US12045950B2
A plurality of virtual three-dimensional points distributed on a 3D reference plane for a camera array including a plurality of cameras are randomly selected. The plurality of cameras includes a host camera and one or more additional cameras. Respective two-dimensional projections of the plurality of virtual 3D points for the plurality of cameras are determined based on respective poses of the cameras. For the respective one or more additional cameras, respective homography matrices are determined based on the 2D projections for the respective camera and the 2D projections for the host camera. The respective homography matrices map the 2D projections for the respective camera to the 2D projections for the host camera. A stitched image is generated based on respective images captured by the plurality of cameras and the respective homography matrices.
US12045937B2
Graphics processing systems and methods with geometry level of detail processing are described. An example graphics processing system includes a processor configured to retrieve a first level of detail value for a meshlet instance. The processor may further be configured to compute a second level of detail value for a meshlet instance. The processor may further be configured to, based on a comparison between the first level of detail value for the meshlet instance and the second level of detail value for the meshlet instance, select a final level of detail value for the meshlet instance. The processor may further be configured to fetch vertices and corresponding indices for the meshlet instance based on the final level of detail value for the meshlet instance and process the vertices of the meshlet instance.
US12045936B2
A system automatically identifies objects in an environment based on a walkthrough video and an annotated floorplan of the environment. The annotated floorplan indicates locations and types of objects that are expected to be in the environment. The system receives the walkthrough video and generates a 3D model of the environment. The system applies a machine learning model to the walkthrough video to identify regions within frames where objects are captured. After identifying the regions within frames of the walkthrough video that include objects, the system modifies corresponding regions of the 3D model to include the identified objects. For each of the identified objects, the system determines a likelihood of the identified object being present at a location in the environment based on a comparison of the modified 3D model and the annotated floorplan.
US12045933B2
Systems and methods related to simulated light-in-flight imaging are described. A computing device may execute a light-in-flight engine to process an optical image and a corresponding depth map to produce a light-in-flight image or video that simulates propagation of a wavefront across a scene. The light-in-flight engine may generate an optical simulation output by transforming a depth map to a three-dimensional lift domain to produce a three-dimensional data structure, then convolving the three-dimensional data structure with a convolutional operator, which may define a Gaussian sphere, to produce a filtered three-dimensional data structure. The light-in-flight engine then affine transforms the optical image with an identified slice of the filtered three-dimensional data structure to produce a light-in-flight image.
US12045931B2
A method for selective magnification in a 3D rendering system includes: displaying, by an electronic device, a first view including at least one real world object and at least one virtual object; displaying, by the electronic device, a second view comprising a region of interest (ROI) in the first view, while displaying the first view; receiving, by the electronic device, a user interaction on the second view; and generating, by the electronic device, interaction on the first view corresponding to the user interaction received on the second view.
US12045930B2
A computing device, a method and a computer program product are provided to generate realistic synthetic image data that is utilized to train, test and/or deploy a computer vision model, such as to recognize an object from an image, to identify a visual anomaly in the object from an image of the object or the like. In the context of a method, a plurality of computer generated three-dimensional (3D) models of an object are generated. The method also generates realistic synthetic image data representative of each of the plurality of computer generated 3D models. The realistic synthetic image data is generated by utilizing a first machine learning model trained with pairs of computer generated synthetic image data and real image data of the object. The method further trains, tests or deploys the computer vision model to recognize the object from an image based upon the realistic synthetic image data.
US12045928B2
Systems and techniques are provided for enhancing operations of a ray tracing processor. For instance, a process can include obtaining one or more nodes of an acceleration data structure. Each node of the one or more nodes includes the same number of bytes. The node(s) can be stored in a cache associated with a ray tracing processor. Each of the stored node(s) are cache line-aligned with the cache associated with the ray tracing processor. A first stored node of the stored node(s) can be provided to the ray tracing processor and processed by the ray tracing processor during a first clock cycle of the ray tracing processor. A second stored node of the stored node(s) can be provided to the ray tracing processor and processed by the ray tracing processor during a second clock cycle of the ray tracing processor.
US12045927B2
The present disclosure describes techniques of rendering images using explicit object representation via rays tracing volume density aggregation. The techniques comprise reconstructing an object into a plurality of Gaussian ellipsoids; determining a volume density of each of the plurality of Gaussian ellipsoids along each of a plurality of viewing rays; determining a weight of each of the plurality of Gaussian ellipsoids based on the volume density; and synthesizing an image of the object using the determined weight on each pixel of the image to interpolate attributes of each of the plurality of Gaussian ellipsoids.
US12045923B2
The present disclosure generally relates to generating and modifying virtual avatars. An electronic device having a camera and a display apparatus displays a virtual avatar that changes appearance in response to changes in a face in a field of view of the camera. In response to detecting changes in one or more physical features of the face in the field of view of the camera, the electronic device modifies one or more features of the virtual avatar.
US12045922B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method for processing a set of operations including one or more vector type operations. The method includes processing the set of operations to generate one or more corresponding page elements for an editable document by: calculating an expanded bounding box for each vector type operation in the set of operations; associating each vector type operation with a subgroup, wherein a given subgroup is associated with one or more vector type operations which have collectively overlapping expanded bounding boxes; and processing each subgroup to generate a corresponding page element, wherein the page element corresponding to a given subgroup comprises drawing data based on each vector type operation associated with the given subgroup.
US12045921B2
The subject technology selects a plurality of augmented reality (AR) content items based at least in part on a set of attributes. The subject technology analyzes each of the selected plurality of AR content items to determine an inclusion of textual information, identify an area of interest, or detect panning motion. The subject technology modifies each of the selected plurality of AR content items based at least in part on the analyzing. The subject technology generates, using at least the modified plurality of AR content items, a composite AR content item, the composite AR content item comprising a sequence of different AR content items, each of the different AR content items corresponding to a modified AR content item from the modified plurality of AR content items. The subject technology causes display, at a client device, the generated composite AR content item.
US12045916B2
Techniques for computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction are presented. The techniques can include acquiring, by a detector grid of a computed tomography system, detector signals for a location within an object of interest representing a voxel, where each detector signal of a plurality of the detector signals is obtained from an x-ray passing through the location at a different viewing angle; reconstructing a three-dimensional representation of at least the object of interest, the three-dimensional representation comprising the voxel, where the reconstructing comprises computationally perturbing a location of each detector signal of the plurality of detector signals within the detector grid, where the computationally perturbing corresponds to randomly perturbing a location of the x-ray within the voxel; and outputting the three-dimensional representation.
US12045908B2
Digital watermarking is adapted for the variable data printing. A reference signal serves as a proxy for optimizing the embedding a watermark in a host image to be printed. Using the reference signal, embedding parameters are generated, which are a function of constraints such as visual quality and robustness of the machine readable data. Adjustments needed to embed a unique payload in each printed piece are generated using the embedding parameters. These adjustments are stored in a manner that enables them to be efficiently obtained and applied within the RIP or press during operation of the press. Various other methods, system configurations and applications are also detailed.
US12045907B2
A program in the present invention causes a computer to perform: performing a first process for performing a predetermined process related to an aircraft boarding procedure and acquiring boarding reservation information on a user; when the process is completed, performing a second process for matching biometric information acquired from the user with passport biometric information included in passport information acquired from a passport of the user and, when a result of the matching of the biometric information with the passport biometric information is that the matching is successful, associating the passport information, the biometric information, and the boarding reservation information with each other; and performing a switching process for switching whether to perform the first process or the second process.
US12045898B2
A method includes receiving data from a plurality of heterogeneous systems, the heterogeneous systems configured to orchestrate operations in different aspects of field operations, selecting a subset of the data based on one or more attributes associated with a user, assembling a plan for conducting one or more of the field operations using at least one of the heterogeneous systems, displaying the subset of the data to the user in context with at least a portion of the plan, receiving a command from a user in response to the displayed subset of the data, and engaging one or more fulfillment engines of the plurality of heterogeneous systems to execute the one or more of the field operations in response to receiving the command.
US12045885B2
Received data messages are delayed for further processing based on a bypass condition. Data messages that conform to the bypass condition are not delayed. Data messages that do not conform to the bypass condition are delayed by a delay. Data messages can be representative of orders in an electronic marketplace or trading system. The bypass condition can include indication of a post-only order. The bypass condition can further include indication of a volume that meets or exceeds a minimum volume. The delay can be calculated from a base delay and a variance that modifies the base delay. The variance can be randomly or pseudo-randomly selected and can conform to a maximum variance.
US12045876B2
A system may transmit an MLM to one or more entities. The system may receive, from the one or more entities, data associated with a plurality of customers, the data generated by the MLM. The system may train a federated deep NN based on the data. The system may receive, from a user, a first request for a loan. The system may generate, using the federated deep NN, a risk score associated with the user, wherein the risk score comprises a likelihood the user will satisfy condition(s) of the loan. The system may transmit, to lender(s), the risk score and a second request for loan option(s) for backing the first request for the loan. The system may receive, from the first lender(s), the loan option(s) for backing the first request for the loan, and may transmit the loan option(s) to the user.
US12045874B2
Methods and systems are described for machine learning algorithms that dynamically allocate traffic to contact strategies that are performing well, while allocating less traffic to contact strategies that are underperforming. In particular, the methods and systems discussed are for the use of a contextual multi-armed bandit framework for applications that have both immediate results and long-term results, in which immediate results are correlated with the long-term results (e.g., results related to debt collection strategies).
US12045864B1
A facility for estimating a home improvement rate of return for a geographic area is described. The facility accesses information about homes in the geographic area including sale prices and data describing home improvements performed on the homes, such that some of the sale prices are associated with homes having a home improvement of a particular type. The facility obtains automatic valuations for the homes based on the homes' attribute values, and calculates the differences between the automatic valuations and the sale prices. The facility analyzes the differences and the home improvement data and, based on the analysis, estimates a rate of return of the particular type of home improvement.
US12045863B2
Content management systems, methods, and media using an application level firewall are provided. In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, the system for managing advertisement adjacencies comprises: a firewall component in an application layer comprising a processor and a memory, wherein the firewall component is configured to operate in an advertisement call stack of the application layer and wherein the processor is programmed to: receive an advertisement call for publishing an advertisement in an advertisement server on a web page, wherein a verification tag is inserted in the advertisement call that redirects the advertisement call to the firewall component prior to transmission to the advertisement server; determine whether the web page associated with the advertisement call contains objectionable content; and, in response to determining that the web page does not contain objectionable content, transmit the advertisement call to the advertisement server for publishing the advertisement on the web page.
US12045859B2
A computer-executable method, a computer system and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for enabling download of a promotion application program provided by a promotion and marketing service. The method includes using a computer-executable tool on a first application program to initiate a determination of whether a promotion application program is installed on the mobile computing device. The method includes, upon determining that the promotion application program is not installed on the mobile computing device, using the first application program to indicate an impression of a promotion in association with a representation of the promotion application program. The representation of the promotion application program is configured to enable download of the promotion application program to the mobile computing device.
US12045851B2
Systems and methods for constraint-based optimization, comprising: an AI demand forecasting engine, an optimization engine, a user-defined objective, and a user-defined set of constraints. Using historical sales data, the AI demand forecasting engine generates a plurality of entities, each entity defined by a placement of an item in a promotion platform; and forecasts the objective associated with each entity. The optimization engine generates a plurality of plans, each plan consisting of a unique subset of entities. Plans that violate at least one constraint are eliminated by the optimization engine, leaving a set of candidate solutions. An optimum plan is selected from the set of candidate solutions based on maximization of the objective.
US12045849B2
The use of reusable containers is coupled to merchant loyalty programs. Use of a reusable container by a customer in a transaction with a merchant earns benefits in the merchant's loyalty program to incentivize use of the reusable container. Each reusable container incorporates unique identity information. The unique identity information is associated with a customer. Used reusable containers can be exchanged for reprocessed or new reusable containers, and customer associations updated when containers are exchanged. Merchants associated with different corporate entities can participate together where reusable containers can be exchanged between different corporate entities.
US12045840B2
A computerized-method for generating a dataset for a Machine Learning (ML) model for an increased accurate financial crime detection from an initiation stage of the ML model implementation. The computerized-method includes retrieval of financial transaction records from a database of financial transaction records to arrange a dataset of financial transaction records, according to preconfigured techniques. Then, processing the records in the dataset; Then, operating feature engineering on preselected anomalous related features to yield probabilistic categorical features and to yield probabilistic numerical features, and then combining the probabilistic categorical features with the probabilistic numerical features to generate a complex features dataset, and providing the probabilistic categorical features, the probabilistic numerical features and the complex features dataset to an ML model, thus, increasing accuracy of detection that is performed right from an initiation stage of the ML model implementation.
US12045826B1
Systems and methods for decentralized application (dApp) discovery and scanning. A method for scanning includes performing tests by extracting calls from dApps and analyzing the extracted calls for potentially malicious behavior. To this end, calls made by a dApp are extracted by impersonating wallet addresses. More specifically, transactions are generated based on sample transactions from one or more known wallet addresses, and the generated transactions are broadcast to websites. Calls such as remote procedure calls (RPCs) are extracted from responses to those transactions. The extracted calls are analyzed in order to determine whether the behavior represented in those extracted calls is anomalous. Calls requesting anomalous transactions may be determined to be malicious or potentially malicious, and websites which requested anomalous transactions may be flagged as malicious or potentially malicious. The scanning may be performed on websites found during a discovery process that efficiently analyzes site-indicating data to discover websites.
US12045819B2
A server includes an identity certainty model, which has permutation ensembled weights. The server receives a plurality of data access consent receipts from an external consent repository. Based on the data access consent receipts, the server retrieves a plurality of data types from one or more data providers. The server executes the identity certainty model on the data types. The server performs an ID resolution operation on the data types. Using data outputs produced by the ID resolution operation, the server calculates metrics from the ID resolution operation. A weighting of the data outputs produced by the metrics calculations is performed using the permutation ensembled weights. An identity protection score and a risk score are determined based on the weighted data outputs. An optimization operation is performed on the identity protection score and the risk score to determine an identity certainty score.
US12045817B2
Systems and techniques for facilitating card authentication technique selection via machine learning are provided. In various embodiments, a processor can access an attribute vector associated with a financial payment card. In various instances, the processor can determine, via execution of a machine learning model, whether to authenticate the financial payment card with a zero-dollar authentication technique or instead with a tokenization authentication technique, based on the attribute vector. In various cases, the processor can execute the zero-dollar authentication technique with respect to the financial payment card, when the processor determines that the financial payment card should be authenticated with the zero-dollar authentication technique. In various aspects, the processor can execute the tokenization authentication technique with respect to the financial payment card, when the processor determines that the financial payment card should be authenticated with the tokenization authentication technique.
US12045814B2
A system and method of a system provides for tracking and controlling print cartridge ownership transfers using non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A print cartridge manufacture creates a unique NFT for each manufactured print cartridge that is stored on a public blockchain. Each NFT is encoded with a serial number of its associated cartridge, along with manufacturer information stored in the manufacturer's digital certificate. Each NFT may include manufacturer information, transactional information and a smart contract. Sale or resale of a cartridge is accomplished by a sale of its associated NFT on a digital marketplace. Sales are governed by smart contract terms. A buyer scans a cartridge QR code to decode its serial number which is then used to lookup manufacturer information, cartridge information and transactional information. If a purchase permitted and is accepted, the buyer information and sale information are updated to the blockchain with the associated NFT which is placed in the possession of the buyer.
US12045810B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, via a custodial service, a request to transact with a digital asset owned by a user and temporarily in custody of the custodial service, generating a blockchain transaction comprising an identifier of the digital asset on a blockchain ledger, an identifier of the custodial service, and an identifier of a recipient of the digital asset, signing the blockchain transaction with a key from a trifocal key which proves that the custodial service is authorized to transact with the digital asset on behalf of the user, and storing the signed blockchain transaction on a blockchain ledger.
US12045806B1
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for securely sending and using proxy element in a mobile wallet system. Through a user interface associated with a proxy originator wallet, user input may be received that defines the parameters of the proxy element. The parameters may include one or more of a spending limit, a time duration, a use number condition, and a transfer condition, and a product condition. A request may be sent from the proxy originator wallet to a proxy approver system to create the proxy element. The originator wallet may receive a proxy grant acknowledgement from the proxy approver system. The grant acknowledgement may instructions for obtaining credentials for the proxy element. The proxy element including the parameters and the instructions for obtaining credentials may be sent to a mobile wallet of a recipient. The recipient mobile wallet may use the proxy element for payment or non-payment transactions.
US12045799B2
A system and computer-implemented method for authenticating digital transactions. The method includes receiving a device registration request and a device attestation response including at least a device integrity status from a device. In response to the device registration request, the method includes providing a device registration response to the device, based on validation of the device integrity status. Further, the method includes receiving a first payment transaction request and an enrolment request from the device via an application to authenticate a second payment transaction request using a first type of authentication technique. Finally, the method includes enrolling the device to the first type of authentication technique and providing a second token to the device based on a result of the first payment transaction request, wherein the second token is used for authenticating the second payment transaction request.
US12045796B2
Location polygons are defined along traffic lanes and parking spaces to facilitate determination of the location of a vehicle relative to features associated with the location polygons. The location polygons are used, in one application, to identity entrance and exit of a special toll lane along a roadway, and to ensure that the vehicle properly enters and exits the tolling lane.
US12045788B1
A dynamic banner may be displayed in a merchant check out page sourced from a merchant server that may be customized to a particular user and/or merchant. The dynamic banner may be provided by a transaction account provider server and may invite the user to select an offer. In response to the user's interaction with the offer, the characteristics of the merchant check out page may be changed, for example, a product may be discounted, and/or a new transaction account may be issued to the user by the transaction account provider server and used to complete the checkout process via cross document messaging and cross domain scripting. In this manner, the merchant server and the transaction account provider server may interact with a user within a single web page.
US12045787B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses described herein relate to a method for delivering cash to a user. The method includes receiving a cash delivery request from a first user device of the user. The method includes generating a cash authentication code (CAC) for the cash delivery request to be verified by a cash dispenser machine. The method may include transmitting the cash delivery request and the CAC to a second user device of a driver. The method may include determining a route for the driver from a first location of the driver, to a second location of a cash dispenser machine, and to a third location of the customer to deliver the cash delivery request. The method may include instructing the cash dispenser machine to dispense cash in response to authenticating the second user device based on the CAC and determining that the first current location is at the second location.
US12045782B2
A system and method for storing aircraft component information on an immutable sequential listing, wherein the system comprises a computing device configured to identify a plurality of aircraft components, assign a component identifier to each aircraft component of a plurality of aircraft components, generate, for each component identifier, an immutable sequence entry including the component identifier, and store, for each component identifier, the corresponding immutable sequence entry on at least an immutable sequential listing.
