style, or domain. The system includes a feature-to-image generator that extracts a feature map from an intermediate layer of the generator network and generates a second synthetic image. The system further includes a first discriminator network that generates a result indicative of whether the first synthetic image is real or fake in comparison to a first reference image and a second discriminator network that generates a result indicative of whether the second synthetic image is real or fake in comparison to a second reference image. The system further includes a processor which trains the first generator network in adversarial manner based on losses associated with the results.
US12045312B2
A device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium are described. The method includes receiving a dataset including hand written Arabic words and hand written Arabic alphabets from one or more users. The method further includes removing whitespace around alphabets in the hand written Arabic words and the hand written Arabic alphabets in the dataset. The method further includes splitting the dataset into a training set, a validation set, and a test set. The method further includes classifying one or more user datasets from the training set, the validation set, and the test set. The method further includes identifying the target user from the one or more user datasets. The identification of the target user includes a verification accuracy of the hand written Arabic words being larger than a verification accuracy threshold value.
US12045310B2
Disclosed is a method and system for achieving optimal separable convolutions, the method is applied to image analyzing and processing and comprises steps of: inputting an image to be analyzed and processed; calculating three sets of parameters of a separable convolution: an internal number of groups, a channel size and a kernel size of each separated convolution, and achieving optimal separable convolution process; and performing deep neural network image process. The method and system in the present disclosure adopts implementation of separable convolution which efficiently reduces a computational complexity of deep neural network process. Comparing to the FFT and low rank approximation approaches, the method and system disclosed in the present disclosure is efficient for both small and large kernel sizes and shall not require a pre-trained model to operate on and can be deployed to applications where resources are highly constrained.
US12045307B2
Today neural networks are used to enable autonomous vehicles and improve the quality of speech recognition, real-time language translation, and online search optimizations. However, operation of the neural networks for these applications consumes energy. Quantization of parameters used by the neural networks reduces the amount of memory needed to store the parameters while also reducing the power consumed during operation of the neural network. Matrix operations performed by the neural networks require many multiplication calculations, so reducing the number of bits that are multiplied reduces the energy that is consumed. Quantizing smaller sets of the parameters using a shared scale factor improves accuracy compared with quantizing larger sets of the parameters. Accuracy of the calculations may be maintained by quantizing and scaling the parameters using fine-grained per-vector scale factors. A vector includes one or more elements within a single dimension of a multi-dimensional matrix.
US12045294B2
The embodiments disclosed herein are related to a computing system for generating a mask-augmented inverted index. The mask-augmented inverted index is structured to allow phrase query searching while minimizing the amount of computing system processing and memory resources needed to generate the mask-augmented inverted index. In one embodiment, a first token is mapped to a first listing of documents that include the first token. A first mask is included that comprises a probabilistic representation of a set of integers corresponding to one or more locations of the first token in each of the individual documents of the first listing. A second mask is included that comprises a probabilistic representation of a set of integers that indicate a positional relationship between the first token and one or more other tokens in each of the individual documents of the first listing.
US12045291B2
Records can be matched by a graph neural network model performing entity resolution on the records, and representing each record as a respective node in a graph. Record matching explanations can be generated, each record matching explanation indicating a first set of attributes, and a first set of corresponding values, used for the matching at least two of the records. Nodes can be clustered into a plurality of clusters by aggregating the record matching explanations and, based on the record matching explanations, determining which of the records have high importance values, in the first set of values, that match. At least one cluster explanation can be generated, the cluster explanation indicating a second set of attributes, and a second set of values corresponding to the second set of attributes, used for the clustering the nodes. The record matching explanation and the cluster explanation can be output.
US12045282B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate fault localization and alert aggregation are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a graph component that employs an algorithm to generate a directed graph of computing elements having performance alerts in one or more abstraction layers of a computing environment. The computer executable components can further comprise a fault localization component that employs a topological sort algorithm to identify one or more of the computing elements causing the performance alerts based on the directed graph.
US12045274B2
The methods and systems described herein leveraging acoustic features of a user to generate and present a personalized content to a user. In one example, the method receives a voice query and determines that the query refers to either a first content item or a second content item. The first content item is associated with a first type assigned with a first score and the second content item is associated with a second entity type assigned with a second score. The method also determines whether the query is from the second entity type. The method ranks the first and the second content items based on this determination and generates for presentation of the first and the second content items based on the ranking. The method also changes the first or the second scores based on this determination and selects one of the first or the second content item for presentation.
US12045272B2
A text summarization system auto-generates text summarization models using a combination of neural architecture search and knowledge distillation. Given an input dataset for generating/training a text summarization model, neural architecture search is used to sample a search space to select a network architecture for the text summarization model. Knowledge distillation includes fine-tuning a language model for a given text summarization task using the input dataset, and using the fine-tuned language model as a teacher model to inform the selection of the network architecture and the training of the text summarization model. Once a text summarization model has been generated, the text summarization model can be used to generate summaries for given text.
US12045265B2
An exemplary system, method, and computer-accessible medium can include, for example, establishing a unique rule-identifier in one-to-one correspondence with at least one set of unknown time-variable rules against which data is to be made compliant, obtaining at least one set of data marked compliant against the one or more set of rules, obtaining meta-data from the compliant data, obtaining at least one set of data marked non-compliant against the set of unknown time-variable rules, extracting meta-data from the non-compliant data, joining the set of compliant and non-compliant metadata to generate a set of estimated rules corresponding to the rule-identifier based at least one of (i) the meta-data of the joined set and (ii) machine learning algorithms.
US12045260B2
A method, system, and computer program product for data reorganization and logs reorganization. The method includes receiving, by one or more processing units, original data. The method also includes classifying, by the one or more processing units, the original data into different types based on a trained type classification model. The method also includes generating, by the one or more processing units, at least one severity for at least part of the original data based on a trained severity classification model, the at least part of the original data corresponding to at least one type. The method also includes outputting, by the one or more processing units, at least one message, the at least one message indicating the severity of the at least part of the original data.
US12045251B2
A method and a system for automatically generating a data acquisition module are provided. The method is such that an input terminal inputs at least one piece of data to be converted, and sends the at least one piece of data to be converted to a conversion terminal. Each of the at least one piece of data to be converted includes at least one piece of identification information. The conversion terminal identifies the at least one piece of identification information to obtain an identification result. The at least one piece of data to be converted is converted into target data. A data generation end at least generates a data acquisition module based on the target data.
US12045240B2
One example method includes scanning a storage device to obtain data and metadata concerning operation of a computing system, analyzing the data and, based on the analyzing, deriving data groups that include some of the data, and deriving data relationships among some of the data, receiving, by an expert system, a query from a user, and the query specifies a sample object for the expert system to investigate, but the query does not indicate purpose of the user in submitting the query, analyzing the query, based on the data groups and data relationships, and based on the analyzing of the query, generating, by the expert system, query results that comprise a set of user-selectable investigation directions that relate to the sample object, and presenting, by the expert system, the set of user-selectable investigation directions to the user.
US12045236B2
Techniques for join elimination are described herein. Join elimination can identify and eliminate unnecessary joins in a query plan node. For example, join elimination can involve a semantic query optimization technique, which removes reference to a table whose columns are only referenced in join predicates if the joins do not filter/expand rows in the result. Such joins can cause significant performance issues on larger datasets if not optimized.
US12045234B2
In an example there is provided a computer-implemented method which comprises generating an execution plan for a received user query, converting the execution plan into bytecode, compiling to unoptimized machine code using the bytecode and beginning execution of the execution plan by executing the unoptimized machine code, compiling optimized machine code using the bytecode whilst executing the unoptimized machine code; and switching to executing the optimized machine code in order to execute the execution plan, when the optimized machine code has been compiled.
US12045229B2
Data enrichment and augmentation is disclosed. Machine data comprising at least one of a log message and a metrics data point is received. The received machine data comprises an identifier of an instance of a virtual machine. Based at least in part on the identifier of the instance of the virtual machine, a query for tags associated with the instance of the virtual machine is performed. At least one key-value pair is generated based at least in part on tags received in response to the query performed based at least in part on the identifier of the instance of the virtual machine. The received machine data is augmented with the at least one key-value pair generated based at least in part on the tags received in response to the query based at least in part on the identifier of the instance of the virtual machine.
US12045226B2
A first stack running on a processor receives the transaction data, reference data, and context data. The reference data is independent of the transaction and of a user. The context data is associated with the user but is independent of the transaction. The first stack strips the transaction of derivable data to obtain stripped data. The derivable data includes data that can be derived from the stripped data, the context data, and the reference data. The derivable data can stream the stripped data to a global database available and redundant across multiple geographical regions. After the first stack fails, a second stack can resume the transaction by retrieving the stripped data from the global database, and retrieving the context data, and the reference data. The second stack can recreate the transaction data based on the stripped data, the context data, and the reference data, and can resume the transaction.
US12045225B2
A multi-table data validation tool is run following migration of data from a source database to a target database. The multi-table data validation tool extracts data from source and target locations into memory, transforms data and masks confidential data as needed, then performs two types of data comparison, including row count and data content comparison. Result files of each comparison are available to the migration team, enabling updates and improvements to the migration tools. The multi-table data validation tool may further be used to extract requested data from either the source database or the target database. The multi-table data validation tool may be dockerized as a container for ease of deployment in different environments.
US12045222B1
A computerized system and method may include, in response to receiving a blockchain via a communications network that includes information associated with an event, parsing, by a blockchain parsing engine being executed by a blockchain node, the information to identify a status state of an item related to the event. The blockchain may be inclusive of the information along with the status state of the item may be stored in a storage unit. An event tracking engine may determine from the parsed information that the status state of the item transitioned from a first state to a second state. Responsive to the event tracking engine determining that a qualifying state is satisfied by the item being in the second state, automatically executing, by the blockchain node, a smart code inclusive of initiating communications between a first party and a second party.
US12045217B2
A method comprises receiving a selection of data from a fact table and one or more dimension tables stored in a data warehouse, mapping data points from the selection of the data from the fact table and the one or more dimension tables to a reference space utilizing a lens function, generating a cover of the reference space using a resolution function, clustering the data points mapped to the reference space using the cover and a metric function to determine each node of a plurality of nodes of a graph, each node including at least one data point, determining a plurality of segments of the graph, each segment including at least one node, and generating a segment data structure identifying each segment as well as membership of each segment, the membership of each segment including at least one node from the plurality of nodes in the graph.
US12045215B2
Embodiments detect duplicate invoices, each invoice including a plurality of fields. Embodiments generate synthetic training data using a plurality of training invoices and generating one or more modified fields for each of the plurality of training invoices. Embodiments train a machine learning model using the synthetic training data and generate a plurality of candidate invoice pairs. Embodiments input the plurality of candidate invoice pairs to the trained machine learning model and generate, by the trained machine learning model, a prediction of whether each of the candidate invoices pairs is a duplicate invoice pair.
US12045214B2
A system and method for improving and/or repairing data structures in databases or other structured data such as in project management computer software. Such project management software includes complicated data structures, which are prone to developing inconsistencies and errors over time. The system or method takes snapshots of datasets from the project management software at periodic points in time, ingests the data and maps it to internal data objects. This allows an analytics engine to efficiently perform a range of validation checks for anomalies and other issues that contravene Agile rules by identifying dependencies between individual work task entities and creating links in the data objects to other data objects representing those dependencies. Thus, the system may indicate to the user issues with the data, automate repair of the data structures and provide tools for the user to quickly and efficiently fix the source data.
US12045213B2
A method or system for monitoring data quality issues in non-native data over disparate computer networks is described. The system may monitor incoming data entries of non-native data over a disparate computer network. The system may generate for display, on a user interface, a recommendation based on a difference between a number of the first plurality of data entries and a dynamic threshold.
US12045205B2
The technologies described herein are generally directed toward identifying a current journal state by determining the most recent valid journal record using valid and null journal records. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can enable performance of operations including identifying a hint journal record of a group of journal records of a journal of a journaled data storage system. The operations can further include, based on an identified null record and the hint journal record, determining a highest sequence journal record comprising a sequence indicator. The operations can further include, based on the sequence indicator, analyzing, by the journaling equipment, other journal records of the group of journal records to confirm that the highest sequence journal record corresponds to a valid journal state.
US12045204B2
The present disclosure provides techniques for deduplicating files. The techniques include creating a cache or subset of a large data structure. The large data structure organizes information by random hash values. The random hash values result in a random organization of information within the data structure, with the information spanning a large number of storage blocks within a storage system. The cache, however, is within memory and is small relative to the data structure. The cache is created so as to contain information that is likely to be needed during deduplication of a file. Having needed information within memory rather than in storage results in faster read and write operations to that information, improving the performance of a computing system.
US12045198B2
Embodiments are described for a multi-domain and multi-tier architecture for clustered network file systems. This system allows a user to create sub-cluster of physical nodes, called domains, and file system resources for the data placed in a domain are allocated only from the nodes in the domain. It limits the impact of system failures to the files within a domain. A file system redirection service manages a global namespace spanning the domains and redirects file accesses to the appropriate domain where it is stored. In each domain, there are different classes of storage, tiers, with different cost and performance characteristics. Files can be placed on a set of tiers depending on a storage level agreement (SLA) specified for a file. Tier examples include a higher performance tier consisting of SSDs and a lower performance tier of HDDs.
US12045195B2
A method includes executing a configuration engine on one or more data processing device(s) of a computing system. In accordance with the execution, the method also includes discovering at least a subset of a number of resources associated with a target environment of the computing system, generating an environment definition associated with the target environment, building baseline configurations, policies and metadata for at least the subset of the number of resources, and versioning the aforementioned data. Further, the method includes, in accordance with tracking the metadata versioned in the repository, automatically scanning at least the subset of the number of resources and retrieving a first and/or a second specific configuration based on the scanning, and automatically determining a misconfiguration based on comparing the first specific configuration to a corresponding baseline configuration and/or verifying that a sequence of configurations is correctly defined based on the second specific configuration.
US12045194B2
A processor comprising a control unit and a plurality of processing units interacting according to an operating architecture imposed dynamically by the control unit from among at least two of the following architectures: a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) stream architecture, a multiple instruction single data (MISD) stream architecture, and a multiple instruction multiple data (MIMD) stream architecture. The operating architecture is imposed dynamically by the control unit according to: configuration functions included in a machine code, and/or data to be processed and current processing instructions received as input of the processor.
US12045186B2
A modular cable assembly for use with a system including a first system device and a second system device is provided. The first system device is configured to produce a first electronic communication protocol. The second system device is configured to produce a second electronic communication protocol. The modular cable assembly includes a first connector, a second connector, a cable body, and a communication control assembly. The communication control assembly includes a communication translation module (CTM). The CTM includes a protocol storage submodule configured to store a plurality of predetermined system device protocols (PSDPs) and a processor in communication with the protocol storage submodule storing instructions, which instructions when executed cause the processor to identify the second system device using a second selected PSDP of the plurality of PSDPs and translate at least a portion of the second electronic communication protocol into the first electronic communication protocol.
US12045184B2
A storage system that includes multiple CPU hosts and PCI-E multi-host capable devices uses link selection controllers to map shared memory addresses to individual PCI-E links such that each address is accessed via only one of a plurality of PCI-E links. The addresses may be grouped into same-size segments, each of which contains only addresses mapped to the same PCI-E link. The link selection controllers monitor for state changes that affect PCI-E link availability and, in response to detection of a failure, coordinate a response that includes re-mapping the affected addresses.
US12045183B2
A distributed processing node includes a computing device that calculates gradient data of a loss function from an output result obtained by inputting learning data to a learning target model, an interconnect device that aggregates gradient data between the distributed processing node and other distributed processing nodes, a computing function unit that is provided in a bus device and performs processing of gradient data from the computing device, and a DMA controller that controls DMA transfer of gradient data between the computing device and the bus device and DMA transfer of gradient data between the bus device and the interconnect device.
US12045170B2
Prefetch generation circuitry generates requests to prefetch data to a cache, where the prefetch generation circuitry is configured to initiate a producer prefetch to request return of producer data having a producer address and to initiate at least one consumer prefetch to request prefetching of consumer data to the cache, the consumer data having an address derived from the producer data returned in response to the producer prefetch. Training circuitry updates, based on executed load operations, a training table indicating candidate producer-consumer relationships being trained for use by the prefetch generation circuitry in generating the producer/consumer prefetches. Replacement control circuitry controls replacement of candidate producer-consumer relationships based on a producer-data-consumer-operand (PD-CO) match-based replacement policy criterion, which depends on whether a PD-CO match condition, indicative of the producer data for a producer load matching an address operand of a consumer load, is satisfied for existing/new candidate producer-consumer relationships.
US12045168B2
A memory sub-system configured to schedule the transfer of data from a host system for write commands to reduce the amount and time of data being buffered in the memory sub-system. For example, after receiving a plurality of streams of write commands from a host system, the memory sub-system identifies a plurality of media units in the memory sub-system for concurrent execution of a plurality of write commands respectively. In response to the plurality of commands being identified for concurrent execution in the plurality of media units respectively, the memory sub-system initiates communication of the data of the write commands from the host system to a local buffer memory of the memory sub-system. The memory sub-system has capacity to buffer write commands in a queue, for possible out of order execution, but limited capacity for buffering only the data of a portion of the write commands that are about to be executed.
US12045166B2
Disclosed herein is an architecture for in-memory sorting of data and methods by utilizing memristors crossbar arrays to perform in-memory sorting for both unary bit-stream and binary format data sets and method for utilizing same. Evaluations of the disclosed architecture and method reflect a significant reduction in energy costs and processing time as compared to currently available solutions.
US12045161B2
By analyzing a test case in a set of test cases, the test case is classified into a test type. Using a result of analyzing a test execution environment, a flake parameter is set, the flake parameter comprising an execution environment characteristic capable of causing an inconclusive result of execution of the test case. Responsive to determining that the test type maps to the flake parameter, the test case is removed from the set of test cases, the removing resulting in a filtered set of test cases, the determining performed using a predefined set of mappings. The filtered set of test cases is executed in the test execution environment.
US12045156B2
A computer-implemented method for testing a product, in particular software, hardware, or a system comprising hardware and software, in which, depending on input parameters, a simulation of the product is carried out, with the aid of which a particular property of the product is tested. Depending on a comparison between a result of the simulation and a requirement made of the particular property, a first classification is output for the result of the simulation. Depending on a comparison between reference data from an alternative test of the particular property of the product and the requirement made of the particular property, a second classification is determined. Depending on the first classification and the second classification, an accuracy or robustness of the simulation is determined.
US12045154B2
A technique for collecting state information of an apparatus comprising a processing pipeline for executing a sequence of instructions, and interesting instruction designation circuitry for identifying at least one of the instructions in the sequence as being an interesting instruction. Each interesting instruction is an instruction for which given state information of the apparatus associated with execution of that interesting instruction is to be collected. The interesting instruction designation circuitry is arranged, for each identified interesting instruction, to apply defined selection criteria to determine a further instruction later in the sequence of instructions than the interesting instruction, and to mark that further instruction as having a synchronous exception associated therewith. The processing pipeline is responsive to the further instruction, which causes the processing pipeline to execute a given exception handling routine in order to collect the given state information.
US12045150B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a memory test method and a device thereof, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium, which relate to the field of semiconductor device testing technologies. The method is executed by a built-in self-test circuit and includes: acquiring defect information of a first memory by testing the first memory; acquiring repair information of the first memory based on the defect information of the first memory; and storing the repair information of the first memory in a second memory.
US12045149B2
A method of simulating device state changes in an integrated system includes receiving a transaction request from a client device, storing the transaction request as a first event in an event log, transmitting the transaction request to a terminal device, storing the transmission of the transaction request as a second event in the event log, receiving a device response from the terminal device, storing the device response as a third event in the event log, and when the integrated system is under test, a simulator replays the stored events in the integrated system under test.
US12045146B2
A log acquisition method and device, a terminal device, a server and a computer readable storage medium are disclosed. The log acquisition method, which is applicable to the terminal device, includes: receiving a log acquisition instruction sent by the server (S101); establishing a data stream path with the server in response to the log acquisition instruction (S103); collecting real-time log data of the terminal device, and sending the real-time log data to the server through the data stream path (S104).
US12045137B2
In a data backup method performed in a storage system having multiple storage devices, a first storage device having a first LUN queries data consistency points from a second storage device that has a second LUN which has an active-active relationship with the first LUN. The second storage device obtains the data consistency points based on the IO data status record of the first LUN and an IO data status record of the second LUN stored in the second storage device, and provides the data consistency points to the first storage device. The first storage device then creates a snapshot for the first LUN based on the data consistency points, provides differential data between the current snapshot and a previous snapshot, and stores the differential data in the backup storage device.
US12045136B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to, if a facility that is to be reserved for use is determined to have a fault in a communication function in view of a communication status with outside, perform a restore operation on the facility to restore the communication function.
US12045130B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include performing an initial data integrity scan of a subset of memory at an initial time to determine an initial error rate for the subset of memory. The initial error rate and the initial time are stored. A subsequent integrity scan of the subset of memory is performed at a second time to determine a subsequent error rate for the subset of memory. A difference between the initial error rate and the subsequent error rate is determined. A difference between the initial time and the subsequent time is determined. A remedial action is selected using the difference between the initial error rate and the subsequent error rate and the difference between the initial time and the subsequent time and the remedial action is performed.
US12045121B2
A security integrated circuit (IC) includes a memory including a first register and a second register, a token generation circuit configured to generate first data based on first bits of interest extracted before performance of an operation by using the first register, generate a first token by converting the first data, generate second data based on second bits of interest extracted after the performance of the operation by using the second register, and generate a second token by converting the second data, and an error detection circuit configured to detect an error on the first and second bits of interest by comparing the first token with the second token.
US12045120B2
A method, system and device for analyzing an error rate of an MLC chip. The method includes selecting data blocks from the MLC chip, and performing erasing-writing operations to the data blocks; after the erasing-writing operations are completed, reading each of groups of the dual-bits corresponding to each of the first pages and the second pages of the data blocks, and determining the bit state of the each of groups of the dual-bits; counting up the first total quantity of all of the dual-bits corresponding to the target page in the target bit state representing that the data writing is erroneous, to obtain a first error rate of the target page in the target bit state; and counting up a second total quantity of all of the dual-bits corresponding to the data blocks in the target bit state.
US12045118B2
Operations include identifying a system failure affecting visibility, to at least one dual port node of a plurality of dual port nodes, of at least one of a first volume of a plurality of volumes of a first memory device or a second volume of the plurality of volumes, and modifying a visibility configuration to address the system failure. Each volume of the plurality of volumes includes a persistent memory region (PMR). Modifying the visibility configuration includes modifying the visibility of at least one of the first volume or the second volume to the at least one dual port node of the plurality of dual port nodes through its first port or its second port via the at least one switch domain of the plurality of switch domains.
US12045115B2
An electronic apparatus is capable of reducing the startup time period of a device requiring initialization while suppressing power consumption of a battery. The electronic apparatus includes a main controller, a sub controller, a battery, a power reception controller configured to extract electric power from radio waves, and a power supply controller configured to control supply of electric power from the battery or the power reception controller to the sub controller. The main controller controls supply of electric power to the power supply controller such that electric power is supplied from the battery in a power-on mode in which power consumption of the electronic apparatus is large, and switches the power supply source to the power reception controller when the electronic apparatus shifts to a power-off mode in which the power consumption is smaller than in the power-on mode.
US12045101B2
An information handling resource may include a heat-generating component and a housing configured to house the heat-generating component, the housing comprising a plurality of openings formed thereon such that a liquid coolant may flow between an exterior of the housing and an interior of the housing.
US12045100B2
An electronic device includes a substrate, a data line, an insulating layer, a metal layer and a transparent conductive layer. The data line is disposed on the substrate. The insulating layer is disposed on the data line. The metal layer is disposed on the insulating layer. The transparent conductive layer is disposed on the metal layer and electrically connected to the metal layer.
US12045099B2
A desktop computing system having at least a central core surrounded by housing having a shape that defines a volume in which the central core resides is described. The housing includes a first opening and a second opening axially displaced from the first opening. The first opening having a size and shape in accordance with an amount of airflow used as a heat transfer medium for cooling internal components, the second opening defined by a lip that engages a portion of the airflow in such a way that at least some of the heat transferred to the air flow from the internal components is passed to the housing.
US12045098B2
A display panel and a display device are described. In an embodiment, the display panel includes a first through-hole, a second through-hole, and a third through-hole that are provided in a display region. In an embodiment, a first non-display region surrounds the first through-hole and the second through-hole, and a second non-display region surrounds the third through-hole. In an embodiment, a minimum distance between the first through-hole and the second through-hole in a first direction is smaller than a minimum distance between the second through-hole and the third through-hole in the first direction. In an embodiment, the display region has a symmetry axis extending along a second direction. In an embodiment, the symmetry axis overlaps with the second through-hole, or is located between the second through-hole and the third through-hole. Thus, the overall symmetry of the display region is improved.
US12045072B2
A system for calibration of a multi-channel transceiver includes a plurality of voltage regulator circuits, wherein each circuit is configured to produce a voltage for circuitry of one channel of a multi-channel transceiver. The system also includes an analog multiplexer circuit configured to selectively route the output of one of the plurality of voltage regulator circuits to a single comparison circuit. The single comparison circuit is configured to compare an output of one of the plurality of voltage regulator circuits to a target reference voltage and produce an error signal representing a difference between the output of one of the plurality of voltage regulators and the target reference voltage. The system further includes a processor configured to accept the error signal and produce a feedback signal for the one of the plurality of voltage regulator circuits. The feedback signal is operable to adjust the voltage to minimize the difference.
US12045066B2
Embodiments disclosed herein enable routine autonomous execution of at least some major phases of aerostat operation in response to commands from human or automated external operators, a built-in decision-making capacity, or both. Various embodiments combine one or more actively controlled tethers, aerodynamic aerostat control surfaces, mechanical assistive devices (e.g., jointed arms attached to a ground station), and/or active propulsors attached to the aerostat to govern aerostat behavior during launch, flight, and landing phases of operation. Some embodiments enable automatic autonomous performance of all phases of routine post-commissioning aerostat operation, including launch, flight, and landing, without any routine need for availability of a human crew.
US12045065B2
A traveling control device includes: a peripheral recognition unit which recognizes a status around an own vehicle; an abnormality determination unit which determines whether an abnormality has occurred in the recognition function of the peripheral recognition unit; and a control unit which, if the abnormality determination unit has determined that an abnormality has occurred in the recognition function of the peripheral recognition unit, executes procedure modification control to modify an automatic driving procedure in the automatic driving system in accordance with an abnormality recognition direction which is a direction in which the abnormality in the recognition function has occurred.
US12045063B2
An illustrative example embodiment of a detector device, which may be useful on an automated vehicle, includes an array of detectors arranged in one dimension. The array includes a plurality of first detectors and a plurality of second detectors. The first detectors respectively have one of the second detectors between the first detector and an adjacent one of the first detectors. The first detectors respectively are spaced from the one of the second detectors by a first distance. The one of the second detectors are respectively spaced from the adjacent one of the first detectors by a second distance that is larger than the first distance. The first detectors are spaced from each other by a third distance that is a sum of the first and second distance. The second detectors are also spaced from each other by the third distance.
US12045062B2
A recharging method for a mobile robot includes: receiving a recharging signal transmitted by a charging station when the mobile robot is in a recharging working state; moving forward toward the charging station by the mobile robot according to the recharging signal; performing a U-turn operation by the mobile robot when the mobile robot determines that a front end of the mobile robot is aligned with a position of the charging station; and moving backward along the direction approaching the charging station to move to the position where the pole piece of the charging station is located by the mobile robot.