US12045767B1
Systems and/or methods receive an indication associated with a delivery to an address and determine a route associated with the delivery. The systems and/or methods determine a threshold distance to the address associated with displaying images of an environment along the route. As a device associated with a delivery personnel travels within the threshold, the device displays the image(s) of the environment. Additional image(s) are presented based on arriving at the address. The additional image(s) represent a structure associated with the address. The route is displayed along with the additional image(s) to allow the delivery personnel to efficiently make the delivery.
US12045760B2
A franchise food truck integrated management system and method thereof are disclosed. When food trucks are distributed in each region across a country, orders for food menu items are received in real time and the orders are assigned to suitable food trucks for delivery. The food truck integrated management method includes: receiving, by a server, a food ingredient order request from a first food truck; determining, by the server, a food ingredient supply route to the first food truck; and supplying order-requested food ingredients to the first food truck according to the determined supply route. There is provided an effect that a number of food trucks that are distributed and operated in each region may receive food ingredients before the food ingredients run out, whereby ordered food menu items may be cooked in a timely manner and the food menu items may be provided at any time.
US12045759B2
An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive, from a terminal of a delivery requester of a battery, a delivery request for a battery for which a delivery location of the battery is designated, a selecting unit configured to select at least one storage location of a battery, and a specifying unit configured to specify a deliverer who delivers the battery from a storage location. The specifying unit is configured to transmit a delivery inquiry including information of the delivery location and the storage location to a terminal of a delivery candidate, and specify the delivery candidate as the deliverer. When the selecting unit selects a plurality of storage locations for one delivery, the delivery inquiry includes information of each storage location.
US12045758B2
Systems and methods for informed mobility platform for a customer service supervisor within a distribution facility are disclosed. One embodiment may be a supervisor mobile terminal including a transceiver circuit, a user interface and a controller. The transceiver circuit may wirelessly communicate with a server computer a plurality of sets of data relating to the customer service activities. The user interface may display at least one set of the plurality of sets of data and receive an instruction to modify the at least one set of data the plurality of sets of data. The controller may control the user interface to modify the at least one set of data based on the instruction and control the transceiver circuit to wirelessly communicate the modified data with the server computer such that the at least one set of data stored in the server computer is updated with the modified data.
US12045756B2
ML methods and systems for cataloging and making recommendations based on domain-specific knowledge are disclosed. An example method includes: cataloging, using knowledge engines, data to develop knowledge repositories for respective domains; obtain current domain state data; obtain future domain state data; analyze, using first ML models, one or more of (i) data from the knowledge repositories, (ii) the first domain state data, and (iii) the second domain state data to identify a recommended set of one or more regulations, standards, policies and/or rules for a desired second domain state; analyze, using second ML models, (i) the recommended set and (ii) a current data and architecture state for a current computing environment to generate a summary of one or more cloud deployment options for migrating a current computing environment to a future computing environment for a future domain state; and cause the summary to be displayed on a computing device.
US12045755B1
A method for providing pre-data breach monitoring provides information to businesses that is useful to predict portions of the company data that may not be secured well enough and other risks associated with data breaches, such as employees that may not be trustworthy.
US12045749B2
A work chat room processing apparatus includes: a work chat room processing part which processes a plurality of work chat rooms set up for each piece of work, each of the work chat rooms being implemented through a message thread comprised of a task object message designating a task owner and a task assignee and a non-task object message; a task object database processing part which registers a task object in the task object message by work chat room in a task object database; a work progress status processing part which creates work progress status summary information based on current context information by searching the task object database; and a work processing part which, upon occurrence of a user interaction, provides the current context information to the work progress status processing part, receives the work progress status summary information.
US12045748B2
The present invention provides a management method that manages a plurality of worksites, comprising: acknowledging a work status of each worksite per work type based on information obtained from a plurality of types of work machines at each worksite; comparing the work status with a plan, and managing a progress status of each worksite per work type; specifying, based on the progress status, a work type of a worksite for which the work status has been delayed relative to the plan; and making, with regard to a work machine and a worker for the work type with the delay, a request for dispatch to the worksite with the delay to another worksite.
US12045746B2
A controller of an information processing apparatus selects a plurality of second users as targets to whom a proposal regarding provision of a predetermined service is to be made, from a plurality of first users who are potential recipients of the predetermined service. Furthermore, the controller transmits a message proposing provision of the predetermined service to apparatuses that are each associated with respective one of the plurality of second users. Furthermore, the controller determines an upper limit number of the second users to be selected, based on an acceptance probability that is a probability of the second users accepting the proposal.
US12045737B2
Systems and methods as disclosed for selecting parameters for use by a system. The parameters can describe a behavior of the system, which can be represented by a model having an input and an output. The model can include an operation representable by a matrix. The parameters can include the input and output ranges of the operation, the dimensions of the matrix, a noise value for the system, and an overflow probability. A design environment can be configured to determine values or ranges of values for one or more of the parameters based on values or ranges of values of the remaining parameters. In some embodiments, the design environment can select, recommend, or validate a choice of datatype, minimum system noise, or the dimensions of the matrix. The model can be used to generate code, which can be used to configure the system to perform the operation.
US12045730B1
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for genetic placement of analog and mix-signal circuit components. Embodiments may include receiving an unplaced layout associated with an electronic circuit design and grouping requirements. Embodiments may also include identifying one or more instances that need to be placed in the unplaced layout and areas of the unplaced layout configured to receive the instances. Embodiments may further include analyzing one or more instances that need to be placed in the unplaced layout and the areas of the unplaced layout configured to receive the instances, wherein analyzing is based upon a row-based data structure. Embodiments may also include determining a location and an orientation for each of the one or more instances based upon the genetic algorithm and generating a placed layout based upon the determined location and orientation for each of the instances.
US12045729B2
A neural network compression method whereby forward inference is performed on target data by using a target parameter sharing network to obtain an output feature map of the last convolutional module, a channel related feature is extracted from the output feature map, the extracted channel related feature and a target constraint condition are input into a target meta-generative network, and an optimal network architecture under the target constraint condition is predicted by using the target meta-generative network to obtain a compressed neural network model.
US12045726B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for adversarially generated communication. In some implementations, first information is used as input for a generator machine-learning network. Information is taken from both the generator machine-learning network and target information that includes sample signals or other data. The information is sent to a discriminator machine-learning network which produces decision information including whether the information originated from the generator machine-learning network or the target information. An optimizer takes the decision information and performs one or more iterative optimization techniques which help determine updates to the generator machine-learning network or the discriminator machine-learning network. One or more rounds of updating the generator machine-learning network or the discriminator machine-learning network can allow the generator machine-learning network to produce information that is similar to the target information.
US12045724B2
Apparatus and methods for training a neural network accelerator using quantized precision data formats having outlier values are disclosed, and in particular for storing activation values from a neural network in a compressed format for use during forward and backward propagation training of the neural network. In certain examples of the disclosed technology, a computing system is configured to perform forward propagation for a layer of a neural network to produced first activation values in a first block floating-point format. In some examples, activation values generated by forward propagation are converted by the compressor to a second block floating-point format having a narrower numerical precision than the first block floating-point format. Outlier values, comprising additional bits of mantissa and/or exponent are stored in ancillary storage for subset of the activation values. The compressed activation values are stored in the memory, where they can be retrieved for use during back propagation.
US12045723B2
A method and apparatus for the pruning of a neural network is provided. The method sets a weight threshold value based on a weight distribution of layers included in a neural network, predicts a change of inference accuracy of a neural network by pruning of each layer based on the weight threshold value, determines a current subject layer to be pruned with a weight threshold value among the layers included in the neural network, and prunes a determined current subject layer.
US12045719B2
In a computer-implemented method, an artificial neural network is trained to identify portions of conversation segments within electronic communication documents, wherein an input layer of the artificial neural network includes a plurality of input parameters each corresponding to a different characteristic of text-based content. The method also includes receiving a first electronic communication document that includes first text-based content, and processing the first text-based content using the trained artificial neural network. Processing the first text-based content includes generating one or more position indicators for the first electronic communication document, and the one or more position indicators include one or more segment portion indicators denoting positions of one or more portions of one or more conversation segments within the first electronic communication document. The method also includes determining an ordered relationship between the first electronic communication document and one or more other electronic communication documents using the position indicator(s).
US12045715B2
A computer-implemented method of training an artificial neural network (ANN) by generating a first learned parameter for use in normalising input data values during a subsequent inference phase of the trained ANN. The method includes, for each of a series of batches of training data values, deriving a batch variance of the batch of training data values and a running variance of all training data values already processed in the training phase; generating an approximation of a current value of the first learned parameter so that a first scaling factor dependent upon the approximation of the first learned parameter and the running variance, is constrained to be equal to a power of two; and normalizing the batch of input data values by a second scaling factor dependent upon the approximation of the current value of the first learned parameter and the batch variance.
US12045714B2
A method of operation of a semiconductor device that includes the steps of coupling each of a plurality of digital inputs to a corresponding row of non-volatile memory (NVM) cells that stores an individual weight, initiating a read operation based on a digital value of a first bit of the plurality of digital inputs, accumulating along a first bit-line coupling a first array column weighted bit-line current, in which the weighted bit-line current corresponds to a product of the individual weight stored therein and the digital value of the first bit, and converting and scaling, an accumulated weighted bit-line current of the first column, into a scaled charge of the first bit in relation to a significance of the first bit.
US12045712B2
Apparatuses and methods for implementing artificial synapses utilizing SSM cells. A leaky-integrate-and-fire circuit can provide a feedback signal to an SSM cell responsive to a threshold quantity of pulses being applied to the gate from the signal line. A resulting state of the SSM cell can be dependent on a time difference between a latest of the threshold quantity of pulses and an initial pulse of the feedback signal.
US12045706B2
This disclosure relates to tools to facilitate the configuration of interactive agents, sometimes referred to as bots, chatbots, virtual robots, or talkbots. Specifically, the disclosure relates to the provision of a map view visualization of an interactive agent. The map view can display a complexity indicator or usage percentage for each dialog and provide an easy mechanism for creation of new dialogs, actions, parameters, rules, and logic.
US12045703B2
A computer-implemented method can facilitate delivery of targeted content to user devices in situations in which historic tracking data (e.g., cookie data) is generally unavailable and/or unreliable. A p-dimensional embedding of websites can be generated based on a group of user devices for whom tracking data is available. Conversion event data that indicates indicating whether that audience member performed a conversion action can be received. A machine learning model can be trained using the conversion event data and the positions of websites appearing in the conversion event data within the p-dimensional embedding to predict a likelihood of conversion and/or a type of content to provide given a position in the p-dimensional embedding. When an indication that a user device is accessing a website is received, a position of that website in the p-dimensional embedding can be determined and targeted content can be delivered to the user device.
US12045699B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for positioning a radio signal receiver at a first location within a three dimensional space; positioning a transmitter at a second location within the three dimensional space; transmitting a transmission signal from the transmitter to the radio signal receiver; processing, using a machine-learning network, one or more parameters of the transmission signal received at the radio signal receiver; in response to the processing, obtaining, from the machine-learning network, a prediction corresponding to a direction of arrival of the transmission signal transmitted by the transmitter; computing an error term by comparing the prediction to a set of ground truths; and updating the machine-learning network based on the error term.
US12045698B1
As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for a machine-learning model-agnostic cloud-agnostic no-code onboarding platform. In use, a universal unified interface to a Model-Agnostic Onboarding Workflow (MAOW) platform is provided, wherein the MAOW platform is configured as a no-code, model-agnostic, cloud-agnostic platform. Additionally, at least one machine learning model is onboarded using the MAOW platform, based on the universal unified interface. Further, the at least one machine learning model is deployed from the MAOW platform to at least one target environment.
US12045686B2
The disclosure includes a fixed retail scanner including a data reader comprising a main board, one or more camera modules, and a multi-port network switch disposed within a housing of the data reader. The multi-port network switch is configured to provide a network backbone for at least some internal devices within the housing of the data reader and for at least some external devices positioned external to the housing of the data reader and operably coupled with the data reader through the multi-port network switch. Related systems may include a remote server operably coupled to the fixed retail scanner through the multi-port network switch such that image data to the remote server may be communicated via the multi-port network switch from at least one of the main board or the at least one camera coupled to the multi-port network switch.
US12045682B1
A radio-frequency identification fitting ring assembly includes a fitting ring having a ring portion and two sheet portions that respectively extend outward from a same side of the ring portion. The sheet portions are clamped to be in contact with each other and respectively have a through hole. A fixing member passes through the through holes and has a first expanded portion and a second expanded portion on two ends of the fixing member, respectively, to restrict the two sheet portions. A radio-frequency identification member is disposed on the first expanded portion. A part of the radio-frequency identification member is exposed out of the first expanded portion. When the present invention is used, the fitting ring fits around a hose clamp for fixing, and the radio-frequency identification member could be read or written by a read/write device for marking or identifying an information related to the hose clamp later.
US12045679B2
A method of making a metallic credit card from an existing plastic credit card including the steps of cutting the existing plastic credit card from each side edge, peeling the plastic top layer from its bottom plastic substrate, removing its EMV chip, and attaching it to a metallic substrate. The metallic substrate can further be laser engraved with the user's personal information. An alternate embodiment of the method of making a metallic credit card includes the steps of placing the existing plastic credit card into a metal casing, heating the metal casing and existing plastic credit card to loosen the EMV chip from the plastic layers of the credit card, cutting an incision into the side of the credit card to access and remove the EMV chip, and then attaching the EMV chip to a metallic substrate.
US12045676B2
Automation solutions for event logging and debugging on KUBERNETES are disclosed. A method for identifying and clustering events on a distributed application cluster includes providing a distributed agent configured to run on the distributed application cluster, the distributed application cluster including a plurality of nodes, wherein at least one distributed application runs on each node of the plurality of nodes, and providing a plurality of edge modules, each edge module being configured to run on a corresponding node of the plurality of nodes. A plurality of data coresets corresponding to each node of the plurality of nodes are tracked via the plurality of edge modules. A unified data coreset is generated by merging the plurality of data coresets and the unified data coreset is transferred to the distributed agent to train an unsupervised model configured to identify and cluster events across the distributed application cluster.
US12045666B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to collect performance data for one or more computations tasks executed by a plurality of nodes of a computational pipeline and enable optimization of distribution of task execution among the plurality of nodes.
US12045662B2
Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives a request to execute a task for re-encrypting a set of data associated with an application that has been encrypted with a first encryption key. The task is for re-encrypting the set of data using a second encryption key. The program further determines an amount of work to complete the task. The program also divides the task into a set of subtasks based on the amount of work. The program further assigns each subtask in the set of subtasks to a node in a plurality of nodes for execution of the subtask. The plurality of nodes are configured to implement the application.
US12045661B2
Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer implemented services using managed systems are disclosed. To provide the computer implemented services, the managed systems may need to operate in a predetermined manner conducive to, for example, execution of applications that provide the computer implemented services. Similarly, the managed system may need access to certain hardware resources (e.g., and also software resources such as drivers, firmware, etc.) to provide the desired computer implemented services. To improve the likelihood of the computer implemented services being provided, the managed systems may be managed using a subscription based model. The subscription model may utilize a highly accessible service to facilitate system management. To facilitate system management, the highly available service may utilize various types of reporting models to identify use of the managed systems. The identified use may be used to drive management decisions.
US12045660B2
Method and apparatus for process accelerator (PA) using configurable hardware accelerators is provided. The PA can include a plurality of processing elements (PEs). The PEs of the PA can be used to accelerate a process and/or one or more threads. PEs can include PE local memory which due to the memories' close physical proximity to the PE can result in reduced energy consumption. The plurality of PEs can be daisy-chain connected or DMA mode can be used to write the result of a PE directly into the PE local memory of another PE for further processing.
US12045653B2
A computer-implemented method and related systems for reducing memory access stalls and memory allocation requests in data-intensive applications are provided. Invariants associated with execution paths that access data in a memory of the data-intensive application are identified. At least one field specialization technique using at least one speccode segment is then applied. The speccode segment exploits the identified invariants, thereby reducing at least one of memory stalls and memory allocation requests in a data-intensive application. The field specialization technique may include specialized software prefetching, a data distribution-based hash function, process to CPU binding, memory segment reuse, or memory layout optimization, or any combination thereof.
US12045649B1
An apparatus and method. The apparatus including at least a processor configured to identify a plurality of tasks associated with a first resource, determine at least an assignable task of the plurality of tasks and reallocate the at least an assignable task that includes: identifying a plurality of second resources, wherein each resource includes an efficiency index corresponding to the at least an assignable task and a temporal attribute, generating an optimal reallocation as a function of the efficiency index and the temporal attribute and reallocating the at least an assignable task as a function of the optimal reallocation.
US12045639B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a system providing visual assistants with artificial intelligence, including an artificial intelligence large language model engine (LLM)coupled to a computer system.
US12045634B2
An application combination establishment method, implemented by an electronic device, includes determining usage of all or some of N applications running on the electronic device and establishing a first combination based on the usage, where the first combination includes a first application and a second application in the N applications. In the application combination establishment method, an application combination may be automatically established based on usage of an application, and a user does not need to manually select an application to establish an application combination.
US12045632B2
A computing system can receive, from a mobile application executing on a mobile device, at least one image that has been captured on the mobile device and corresponds to an interaction. The computing system can extract interaction data from each image. The computing system can transmit a notification to the mobile device indicating that the interaction data has been extracted from the images. The computing system can receive a request to transmit the plurality of interactions to an entity server for processing. The computing system can generate, based on the interaction data, an application programming interface request that is configured to cause the entity server to process the plurality of interactions. The computing system can transmit the application programming interface request to the entity server and receive a confirmation from the entity server that the plurality of interactions have been processed.
US12045627B2
A method for performing a system start up. The method including receiving at a board management controller (BMC) a startup configuration instruction to boot up a compute node with an operating system, wherein the compute node is located on a sled including a plurality of compute nodes, wherein the BMC is configured for managing a plurality of communication interfaces providing communication to the plurality of compute nodes. The method including sending a boot instruction from the BMC to a boot controller of the compute node over a communication interface to execute a basic input/output system (BIOS) firmware that is stored remote from the compute node. The method including performing execution of the BIOS firmware on the compute node to initiate loading of the operating system for execution by the compute node.
US12045618B2
The invention provides a data processing apparatus and a data processing method for generating prefetches of data for use during execution of instructions by processing circuitry. The prefetches that are generated are based on a nested prefetch pattern. The nested prefetch pattern comprises a first pattern and a second pattern. The first pattern is defined by a first address offset between sequentially accessed addresses and a first observed number of the sequentially accessed addresses separated by the first address offset. The second pattern is defined by a second address offset between sequential iterations of the first pattern and a second observed number of the sequential iterations of the first pattern separated by the second address offset.