US12045060B2
A conveyance route design device is capable of reducing costs while maintaining object conveyance efficiency. The determination unit determines an improvement target place that satisfies criteria for changing a current conveyance device to a conveyance device of lower conveyance capacity than the current conveyance device, for a plurality of conveyance routes. The assignment unit assigns the conveyance device of lower conveyance capacity to an improvement candidate route which is a conveyance route including the improvement target place.
US12045059B1
A method and system to collect foreign object debris (FOD) from hard surfaces on an airfield autonomously and without the need for operations personnel is disclosed herein. The system comprises a mobile robot, a payload, a remote server and a management application. The mobile robot comprises a battery, an on-board computer, a transceiver and a tow mechanism. The payload is attached to the tow mechanism of the mobile robot, the payload configured to remove FOD from a hard surface.
US12045056B2
There is provided with an information processing apparatus. An acquisition unit acquires a first processing result including information for identifying the position of the mobile object and a second processing result including information for identifying the position of the mobile object. The first processing result is obtained by executing a first processing method on an image obtained by measuring at least surroundings of the mobile object by using a light receiving sensor installed on the mobile object. The second processing result is obtained by executing a second processing method different from the first processing method on an observation result obtained by observing the mobile object by using a light receiving sensor installed at a location at which it is possible to observe the mobile object.
US12045054B2
The present disclosure provides autonomous vehicle systems and methods that include or otherwise leverage a motion planning system that generates constraints as part of determining a motion plan for an autonomous vehicle (AV). In particular, a scenario generator within a motion planning system can generate constraints based on where objects of interest are predicted to be relative to an autonomous vehicle. A constraint solver can identify navigation decisions for each of the constraints that provide a consistent solution across all constraints. The solution provided by the constraint solver can be in the form of a trajectory path determined relative to constraint areas for all objects of interest. The trajectory path represents a set of navigation decisions such that a navigation decision relative to one constraint doesn't sacrifice an ability to satisfy a different navigation decision relative to one or more other constraints.
US12045052B2
A robot is operated in an autonomous mode of operation in which the robot autonomously selects a strategy to pick up an item. The item is moved from an initial location to a destination location using the selected strategy. It is determined whether one or more strategies are available to pick up the item in response to the item being dropped while the item is being moved from the initial location to the destination location. It is determined that a further strategy is not available to pick up the item. In response to the determination that the further strategy is not available, a human intervention mode of operation is entered.
US12045047B2
A computer-implemented method is provided that includes acquiring signals characterizing an operation condition of a first component of a first dynamic system, determining a phase space of the dynamic system by correlating the acquired signals and determining at least one of a time lag and mutual information of the correlated signals, determining features of the phase space of the acquired signals based on performing one of a density based process, an embedded dimension process, or a digital signal phase space topology process, training a fault detection model based on the determined features, and performing, based on the trained fault detection model, diagnostic testing on a second component of a second dynamic system to detect an operation condition fault of the second component.
US12045038B2
A runtime server includes a plurality of simultaneously executing runtime systems, which are configured for real-time execution of a control program for an automation system. At least two of the runtime systems execute application modules of the control program, with at least one module executing an application of the control program being installed on each runtime system. Each runtime system has a data transmission interface for transmitting data between the runtime systems and/or application modules, an I/O configuration which defines an allocation between at least one variable of the application modules and at least one hardware address of a hardware component of the automation system, an I/O interface for data exchange between the runtime systems and hardware components, and an intermediate I/O mapping layer. The I/O configurations are mapped in the intermediate I/O mapping layer.
US12045037B2
It is an object of the present invention to reduce the amount of data used in an apparatus, a system, and a method for performing a substrate processing. In order to achieve this object, a substrate processing apparatus includes one or more processing units each for performing a processing on a substrate and one or more arithmetic processing parts. One or more arithmetic processing parts generate a flow recipe defining a flow of a series of processings for a substrate by combining two or more processing recipes among a plurality of processing recipes each defining a processing condition relating to a processing to be performed on a substrate in the one or more processing units. The plurality of processing recipes include a plurality of liquid processing recipes each defining a condition of a processing to be performed on a substrate by using a processing liquid.
US12045036B2
The present disclosure discloses an Industrial Internet of Things, a control method, and a medium for automatically controlling working parameters of a manufacturing device. The Industrial Internet of Things may include an obtaining module and a determination module, wherein the obtaining module is configured to obtain a finished product-required parameter information and a user instruction, wherein the finished product-required parameter information includes finished gear-required parameter information of a gear machining device; and the determination module is configured to: obtain historical relating data information; determine a plurality of initial parameter combinations; and determine a target parameter combination of a gear processing process by a preset algorithm; generate combined data of the manufacturing device based on at least one of the target parameter combination of the gear processing process, a target parameter combination of a screw machining process, and a target parameter combination of a bearing machining process.
US12045030B2
A controller which controls an apparatus having motors each of which drives each axis includes a control part which is provided so as to correspond to a motor for each axis and servo-controls the motor based on a command value applied to the motor. The control part receives the command value from a host apparatus and updates the command value in a predetermined updating period. When the command value in a “t”-th updating period used in the control part is defined as y(t), the control part includes an extrapolation calculation part which calculates a command value y(k) used in a “k”-th updating period according to the following expression when the control part has not received the command value from the host apparatus or abnormality occurs in the communication in the “k”-th updating period: y(k)=y(k−2)+{y(k−1)−y(k−3)}, or y(k)=y(k−2)+{y(k−2)−y(k−4)}.
US12045027B2
Provided are complex control instruction chains to be performed in an (automation) network, in which nodes and/or device nodes and/or blockchain-external devices are networked to one another, in a simple manner even if different operators of the individual nodes and devices do not trust one another.
US12045017B2
A user interface is provided to schedule a sleep schedule associated with an alarm. Various user interface elements may be presented using the user interface. Responsive to user selection of these user interface elements, certain actions may be performed to configure aspects of the sleep schedule.
US12045011B2
A horological movement including a mechanical resonator and a hybrid escapement including an escapement wheel and a pallet assembly with at least one magnetic pallet-stone formed of a magnet and associated with a mechanical banking, the escapement wheel including a periodic magnetised structure defining increasing gradients of magnetic potential energy for the magnetic pallet-stone, and protruding parts associated with the increasing gradients of magnetic potential energy. When the force torque is equal to a nominal force torque or has a value within at least an upper part of a given range of values, one of the protruding parts of the escapement wheel is subjected to at least one shock on the mechanical banking of the pallet assembly after the magnetic pallet-stone has climbed any one of the increasing gradients of magnetic potential energy, thus dissipating at least partially a kinetic energy of the escapement wheel.
US12045009B2
A low-cost digital holography microscope (DHM) that is capable of performing inspection at high speed while accurately inspecting an inspection object at high resolution, an inspection method using the DHM, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device by using the DHM are provided. The DHM includes: a light source configured to generate and output light; a beam splitter configured to cause the light to be incident on an inspection object and output reflected light from the inspection object; and a detector configured to detect the reflected light, wherein, when the reflected light includes interference light, the detector generates a hologram of the interference light, and wherein no lens is present in a path from the light source to the detector.
US12045008B2
According to an embodiment, a holographic microscope comprises a light source, an optical system splitting light emitted from the light source into an object and a reflective mirror and inducing interference between light reflected by the object or transmitted through the object and light reflected by the reflective mirror, a first image sensor receiving the interference light and sensing interference information for the interference light, a second image sensor receiving the light reflected by the object or transmitted through the object and sensing information for the received light, and an image processor deriving a shape of the object based on the interference information sensed by the first image sensor and the information sensed by the second image sensor.
US12045006B2
There is provided an electrophotographic photosensitive member having drum shape, the electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support and a photosensitive layer, wherein an outer surface of the electrophotographic photosensitive member has wrinkles, and when an observation region having square form with one side of 100 μm is placed at an arbitrary position on the outer surface, a line that passes through a central point of the observation region and is parallel to a circumferential direction of the electrophotographic photosensitive member is defined as a first reference line L1, and 3,599 reference lines obtained by rotating the first reference line L1 at every 0.1° around the central point are defined as L2 to L3,600, respectively, each of L1 to L3,600 intersects with convex portions of the wrinkles at a plurality of locations and has at least two different intersection angles selected from the plurality of locations.
US12044997B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a fixing portion configured to heat the toner image formed on the sheet by the image forming portion and fix the toner image to the sheet, a folding portion configured to fold the sheet having passed through the fixing portion such that a surface of the sheet to which the powder adhesive is applied is inside, and a bonding portion configured to heat the sheet folded by the folding portion and bond the sheet by the powder adhesive. A relationship of Tmax1>Tmax2 is satisfied, where Tmax1 (° C.) is a highest temperature of the powder adhesive when being heated by the fixing portion and Tmax2 (° C.) is a highest temperature of the powder adhesive when being heated by the bonding portion.
US12044990B2
A fixing device includes a pressure member, and a holder. The pressure member forms a pressure area between the pressure member and a fixing belt. The holder is provided inside the fixing belt, has a sliding surface in contact with an inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt via a lubricant, and holds a heater for heating the fixing belt. The holder includes a plurality of slits and a blocking portion. The plurality of slits are arranged in an axial direction on the sliding surface upstream of the pressure area in a passing direction of a medium and guide movement of the lubricant from upstream to downstream in a rotational direction of the fixing belt. The blocking portion restricts an outflow of the lubricant from each of the slits and restricts a fall of the fixing belt into each of the slits.
US12044988B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming portions, a rotatable endless belt, a plurality of stretching rollers including an inner roller, an outer roller, a position changing mechanism, and a controller. During execution of a job for forming first toner images on a first recording material and second toner images on a second recording material subsequent to the first recording material, in a case that a changing operation for changing the position of the inner roller by the position changing mechanism after the first toner images are formed on the first recording material and before the second to toner images are transferred onto the second recording material is executed, a registration adjusting image is formed between the first toner images and the second toner images.
US12044981B2
A lithographic process is performed on a set of semiconductor substrates consisting of a plurality of substrates. As part of the process, the set of substrates is partitioned into a number of subsets. The partitioning may be based on a set of characteristics associated with a first layer on the substrates. A fingerprint of a performance parameter is then determined for at least one substrate of the set of substrates. Under some circumstances, the fingerprint is determined for one substrate of each subset of substrates. The fingerprint is associated with at least the first layer. A correction for the performance parameter associated with an application of a subsequent layer is then derived, the derivation being based on the determined fingerprint and the partitioning of the set of substrates.
US12044977B2
Examples of a multiple-mask multiple-exposure lithographic technique and suitable masks are provided herein. In some examples, a photomask includes a die area and a stitching region disposed adjacent to the die area and along a boundary of the photomask. The stitching region includes a mask feature for forming an integrated circuit feature and an alignment mark for in-chip overlay measurement.
US12044971B2
An aqueous developer for a flexographic printing plate capable of maintaining good developability and suppressing aggregation of a dispersion in the developer diluted with water after repeated use, and a manufacturing method of a flexographic printing plate using the same, are provided. The aqueous developer for a flexographic printing plate contains a surfactant represented by Formula (1), and water:
US12044968B2
A composition for forming a protective film having excellent resistance to a wet etching solution for semiconductors during a lithographic process in the manufacture of semiconductors; a method of forming a resist pattern using said protective film; and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device. This composition for forming a protective film against a wet etching solution for semiconductors includes: a compound or polymer which contains at least one among an acetal structure and an amide structure; and a solvent. The polymer is preferably a copolymer of: a compound (a) containing at least one acetal structure in a molecule; and a compound (b) containing at least one amide structure in a molecule.
US12044966B2
An organometallic precursor for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography is provided. An organometallic precursor includes an aromatic di-dentate ligand, a transition metal coordinated to the aromatic di-dentate ligand, and an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) cleavable ligand coordinated to the transition metal. The aromatic di-dentate ligand includes a plurality of pyrazine molecules.
US12044960B2
A reflective mask includes a substrate, a reflective multilayer disposed on the substrate, a capping layer disposed on the reflective multilayer, and an absorber layer disposed on the capping layer. The absorber layer includes one or more alternating pairs of a first Cr based layer and a second Cr based layer different from the first Cr based layer.
US12044958B2
A camera shutter device having a shutter blade which moves abruptly between a first position, in which it covers a transmission zone present between the carriers, and a second position, in which it opens up the transmission zone. On the shutter blade, there is provided a slide body which includes a displaceable permanent magnet and which is guided on a linear guide, the ends of which are assigned a respective rotatable permanent magnet. By oppositely changing the polarization direction of the rotatable permanent magnets through 180°, the displaceable permanent magnet is pulled into the first or second position.
US12044957B2
The light source unit includes a base provided with an opening, a support member fixed to the base at the opening, and a light source assembly fixed to the support member at the opening. The light source assembly includes a light source emitting laser light, a lens disposed on an optical axis of the laser light, and a holding member holding the light source and the lens. The support member has a convex receiving surface extending along the spherical surface so as to surround the optical axis when viewed from a direction parallel to the optical axis. The light source assembly is fixed to the support member by coupling the holding member to the receiving surface at a contact portion with the receiving surface. The receiving surface has a portion located on a side away from the optical axis with respect to a coupling part with the holding member.
US12044952B2
A two-dimensional waveguide light multiplexer is described herein that can efficiently multiplex and distribute a light signal in two dimensions. An example of a two-dimensional waveguide light multiplexer can include a waveguide, a first diffraction grating, and a second diffraction grating disposed above the first diffraction grating and arranged such that the grating direction of the first diffraction grating is perpendicular to the grating direction of the second diffraction grating. Methods of fabricating a two-dimensional waveguide light multiplexer are also disclosed.
US12044949B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a system including a first communications terminal. The first communications terminal may include an optical phased array (OPA) including a plurality of phase shifters configured to receive an optical communications beam from a second communications terminal. The first communications terminal may also include one or more processors configured to determine a link axis for communication with the second communications terminal based on the received optical communications beam, identify a compensatory wavefront curvature for mitigating cross-coupling, and generate a wavefront of an outgoing optical communications beam using the plurality of phase shifters based on the determined link axis and the compensatory wavefront curvature.
US12044945B2
Improved electrophoretic media including a first particle of a first polarity and three particles of the opposite polarity, wherein the first particle and optionally one of the particles of the opposite polarity undergo a diminution of electrophoretic mobility with increased electric field. Such electrophoretic media enable full-color displays with very fast updates between white and black pixels.
US12044943B2
An active matrix substrate includes pixel regions each including a pixel electrode and an oxide semiconductor TFT including an oxide semiconductor layer. Each pixel electrode is electrically connected to one of adjacent two of source bus lines. The oxide semiconductor layer in the oxide semiconductor TFT of each pixel region overlaps the pixel electrode of a first adjacent pixel region. The pixel electrode of the each pixel region partially overlaps the oxide semiconductor layer in a second adjacent pixel region. The source bus lines include first and second source bus lines adjacent to each other. Pixels sets each including two pixel regions whose pixel electrodes are connected to the first source bus line and pixel sets each including two pixel regions whose pixel electrodes are connected to the second source bus line are arranged alternately between the first and second source bus lines.
US12044942B2
An array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel are provided. In the array substrate, a main pixel electrode includes a first vertical portion, a first horizontal portion, a plurality of first branch electrodes, and a plurality of second branch electrodes. An included angle between an extending direction of the first branch electrodes and an extending direction of the first vertical portion is a first included angle. And, a first sub-pixel electrode includes a second vertical portion and a plurality of first sub-electrodes. An included angle between an extending direction of the first sub-electrodes and an extending direction of the second vertical portion is a second included angle. The first included angle is less than the second included angle.
US12044928B2
An electronic device includes: a back plate; an optical film disposed on the back plate; and a support module disposed between the back plate and the optical film, wherein the support module comprises a base and a support unit between the base and the optical film, the base comprises a curved surface away from the back plate, the support unit is connected to an upper surface of the base, and the upper surface comprises the curved surface; wherein a hollow space is enclosed by the base.
US12044927B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a display panel and a backlight module; where the backlight module includes: a back plane including a plane portion and an inclined portion surrounding the plane portion, where the inclined portion inclines toward a light emitting side of the backlight module, and the inclined portion and the plane portion are arranged at a configured angle; a light board, arranged on the plane portion of the back plane; a split reflector plate, including a main reflector plate and side reflector plates; where the main reflector plate is arranged on a side of the light board facing away from the back plane, the side reflector plates are arranged on a side of the inclined portion of the back plane facing the light board, and splicing positions of the plurality of side reflector plates do not overlap with corner positions of the inclined portion.
US12044923B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device of the present disclosure comprises: a display panel; a frame positioned behind the display panel; a first light source positioned between the display panel and the frame and providing light to the display panel; a second light source adjacent to and spaced apart from the first light source; a substrate on which the first light source and the second light source are mounted and which is positioned in front of the frame; a first light guide plate positioned on the substrate and the first light source; and a second light guide plate positioned on the substrate and the second light source and spaced apart from the first light guide plate.
US12044921B2
A spatial light modulator and a method for forming the spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator may include a first reflector. The spatial light modulator may also include a second reflector. The spatial light modulator may further include a liquid crystal layer between the first reflector and the second reflector. The first reflector may include a first electrode. The second reflector may include a second electrode. At least one reflector selected from the first reflector and the second reflector may be or may include a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR). The first reflector and the second reflector may form a Fabry-Perot (FP) cavity.
US12044918B2
The present application provides a display module and a display device. The display module comprises at least two display panels, two adjacent display panels are spliced along a first direction or a second direction, and the first direction is different from the second direction. The display module further comprises a groove disposed between two adjacent display panels and a convex lens portion disposed in the groove. At least one convex portion is disposed on one side of the convex lens portion away from bottom of the groove.
US12044914B2
An electronic device including an active region and a peripheral region, and includes a substrate including a first edge and a second edge; a first electrode layer disposed on the substrate; a first conductive glue disposed on the substrate and in the peripheral region; a second conductive glue disposed on the substrate and in the peripheral region; an insulating glue overlapped with the first conductive glue and the second conductive glue; and a first metal element fixed on the first electrode layer through the first conductive glue and the insulating glue; wherein in a top view, the insulating glue is disposed in the peripheral region and extends along an extension direction parallel to the first edge, and along the extension direction, a first distance between the first conductive glue and the second edge is greater than a second distance between the second conductive glue and the second edge.
US12044912B2
A pixel for creating an optical phase change includes a transparent electrical insulator, a first electrical conductor disposed on the transparent electrical insulator, the first electrical conductor comprising an antenna component and a connector component, an electrical insulator disposed on the first electrical conductor, a transparent semiconductor disposed on the electrical insulator, and a second electrical conductor disposed on the transparent semiconductor. The transparent semiconductor is sufficiently thick to prevent plasmonic resonance from occurring at an interface between the transparent semiconductor and the second electrical conductor.
US12044904B2
A lens for refractive tear shaping, having a curved lens body with a peripheral edge and a central opening therein. The central opening is shaped and sized and has a tear shaping edge structured to form a tear meniscus within the central opening. The tear meniscus being formed by interaction of a tear film of the eye and the tear shaping edge and having a posterior curvature conforming to an anterior corneal curvature and an anterior curvature. The anterior curvature is dependent on the size and shape of the central opening and structure of the tear shaping edge.
US12044896B2
Disclosed herein is a demarcation enclosure that includes a base. The base includes an interior cavity. The demarcation enclosure also includes a cover that selectively encloses the base. The demarcation enclosure further includes a tray that is removably attachable to the base, within the interior cavity of the base, and that includes a mounting plate. The mounting plate has a first side and a second side that is opposite the first side. The tray further includes an outer ring coupled to and protruding from the second side of the mounting plate, and an axle coupled to and protruding from the second side of the mounting plate at a center of the outer ring.
US12044893B2
An optical fiber cable includes a jacket and a plurality of stranded core subunits, each core subunit comprising a flexible sheath and a plurality of ribbons arranged in a ribbon group, wherein each ribbon of the plurality of ribbons comprises a plurality of connected fibers such that 50-70% of the cross-sectional area inside the sheath is occupied by the connected fibers. The flexible sheath may be an extruded PVC material that conforms to the shape of the ribbon stack and keeps all of the ribbons acting as a unitary body during bending.
US12044890B2
An optical module unlocking apparatus includes: a base, a sliding member, a driving piece, and an elastic piece. The sliding member is slidably disposed on the base along an insertion direction. The driving piece is rotatably connected to the base, the other end of the sliding member is connected to the driving piece, and the driving piece can rotate from a locked state to an unlocked state relative to the base under an action of external force, and drive the sliding member to move relative to the base along the insertion direction. A second connecting part is disposed on the driving piece. Because the driving piece is located outside a cage, space for disposing the elastic piece on the driving piece is sufficient, and the driving piece does not need to fit a spring plate. This simplifies a structure of the optical module and improves processing efficiency.
US12044887B2
An optical coupling system for coupling a light source to a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) comprises a multimode coupler configured to receive an input optical signal of a first mode. The multimode coupler triggers one or more higher-order modes from the input optical signal of the first mode. The optical coupling system also includes a mode de-multiplexer and an optical combiner. The mode de-multiplexer transfers the input optical signal of the first mode and one or more optical signals of the triggered one or more higher-order modes to respective output optical signals of the first mode. The optical combiner combines the respective output optical signals to produce a single output signal of the first mode.
US12044885B2
A jig for a fusion splicer mountable on a heater of the fusion splicer includes: a plate part configured to face a heating part of the heater; a first retainer, configured to face a first clamp of the fusion splicer that is disposed outside of the heating part along a longitudinal direction of an object to be heated, and further configured to retain a first member extending from a first end of the object along the longitudinal direction; and a second retainer, configured to face a second clamp disposed on a side of the heating part opposite to the first clamp along the longitudinal direction, and further configured to retain a second member extending from a second end of the object along the longitudinal direction.
US12044879B2
A light guide plate, a backlight module and a display device are provided. The light guide plate is configured to be coupled to a light source. The light guide plate includes a light-emitting surface, a bottom surface, a light-incident surface, plural stripe-shaped microstructures and plural light guiding microstructures. The bottom surface is opposite to the light-emitting surface. The light-incident surface is connected between the light-emitting surface and the bottom surface. The stripe-shaped microstructures are disposed on the at least one of the light-emitting surface and the bottom surface, and each of the stripe-shaped microstructures has two opposing side surfaces and an active surface. The side surfaces are respectively connected to two opposite sides of the active surface. The light-guiding microstructures are disposed between any adjacent two of the stripe-shaped microstructures and arranged along an extending direction of each of the stripe-shaped microstructures.
US12044871B2
An optical filter may include an interference filter that passes at least two channels associated with at least two transmission peaks; and a plurality of blockers, wherein each blocker, of the plurality of blockers, passes a respective channel associated with a respective transmission peak of the at least two transmission peaks and blocks one or more channels other than the respective channel associated with the respective transmission peak.
US12044870B2
A display panel includes: a light emitting device to generate light; a plurality of color conversion patterns including: a first color conversion pattern including first scattering particles dispersed in the first color conversion pattern and configured to scatter the light of the light emitting device; and a second color conversion pattern including second scattering particles dispersed in the second color conversion pattern and configured to scatter the light of the light emitting device; a plurality of color filters including: a first color filter overlapping the first color conversion pattern; and a second color filter overlapping the second color conversion pattern; and a single, low index of refraction layer continuously extending in the surface direction to overlap the first and the second color conversion patterns. The low index of refraction layer has a refractive index lower than refractive indexes of the first and second color conversion patterns.
US12044866B2
A window member including a base substrate and a light shielding layer including a first light shielding pattern disposed in a first area of the base substrate and a second light shielding pattern disposed in a second area of the base substrate while being spaced apart from the first light shielding pattern and providing a signal transmission area at an inner side thereof. The second light shielding pattern includes an edge having a plurality of curved portions on a plane. This arrangement reduces an area of the light shielding pattern adjacent to the signal transmission area of the window member.
US12044864B2
A stereoscopic image display device includes an eye detection sensor that includes a camera that captures an image of a user's eyes, a display panel disposed on the eye detection sensor and that includes pixels, and a light modulator disposed on the display panel and that controls the path of light output from the display panel. The light modulator includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer that faces the first electrode layer and includes a first sub-electrode that overlaps a first area of the eye detection sensor and a second sub-electrode that does not overlap the first area but overlaps a second area of the eye detection sensor that overlaps the camera, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer and that includes liquid crystal molecules.
US12044862B2
A system includes a high energy laser (HEL) configured to transmit a HEL beam and a beacon illumination laser (BIL) configured to transmit a BIL beam. The system also includes at least one fast steering mirror (FSM) configured to steer the BIL beam to be offset from the HEL beam. The system further includes at least one Coudé path FSM configured to correct for atmospheric jitter of the HEL beam and the BIL beam while maintaining the offset of the BIL beam from the HEL beam.
US12044861B2
An optical imaging film includes: a focusing layer, having two or more focusing structures; and a graphic layer, having two or more sub-graphics, and at least part of the sub-graphics are configured as a partial pattern of a preset graphic. The focusing layer is adapted to the graphic layer, and the focusing structures are provided corresponding to the sub-graphics, such that the optical imaging film presents an image of the preset graphic with a magnifying effect. The graphic layer of the optical imaging film includes a plurality of sub-graphics, and each of the plurality of the sub-graphics interacts with the corresponding focusing structure to form an image with a magnifying effect. Therefore, the sub-graphic is relatively large, thereby increasing the size of the images. That is, the optical imaging film can increase the magnification of the preset graphic.
US12044854B2
A system includes a light source to generate a source light, a spatial modulator to receive the source light. A display element to receive the source light from the spatial modulator and to direct the source light towards an eye, and a controller. The controller is to receive initial image data for an image to be displayed, the image comprising a plurality of pixels having a plurality of brightness levels, determine an image power based on the brightness levels, and determine an excess power status based on a comparison of the image power to a specified power threshold. Responsive to the excess power status indicating the image power is to exceed the specified power threshold, the controller is to reduce the brightness levels to generate updated image data, and control the light source and the spatial modulator to project the image using the updated image data.
US12044852B2
A virtual image display apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a first display module, a second display module, and a coupling portion having an adjustable structure. The adjustable structure adjusts the first display module with respect to the second display module at least a relative rotational position and relative positions in longitudinal and depth directions.
US12044842B2
A beam deflection device for a laser device is disclosed for generating a laser pattern on or in a material by means of a laser beam) of the laser device. The beam deflection device includes at least one reflecting or dispersive beam offset element, which is formed for spatially offsetting the laser beam in relation to an optical axis of a laser generating device of the laser device. The beam deflection device further includes a rotating, dispersive optical element, which is formed for generating a rotation pattern as the laser pattern from the previously offset laser beam. Further, a laser device, a computer program as well as to a computer-readable medium are disclosed.
US12044838B2
There is provided a laminated lens array in which a first lens element arranged on a distal end side and a second lens element arranged on a proximal end side are stuck and laminated in a lamination direction, wherein outer faces of a laminated body including the first lens element and the second lens element are located in the lamination direction and have concaves formed being recessed toward a center of the laminated body at least on parts of the outer faces in the lamination direction.
US12044835B2
Methods and apparatus for optical imaging and scanning of holes machined, drilled or otherwise formed in a substrate made of composite or metallic material. The method utilizes an optical instrument for imaging and scanning a hole in combination with an image processor configured (e.g., programmed) to post-process the image data to generate one complete planarized image without conical optical distortion. The optical instrument includes an optical microscope with confocal illumination and a conical mirror axially positioned to produce a full 360-degree sub-image with conical distortion. In the post-processing step, a mathematical transformation in the form of computer-executable code is used to transform the raw conical sub-images to planar sub-images. The planarized sub-images may be stitched together to form a complete planarized image of the hole.
US12044831B2
An optical system includes a diaphragm, and a first cemented lens disposed adjacent to an object side of the diaphragm. The first cemented lens included a negative lens. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
US12044825B2
A four-piece optical image capturing system. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical image capturing system along the optical axis includes a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lenses are aspheric. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US12044822B2
A cover window is provided, which is a flexible cover window, the cover window being a glass-based cover window for a flexible display and including: a folding part slimmed by corresponding to a folding area of the display, wherein a thickness (t2) of the cover window is 50 to 300 μm and a thickness (t1) of the folding part is 20 to 100 μm. The glass-based cover window has excellent strength and folding properties while maintaining the intrinsic texture of glass.
US12044820B2
The inventive subject matter is directed to pest detection systems that implement infrared emitters with detectors that look for variations in incident light indicative of wingbeats from various pests. Emitters and detectors are placed on one or more printed circuit boards such that infrared light projected from an emitter can be received by one or more detectors. Based on signal generated by a detector, systems of the inventive subject matter can determine whether a pest has flown between an emitter and detector. To save on power, emitter, detectors, or both can be driven by pulse width modulation. Methods of the inventive subject matter are directed to determining pest presence via signal filtering and interpretation.
US12044815B2
A system for measuring gamma spectroscopy of a neutron irradiated material includes a plurality of semiconductor sensors. Each of the semiconductor sensors includes a gamma ray receiving surface disposed above a Schottky layer in contact with an n-doped active layer. The receiving surface is configured to emit electrons upon irradiation by gamma rays. The receiving surface contacts an adjustable telescoping mount configured to adjust the distance between the receiving surface and the Schottky layer. The n-doped layer is fabricated to have a thickness designed to pass through electrons having greater than a defined energy. The combination of adjustable receiving surface and active layer thickness define a minimum and maximum energy response of each of the sensors. Multiple sensors may be integrated in an array in which each sensor has its own energy response. An array of such sensors can measure the gamma spectrum of a material irradiated with neutrons.
US12044812B2
A scintillator, having a composition represented by the following general formula (1), including a substitution element A, the substitution element A comprising at least La, and a total molar content of the substitution element A being 0.00001 mol or more and 0.05 mol or less in 1 mol of the scintillator, and further including an activator element B, the activator element B being constituted from Ce, having a perovskite-type crystal structure, and exhibiting a linear transmittance of light at a wavelength of 800 nm, at a thickness of 1.9 mm, of 30% or more. QMxO3y . . . (1): wherein Q represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Ca, Sr and Ba; M represents Hf; Q and M are each optionally substituted with other element at a proportion of 20% by mol or less; and x and y respectively satisfy 0.5≤x≤1.5 and 0.7≤y≤1.5.
US12044805B2
An image-capturing device includes a sensor, a visible-light-pixel driver, and a non-visible-light-pixel driver. The sensor is configured to have a plurality of visible light pixels having sensitivity to visible light and a plurality of non-visible light pixels having sensitivity to non-visible light. The visible-light-pixel driver controls light exposure to the visible light pixels and a reading operation for charges generated by photoelectric conversion of the visible light pixels resulting from the light exposure. The non-visible-light-pixel driver performs the light exposure to previously-set every two or more non-visible light pixels at the time of the light exposure to the non-visible light pixels and the reading operation, sums the charges generated by the photoelectric conversion of the two or more non-visible light pixels resulting from the light exposure, and creates the distance image on the basis of the summed charges.
US12044804B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a range estimation system for the optical sensing system. The exemplary range estimation system includes an optical detector array configured to receive a laser pulse returned from an object. The optical detector array includes a plurality of detector elements each configured to measure an intensity of the returned laser pulse. The range estimation system further includes a processor. The processor is configured to calculate an intensity-related value based on the intensities of the returned laser pulse measured using the optical detector array. The processor is further configured to determine a traveling time of the laser pulse based on the calculated intensity-related value. The processor is also configured to estimate a range between the object and the optical sensing system based on the traveling time of the laser pulse.
US12044800B2
A LiDAR system and method of detecting objects using same includes a plurality of coaxially arranged LiDAR transmitters and detectors. A movable optical element redirects optical signals between the LiDAR transmitters and an external region and reference optical element. The detectors receive returning optical signals after they have deflected off objects in the surrounding environment to generate an electrical signal. A reference signal is generated from the optical signals directed towards the reference optical element. The system determines the position of an object in the external region by adjusting the electrical signal using the reference signal.
US12044799B2
The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a deep neural network (DNN)-based multi-target constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detection method. The method includes: obtaining target values to be measured based on radar IF (IF) signals to be detected, the target values to be measured including a measured frequency value and a measured intensity value of the radar IF signals; obtaining peak sequences based on the target values to be measured; generating a target detection result by processing the peak sequences based on a DNN detector, the DNN detector being a machine learning model; generating approximated maximum likelihood estimation (AMLE) of a scale parameter based on an approximated maximum likelihood estimator; generating a false alarm adjustment threshold based on a preset false alarm rate and the AMLE; and generating a constant false alarm detection result by processing the target detection result based on the false alarm adjustment threshold.
US12044798B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a learning model, a signal processor, a flying object, and a program that enable appropriate observation of the situation of an observed object or the environment around the observed object. The learning model is learned by using teaching data with a first received signal as input, the first received signal being based on a reflected electromagnetic wave that is an electromagnetic wave emitted to a first target area and then reflected, and with first meta-information as output, the first meta-information corresponding to the first received signal and having a predetermined item, so as to input a second received signal based on a reflected electromagnetic wave that is an electromagnetic wave emitted to a second target area and then reflected, and to output second meta-information corresponding to the second received signal and having a predetermined item.
US12044788B2
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes first, second, and third antennas used to determine the position and orientation of the electronic device relative to external equipment. The antennas may include patch elements on respective substrates mounted to a flexible printed circuit. Each substrate may include fences of conductive vias that are coupled to ground and that laterally surround the corresponding patch element. Control circuitry may identify phase differences between the first and second antennas and between the second and third antennas and may identify an angle of arrival of received ultra-wideband signals using the phase differences. The control circuitry may compare the phase differences to a set of predetermined surfaces of phase differences to identify environmental loading conditions for the antenna. The control circuitry may correct the angle of arrival using offsets identified based on the environmental loading conditions.
US12044783B2
The approach presented here relates to a method for detecting a group runtime variation for a navigation sensor for a navigation system for a vehicle. The method comprises a step of reading and a step of determining. In the reading step, at least one first GNSS simulator signal is read from a virtual satellite of a virtual global navigation satellite system at a first time and a second GNSS simulator signal is read from the virtual satellite or from at least one second virtual satellite of the virtual navigation satellite system at a second time different to the first time by means of a read device. The group runtime variation is determined using the first GNSS simulator signal and the second GNSS simulator signal in the determining step.
US12044781B2
Example implementations may relate to determining a strategy for a drop process associated with a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device. In particular, the LIDAR device could emit light pulses and detect return light pulses, and could generate a set of data points representative of the detected return light pulses. The drop process could involve a computing system discarding data point(s) of the set and/or preventing emission of light pulse(s) by the LIDAR device. Accordingly, the computing system could detect a trigger to engage in the drop process, and may responsively (i) use information associated with the environment around the vehicle, operation of the vehicle, and/or operation of the LIDAR device as a basis to determine the strategy for the drop process, and (ii) engage in the drop process in accordance with the determined strategy.
US12044778B2
The measurement device acquires output data from a sensor unit for detecting road surface lines around, and determines a predetermined range based on an own position and positional information of broken-line type road surface lines. Then, the measurement device extract, from the output data, data corresponding to detection result of the predetermined range, and executes predetermined processing based on the extracted data.
US12044766B2
The present disclosure a program burning device configured to read or write to a program burning interface. The program burning device includes a microprocessor, a programming drive circuit and an overcurrent protection circuit. The microprocessor outputs a first test signal or a second test signal. The programming drive circuit outputs a high driving voltage or a low driving voltage to the program burning interface. After the programming drive circuit outputs the low driving voltage for a preset time, the programming drive circuit outputs the high driving voltage to make the program burning interface form a high impedance. Afterwards, the overcurrent protection circuit receives the first test signal to trigger the overcurrent protection, and then receives the second test signal to trigger the undercurrent protection. If triggering the overcurrent protection and the undercurrent protection are continuously failed over a preset number of times, the microprocessor determines that current protection is failed.
US12044765B2
Apparatuses and methods for diffusion weighted imaging using phantoms are disclosed herein. An example phantom may include a reference member disposed within a housing, the reference member having a rod-like shape extending parallel to a long axis of the housing, the reference member formed from a material comprising a plurality of microchannels arranged longitudinally along at least a portion of the rod-like shape, and at least a portion of the housing may be formed to emulate a shape of a human torso.
US12044763B2
Fluid parameters such as WSS and EL are accurately calculated, using flow velocity information obtained by diffusion tensor imaging. Dispersion of a flow velocity distribution of fluid is calculated, using a diffusion tensor image obtained with respect to an examination target containing fluid, and an estimation model is set for a distribution shape of intra-voxel flow velocity. Using the estimation model and the dispersion of the flow velocity distribution, a differential value of the flow velocity is calculated. Then, a fluid parameter representing a flow characteristic of the fluid is calculated.
US12044757B2
Limited physical access to target organs of patients inside an MRI scanner is a major obstruction to real-time MRI-guided interventions. Traditional teleoperation technologies are incompatible with the MRI environment and although several solutions have been explored, a versatile system that provides high-fidelity haptic feedback and access deep inside the bore remains a challenge. A passive and nearly frictionless MRI-compatible hydraulic teleoperator is provided designed for in-bore biopsies. A needle driver translates a needle in insertion and retraction directions via a clutch mechanism. A needle holder grips the needle via a retraction lock when the clutch mechanism of the needle driver releases the needle to hold a position of the needle during reposition of the needle driver.
US12044755B2
A magnetic sensor chip includes a substrate including a first main surface, and a magnetoresistive element having a magnetosensitive direction parallel or substantially parallel to the first main surface. The magnetoresistive element includes a reference layer, an intermediate layer, and a free layer stacked in a stacking direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the first main surface. A direction of magnetic anisotropy of the free layer where no external magnetic field acts on the magnetic sensor chip is parallel or substantially parallel to the stacking direction and perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the magnetosensitive direction. When a stress acts on the substrate predominantly in a first direction parallel or substantially parallel to the first main surface, a direction of stress-induced magnetic anisotropy in the free layer is perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the magnetosensitive direction and the stacking direction.
US12044752B2
A magnetic sensor includes an insulating layer, a coil element disposed on the insulating layer, and a first insulating film. The insulating layer includes a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface. The coil element includes a first side surface and a second side surface. The first side surface includes a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being disposed at a position farther from a top surface of a substrate than a position where the first portion is disposed. The first portion is inclined so as to intersect with the first and second inclined surfaces, and is also inclined so as to be closer to the second side surface at positions closer to the top surface of the substrate. The first insulating film covers the first portion.
US12044723B2
A design-for-test circuit for evaluating a BTI effect is disclosed, the circuit includes a number of stress generators having logic circuits with input and output terminals. Each output terminal is connected to the grid of the device to be tested. In a stress mode, a stress input signal is selected from a frequency signal, a first direct current voltage, and a second direct current voltage, all stress output signals formed by all the stress generators comprise the first direct current voltage, a series of frequency signals with different duty cycles, and the second direct current voltage, and all the stress output signals are used in combination such that the stress times regarding the device under test within the same test time have different values, so as to evaluate the BTI effect of the device under test which has different values of the stress times.
US12044710B2
A method for detecting a direct current component in an inductive device, for example in a transformer or choke, includes using a computer for recording an oscillation signal, either of sound emitted from the device or of mechanical oscillation of the device, determining the frequency range of the oscillation signal, determining the value of at least one odd frequency in the frequency range, comparing the value of the odd frequency with the value of at least one even frequency in the frequency range, and determining a direct current component when the value of the odd frequency differs from the even frequency by a predefined amount. The method can be carried out without measuring equipment in the interior of an inductive device and without the involvement of an expert. A computer program product for carrying out the method is also provided.
US12044703B2
A contact probe having a first end portion and a second end portion, a probe body extended along a longitudinal development direction between the first end portion and the second end portion is disclosed. The probe body has a pair of arms separated by a slot and extending according to the longitudinal development direction and a conductive insert extended along the longitudinal development direction, in a bending plane of the contact probe. The conductive insert is made of a first material and the contact probe is made of a second material and the first material has a lower electrical resistivity than an electrical resistivity of the second material. The conductive insert is a power transmission element of the contact probe and the arms are structural support elements of the contact probe during a deformation of the probe body.
US12044702B2
A contact socket module for use in an automated test equipment (ATE) for testing electronic components (DUTs) being carried by a carrier comprises: a plurality of groups of spring contacts, wherein each spring contact comprises a DUT sided contact tip, a retracting plate being moveable, and a controller controlling the movement of the retracting plate, wherein the retracting plate and the spring contacts act mechanically on each other. In a first position the DUT sided contact tips are adapted to contact to contact portions of the electronic components, and in a second position, the DUT sided contact tips are adapted to release the contact to the contact portions of the electronic components.
US12044701B2
A system and method for rotary motion with vacuum sealing is provided. The system includes a vacuum chamber, a component mount disposed in the vacuum chamber, and a base. A bellows is disposed between the base and the component mount, and the bellows provides a seal between the base and the component mount. The bellows, the base, and the component mount define an actuator compartment therebetween. An actuator is disposed in the actuator compartment. The actuator is configured to rotate the component mount relative to the base in order to align a component disposed on the component mount. Rotation of the component mount relative to the base causes torsional elastic deformation of the bellows.
US12044691B2
A measuring apparatus usable in a liquid handling apparatus, and method, for detecting a deformed pipetting container using a first and a second measuring device, the measuring apparatus being configured to determine the position of an end region of the pipetting container as a f unction of a position of a measurement support section of the pipetting container as relative position data in a data storage device, so that subsequently the position of the end region of the pipetting container can be determined by measuring the position of the measurement support section and from the relative position data.
US12044689B2
A sample container carrier for holding a laboratory sample container and for transporting the held laboratory sample container in a laboratory sample distribution system is presented. The sample container carrier comprises a first holding element and a second holding element. The first holding element and the second holding element are rotationally displaceable towards and/or away from each other for holding the laboratory sample container. The sample container carrier comprises a coupler. The coupler is connected to the first holding element and to the second holding element such that the coupler couples rotational displacements of the first holding element and the second holding element with each other. The coupler comprises a ring-segment shape for inserting the laboratory sample container to be held by the coupler.
US12044677B2
This disclosure provides a method for determining male fertility status. The method comprises determining GM1 localization patterns following induced sperm capacitation, identifying the percentage of various patterns, particularly the ratio of [(AA+APM)/total number of GM1 localization patterns] and determining if the percentage of certain GM1 localization patterns in response to induced capacitation is altered. Based on the change in the percentage of localization patterns of certain patterns in response to induced capacitation, alone or in combination with other sperm attributes, male fertility status can be identified.
US12044675B2
Genetically encoded calcium indicator (GECI) polypeptides and the nucleic acid molecules encoding such polypeptides are provided.
US12044673B2
A fluid ejection controller interface includes input logic to receive control data packets and a first clock signal, each control data packet including a set of primitive data bits and a set of random bits, wherein the input logic identifies the random bits in the received control data packets to facilitate the creation of modified control data packets. The fluid ejection controller interface includes a clock signal generator to generate a second clock signal that is different than the first clock signal, and output logic to receive the modified control data packets, and output the modified control data packets to a fluid ejection controller of a fluid ejection device based on the second clock signal.
US12044669B2
An electrochemical sensor array for detecting analytes in water, including a frame; a plurality of sensor electrodes each mounted to the frame, including a free chlorine working electrode including a gold thin film and having a free chlorine sensing surface to be exposed to the water; and a reference electrode including a silver thin film and a silver and silver chloride layer and having a reference sensing surface to be exposed to the water. A method of manufacturing an electrochemical sensor array for detecting analytes in water, including forming a free chlorine electrode, including forming a gold thin film on a first base layer; forming a reference electrode, including forming a silver thin film on a second base layer and applying a silver and silver chloride paste to a portion of the silver thin film; and arranging the free chlorine electrode and the reference electrode on a common frame.
US12044662B2
A liquid carbon dioxide supply device is configured to supply liquid carbon dioxide to a supercritical fluid apparatus including a separation column, and includes a first flow path, a second flow path, a compressor, a heat exchanger and a pump. The compressor circulates a refrigerant through the first flow path such that a refrigerant cycle is repeated. The heat exchanger exchanges heat between the first flow path and the second flow path. The pump supplies liquid carbon dioxide flowing through the second flow path to the separation column of the supercritical fluid apparatus.
US12044659B2
A device and a method for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable of a medium include a sensor unit having a mechanically oscillatable unit, at least a first piezoelectric element, a temperature detection unit for determining and/or monitoring a temperature of the medium and an electronics unit. The device is embodied to excite the mechanically oscillatable unit by means of an excitation signal such that mechanical oscillations are executed, to receive mechanical oscillations of the oscillatable unit and convert them into a first received signal, to transmit a transmitted signal and to receive a second received signal. The electronics unit is embodied, based on the first and/or second received signal, to determine the at least one process variable and, based on a third received signal received from the temperature detection unit, to determine the temperature of the medium.
US12044658B2
A moving inspection device inspecting an inspection target while realizing the simplification of the configuration and significant size reduction/weight reduction of the device, a moving inspection method, and a method for manufacturing a steel material. The device includes a moving inspection device body configured to inspect an inspection target for defects while moving over its surface. The moving inspection device body includes: a carriage that moves by at least two wheels that rotate forward and backward over the surface; and at least one inspection sensor on the front end side or the rear end side of the carriage. An inspection region of the inspection target is divided into two divided regions across a straight line, and the carriage is configured to move when the inspection sensor is directed to side edges sides of the divided regions facing the straight line in each of the two divided regions.
US12044651B2
The invention provides a sensor device comprising an insect odorant receptor (OrX) in electrical communication with a substrate, wherein the sensor device is configured to detect a change in an electrical characteristic of the substrate. The invention also provides sensor device component comprising an insect odorant receptor (OrX) in electrical communication with a substrate. The invention also provides methods for manufacture and use of the sensor device and sensor device component. The invention also provides methods of use of the sensor to detect an analyte.
US12044649B2
A test sensor heating system is disclosed that provides the desired and different temperatures to at least two different reaction zones based on a fixed potential. The measurement device does not alter the potential applied to the heating system in response to temperature feedback information. The heating system provides the desired and different temperatures to the different reaction zones of the test sensor by varying heating element spacing and/or the resistivity of an associated resistive layer of the test sensor to provide the desired temperature in response to the fixed potential. The system also may provide two or more different temperature zones to the test sensor by using different heating element spacing and/or resistive layer resistivity at different locations of the test sensor.
US12044642B2
A device for estimating an outer surface temperature of a radiant coil which is provided in an cracking furnace for ethylene production including a convection coil that preheats hydrocarbons as raw materials and steam, a radiant coil that thermally decomposes the preheated hydrocarbons and steam, and a housing for accommodating them, and which includes an imaging camera that images a region to be imaged of the radiant coil, and an image analyzer that processes an output signal from the imaging camera and estimates an outer surface temperature of the radiant coil.
US12044637B2
A scan head design uses 1:1 (one-to-one) imaging micro-lens arrays to transfer the object plane X-ray image from a CR-plate onto a linear photosensor. The scan-head includes a housing having therein, an array of red light emitting diodes (LEDs), a microlens array, and a sensor. The housing faces the CR-plate and the scan-head is translated across the CR-plate to read out the X-ray image therein. The scan head is compact and provides for improved spatial resolution and reduced power requirements.
US12044631B2
A wafer surface defect inspection method and a wafer surface defect inspection apparatus are provided. The method includes the following steps. Scanning information of a wafer is received, and the scanning information includes multiple scanning parameters. At least one reference point of the scanning information is determined, and path information is generated according to the at least one reference point and a reference value. Multiple first scanning parameters corresponding to the path information in the scanning parameters are obtained according to the path information to generate a curve chart. According to the curve chart, it is determined whether the wafer has a defect, and a defect type of the defect is determined.
US12044626B2
A system includes a plurality of modular subassemblies and a plate; wherein each modular subassembly comprises an enclosure and a plurality of optical components aligned to the enclosure, and each enclosure comprises a plurality of mounting structures; and wherein each modular subassembly is mechanically coupled to the plate by attachment of a mounting structure of the modular subassembly directly to a corresponding mounting structure located on the plate, such that by mechanically coupling each modular subassembly to the plate using the mounting structure of the modular subassembly and the corresponding mounting structure on the plate, adjacent modular subassemblies are aligned to each other upon such attachment, and wherein two of the modular subassemblies mechanically coupled to the plate are also attached to each other by mechanically coupling an alignment structure on one of the two modular subassemblies to a respective alignment structure on the other of the two modular subassemblies.
US12044624B2
A system includes: an objective lens; a first light source to feed first illuminating light through the objective lens and into a flowcell (e.g., with a relatively thin film waveguide) to be installed in the system, the first illuminating light to be fed using a first grating on the flowcell; and a first image sensor to capture imaging light using the objective lens, wherein the first grating is positioned outside a field of view of the first image sensor. Dual-surface imaging can be performed. Flowcells with multiple swaths bounded by gratings can be used. An auto-alignment process can be performed.
US12044622B2
An embodiment provides a method for measuring total chlorine in a solution, including: preparing a thiocarbamate indicator; introducing the thiocarbamate indicator to a solution, wherein the solution contains an amount of monochloramine; adding an additive to the solution, wherein the additive accelerates the reaction rate between the thiocarbamate indicator and monochloramine and causes a change in fluorescence of the solution; and measuring the amount of monochloramine in the solution by measuring an intensity of the fluorescence. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US12044608B2
The invention relates to a housing for a detection unit for optically detecting smoke particles. The detection unit has a light source for emitting radiation to be scattered by smoke particles to be detected and a light detector for detecting the scattered radiation. The housing 2 has a cylindrical outer surface 7 having smoke openings 8 through which the smoke particles enter housing 2, and a radially symmetric light-guiding structure 9 with guide members. The guide members are so designed that adjacent guide members each form a guide channel through which the radiation emitted from the light source and not scattered by the smoke particles is guidable to the outside in the direction of the smoke openings 8 by multiple reflection. Higher detection sensitivity for optically detecting smoke particles can be achieved as a result.
US12044601B2
The present invention belong to the technical field of lattice tower structure monitoring, and discloses a displacement reconstruction method for a lattice tower structure based on improved mode superposition. The method comprises: uniformly arranging D strain sensors on main member of a lattice tower along the height, processing collected strain data {ε}D×1 using a stochastic subspace identification (SSI) method to obtain a matrix [Ψ]D×nT of first n-order strain modes; calculating a function relation y(x) between a distance from a measuring point to a neutral layer and a height according to a lattice tower design drawing; performing polynomial fitting on the first n-order strain modes with a height coordinate x of the lattice tower respectively to obtain a strain mode function Ψi(x), expanding a function Ψ i ( x ) y ( x ) according to a Taylor formula, performing double integration on the expansion result and substituting same into a boundary condition, to obtain a displacement mode function Φi(x); evaluating a modal coordinate {q}n×1 by means of the least square method, substituting the height coordinate x of a displacement object point to be reconstructed, and multiplying the displacement mode function value Φi(x) by the modal coordinate {q}n×1. The improved mode superposition method of the present invention has the advantages of a small number of sensors required, simple calculation process, accurate calculation result, and strong operability and practicality.
US12044595B2
The present invention provides a dynamic joint distribution alignment network-based bearing fault diagnosis method under variable working conditions, including acquiring bearing vibration data under different working conditions to obtain a source domain sample and a target domain sample; establishing a deep convolutional neural network model with dynamic joint distribution alignment; feeding both the source domain sample and the target domain sample into the deep convolutional neural network model with initialized parameters, and extracting, by a feature extractor, high-level features of the source domain sample and the target domain sample; calculating a marginal distribution distance and a conditional distribution distance; obtaining a joint distribution distance according to the marginal distribution distance and the conditional distribution distance, and combining the joint distribution distance and a label loss to obtain a target function; and optimizing the target function by using SGD, and training the deep convolutional neural network model.
US12044590B2
A force sensor includes a force receiver which receives a force or a moment that acts on a detection target part, and a strain element which is provided to a sensor base and which serves as an elastic support that supports the force receiver. The force sensor includes two systems of detecting sections which each independently detect strain of four beam parts of the strain element, two systems of computing circuits which each independently compute, on the basis of a detection result that has been outputted from a corresponding one of the two systems of detecting sections, the force or the moment that acts on the detection target part, and two systems of output sections which each independently output, as an electrical signal, a computation result that has been outputted from a corresponding one of the two systems of computing circuits.
US12044589B2
An embodiment may provide a sensing device including a stator including a stator tooth and a rotor including a magnet, wherein the stator tooth includes a first stator tooth and a second stator tooth disposed inside the first stator tooth, the first stator tooth includes a plurality of first teeth, the second stator tooth includes a plurality of second teeth, the first tooth overlaps the second tooth in a radial direction from a center of the stator, the sensing device further includes a sensor and a collector which are disposed between the first stator tooth and the second stator tooth in the radial direction, the first stator tooth includes a first region corresponding to the collector in a circumferential direction, the second stator tooth includes a second region corresponding to the collector in the circumferential direction, and each of a central angle of the first region and a central angle of the second region is 180° or less.
US12044584B2
A high sensitivity flexible three-dimensional force tactile sensor includes a hemispherical contact, wherein the hemispherical contact includes a tray with a groove on the surface and a hemispherical protrusion arranged in the groove. A flexible inverted cone component connected to the lower surface of the hemispherical contact, wherein a plurality of flexible triangular excitation electrode is arranged on the side surface of the flexible inverted cone component. A flexible common electrode surrounding part of the flexible triangular excitation electrode, wherein a first cavity with an opening is opened inside the flexible common electrode, parts of the flexible triangular excitation electrode and the flexible inverted cone component are arranged in the first cavity of the flexible common electrode. The flexible triangular excitation electrode and the flexible inverted cone component have no contact with the inner wall of the first cavity of the flexible common electrode to form an air cavity.
US12044583B2
A digital temperature sensor circuit is disclosed. The digital temperature sensor circuit includes a proportional to the absolute temperature (PTAT) current source, generating a PTAT current proportional to absolute temperature; a sigma-delta modulation module, including an integrator, an analog-to-digital conversion unit, and a feedback digital-to-analog conversion unit; the integrator converts the PTAT current into temperature voltage; the analog-to-digital conversion unit compares the temperature voltage with a band gap reference voltage to generate a digital modulation signal with a duty ratio proportional to the temperature; the feedback digital-to-analog conversion unit adjusts the voltage input by the analog-to-digital conversion unit and controls the charging and discharging speed of the integrator; a digital filter, quantizing the digital modulation signal into a digital signal, and outputting the digital signal.
US12044578B2
The invention relates to a method for processing raw measurements collected by bolometers of a detector, the method comprising: a) a calculation of masked terms, the calculation consisting in subtracting from the raw measurement of each masked bolometer of a given column the mean value of the raw measurements of the masked bolometers of the said column; b) a correlation between the masked terms and calibrated components of the masked bolometers, determined according to the relation: S_mask _cal _ ( i , j ) = S_mask _ref _ ( i , j ) - 1 n ∑ k = 1 n S_mask _ref _ ( k , j ) the terms being masked bolometer reference measurements obtained at a reference temperature and by masking the detector with a mask; c) a step of correcting the raw image which comprises the calculation of corrected measurements of a corrected image for each bolometer on the basis of the result of the correlation step b).