US12045614B2
A streaming engine employed in a digital data processor specifies a fixed read only data stream defined by plural nested loops. An address generator produces address of data elements. A steam head register stores data elements next to be supplied to functional units for use as operands. The streaming engine fetches stream data ahead of use by the central processing unit core in a stream buffer constructed like a cache. The stream buffer cache includes plural cache lines, each includes tag bits, at least one valid bit and data bits. Cache lines are allocated to store newly fetched stream data. Cache lines are deallocated upon consumption of the data by a central processing unit core functional unit. Instructions preferably include operand fields with a first subset of codings corresponding to registers, a stream read only operand coding and a stream read and advance operand coding.
US12045605B2
A method performed by a computer to update a runtime environment of an application of the computer via a communications network, wherein a filesystem of the runtime environment comprises one or more layers, wherein at least one layer of the one or more layers comprises a link layer formed by a plurality of packages and wherein the link layer comprises symbolic links indicative of the packages forming an updated layer. The method comprising receiving, from a user device or from a scheduling unit, a first signal indicative of a command to use the updated layer of the one or more layers, obtaining the updated layer, obtaining packages forming the updated layer, from a local cache or from a shared storage or from an image repository node, and updating the runtime environment by replacing a layer of the one or more layers with the updated layer using the obtained packages.
US12045601B1
Implementations described herein provide systems and methods for data management for a plurality of source devices. In one implementation, a policy profile is obtained for data management in a hierarchical environment associated with the source devices. The policy profile includes an action and a priority level. The policy profile is published downstream in the hierarchical environment, and the policy profile deployed at one or more source devices of the plurality of source devices in the hierarchical environment. Data is communicated from the one or more source devices upstream in the hierarchical environment according to the action and the priority level of the policy profile.
US12045597B2
A system and method for providing operating system (OS) installation images in a computer system including a deployment server and a target computer device such as a target server. The deployment server executes a bundle builder that receives a configuration file for a system layer, a kernel layer, and an application layer. Files are collected according to the configuration file. Packages for a system layer, a kernel layer, and an application layer are assembled in a combined OS installation image. The combined OS installation image is sent to the target server.
US12045593B2
A polygon simplification computer system for performing polygon simplification within a web application pipeline has a memory device including a three-dimensional data model (3D data model), a Node.js environment, and a polygon simplification module for performing one or more polygon simplification operations on the 3D data model. The polygon simplification module has a binding component including a set of bindings that convert JavaScript into C++ source code, and a mesh simplification module comprising a C++ compiled polygon simplification framework. The polygon simplification module receives a request for the 3D data model, converts the request into a set of C++ instructions, transmits the instructions to the mesh simplification module, receives a 3D simplified data model, and transmits the 3D simplified data model to a client computing device.
US12045581B2
The present disclosure relates generally to techniques for adjusting the number representation (e.g., format) of a variable before and/or after performing one or more arithmetic operations on the variable. In particular, the present disclosure relates to scaling the range of a variable to a suitable representation based on available hardware (e.g., hard logic) in an integrated circuit device. For example, an input in a first number format (e.g., bfloat16) may be scaled to a second number format (e.g., half-precision floating-point) so that circuitry implemented to receive inputs in the second number format may perform one or more arithmetic operations on the input. Further, the output produced by the circuitry may be scaled back to the first number format. Accordingly, arithmetic operations, such as a dot-product, performed in a first format may be emulated by scaling the inputs to and/or the outputs from arithmetic operations performed in another format.
US12045572B2
Disclosed is a system and method for processing out of scope or out of domain user inquiries with a first virtual assistant, which may include the steps of receiving a user request at a user device and converting the user request into a user inquiry, interpreting the user inquiry with an anomaly detection system to generate an interpretation of the user inquiry, forming a question from the interpretation using a textual composition module, accessing a dataset of text-based descriptions of a scope of the first virtual assistant using a textual composition module and a scope of an external source using a textual composition module, querying the dataset for an answer to the question, and when the answer is found in the description of the scope of an external source, transmitting the user inquiry to the external source for processing to generate a response to the user inquiry.
US12045557B2
Embodiments disclosed herein are related to a method that can include displaying first content on a media display, receiving first data generated from or determined by an Internet of Things (IoT) device, and displaying second content in response to receiving the first data from the IoT device.
US12045555B2
Substrates to be processed are partitioned based on pre-processing data that is associated with substrates before a process step. The data is partitioned using a partition rule and the substrates are partitioned into subsets in accordance with subsets of the data obtained by the partitioning. Corrections are applied, specific to each subset. The partition rule is obtained using decision tree analysis on a training set of substrates. The decision tree analysis uses pre-processing data associated with the training substrates before they were processed, and post-processing data associated with the training substrates after being subject to the process step. The partition rule that defines the decision tree is selected from a plurality of partition rules based on a characteristic of subsets of the post-processing data. The associated corrections are obtained implicitly at the same time.
US12045554B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a circuit simulation method and a device. The method includes: determining a top-layer structure and a minimum circuit cell layer of a circuit schematics; determining, in a circuit layout, an area and a relative distribution location of each target circuit cell in the minimum circuit cell layer; generating a first circuit structure based on the top-layer structure, each target circuit cell, and the area and the relative distribution location of each target circuit cell in the circuit layout; and adding a parasitic effect circuit to the first circuit structure, generating a target circuit structure corresponding to the circuit schematics, and performing simulation based on the target circuit structure.
US12045545B2
Augmented reality apparatus and methods of use are provided with secure persistent digital content linked to a location coordinates. More specifically, the present method links a physical location with digital content to enable a user interface with augmented reality that combines aspects of the physical area with location specific digital content. According to the present method, digital content remains persistent with a location even if visual aspects of the location change.
US12045542B2
At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to a method of earphone feature control by using a graphic user interface on a device linked to the earphone.
US12045534B2
Presented herein are systems and methods that allow for dynamic tracking of changes made by an interacting participant. The non-interacting participants follow the changes made by the interacting participant but maintain the ability to take control of their viewport. The systems and methods introduce the concept of an area of interest (AOI), which is a region of the canvas that contains changes or modifications. The AOI relies on a notion of an active user. An active user is a participant that performs an action on the whiteboard. In order for the other participants to view and be aware of changes made to the whiteboard by the active user, the viewport of each device is automatically mapped to contain the AOI.
US12045528B2
In a case where a first print execution instruction including first user identification information is received from a first terminal device, a printer may execute printing and determine whether a usage amount of the printer by a first user identified by the first user identification information is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount by using first print history information in association with the first user identification information. In a case where it is determined that the usage amount of the printer by the first user is equal to or greater than the predetermined amount, the printer may display a first screen. In a case where it is determined that the usage amount of the printer by the first user is less than the predetermined amount, the first screen is not displayed.
US12045502B1
A memory controller includes transaction queue circuitry, a first skip event, a second skip event, a third skip event, and scheduler circuitry. The transaction queue circuitry is configured to store a first transaction, a second transaction, and a third transaction. The first transaction received is by the transaction queue circuitry before the second transaction and the third transaction. The second transaction is received by the transaction queue circuitry before the third transaction. The first skip event counter is associated with the first transaction. The second skip event counter is associated with the second transaction. The third skip event counter is associated with the third transaction. The scheduler circuitry is configured to select the third transaction before selecting the first transaction, increase a value of the first skip event counter based on selecting the third transaction before the first transaction, and communicate the third transaction to a memory device.
US12045500B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including memory devices and systems. In an example, a memory module can include a first stack of at least eight memory die including four pairs of memory die, each pair of the four pairs of memory die associated with an individual memory rank of four memory ranks of the memory module, a memory controller configured to receive memory access commands and to access memory locations of the first stack, and a substrate configured to route connections between external terminations of the memory module and the memory controller.
US12045491B2
Systems and methods are provided for bringing a volume of a consistency group (CG) into an in-synchronization (InSync) state while other volumes of the CG remain in the InSync state. According to an example, in order to support recovery from disruptive events in a manner that ensures a zero recovery point objective (RPO) guarantee and insulates an application making use of the CG from adverse impacts, responsive to a triggering event, a Fast Resync process may first be attempted to promptly bring an affected volume back into an in-synchronization (InSync) state from an out of synchronization (OOS) state while allowing other members of the CG to remain in the InSync state. Should the Fast resync process be unsuccessful in bringing the volume back into the InSync state within a predetermined or configurable time threshold, then a second type of resynchronization process may be employed at the CG level.
US12045488B2
A dynamic loading system of an off-chip non-volatile memory based on virtual mapping includes the off-chip non-volatile memory, an on-chip memory, an on-chip mapping device, a memory access controller, and an off-chip memory. The on-chip mapping device is configured to construct a mapping relationship between a logical partition and a physical partition of the on-chip memory. The memory access controller is configured to parse a memory access of a system into an access to the logical partition, configure a prediction algorithm of data loading, and send a memory loading request to the off-chip memory loading device. The off-chip memory loading device is configured to construct a mapping relationship between a program partition of the off-chip non-volatile memory and the physical partition of the on-chip memory.
US12045478B1
Technologies are described herein for remotely configuring multi-mode dual in-line memory modules (“multi-mode DIMMs”) using a firmware or a baseboard management controller (“BMC”). Technologies are also described for simultaneously initiating multiple commands for configuring multi-mode DIMMs using a BMC and for updating inventory data regarding multi-mode DIMMs stored by a BMC.
US12045473B2
A data storage device and method for prediction-based improved power-loss handling. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to predict a probability of an ungraceful shutdown of the data storage device; determine whether the probability is greater than a threshold; and in response to determining that the probability is greater than the threshold, reduce a risk of data loss that would occur in response to the ungraceful shutdown of the data storage device. Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
US12045472B2
A storage device includes a storage controller, which is configured to receive a command generated by a first virtual machine, from a host, and a non-volatile memory device, which is configured to store first data for the command. The command includes one of a retain command, which is generated to command the storage controller to retain the first data in the non-volatile memory device, or an erase command, which is generated to command the storage controller to erase the first data from the non-volatile memory device, when access between the first virtual machine and the storage controller at least temporarily interrupted.
US12045470B2
Each of a plurality of memory blocks of a nonvolatile memory device is divided into two or more wordline groups having different characteristics. A write command for at least two memory blocks among the plurality of memory blocks is received. During a first partial time interval included in an entire write time interval for two or more memory blocks, a data write operation is performed on a wordline group included in one memory block among the two or more memory blocks in response to a reception of an address for the one memory block. During a second other partial time interval included in the entire write time interval, a data write operation is performed on wordline groups included in the two or more memory blocks in response to a reception of an address for the two or more memory blocks.
US12045461B2
A victim management unit (MU) for performing a media management operation is identified. The victim MU stores valid data. An ordered set cursors is maintained. A source cursor of the ordered set of cursors associated with the victim MU is identified. A target cursor of the ordered set of cursors referencing one or more available MUs is identified as the cursor following the source cursor in the ordered set of cursors. The valid data is associated with the identified target cursor.
US12045453B2
Example techniques relate to lock screen media controls. While a mobile device is in the locked state, an example implementation involves selecting one or more playback devices from among the multiple playback devices connected to a local area network, displaying a lock screen control for the one or more selected playback devices, the lock screen control including: a playback status control displaying metadata of a particular audio track playing back on the one or more selected playback devices and one or more transport controls to control playback by the one or more selected playback devices. The example implementation also involves receiving input data representing a command to adjust playback volume on one or more selected playback devices and sending, via a wireless network interface of the mobile device, instructions to cause the one or more selected playback devices to adjust playback volume according to the command.
US12045446B2
A display interaction system includes a first device and a second device. The first device is configured to send interface display information of a first application to the second device. A first user interface of the first application is displayed on a display of the first device. The interface display information includes data used by the first device to display the first user interface. The second device is configured to display a second user interface of the first application based on the interface display information. Content displayed in the second user interface includes content displayed in the first user interface, a layout of the second user interface is different from a layout of the first user interface, and a display area of the second user interface is larger than a display area of the first user interface.
US12045442B2
A method and an apparatus for browsing a table in a document, and an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: in a process of editing a table in an online document, receiving a table page jump instruction of a first table and jumping from a document page corresponding to the online document to a first table page for display; receiving a table switching instruction in the first table page; and switching from the first table page to a second table page for display according to the table switching instruction; where the first table page is used to display the first table, and the second table page is used to display a second table. Tables can be switched quickly, and the browsing speed of tables can be improved.
US12045438B2
Systems and methods of configuring an Application Programming Interface (API) based on inputs which received through interface elements presented within a graphical user interface (GUI). The system to configure an API performs operations that include: causing display of a GUI that comprises a presentation of a plurality of interface elements; receiving a selection of an interface element from among the plurality of interface elements; presenting a menu element in response to the selection of the interface element; receiving a user input via the menu element; and configuring an API based on the user input received via the menu element, wherein the user input may define one or more parameters of the API.
US12045436B2
A display control device for a vehicle includes a memory, and at least one processor connected to the memory. The at least one processor displays, on a display portion provided at a front side of a steering wheel, plural icons corresponding to a steering wheel switch group, and sets aspect ratios of the icons such that a proportion of a width in the aspect ratio of the icon is large as compared with a proportion of a width in a width-to-height ratio of a corresponding operation region of the steering wheel.
US12045435B2
Data is received characterizing an impact function, a first plurality of inputs to the impact function, and a plurality of weights associated with the first plurality of inputs. A first coefficient characterizing an interaction between a first input and a second input of the plurality of inputs is calculated based on a first set of weights of the plurality of weights. The first set of weights are indicative of interaction between the first input and the second input. A graphical object including a plurality of regions is displayed in a graphical user interface (GUI). A first region and a second region of the plurality of regions are indicative of the first input and the second input, respectively. A second graphical object connecting the first region to the second region is displayed in the GUI. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US12045422B2
Provided is an electronic device including a display panel configured to display an image, an input sensing layer on the display panel, and configured to operate in a first sensing mode in which a first input is sensed, or a second sensing mode in which a second input provided by an input device is sensed, and a sensing controller configured to control an operation of the input sensing layer, wherein, in the first sensing mode, the sensing controller operates in a first mode in which an uplink signal for searching the input device is transmitted at a first frequency to the input sensing layer, or a second mode in which the uplink signal is transmitted at a second frequency, which is less than the first frequency, to the input sensing layer, and wherein, in the second sensing mode, the sensing controller transmits the uplink signal at the first frequency to the input sensing layer.
US12045418B2
An electronic device including a display layer, a sensor layer that senses a first input by proximity sensing and a second input by a touch, wherein the sensor layer is disposed on the display layer and includes a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of second electrodes extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a control unit that controls the sensor layer. When the first input is sensed, the control unit obtains a measurement signal from one of the plurality of first electrodes, obtains a noise signal from another of the plurality of first electrodes, and determines whether the first input is sensed, based on the measurement signal and the noise signal.
US12045410B2
Provided are a conductive film, a touch sensor film, and an image display apparatus, in which disconnection of a metal wire hardly occurs even when bending is repeated. The conductive film includes a base material, protruding parts disposed thereon, each of which projects in one direction and a plurality of which are spaced apart in a direction orthogonal to the one direction, and a metal wire that intersects the one direction and extends across the protruding parts, where a width of the protruding part in the direction orthogonal to the one direction is denoted as Lj, and an interval between the protruding parts is denoted as Ld, 1 μm≤Lj<100 μm and 1 μm≤Ld<100 μm, and when a thickness of the metal wire is denoted as td, and a thickness of the protruding part is denoted as tj, tj≥td, are satisfied.
US12045400B1
Examples are disclosed relating to electronic styli and methods for protecting a tip of an electronic stylus. In one example, an electronic stylus comprises an elongated body and a tip protection mechanism within the elongated body comprising a housing that is moveable relative to the elongated body. A protective cone is located at a body tip end of the body, with the stylus tip configured to protrude from the protective cone. A method for protecting the tip comprises preventing relative movement between the housing and the elongated body when a force exerted on the tip is below a protection threshold. When the force exerted on the tip reaches the protection threshold, the method includes allowing movement between the housing and the elongated body that retracts the tip into the protective cone.
US12045397B2
A foot operated controller apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a ball large enough for a human to manipulate with two feet, and a support apparatus configured to support the ball from below, restrict translation of the ball and permit rotation of the ball about its center with respect to at least two axes. One or more position encoders are disposed proximate a surface of the ball. The encoder(s) are configured to determine a rotational displacement of the ball with respect to two or more axes.
US12045394B2
Methods and systems for processing input from an image-capture device for gesture-recognition. The method further includes computationally interpreting user gestures in accordance with a first mode of operation; analyzing the path of movement of an object to determine an intent of a user to change modes of operation; and, upon determining an intent of the user to change modes of operation, subsequently interpreting user gestures in accordance with the second mode of operation.
US12045392B1
In one implementation, a method of defining a custom hand gesture is performed by a device including an image sensor, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes receiving a request to define a first hand gesture. The method includes capturing, via the image sensor, a first performance of the first hand gesture. The method includes extracting, from the first performance of the first hand gesture, a first set of features. The method includes defining, based on the first set of features, one or more gesture matching criteria for the first hand gesture.
US12045379B1
In some embodiments, a method can include detecting, at a first circuit, the first circuit being operatively coupled to a memory device having a set of memory portions. The method can include receiving, from the memory device and at the first circuit, a set of encryption key portions after the detecting, each encryption key portion from the encryption key portions being a unique portion of an encryption key. The method can include assembling the encryption key by ordering each encryption key portion from the set of encryption key portions based on (1) a first previously defined list and (2) a second previously defined list. The first previously defined list and the second previously defined list each is stored at or accessible by the first circuit but not stored at or accessible by the memory device. The method can include authorizing access to a second circuit based on the encryption key.
US12045374B2
Methods and systems for securing unstructured data are provided. One method includes generating, by a processor, a schema from unstructured data, the schema including one or more relationships between named entities of the unstructured data; identifying, by the processor, a plurality of semantic relationships between the named entities; determining, by the processor, a sensitive relationship from the plurality of semantic relationships; and anonymizing, by the processor, sensitive data associated with the sensitive relationship by replacing, a first portion of the sensitive data with generalized information.
US12045371B2
A user provides retailer-specific consents for access and use to private/sensitive information of the user. The private/sensitive information is centrally stored in a privacy vault. Retail services (retailer) that the user subscribes to are provided a user-specific and consent-specific token representing the user and consents to usage of specific private/sensitive information of the user. When the retailer has a need for user-specific private/sensitive information, the retailer presents the user-specific and consent-specific token to the privacy vault. Assuming, the retailer was given access to the requested private/sensitive information defined in the token, the privacy results returns the requested information to the retailer; otherwise, an unauthorized message is returned from the privacy vault to the retailer. The user defines the consents to each retailer and a record of the consents is maintained in the privacy vault.
US12045366B2
With respect to an information processing device which anonymizes data composed of records including one or more items through statistical processing, the information processing device includes a memory, and a processor configured to classify respective records constituting the data into one or more first sets, based on masking target items, a dictionary, and a selected hierarchy level indicating a hierarchy level selected in the tree structure for each of the masking target items, classify the respective records into one or more second sets with respect to a number of records belonging to each of the one or more first sets, and calculate a number of records of each of the one or more second sets and a ratio of records belonging to each of the one or more second sets to the records, and display the ratio in each hierarchy level of each of the masking target items.