US12044577B2
A component for detecting electromagnetic radiation includes a detection structure and a supply circuit for the detection structure. The detection structure includes a transistor associated with an absorbent element for detecting the rise in temperature of the absorbent element when electromagnetic radiation is absorbed. The supply circuit is configured to supply the detection structure in operation such that a channel zone of the structure has, at the location of one of its first and the second faces, a layer having carriers of a second type of conductivity opposite to a first type of conductivity of a source zone and of a drain zone of the transistor, the layer being referred to as blocking layer.
US12044569B2
A light receiving device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first major surface and a second major surface opposite to the first major surface, and a metal pattern layer provided on the second major surface. The first major surface is provided with a first input port configured to receive an input of signal light, a second input port configured to receive an input of local oscillation light, a first light receiving element optically coupled to the first input port, an optical 90 degree hybrid element optically coupled to the first input port and the second input port, and a second light receiving element optically coupled to the optical 90 degree hybrid element. The metal pattern layer contains at least one of titanium or chromium.
US12044565B2
A device for total cross-section measurement of a mass flow rate of gas, liquid and solid in a multiphase flow includes a gamma-ray source, a gamma-ray detector, and a differential pressure type flowmeter. The differential pressure type flowmeter includes a throat section, and the gamma-ray source and the gamma-ray detector are respectively disposed at opposite positions on both sides of the throat section. The gamma-ray detector is an array including a plurality of detection units, and the gamma-ray source is configured to emit gamma rays covering the measurement cross-section of the throat section. The gamma-ray detector is configured to receive the gamma rays passing through the measurement cross-section of the throat section.
US12044564B2
There is described a fluid flow measuring and control device for installation within plumbing. The device comprises a main flow channelling system having an inlet and an outlet for connection to the plumbing, and a bypass channelling system in parallel from the main flow channelling system. A flowmeter is provided in the bypass channelling system for measuring the fluid flow in the bypass channelling system and thereby estimating the fluid flow at the inlet or at the outlet of the main flow channelling system. The flowmeter may comprise a wheel and a pair of movement sensors. A valve such as a solenoid valve can be provided as an on/off control for the plumbing. Using a microcontroller, the device can identify which appliance is used and determine consumption, or detect abnormal use or leaks and close the valve and/or notify a user mobile device.
US12044555B2
A processing device of a displacement detection device includes an AD conversion device, a switching circuit, and an arithmetic processing unit. The AD conversion device has first and second AD conversion units. The switching circuit periodically switches between a first connection mode in which a first differential signal is AD-converted by the first AD conversion unit and a second differential signal is AD-converted by the second AD conversion unit, and a second connection mode in which the first differential signal is AD-converted by the second AD conversion unit and the second differential signal is AD-converted by the first AD conversion unit. The arithmetic processing unit outputs displacement information of a scale based on an addition average value of the first differential signals output from the first and second AD conversion units and an addition average value of the second differential signals output from the first and second AD conversion units.
US12044544B2
Embodiments of this application disclose an image processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes obtaining a remaining mileage parameter of a vehicle; obtaining a start position of the vehicle on a map display interface; determining a target travel range on the map display interface according to the start position and the remaining mileage parameter; and displaying the target travel range on the map display interface.
US12044535B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for locating a vehicle. A pose state estimator may access a previous position for the vehicle at a first time, wherein the previous position is on a first sub-map of a plurality of sub-maps. The pose state estimator may receive from a first localizer a first position estimate for the vehicle at a second time after the first time. The first position estimate may be on a second sub-map of the plurality of sub-maps. The pose state estimator may send to a second localizer a sub-map change message indicating the second sub-map.
US12044529B2
The problem to be overcome by the present disclosure is to reduce harmonic components included in output signals. A magnetic sensor includes a detecting magnetoresistance element and a canceling magnetoresistance element. A tilt angle formed by a magnetic sensing direction of the canceling magnetoresistance element with respect to a magnetic sensing direction of the detecting magnetoresistance element falls within a predetermined range. The predetermined range is defined by reference to either n×α/3 or n×α/3+α/2, where α is an angle of rotation of a rotator corresponding to one cycle of a fundamental harmonic included in output signals of the detecting magnetoresistance element and n is a natural number equal to or greater than 1.
US12044517B2
A method of controlling a hazardous device comprising the steps of providing a combination of a barrage unit and a container for holding a liquid, the container being adapted to receive the barrage unit, the barrage unit comprising at least one pad, the pad comprising an absorbent fibrous material and an absorbent crystalline material; arranging the hazardous device and barrage unit in the container with the barrage unit at feast partially covering the hazardous device; and, adding a liquid to the container so that the barrage unit absorbs the liquid.
US12044511B2
A relatively lightweight, modular, blast control system utilizes a plurality of fabric panels that may be joined to form a matrix to protect or control a blast.
US12044509B1
A projectile entangling device, cartridge and method for entangling an object. The projectile entangling device comprises a bolt slidably engaging within a receiver. A barrel is coupled to the receiver and is adjacent to a chamber. A gas conduit couples a compressed gas container to the bolt. A valve is positioned within the gas conduit. A trigger activates the valve and dispensing a compressed gas from the compressed gas container, through the gas conduit and exits the bolt. A first projectile and a second projectile are positioned within the cartridge. A tether is coupled to the first projectile and the second projectile. The first projectile, the second projectile and the tether are propelled from the cartridge and expelled from the barrel upon the compressed gas exiting the bolt. The tether elongates for distancing the first projectile from the second projectile for defining an expanding projectile and entangling with the object.
US12044506B1
Techniques are provided for off-axis projectile guidance. λ methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes determining a maximum acceleration capability of the projectile based on flight data, control surface positions, and aerodynamic coefficients. The method also includes estimating a range from the projectile to a target. The method further includes calculating a first flight path to provide an offset radar viewing angle to the target that is offset from a longitudinal axis of the projectile and calculating a second flight path to provide for interception of the target by the projectile. The calculations are based on the maximum acceleration capability and the range from the projectile to the target. The method further includes guiding the projectile on the first flight path for an initial period of time and then guiding the projectile on the second flight path until target interception.
US12044503B2
A holster for a handgun, having at least some of an at least partial cavity; a lever having a thumb button portion and an engagement portion, wherein the lever includes a locking projection extending from at least a portion of the engagement portion, wherein the lever is pivotally attached or coupled to at least a portion of the holster, approximately between the thumb button portion and the engagement portion; and a lockout element, wherein at least a portion of the lockout element is positionable to block movement of the lever to keep the lever from being pivoted to a disengaged position.
US12044496B2
The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for an attachment that can be fastened to a gun. The attachment may include a top surface having a longitudinal axis and an aiming sight that is parallel with the longitudinal axis, a front surface having a latitudinal axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the front surface including a muzzle aperture, a left surface, a right surface, and a fastening system. The fastening system may include a first mounting aperture of the left surface, a second mounting aperture of the right surface, and a locking pin capable of being positioned in the first mounting aperture and in the second mounting aperture such that the locking pin fastens the attachment to the gun. The attachment may be fastened to the gun such that the longitudinal axis is parallel with a longitudinal bore axis of the gun.
US12044495B2
A coaxial gas flow silencer for a firearm having an outer sleeve or cylinder forming an outer surface of the silencer and an inner sleeve or cylinder forming an inner surface of the silencer. Within the inner cylinder is a core portion having a bore through which a projectile will travel, and one or more expansion chambers for expanding exhaust gas from the firing of a cartridge. The space between the inner an outer cylinders forms a first passage for a first portion of exhaust gas, exiting the silencer through a number of radially arranged openings at a periphery of an end plate at the muzzle end of the silencer. The inner cylinder and core portion form a second passage for a second portion of exhaust gas exiting via the bore through a central opening in the face plate.
US12044494B2
.An apparatus implementable on a firearm includes a grip frame, a slide assembly, a trigger control unit, and a rail module. The trigger control unit is removably receivable in the grip frame and installed between the grip frame and the slide assembly such that, when operated, the trigger control unit causes firing of one or more rounds of ammunition. The rail module is configured to be installed between the trigger control unit and the grip frame to aid in securing the trigger control unit to the grip frame.
US12044484B2
A heat exchanger including a first reservoir, a second reservoir, and a heat tube including a body extending between the first reservoir and the second reservoir, where the heat tube defines a working region having a cross-sectional shape with an exterior wall enclosing a channel therein that is in fluid communication with the first reservoir and the second reservoir. The heat tube includes a curvilinear tube axis extending the axial length of the working region, and where the body of the working region includes the cross-sectional shape extruded along the curvilinear tube.
US12044481B2
A cooling device includes a partitioning board abutting inner faces of two boards, respectively. A chamber is defined between the partitioning board and one of the two boards. Another chamber is defined between the partitioning board and another of the two boards and intercommunicates with the chamber via an intercommunication port and a backflow port of the partitioning board. A pump drives a working fluid to circulate in the two chambers. Two welding channels are formed on outer faces of the two boards and surround the two chambers, respectively. The smallest distance between a channel bottom face of each annular welding channel and the inner face of a respective board having the annular welding channel is smaller than that between the inner and outer faces of the respective board. The two boards are coupled to the partitioning board along the annular welding channels by laser welding.
US12044479B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a heat exchanger, including: at least three heat exchange tube groups, herein the heat exchange tube groups are communicated in sequence, and at least two heat exchange tube groups are superposed mutually along a direction in which a heat exchange airflow flows, a medium sequentially flows through each heat exchange tube group and forms a U-shaped trajectory; an intermediate adapter portion, herein at least two heat exchange tube groups are communicated with each other by means of the intermediate adapter portion, the intermediate adapter portion includes at least two adapters and an adapter tube communicated with the two adjacent adapters, herein the adapter is composed of a first plate and a second plate, the adapter tube is an extrusion-formed flat tube, and a width direction of the adapter tube is perpendicular to a width direction of the heat exchange tube groups.
US12044478B2
In one aspect, a heat exchanger system is provided that includes a cooling system and a sensor configured to detect a variable of the cooling system. The heat exchanger system includes processor circuitry configured to provide the variable and a plurality of potential operating parameters of the cooling system to a machine learning model representative of the cooling system to estimate at least one of energy consumption, water usage, and chemical usage for the potential operating parameters. The processor circuitry is further configured to determine, based at least in part on the estimated at least one of energy consumption, water usage, and chemical consumption, for the potential operating parameters, an optimal operating parameter of the cooling system to satisfy a target optimization criterion.
US12044477B2
An anchoring assembly for a refractory material for a protected surface includes a V-anchor and an eye-mount. The eye-mount mounts to the protected surface, the V-anchor mounts to the eye-mount, and the refractory material is applied and anchored to the V-anchor. The eye-mount includes a through-hole, and a saddle channel in communication with the through-hole, that are configured to receive and seat the V-anchor through the through-hole and into the saddle channel with a snap-fit connection. In some embodiments, the V-anchor is seated with a tight snap-fit connection that holds the V-anchor in an upright use position, and in other embodiments the V-anchor includes a spacer that provides the tight snap-fit connection and that is removable in-situ after application of the refractory material to convert the tight snap-fit connection to a floating snap-fit connection.
US12044472B2
An air drying system includes a regeneration special dryer and at least one air dryer unit. The air dryer unit contains a pair of first and second air dryer dehumidification tanks in which a dehumidification process and a regeneration process are alternately performed; a main compressor to supply compressed wet air to an inlet line; a first direction switching valve unit configured to transfer the compressed wet air from the inlet line to first dehumidification tank performing dehumidification; a second direction switching valve unit configured to transfer the compressed dry air from the first dehumidification tank or transfer regeneration special dry air from a regeneration special dryer to second dehumidification tank performing the regeneration; a heating unit configured to heat the regeneration special dry air supplied from the regeneration special dryer; and a cooler configured to detach moisture from dehumidifying agent filled in the second dehumidification tank.
US12044467B2
A mobile cooling box has a box main body and at least one lid for opening the mobile cooling box and providing access to the inside of the mobile cooling box. The mobile cooling box further has at least one handle module located at an outer side surface of the box main body. The handle module comprises a handlebar intended to be grasped by the user, the handle module having a longitudinal axis and two ends, hangers to which the handlebar is attached at its two ends, and brackets at which the hangers are rotatably mounted. The hangers are fixed to the outer side surface of the box main body. The handlebar of the handle module can be swung out and upwards from an unactuated state to an actuated state for carrying the mobile cooling box by the handlebar Each of the brackets comprises a mounting area and a shielding area. The mounting area faces the outer side surface of the box main body to which the bracket is fixed. The shielding area hides the hangers and the handlebar in the unactuated state of the handle module and in a lateral perspective along the longitudinal axis of the handlebar.
US12044465B2
A method for controlling and managing a front door refrigerator using an application installed in a recording medium, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a step in which a user logs into a front door refrigerator control application installed in a recording medium including a mobile device, thereby allowing a main screen including menu display regions to be displayed on a display unit of the mobile device; and a step in which a storage information confirmation menu is selected from among a plurality of execution menus displayed in the menu display regions, wherein, when the storage information confirmation menu is selected, storage information of a product stored in the front door refrigerator is output to the display unit of the mobile device.
US12044461B2
A free embedded refrigerator includes a cabinet, a door, and a hinge assembly, the cabinet includes an accommodating chamber and an outer side surface, and a direction from the accommodating chamber towards the outer side surface serves as a first direction; the hinge assembly includes a first hinge part, a second hinge part and a switching assembly; when the door is in an opening process, the first hinge part moves relative to the switching assembly, and then, the second hinge part moves relative to the switching assembly; the hinge assembly drives the door to rotate in situ relative to the cabinet, then drives the door to move away from the cabinet in the first direction, and then drives the door to continuously rotate in situ. The refrigerator increases an opening-closing freedom degree of the door, and various motion tracks may be generated to adapt to different application scenarios.
US12044458B2
A cabinet with anti-condensation mechanism is used to control opening and closing a cabinet door of the cabinet. The cabinet includes a control module, a temperature control module, and a locking module. The control module senses a cabinet-inside temperature inside the cabinet, and senses cabinet-outside temperature and a cabinet-outside humidity outside the cabinet to generate a dew-point threshold value. The temperature control module is used to adjust the cabinet-inside temperature. The locking module is used to lock the cabinet door or unlock the cabinet door. The control module controls the locking module according to the cabinet-inside temperature and the dew-point threshold value, and controls the temperature control module to adjust the cabinet-inside temperature to be greater than or equal to the dew-point threshold value when the control module receives a trigger signal.
US12044457B2
An improved heat pump apparatus configured to transfer heat by circulating a refrigerant through a cycle of evaporation and condensation without the need to run a defrost cycle—the No-Frost Heat Pump (NFHP)—is provided. The NFHP is configured with a four-way valve, a suction accumulator, and a compressor to pump and exchange a refrigerant between two heat exchange coil/coils—an outdoor heat exchange coil/coil (also known as the source coil) and an indoor heat exchange coil/coil (also known as the load coil)—in order to exchange heat between the indoor/outdoor heat exchange coils. The NFHP is further configured with a means for controlling hot gas discharge—the means comprising a discharge valve or a discharge gas injection valve configured to inject refrigerant into the outdoor heat exchange coil inlet/source coil, thereby preventing the formation of ice/frost on the surface of the coil while operating in heating mode at low outdoor ambient temperatures.
US12044441B2
A solar thermal system is provided. The system comprises at least one solar thermal collector for heating a heat transfer fluid (HTF); and at least one conduit for transporting the HTF into and out of the at least one solar thermal collector; wherein said at least one conduit is of a foam or plastics material.
US12044437B2
A ventilation arrangement has a ventilation channel with a mouth opening and a first shielding hood shielding the mouth opening. The ventilation channel widens and/or narrows in cross section towards the mouth opening. The mouth opening is encompassed by the first shielding hood, leaving free a gap.
US12044433B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes a casing; a heat exchanger disposed in the casing; a sirocco fan disposed in the casing and located upstream of the heat exchanger along a flow passage such that an air outlet of the sirocco fan faces the heat exchanger; a drain pan disposed in the casing and located below the heat exchanger, the drain pan receiving drain water generated in the heat exchanger; and a dew-scattering-reducing part that reduces scattering of the drain water. The dew-scattering-reducing part is disposed outside a region enclosed by extension lines from the air outlet toward the heat exchanger and inside the drain pan.
US12044413B2
A cooking appliance with an integral drain is disclosed that has at least one burner and an inclined surface adjacent to the burner that terminates with a strainer and drain pipe. This allows one to drain a pot of hot liquid without the dangers of transporting the pot of hot liquid from the stovetop to the sink. A novel drain pot may also be used with the cooking appliance with an integral drain. The drain pot is a cooking vessel with a drain valve. The drain valve can be opened to allow hot liquid in the vessel to drain directly into the integral drain of the cooktop without the need to move or lift the pot. The cooking appliance with an integral drain serves to drastically reduce the risk of burns from mishandled, dropped or spilled pots full of boiling hot liquids such as water.
US12044404B2
A method of cleaning a gas inlet nozzle of an abatement burner combustion chamber. The abatement burner intermittently receives gas for combustion from a feed process. The nozzle comprises a cleaning mechanism including a movable cleaning member for physically removing unwanted deposits from the nozzle. The cleaning member is movable from a retracted first position wherein the cleaning member is outside a path of a flame associated with the nozzle, to a second cleaning position wherein the cleaning member is in a path of the flame associated with the nozzle. The method comprises the steps of: a. identifying when the nozzle is out of use; b. moving the cleaning member from the first position to the second position while the nozzle is out of use; and c. returning the cleaning member to the first position before nozzle is in use.
US12044399B2
A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes: providing a light source including a first substrate and a light-emitting element coupled to the first substrate; and after the providing of the light source, forming one or more positioning holes in the first substrate at locations spaced apart from a light-emitting part of the light source by predetermined distances in a top plan view.
US12044397B2
A lighting device includes: a first optical unit and a second optical unit. The first optical unit includes a primary light source and dichroic separation optics. The primary light source is configured to emit primary light in the visible spectrum. The dichroic separation optics are configured to intercept at least part of the primary light generated by the primary light source and emit, from a first emission surface, at least one first highly collimated light component and at least one diffuse light component. The at least one first highly collimated light component and the at least one diffuse light component forms a light with chromatic components having different angular distributions. The second optical unit includes secondary collimation optics is configured to generate, from the light with chromatic component, a weakly collimated light component and a second highly collimated light component.
US12044394B2
A lighting apparatus includes a light source plate, a light passing cover, a sleeve housing and an air tube. The light source plate is mounted with a LED module for emitting a light. The LED module faces to the light passing cover to allow the light to pass through. The LED module is enclosed within a container space. The sleeve housing has a first end supporting the light source plate. The Edison cap is fixed to a second end of the sleeve housing. The air tube has a top opening connected to the container space for guiding a heated air in the container space away from the container space via the air tube.
US12044373B2
A system may have lights produce illumination. A light may be provided with a collimated light source that produces collimated light. The collimated light source may use lenses or reflective optical elements to produce the collimated light. The light may have an array of light elements each of which emits a respective beam of the illumination. Each light element may have a preshaping lens that receives the collimated light and produces corresponding preshaped output light and an output lens that receives the output light from the preshaping lens and produces a corresponding beam of the illumination. An electrically adjustable shutter may be located between each preshaping lens and output lens to adjust the illumination between a low-beam pattern and high-beam pattern.
US12044372B1
The present invention discloses a flexible wall washer and a manufacturing process thereof, comprising a strip-shaped PCB, a plurality of LED chips, a plurality of flexible holders, and a plurality of lenses, wherein the PCB is provided with a plurality of pleated portions, the plurality of LED chips are uniformly distributed on the PCB between the two adjacent pleated portions, the plurality of flexible holders are hinged together at the front and the rear in sequence to form a chain holder, the rear side of each of the flexible holders is provided with a mounting cavity and the lens is installed in it. The PCB is provided on the rear side of the chain holder, the plurality of the lenses cover on the LED chips in one-to-one correspondence, and the pleated portion protrudes in the direction of the flexible holder.
US12044363B2
Disclosed is a method of discharging lubricant oil from a BOG reliquefaction system configured to reliquefy BOG by compressing the BOG by a compressor, cooling the compressed BOG through heat exchange with non-compressed BOG by a heat exchanger, and reducing a pressure of fluid cooled through heat exchange by a pressure reducer. In the lubricant oil discharge method, the compressor comprises at least one oil-lubrication type cylinder and it is determined that it is time to discharge condensed or solidified lubricant oil, if at least one of preset conditions is satisfied.
US12044362B2
The filling station (1) for means of transport (4) comprises: a supply (2) of a methane pipeline transporting gaseous methane; a liquefaction assembly (A) connected in a fluid-operated manner to the supply (2) and adapted to liquefy the gaseous methane conveyed by the methane pipeline to obtain liquid methane; at least one dispenser (3) of the liquid methane, which is connected in a fluid-operated manner to the liquefaction assembly (A) and is connectable in a removable manner to a means of transport (4) to supply the means of transport (4) with the liquid methane.
US12044361B2
A system includes a pressure relief valve connected between an upstream segment of pipe and a downstream segment of pipe, an inlet isolation valve located in the upstream segment of pipe, an outlet isolation valve located in the downstream segment of pipe, and a tubing having a first tubing isolation valve, a first end connected to the upstream segment of pipe between the inlet isolation valve and the pressure relief valve, and a second end connected to the downstream segment of pipe between the pressure relief valve and the outlet isolation valve. Depressurizing the system includes closing the inlet isolation valve, depressurizing the upstream segment of pipe by opening the first tubing isolation valve, monitoring a pressure in the tubing with a gauge connected to the tubing, and closing the outlet isolation valve when the pressure in the tubing is below a predetermined pressure.
US12044353B2
Mounting plates for elevating platforms, including a mounting apparatus with interior and exterior reinforcement components elongated vertically. The interior reinforcement piece includes an embedded bolt that extends from the interior reinforcement piece, through a wall of the platform, and through the exterior reinforcement component. The interior and exterior reinforcement components have a stepped construction to convert peel stress to shear stress.
US12044345B2
A concrete floor has a pipe passing through a hole in the floor. A drop-in fire stop assembly has a clam-shell configuration having first and second portions of a fire ring, split cage, split retainer ring, split intumescent ring, split inner smoke ring and split outer smoke ring each fastened together to rotate about a hinge on the split cage to open and close. The first and second portions have free ends that spread apart to fit around the tube in an open position, and close around the tube in a closed position. A latch on the free ends of the cage hold the two portions together in the closed position.
US12044339B2
In some implementations, a flowline connector assembly may include a first flowline member having a first cylindrical passageway, and a second flowline member having a second cylindrical passageway. The flowline connector assembly may include a pin, configured to be inserted into the first cylindrical passageway and the second cylindrical passageway, including a stop extending radially outward from an outer surface of the pin, where a first side of the stop is configured to contact a face of the first flowline member when the pin is inserted into the first cylindrical passageway. The flowline connector assembly may include a collar configured for threaded engagement at a first end with an outer surface of the first flowline member, wherein an inner surface of the collar is configured to contact a second side of the stop to connect the first flowline member with the second flowline member.
US12044335B2
A clamp for closing a flexible tube includes an anvil and a hammer. The anvil includes a passage and a slot defined therein. The passage is configured to receive a flexible tube therethrough. The hammer is slidably received within the slot of the anvil. The hammer is securable in a first position in which the passage of the anvil is substantially unoccluded and a second position in which the passage of the anvil is occluded. The hammer and the anvil are configured to prevent fluid from flowing through the flexible tube received in the passage when the hammer is in the closed position. The hammer is substantially within the anvil in the closed position.
US12044333B2
A floating ball valve comprising: a housing having an internal cavity and first and second fluid flow ports through which fluid flows selectively in either direction from the first to the second or the second to the first fluid flow ports when the valve is open; a floating ball housed in the cavity and formed having a through hole for passage of fluid the ball being rotatable to open the valve and allow fluid flow through the fluid flow ports and internal cavity and to close the valve and block fluid flow through the fluid flow ports and cavity; and a pressure relief valve (PRV) having a cracking pressure mounted to the floating ball so that the PRV communicates with the through hole, and when the floating ball valve is closed the PRV faces and communicates with the first fluid flow port; wherein the PRV is normally closed whether the floating ball valve is open or closed, and when the floating ball valve is closed, if pressure in the internal cavity exceeds the cracking pressure of the PRV, the PRV opens to relieve the pressure.
US12044328B2
Techniques involve a hydraulic valve module having at least one hydraulic valve with a valve slide which can be adjusted by way of an electric actuator in order to supply hydraulic lines with hydraulic liquid by way of the hydraulic valve. The hydraulic valve module has a controller and an electric energy store. The controller and the electric energy store are set up to move the valve slide out of every possible valve slide position into a deactivation position by way of the electric actuator and energy which is stored in the electric energy store. This allows the safe operation of hydraulic valves without a restoring spring, wherein valves of this type and the actuators thereof can be of smaller and less expensive construction than in the case of conventional valves with a restoring spring.
US12044324B2
A valve for conveying fluid has a closed position and an open position and comprises a body, a valve seat disposed in the body, a holder disposed in the body, and a valve seat disc. The valve seat comprises one or more inner surfaces and an outer surface, and the one or more inner surfaces define an inner void. The valve seat disc is connected to and movable with the holder between a first position in which the valve seat disc sealingly engages the outer surface of the valve seat and a second position in which the valve seat disc is disengaged from the outer surface of the valve seat. The valve is in the closed position when the valve seat disc is in the first position and the valve is in the open position when the valve seat disc is in the second position.
US12044320B2
A switching assembly for diverting fluid flow can include a pair of chambers each having a three-way valve positioned therein. An actuator, which can include a lever and one or more gears, may be coupled with each three-way valve to allow an operator to divert flow through each three-way valve by means of the actuator. The switching assembly can be coupled with one or more pressure relief valves, allowing an operator to safely replace a pressure relief cartridge by diverting flow away from the corresponding pressure relief valve without diverting flow upstream or temporarily shutting off a fluid line.
US12044317B2
A circumferential sealing assembly for use between a lower-pressure side with a lubricant oil therein and a higher-pressure side with a hot gas therein is presented. The assembly includes a sealing ring interposed between either a rotatable runner and a housing or a sleeve and a housing within a turbine engine. Ducts communicate the hot gas into grooves to form a thin film between the ring and the runner or the ring and the sleeve. First embodiments include grooves on the runner, ducts through the runner, and both grooves and ducts rotating with the runner. Second embodiments include grooves on the ring, ducts through the runner, and ducts rotating with the runner. Third embodiments include grooves on the ring and ducts through the ring adjacent to a runner. Fourth embodiments include grooves on the runner, ducts through the ring, and grooves rotating with the runner. Fifth embodiments include grooves on the sleeve, ducts through the sleeve, and both grooves and ducts rotating with the sleeve. Sixth embodiments include grooves on the ring, ducts through the sleeve, and ducts rotating with the sleeve. Seventh embodiments include grooves on the ring and ducts through the ring adjacent to a sleeve. Eighth embodiments include grooves on the sleeve, ducts through the ring, and grooves rotating with the sleeve.
US12044315B2
A sealing device has a sensor system for condition monitoring. The sealing device includes a sealing ring with a dynamic sealing section for dynamically sealing abutment at a sealing surface of a machine part and a pretensioning ring for pretensioning the sealing section against the sealing surface having a first section and a second section. The second section can be deflected in a spring-elastic manner in an axial or radial direction relative to the central axis of the sealing device from a first position relative to the first section. The sensor system includes at least one measuring element arranged in the intermediate space on the pretensioning ring, which responds indirectly or directly to a deflection movement of the first section of the pretensioning ring. A sealing arrangement may have such a sealing device.
US12044308B2
Provided is a control device for a vehicle including a first oil pump that is driven by a first drive source driving a drive wheel of a vehicle and configured to supply oil to a hydraulic pressure actuation machine, and a second oil pump that is driven by a second drive source different from the first drive source and configured to supply oil to the hydraulic pressure actuation machine. The control device drives the second oil pump when a start switch of the vehicle is turned on and the first drive source is started for the first time, and drives the second oil pump when the second oil pump is not driven for a first predetermined time after the first drive source is started, and a rotation speed of the second oil pump when the first drive source is started is lower than a rotation speed of the second oil pump after the first drive source is started.
US12044297B2
An electric motor comprises: a stator; a rotor having a rotor shaft; and a transmission coupled to the rotor shaft, wherein when the rotor shaft rotates in a first direction an output shaft of the transmission rotates in a second direction opposite to the first direction with a first gear ratio, and wherein when the rotor shaft rotates in the second direction the output shaft of the transmission rotates in the second direction with a second gear ratio different from the first gear ratio.
US12044293B2
Disclosed is a planetary gear transmission box, comprising a housing portion, a first planetary gear transmission stage, and a second planetary gear transmission stage, wherein the first planetary gear transmission stage comprises a first sun gear (3), a first planetary carrier (5), and a first ring gear; the second planetary gear transmission stage comprises a second sun gear, a second planetary carrier (7), and a second ring gear (6); the first sun gear (3) is connected to an external input element; the first planetary carrier (5) is connected to the second sun gear; the second planetary carrier (7) is connected to an output element; the transmission ratio of the gear transmission box is greater than 25; and the second planetary carrier (7) is directly supported on the housing portion. The locked rotor torque of the gear box is increased, such that the output rotational speed is reduced, and thus a bearing member at the output end can be omitted.
US12044288B2
A high efficiency belt having reduced bending stiffness while maintaining a high coefficient of friction. The belt includes a backing layer, a rib material layer, and cords embedded within, wherein the coefficient of friction of the high efficiency belt is greater than or equal to 0.03 mm/N times the bending stiffness for belts having a thickness in the range of from 2.6 mm to 4.2 mm. The belt can include a bending stiffness in the range of from about 30 N/mm to about 65 N/mm and an anisotropic modulus of elasticity ratio of between 1.1 and 5.0. Methods of manufacturing the high efficiency belt are also described and can include forming sheets of rib material with parallel aligned reinforcement fibers transverse to the direction of rotation of the high efficiency belt.
US12044284B2
A valve arrangement for a vibration damper, as may be used on a vehicle. The vibration damper can be a telescopic suspension fork leg of a motorbike, or a shock absorber for a vehicle with more than one track, for example an automobile. The valve arrangement is for a vibration damper that has a valve housing with an annular valve seat, and is configured to receive damping fluid, and further having a valve piston arranged in an axially displaceable manner relative to the valve seat in an inner space of the valve housing. The valve piston has a main valve which has a flexible circular valve disc which can be removed from contact with a contact surface side on the valve seat. The valve disc is arranged on the valve piston by a guide pin, such that it can be moved axially relative to the latter and is guided radially.
US12044276B2
A clutch includes a clutch assembly having radially spaced input and output members, torque transmission members therebetween, and a cage retaining the torque transmission members. Rotation of the input member relative to the output member in a first direction engages the clutch assembly while rotation of the output member relative to the input member in the first direction disengages the clutch assembly. The clutch further includes a drag assembly including a rotatable member coupled to the cage of the clutch assembly and a fixed member. The rotatable member rotates in the first direction relative to the fixed member, but rotation of the rotatable member in a second direction relative to the fixed member is limited thereby limiting rotation of the input member of the clutch assembly in the second direction.
US12044274B2
An actuator device for a friction clutch. The device includes a push lever arm for applying a force on the friction clutch and a push ring arranged on the push lever arm for contacting the friction clutch, and a drive unit connected to the push lever arm for movement of the push lever arm in a push lever arm movement direction. The device further includes a bearing arranged on the push lever arm, where the push ring is journaled by the bearing such that the push ring is rotatable relative to the push lever arm about a rotation axis. The push ring and the bearing are pivotally connected to the push lever arm such that the push ring and the bearing are pivotable relative to the push lever arm about a push ring pivot axis.
US12044271B2
The present disclosure relates to a stiffness enhancing mechanism for a magnetic suspension bearing, a magnetic suspension bearing including the stiffness enhancing mechanism, and a blood pump. The magnetic suspension bearing comprises a stator with stator teeth and a rotor disposed within the stator. The stiffness enhancing mechanism comprises: a rotor permanent magnet, a stator permanent magnet, and an axial driving body. The rotor permanent magnet and the rotor of the magnetic suspension bearing form a rotor assembly, which has an asymmetric structure with respect to the main plane (P) of the rotor. The stiffness enhancing mechanism is configured such that the stator permanent magnet generates a radial attractive force to the rotor permanent magnet, and the axial driving body generates an axial repulsive force to the rotor permanent magnet, wherein the magnitude of the axial repulsive force is variable with a change of an axial distance between the axial driving body and the rotor permanent magnet. The stiffness enhancing mechanism can increase the torsional stiffness of the rotor of the magnetic suspension bearing and facilitate the miniaturization of the magnetic suspension bearing.
US12044270B2
An automobile vehicle crankshaft including a crankshaft casting of a nodular iron. The crankshaft casting includes multiple main journals coaxially aligned on a common crankshaft casting axis. Multiple crankpin journals are fixedly connected to the main journals by individual webs. Multiple lightening holes have individual ones of the multiple lightening holes integrally formed within individual ones of the crankpin journals during casting. A bubble space is located proximate to a mid-portion of selected ones of the multiple lightening holes of the crankpin journals. The bubble space locally increases a passage size of the selected ones of the multiple lightening holes and reduces a mass of the individual ones of the crankpin journals.
US12044269B2
An outer casing attachment structure includes a cables extending in a same direction, outer casings to which the inner cables is respectively inserted, a connecting member to which ends of the outer casings are connected, and a holding member including a holding part configured to hold the connecting member, wherein an installation space where the connecting member is disposed, and an opening provided in a direction perpendicular to an axis direction of the inner cables and configured to communicate between the installation space and outside are formed in the holding part, wherein the holding part includes a first retainer part and a second retainer part formed on both sides of the opening in an arrangement direction of the inner cables, and the connecting member includes a first engaging part configured to engage with the first retainer part, and a second engaging part configured to engage with the second retainer part.
US12044265B2
Fastening art with double nuts for a dual-threaded screw structure is provided, in which loosening is not created even if the structure is subjected to vibration. A spring washer is caused to intervene between the nuts, when double nuts of an inner nut and an outer nut are screwed onto a thread portion on which dual-threaded screw is formed. Only by tightening the outer nut, also the inner nut is tightened and the spring washer is compressed. Both axial force for clamping the fastened member and axial force between the nuts can be secured with the spring washer, so that loosening does not occur easily.
US12044262B2
A spring-loaded locking bolt with a guide sleeve and an adjusting pin movably mounted axially in the guide sleeve. The adjusting pin can be brought into a locked position protruding axially out of the guide sleeve against the actuating force of an axial compression spring and a retracted neutral position which does not protrude axially from the guide sleeve. The adjusting pin has a locking end and an actuating end in conjunction with an actuator knob. The actuator knob has an outer sleeve with which the actuator knob is movably mounted axially on a sleeve section of the guide sleeve. The actuator knob includes an inner locking projection which in the locked position lockingly engages into a corresponding recess in the side wall of the sleeve section, and fixes the actuator knob, which is engaged under spring tension, against an axial rotation about the center axis of the locking bolt, and in the neutral position the actuator knob is rotatable about the center axis.
US12044259B2
A piping assembly and a refrigeration system. The piping assembly includes: an inlet portion extending along an inlet axis; an outlet portion extending along an outlet axis, wherein a predetermined angle is formed between the inlet axis and the outlet axis; a transition portion being attached between the inlet portion and the outlet portion and defining a transition axis; a cavity extending from the inlet portion to the outlet portion through the transition portion; and a first straightening portion including a plurality of deflector plates attached to an inner wall of the cavity, wherein the first straightening portion includes at least a first deflector plate and a second deflector plate connected at an angle, and the first deflector plate and the second deflector plate are configured to extend in parallel with a part of the outlet axis and a part of the transition axis.
US12044252B2
A wastewater pump for conveying solids-laden wastewater includes a spiral housing with an inlet opening, an impeller with at least one vane having a leading edge running from the impeller hub in a backwardly curved manner, and at least one finger for wiping off contaminants from the leading edge. The at least one finger is arranged on the inlet inner wall and extends in the direction of the impeller rotational axis. At least one groove is present in a suction-side inner wall of the housing to receive and convey material that is removed by the at least one finger from the leading edge to. The leading edge of the impeller and the surface of the at least one finger which faces toward the leading edge are at an angle of 5° to 75° with respect to the rotational axis.
US12044250B2
A centrifugal air blower includes a fan; and a scroll casing. The scroll casing includes: a sidewall covering the fan from an axial direction of a rotation axis, the sidewall having a suction opening for sucking air; a discharge opening; a tongue portion for guiding the airflow to the discharge opening; a peripheral wall surrounding the fan from a radial direction of the rotation axis; and a bell mouth formed along the suction opening of the sidewall. The bell mouth includes upstream and downstream ends, with the upstream end being an end portion on an upstream side in a direction of flow of the air passing through the suction opening, and the downstream end being an end portion on a downstream side in the direction of flow of the air.
US12044243B1
Disclosed is an air pimp, including a housing mechanism, a fan assembly, and an adjusting mechanism. The housing mechanism includes a bottom housing and a cover plate. The cover plate covers the bottom housing; the cover plate is provided with a first air port and a vent cap. The vent cap is rotatably connected with the cover plate; the bottom housing is provided with a second air port. The fan assembly is arranged in an accommodating space. The adjusting mechanism is arranged on the vent cap. The adjusting mechanism includes a fixture block movably passes through the vent cap and a first driving component; the cover plate is provided with a first fixture slot, a second fixture slot, and a third fixture slot. The first driving component may drive the fixture block to be clamped into the first fixture slot, the second fixture slot or the third fixture slot.
US12044240B2
A compressor includes a housing, a first compression stage defined within the housing, a second compression stage defined within the housing, and a motor disposed between the first compression stage and the second compression stage relative to a flow of fluid through the compressor. The first compression component of the first compression stage has a mixed-flow configuration and the second compression component of the second compression stage has a radial-flow configuration.
US12044236B2
A fluid pump, in particular an oil pump, for supplying a clutch actuator, a gearbox actuator, a lubrication system, and/or a cooling system of a drive train, includes a pump unit, an electrical drive unit, and a one-piece sealing element. The pump unit is arranged in a first housing part of the fluid pump, and the electrical drive unit is arranged in a second housing part of the fluid pump. The one-piece sealing element seals the first housing part against the second housing part, and seals the first housing part against a housing cover arranged on a side opposite the second housing part. Furthermore, a method for producing such a fluid pump includes arranging a pump unit in a first housing part of the fluid pump and moulding a sealing element onto the first housing part.
US12044223B2
A linear compressor includes one spring assembly including a plurality of spring parts fixed to both side surfaces of a supporter and a rear cover and configured to support a load generated in the compressor. In addition, both side portions of the spring part are provided with fixing brackets coupled to the supporter and the rear cover, and the fixing bracket is provided with an insertion member or a bracket coupling member so that the coupling force of the spring part can be increased.
US12044220B2
A satellite propulsion system and methods of operating the same include a first ionization stage and a second acceleration stage. The first ionization stage has a plasma source configured to produce an arc discharge and emit a preliminary plasma. The plasma source includes an external magnetic field configured to magnetize the arc discharge. The second acceleration stage has an accelerator positioned in series with the plasma source. The accelerator is configured to accelerate the preliminary plasma out through the accelerator, thereby creating an accelerated plasma flow. The application of an activation threshold voltage to the accelerator results in a surge in system performance parameters.
US12044218B2
An energy storage and delivery system includes an elevator cage, where the elevator cage is operable to move one or more blocks from a lower elevation to a higher elevation to store energy (e.g., via the potential energy of the block in the higher elevation) and operable to move one or more blocks from the higher elevation to the lower elevation (e.g., by gravity) to generate electricity (e.g., via the kinetic energy of the block when moved to the lower elevation). The blocks are moved between the lower elevation and the higher elevation by an equal vertical distance.
US12044217B2
A wind turbine is provided including a nacelle and a plurality of electrical and/or mechanical components for the generation and/or the conversion of energy, wherein the nacelle includes a housing structure enclosing an inner volume, in which the components are arranged, wherein the nacelle includes at least one movable extension structure, which may be moved between a retracted position and an extended position, wherein the inner volume enclosed by the housing structure is increased in the extended position.
US12044216B2
A nacelle cover (100) for a wind turbine includes an elongate housing (105) and the front end (107) of the housing (105) is mounted on a bed plate frame (420) which is affixed to the tower (122), the bed plate frame (420) supporting at least one part of a drive train (124) of the wind turbine. At least one machinery component (125) is mounted on the housing (105) at a position laterally spaced from the bed plate frame (420) in a longitudinal direction along the housing (105). The housing (105) includes a structural tube (128) which functions as a vertically displaceable cantilever beam carrying the load of the at least one machinery component (125) mounted thereon.
US12044214B2
A method for controlling one or more renewable power generators forming a renewable power plant, and a controller configured to perform the method. In one aspect, plant voltage control is carried out on the basis of a more accurate voltage-reactive power relationship value which is determined dynamically based on grid conditions rather than the conventional approach of the voltage-reactive power relationship being a static value that is based on information provided by a transmission system operator during installation or commissioning of the power plant.
US12044209B2
A vertical axis wind turbine, comprising: a wind turbine body; a blade; and a strut having a first end coupled to the wind turbine body and a second end coupled to the blade using a fastening arrangement, wherein the fastening arrangement comprises a pliable fastening member pulling the blade towards the second end of the strut.
US12044202B2
The disclosure relates to a wind turbine rotor blade, including an aerodynamic add-on element comprising a baseplate, the baseplate having an upper side and a bottom side, wherein the aerodynamic add-on element is mounted with the bottom side of the baseplate to an outer surface of the wind turbine rotor blade, at least a section of the bottom side is inclined relative to the outer surface of the wind turbine rotor blade along a downstream direction of an operational wind flow, such that a gap is formed between the at least one section and the outer surface in which a distance between the outer surface and the bottom side increases along the downstream direction, and adhesive is provided in the gap to bond the aerodynamic add-on element to the outer surface of the wind turbine rotor blade. The disclosure also relates to an aerodynamic add-on element.
US12044198B2
A fluid distributor for an injection system, in particular a fuel distributor rail for a fuel injection system for mixture-compressing, spark ignition internal combustion engines. The fuel distributor includes a tubular base body, which is preferably processed by a one-stage or multi-stage forging process, a first high-pressure output, a second high-pressure output, a third high-pressure output, and a fourth high-pressure output being provided at the base body. The second high-pressure output is situated offset by a predefined distance compared to the first high-pressure output in a first direction along a longitudinal axis of the tubular base body. The third high-pressure output is situated offset by the predefined distance compared to the second high-pressure output along the longitudinal axis in the first direction, the fourth high-pressure output being situated offset by the predefined distance compared to the third high-pressure output along the longitudinal axis in the first direction.
US12044197B2
An air filtration system comprises a filter housing that defines a collection chamber and includes an air inlet, an air outlet and a cleaning assembly opening in fluid communication with the collection chamber. The system also comprises a filter support mounted to the filter housing with each one of the air inlet and the air outlet being located on a respective side of the filter support; and a filter cleaning assembly mounted to the filter housing and including an actuation system; and a diaphragm assembly at least partially covering the filter cleaning opening. The diaphragm assembly vibrates upon actuation of the actuation system so as to displace air in the collection chamber to remove particulate matter from a filter engaged with the filter support. The present disclosure also concerns a combustion engine comprising an air filtration system and a method for cleaning an air filtration system.
US12044192B2
An air intake port (10) for a lean-burn gasoline engine (110) comprises an air inlet (14), two air outlets (15a, 15b), and an air channel connecting the air inlet (14) to the two air outlets (15a, 15b) and comprising an upstream common duct (11) and two downstream port legs (12a, 12b), the two downstream port legs (12a, 12b) branching off from the common duct (11) at a bifurcation point (13). A total cross section of the air intake port (10) gradually decreases between the air inlet (14) and the two air outlets (15a, 15b). A gradient of decrease of the total cross section is locally reduced in a region adjacent the bifurcation point (13).
US12044182B2
A shaft power transfer system includes a first mechanical clutch mechanism operably coupling a high-pressure shaft to a low-pressure shaft. The first mechanical clutch mechanism transfers power from the high-pressure shaft to the low-pressure shaft at a predefined first speed transient condition. The system further includes a second mechanical clutch mechanism that operably couples the low-pressure shaft to the high-pressure shaft. The second mechanical clutch mechanism transfers power from the low-pressure shaft to the high-pressure shaft at a predefined second speed transient condition where the predefined first speed transient condition is different than the predefined second speed transient condition.
US12044181B1
An assembly for mounting an auxiliary component to an engine case for a gas turbine engine includes a support bracket and a locator. The locator includes a fusible guide pin extending at least partially into a first aperture disposed in the support bracket, and a catcher pin extending at least partially into a second aperture disposed in the support bracket. The fusible guide pin is configured to fracture to absorb energy while the catcher pin limits system displacement during and post an overload event, thus reducing the energy transmitted to the auxiliary component (e.g., a gearbox housing). The locator can further include an anti-rotation pin extending from the plate member and configured to be received by the auxiliary component. The anti-rotation pin prevents rotation of the locator, about a third pin of the locator, with respect to the auxiliary component when the fusible guide pin is broken.
US12044179B2
A fluid supply system includes: a centrifugal pump; a starting pump that is connected to the centrifugal pump in series, is provided downstream of the centrifugal pump, and has a discharge flow rate less than that of the centrifugal pump; a measuring valve that is provided downstream of the centrifugal pump and the starting pump, measures an amount of fluid discharged from the centrifugal pump or the starting pump, and discharges the fluid to a downstream each time the fluid reaches a predetermined flow amount; a differential pressure valve that is provided downstream of the centrifugal pump and the starting pump, and is driven based on a differential pressure between an upstream pressure and a downstream pressure of the measuring valve; and a flow rate control valve that is provided downstream of the centrifugal pump and upstream of the differential pressure valve and has a valve opening speed that is set slower than that of the differential pressure valve.
US12044177B2
A method of operating a gas turbine engine is disclosed, the gas turbine engine comprising a combustor arranged to combust a fuel; and a fuel management system arranged to provide the fuel to the combustor. The fuel management system comprises two fuel-oil heat exchangers through which oil and the fuel flow, the heat exchangers arranged to transfer heat to the fuel and comprising a primary fuel-oil heat exchanger and a secondary fuel-oil heat exchanger; and a fuel pump arranged to deliver the fuel to the combustor, wherein the fuel pump is located between the two heat exchangers. The method comprises controlling the fuel management system so as to transfer between 200 and 600 kJ/m3 of heat to the fuel from the oil in the primary fuel-oil heat exchanger at cruise conditions.
US12044153B1
An oil safety cap system for jet engines includes a safety cap that fits over an oil cap and an oil fill spout. The safety cap is attached to a locking pin. The safety cap also has a first locking pin aperture that extends through the safety cap to receive the locking pin. An attachment mechanism secures the safety cap over the oil cap and the oil fill spout. The attachment mechanism includes a first clamp half removably attached to a second clamp half. The first and second clamp halves extend around the oil fill spout, beneath the safety cap. A second locking pin aperture in the second clamp half also receives the locking pin. The locking pin apertures align when the safety cap is positioned on the oil fill spout. The looking pin extends through both apertures and secures the safety cap to the attachment mechanism.
US12044150B2
The disclosure concerns a waste heat recovery cycle system and related method in which a Brayton cycle system operates in combination with a Rankine cycle system. The Brayton cycle system has a heater configured to circulate a fluid, namely an inert gas, in heat exchange relationship with a heating source, such as an exhaust gas of a different system, in order to recover waste heat from such different system by heating the inert gas. The Rankine cycle system has a heat exchanger configured to circulate a second fluid, in heat exchange relationship with the inert gas of the Brayton cycle system to heat the second fluid while at the same time cooling the inert gas. The second fluid can be selected among fluids having a boiling point at a temperature lower than the temperature of the inert gas from the expansion unit/group in the Brayton cycle system.
US12044143B2
A gas turbine engine component includes a supply cavity and a manifold cavity that shares a common divider wall with the supply cavity. The common divider wall includes inlet metering holes that connect the supply cavity and the manifold cavity. An exterior wall has an exterior surface and an opposed interior surface that bounds portions of the supply cavity and of the manifold cavity. Outlet cooling holes extend through the exterior wall and connect the manifold cavity with the exterior surface. The number of the inlet metering holes is equal to or less than the number of the outlet cooling holes, and at least one of the inlet holes is coaxial with at least one of the outlet holes.
US12044135B1
A stator assembly for an aircraft engine, has: vanes distributed about a central axis, a vane having: an airfoil extending from a first end to a second end along a span and from a leading edge to a trailing edge along a chord, the airfoil having a pressure side and a suction side opposed to the pressure side; a slot within the airfoil, the slot extending in a direction having a component along the chord, the slot located between the pressure side and the suction side; a port at the leading edge, the port fluidly communicating with the slot and with the gaspath; a mass located within the slot, the mass movable within the slot to shift a center of gravity of the vane in a chordwise direction; and a biasing member biasing the mass in a direction opposite a pressure force generated by the flow of fluid.
US12044131B2
Provided is a labyrinth seal including a first structure; and a second structure opposing the first structure. The first structure includes seal fins located at intervals in an axial direction and extending toward the second structure; a downstream wall surface located most downstream one of the seal fins and extending toward the second structure. A tip of the downstream wall surface located at a side of a tip of the most downstream seal fin, the side being close to the second structure in a radial direction and having a first outlet surface extending from the tip of the downstream wall surface toward a downstream side. The second structure includes a second outlet surface opposing the first outlet surface, a radial gap between the first outlet surface and the second outlet surface; and a cavity surface located upstream of the second outlet surface recessed away from the first structure.
US12044130B2
A gas turbine engine includes a ceramic wall for bounding an engine core gas path. The ceramic wall has a ceramic wall first side that faces the engine core gas path and a ceramic wall second side that faces away from the engine core gas path. There is a metallic wall adjacent the ceramic wall second side. The metallic wall has a metallic wall first side that faces the ceramic wall and a metallic wall second side that faces away from the ceramic wall. The metallic wall and the ceramic wall are spaced apart such that there is a channel there between. There is a seal on the ceramic wall second side, and the metallic wall has at least one cooling hole adjacent the seal for emitting cooling air to cool the seal.
US12044128B2
The invention comprises a method for heating a fluid in an engine, including: a rotor rotating relative to a stator about a shaft and a set of vanes extending radially outward, relative to an elongated axis of the shaft, between the rotator and the stator, the set of vanes separating a set of expansion chambers, where the method comprises the steps of: (1) applying a shear force to the fluid to form a gas with a rotatable chamber within the shaft of the engine; and (2) exhausting the gas from the shaft to a rotor-vane chamber, the rotor-vane chamber comprising a void in a vane slot on a shaft side of a first vane, of the set of vanes. Optionally, the gas applies a rotation force by passing the gas from the first vane to a trailing expansion chamber of the set of expansion chambers.
US12044112B2
The present disclosure relates to a high and low pressure manifold fluid supply system for fracturing units, including: a trailer, a high and low pressure manifold arranged on the trailer, a support frame arranged on a platform of the trailer, and a power distribution switch cabinet arranged on the support frame, which is configured to be electrically connected to the electrically-driven fracturing units and configured to distribute electricity to the electrically-driven fracturing units. Through the high and low pressure manifold fluid supply system integrated with electricity supply facilities therein according to the present disclosure, the electrically-driven fracturing units are powered, in this way, the electricity supply and distribution system in the well site can be effectively simplified, the connection distance of the cables can be shorten, and further the time spent on connection can be saved, thereby improving the well site layout efficiency.
US12044111B1
Subterranean gas capture wellbores are used to capture lost produced gas. Produced gas can be injected into a subterranean for gas enhanced hydrocarbon recovery and rise in the subterranean formation toward a production wellbore. A first portion is effective for enhanced hydrocarbon recovery and a second portion rises past the production wellbore to become the lost produced gas that is converted to captured produced gas in the subterranean gas capture wellbore. The captured produced gas can then flow in the subterranean gas capture wellbore to the surface for recovery.
US12044108B2
A detonating cord for using in a perforating gun includes an explosive layer and an electrically conductive layer extending around the explosive layer. The electrically conductive layer is configured to relay a communication signal along a length of the detonating cord. In an embodiment, a protective jacket extends around the electrically conductive layer of the detonating cord. The detonating cord may be assembled in a perforating gun to relay a communication signal from a top connector to a bottom connector of the perforating gun, and to propagate a detonating explosive stimulus along its length to initiate shaped charges of the perforating gun. A plurality of perforating guns, including the detonating cord, may be connected in series, with the detonating cord of a first perforating gun in communication with the detonating cord of a second perforating gun.
US12044105B1
A valve assembly for delivering a fluid into a wellbore includes a stationary valve assembly that is installed on a production tube that extends down into the wellbore. A dynamic valve assembly that is attached to a capillary line is lowered into the production tube, and the dynamic valve assembly releasably latched onto the stationary valve assembly. The latching of the dynamic valve assembly to the stationary valve assembly also opens a fluid connection between the dynamic valve assembly and the stationary valve assembly, thereby allowing pressurized fluid to flow from the capillary line into the wellbore via the stationary valve assembly. When it is necessary or desirable to perform maintenance or repair operations on the dynamic valve assembly or the capillary line, the dynamic valve assembly and the attached capillary line can all be withdrawn to the top of the well.
US12044104B2
A valve housing has a first flapper moveable from an open position in the housing in which two-way flow is allowed to a closed position in which only one-way flow is permitted. A first collet sleeve is moveable from a first position to a second position in the valve housing. The first collet sleeve in the first position retains the flapper valve in the open position. The collet sleeve is moveable from a first position to a second position which allows the flapper to move to a closed position.
US12044092B2
A fracturing tree with valves and a junction of vertical and horizontal bores located within a shared, single block of metal is provided. In one embodiment, a system includes a hydraulic fracturing tree mounted over an onshore wellhead. The hydraulic fracturing tree includes a vertical bore and a horizontal bore that meet. A junction of the vertical bore with the horizontal bore is located in a single block of metal of the hydraulic fracturing tree. The hydraulic fracturing tree also includes a first valve positioned along the vertical bore and a second valve positioned along the horizontal bore. Both of the first and second valves can be located in the single block of metal having the junction of the vertical bore with the horizontal bore. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US12044090B2
A sleeve for protecting a lockdown screw of a wellhead assembly can include a body having an inner surface and an outer surface, wherein the body has a concave curvature, where the body is configured to be disposed within an upper portion of a recess of a component of the wellhead assembly inside of which the lockdown screw is disposed, where the concave curvature of the body is configured to match that of an inner wall of the component, and where the outer surface is configured to isolate the lockdown screw from an environment in a cavity partially formed by the inner surface when the body is disposed in the upper portion of the recess.