US12045364B1
The present invention relates generally to a system and method of querying an anonymized database. More particularly, the invention provides a method and system for querying an anonymized database without the need to decrypt queried data while it's processed. Even more specifically, the invention provides a method and system of anonymizing a database such that it may be queried efficiently in near real time while still retaining the ability to not decrypt requested data while it's being processed.
US12045363B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums for applications that detect indicators of data exfiltration through applications such as browser-based interfaces. The disclosed system monitors file system element events related to one or more target applications (such as browsers) through operating system interfaces. Once an event of interest is detected, the system interfaces with the browser to determine a context for the event of interest that may include a URL of a website that the user was visiting corresponding to the file system element event. If the URL is directed towards a prohibited site, a notification may be generated that may be used as a signal to alert an administrator. As used herein, a file system element may include a file, directory, folder, archive, blob, raw storage, metadata, or the like. File system element events may include copying, deleting, modifying, or moving a file system element. A file system element event may be detected by monitoring Input/Output requests of a computing device to write to a file; move a file; delete a file; or the like.
US12045360B2
A system and method for providing access to data stored in a personal storage medium includes receiving a search query from a searching entity for searching for the data, determining if the data includes data stored in the personal storage medium of a user, upon determining that the data includes data stored in the personal storage medium, determining if the user has consented to provide access to the data to the searching entity and if so, searching a search index associated with the personal storage medium for the data, and providing one or more search results or a notification that no search results were identified to the searching entity.
US12045349B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform, including a processor, a memory, and a network interface; a bucketized reputation modifier table; and instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor to: perform a feature-based malware analysis of an object; assign the object a malware reputation according to the feature-based malware analysis; query and receive via the network interface a complementary score for a complementary property of the object; query the bucketized reputation modifier table according to the complementary score to receive a reputation modifier for the object; adjust the object's reputation according to the reputation modifier; and take a security action according to the adjusted reputation.
US12045341B2
An unauthorized communication detection device that detects unauthorized communication in a manufacturing system that manufactures products includes: an obtainer that obtains operation information of the manufacturing system; a storage that stores element information indicating one or more target elements among a plurality of elements related to manufacturing of the products; a specifier that specifies, for each of a plurality of communications performed in the manufacturing system, an element corresponding to the communication, based on the operation information; a calculator that calculates an abnormal degree of each of one or more communications, which satisfy that the element specified by the specifier is included in the one or more target elements indicated by the element information, among the plurality of communications; and a determiner that determines that, when an abnormal degree calculated by the calculator is larger than a threshold value, a communication corresponding to the abnormal degree is the unauthorized communication.
US12045337B2
An electronic device includes a System on Chip (SoC) and a memory. The SoC includes a processor and a neural processing unit (NPU). The memory includes an enclave page cache (EPC), in which a validation table is stored, and at least one NPU enclave. The NPU enclave and the EPC have a trusted execution environment, which is isolated from an execution environment in which system software of the CPU is executed.
US12045320B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to receive telemetry data representing usage of one or more software assets by one or more industrial automation devices within an industrial automation system operated by an enterprise, reference a local blockchain that is a private extension of a global decentralized blockchain to determine one or more licenses associated with the one or more software assets, determine one or more usage parameters for the one or more software assets based on the telemetry data and the one or more licenses, update the local blockchain and the global decentralized blockchain based on the and the usage parameters, and enable usage of the one or more software assets by the one or more industrial automation devices based on the one or more usage parameters and one or more thresholds defined by the one or more licenses.
US12045319B2
A system for configuring and using a logical neural network including a graph syntax tree of formulae in a represented knowledgebase connected to each other via nodes representing each proposition. One neuron exists for each logical connective occurring in each formula and, additionally, one neuron for each unique proposition occurring in any formula. All neurons return pairs of values representing upper and lower bounds on truth values of their corresponding subformulae and propositions. Neurons corresponding to logical connectives accept as input the output of neurons corresponding to their operands and have activation functions configured to match the connectives' truth functions. Neurons corresponding to propositions accept as input the output of neurons established as proofs of bounds on the propositions' truth values and have activation functions configured to aggregate the tightest such bounds. Bidirectional inference permits every occurrence of each proposition in each formula to be used as a potential proof.
US12045311B2
Systems and methods for generating predicted high-resolution images from low-resolution images. To generate the predicted high-resolution images, the present technology may utilize machine learning models and super resolution models in a series of processes. For instance, the low-resolution images may undergo a sensor transformation based on processing by a machine learning model. The low-resolution images may also be combined with land structure features and/or prior high-resolution images to form an augmented input that is processed by a super resolution model to generate an initial predicted high-resolution image. The predicted initial high-resolution image may be combined or stacked with other predicted high-resolution images to form a stacked image. That stacked image may then be processed by another super resolution model to generate a final predicted high-resolution image.
US12045304B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for performing operations comprising: retrieving, from a content management system (CMS), website generation data that references a data model type stored on the CMS; importing, by a migration agent from the CMS, definition of the data model type referenced by the website generation data as a local version of the data model type; detecting, by the migration agent, a change to a property of the local version of the data model type; and generating, by the migration agent, a migration script to migrate the change to the property of the local version of data model type to the data model type stored on the CMS.
US12045300B2
An optimized artificial intelligence search system may comprise a pinch zoomable 3D representation of an outline providing content in response to search queries. Search results may include a emoticon system using emotions to sentiment to further describe search results. A user interface may comprise means and methods of allowing a user to delete search results and then be presented with queries to indicate why the deleted results were not relevant to the user. Disclosed systems may further comprise a computing device configured to allow a user to input search queries into a content extraction module that is in communication with an optimized search engine; an optimized search engine configured to receive search queries from the content extraction module and execute search queries to generate or render a list of search results to the content extraction module.
US12045299B2
The invention relates to method for displaying the search results of the component e-commerce platform by classification. The method comprises the following steps of: S1, receiving a search keyword and sending the search keyword to a website server; S2, inquiring to obtain the data files containing the search keywords and gathering the data files with the same type labels into an aggregation column; S3, calculating the file weight value of each data file and sorting all the data files in each aggregation column from large to small according to the file weight value; S4, taking the maximum file weight value in each aggregation column as a column item weight value of the aggregation column, and all the aggregation column are sorted from large to small according to the column item weight values; and S5, sending the query results of the classification and sorting to a webpage for display by the website server.
US12045292B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for predictive dynamic bidding rules generation for digital content objects.
US12045287B2
Methods and systems for creating a cluster view person for genealogical studies. Methods may include obtaining a plurality of genealogical trees. Each of the genealogical trees may include a plurality of interconnected nodes representing individuals that are related to each other. Methods may also include identifying one or more of the genealogical trees that contain a similar individual. Whether two individuals are grouped may depend on similarity and/or quality thresholds. Methods may include creating an aggregate individual including each of the similar individuals in each of the identified genealogical trees. The aggregate individual may combine information from each of the similar individuals.
US12045285B2
The disclosure proposes a social graph generation method based on the degree distribution generation model, including: setting the social graph generation schema which is the configuration used to generate graphs, setting the degree distribution generation model which is used to generate an out-degree and a number of target vertices for a source vertex so that the out-degree and in-degree distribution follows the desired distribution, generating a general graph based on the degree distribution generation model, generating a social graph based on the degree distribution generation model, and generating graphs in a streaming manner. This disclosure determines the out-degree and a target vertex ID for a source vertex efficiently. The vertices in the generated graphs could represent users in the social networks and the edges could represent the relationships in the social networks. The synthesis graphs have the characteristics of real-world networks and can be used for social networks analysis.
US12045283B2
The disclosed technologies are capable of reading ingestion configuration data for a client of a plurality of clients of a graph database, transforming the ingestion configuration data from a declarative representation into a graph representation of the ingestion configuration data, storing the graph representation of the ingestion configuration data in the graph database, providing the graph representation of the ingestion configuration data to a data service, where the data service comprises one or more of (i) a physical grouping of at least one computing device configured to store at least a portion of the graph database, (ii) a logical grouping of at least one computing device configured to store at least a portion of the graph database, or (iii) a combination of (i) and (ii).
US12045281B2
Provided is a method of providing a user interface for video retrieval performed by a computing device, the method including: receiving a search query, providing a search result interface displaying at least one search video content and search section searched by the search query, wherein the search video content and the search section are related with at least one of a plurality of video semantic search attributes corresponding to the search query, and providing a timeline view interface for the search video content when it is determined to display the search result interface according to a timeline view mode, wherein the timeline view interface has a visual characteristic indicating the degree of relevance to at least one of the plurality of video semantic search attributes corresponding to the search query.
US12045280B2
Technologies are generally described for a system to extract description of reference numerals in images and facilitate keyword-based search in images. In various examples, the system may include one or more databases, a computer readable memory, and one or more processors. The system may be configured to extract one or more reference numerals from an image, and identify and extract corresponding description of the one or more reference numerals from a description document corresponding to the image. The system may be further configured to extract text from the images, and store the images in a database with the extracted data, i.e., text, reference numerals, and corresponding descriptions. The system may be further configured to receive an input query intending to search images related to a search logic of the input query, search a database to identify an image including either of text or a reference numeral having a corresponding description that corresponds to the search logic of the input query, and render the identified image via a display device executing the output interface.
US12045271B1
A computer-implemented method for facilitating the creation of food and/or beverage product concepts, comprising: providing a plurality of content items obtained from one or more sources, each content item comprising structured or unstructured text, at least one of the content items comprising text that pertains, at least in part, to one or more food and/or beverage products, assigning, to each content item, one or more taxonomic labels, wherein each label comprises a term contained in a pre-defined taxonomy of terms and each label assigned to a respective content item is selected based on the particular language used in the respective content item, receiving, from a user, a query specifying a first term; in the event that the first term comprises a taxonomic label from the pre-defined taxonomy of terms; identifying one or more pairs of terms, each pair of terms comprising the first term and a respective other one of the taxonomic labels; determining, for each pair of terms, an association score, wherein the association score is based at least in part on the number of content items that have been assigned both of the taxonomic labels in the pair; and outputting, in a user-interface, a response to the query, wherein the response provides an indication of the association score(s) for each pair of terms.
US12045270B2
Entities and temporal information associated with the entities can be extracted from the documents using natural language processing. A graph structure can be created representing the document's temporal semantics, nodes of the graph structure including the entities and edges of the graph structure representing temporal relationships between the nodes. The graph structure can be linked with the document. Multiple documents can be received and a knowledgebase can be created including multiple graph structures representing the multiple documents according to the multiple documents' temporal semantics. An input document for query can be received and transformed into a graph structure for query, the graph structure for query representing the input document's temporal semantics. The knowledgebase can be searched for a matching document having a graph structure similar to the graph structure for query based on a similarity threshold. The matching document can be output.
US12045269B2
An apparatus for generating a digital assistant is disclosed. The apparatus include at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to receive at least one user query from a user. The memory instructs the processor to extract a plurality of background data and a plurality of contextual data from the user dataset. The memory instructs the processor to receive at least one user query from a user. The memory instructs the processor to generate a query response as a function of the at least one user query and the contextual data using the digital assistant. The memory instructs the processor to display the query response using the digital assistant on a display device.
US12045268B2
A computer implemented method includes receiving a selection of a cartographic search boundary via a user display interface map, obtaining cartographic candidate boundaries corresponding to stored information files, comparing the cartographic search boundary to the cartographic candidate boundaries, selecting stored information files with cartographic candidate boundaries matching the cartographic search boundary, and displaying representations of selected stored information files.
US12045263B2
Disclosed is an autonomous mining method of industrial big data based on model sets, which comprises the following steps: S1, building model sets and a mining engine based on domain knowledge and structural characteristics of multi-source heterogeneous data; S2, carrying out data sampling on the multi-source heterogeneous data, and counting the fault-tolerant estimation of random error variance; S3, mining data sets by using the mining engine, and determining the optimal fault-tolerant model of each sampled data sequence and the optimal fault-tolerant estimation of model parameters; S4, performing goodness-of-fit statistics calculation and VV&A test by using the optimal fault-tolerant model; S5, acquiring data model representation and connotation knowledge based on model clustering. The method can realize the automation of the mining process of big data, the integration of associated knowledge, the expansion of model sets, the integration of mining and modeling and the optimization of mining results.
US12045259B2
Some embodiments provide a program that determines a plurality of data objects. Each data object in the plurality of data objects includes a first attribute and a second attribute. The program further sorts values of the first attribute of the plurality of data objects. The program also sorts values of the second attribute of the plurality of data objects. The program further determines a first distance value based on the sorted values of the first attribute of the plurality of data objects. The program also determines a second distance value based on the sorted values of the second attribute of the plurality of data objects. The program further defines a plurality of clusters based on the sorted values of the first attribute of the plurality of data objects, the first distance value, the sorted values of the second attribute of the plurality of data objects, and the second distance value.
US12045255B2
The described embodiments include a computing device that enables the placement of data guards on data items (e.g., files, data in an application, etc.). The data guard is associated with a conflict priority that is used to determine users that are permitted to make changes to the data item. When the data guard has been placed, the data item is visually identified (e.g., when displayed on a display) as being guarded. In addition, the computing device includes various mechanisms for enabling synchronization of data items between computing devices.
US12045253B2
A data processing system implements identifying one-way correctness issues in datasets of large computing systems including a first computing system and a second computing system. The second computing system is associated with a dependent dataset that includes references to data in a second datastore associated with the first computing system. These references updated in response to changes to the data referred to by these references. However, errors can cause the two datasets to become out of sync. The system herein implements automatically identifying unattached items in a dependent dataset that references items in a reference dataset that is no longer present in the reference dataset by comparing the dependent dataset with the reference dataset, and automatically causing the second computing system to delete the unattached items from the dependent dataset.
US12045250B2
The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for exchanging metadata between applications. One example method includes providing a metadata service defining a service metadata model for exposing metadata of data objects defined at one or more applications. A connection to a data source associated with a first application is established from a separate application to acquire the metadata from the data source for one or more data objects related to the first application. In response to establishing the connection, a view of content from the data source is provided that includes a list of entities from the service metadata model. A query defined based on the list of entities is received for acquiring metadata associated with the one or more identified entities. The query is evaluated at a backend of the first application and the metadata for the identified entities from the data source is provided.
US12045248B2
Implementations include actions of obtaining a set of entities based on one or more terms of a query, obtaining one or more entities associated with each live event of a plurality of live events, identifying a live event that is responsive to the query based on comparing at least one entity in the set of entities to one or more entities associated with each live event of a plurality of live events, determining that an event search result corresponding to the live event is to be displayed in search results, and in response: providing the event search result for display, the event search result including information associated with the live event, the information including an indicator of an occurrence of the live event.
US12045231B2
A task analysis data store may contain electronic records representing task analysis items for an enterprise. A back-end application computer server may receive, from a remote user device, first step data about task objectives for task identifier and update the task analysis data store. The server may then automatically evaluate the first step data in accordance with a first step data evaluation rule. When the first step data complies with the first step data evaluation rule, the server may permit receipt of second step data about a task analysis and update the task analysis data store. The server may then automatically evaluate the second step data in accordance with a second step data evaluation rule. When the second step data complies with the second step data evaluation rule, the server may permit receipt of third step data about analysis presentation and update the task analysis data store.
US12045206B2
A method includes a full node storing a blockchain and being one of a plurality of full nodes forming a blockchain network receiving a message comprising update image data and a smart contract identifier from a first user device. The full node can then determine stored image data associated with the smart contract identifier. The full node can also determine whether or not image comparison data based on received image data and stored image data is consistent with a smart contract associated with the smart contract identifier and can then generate an entry for a block of the blockchain, comprising at least the smart contract identifier, the updated image data, and image comparison data. The full node can generate the block of the blockchain and transmit the block to the plurality of full nodes. The plurality of full nodes respectively verify the block. The full node can store the block on the blockchain and transmit an indication of whether or not the block was stored on the blockchain to the first user device.
US12045199B1
A lightweight filesystem may be provided for remote storage caching. A filesystem may maintain a persistent cache for a data set stored as data files in immutable data objects in a remote data store. Filesystem metadata may be evaluated to determine whether a portion of a data file is stored in the persistent cache according to an offset and length specified in a request. If in the persistent cache, data obtained from a data block in the persistent cache may be returned. If not in the persistent cache, then the remote data store may be accessed and the data file in the immutable data object read to obtain the portion of the data file.
US12045196B2
A server system, based on content of a first file stored on a first client device being modified, automatically receives a copy of the modified first file from a first transfer client, implemented on the first client device, the copy of the modified first file being an updated version of the first file generated from content of the first file being modified. The server system receives, from the first transfer client, first metadata associated with the updated version of the first file, the first metadata being assigned a first priority greater than a second priority assigned to the copy of the modified first file. The server system automatically transfers the first metadata to a second transfer client, implemented on a second client device, before the copy of the modified first file is transferred to the second transfer client to be stored on the second client device.
US12045193B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for incorporating a dynamic memory block and a configurable processor controller to enable computational processing and memory storage. The method includes storing data elements with each data element stored in a corresponding memory cell. The method also includes executing a computation operation when the storage device of the data elements is adjusted thereby triggering the computation operation. The method also includes transitioning the memory cells from the storage device to the computation device by adjusting the storage of data elements by the memory cells to execute the computation operation. The method also includes transitioning the memory cells from the computation device to the storage device by maintaining the storage of data elements by the memory cells in a static state thereby preventing storage of data elements by the memory cells from being adjusted.
US12045187B2
An integrated circuit (IC) for adaptive memory expansion scheme is proposed, which comprises: a home agent comprising a first memory expansion pool and a second memory expansion pool; a first port connecting the home agent to a first memory expansion device, where the first memory expansion device comprises a first memory pool; a second port connecting the home agent to a second memory expansion device, where the second memory expansion device comprises a second memory pool; a first address table mapping the first memory expansion pool to the first memory pool based on a size of the first memory expansion pool or a size of the first memory pool; and a second address table mapping the second memory expansion pool to the second memory pool based on a size of the second memory expansion pool or a size of the second memory pool.
US12045182B1
A computing system may implement a low priority arbitration interrupt method that includes receiving a message signaled interrupt (MSI) message from an input output hub (I/O hub) transmitted over an interconnect fabric, selecting a processor to interrupt from a cluster of processors based on arbitration parameters, and communicating an interrupt service routine to the selected processor, wherein the I/O hub and the cluster of processors are located within a common domain.
US12045181B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example of the techniques presented herein, a system comprises a processor, a first interrupt source configured to generate a first non-secure interrupt, and an interrupt blocking unit configured to block the first non-secure interrupt responsive to the processor operating in a secure state.
US12045179B2
A method for handling configuration data for an interconnection protocol within hibernation operation, a controller and an electronic device are provided. The method includes the following steps. In an electronic device, a hibernation entering indication signal indicating entering a hibernation state of the interconnection protocol is received. The electronic device has a memory and an index table, wherein the index table includes attribute identifiers corresponding to management information base (MIB) attributes, which belong to sub-layers of a link layer of the interconnection protocol and are required to be retained during hibernation. In response to the hibernation entering indication signal, MIB attribute storing is performed by a hardware protocol engine for implementing the link layer to read, for each one of the sub-layers, attribute data from the sub-layers according to the attribute identifiers from the index table sequentially and to write the attribute data sequentially to the memory. After the entering the hibernation state, the hardware protocol engine is in a power saving state or off while the memory remains on.
US12045178B2
A system comprises a first processing block configured to receive, from a first local resource, a formatted transaction in a format that is not recognizable by a remote endpoint; determine a first transaction category, from among a plurality of transaction categories, of the formatted transaction based on content of the formatted transaction; perform one or operations on the formatted transaction based on the first transaction category to form a reformatted transaction in a format that is recognizable by the remote endpoint; and place the reformatted transaction in a queue for transmission to the remote endpoint.
US12045174B2
Embodiments are directed to tagless implicit integrity with multi-perspective pattern search for memory safety. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors comprising hardware circuitry to: access encrypted data stored in a memory hierarchy using a pointer; decrypt the encrypted data using a current version of a pointer tag of the pointer to yield first decrypted data; perform an entropy test on the first decrypted data; responsive to the entropy test failing to detect patterns in the first decrypted data, re-decrypt the encrypted data using one or more different versions of the pointer tag of the pointer to yield one or more other decrypted data; perform the entropy test on the one or more other decrypted versions; and responsive to the entropy test detecting the patterns in the one or more other decrypted data, signal an exception to the one or more processors with respect to the encrypted data.
US12045173B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for stale data recovery using virtual storage metadata. The method includes one or more processors generating a primary virtual storage metadata structure having virtual address areas for a data chunk. Each area includes a plurality of most recent updates of metadata for the data chunk. The metadata of each update includes a sequence number for the update and a pointer to the physical location of the data. The method further includes one or more processors generating an overflow virtual storage metadata structure for multiple virtual address areas. The overflow metadata structure includes updates that have overflowed from the virtual address areas. In addition, wherein an oldest update in a full virtual address area of the primary virtual storage metadata structure includes a link to an overflow location.
US12045167B2
A system and method mitigates conflicts between clean unique requests by receiving a first clean unique request from a first processor core and a second clean unique request from a second processor core. The first clean unique request and the second clean unique request respectively indicate that the first processor core and second processor core request access to a first address of a memory. The memory is coupled to the first processor core and the second processor core. The first clean unique request and the second clean unique request are determined to be associated with the first address. Further, the second clean unique request is converted into a first read unique request based on determining that the first clean unique request and the second clean unique request are associated with the first address. The first read unique requests indicates that the second processor core requests data.
US12045165B1
A storage system includes storage resources, front-end devices, and back-end devices that are subdivided into allocation units. Each front-end device has a plurality of tracks, which map to entries in the allocation units. Front-end metadata is used to specify, for a respective track, a respective back-end device, an allocation unit within the respective back-end device, and an entry within the respective allocation unit where the data for the respective track is stored. Back-end metadata is used to specify, for a respective back-end entry, a respective location in the storage resources of the storage system where the data for the respective track is stored and a size of the data on the storage resources. The back-end metadata is organized using shared back-end metadata memory pages, in which each page of metadata is equally shared between two or more of the allocation units.
US12045153B1
An apparatus and method of hot-swapping a component of a component unit in a cluster. The apparatus includes a memory communicatively connected to at least a processor, the memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive quality control data from each functioning component of a component unit in at least a cluster, determine a degree of quality of each functioning component of the component unit in the at least a cluster as a function of the quality control data, determine a swappable component in the component unit of the at least a cluster as a function of the degree of quality and initiate a hot-swap procedure for the swappable component, wherein initiating the hot-swap procedure includes deregistering the swappable component from the component unit and registering a replacement component in place of the swappable component to the component unit.
US12045144B2
Techniques are provided for orchestrating operations between a storage environment and a computing environment hosting virtual machines. A virtual machine proxy, associated with a computing environment hosting a virtual machine, is accessed by an orchestrator to identify the virtual machine and properties of the virtual machine. A storage proxy, associated with a storage environment comprising a volume within which snapshots of the virtual machine are to be stored, is accessed by the orchestrator to initialize a backup procedure. The orchestrator utilizes the virtual machine proxy to create a snapshot of the virtual machine. The orchestrator utilizes the storage proxy to back up the snapshot to the volume using the backup procedure.
US12045142B2
A memory image can be captured by generating metadata indicative of a state of volatile memory and/or byte-addressable PMEM at a particular time during execution of a process by an application. This memory image can be persisted without copying the in-memory data into a separate persistent storage by storing the metadata and safekeeping the in-memory data in the volatile memory and/or PMEM. Metadata associated with multiple time-evolved memory images captured can be stored and managed using a linked index scheme. A linked index scheme can be configured in various ways including a full index and a difference-only index. The memory images can be used for various purposes including suspending and later resuming execution of the application process, restoring a failed application to a previous point in time, cloning an application, and recovering an application process to a most recent state in an application log.
US12045140B2
Systems and methods for providing and/or facilitating live browsing of granular mail or mailbox data, such as data stored within Exchange mailboxes, are described. For example, the systems and methods may provide mechanisms for browsing and/or restoring granular data (e.g., email data) from an Exchange database backup copy (or other secondary copy), without having to restore the entire database from the backup copy.
US12045125B2
The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for obtaining incoming alerts associated with tickets generated for health status issues identified by applications for central components of a cloud platform environment. The obtained incoming alerts are aggregated to determine a root cause ticket. A set of incoming alerts is associated with a first central component running at a first data center from one or more data centers of the cloud platform environment. The set of incoming alerts are generated based on a set of tickets logged at a first ticketing system of the first data center by one or more applications running on the first data center. A root cause ticket is generated to combine the set of tickets corresponding to the set of incoming alerts, and the root cause ticket identifies the first central component as associated with a first health status issue.
US12045114B2
An apparatus is provided, where the apparatus includes a plurality of components, wherein an individual component has a corresponding throttling priority of a plurality of throttling priorities. The apparatus further includes logic to selectively throttle one or more of the plurality of components. In an example, an order in which the one or more of the plurality of components are to be throttled may be based on the plurality of throttling priorities.
US12045112B2
A control method of a walking assistance apparatus is disclosed. The control method of the walking assistance apparatus includes estimating an operable time of the walking assistance apparatus based on an amount of remaining power and power consumption of the walking assistance apparatus, determining whether the operable time satisfies a preset criterion, and generating a torque profile based on an algorithm of a power saving mode when the preset criterion is satisfied.
US12045111B2
A system includes a USB-C receptacle including first and second non-GPIO pins and a USB-C controller including a first GPIO pin connected to a pull-up resistor and a second GPIO pin connected to a pull-down resistor, a pair of non-GPIO pins including a third non-GPIO pin corresponding to the first non-GPIO pin and a fourth non-GPIO pin corresponding to the second non-GPIO pin. The pair of GPIO pins is selectively connectable to the pair of non-GPIO pins using a multiplexer, and liquid exposure detection circuitry configured to cause a first voltage for the first GPIO and a second voltage for the second GPIO to be measured, determine whether the first and second voltages each satisfy a threshold condition, and in response to determining that the first and second voltages each do not satisfy the threshold condition, cause operation of the USB-C receptacle to be suspended.
US12045110B2
The present disclosure relates to a method, adapted to be implemented in an electronic device adapted to be powered by a power source, the method comprising monitoring a variation of an input voltage and/or an input current received from the power source while the electronic device is powered by the power source; and aborting, according to the monitored variation, a first action performed by a power consuming component of the electronic device. The present disclosure also relates to corresponding device, system, computer readable program product and computer readable storage medium.
US12045094B2
A flexible display device includes a flexible display screen having a bendable region; a housing around the flexible display screen; and a support layer having ductility between the housing and a back side of the flexible display screen. The support layer is at least partially on the bendable region of the flexible display screen.
US12045090B2
A laptop computer platform device for supporting a laptop on a platform for cooling, powering, and repositioning the laptop includes a housing with a top surface of a top wall of the housing being configured for supporting a laptop. The housing is rotatably coupled to a base which is configured for positioning the base on a support surface and pivotably positioning the laptop relative to the base. The housing contains a fan within a duct which urges a quantity of air through the duct, thereby cooling the laptop, when activated. A power module is contained by the housing which powers the fan and charges the laptop when the laptop is electrically coupled to the power module through an output charging port positioned on a perimeter wall of the housing.
US12045089B2
An electronic device includes a hinge module; a first housing, a second housing, and a flexible display. The first housing is connected to the hinge module. The second housing is connected to the hinge module. The flexible display is disposed through at least a portion of the first and second housings. The flexible display includes a display panel includes a first surface facing in a first direction and a second surface facing in a direction opposite, when the electronic device is in an unfolded state. The flexible display also includes a window layer disposed at the first surface and a metal sheet layer. The display panel, the window layer, and the metal sheet layer are disposed so that a separation distance between the display panel, the window layer, and the metal sheet layer and inner side walls of the first and second housings and generates different interlayer slips.
US12045084B2
A display supporting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a clamp unit fixed to an installation surface; a pillar unit connected to the clamp unit to rotate about a vertical axis; a neck unit connected to an end portion of the pillar unit to rotate about a vertical axis; an arm unit connected to an end portion of the neck unit to rotate about a first horizontal axis; a connection unit connected to an end portion of the arm unit to rotate about the first horizontal axis; and a display supporting unit connected to the connection unit, having a display unit mounted on a front surface thereof, and rotatable about the first horizontal axis, a second horizontal axis, and the vertical axis.
US12045083B2
A device includes a clock generator configured to generate a root clock signal based on an input clock signal and a clock generator divider integer setting. The device also includes a first component coupled to the clock generator and configured to generate a first component clock signal based on the root clock signal and a first component divider integer setting. The device also includes a second component coupled to the clock generator and configured to generate a second component clock signal based on the root clock signal and a second component divider integer setting. The device also includes sync circuitry coupled to each of the clock generator, the first component, and the second component, wherein the sync circuitry is configured to perform synchronized adjustments to the root clock signal, the first component clock signal, and the second component clock signal.
US12045081B2
A BMC-based time management system includes a host system and a baseboard management controller (BMC). The BMC implements a BMC time manager to perform time management and synchronization operations including receiving, from a time source, time information such as a timestamp corresponding to a particular time, e.g., year, month, day, hour, second, and milliseconds, sometimes referred to herein as an initial time. The BMC manager maintains, in accordance with the initial time, a BMC-determined time, referred to herein as the master time. The BMC time manager synchronizes one or more host system time values, also referred to herein as subordinate time values, in accordance with the master time. The one or more subordinate time parameters may include a host OS time, and one or more host device times. In this manner, the BMC maintains the master time and synchronizes host system time values.
US12045080B1
An optical computation system, preferably including an optical source, a splitter, and one or more phase accumulator banks. A phase accumulator bank, preferably including two optical paths, a plurality of phase accumulator units, and a detector module, and optionally including one or more compensation phase shifters. A method, preferably including receiving one or more optical inputs, receiving one or more electrical inputs, controlling one or more phase accumulator units based on the electrical inputs, and generating one or more electrical outputs based on optical signals.
US12045069B2
Unmanned aerial vehicle includes a microphone which picks up a sound emitted by a target, an actuator which extends to change a position of the microphone, and a processor. The processor obtains positional relationship information which indicates at least one of a position of the target or a distance from the unmanned aerial vehicle to the target, causes the unmanned aerial vehicle to move to a first position at which the unmanned aerial vehicle and the target have a predetermined positional relationship based on the positional relationship information, and causes actuator to extend toward the target after unmanned aerial vehicle moves to the first position.
US12045067B2
A flight management apparatus includes a condition information acquisition unit that acquires condition information including a weather condition for flight of a flight apparatus, the weather condition being associated with a position provided on a flight path or in a flight range in which the flight apparatus is scheduled to fly, a weather information acquisition unit that acquires weather information including weather at a current position at which the flight apparatus is positioned, or a scheduled position at which the flight apparatus is scheduled to be positioned, a determination unit that determines whether or not the weather satisfies the weather condition associated with the current position or the scheduled position in the condition information, and an output unit that outputs information corresponding to a determination result of the determination unit.
US12045064B2
Provided are a method, performed by an electronic device, of controlling a vehicle, and an electronic device for the same. A method, performed by an electronic device, of controlling a vehicle includes: transmitting, to an external server communicatively connected to the vehicle, as profile information of the vehicle, sensor information regarding at least one sensor mounted on the vehicle, communication efficiency information of the vehicle, and driving information of the vehicle; receiving, from the external server, precise map data related to at least one map layer selected based on the profile information of the vehicle from among a plurality of map layers that are combined to form a precise map and distinguished according to attributes thereof; and controlling the vehicle to perform autonomous driving by using the received at least one precise map data.
US12045061B2
A multi-AGV motion planning method, device and system are disclosed. The method of the present disclosure comprises: establishing an object model through reinforcement learning; building a neural network model based on the object model, performing environment settings including AGV group deployment, and using the object model of the AGV in a set environment to train the neural network model until a stable neural network model is obtained; setting an action constraint rule; and after the motion planning is started, inputting the state of current AGV, states of other AGVs and permitted actions in a current environment into the neural network model after trained, obtaining the evaluation indexes of a motion planning result output by the neural network model, obtaining an action to be executed of the current AGV according to the evaluation indexes, and performing validity judgment on the action to be executed using the action constraint rule.
US12045057B2
In the present disclosure, a turning control method for a construction machine, a construction machine and a computer device are provided. The turning control method includes: acquiring position information of an initial position and a target position as well as kinematic parameters of the construction machine; determining a turning curve according to the position information and the kinematic parameters; and controlling the construction machine to travel from the initial position to the target position according to the turning curve, wherein a portion of the turning curve in which curvature thereof varies is a transition curve. In this way, the construction machine can achieve continuous changing in curvature during turning, without a spot-turning phenomenon.
US12045051B2
An autonomous running vehicle transmits a camera image around the vehicle photographed by a camera to a remote monitoring center. An obstacle is detected on the basis of information obtained from autonomous sensors including the camera. When an obstacle is detected, the autonomous running vehicle is automatically stopped. The remote monitoring center determines, when the autonomous running vehicle automatically stops, whether or not the run of the autonomous running vehicle is permitted to restart on the basis of the received camera video. When it is determined that the autonomous running vehicle can be restarted, a departure signal is transmitted to the autonomous running vehicle. When the departure signal is received from the remote monitoring center, the autonomous running vehicle restarts running.
US12045049B2
A parking assist apparatus is provided with: a holding device configured to hold the target parking position associated with the parking process operation; an automatic parking device configured to perform an automatic parking control of automatically controlling the vehicle such that the vehicle is parked in the target parking position, as a part of the parking process operation; and a transition device configured to change the automatic parking control into a standby state while allowing the holding device to hold the target parking position, on condition that a door of the vehicle is opened before the vehicle arrives at the target parking position. The transition device is configured to allow the automatic parking device to restart the automatic parking control, on condition that there is an execution request for the automatic parking control, when the automatic parking control is in the standby state.
US12045048B2
A building management system including one or more memory devices and one or more processors, the one or more memory devices configured to store instructions to be executed on the one or more processors, the processors configured to generate a first predictive model using a machine learning technique and an operating data set based on one or more operating parameters associated with at least one of a plurality of BMS subsystems. The processors are further configured to store the first predictive model at a first time interval, to receive a prediction request from a user input at a second time interval following the first time interval, and to retrieve the first predictive model. The one or more processors are further configured execute the retrieved predictive model to generate a first prediction in response to the prediction request; and initiate an automated control response based on the first prediction.
US12045034B2
The support device acquires locus information in which a position of a machine tool corresponding to an instruction value generated by execution of an NC program is associated with time information indicating a control time using the instruction value, and variable history information in which a value of a variable updated by execution of the sequence program is associated with time information indicating an update time The support device selects a target period in an execution period of a program, displays a portion corresponding to the target period in transition indicated by the locus information on a display device, and displays the value of the variable in the target period on the display device based on the variable history information.
US12045033B2
A machine learning device includes a data extraction unit that extracts first and second parameters from a plurality of machining programs. The machining programs numerically control a machine tool. The first parameter is a parameter to be adjusted, and the second parameter is a parameter used to adjust the first parameter. The machine learning device also includes a machine learning unit that learns a value of the first parameter according to a data set that includes the first and second parameters.
US12045021B2
A method for detecting events includes receiving measurements from a plurality of sensors, and executing a machine learning model trained to identify events based on the measurements. The machine learning model identifies the events based on the measurements. The method also includes determining based on the measurements and the identified events that training applied to the machine learning model is to be modified. A modified training data set is generated based on the measurements and an initial training data set used to train the machine learning model to identify the events. The modified training data set is applied to retrain the machine learning model.
US12045018B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: monitoring, using an accelerometer integrated with an information handling device, gravitational acceleration experienced by the information handling device; identifying, based on the monitoring, a change in the gravitational acceleration from a first gravitational acceleration metric to a second gravitational acceleration metric; and adjusting, responsive to the identifying, a time-keeping standard referenced by the information handling device based on the second gravitational acceleration metric. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US12045016B2
A timer is provided, including a base having opposing ends and opposing sides, and first and second opposing side portions extending in a first direct from the opposing ends of the base. Each of the first and second opposing side portions extends to a respective distal end thereof. The timer also includes a top portion connecting the distal ends of the first and second opposing side portions, and front and rear opposing walls extending from the opposing sides of the base. Each of the front and rear opposing walls is connected to the first and second opposing side portions and the top portion to enclose a cavity therein. A center divider is provided extending from top portion at least partially toward the base. The center divider being affixed to the front and rear opposing walls. A first angled portion is affixed to the front and rear opposing walls and is positioned toward the first opposing side portion relative to the center divider. A second angled portion is affixed to the front and rear opposing walls, mirroring the first angled portion toward the second opposing side portion relative to the center divider. The first and second angled portions are positioned in a generally “V”-shaped arrangement with a hole positioned at the vertex thereof.
US12045012B2
A watch has a mechanical movement with a force control mechanism arranged in a going train of the mechanical movement between an energy source and an escape wheel set connected to an oscillating oscillator to drive the escape wheel set always in the same direction of rotation. The escape wheel set meshes with a seconds wheel. A rotating locking element is arranged to cooperate with a stop member connected to this seconds wheel in order to lock this going train in a stop mode or to release this going train in a jump mode depending on the angular position of this seconds wheel. A flexure bearing with elastic strips is attached on the one hand to the seconds wheel and on the other hand to the movement support. The pre-wound flexure bearing is arranged to drive in rotation the seconds wheel and the escapement mechanism connected to the oscillator at each half-oscillation of the oscillator in the stop mode.