US12044086B2
An annular pressure activated downhole tool has a housing including an outer surface, an inner surface defining a passage, an annular projection projecting into the passage from the inner surface, and an opening. A mandrel extends into the passage. The mandrel has a first end and a second end. A power spring support is detachably connected to the second end of the mandrel in the passage. A power spring is arranged about the mandrel and extends between the power spring support and the annular projection. A trigger housing is arranged in one of the mandrel and the power spring support. A trigger arranged in the trigger housing selectively engages with the inner surface. The trigger is operable to disengage from the inner surface of the housing, releasing the power spring, and shifting the mandrel along the passage when exposed to a selected annular pressure.
US12044084B2
The present invention relates to a downhole self-propelling wireline tool string for being connected to and powered by a wireline for propelling a tool forward in a well and/or for providing weight on a bit while performing an operation, comprising a first downhole self-propelling wireline tool, comprising a first tool body, a first electric motor operating at a rotational speed, a first electric control unit for controlling the rotational speed of the electric motor, one first drive section, comprising a plurality of projectable arm assemblies movably connected at a first arm end with the tool body and projectable from the tool body by means of a first fluid having a first fluid pressure, and a plurality of wheels for contacting a wall of the well, each wheel comprising a hydraulic motor for rotation of the wheel to provide a self-propelling movement, and each wheel being connected with a second arm end of one of the arm assemblies, a first hydraulic pump driven by the electric motor for generation of a second fluid pressure for driving the hydraulic motor(s) rotating the wheel(s), and wherein the downhole self-propelling wireline tool string further comprises a second downhole self-propelling wireline tool, comprising a second tool body, a second electric motor operating at a rotational speed, a second electric control unit for controlling the rotational speed of the electric motor, one second drive section comprising a plurality of projectable arm assemblies movably connected at a first arm end with the tool body and projectable from the tool body by means of a first fluid having a third fluid pressure, and a plurality of wheels for contacting the wall of the well, each wheel comprising a hydraulic motor for rotation of the wheel, and each wheel being connected with a second arm end of one of the arm assemblies, at least one second hydraulic pump driven by the second electric motor for generation of a fourth fluid pressure for driving the hydraulic motor(s) rotating the wheel(s), and wherein each electric motor comprises a power-limiting unit in order to distribute a first part of the current from the wireline to power the first electric motor and a second part of the current to power the second electric motor.
US12044083B1
A method may include positioning a vessel supporting a coiled tubing string over a subsea wellhead disposed on a wellbore; relaying and landing a distal end of the coiled tubing string to the subsea wellhead using a first injector, wherein relaying the distal end of the coiled tubing string may include relating a second injector into a subsea environment to establish a subsea injector, and wherein the first injector is a surface injector disposed on the vessel. The method may further include connecting a coiled tubing module to a pressure control assembly disposed on a subsea wellhead and using either the first injector or the second injector as a principal injector to extend the coiled tubing string into the wellbore, wherein the principal injector is determined based at least in part on a wellbore pressure. The method may further include performing a wellbore operation with the coiled tubing string, wherein the wellbore operation does not utilize a riser.
US12044080B2
Systems and methods for hoisting a top drive of a drilling rig. An example system includes a hoisting system having a linear electric motor operable to raise and lower the top drive. An example method includes commencing operation of a processing device to cause operation of the linear electric motor to raise and lower the top drive. The linear electric motor may have a stator connected to and extending vertically along a mast of the drilling rig, and a rotor connected to the top drive and operable to move relative to the stator. The rotor may be connected to the top drive via one or more flexible lines.
US12044078B2
A downhole component includes a member formed from a first material. The member includes an end having a first plurality of external threads and a second end having a first plurality of internal threads. One of the first plurality of external threads and the second plurality of internal threads includes a first portion formed from the first material and a second portion formed from a second material that is distinct from the first material.
US12044077B2
A drill string including an elongate hollow main length section and a male spigot portion provided at the second end and having an externally threaded section and a non-threaded shank positioned axially intermediate the main length section and the threaded section. The shank includes a transition section positioned adjacent the main length section or a radially projecting shoulder at the second end. The transition section has an outside diameter that increases in a direction from the male spigot portion to the main length section or the shoulder. The cross-sectional shape profile of the outer surface of the transition section in the plane of the longitudinal axis has a segment of an ellipse having semi-major axis (a) and a semi-minor axis (b), wherein the ratio of the semi-major to semi-minor axes (a:b) is within the range 2b
US12044064B2
An access door may include a core, first and second stiles defined along opposites sides of the core such that the core between the first and second stiles defines a recessed pocket with each of the first and second stiles defining a channel therein extending longitudinally along an inwardly-facing edge thereof, bottom and top elongated panels each defining tongue members at opposite sides thereof and configured to be received transversely in the recessed pocket with the tongue members received within the channels defined along the inwardly-facing edges of the first and second stiles, wherein, with the top and bottom elongated panels received in the recessed pocket, exterior faces of the first and second stiles, exterior faces of the top and bottom elongated panels, and an exposed surface of the recessed pocket between the top and bottom elongated panels define an exterior surface of one side of the door.
US12044059B2
An article exchange assembly for reducing transmission of pathogens includes a housing, which is mountable in an opening in a wall of a structure below a service window positioned in the wall. The housing extends from the opening into the structure and has a front face, which is open. A set of drawer slides is engaged to and positioned in the housing. The drawer slides are selectively extensible through the front face of the housing. A drawer is operationally engaged to the set of drawer slides. A plurality of fasteners is engaged to a tray, which is positioned in the drawer. The fasteners selectively engage article to the tray. A lift module selectively elevates the tray to positioned proximate to a top of the drawer so that the articles are accessible to a person seated in a vehicle positioned exterior to the structure and proximate to the service window.
US12044056B2
A system for use with an autonomous working machine such as a robotic lawn mower. The system may allow communication (directly or indirectly) between the machine and a gate or other barrier opening to allow unattended or remotely-controlled passage of the machine through the gate. In some embodiments, the mower may include a vision system operable to detect unknown objects within an area adjacent to the gate.
US12044055B2
A handle for a door of a motor vehicle includes an attachment portion to be fixed to the door of the motor vehicle, a maneuverable portion coupled to the attachment portion in a movable manner between at least three distinct positions including a neutral position, a first activation position, and a second activation position, and a transducer device configured to detect a first movement of the manoeuvrable portion reaching the first activation position, generate a first signal to trigger an automatic opening of the door by means of an actuator device of the motor vehicle when the first movement is detected, and detect a second movement of the manoeuvrable portion reaching the second activation position, wherein the transducer device is further configured to generate a second signal to trigger an automatic closing of the door by means of the actuator device when the second movement is detected.
US12044048B1
A door stopper device mounts to the pivot joint of a door hinge and provides a mechanical travel stop to adjustably limit the rotational range of the door. The device includes an elongate, curved hinge-mounting body having a split sleeve construction defining a space configured to receive the pivot joint of the door hinge. A circular end structure is disposed at each axial end of the sleeve body. An axially-extending and screw-receiving threaded passageway is formed in each end structure. During installation, after the sleeve body is mounted to the pivot hinge of the door, a set screw is threaded through each end structure passageway to form a respective press fit connection with one end of the hinge pin to secure the device to the pivot joint.
US12044047B2
A door handle assembly for a motor vehicle door may include first and second housing components configured to be secured together to form a housing with inner surfaces of the components facing one another, the housing configured to be mounted to the motor vehicle door to define a door handle, a first sensor is disposed along a first detection surface defined by at least a portion of an outer surface of the housing, and a second sensor is disposed along a second detection surface defined by at least another portion of the outer surface of the housing, wherein signals produced by the first and second sensors are configured to enable any of locking, unlocking, latching, unlatching, automatically opening and automatically closing of the motor vehicle door.
US12044040B2
A cable lockout device includes a housing receiving a cable in which the cable forms a loop external to the housing. The housing has a passageway extending therethrough through which the cable extends and has a cable gripping location positioned along the passageway. The cable lockout device further includes a locking arm rotationally coupled to the housing that actuates a cleat or cam spaced from the axis of the locking arm, which cleat or cam can be brought towards another cleat or cam in the cable gripping location (upon closure) or away from the other cleat or cam (upon opening). In a closed position of the locking arm, the locking arm is lockable relative to the body to prevent movement of the locking arm back to the opened position without first unlocking the locking arm relative to the body.
US12044039B2
An opening and closing device is provided. The opening and closing device includes a housing, a displacement restricting part, an electrical driving module, and an electroless driving module. The displacement restricting part is capable of moving with respect to the housing when the electrical driving module is in an unlocked state. The electrical driving module is capable of restricting the displacement restricting part from moving with respect to the housing when the electrical driving module is in a locked state. The electroless driving module is capable of releasing the electrical driving module's restriction over the moving of the displacement restricting part with respect to the housing via the hand-driven part.
US12044033B2
A low profile spa jet having a structure allowing for the use of a jet housing for both threaded/nut and grommet installation, wherein the jet protrudes into the spa tub less than 0.5″. The low profile spa jet also can have a jet face/flange that is interchangeable between threaded and grommet jet bodies without changing the relationship to the spa wall, wherein the jet protrudes the same amount in the installed state for both styles of jet body. The low profile spa jet also can have a jet face/flange that is removable and/or interchangeable before and after the jet body and jet internal are installed in the spa.
US12044022B2
A side rail assembly useful for securing a deck of a scaffold comprises a side rail configured to be supported between two ladder frames in first and second orientations. The side rail includes first and second support surfaces for supporting the deck in the first and second orientations, respectively. First and second vertically aligned slots are formed in respective opposing surfaces of the side rail. The side rail assembly further comprises a locking pin assembly comprising a shaft, a locking tab, and a biasing member to bias the locking tab into engagement with the deck and secure the deck against one of the support surfaces of the side rail depending on the orientation. The locking pin assembly is configured to be removably engaged with the first and second slots of the side rail in both the first and second orientations.
US12044021B2
A roofer support apparatus for providing a level support on a pitched roof includes a base mount with a plurality of adjustment apertures and a chain slot. A mount bottom side is positioned on a pitched roof. A support is pivotably coupled to the base mount and receives a board. A pivot bracket is coupled to the support and is selectively engageable with two of the plurality of adjustment apertures to fix the pivot bracket to the base mount with the support horizontal. A chain is coupled to the base mount and is selectively engageable with the chain slot of the mount front side. A chain anchor is coupled to the chain. The chain anchor is secured to an opposite roof side of the pitched roof.
US12044020B2
A demolition system includes a frame, a plurality of outriggers, a demolition apparatus, and a water reservoir. The frame includes a frame base, a plurality of support members coupled to the frame base, a platform coupled to the plurality of support members, and one or more lifting ears extending from the platform. The plurality of outriggers are coupled to the frame base. The demolition apparatus is coupled to and supported by the frame base. The demolition apparatus includes a main body rotatably coupled to the frame base, an arm extending from the main body between two of the plurality of support members, one or more gripping members coupled to the arm, and a motor configured to selectively rotate the main body relative to the frame base. The water reservoir is coupled to and supported by the platform of the frame. Additionally, the water reservoir provides water to the demolition apparatus.
US12044018B2
Concrete form assemblies having insulating foam panels are created using locking members embedded within the insulating foam panels and ties each having a pair of side rails for coupling two insulating foam panels together at a predetermined distance apart, the locking members and side rails being adapted so that either side rail can be coupled to either locking member and either of the ends of the rails and locking members can be toward the top or bottom of the assembly when the rails are coupled to the locking members.
US12044016B2
An uncoupling mat includes a flexible layer made of a film-like plastic with structuring that defines indentations provided with undercuts on a first, top side and a series of annular cavities formed on an opposite second, bottom side. The annular cavities on the bottom side each define a recess on the first side. The indentations have a cross-section adapted to receive a heating cable therein such that the cable can be held in position by the indentations. A plurality of weakening zones each extends between two rows of annular cavities in a straight line to allow the plastic layer to move substantially transversely to the direction of extension of the weakening zones.
US12044012B2
A power spout device includes a generally hollow main body having an outlet opening and an inlet opening for engaging the downspout outlet of a horizontal gutter. An elongated paddle is positioned within the main body and is mechanically connected to an electric motor. A fluid sensor is also positioned within the main body and is electrically connected to the motor. The fluid sensor functioning to selectively operate the motor upon detecting the presence of rainwater from the downspout outlet. A controller having a wireless communication unit is positioned along the main body. The controller functioning to receive operating instructions from a remote-control device. An adjustable nozzle is positioned along the output opening to adjust the vertical angle of the water being discharged out of the outlet opening.
US12044008B2
A building panel with a high degree of isotropy with regard to the load bearing capacity and flexural strength. The building panel includes a first section and a second section, each section including at least one layer, each of the at least one layer having fibers, whereby the fibers are distributed substantially homogeneously throughout each layer, substantially parallel to the main surfaces of the panel and oriented predominantly in the same direction and the sections are firmly joined in transverse direction, and the first section is thinner than the second section.
US12044001B2
A mobile home skirting base comprising: a horizontal surface; and two substantially equal, substantially symmetrical vertical surfaces co-extruded with the horizontal surface forming a channel to insert a mobile home skirting panel wherein the vertical surfaces each having an inwardly oriented retention edge that secure the mobile home skirting panel. The height of the vertical surfaces and the inward orientation of the vertical surfaces' retention edges, along with the other aspects of the invention, allows the mobile home skirting base to provide strong support, stabilization, and protection of the skirting panels.
US12043996B2
A retractable shower hose apparatus (11) has a housing enveloping a reel (21) mounted for rotation around an irrotatably axle (18). The axle (18) has a lumen (20) communicable with a shower valve supply of water whereby water can reach an axle port (19) disposed in a chamber (22) formed around the axle within the reel. The chamber (22) communicates with a shower hose reel coupling on the periphery of the reel to deliver water to the bore of the shower hose (24, 26). The reel has a depth equal to the diameter of the hose and is confined between closely fitting front and rear panels (12, 13) of the housing so that the hose can only coil radially out from the axis to a lead through (10). A coil spring (21.9) is disposed in the chamber (22) to act between the axle and reel and forcibly urge the hose to coil around the reel and retract into the housing.
US12043980B2
The present invention relates to a system and its equipments to collect mineral ores on the seabed and to float them up to the sea surface by utilizing the buoyancy of a liquid having a specific gravity less than that of water at room temperature. It is an underwater navigator capable of autonomous navigation that descends at a specific gravity of around 1.0 with a ballast that cancels buoyancy when descending from the sea surface, and ascends at a specific gravity of around 1.0 by exchanging mineral ores with the ballast on the seabed. On the seafloor, it is accompanied by a device that collects seabed mineral ores for the underwater vehicle.
US12043979B2
A plough for inserting a cable into a trench in the seabed is disclosed. The plough comprises a plough share for forming a trench in the seabed and a drawbar for enabling attachment of tensile members to the plough. The drawbar is moveable relative to the plough share between a first position, in which the plough is adapted to be towed by a towing cable to move the plough share relative to the seabed to form a trench, and a second position, in which the plough is adapted to be supported by the towing cable to enable the plough apparatus to be deployed to the seabed. A cable path receives the cable and an attachment part of the drawbar is moveable relative to the plough share between the second position and a third position, to enable the cable to be received in the cable path from above the plough.
US12043968B1
A building constructed with a reduced-carbon-emission portland cement concrete slab-on-ground (PCC SoG) having a nominal thickness that is less than a PCC SoG design for the ground site having a design thickness based on design guidelines set forth by the American Concrete Institute. Carbon emission savings for the reduced-carbon-emission PCC SoG are stored by a processor in a first database. The processor verifies that the building constructed with the reduced-carbon-emission PCC SoG has been completed. The processor transfers at least a portion of the carbon emission savings stored in the first database to a second database in preparation for the sale or exchange of the carbon emission savings only after the processor verifies that the building constructed with the reduced-carbon-emission PCC SoG has been completed.
US12043959B2
A device for processing high-consistency fibrous material has a housing. First and second treatment tools in the housing are fastened to a base plate, have a rotationally symmetrical form, are arranged coaxially to each other, rotate relative to one another about a common axis and delimit a treatment gap through which the fibrous material radially flows. The gap width of the gap is varied by axially shifting at least one base plate of a treatment tool. In order to determine the minimum distance between the base plates, the oscillations are detected on the device and the distance between the base plates rotating relative to one another is reduced until the frequency and/or the amplitude and/or the change in frequency and/or the change in amplitude of the oscillations exceeds a limit value. The distance when the limit value is exceeded is determined as the minimum distance.
US12043954B2
Devices, systems, and methods for autonomously separating and sorting a plurality of individual articles from a pile of laundry articles into two or more sorted loads for washing are described. For example, an autonomous sorting and separating system includes a stationary surface configured to receive thereon at a first location the pile of laundry articles. A plurality of actuatable grippers are disposed at spaced apart positions adjacent the stationary surface and comprise a first actuatable gripper configured to grasp, hoist, and deposit at a second location at least one of the plurality of individual articles within reach of a second actuatable gripper. A terminal gripper comprising at least one of the second actuatable gripper and another actuatable gripper is configured to release an individual article into one of the two or more sorted loads. At least one controller is in operable communication with the grippers.
US12043951B1
Systems and methods for attaching large articles of bedding such as bed sheets, blankets, duvet covers, comforters, and quilts, as well as other machine-washable large items such as sleeping bags, tablecloths, shower curtains, and shower curtain liners, in order to prevent or greatly reduce said articles from twisting, tangling, balling and/or wadding either independently or with each other in either or both the automatic washing machine or automatic clothes dryer. Exemplary fabric securing devices include a rigid base having keyholes and slit-holes, and flexible straps or tongues having a hollow post to engage a base keyhole and a crescent-shaped beveled edge to engage a base slit-hole.
US12043950B2
A laundry treatment apparatus includes: a cabinet, a drum rotatably disposed within the cabinet, a suction duct to which air discharged from the drum flows, a circulation flow path connected to the suction duct and configured to guide the air from the suction duct, an inflow duct connecting the circulation flow path to the drum such that the air received from the circulation flow path flows back to the drum through the inflow duct, a circulation fan configured guide the air between the suction duct and the inflow duct, a heat exchanger that is disposed at the circulation flow path and that is configured to perform heat exchange with the air, and an UV sterilizer disposed at a space that is defined in the circulation flow path at a position above a front surface of the heat exchanger, the sterilizer being configured to irradiate UV light to the heat exchanger.
US12043938B2
A laundry treating apparatus, which can perform a laundry drying function, includes a tub in which washing water is accommodated, a drum rotatably installed in the tub, a duct installed on the tub and provided with an air-intake port and an air-inflow port for a flow of air, a blower fan installed in the duct to form the flow of air between the air-intake port and the air-inflow port, a heat exchanger installed in the duct so as to be supplied with cooling water and configured to perform heat exchange so as to cool the air transferred along an inside of the duct, and a heater installed in the duct to heat the air transferred along the inside of the duct.
US12043935B2
A presser foot (1) for a sewing machine, having a shank (4) for fastening the presser foot (1) to a sewing machine, a needle opening (5) through which the sewing machine needle is able to be guided during sewing, and a presser foot sole (6) having an elongate depression (7) in the presser foot sole (6). The elongate depression (7) forms a guide wall which during sewing is configured to guide a filler material (8) to be sewn into the fabric (2) in the transport direction laterally beside the needle opening (5) and past the needle opening (5), and press said filler material against the fabric to be sewn, wherein the spatial extent of the elongate depression (7) is variably adjustable.
US12043934B2
Disclosed is a guiding apparatus for use with a machine to facilitate performing an action along a self-guided path on a substrate. The guiding apparatus may include a support member configured to be attached to at least a portion of the machine. Further, the guiding apparatus may include one or more of lighting units, optical sensors, controllers, and user interface components, mounted on the support member, configured to identify an object, obtain position of the object on a substrate and perform an action along a self-guided path in association with that object on the substrate.
US12043933B2
A system for bonding a first layer having short fibers with a second layer having long fibers into a nonwoven web. The system includes a belt, a headbox, a depositing belt with a delivery strand, a transfer belt with a receiving strand, a device, a pre-bonding unit, and a bonding device. The short fibers are deposited on the depositing belt to form the first layer with the headbox. The transfer belt transfers the first layer to the second layer. The pre-bonding unit has spaced-apart compacting devices which act on the transfer belt to form a lower strand of the transfer belt there between. The bonding device is arranged between the compacting devices. The bonding device bonds the first and second layers. The compacting devices and the bonding device are operatively connected to one another so that they are each always either in an operating state or in a resting state.
US12043932B2
The present invention relates to a nonwoven fabric including a conjugated fiber containing 40% by mass or more and 80% by mass or less of a propylene homopolymer (A) having a melting point (Tm-D) measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) of higher than 120° C., 4% by mass or more and 40% by mass or less of a polypropylene-based resin (B) having a melting point (Tm-D) measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) of 120° C. or lower, and 10% by mass or more and 55% by mass or less of a polyethylene-based resin (C), wherein the nonwoven fabric has a texture uniformity of 2.1 or more and 3.0 or less and a bulkiness of 450 μm or more.
US12043931B2
An elastic band may include an elastic weaving body, and a three-dimensional protruding surface is knitted on a front surface of the elastic weaving body while a flat plush surface is knitted on a rear surface thereof. The three-dimensional protruding surface comprises a plurality protruding portions separated with the same interval. When the elastic band is in use, the protruding portions not only can improve the friction coefficient of the surface so as to avoid the elastic band from loosen, but also can be used as ribs on the elastic weaving body to prevent the elastic band from being folded and to keep the elastic band smooth. Also, the three-dimensional protruding surface and the flat plush surface can provide extra soft touch for skin and have the effect of reducing pressure, which greatly improves comfort to wear.
US12043926B2
The invention relates to a method for optimizing a spinning process, through which a fiber material fed in the form of raw fibers and output in the form of yarn passes, with respect to foreign materials. At a first position in the spinning process, a first foreign material information relating to the foreign materials is determined. At a second position in the spinning process, which is downstream with respect to the first position, a second foreign material information relating to the foreign materials is determined. The first foreign material information and the second foreign material information are associated with each other such that they relate to substantially the same sample of the fiber material. Based on the first foreign material information and the second foreign material information assigned thereto, a change is made to the spinning process to optimize the spinning process.
US12043912B2
Disclosed are membrane electrode assemblies having a cathode layer comprising a carbon oxide reduction catalyst that promotes reduction of a carbon oxide; an anode layer comprising a catalyst that promotes oxidation of a water; a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) layer disposed between, and in contact with, the cathode layer and the anode layer; and a salt having a concentration of at least about 10 uM in at least a portion of the MEA.
US12043910B2
The present invention provides an integrated system comprising: an electrocatalysis device, in which an oxidation reaction is carried out at an anode by an electrocatalysis of glycerol, and at a cathode hydrogen is produced through a reduction reaction; and a chemical catalysis device for producing butene oligomers from lignocellulosic biomass through a hydrogenation process, wherein the hydrogen produced by the electrocatalysis device is used for the production of the butene oligomers by the chemical catalysis device, and a thermal energy of the electrocatalysis device and the chemical catalysis device is exchanged with each other. The integrated system according to the present invention can reduce the cost of materials of a process for preparing butene oligomers by using hydrogen, which is a byproduct of a process for preparing glycerol derivatives, as a material of a process for preparing the butene oligomers through the integration of materials and energy from the processes for preparing glycerol derivatives and butene oligomers, and can obtain an effect of reducing energy costs by greatly reducing energy required in an integrated process by supplying, as a part of a thermal energy required at the process for preparing glycerol derivatives, the waste heat of the process for preparing the butene oligomers through the construction of a thermal energy integration network.
US12043907B2
The present invention provides an electrolytic device and includes an electrolytic tank and a plurality of electrodes. The electrolytic tank comprises a case for accommodating liquid water. The inner wall of the case has a plurality of engagement structures. The plurality of electrodes are set in the engagement structures respectively to be arranged at intervals in the case, wherein the case is connected to the plurality of electrodes by injection molding.
US12043901B1
Composite materials incorporating high-hardness particulates are provided. Methods for forming composite materials incorporating meta-stable, high-hardness particulates using cold-spray techniques are also provided. The composite materials and methods of the invention beneficially permit the formation of intermixed and graded armors. The composite materials and methods also permit the production of armor compositions with tailored properties.
US12043874B2
A system for reducing ore includes a hydrogen supply unit configured to supply hydrogen, a furnace configured to reduce the ore using the supplied hydrogen, and a hydrogen recovery unit configured to recover hydrogen from an exhaust gas that is exhausted from the furnace.
US12043871B2
This document relates to methods and materials for detecting premalignant and malignant neoplasms. For example, methods and materials for determining whether or not a stool sample from a mammal contains nucleic acid markers or polypeptide markers of a neoplasm are provided.
US12043869B2
Methods and compositions are provided for detecting a predisposition for cardiovascular disease in an individual.
US12043868B2
This invention provides devices for use in various analytical applications including single-molecule analytical reactions. Methods for detecting analytes optically by propagating optical energy by waveguides within a substrate are provided. Analytical devices are provided which have both shallow and deep waveguides in which illumination light is transported through the deep waveguides and coupled into the shallow waveguides. The shallow waveguides provide evanescent field illumination to analytes, such as single-molecule analytes, within nanometer scale wells. Integrated devices including integrated detectors such as CMOS detectors are included.
US12043866B2
The present invention features compositions and methods for quantifying detection of a target oligonucleotide in a sample in real time. These methods are compatible with target oligonucleotides amplified using a NEAR reaction.
US12043865B2
The present invention relates to a genetic probe comprising: a nanoparticle; an oligonucleotide probe anchored to the surface of the nanoparticle, comprising an oligonucleotide backbone with a tag incorporated therein via a linker group; and a reference probe anchored to the surface of the nanoparticle, wherein the reference probe comprises a marker; wherein either (a) the tag is an organic fluorescent tag and the marker is a transition metal-based fluorescent marker; or (b) the tag is a redox-active tag and the marker is a transition metal-based redox-active marker. The invention also relates to a composition or kit containing a probe of the invention.
US12043846B2
The current disclosure relates to a culture medium, different methods to generate adult-like cardiomyocytes from pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESC) and/or (induced) pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) using the medium, in particular from stem cells that differentiated into (foetal) cardiomyocytes, and to kits comprising the medium, or the medium together with differentiated (foetal) cardiomyocytes derived from pluripotent embryonic stem cells (ESC) and/or (induced) pluripotent stem cells (iPSC).
US12043845B2
The invention provide a method for reducing the amount of acidic species and/or increasing the amount of basic species in a composition comprising a recombinant protein or for increasing the specific production rate of mammalian cells expressing a recombinant protein to simplify subsequent clarification and purification of the recombinant protein, said method comprising culturing mammalian cells expressing said recombinant protein in a cell culture medium comprising citrulline.
US12043844B2
The disclosure provides compositions and methods for cell therapy of hPAP in humans using gene corrected and in vitro differentiated patient autologous macrophage cells. The disclosure also provides compositions in the form of a cell product and related compositions and methods for making the cell product and for direct pulmonary transplantation of same.
US12043843B2
The present application provides materials and methods for treating hemoglobinopathies. More specifically, the application provides methods for producing progenitor cells that are genetically modified via genome editing to increase the production of fetal hemoglobin (HbF), as well as modified progenitor cells (including, for example, CD34+ human hematopoietic stem cells) producing increased levels of HbF, and methods of using such cells for treating hemoglobinopathies such as sickle cell anemia and β-thalassemia.
US12043839B2
The present disclosure relates to the use of recombinant proteins for inducing epigenetic modifications at specific loci, as well as to methods of using these recombinant proteins for reducing the expression of genes in plants.