US12045007B2
Metal-oxide composite particles are used as a toner additive.
US12045003B2
Provided is a method for removing a first holder member from a second holder member in a cartridge. The cartridge includes: a housing; the first holder member holding an electrical contact surface; and the second holder member supported by the housing. The first holder member includes a pawl, and the second holder member includes a corner part engageable with the pawl of the first holder member. The electrical contact surface is held at one end surface of the first holder member in a first direction crossing the electrical contact surface. The method includes: disengaging the pawl from the corner part; and separating the housing and the second holder member from the first holder member in the first direction away from the one end surface of the first holder member.
US12045001B2
An optical article printed on a substrate may include an organic binder; and a plurality of reflective magnetic platelets provided in the organic binder, wherein the plurality of reflective magnetic platelets are substantially aligned in accordance with at least part of a surface of revolution, and wherein the plurality of reflective magnetic platelets are aligned to cause a first reflective effect of the optical article when the substrate is rotated around a first axis and to cause a second reflective effect of the optical article when the substrate is rotated around a second axis, wherein the first reflective effect is different from the second reflective effect.
US12044992B2
An image-forming apparatus includes a housing, a cartridge, and a fixing device. The fixing device includes a heating member, a fixing frame, and a shutter movable between an open position for opening an opening of the fixing frame and a closed position for closing the opening. The housing includes: a guide frame for guiding a guide protrusion of the cartridge for attachment of the cartridge to the housing; and a connection link connected to the shutter and positioned opposite the cartridge with respect to the guide frame. The connection link moves the shutter to the open position in conjunction with the attachment of the cartridge to the housing, and moves the shutter to the closed position in conjunction with detachment of the cartridge from the housing. The connection link abuts on the guide protrusion through a through-hole of the guide frame during the attachment of the cartridge to the housing.
US12044991B2
A fixing device includes an endless and rotatable belt of which an inner peripheral surface is applied with lubricant, a heater, a rotatable member to rotatably contact the belt and a nip forming member in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the belt. The nip forming member includes a holding portion, an upstream sliding portion and a downstream sliding portion. The downstream and upstream sliding portions have first and second sliding surfaces sliding with the inner peripheral surface of the belt, respectively. The second sliding surface has a curved shape, and when a force applied to the belt with respect to a length of the second sliding surface is defined as w (N/mm) and a curvature radius of the second sliding surface is defined as R (mm), R/w of the second sliding surface is equal to 5 (mm2/N) or larger and equal to 80 (mm2/N) or less.
US12044989B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion, a transfer unit, a power supply, and a reader. A test chart is formed by transferring test images to a recording material while applying test voltages from the power supply to the transfer unit. A transfer voltage to be applied to the transfer unit during transfer is set based on the read test images. A reference image is formed on the test chart. The reader reads the test chart by scanning the test chart from a first position to a second position that falls within the test images. The first position falls within a boundary of the recording material on which the test chart is formed and falls outside the test images. Based on the reference image, the result of the reader reading the test chart is obtained by scanning the test chart from the first position to the second position.
US12044987B2
A control portion controls a change mechanism so as to pass through a third stretched form in switching a stretched form of a belt member from a second stretched form to a first stretched form. The first stretched form is a stretched form enabling a toner image to be transferred from a photosensitive drum to the belt member by positioning a transfer member at a first position and a separation roller at a second position. The second stretched form is a stretched form of separating each of the transfer member and the separation roller from a transfer surface toward an opposite side of the photosensitive drum. The third stretched form is a stretched form in which the transfer member is positioned at the first position, and the separation roller is positioned at a third position away from the transfer surface toward the opposite side of the photosensitive drum.
US12044984B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit comprising: a photosensitive member configured to rotate; a charging unit configured to charge the photosensitive member based on a charging bias; an exposure unit configured to expose the photosensitive member charged by the charging unit with laser light to form an electrostatic latent image on the photosensitive member; and a developing device configured to develop the electrostatic latent image based on a development bias to form an image on the photosensitive member, a reading unit configured to read a test image formed by the image forming unit, and a controller configured to: control the image forming unit to form the test image; control the reading unit to read the test image.
US12044982B2
Apparatuses and methods of overlay measurement are disclosed. An example apparatus includes first and second layers. The first layer includes a first alignment pattern that includes a first line extending in a first direction. The first line includes first, second and third segments. The second layer above the first layer includes a second alignment pattern including: a second line extending in the first direction above the first segment and having a first offset from the first segment in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a third line extending in the first direction above the second segment and having a second offset from the second segment in the second direction; and a fourth line extending in the first direction above the third segment and having a third offset from the third segment in the second direction. The first, second and third offsets are different from one another.
US12044978B2
A method for obtaining a compensation pattern for a workpiece patterning device comprises printing (S11) a calibration pattern with a plurality of simultaneously operating exposure beams being sweepable in a second direction according to calibration pattern print data having a multitude of edges. Positions of the edges are measured (S12). Deviations of the measured positions relative calibration pattern are calculated (S13). Each deviation is associated (S14) with a used exposure beam, with a sweep position and a grid fraction position. Edge compensating data is computed (S15) for adapting edge representations of pattern print data prior to printing to compensate for the calculated deviations. The edge compensating data is dependent on the used exposure beam, the sweep position, and the grid fraction position.
US12044973B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a holding unit that holds a substrate; a liquid discharge unit; a first supply unit; a second supply unit; and a control unit that controls each unit. The liquid discharge unit discharges a processing liquid to the substrate held by the holding unit. The first supply unit supplies the processing liquid to the liquid discharge unit. The second supply unit supplies steam to the liquid discharge unit. The second supply unit includes: a steam generator that generates steam; a supply line; a stabilizing mechanism; a pressure gauge that measures a pressure of the steam flowing through the supply line; and a pressure adjustment mechanism. The control unit controls the pressure adjustment mechanism so that the pressure of the steam measured by the pressure gauge becomes a preset pressure.
US12044965B2
A method for producing a component without tabs during etching. The method includes: applying a wafer tape to the plated side of the substrate; depositing a resist layer on a metal layer on a metal side of the substrate that is opposite of the plated side; exposing the resist layer to UV light; developing the resist layer; and etching the metal layer.
US12044953B2
A vibration unit includes a light transmitting member including at least a portion of a detection region of an imaging element, and a vibration element including a vibrating body coupled to the light transmitting member. The light transmitting member includes a central region and a peripheral region located around the central region. The light transmitting member includes a hydrophilic film in the peripheral region thereof.
US12044941B2
A display device is provided and includes display unit comprising common electrodes two dimensionally arrayed on substrate, drive signal lines configured to transmit drive signals for touch detection to common electrodes, and switch circuit comprising transistors connected to drive signal lines to select at least one common electrode; flexible substrate connected to substrate; pads at connections of flexible substrate and substrate; and touch detection circuit configured to transmit drive signals to common electrodes, wherein: transistors comprises: first transistor connected to first electrode of common electrodes via first wiring of first length; and second transistor connected to second electrode of common electrodes via second wiring of second length; channel width of first transistor is narrower than channel width of second transistor; drive signal lines are respectively connected to pads separated at two or more positions.
US12044938B2
A pixel structure, a display panel and a display device. The pixel structure includes a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The pixel electrode and the common electrode each is one of a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The common electrode includes a plurality of first branch portions. The pixel electrode includes second branch portions and a plurality of trunk portions. The second branch portions and the first branch portions are alternately arranged at intervals. In the present application, portions of the pixel electrode within an orthographic projection range of an offset of a spacer are extended to form a plane by configuring a height of each first trunk portion to be higher than a height of each second trunk portion along a linear direction in which the second branch portions are located, thereby increasing the pressure-bearing capacity of the pixel electrode.
US12044937B2
Provided is a subminiature wavelength tunable liquid crystal etalon filter capable of minimizing damage during manufacturing, a light source and an optical transceiver including the same. According to one aspect of the present embodiment, a wavelength tunable liquid crystal etalon filter capable of minimizing damage that may be applied to a seal line during a curing process and a light source and an optical transceiver including the same are provided.
US12044936B1
Provided are an array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel. The array substrate includes first subpixel units and second subpixel units. A first electrode layer of the array substrate includes first electrodes, and each first subpixel unit is provided with the first electrode therein. A second electrode layer of the array substrate is disposed on the first electrode layer, and the second electrode layer includes second electrodes and third electrodes. Each first subpixel unit is provided with the second electrode(s), and each second subpixel unit is provided with two third electrodes arranged at intervals. In each first subpixel unit, ones of the first electrode and the second electrode(s) are pixel electrodes, and the other ones are common electrodes; and in each second subpixel unit, one of the two third electrodes is a pixel electrode, and the other is a common electrode.
US12044934B2
An optical element includes first to fourth liquid crystal cells. Each of the first to fourth liquid crystal cells includes a first substrate on which a first pair of comb-shaped transparent electrodes are arranged and a second substrate on which a second pair of comb-shaped transparent electrodes are arranged. An extending direction of the first pair of comb-shaped transparent electrodes is orthogonal to an extending direction of the second pair of comb-shaped transparent electrodes. Between two different liquid crystal cells of the first to fourth liquid crystal cells, one of the first pair of comb-shaped transparent electrodes of one liquid crystal cell and one of the second pair of comb-shaped transparent electrodes of the other liquid crystal cell are electrically connected to each other.
US12044910B2
An optical device includes a thin film Lithium Niobate (LN) layer, a first optical waveguide, and a second optical waveguide. The thin film LN layer is an X-cut or a Y-cut LN layer. The first optical waveguide is an optical waveguide that is formed on the thin film LN layer along a direction that is substantially perpendicular to a Z direction of a crystal axis of the thin film LN layer. The second optical waveguide is an optical waveguide that is routed and connected to the first optical waveguide. At least a part of a core of the first optical waveguide is made thicker than a core of the second optical waveguide.
US12044905B2
Ophthalmic lenses for correcting refractive error of an eye are disclosed. Ophthalmic lenses include a deformable inner portion and a deformable peripheral portion. When disposed over the optical region of an eye, the inner portion is configured so that engagement of the posterior surface against the eye deforms the posterior surface so that the posterior surface has a shape diverging form the refractive shape of the epithelium when viewing with the eye through the ophthalmic lens. The rigidity of the inner portion is greater than the rigidity of the peripheral portion and the ophthalmic lenses are configured to allow movement relative to the eye upon blinking of the eye and to be substantially centered on the optical region of the cornea following the blinking of the eye. Methods of correcting refractive errors of an eye such as astigmatism or spherical aberration using the ophthalmic lenses are also disclosed.
US12044902B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium for determining at least one feature of at least one lens mounted in a spectacle frame. The system includes a non-point light pattern generating device configured to generate a predefined non-point light pattern, and arranged to have the predefined non-point light pattern reflected on the at least one lens, an image acquisition device configured to acquire an image of the spectacle frame including an image of the reflected non-point light pattern, and a processing unit configured to determine at least the contour of the at least one lens in function of at least one feature of the image of the reflected non-point light pattern.
US12044898B2
An optical fiber ribbon manufacturing device comprising: a tape die 20 for coating a plurality of single-core coated optical fibers 2 with a photocurable resin; a split die 30 for forming a split portion in the photocurable resin present between the single-core coated optical fibers; and a light irradiation device 40 for irradiating the photocurable resin with light to cure the photocurable resin, wherein both the tape die 20 and the split die 30 are temperature-controlled or only the split die 30 is temperature-controlled, a temperature of the tape die 20 is higher than a temperature of the split die 20, and the temperature of the split die 20 is lower than the temperature of the tape die 30.
US12044892B2
A semiconductor package includes a first interposer having a first substrate, a first redistribution structure over a first side of the first substrate, and a first waveguide over the first redistribution structure and proximate to a first side of the first interposer, where the first redistribution structure is between the first substrate and the first waveguide. The semiconductor package further includes a photonic package attached to the first side of the first interposer, where the photonic package includes: an electronic die, and a photonic die having a plurality of dielectric layers and a second waveguide in one of the plurality of dielectric layers, where a first side of the photonic die is attached to the electronic die, and an opposing second side of the photonic die is attached to the first side of the first interposer, where the second waveguide is proximate to the second side of the photonic die.
US12044889B1
The present embodiment discloses a photonic chip module, LiDAR, and a mobile device. The photonic chip module includes a photonic chip and a reflection unit. The photonic chip includes a cladding and multiple first transceiving waveguide modules. The first transceiving waveguide module is embedded in the cladding, and the first emergent end and the first incident end are arranged at intervals along a first preset direction, collectively forming the first transceiving end of each first transceiving waveguide module, with these ends being spaced along a second preset direction. The reflection unit includes multiple reflection modules arranged along the second preset direction. Each reflection module has a first reflection surface. The photonic chip module provided in this embodiment is advantageous for increasing the detection field of view of the LiDAR under the same resolution conditions.
US12044886B1
The present disclosure relates to an optical system of augmented reality glasses with a saw tooth-type partial reflector array which projects image light and external image light to user's eyes with a high transmittance. To this end, the optical system of augmented reality glasses includes a display device 30 which generates image light; a polarization element 311 which is opposite to be parallel to the display device 30 and determines a polarized component of S-pol or P-pol; a lens 312 which is provided at one side of the polarization element 311 and magnifies and focuses the image light passing through the polarization element 311 to form a focal surface in the waveguide 32; and a lens 312 which is provided at one side of the polarization element 311 and focuses image light passing through the polarization element 311; and a waveguide 32 which allows the image light to be incident from the lens 312 and expand an exit pupil of the incident image light to a horizontal direction to be emitted toward the user 15, in which the waveguide 32 includes: a first surface 322 and a second surface 323 which allow the image light to be incident to be totally reflected and are parallel to each other; an incident surface 321 which forms a predetermined incident angle θi with the first surface 322; a partial reflector array 324 which is provided on the first surface 322 and the second surface 323 and has a saw tooth structure formed by alternately providing the transmissive surface 324a through which the totally reflected image light is transmitted and the reflective surface 324b through which the transmitted image light is reflected; and a polarization coating layer 325 which is formed on the saw tooth structure and has an angular bias that shows different reflectance according to the incident angle at which the light is incident on the transmissive surface 324a or the reflective surface 324b.
US12044882B2
Example embodiments relate to multilayer integrated photonic structures. An example multilayer integrated photonic structure includes a propagation region formed in a first photonic layer. The propagation region includes a plurality of waveguides and a slab region in which the plurality of waveguides terminates. The multilayer integrated photonic structure also includes an outcoupling structure formed in a second photonic layer on top of the first photonic layer. The outcoupling structure is configured to couple light into and out of the multilayer integrated photonic structure. Additionally, the multilayer integrated photonic structure includes a reflector configured to optically couple the slab region of the first photonic layer and the second photonic layer. The reflector includes a first reflector element included in the slab region of the first photonic layer and a second reflector element included in the second photonic layer. The first and second reflector element are in optical communication with each other.
US12044875B1
Light-control panels including layered optical components are described in this application. An example of a light-control panel includes a first glazing layer, a second glazing layer, a third glazing layer, and a fourth glazing layer, a first switchable component extending between the first glazing layer and the second glazing layer, a thermal coating extending between the first glazing layer and the first switchable component, and a second switchable component extending between the third glazing layer and the fourth glazing layer. The second glazing layer and the third glazing layer have an air gap therebetween, such that the air gap forms a space between the second glazing layer and the third glazing layer.
US12044872B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an optical element including a layer comprising anisotropic optical function and alignment capability. The layer is formed from a composition comprising polymerizable liquid crystals and one or more photo-orientable substances. Alignment on top of the layer is achieved by exposure to linearly polarized light.
US12044858B2
A head-mounted display system includes a frame; an adjustable strap assembly that includes a first side strap coupled to the frame; a second side strap coupled to the frame; and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a circumferential size defined by the first side strap, the second side strap, and the frame; a see-through display assembly pivotably coupled to the frame; a first temple housing pivotably coupled to the frame and slidably coupled to the first side strap; and a second temple housing pivotably coupled to the frame and slidably coupled to the second side strap.
US12044857B2
A hybrid reflective/refractive HMD includes a structural frame, refractive optical lens elements, and optics housings coupled to the structural frame and positioned in front of a user's first and second eyes. Light-emitting visual sources and reflective optical surfaces are contained in the optics housings. Visual content is transmitted from light-emitting visual sources to the reflective optical surfaces. The visual content is reflected within the reflective optical surfaces at least four times without passing through a refractive optical lens element. The visual content is transmitted to the user's first eye or the user's second eye. Simultaneous with the transmission of the visual content to the user's first eye or the user's second eye, a real-world view of the outside surrounding environment is transmitted to the user's first eye or the user's second eye. The visual content is overlaid onto the real-world view of the outside surrounding environment.
US12044851B2
Recesses are formed on a front side and a rear side of a waveguide. A solid porogen material is spun onto the front side and the rear side and fills the recesses. First front and rear cap layers are then formed on raised formations of the waveguide and on the solid porogen material. The entire structure is then heated and the solid porogen material decomposes to a porogen gas. The first front and rear cap layers are porous to allow the porogen gas to escape and air to enter into the recesses. The air maximizes a difference in refractive indices between the high-index transparent material of the waveguide and the air to promote reflection in the waveguide from interfaces between the waveguide and the air.
US12044849B2
An example device includes a heads up display (HUD) to guide light towards a user in a vehicle. The device includes a HUD housing with a base plane and a stationary mirror mount on the HUD base. The device includes an adjustable mirror mount on the HUD base and an attachment slot disposed in the HUD housing, the attachment slot to accept a mounting tab. The attachment slot is shaped to accept either one of a predominantly vertical mounting tab and a predominantly horizontal mounting tab. The predominantly vertical mounting tab includes a first portion that projects horizontally from a sidewall of the HUD. The first portion includes a first end inserted into the attachment slot and a second end opposite the first end. A second portion is coupled perpendicularly to the second end of the first portion. The second end extends parallel to the sidewall of the HUD.
US12044841B2
An oscillator driver system includes an oscillator structure and a driver circuit. The oscillator structure includes a rotor terminal configured to receive a rotor voltage and a stator terminal configured to receive a stator voltage, and is driven about a rotation axis according to a voltage difference between the rotor and stator voltages. The driver circuit is configured to generate a driving signal and output the driving signal as the rotor voltage, wherein the driving signal toggles between low and high voltage levels at an actuation frequency to drive the oscillator structure about the rotation axis, and wherein the stator voltage is a fixed voltage. The low and high voltage levels are greater than the stator voltage such that the voltage difference toggles between a low voltage difference and a high voltage difference as the driving signal toggles between the low voltage level and the high voltage level, respectively.
US12044829B2
An image capturing lens assembly includes seven lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical path, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. Each of the seven lens elements has an object-side surface towards the object side and an image-side surface towards the image side. The second lens element with positive refractive power has the object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The fourth lens element with positive refractive power has the image-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The sixth lens element has positive refractive power. The seventh lens element has the image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof.
US12044818B2
Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method: Historical and forecasted field life data for existing gas wells is received, including pressure and temperature data at different depths of the existing gas wells over the life of the existing gas wells. Using the historical and forecasted field life data for the existing gas wells, a sub-erosion production rates model is generated for in situ estimation of sub-erosion for gas wells. Well parameters for a subject gas well are received. Using the well parameters of the subject gas well, the sub-erosion production rates model is executed to identify high-erosion risk spots in the subject gas well, including using iteratively evaluating results using three different methods. Outputs of the sub-erosion production rates model are provided for presentation to a user in a graphical user interface (GUI).
US12044803B1
A hybrid solid-state lidar and a scanning method thereof. The hybrid solid-state lidar includes a rotating polygon mirror, reflecting mirrors, a wedge prism, and laser emitting and receiving systems. The laser emitting and receiving systems have projections distributed on a same circumference on a horizontal plane and are arranged under the wedge prism in a way that the circumference is circumferentially equally divided by the projections, to allow the wedge prism to refract detection laser emitted by the laser emitting and receiving systems to form one-dimensional scanning light; and the reflecting mirror is disposed above the wedge prism at a position corresponding to the laser emitting and receiving system, and the rotating polygon mirror is disposed at a center axis position above the wedge prism, whereby the reflecting mirror reflects the one-dimensional scanning light to the rotating polygon mirror which reflects the one-dimensional scanning light to form two-dimensional scanning light.
US12044796B2
A method and apparatus for identifying behavior of a target, and a radar system applied to an automated driving scenario include receiving a radar echo signal from a target, processing the radar echo signal to obtain time-frequency domain data, processing the time-frequency domain data to obtain signal attribute feature data representing a first feature of a radar echo signal attribute and linear prediction coefficient (LPC) feature data representing a second feature of the radar echo signal, inputting the signal attribute feature data and the LPC feature data into a behavior identification model, and outputting behavior information of the target.
US12044792B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve detection of audio signatures. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: determine a first time difference of arrival for a first audio sensor of a meter and a second audio sensor of the meter based on a first audio recording from the first audio sensor and a second audio recording from the second audio sensor; determine a second time difference of arrival for the first audio sensor and a third audio sensor of the meter based on the first audio recording and a third audio recording from the third audio sensor; determine a match by comparing the first time difference of arrival to i) a first virtual source time difference of arrival and ii) a second virtual source time difference of arrival; in response to determining that the first time difference of arrival matches the first virtual source time difference of arrival, identify a first virtual source location as the location of a media presentation device presenting media; and remove the second audio recording to reduce a computational burden on the processor.
US12044786B1
A method, a system and an intelligent terminal for one-bit quantization DoA estimation, which include: when a quantity of far-field and uncorrelated spatial narrow-band source signals are incident from different directions to a uniform linear array receiver, receiving the narrow-band source signals by a quantity of antenna array elements, and the vector and matrix are used to model the received signals by one-bit quantization to obtain a joint probability mass model of one-bit quantization DoA estimation; deriving the joint probability mass model of one-bit quantization DoA estimation, and constructing an l2,1 norm optimization model based on the maximum likelihood principle; solving the steepest descent direction of the optimization model by steepest descent method to obtain the one-bit quantization DoA and the source number.
US12044785B2
System includes one or more processors configured to receive location data from a device communication unit and from at least a first communication unit and a second communication unit that are positioned relative to a vehicle. The location data includes a device spatial location of the device communication unit, a first spatial location of the first communication unit, and a second spatial location of the second communication unit. The one or more processors are further configured to determine a vehicle spatial location of a designated point of the vehicle. The one or more processors are further configured to generate a virtual model. The virtual model, when used by a positioning system to locate the vehicle, indicates the vehicle spatial location relative to an estimated location of the vehicle.
US12044784B2
The embodiments of the invention provide a method for locating, in a railroad frame of reference, a mobile vehicle traveling on railroad tracks of a railroad network. The method determines one or more railroad track segments on which the mobile vehicle is likely to be located by querying a cartographic database based on at least one location parameter. The cartographic database comprises data representing a vectorial description of at least one railroad track of the railroad network and data representing a description of one or more objects of the environment adjacent to the railroad tracks of the railroad network likely to interfere with the navigation signals received by the mobile vehicle. The method includes a step of generating the cartographic database comprising the steps of: receiving a measurement point cloud classified and geolocated in a coordinate system, the measurement point cloud being associated with the railroad network and with the adjacent environment, determining the topology of the railroad network based on geolocated and classified measurement points associated with the railroad network and a plurality of additional elements of the railroad network, modeling the geometry of the railroad tracks of the railroad network as a plurality of modeled railroad track segments, determining, from geolocated and classified measurement points associated with the adjacent environment, one or more adjacent objects, each of the adjacent objects being associated with one or more modeled railroad track segments, identifying, for each association between an adjacent object and one or more modeled railroad track segments, information representing the interference affecting the navigation signals.
US12044780B2
A sensing system is designed to include a plurality of linear sensors, where these linear sensors are spaced apart, positioned or disposed in parallel on a substrate. These sensors are provided to detect respective distances towards a target from different planes so as to generate a plurality of 2D maps. A thin or coarse 3D map is then generated from these 2D maps to facilitate movements of a mobile robot employing the sensing system.
US12044772B2
An apparatus and method for generating a sensor fusion track is provided to generate the same sensor fusion track as actual shape information even when errors in the position/heading information of a reference point of fused sensors are substantial. The apparatus includes an absolute velocity vector calculation module, a LIDAR track angle calculation module, a LIDAR track area search module, and a sensor fusion track generation module.
US12044770B2
A method of determining kinetic information may include: receiving a plurality of raw information related to a plurality of objects using a radar device provided in a vehicle; obtaining, by analyzing the plurality of raw information, a plurality of candidate kinetic information related to the vehicle; estimating, through spatial filtering, current first kinetic information related to the vehicle from the plurality of candidate kinetic information; and correcting, using a kinetic model, the estimated current first kinetic information based on current first kinetic information, wherein the current first kinetic information is predicted from previous first kinetic information related to the vehicle using a kinetic model.
US12044761B2
Provided in an embodiment of the present application are a magnetic resonance imaging system and a transmission apparatus and a transmission method. The method comprises: generating and outputting a pulse signal by a transmission controller; amplifying the pulse signal by a radio-frequency amplifier; transmitting, by a signal processor, the signal amplified by the radio-frequency amplifier to a transmit coil of the magnetic resonance imaging system; and generating frequency offset lookup information for bandwidth compensation of the entire transmission apparatus according to bandwidth data of the transmission controller, the radio-frequency amplifier, and the signal processor; wherein the frequency offset lookup information is used to control the transmission controller to generate output power. Thus, the method can use the frequency offset lookup information to perform digital pre-distortion processing of a power amplifier, and can also improve the bandwidth performance of the entire transmission apparatus and improve the quality of magnetic resonance images.
US12044759B2
A magnetic resonance imaging system can include a basic field magnetic arrangement for generating a main magnetic field and a number of spatially separated imaging regions, the basic field magnetic arrangement including several spatially separated magnet segments, in order to generate segment magnetic fields with a defined segment field direction, at least two of the spatially separated magnet segments being configured in a way that their defined segment field directions are running in an angular fashion to each other so that the segment magnetic fields result in a main magnetic field which has the form of toroid, where the magnetic resonance imaging system is designed to be adapted to MR imaging of dedicated body or organ parts of a patient.
US12044751B2
A method for identifying an assignment of phase lines of an electrical distribution grid to connections of an electrical device capable of unbalanced-load operation, wherein the device is connected to a plurality of phase lines of the electrical distribution grid, includes setting target parameters assigned to an unbalanced load profile at each of the connections of the electrical device, detecting a temporal profile of a measurement parameter on each of the plurality of phase lines using a detection circuit, comparing the detected temporal profiles of the measurement parameters with the target parameters of the unbalanced load profile for each of the plurality of phase lines, respectively, and identifying the assignment of the phase lines to the connections on the basis of the comparison.
US12044744B2
An apparatus and method for diagnosing a state of a battery in various aspects based on a differential profile respectively obtained in a situation where the battery is charged and discharged. Since the state of the battery is diagnosed by considering both the first differential profile related to the charging of the battery and the second differential profile related to the discharging of the battery, there is an advantage of diagnosing the state of the battery more accurately.
US12044742B2
A battery management system includes a displacement sensor configured to detect a displacement of a cell group including a plurality of battery cells connected in parallel, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to record the displacement of the cell group at a predetermined time interval for a first diagnosis period from a first time point to a second time point during charging of the cell group. The control unit is configured to determine a first displacement curve from a history of the displacement over the first diagnosis period. The control unit is configured to determine whether the plurality of battery cells is nonuniformly degraded based on the first displacement curve.
US12044736B2
The present invention relates to a vibration test jig for a cylindrical battery cell, including: a main body for accommodating a cylindrical battery cell; and a connection unit electrically connected to an electrode terminal of the cylindrical battery cell, wherein the connection unit includes: a connection member electrically connected to the electrode terminal and withdrawn to the outside of the main body; a support member for supporting the connection member; and a fixing member for fixing the support member on the main body. The vibration test jig enables the cylindrical battery cell mounted in the jig to be electrically connected to an external voltage and resistance measuring device through the connection unit. During a vibration test, an electrical state of the battery cell can be monitored in real time, and it can be checked whether and when an electrode tab is disconnected by using the measured voltage or resistance value.
US12044732B2
Silicon test structures are described that enable separate measurement of n-channel metal-oxide semiconductor (NMOS) and p-channel metal-oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistor delays. NMOS and PMOS specific non-inverting stages may be used to construct a multi-stage ring oscillator. Each of the non-inverting stages generates either a rising or falling primary transition that is determined by either NMOS or PMOS transistors, respectively. The opposing transition for a particular non-inverting stage is triggered by propagation of the primary transition to a subsequent non-inverting stage (producing a “reset” pulse). A frequency of the ring oscillator is determined by the primary transition and one transistor type (NMOS or PMOS). Specifically, the frequency is determined by the propagation delay of the primary transition through the entire ring oscillator.
US12044729B2
A semiconductor device examination method includes a step of acquiring a first interference waveform based on signals from a plurality of drive elements according to light from a first light beam spot including the plurality of drive elements in a semiconductor device, a step of acquiring a second interference waveform based on signals from the plurality of drive elements according to light from a second light beam spot having a region configured to partially overlap the first spot and including the plurality of drive elements, and a step of separating a waveform signal for each of the drive elements in the first and second spots based on the first and second interference waveforms.
US12044726B2
A verification probe system is configured to verify an automated test platform and includes: an integrated circuit test probe assembly; and a moveable platform configured to position the integrated circuit test probe assembly proximate one of more conductive pins included within a test socket assembly of the automated test platform.
US12044725B2
A stage, electric probes, an optical probe, an electric measurement device, an optical measurement device, and a first positioning mechanism are provided. The stage includes a second positioning mechanism that changes relative positional relationship between the electric probes and an electric connection portion of each of the optical elements. The electric probes electrically connect the electric measurement device and each of the optical elements. The optical probe optically connects the optical measurement device and each of the optical elements. The first positioning mechanism changes relative positional relationship between the optical probe and an optical connection portion of each of the optical elements.
US12044722B2
In an embodiment a semiconductor component includes a laterally extending contact area laterally interrupted in such a way that material of the contact area laterally delimits at least one recess, the contact area configured to be at a potential, wherein at least one first recess is formed laterally as a circular ring around a lateral center point of the contact area, and wherein at least one second recess extends laterally in a straight line through the lateral center point of the contact area so that the contact area is divided by a corresponding recess into two halves which are not connected by material of the contact area.
US12044721B2
A scan chain designing method includes: obtaining test points according to a gate-level netlist; determining integers M and N, wherein M and N are no greater than an amount X of the test points; selecting M and N test points to be a first and second set test points according to a priority; obtaining a first test coverage and a first test pattern count according to the first set test points and obtaining a second test coverage and a second test pattern count according to the second set test points; obtaining a predicted test coverage curve according to the first and second test coverages; determining an optimum amount O according to the predicted test coverage curve, the first and second test pattern counts, wherein O is no greater than X; and selecting O test points to arrange a scan chain according to the priority and the optimum amount O.
US12044717B2
This method for analysis processing by using measured impedance spectrum data includes: a step for determining whether to reset the maximum value and/or the minimum value of logarithmic relaxation time corresponding to a measured logarithmic frequency on the basis of the measured impedance spectrum data; a step for setting the number of equal-interval divisions within the range of the logarithmic relaxation time set in the determination step; and a step for analyzing parameters R∞, T, L, and Rl for the range of the set logarithmic relaxation time so as to satisfy a prescribed expression (A) by applying a regularized least-squares method.
US12044716B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a capacitance measurement method, system and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method is applied to a machine table and includes: obtaining a calibration file including multiple first capacitance values corresponding to a measurement probe card while the measurement probe card is floating; measuring, by the measurement probe card, multiple semiconductor devices simultaneously to obtain multiple second capacitance values corresponding to the multiple semiconductor devices, the multiple semiconductor devices being located on a same test module of a semiconductor chip; and determining target capacitance values of the multiple semiconductor devices based on the multiple first capacitance values and the multiple second capacitance values.
US12044715B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a measurement module for measurement of a multi-electrode resistive sensing element with improved noise performance and accuracy. In some embodiments, stimulation to the sensing element is provided by a current path that originates from a signal source, through a switch block, through a pair of terminals, and ending at a reference node such as ground. An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is coupled directly to one or both of the terminals to digitize a voltage. The ADC is coupled to terminals on the sensing element to measure a sensed voltage signal before the sensed signal goes through the switch block. As a result, the measured voltage signal may be free of noise that could be picked up from passing through the switch block, and accuracy of the resistance measurements on the sensing element can be improved.
US12044712B2
A voltage comparator includes a boosting circuit that is configured to boost a direct current (DC) bias of the comparator. The boosting circuit includes transistors that are different in size, a larger one of the transistors being configured to add a portion of boosting current to a bias current.
US12044707B2
A current sensor is configured such that at least one magnetoelectric conversion element, a conductor, and a signal processing IC are encapsulated with an encapsulating portion. The current sensor is comprised of a pair of first lead terminals that is partially exposed on a side surface of the encapsulating portion, is electrically connected to the conductor, inputs a measurement current to the conductor, and outputs the measurement current from the conductor; a metal member that is partially exposed on a side surface of the encapsulating portion and is spaced apart from the conductor; and an element supporting portion that is comprised of a metal plate or a semiconductor substrate, supports the at least one magnetoelectric conversion element and a metal member on a surface on a same side as the first surface, and is spaced apart from the conductor.
US12044706B2
An invention that reduces an influence of dv/dt noise generated by power switching elements around a Rogowski current sensor. By separating a coil into two coils and connecting voltages generated from the two coils in series in a reverse direction, a total amount of parasitic capacitance is reduced by ¼, and accordingly, Cp*dv/dt noise is reduced. The Rogowski sensor including a first coil (Coil-P) which detects a portion of a switching current passing through bus bars (20a, 20b) and includes a first end and a second end, and a second coil (Coil-N), as a coil separated from the first coil, which detects a portion of the switching current passing through the bus bar and includes a first end and a second end, wherein the second end of the first coil is connected to the second end of the second coil to form a neutral point (123).
US12044704B2
A modular probe array for making temporary electrical contact to devices under test is provided. The probe array includes multiple probe heads each having a substrate disposed within a mounting block. Improved thermal cycling performance is obtained by using an O-ring between the substrate and the mounting block. Optionally, set screws can be used in combination with the O-ring to set the position of the substrate in its mounting block.
US12044700B2
The present disclosure relates to an air-speed sensor, system and monitoring process This sensor generally comprise a sensor casing having a leading surface and distinctly oriented input ports. Each input port can independently capture respective air pressure and connects to a pressure sensor that independently measures that air pressure digital processor connects to each pressure sensor and can digitally compute pressure ratios between the input ports and compare these ratios against designated pressure ratios corresponding to designated incident airspeed angles of incidence to output an airspeed incident angle and airspeed accordingly.
US12044696B2
A wheel or wheel assembly for a non-motorized vehicle, such as a shopping cart, is disclosed that detects its direction of rotation. In one embodiment, the wheel assembly includes a plurality of magnets mounted to a rotating portion of the wheel, and includes a magnetic sensor, such as a tunneling magnetoresistance sensor, mounted to a non-rotating portion. As the wheel rotates the magnets produce a varying magnetic field that is sensed by the sensor, which outputs a signal corresponding to the sensed magnetic field. The magnets are arranged—preferably asymmetrically—such that the sensor's output signal differs depending upon whether the wheel is rotating in the clockwise versus counterclockwise direction. A controller analyzes the sensor's output signal to determine the direction of rotation. In another embodiment, the magnets are replaced by conductive targets, and an eddy current sensor is used for the magnetic sensor.
US12044692B2
A countersunk hole is added to a back surface of a dispensing chip mounting position of a sample dispensing chip installation table such that, when the dispensing chip is pulled up from the installation table, the amount of contact of a chip side surface is reduced and the chip is stably mounted. In addition, a posture control member during falling is added to a chip waste position, and the chip is caused to fall vertically and attachment of a sample to a waste route is suppressed. When a dispensing probe moves upward during dispensing chip separation, an upper end of the chip is moved upward up to a position in contact with a base and stopped and then is moved upward again. Thus, the posture of the chip during separation is stable. Further, plural positions for separating the chip are provided such that the position changes depending on waste timing.
US12044686B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for analyzing neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, for example, in a sample from a subject suspected of having, having, or having had (e.g., having recovered from) a SARS-CoV-2 infection, or a subject having received a prophylactic and/or therapeutic intervention for a coronavirus infection.
US12044684B2
The present invention provides methods for diagnosing an autistic spectrum disorder (ASD), comprising detecting the concentration of an amino acid adduct in a sample obtained from a subject, wherein said amino acid adduct is a glycated amino acid adduct, an oxidised amino acid adduct, or a nitrated amino acid adduct. Methods of the invention further comprise comparing the concentration of the amino acid adduct in the sample with the concentration of the same amino acid adduct in a reference standard; and identifying the presence or absence of a concentration difference of said amino acid adduct in the sample relative to the reference standard; wherein the presence or absence of a concentration difference correlates with the presence or absence of ASD. Diagnostic algorithms for use in methods of the invention are also provided.
US12044680B2
The methods and kits disclosed in the present disclosure allow quantified exchange of peptides into MHC proteins. These methods and kits allow MHC proteins with exchanged peptides to be used in further applications such as cell staining. The methods and kits may also be used to quantify peptides present in complex mixtures.
US12044676B2
Cells are grown in 3D culture and topological features obtained by photomicrography are correlated to cell viability and cell interactions.