US12043835B2
The invention disclosed a method for conducting site-directed modification to a plant genome using non-inheritable materials. The method provided in the present invention specifically comprises the following steps: introducing a non-inheritable material into a cell or a tissue or a part of the plant of interest; wherein said non-inheritable material is a nuclease specific to said target fragment or an mRNA expressing said nuclease, thereby the target fragment is cleaved by said nuclease and site-directed modification to the target fragment is achieved through DNA repairing in the plant. By introducing a non-inheritable material of sequence-specific nuclease, site-directed mutation in a plant gene can be achieved, and no exogenous gene or nucleic acid fragments will be integrated into the plant as obtained. Therefore, the present invention can lead to more precise genome function study and higher biosafety in breeding.
US12043833B2
The invention provides certain nucleic acids (e.g., double stranded siRNA molecules), as well as conjugates that comprise a targeting moiety, a double stranded siRNA, and optional linking groups. Certain embodiments also provide synthetic methods useful for preparing the conjugates. The conjugates are useful to target therapeutic double stranded siRNA to the liver and to treat liver diseases including hepatitis (e.g. hepatitis B and hepatitis D).
US12043831B2
Disclosed herein are antisense compounds and methods for decreasing alpha-synuclein mRNA and protein expression. Also disclosed herein are methods for treating, preventing, and ameliorating neurodegenerative diseases in an individual in need thereof.
US12043829B2
The present invention relates to the field of biotechnologies and in particular to the use of a nucleotide sequence having transcription promoter activity in prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell systems.
US12043824B2
A modular incubator comprising a housing structure divided into cells and having several incubator modules, each of which can be housed, in a removable manner, in a relative cell and is provided with an incubation chamber to incubate microbiological or cellular cultures. Each cell has a first group of connectors and each incubator module has a second group of connectors, each of which can be coupled to a corresponding connector of the first group of connectors of the relative cell when the incubator module is housed in said cell. The first group of connectors has at least one pneumatic connector communicating with at least one source of aeriform substance, and the second group of connectors has a corresponding pneumatic connector communicating with the relative incubation chamber to allow the aeriform substance to be introduced into the incubation chamber.
US12043818B2
A plant oil extraction apparatus may include a volatile solvent tank, an oil bearing plant material container for receiving at least some of the volatile solvent, a chiller for cooling volatile solvent to a liquid state in contact with the oil bearing plant material, a vessel for collecting at least some of the mixture of volatile solvent and plant material, a heater for heating at least liquid state volatile solvent to a gas state, a compressor for compressing volatile solvent gas to a higher pressure, and a heat exchanger to cool and condense at least part of the compressed solvent gas to a liquid state and to return at least part of the condensed liquid volatile solvent to the solvent tank. The cycling of the apparatus may at least in part be controlled by an electronic controller and a human machine interface may be used by an operator to input data to the electronic controller.
US12043817B1
An electric motor lubricating fluid for an electric motor system including a lubricating base oil, at least one sulfurized component, at least two phosphorus-providing additives, and at least one high molecular weight dispersant. The electric motor lubricating fluid provides acceptable wear performance as well as good electrical conductivity and oxidative stability for use in electric motor system fluids having a low viscosity.
US12043806B2
The present invention includes a fuel injection amount sensor for detecting an injection amount of oil, a pretreatment desulfurization agent injection amount sensor for detecting an injection amount of a pretreatment desulfurization agent, and a control panel for controlling and monitoring the injection amount of the pretreatment desulfurization agent so that the predetermined desulfurization agent is mixed with the fuel in a predetermined mixing ratio. The fuel injection amount sensor is disposed on a fuel supply line between a fuel tank and a marine engine, and the pretreatment desulfurization agent injection amount sensor is disposed between a downstream fuel supply line installed downstream of the fuel injection amount sensor and a pretreatment desulfurization agent tank.
US12043805B2
Disclosed is a method and a device for purification and desulfurization of liquid hydrocarbons, which, compared to sodium dispersion desulfurizing processes like already been disclosed, open up additional fields of application and greatly improves economy and achievable results.
US12043804B2
A process comprising creating an immiscible mixture by combining (a) a hydrocarbon feedstock containing contaminants and (b) a wash water, to create the immiscible mixture with at least three distinct layers: a hydrocarbon layer, a rag layer, and a brine layer. In this process a portion of the contaminants are removed from the hydrocarbon mixture where are then transferred to the brine layer. The brine layer is then separated from the immiscible mixture. In this process an alkalinity modifier is added in the process to reduce the emulsions in the immiscible mixture to create the at least three distinct layers.
US12043803B2
A process for preparing olefins, especially ethylene, butylene and propylene, includes contacting a renewable naphtha having a hexane and heptane content of from 70% to 80% with a heterogeneous cracking catalyst comprising a matrix component and a molecular sieve having a framework of silica, alumina and a metal selected from Zn, Fe, Ce, La, Y, Ga and/or Zr.
US12043800B2
The present invention addresses to a hydrothermal liquefaction process capable of generating a liquid stream, rich in renewable molecules, with lower oxygen content, lower percentage of water and lower acidity compared to other products of thermochemical processes of biomass conversion. In order to effectively carry out this process, a catalyst was developed, obtained from the calcination of castor bean hull, to be used in the field of biofuels in order to provide an environmentally friendly alternative for the production of fuels.
US12043799B2
A process for extracting crude oil from a solid, oil bearing diatomaceous earth. In the process includes the step (a) of mixing crude oil-bearing diatomaceous earthwith a heated solvent such as toluene to reduce the size of the oil-bearing diatomaceous earthand release crude oil into the solvent, step (b) of adding water to the size reduced solid and solvent mixture of step (a) to yield a mixture of crude oil+solvent+water+sized reduced diatomaceous earth, step (c) of passing the mixture of crude oil+solvent+water+sized reduced diatomaceous earthfrom step (b) through a cyclone separator to remove residual solids and to yield crude oil+solvent; and step (d) of passing the crude oil+solvent mixture of step (c) through a solvent stripper to remove solvent from the crude oil and to yield substantially diatomaceous earthand solvent free crude oil.
US12043790B2
A method includes deploying a solid epoxy material into a target region of a pipe and delivering a liquid epoxy formulation into the target region of the pipe so that the liquid epoxy formulation fills voids around the solid epoxy material and inside the pipe within the target region, wherein the liquid epoxy formulation cures within the voids to form a solid epoxy plug with the solid epoxy material within the target region of the pipe.
US12043788B2
A treatment fluid can include a base fluid and a stabilizing additive. The stabilizing additive can include a plurality of environmentally acceptable nanoparticles. The particle size distribution of the plurality of nanoparticles can be selected such that the nanoparticles stabilize a wellbore wall of a subterranean formation or form a filtercake to inhibit or prevent fluid loss into permeable areas of the formation. The plurality of nanoparticles can have a particle size distribution of a d10 value in the range of 20 to 45 nanometers, a d50 value in the range of 40 to 80 nanometers, and a d90 value in the range of 80 to 140 nanometers. The plurality of nanoparticles can also be coated with a polymeric shell. The treatment fluid can be used in an oil and gas operation.
US12043785B2
The present disclosure relates to abrasive articles including conformable coatings, e.g. a hydrophobic coating, methods of making and polishing systems therefrom. The present disclosure provides an abrasive layer, having a hydrophobic exterior surface, including at least one of (i) a plurality of individual diamond particles and (ii) a plurality of engineered features having a conformable diamond layer and; a conformable hydrophobic layer in contact with and at least partially coating at least one of the plurality of individual diamond particles and the conformable diamond layer and, wherein the conformable hydrophobic layer includes diamond like glass and forms the hydrophobic exterior surface and the contact angle of the hydrophobic exterior surface is greater than 110 degrees.
US12043782B2
The present invention relates to a liquid crystalline medium comprising dichroitic dyes made of benzothiadiazoles and related extended heterocyclic derivatives, the use of said medium for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in devices for regulating the passage of radiation energy from an outside space into an inside space, for example in windows. The invention further relates to devices containing the liquid crystalline medium according to the invention. Some new dichroitic dyes are disclosed.
US12043778B2
A method for producing a quantum dot composition includes providing a preliminary quantum dot composition containing a quantum dot to which a ligand is bonded and a free ligand, providing an adsorbent to the preliminary quantum dot composition, adsorbing the free ligand to the adsorbent, and removing a modified adsorbent to which the free ligand is adsorbed to provide a purified quantum dot composition. A light emitting element including the purified quantum dot composition may have superior luminous efficiency.
US12043774B2
Disclosed is a reactive hot-melt adhesive composition, containing: a urethane prepolymer having a polymer chain including a structural unit derived from polyol and a structural unit derived from polyisocyanate, and an isocyanate group as a terminal group of the polymer chain; and a functional group protection type silane coupling agent.
US12043772B2
The present invention relates to two-part cyanoacrylate adhesive comprising a) a first part comprising a cyanoacrylate component; a peroxide catalyst; a stabilizer and a thickener; and b) a second part comprising a (meth)acrylate component; a graphene oxide; an adhesion promoter; a metal salt; and a fumed silica. Adhesive according to the present invention provides good performance as structural adhesive, good adhesion strength, good open and fix times, good tensile lap shear strength and good peel strength.
US12043768B2
Disclosed herein are compositions including (a) a first component comprising (1) an epoxy-adduct that is the reaction product of reactants comprising a first epoxy compound, a polyol, and an anhydride and/or a diacid and (2) a second epoxy compound; (b) rubber particles having a core/shell structure and/or graphenic carbon particles; and (c) a second component that chemically reacts with the first component at ambient or slightly thermal conditions. Also disclosed herein are compositions including (a) an epoxy-capped flexibilizer; (b) a heat-activated latent curing agent; and optionally (c) rubber particles having a core/shell structure and/or graphenic carbon particles; (d) an epoxy/CTBN adduct; and/or (e) an epoxy/dimer acid adduct. The heat-activated latent curing agent may include at least one reaction product of reactants including an epoxy compound and an amine and/or an alkaloid.
US12043761B2
A method of manufacturing a composition with improved quantum yield, containing at least these steps: a/ manufacturing a mixture by at least these steps: 1/ providing a semiconducting light emitting nanoparticle, 2/ adding a macromolecular compound comprising at least an anchoring group; 3/ adding an organic additive, and b/ subjecting the mixture from step a/ to irradiation with light of a wavelength in the range of 300 to 600 nm having an intensity in the range of 0.025 to 1 W/cm2 to obtain the composition; wherein the organic additive is defined by formula (Ia): M-(X—Y)2, wherein M is a divalent metal ion, X is a hydrocarbon chain, and Y is a functional group.
US12043757B2
A superhydrophobic coating composition is provided comprising an NP component and a radical initiator (RI), wherein the NP component comprises NP particles having organic moieties bound to the surface of the NP particles. Also provided is a superhydrophobic coating composition further comprising a fluid. Also provided is a method for preparing a super-hydrophobic (SH) surface, where the method includes mixing an NP component with at least one RI and possibly with a fluid, thereby providing a coating composition, applying the coating composition onto a substrate (pre-coated or containing oxides) thereby providing a coated substrate; and applying radiation to the coated substrate, thereby providing the SH surface on which at least part of the NP component is covalently bound, directly or indirectly, to the substrate.
US12043754B2
[Problem] Provided is a two-component type curable resin composition that allows a mixture of an A agent and a B agent to have excellent dispersibility and printability, causes no visible-copper phenomenon, and provides an excellent packing form (receivability) for transportation. [Solution] A two-component type curable resin composition according to the present invention is characterized by including: an A agent containing a carboxyl group-containing resin; and a B agent containing a thermosetting ingredient, wherein the A agent has a viscosity value in the range of 50 dPa·s or more and 200 dPa·s or less at 25° C. at 5 rpm, wherein the B agent has a viscosity value in the range of 100 dPa·s or more and 300 dPa·s or less at 25° C. at 5 rpm, wherein the dispersity of a mixture of the A agent and the B agent is 20 μm or less on a grind gauge, and wherein, with respect to the total amount of the A agent and the B agent, the mixing ratio of the A agent is 75 mass % or more and less than 100 mass %, and the mixing ratio of the B agent is more than 0 mass % and 25 mass % or less.
US12043753B2
Described herein is an improved process for anticorrosion pretreatment of a metallic surface including steel, galvanized steel, aluminum, an aluminum alloy, magnesium and/or a zinc-magnesium alloy, wherein the metallic surface is brought into contact with i) an acidic aqueous composition A which includes a1) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium and hafnium compounds, and with ii) an aqueous composition B which includes b1) at least one (meth)acrylate resin and b2) at least one phenol resin, where the metallic surface is brought into contact firstly with the composition A and then with the composition B and/or firstly with the composition B and then with the composition A and/or simultaneously with the composition A and the composition B.
US12043748B2
A photo-curable liquid composition for additive manufacturing of silicon-containing carbide ceramic includes a polymethylvinylsilane (PMVS) resin that has photo-reactivity over a first photo-wavelength absorption range and a photo-initiator additive mixed with the PMVS resin. The photo-initiator additive has photo-reactivity over a second photo-wavelength absorption range that has an overlapping wavelength range with the first photo-wavelength absorption range. The PMVS and the photo-initiator additive are reactive to polymerize upon exposure to radiation having a wavelength in the overlapping wavelength range.
US12043747B2
The present invention relates to a coating liquid comprising an aerogel particle and a liquid medium.
US12043745B2
Provided herein are hybrid pigments and methods of making the same. The hybrid pigments include a natural polyamide substrate and an acid dye disposed on the natural polyamide substrate. The hybrid pigments are biodegradable, compostable, or both, and provide an environmentally friendly alternative to synthetic polymer particle-based pigments.
US12043742B2
An oil-soluble thermosensitive resin lost circulation material for protecting a reservoir includes the following raw materials in parts by weight: 40-60 parts of resin matrix, 15-40 parts of modified asphalt, 5-12 parts of viscosity modifier, 2-5 parts of cross-linking agent, 6-15 parts of softening point modifier, and 1-3 parts of dispersant; it further provides a method for preparing the resin lost circulation material; the resin lost circulation material can melt and adhere in different temperature ranges, rapid plugging is realized, and the plugging time is long; the oil-soluble thermosensitive resin lost circulation material can be dissolved by oil flow during oil well production, so that the reservoir permeability is recovered, so as to achieve the purpose of protecting the hydrocarbon reservoir.
US12043741B2
The present invention provides a conjugated diene-based polymer composition excellent in rolling resistance, grip performance on a wet road surface, and abrasion resistance when formed into a tire. Also provided is a conjugated diene-based polymer composition containing: 10 to 90 parts by mass of a conjugated diene-based polymer (A) having a glass transition temperature of −20° C. or more; and 10 to 90 parts by mass of a conjugated diene-based polymer (B) having a glass transition temperature of −25° C. or less, wherein the conjugated diene-based polymer (A) has an absolute molecular weight, measured by viscosity detector-equipped GPC-light scattering measurement, of 40×104 or more and 5000×104 or less, and a branch number (Bn), measured by the viscosity detector-equipped GPC-light scattering measurement, of 8 or more.
US12043735B2
This invention is based upon the unexpected finding that a hydrocarbon traction resin can be dispersed into the oil used in making an oil extended emulsion and solution rubbers to attain improved performance characteristics. For instance, this technique allows for the hydrocarbon traction resin to be incorporated into the rubber at a higher level than would ordinarily be possible using conventional mixing techniques. In tire tread compounds this provides improved wet traction characteristics without compromising cured stiffness (dry traction) and ultimate properties (chip/chunk resistance). This technique can be used to incorporate a resin into virtually any synthetic rubber that can benefit from being oil extended. It is of particular value in making resin modified solution styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR), emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber (ESBR), high cis-1.4-polybutadiene rubber, and synthetic polyisoprene rubber which are formulated for use in tire tread compounds.
US12043732B2
A system for remediation of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) has a multiplicity of β-cyclodextrins (β-CDs) and/or modified β-CDs combined with a vehicle additive, and a delivery device. Modified β-CDs can contain a single amine functionality at a single primary carbon or single secondary carbon of the β-CD. The vehicle additive can be powdered activated carbon (PAC). The delivery device is a column, a pouch, a packet, or a sheet that can permit the contacting of a fluid environment with the β-CDs and vehicle additive. The system of remediation can be used for a fluid environment or for biological organisms. CD-based fluorescent sensors can detect PFASs in the environment.
US12043730B2
The present invention aims to provide a fused deposition modeling type additive manufacturing material which has flexibility when molded into a filamentous material such as a filament, and can exhibit an excellent manufacturing property when additive manufacturing is performed using a molded product thereof, and the fused deposition modeling type additive manufacturing material according to the present invention contains: a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin; a polyethylene glycol having a weight average molecular weight of 200 to 1,000; and a carboxylic acid metal salt in an amount of 0.8 mass % or less with respect to the polyvinyl alcohol-based resin.
US12043727B2
The present invention relates to a polymer composition, comprising a polypropylene and a stabilizing additive mixture, wherein said stabilizing additive mixture comprises: i) a thioether compound according to Formula I, ii) a Hindered Amine Light Stabilizer (HALS) comprising a substituted amine group; and iii) an inorganic acid scavenger. The present invention further relates to an article comprising said polymer composition, and the use of said polymer composition for the housing for antennas for wireless communication.
US12043726B2
Aqueous roof coating compositions contain an aqueous dispersion of a vinyl acetate ethylene copolymer obtained by polymerizing by aqueous emulsion polymerization, in the presence of one or more emulsifiers, of a) 50 to 90% by weight of vinyl acetate, b) 2 to 45% by weight of ethylene, and c) 0.1 to 10% by weight of at least one functional comonomer which is an ethylenically unsaturated acid or salt thereof, an ethylenically unsaturated carboxamide, or an ethylenically unsaturated silane monomers, and optionally d) 0 to 35% by weight of copolymerizable ethylenically unsaturated non-functional comonomers, based on the total weight of the monomers and fillers and optionally pigments.
US12043717B2
Provided is a foam sheet includes a composition including polylactic acid. The polylactic acid includes, as monomer units. D-lactic acid and L-lactic acid, and an amount of the D-lactic acid or the L-lactic acid in the polylactic acid is 98 mol % or greater. An amount of the polylactic acid is 98% by mass or greater relative to a total amount of organic matter in the foam sheet. Bulk density of the foam sheet is 0.063 g/cm3 or greater but 0.125 g/cm3 or less.
US12043709B2
A structural reinforcement for an article including a carrier (10) that includes: (i) a mass of polymeric material (12) having an outer surface; and (ii) at least one fibrous composite Insert (14) or overlay (980) having an outer surface and including at least one elongated fiber arrangement (e.g., having a plurality of ordered fibers). The fibrous Insert (14) or overlay (980) is envisioned to adjoin the mass of the polymeric material in a predetermined location for carrying a predetermined load that Is subjected upon the predetermined location (thereby effectively providing localized reinforcement to that predetermined location). The fibrous insert (14) or overlay (980) and the mass of polymeric material (12) are of compatible materials, structures or both, for allowing the fibrous insert or overlay to be at feast partially joined to the mass of the polymeric material. Disposed upon at least a portion of the carrier (10) may be a mass of activatable material (126). The fibrous insert (14) or overlay (980) may include a polymeric matrix that includes a thermoplastic epoxy.
US12043704B2
Alkylsilicone resins containing at least 20 mol percent of siloxy units bearing a >Cs alkyl group and having from 5-20 weight percent of alkoxy groups may be prepared directly by hydrolysis of chlorosilanes, and are highly effective as bulk hydrophobing agents in the preparation of fibrocement.
US12043702B2
A novel polymer having high glass transition temperature and an excellent balance between heat resistance, high refractive index and mechanical properties, and a composition and molded article containing the polymer are provided. The polymer according to the invention has a first structural unit represented by at least one of formulae (1-1), (1-2) and (1-3) below and a second structural unit having either a secondary amino structure or a tertiary amino structure at two or more terminals.
US12043699B2
The invention provides an impact-resistant and flame-retardant polyester material, which includes a PET resin, a nucleating agent, a flame retardant, an antioxidant, a rod-shaped filling and reinforcing material and a compatibilizer. The PET resin includes virgin pellets or environmental-friendly recycled pellets, which can meet the demand for the introduction of recycled materials.
US12043697B2
An epoxy resin composition and a cured product thereof are provided, the epoxy resin composition comprising an epoxy resin (A), a curing agent (B) comprising a compound represented by the following formula (B-1) (wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a methoxy group or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms), and an imidazole adduct-type curing accelerator (C), wherein the molar ratio of the content of a phenolic hydroxide group to the content of an epoxy group in the epoxy resin composition is 0.25 to 0.67.
US12043696B2
A zwitterionic resin is manufactured by a manufacturing method which includes the following steps. A first thermal process is performed on a first crosslinking agent and a choline having hydroxyl group or amino group to form a first mixture, in which the first crosslinking agent includes an isocyanate group. A second thermal process is performed on the first mixture, a second crosslinking agent, a chain extender, and an amino acid to form the zwitterionic resin, in which the chain extender includes a polyol.
US12043686B2
Disclosed are a high melt index thermoplastic elastomer and a preparation method therefor. In the present invention, an emulsion polymerization system and a reversible addition chain transfer free radical polymerization technique are used, and a thermoplastic elastomer having a block structure with a high melt index is obtained by means of controlling reaction temperatures of different stages. The present invention is simple in terms of workflow and equipment and energy-saving and environmentally friendly in terms of process, and the raw materials thereof are cheap and easy to obtain, and the resulting high melt index thermoplastic elastomer has an excellent hot workability.
US12043685B2
A method of making a collection of polymer particles comprising (A) performing free radical polymerization (A) on an emulsion (E1) that comprises a collection of droplets dispersed in an aqueous medium, wherein the droplets comprise (i) one or more Si-containing monomers; (ii) one or more monovinyl acrylic monomers; and (iii) one or more graftlinkers that have no silicon atoms; to form a dispersion (D1) of core polymer particles in the aqueous medium; (B) in the presence of the dispersion (D1) of core polymer particles, performing aqueous emulsion polymerization (B) on one or more acrylic monomers.
US12043676B2
The invention relates to a method for producing anionic polymers that are hydrosoluble in an aqueous solution, comprising at least the following successive steps: b) polymerisation, in an aqueous solution, of anionic monomers containing at least 5 mol % of 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid and/or one of the salts thereof and optionally non-ionic monomers up to a mass concentration of polymer A of between 5 and 40%, b) addition of at least one aldehyde into the solution produced in step a), and c) acidification to a pH of between 3 and 4 of the solution produced in step b). The invention also relates to the use thereof in a paper-making method.
US12043675B2
The present application provides a method for preparing nanofibrillar cellulose product, the method comprising providing nanofibrillar cellulose, providing multivalent cations, contacting the nanofibrillar cellulose with the multivalent cations, and allowing reacting for a period of time to obtain cross-linked nanofibrillar cellulose product. The present application also provides a nanofibrillar cellulose product comprising nanofibrillar cellulose and multivalent cations, wherein the nanofibrillar cellulose is crosslinked by the multivalent cations.
US12043673B2
The compositions and methods provide herein include, inter alia, antibodies attached to single-stranded oligoribonucleotides. Two antibodies are capable of forming complexes in vivo through hybridization of the respective complementary oligoribonucleotides they are bound to. For example, a first antibody bound to a first oligoribonucleotide through a first chemical linker may be administered to a subject, bind to a cell surface antigen in vivo and subsequently form an antibody complex in vivo with a second antibody bound to a second oligoribonucleotide through a second chemical linker, through complementary base-pairing between the first and the second oligoribonucleotide. The compositions and methods provided herein are, inter alia, useful for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, for example, the treatment of cancer or autoimmune disease.
US12043668B2
An antibody, or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, that binds specifically to human CSF-1R includes a heavy chain variable domain that contains a HCDR1 region having the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4, a HCDR2 region having the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5, and a HCDR3 region having the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6; and a light chain variable domain that contains a LCDR1 region having the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 7, a LCDR2 region having the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 8, and a LCDR3 region having the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 9. The heavy chain variable domain comprises the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2, and wherein the light chain variable domain comprises the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3.
US12043666B2
The present invention relates to an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof with binding specificity for interleukin-1 receptor accessory protein (IL1RAP). Furthermore, it relates to a polynucleotide encoding said antibody, a vector comprising said polynucleotide and a recombinant host cell comprising said polynucleotide or said vector. Further, it relates to a method for producing said antibody or antigen-binding fragment. Further, it relates to a composition comprising said antibody or antigen-binding fragment, said polynucleotide, said vector and/or said host cell. Further, it relates to the said antibody or antigen-binding fragment, said polynucleotide, said vector, said host cell and/or said composition for use in medicine and/or for use in the prevention and/or treatment and/or alleviation and/or detection and/or diagnosis of a disease or disorder susceptible to treatment with an inhibitor of IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-33, IL-36α, IL-36β and/or IL-36γ signaling, and/or wherein the disease or disorder is associated with cells expressing IL1RAP.
US12043664B2
Disclosed are methods for treating Vascular Leak Syndrome and preventing cancer metastasis. Further disclosed are methods for treating vascular leakage due to inflammatory diseases, sepsis, cancer or the presence of pathogens.
US12043660B2
Neutralizing antibodies that specifically bind to HIV-1 Env and antigen binding fragments of these antibodies are disclosed. Nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, vectors and host cells are also provided. Methods for detecting HIV-1 using these antibodies are disclosed. In addition, the use of these antibodies, antigen binding fragment, nucleic acids and vectors to prevent and/or treat an HIV-1 infection is disclosed.
US12043654B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods of treating a subject having digestive tract cancer, the method comprising: administering an effective amount of a composition to the subject, the composition comprising a first population of cells comprising a first CAR binding a first antigen, and a second population of cells comprising a second CAR binding GCC, wherein the first antigen comprises a cell surface molecule of a white blood cell (WBC).
US12043649B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of regulation of plant performance genes, in particular to a pectin methylesterase inhibitor gene GhPMEI39 and application of its encoded protein. The gene sequence of the pectin methylesterase inhibitor gene GhPMEI39 is shown in SEQ ID NO:1. According to the present disclosure, a public database is used to screen target genes, primers are designed to clone the target genes, its cotton transgenic materials and Arabidopsis thaliana transgenic materials are constructed, and plant development phenotypes after overexpression and constitutive expression of pectin methylesterase inhibitor protein are analyzed, and the role of the pectin methylesterase inhibitor gene GhPMEI39 in related functions such as plant flowering and inflorescence morphology is verified.
US12043633B2
Disclosed herein are metal complexes that exhibit multiple radiative decay mechanisms, together with methods for the preparation and use thereof.
US12043627B2
The present specification relates to a compound represented by Formula 1, and a color conversion film, a backlight unit, and a display device each including the compound.
US12043614B2
The present invention relates to salt forms of the Pim kinase inhibitor N-{(7R)-4-[(3R,4R,5S)-3-amino-4-hydroxy-5-methylpiperidin-1-yl]-7-hydroxy-6,7-dihydro-5H-cyclopenta[b]pyridin-3-yl}-6-(2,6-difluorophenyl)-5-fluoropyridine-2-carboxamide, including methods of preparation thereof, and intermediates in the preparation thereof, where the compound is useful in the treatment of Pim kinase-related diseases such as cancer.
US12043609B1
A 6′-(4-methoxyphenyl)-2′-alkoxy-3.4′-bipyridine-3′-carbonitrile compound, its synthesis, and its use as an antimicrobial agent.
US12043608B1
A compound 2-(Benzo[b]thiophen-3-yl)-1-butyl-4,5-diphenyl-1H-imidazole compound, its synthesis, and its use as an anti-microbial and anti-inflammatory agent.
US12043606B2
The present disclosure provides, for example, a method that can produce a fluorolactone compound from hexafluoropropylene oxide or the like in a single step. The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a compound represented by formula (1): wherein two R1 are the same and each is a fluorine atom or a fluoroalkyl group, the method comprising step A of reacting a compound represented by formula (2): wherein R1 is as defined above, with a compound represented by formula (3): wherein R31, R32, and R33 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, or two of them are optionally linked to each other to form a ring optionally having one or more substituents, and a compound represented by formula (4-1) or the like: wherein R41, R42, R43, and R44 are the same or different and each is a hydrogen atom ox an alkyl group, or two of them are optionally linked to each other to form a ring optionally having one or more substituents.
US12043604B1
Provided are methods of preparing cannabinoids and cannabinoid derivatives and compositions containing the cannabinoids and derivatives.
US12043598B2
A condom having a surface lubricated with an antiviral lubricous composition that contains carrageenan, at least one polyol selected from glycerol, propylene glycol, 1,3-propanediol, 1,3-butanediol, 1,4-butanediol, 2,3-butanediol, xylitol sorbitol, erythritol, isomalt, lactitol, maltitol, mannitol, polyethylene glycol, polypropylene glycol, one or more pH-adjusting agents that include at least one organic acid and its conjugate base, water, and, optionally, one or more of a sweetener, a preservative, a zinc salt, and a spermicide. At least 80% of the carrageenan is lambda-carrageenan, with the remainder being one or both of kappa-carrageenan and iota-carrageenan. The antiviral lubricous composition is an aqueous homogeneous solution having a turbidity less than or equal to about 25 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU), a pH of from about 3.5 to about 8.0, a viscosity of from about 500 cP to about 10,000 cP, and an osmolality of from about 250 mOsmol/kg to about 1,200 mOsmol/kg.
US12043584B2
A method and system for treating calcium-based stone having a surface to be treated for corrosion and stain resistance is provided. The system comprises a sanding unit to sand the surface of the calcium-based stone with a grit size of 40 to 100 to promote coating adhesion. The system further comprises a coating unit to coat the surface of the calcium-based stone with a predetermined amount of a coating material for corrosion and stain resistance defining an uncured coating on the surface. The system further comprises a curing unit to cure the uncured coating on the surface with a photo-initiator defining a cured coating on the surface. The system further comprises a polishing unit to polish the cured coating on the surface with a grit size of 1000 to 3000. The system further comprises a buffing unit to buff the cured coating on the surface with a fabric defining a treated surface of the calcium-based stone.
US12043581B2
Systems and methods for making ceramic powders configured with consistent, tailored characteristics and/or properties are provided herein. In some embodiments a system for making ceramic powders, includes: a reactor body having a reaction chamber and configured with a heat source to provide a hot zone along the reaction chamber; a sweep gas inlet configured to direct a sweep gas into the reaction chamber and a sweep gas outlet configured to direct an exhaust gas from the reaction chamber; a plurality of containers, within the reactor body, configured to retain at least one preform, wherein each container is configured to permit the sweep gas to flow therethrough, wherein the preform is configured to permit the sweep gas to flow there through, such that the precursor mixture is reacted in the hot zone to form a ceramic powder product having uniform properties.
US12043577B2
The present invention relates to an asphalt composition containing asphalt and a polyester, wherein the polyester includes an alcohol component-derived structural unit including an alkylene oxide adduct of bisphenol A and an alkylene glycol compound having 3 or more carbon atoms (exclusive of the alkylene oxide adduct of bisphenol A).
US12043552B2
The present invention relates to sylvinite ore processing in the extraction industry and provides a resource-efficient method of separating potassium chloride and sodium chloride from polymineral sources comprising potassium chloride and sodium chloride and a vertical three-zone reactor for separating potassium chloride and sodium chloride from polymineral sources comprising potassium chloride and sodium chloride.
US12043551B2
A method for manufacturing an ion conductor including LiCB9H10 and LiCB11H12 is provided. The method includes mixing LiCB9H10 and LiCB11H12 in a molar ratio of LiCB9H10/LiCB11H12=1.1 to 20. An ion conductor including lithium (Li), carbon (C), boron (B) and hydrogen (H) is also provided. The ion conductor has X-ray diffraction peaks at at least 2θ=14.9±0.3 deg, 16.4±0.3 deg and 17.1±0.5 deg in X ray diffraction measurement at 25° C., and has an intensity ratio (B/A) of 1.0 to 20 as calculated from A=(X-ray diffraction intensity at 16.4±0.3 deg)−(X-ray diffraction intensity at 20 deg) and B=(X-ray diffraction intensity at 17.1±0.5 deg)−(X-ray diffraction intensity at 20 deg).
US12043536B2
A beverage dispenser has a supply opening that supplies an aqueous liquid from a source; a recooling heat exchanger having a heat receiving portion, a recooling inlet and a recooling outlet; a reverse osmosis filter having an inlet for aqueous liquid, a permeate outlet and a concentrate outlet; and a cooling device having a cooling portion extracting heat energy from the permeate and a heat dissipation portion dissipating energy to the heat receiving portion of the recooling heat exchanger. The heat dissipation portion of the cooling device is thermally coupled with the heat receiving portion of the recooling heat exchanger. The cooling portion of the cooling device is thermally coupled with the permeate exiting the permeate outlet of the reverse osmosis filter, wherein the permeate enters the cooling portion by a cooling portion permeate inlet and exits the cooling portion by a cooling portion permeate outlet.
US12043532B2
Systems for controlling a container handling plant, for example a beverage filling plant, including at least one container handling station for handling containers, and an assigned control means for controlling a container handling process of the container handling station. The systems also include a means for automatic process adjustment and a development means that is in communication with the means for automatic process adjustment. The development means is configured to acquire real-time process data and to use the real-time process data to develop calculation rules for calculating process parameters.
US12043531B1
A low-profile fluid transfer device has an annular base with a top and a bottom, and an annular peripheral wall defining an enclosed interior of the base. A plurality of spaced apart straight ridges are formed within the enclosed interior of the base and define respective flow channels. Each flow channel slopes downward from a first end proximate an inside of the annular peripheral wall towards an open second end away from the annular peripheral wall. A catchment area is located adjacent the open second end of each of the flow channels. A drain hole is formed within the catchment area and extends through the base from the top to the bottom.
US12043530B2
Disclosed is a closure opener device having a pad-like member made from a flexible material exhibiting a desired coefficient of friction. The body of the device conforms to the user's hand as well as to the closure top of a container. The device has a hand surface that is configured to favorably interface with the skin of the palm and fingers so as to provide friction and making it comfortable to grip. The device has an opposing gripping surface that is used to engage the closure top. The gripping surface is configured to deliver enough friction while opening closure tops made of various materials, having various surface finishes, and having various foreign contaminants disposed thereon. When engaged with a closure top, the thickness of the device's body wraps around the closure top to effectively increase the diameter of the closure top, making manipulation of the closure top easier.
US12043528B2
A chassis assembly includes: a chassis; a lifting connecting rod assembly arranged on the chassis; and a lifting power assembly, including a lifting bracket pivotally connected to one end of the lifting connecting rod assembly and a lifting drive mechanism arranged on the chassis and connected to the lifting bracket, wherein the lifting bracket includes a sleeve portion having a cylindrical hollow cavity; the lifting drive mechanism includes: a lead screw penetrating through the sleeve portion, a screw nut fixed to the sleeve portion and in thread fit with the lead screw, and a power output unit drivingly connected to the lead screw; and the power output unit is configured to cause the lead screw to rotate to drive the screw nut and the lifting bracket to rise or fall synchronously relative to the chassis. An automatic guided vehicle having the chassis assembly is included.
US12043521B2
An elevator system capable of reducing the overall installation area of elevators in a building while ensuring the number of passengers in the elevator. The elevator system arranges first and second elevator cars in a single elevator hoistway, having, at a lower portion of each of the first and second elevator cars, respectively, a pair of undercar pulleys are positioned to turn ropes vertically on the outer sides of the first and second elevator cars and horizontally at the bottom, where the arranging direction of the pair of the under-car pulleys of the first elevator car intersects with the arranging direction of the pair of under-car pulleys of the second elevator car when projected onto a horizontal plane.
US12043519B2
An elevator system for a building, wherein an elevator shaft becomes taller as the building height increases during a construction phase, includes a self-moving construction-phase elevator car guided on a guide rail section(s) for conveying persons or goods during the construction phase, an assembly platform arranged above the car from which the guide rail section is elongated upwards in a rail assembly phase, an upper protection platform temporarily fixed in the elevator shaft on which the assembly platform is suspended via a cable-based lifting device or is suspended in the rail assembly phase, a lower protection platform, wherein the assembly platform is moved vertically between the upper platform and the lower platform by the lifting device during the rail assembly phase, and a docking device temporarily suspending the car on the lower platform to secure the car for evacuations, the docking device connecting the car to the lifting device.
US12043510B2
A belt feeding device includes an endless belt, stretching rollers including a tension roller, a bearing member supporting the tension roller, a beating support member supporting the bearing member, an urging member urging the tension roller, a supporting member supporting the bearing supporting member, and a locking member. The locking member is movable between a first position where an engagement between the locking member and one of the bearing support member and the bearing member is released and the bearing member is permitted to move so as to apply the tension to the belt, and a second position where the locking member locks the bearing member by engaging with the bearing support member and the bearing member and the bearing member is restricted to move. The bearing member, the bearing support member, the urging member, and the locking member constitute a unit to be integrally dismountable from the supporting in the second position.
US12043509B2
A method for evaluating stacking or sorting integrity at an output device of a high-speed apparatus that processes media includes: acquiring an audio data substantially in real-time from the output device of the high-speed apparatus while the high-speed apparatus is in operation, by use of an audio sensor located at the output device; transforming by a processor, the audio data to into a stacking or sorting integrity value; and if the stacking or sorting integrity value exceeds a predetermined threshold, stopping by the processor a document transport of the high-speed apparatus. An apparatus for evaluating stacking or sorting integrity at an output device, and a system for evaluating stacking or sorting integrity at an output device of a high-speed apparatus are also described.
US12043507B2
A sheet feed apparatus includes a sheet feed cassette, an air blowing device, and an air blowing control portion. The air blowing device blows warm air to a sheet stack in the sheet feed cassette. The air blowing control portion controls the air blowing device to adjust an air volume and a temperature of the warm air. The air blowing control portion adjusts the air volume and the temperature of the warm air in accordance with the amount of sheets in the sheet feed cassette.
US12043505B2
A roller assembly having a central axis can comprise a roller having an outer surface and defining an inner bore. The apparatus can further comprise a bushing comprising a sleeve having an outer surface and defining an inner bore. The inner bore of the sleeve can have an operative circumference. The sleeve comprises a bladder that is configured to expand radially upon receipt of a fluid to reduce the operative circumference of the inner bore. The bushing can further comprise a flange extending radially outwardly from the sleeve. The flange defines a vessel containing fluid therein. The vessel is in fluid communication with the bladder of the sleeve. The bushing comprises an actuator that is configured to cause the fluid from the vessel of the flange to flow into the bladder of the sleeve. An alignment feature can be configured to rotationally position the roller relative to the bushing.
US12043504B2
Provided is a roll body capable of effectively suppressing the occurrence of a telescope phenomenon even if the ambient temperature during transportation and storage of the roll body becomes higher than that during production of the roll body. A roll body RB according to the present invention configured by winding a belt-shaped web around a winding core that thermally expands or contracts due to an influence of a surrounding environment is characterized in that a linear expansion coefficient of the web in a thickness direction is in a range of 60 to 150 times a linear expansion coefficient of the web in a longitudinal direction, and the winding core has a linear expansion coefficient in a range of 20×10−6/K to 100×10−6/K and a Young's modulus in a range of 0.2 GPa to 0.5 GPa.
US12043501B2
The present invention relates to a vacuum multi-sensing unit (10) used for adhesion and transfer of an object (P) together with a vacuum pump (23) in a vacuum transfer system. The multi-sensing unit (10) of the present invention includes a plurality of sensors (13) to perform multi-sensing, wherein individual and collective control of the built-in sensors (13) is possible. Therefore, in particular, when a plurality of vacuum pumps (23) are required for transfer of objects (P), the plurality of vacuum pumps (23) are allowed to correspond to a single unit (10), and thus, compared to a conventional sensing unit individually attached to each vacuum pump, there is superior effect in terms of the efficiency of manufacture, installation, management, operation, and control of the unit (10).
US12043491B2
A dedicated access assembly for a conveyor belt forms a dedicated opening and closing point for the conveyor belt. The dedicated access assembly includes a female portion having one or more open hooks and a male portion including a hinge rod extending between linking elements. The open hook disengages from and engages the hinge rod to selectively open and close the conveyor belt. A latching mechanism can selectively lock the dedicated access assembly.
US12043484B2
A browser application of a mobile device receives an instruction from a web page to obtain identity and/or age data from a digital wallet application of the mobile device, obtains the requested data upon successful biometric authentication, transmits the requested data to the server system, receives a graphic barcode from the server system corresponding to a determination by the server system that the requested data satisfies an identity or age-based restriction or regulation, and causes the graphic barcode to be displayed on a display of the mobile device. A verifying device scans the graphic barcode and transmits it to the server system. The server system transmits a validation decision to the verifying device based on a determination that the graphic barcode transmitted to the mobile device corresponds to the graphic barcode received from the verifying device.
US12043483B2
A controlled dispensing system includes a dispensing fixture and a server system coupled to the dispensing fixture via a communication network. The dispensing fixture is configured to obtain via an input peripheral a first identifier associated with a controlled product and a second identifier associated with a dispensing requester; transmit the first and second identifiers to the server system; receive an approval notification from the server system; and instructing the dispensing mechanism to dispense the controlled product. The server system is configured to obtain a limit threshold corresponding to a maximum number of products associated with the first identifier that may be dispensed over a predetermined time period for a dispensing requester associated with the second identifier; and determine whether approving the dispensing operation would violate the limit threshold, and if not, update a dispensing history associated with the second identifier and transmit the approval notification to the dispensing fixture.
US12043474B2
An apparatus for storing or transporting flowable materials or other materials, such as diesel fuel, includes a container and a support. The container is supported by the support. The support sits on or is mounted across an upper part of an open top railway wagon or open top truck or truck trailer used for transporting bulk commodities (such as coal or iron ore). The apparatus is movable between an expanded configuration in which the container is expandable into a lower part of the open top railway wagon or open top truck or truck trailer used for transporting bulk commodities, and a collapsed configuration in which the container is collapsible to the support. In use, a railway wagon is filled with coal or other bulk commodities and the apparatus is placed on top of the railway wagon in the collapsed configuration. At the port, the coal is emptied from the railway wagon and the container of the apparatus is filled with fuel. The support supports the apparatus on the railway wagon and the container extends into the railway wagon. The fuel may then be transported back to the mine, where the apparatus is removed from the railway wagon and the container decanted. The railway wagon is again filled with coal or other bulk commodities and the apparatus is placed on top of the railway wagon in the collapsed configuration and the cycle continues to meet the fuel requirements of the relevant mine.
US12043473B1
A collapsible generally triangular pizza storage container with a set of microwaveable triangular trays for the separation, microwaving and serving of individual slices of pizza. The storage container expands to approximately two times its collapsed configuration. It uses a novel, non-accordion type pleating of its side walls that allow for the container to have the same horizontal cross sectional size along the vertical axis of the container. The pleat design has three wall sections that each fold in on themselves to form a set of three nested side wall portions. Each wall section is separated from the other by a small gap. The lid also has a generally triangular configuration with a compressible gasket, a set of locking wings extending from the periphery that frictionally engage a rigid triangular top ring of the container, and a central air vent.
US12043472B2
A breathable bag (1) especially suitable for packaging horticultural products (2) comprising a mesh casing (3), which is capable of housing the products to be packaged and at least one first band (5) of flexible material applied on the outside of and joined to the casing by affixed areas (6, 7) affixed to said casing, the first band covering a region (8) of the casing that has a hole (9), the practical access to the hole (9) being prevented by the affixed joining areas (6, 7) between the first band (5) and the casing (3), and the first band (5) being equipped with at least one tear line (10) that determines in the first band (5) a removable portion (5c) from the casing (3) that is sufficient to leave uncovered or to open a practical access to said opening (9).
US12043470B2
Shipping system for storing and/or transporting temperature-sensitive materials. In one embodiment, the system includes an outer box having four side walls, bottom closure flaps, and top closure flaps. A vacuum insulated panel (VIP) is detachably coupled to one of the top closure flaps and is removably covered by a cover. An insulation unit is removably positioned within the outer box, the insulation unit including a plurality of VIPs arranged to define a cavity bounded by a bottom wall and four side walls. A disposable liner is removably mounted on the insulation unit. The liner may be a thermoformed sheet and may cover the interior and top surfaces of the insulation unit. A plurality of temperature-control members and a product box may be removably positioned in the liner. Preferably, the liner is shaped so that the temperature-control members snugly fit around all sides of the product box.
US12043469B1
A retrofitted lid for a standard metallic water bottle that converts the water bottle into a water pipe. The retrofitted lid is designed to fit standard tops of water bottles and includes a cylindrical base with an inverted cork underneath that allows the cylindrical base to be easily pushed down without the need for screwing onto a water bottle. The top of the device, on top of the cylindrical base includes a raised substantially oblong portion that includes a first round aperture for the placement therethrough of a step, carburetor piece and bowl and a second rectangular aperture for the passage out of the device of generated smoke. The top portion includes a removable retaining clip that keeps the slideable portion flush with the top portion. The slideable portion has a top and a bottom and two sidewalls extending downward from the top and past the bottom, thereby creating a female mating space to connect to the top portion of the lid. Flanges at the bottom of the side walls create grooves that mate with the top portion of the device. An option handle is attached to the lid for easy carrying. The slideable lib is engineered to only slide on to the top portion in one direction.
US12043464B2
A method for producing a blister tube having multiple blister pouches with information over a large area and optimized for an inspection system, is provided. A packaging material web having cover sections with a transmission of less than 60% in the visible frequency range extending in the longitudinal direction of the packaging material web, a transparent material area with a transmission of greater than 80% in the visible frequency range extending in the longitudinal direction parallel to the cover sections and to multiple data sections is provided to a packaging device. Pouch-specific data are printed onto a data section and a sub-section of the packaging material web is shaped into a receiving area. A cover section and the printed data section are assigned to each receiving area. Small piece goods are fed to the receiving area and a blister pouch is formed. Devices and blister tubes are also provided.
US12043458B2
A hermetically sealed container includes a container body having a bottomed cylindrical shape that opens upward, a lid having a cylindrical portion that is fitted into an end portion on an upper opening side of the container body, the lid openably closing an upper opening of the container body, and a sealing member having an annular shape, the sealing member being provided on the cylindrical portion and hermetically sealing a gap between the cylindrical portion and the container body. The container body having a contact surface that the sealing member contacts, the contact surface being a tapered surface.
US12043450B2
A roll of separable bags which leaves no scrap material and method of making a roll of separable bags which leaves no scrap material is disclosed herein. An elongated tube of material having a length and a width is laid flat, forming a web of material. The web of material comprises an outer and an inner sheet portion. First and second seals are formed widthwise across the outer and inner sheet portions. First and second bag separating perforation lines are formed widthwise across the outer and inner sheet portions. A user may tear one bag away from the roll of bags by using the bag separating perforation line. The user may then deploy the handles of the bag by tearing along the handle perforation lines.
US12043448B2
This invention provides a polymer, which is preferably a polyether polymer. The polymer may be used in coating compositions. Containers and other articles comprising the polymer and methods of making such containers and other articles are also provided. The invention further provides compositions including the polymer (e.g., powder coatings), which have utility in a variety of coating end uses, including, for example, valve and pipe coatings.
US12043439B2
An automatic machine includes: a central frame; a support rotatably connected to the central frame; handling mechanisms for moving the support; a plurality of carriages supported by the support; each carriage supports a bag vertically; a loading station; a spreading station downstream of the loading station; a filling station downstream of the spreading station; a first heat-sealing station downstream of the filling station; an insertion unit that loads a straw in the bag; a second heat-sealing station. The insertion unit is provided in the first heat-sealing station.
US12043436B2
A modular production system including a plurality of production modules connected in a linear series to form a production tunnel, and collectively defining a production channel, and wherein at least one fluid inlet port defined along the production tunnel, said inlet port is in fluid communication with a pressurized fluid source, whereby influx of fluid from said fluid source through said fluid inlet port acts to maintain the fluid pressure within the production channel at a higher pressure than the atmospheric pressure outside of the production tunnel; and wherein one of said production modules positioned between said proximal-most and distal-most production modules comprises a depyrogenator and/or sterilization module, comprising a transparent tubular body, and an irradiation source positioned external to said transparent tubular body, said irradiation source capable of heating the internal environment of the depyrogenation and/or sterilization module to a temperature sufficient to depyrogenate or sterilize articles passing therethrough, and associated processes.
US12043419B2
The invention refers to a VTOL aircraft of the type that uses certain aerodynamic phenomena to increase the lifting force and to reduce the thrust/weight ratio. An aircraft 1 uses a propulsion system 2 consisting of four thrust producing elements, two in front 3 and two in rear 4. Each front thrust producing element 3 contains at least one front rotor 5 operated by at least one front electric motor, fixed on a fuselage 10. Each rear thrust producing element 4 contains at least one rear rotor 7 driven by at least a rear electric motor 8, fixed on the fuselage 10. On the fuselage 10 is attached symmetrically a front wing 12. On the fuselage 10 is attached symmetrically a rear wing 13. The wing 12 and 13 are used also in static conditions respectively in take-off and landing.
US12043413B2
An arrestor bed for slowing an aircraft overrunning a runway, including an elongated excavation and a plurality of irregularly shaped foamed glass bodies at least partially filing the excavation. Each respective irregularly shaped foamed glass body has an aspect ratio between 1:1.6 to 1:1.7 and a diameter of about 1 inch. The irregularly shaped foamed glass bodies intersect to define stacking angles of about 35 degrees. Under compression, the irregularly shaped foamed glass bodies crush and break up before slip failure occurs such that the roadbed has a crushing failure mode.
US12043412B2
An aircraft beacon light comprises an annular light source support having a plurality of light passing portions; a plurality of light sources, arranged on the annular light source support for a radially outwards emission of light flashes; a light detector for sensing a light output level of at least a subset of the plurality of light sources; and at least one optical element for shaping a beacon light output from light emitted by the plurality of light sources, the at least one optical element having at least one light guiding portion for capturing stray light from at least said subset of the plurality of light sources and for guiding said stray light through the plurality of light passing portions and towards the light detector.
US12043398B2
A system can include a flight controller for an aircraft that includes an electric motor that drives blades with a variable pitch, where the flight controller receives a command to change a flight characteristic of the aircraft and creates a torque command and a revolutions per minute (RPM) command. The system can also include a propulsion assembly, where the propulsion assembly creates a current command based at least in part on the torque command and the RPM command, creates a blade pitch command based at least in part on the torque command and the RPM command, communicates the current command to the electric motor to change a mechanical output of the electric motor, and communicates the blade pitch command to blade actuators to control the pitch of the blades. The current command and the blade pitch command cause the blades of the aircraft to rotate at a predetermined RPM.
US12043396B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for an electric aircraft may be shown and described. The electric aircraft may include a body; a first wing and a second wing, each of the first wing and the second wing having a plurality of stabilizers and a plurality of flaps; a cockpit; and at least one of a dielectric elastomer power generator, a wind turbine, an electric jet turbine, and a rotational electromagnetic power generator mounted on a central plane surface on the body.
US12043391B2
A securing device for a component that can be secured on rails of a floor structure of an aircraft interior includes at least two adapter plates. The adapter plates are decoupled from one another and configured to be secured on the rails. The adapter plates being configured to secure the component having mutually spaced securing attachments.
US12043387B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle having a fuselage, a water collection and emission equipment, wings, linear reinforcements, a landing gear and a vertical fin. The water collection and emission equipment has buoyancy units, a sealed cabin, a water pump and a water collection and emission pipe. The sealed cabin is detachably connected to the fuselage, and a compartment is arranged in the sealed cabin. The water pump is arranged in the compartment and the side wall of the sealed cabin has at least one concave part which is concave towards the direction of the inner cavity used for slowing down the swaying of water.
US12043385B2
A control surface for an aircraft may comprise an outer skin and a core coupled to the outer skin. The core may include a plurality of corrugations. A height of the core may decrease in a direction extending from a leading edge of the control surface to a trailing edge of the control surface.
US12043384B2
The invention relates to drones for a combat game, preferably a drone (1) and at least one opponent drone (2), said drones comprising radio control means, signal transmitters, receivers, and cameras. The invention further relates to a system for a combat game, the system comprising a drone (1) comprising a weapon (3), and at least one opponent drone (2) comprising an opponent weapon (4), wherein the drones are equipped with radio control means, signal transmitters, signal receivers and cameras. The drones and the system are characterised in that the opponent signal transmitters (6) disposed on the opponent drone (2) and on an opponent weapon (4) are in control connection, via a control unit (15) of the drone (1), with the signal receivers (7) of the drone (1), the connection being adapted for transmitting the signals generated through targeting by an opponent player (26) utilizing a display (22) of the opponent player as control means, and for controlling the rotational speed, position, and operation of the light source (9), sound source (11), and smoke source (13) disposed on the drone (1), and the motors (19) of the propellers (17) thereof, and in that the signal transmitters (5) disposed on the drone (1) and on a weapon (3) are in control connection, via a control unit (16) of the opponent drone (2), with the opponent signal receivers (8) of the opponent drone (2), the connection being adapted for transmitting the signals generated through targeting by a player (25) utilizing a player's display (21) as control means, and for controlling the rotational speed, position, and operation of the opponent light source (10), opponent sound source (12), and opponent smoke source (14) disposed on the opponent drone (2), and the opponent motors (20) of the opponent propellers (18) thereof.
US12043383B2
A device includes hauling means for the movement of a payload while suspended from one or more lines. The or each line is suspended or suspendable from one end, the hauling means being provided at or in the region of the other end of the line/s and at which end the payload is situated in use.
US12043379B2
Proposed is an airfoil wing-shaped aircraft including a body having a wing-shaped longitudinal cross-section and having an upper surface on which a shape of a concave curvature-surface portion is formed along a center axis in a streamwise direction, a fluid inlet being formed in each of the opposite lateral sides of a leading portion of the body, and a fluid output being formed in each of the opposite lateral sides of a tail portion of the body, wherein a duct connects the fluid inlet and the fluid outlet to each other.
US12043375B2
A bearing restraint, for use on a rotorcraft with a rotor mast and bearing assembly. The bearing restraint interfacing with a mast groove along the rotor mast to longitudinally restrain the bearing assembly. The bearing restraint includes a pilot ring, groove collar, and retaining ring.
US12043363B2
A grid (100) is for a tunnel thruster (200). The grid (100) includes a plurality of first radially extending bars (101) arranged at angular intervals from each other, and a plurality of first connecting bars (102). Each of the first connecting bars (102) are connected between adjacent first radially extending bars (101).
US12043359B2
A marine propulsion system for marine vessel includes at least one battery configured to power a vessel load, a plurality of marine drives, and a control system. Each of the plurality of marine drives includes an engine, an alternator driven by the engine to charge the battery, and a propulsor selectively driven by the engine to propel the marine vessel. Each of the plurality of marine drives is configured to operate in a propulsion mode in which the engine is operated to rotate the propulsor to propel the marine vessel in a generator mode in which the engine is operated to charge the battery while the marine vessel remains stationary. The control system is configured to select a subset of the plurality of marine drives and then to operate the subset of marine drives in the generator mode to charge the battery while the marine vessel remains stationary.