US12044670B2
A casting method includes pouring a molten metal in a ladle into a mold, analyzing at least one of a composition and a physical property of a test piece generated based on the molten metal sampled from inside the ladle, and performing appearance inspection of a casting product taken out from the mold, wherein in the performing appearance inspection, the at least one of the composition and the physical property of the test piece obtained in the analyzing is displayed on a display.
US12044663B2
A method for packing a chromatography column with chromatography media, comprising the steps of: providing a system comprising a column tube (3,19,21) having a closed first end (5) comprising an inlet/outlet (7), a media inlet (15) adjacent a second end of the column tube and an adaptor (9) positioned inside the column tube initially adjacent the second end of the column tube for sliding and sealing contact with an inner face of the column tube, the column tube and adaptor arranged initially such that they define an internal volume and such that the media inlet is in fluid connection with the internal volume; connecting a media slurry source to the media inlet; at least partially filling the internal volume with media slurry via the media inlet; forcing the adaptor towards the first end of the column tube to reduce the internal volume such that the media inlet is no longer in fluid connection with the reduced internal volume.
US12044655B2
Electromagnetic logging tools are optimized using synthetic logs for the purpose of pre-job planning and accuracy/resolution estimation. One, two and three-dimensional forward modeling are used to generate accurate inspection tool responses. A radial one-dimensional (R1D) electromagnetic forward model is also used to compute an approximate log. By constructing non-linear mapping functions between the R1D model-based log and the 2D model-based log, and mapping the R1D synthetic log using the non-linear mapping functions, a quasi 2D log is computed. The quasi 2D log is processed using model-based inversion, thereby providing estimates of pipe parameters. By analyzing the estimates of pipe parameters, tool performance metrics are obtained and analyze to determine the performance of the tool. The tool parameters are adjusted in order to optimize the performance metrics.
US12044652B2
Processes for preparing ion selective membranes are presented which have selectivity for a primary analyte (in particular magnesium) as well as another ion (in particular calcium), wherein said process comprises addition of a) an ionophore (in particular 1,10-phenanthroline), b) a lipophilic salt containing said primary analyte (in particular hemi-magnesium bis[4-octylphenyl]phosphate) and c) a lipophilic salt containing said other ion (in particular hemi-calcium bis[4-octylphenyl]phosphate). Also, ion selective membranes are presented which are prepared using said processes, in particular to membranes selective for magnesium ions. In further aspects, electrodes and potentiometric sensors are presented comprising such membranes and the use thereof for determining ion concentrations in samples.
US12044650B2
A lateral flow assay device comprising a conjugate pad for receiving a quantity of fluid, and a membrane comprising a test line for determining whether the fluid comprises a target analyte. The device includes an actuator connected to a moving element comprising a shaft or a wheel. A first magnet is connected to the backing of the membrane. Second and third magnets are connected to the moving element. The actuator moves the moving element between first and second positions. In the first position, the opposite poles of the first and second magnets attract each other and maintain a gap between the membrane and the conjugate pad separate. In the second position, the similar poles of the first and third magnets repel each other and close the gap between membrane and the conjugate pad, allowing the fluid to flow from the conjugate pad into the membrane and the test line.
US12044648B2
Analyte sensors responsive at low working electrode potentials may comprise an active area upon a surface of a working electrode, wherein the active area comprises a polymer, a redox mediator covalently bonded to the polymer, and at least one analyte-responsive enzyme covalently bonded to the polymer. A specific redox mediator responsive at low potential may have a structure of wherein G is a linking group covalently bonding the redox mediator to the polymer. A mass transport limiting membrane permeable to the analyte may overcoat the active area. In some sensor configurations, the mass transport limiting membrane may comprise a membrane polymer crosslinked with a branched crosslinker comprising three or more crosslinkable groups, such as polyethylene glycol tetraglycidyl ether.
US12044632B2
A method can comprise: scanning a tip of an airfoil of a bladed rotor, the tip including a coating disposed thereon, the coating comprising a metal plating and a plurality of protrusions, each protrusion in the plurality of protrusions extending from the metal plating; comparing a coating parameter of the coating to a coating parameter threshold based on scanner data from the scanning; and determining whether the coating maintains sufficient coverage of the tip of the airfoil based on the comparing.
US12044627B2
This defect inspection device for emitting illumination light onto a moving and rotating sample and inspecting for sample defects by scanning the sample in a spiral shape or concentric circle shapes comprises: an illumination and detection unit comprising an emission optical system and a detection optical system; a rotary stage for rotating the sample; a rectilinear stage for rectilinearly moving the rotary stage; and a controller for controlling the illumination and detection unit, rotary stage, and rectilinear stage. On the linear path of the rectilinear stage are a scanning start position where illumination light is emitted onto the sample and scanning is started and a sample delivery position where movement of the sample to the scanning start position starts. When the sample arrives at the scanning start position, the defect inspection device starts emitting the illumination light onto the sample without waiting for the rotation speed of the rotary stage to rise to a specified rotation speed for scanning and raises the rotation speed of the rotary stage to the specified rotation speed while scanning the sample.
US12044625B2
A background correction method for a fluorescence microscopy system includes receiving a raw image stack, determining a number of temporal minimum intensity values for each pixel location from the raw image stack, and calculating an expected background value for each pixel location based on the number of temporal minimum intensity values for the pixel location. Also, an emitter localization method includes receiving a raw image stack, determining a rough position of each of a plurality of emitters within the raw image stack by employing a linear deconvolution process, and determining a precise position of each of the plurality of emitters by employing the rough position of the emitter and gradient fitting.
US12044613B2
A particle classification system may include a volume to contain a fluid having a suspended particle, electrodes proximate the volume to apply an electric field to rotate the suspended particle, a focused light source, a scattered light sensor to sense light from the focused light source that has scattered upon impinging the rotating suspended particle and a controller to classify the particle based at least in part upon signals from the scattered light sensor.
US12044611B2
An airborne or liquid particle sensor with integrated bootloader. A particle sensor incorporating at least one bootloader for programming or retrieval of program or data in local memory.
US12044605B2
A system consists of a detector and a detection card (9); the detector comprises a separation-detection turntable (4), a drive motor (3), a detection unit (5), a control and analysis unit (1), and a display unit (2); more than one detection card positions are arranged on the separation-detection turntable (4), and the separation-detection turntable (4) is driven by the drive motor (3) to rotate, so as to mix, separate and detect samples in the detection card; and the detection cards (9) are loaded on the detection card positions on the turntable, the detection card (9) is internally divided into more than two inner cavity pools, the divided inner cavity pools are respectively connected by narrow channels with a cross-sectional area less than 60% of a maximum cross-sectional area of each inner cavity pool, and all the inner cavity pools are unidirectionally connected in series.
US12044604B2
A method and a smart gas Internet of things (IoT) system for metering anti-interference of a gas ultrasonic meter. The IoT system including a smart gas user platform, a smart gas service platform, a smart gas sensing network platform, a smart gas object platform, and a smart gas device management platform. The method may be performed by the smart gas device management platform. The method may include: transmitting at least two sound waves of different frequencies at at least two time-dividing points and receiving at least two echo signals by the gas ultrasonic meter. The at least two time-dividing points may be determined at least based on time-dividing point correlation data; determining, based on the at least two echo signals, a gas flow difference; determining, based on the gas flow difference, whether a noise interference exists; and in response to a determination that the noise interference exists, adjusting a gas metering strategy.
US12044594B2
A method for diagnosing an abnormality of rolling bearing includes: measuring a vibration of a rotator; performing a frequency analysis on the vibration to calculate a magnitude of a vibration at each frequency; calculating a characteristic frequency as a frequency of a vibration from a specification of the rolling bearing and a rotation speed of the rotator at a vibration measurement in the measuring; calculating a vibration value from which an effect of the rotation speed is removed by dividing a magnitude of a vibration at the characteristic frequency by a value including a base and an exponent, the base being a predetermined physical quantity in a proportional relation with an angular velocity of the rotator at the vibration measurement in the measuring, the exponent being a positive number; calculating an evaluation index based on the vibration value; and determining an existence of an abnormality based on the evaluation index.
US12044591B2
A miniature diaphragm-based fiber-optic tip FP pressure sensor, and fabrication method and application thereof. A miniature diaphragm-based fiber-optic tip FP pressure sensor includes an optical fiber, a hollow-core optical fiber, and a pressure sensing diaphragm, wherein the optical fiber and the hollow-core optical fiber have the same diameter, the two are spliced by arc welding; and the pressure sensing diaphragm is bonded to the endface of the hollow-core optical fiber by hydroxide catalysis bonding. The FP pressure sensor can not only realize the all-silica structure of a sensor, but also make the joint of each component free of organic polymer, and has extremely high long-term stability and thermal stability. Meanwhile, by a fabrication method of the miniature diaphragm-based fiber-optic tip FP pressure sensor, the application range and service life of the sensor are increased, and fabrication costs are reduced.
US12044581B2
Temperature sensing probes for sensing the temperature of a substrate based on fluorescence are disclosed. The temperature sensing probes include a fiber optic cable having at a cold end an optical interface and at a hot end a temperature sensing element for contacting a substrate. A sheath surrounds at least a portion of the hot end of the fiber optic cable. A retaining member securely and removably engages the sheath with a support member. The sheath forms a vacuum seal around the contact between the temperature sensing element and the substrate.
US12044570B2
A device may determine a calibration value for a spectrometer using light from a first light source; deactivate the first light source after determining the calibration value; perform measurement with regard to a sample based on the calibration value, wherein the measurement of the sample is performed using light from a second light source; determine that the calibration value is to be updated; and update the calibration value using the light from the first light source.
US12044560B1
The present invention relates to magnetic flowmeters. More particularly, the present invention relates to a magnetic flowmeter designed for oil and gas exploration and production, including offshore fracking, onshore hydraulic fracturing, and onshore and offshore non-fracking applications that is capable of withstanding high pressures and a variety of corrosive slurries, acids, bases, and solvents.
US12044559B2
A method for monitoring flow of a medium by means of a pressure difference measuring device and a Coriolis mass flowmeter having two oscillators, which comprise, in each case, a bent measuring tube pair, which are arranged on top of one another and connected for parallel flow between the two pressure measuring points of the pressure difference measuring device, comprising steps as follows: Registering a pressure difference between the first pressure measuring point and the second pressure measuring point; registering a first density measured value based on at least a first oscillation frequency of the first oscillator; registering a second density measured value based on at least a second oscillation frequency of the second oscillator; ascertaining a flow measured value based on the pressure difference, when a difference between the first density measured value and the second density measured value is less than a density difference limit value.
US12044556B2
A method and system of compensating for body deformation during image acquisition or external beam treatment includes acquiring image data of a body and peak wavelength data from a plurality of fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) disposed on the body aligned along a predetermined coordinate system on the body, such as a cartesian coordinate system. The method further comprises detecting effective shifts of the Bragg wavelengths of the FBGs caused by body deformation during image acquisition, and controlling the movement of the body through a cavity in a scanning device and controlling the acquisition of the image data or external beam treatment during body deformation based on the effective shifts of the Bragg wavelengths of the FBGs.
US12044551B2
Detection accuracy of a rotation angle of a sub-shaft is to be improved. In an absolute encoder according to an embodiment of the present invention, a second worm wheel part is a second driven gear, has a central axis orthogonal to a central axis of a first worm wheel part, and meshes with a second worm gear part. A support shaft rotatably supports the second worm wheel part. A magnet (Mq) rotates integrally with the support shaft. An angle sensor (Sq) is provided near the magnet (Mq) and detects a change in a magnetic flux generated from the magnet (Mq). A first bearing has an outer ring fixed at the second worm wheel part and an inner ring fixed at the support shaft. A second bearing has an inner ring fixed at the support shaft.
US12044550B2
A method of operating a capacitive measurement system for compensation of temperature influence is described. The capacitive measurement system includes at least one capacitive sensor member in an installed state and a capacitive measurement circuit for determining a complex impedance of an unknown capacitance from a complex sense current through the at least one capacitive sensor member. In the method, a calibration measurement is carried out to obtain temperature characteristics of both the real part and the imaginary part of determined impedances. In following impedance measurements of the unknown capacitance at a current temperature, the real part and the imaginary part of the measured impedance is determined, and based on the real part determined at the current temperature and the determined temperature characteristics of both the real part and the imaginary part, the imaginary part of the impedance determined at the current temperature is corrected.
US12044549B2
An optical reading device for a pointer instrument which has a pointer and a scale face or dial with different degrees of reflectance in each case, includes an illumination device for illuminating the scale face or dial and a plurality of light sensor elements which are arranged in a circular arc about the rotational axis of the pointer in order to detect the light of the illumination device reflected back by the scale face or dial, wherein the illumination device is configured to uniformly illuminate the scale face or dial and each light sensor element is configured with an isosceles triangle outline, where each light sensor element is offset with respect to one another by half of the base width in the circumferential direction of the circular arc.
US12044547B1
In one embodiment, a technique for providing absolute orientation of a mobile device involves aligning the orientation sensor of the mobile device with the Earth's coordinate system. An initial orientation from the orientation sensor of the mobile device is accessed, a user is prompted to move the mobile device in a direction of the initial orientation, and using a position sensor, a set of position information that describes positions of the mobile device is captured while the mobile device is being moved in the direction. Based on the set of position information, a vector of movement is determined. Using the vector of movement, an orientation difference is calculated between the Earth's coordinate system and a coordinate system of the mobile device. Upon demand, an absolute orientation of the mobile device may be produced by accessing a live orientation from the orientation sensor and adding the orientation difference.
US12044545B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for learning to generate maps from raw geospatial observations from sensors traveling within an environment. Methods may include: receiving a plurality of sequences of geospatial observations from discrete trajectories; aligning and concatenating the trajectories to generate concatenated, aligned geospatial observations; performing attentional clustering on the concatenated, aligned geospatial observations to obtain a set of entities; processing the set of entities using one or more Set Transformers; generating a preliminary feature set of map object geometries; determining a number of output entities from each of the one or more output heads based on statistics from the plurality of sequences of geospatial observations from the discrete trajectories and a count of the discrete trajectories; and outputting a feature set, the feature set including a number of map object geometries corresponding to a respective number of output entities for the respective output head.
US12044543B2
A user computing device, method and computer program to display a view to the user are provided. The invention allows a user to display a number of different views with photorealistic rendering of how the view should look like at a view time, based solely on view position, and descriptors of the view. In an aspect, the invention deduces from view position and view time the view descriptors (weather parameters, traffic parameters . . . ); selects, in a collection of images, an image of the view based on view position; modifies the image to match descriptors of the view (for example, by adding a rain effect if the image in the collection is under sunshine and the view should be displayed under rain). Thus, the invention allows displaying photorealistic images of how a view should look like at any time.
US12044534B2
The disclosed technology provides solutions for enriching map data with event information. In some aspects, the disclosed technology includes a process that includes steps for receiving a map query associated with the map for a user, aggregating one or more events that are associated with a respective location on a map, and processing the one or more events to generate one or more event clusters based on the map query. In some aspects, the process can further include steps for providing at least one of the one or more event clusters to the user. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US12044533B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems directed to calibrating a magnetometer. Among such are methods that use only the horizontal components of magnetometer measurements. Then, planar calibrated magnetic field output measurements can be used in sensor fusion with data from gyroscope(s) and accelerometer(s). In other embodiments, heading information from the planar calibrated magnetic field is fused with the heading calculated from gyroscope integration. Other such methods include any of generating combined information including 6-axis fusion information and magnetometer information; accumulating values for any of a first matrix [T] and a first vector [U] according to the combined information; generating a second matrix [{circumflex over (K)}] according to any of a pseudo-inverse of the first matrix [T] and the first vector [U]; generating any of a scale and skew matrix and an offset according to the first matrix [{circumflex over (K)}]; and calibrating the magnetometer according to any of the scale and skew matrix and the offset.
US12044531B1
A level instrument for surveying a mining subsidence zone in a coal mining area includes a bottom plate, a leveling mechanism, a lifting mechanism, and a level instrument body, where the leveling mechanism is provided on the bottom plate, the lifting mechanism is provided on the leveling mechanism, and the level instrument body is provided on the lifting mechanism. A surveying method using the level instrument is further provided. The level instrument is placed at a surveying location through the bottom plate, a levelness of the level instrument body is directly adjusted through the leveling mechanism below the level instrument body, and a height of the level instrument body is directly adjusted through the lifting mechanism. In this way, the operation process of the level instrument is simplified, and the overall surveying efficiency is improved.
US12044527B2
The invention relates to a sensor arrangement (7) for detecting a position and/or a displacement of a flux element assembly (8) along a longitudinal direction, with a coil assembly (1) and the flux element assembly (8), wherein the coil assembly (1) comprises at least two flat coils (2a, b), wherein the flux element assembly (8) comprises at least two flux elements (9a, b), wherein the at least two flux elements (9a, b) are arranged adjacent to one another in the longitudinal direction and offset in transverse direction, wherein the flux element assembly (8) and the coil assembly (1) are movable and/or displaceable relative to one another in the longitudinal direction, wherein the flat coils (2a, b) are designed, such that an actual inductance (L1, L2) of each flat coil (2a, b) is dependent on the actual displacement of the flux element assembly (8) relative to the coil assembly (1), with an evaluation device, which is set up to determine the actual inductance (L1, L2) for each flat coil (2a, b) and determine the actual displacement based on the determined actual inductances (L1, L2).
US12044526B2
A tape measure including a reinforced or coated tape measure blade is provided. The reinforcement layer is thicker than the metal inner layer of the tape blade. The reinforcement layer provides a reinforced tape blade such that the elongate tape blade may have a pinch load threshold of greater than 30 lbs. and/or a pinch height at break of less than 1.5 mm.
US12044521B2
The present invention discloses a method for suppressing reflection of binary grating image projection based on high-frequency pattern interference including generating multiple high-frequency patterns for reflection suppression; generating a binary grating for three-dimensional appearance measurement, wherein the binary grating is inverted to generate a reverse binary grating; generating multiple interfering binary gratings. The projection images of multiple interfering binary gratings projected by the projector and then collected by the camera are used as output images, and all output images are synthesized in a certain manner to obtain an output image after reflection suppression, which is used as a result of the binary grating image to be projected after reflection suppression. The invention effectively eliminates the wrong measurement result caused by reflection in the three-dimensional measurement of the binary grating projection method, and improves the accuracy of the three-dimensional appearance measurement based on the binary grating projection method.
US12044515B2
A modular pyrotechnic launch unit includes a launch module, a first module, and a second module. The launch module includes a launch barrel. The first module is coupled in series to the launch module. The first module includes a first ignition state in which the first module ignites a pyrotechnic element that will then pass through the launch barrel. The first module also includes a first pass-through state in which the first module allows a pyrotechnic element ignited by another module to pass through the first module. The second module is coupled in series to the first module. The second module includes a second ignition state in which the second module ignites a pyrotechnic element that will then pass through the first module and through the launch barrel.
US12044508B2
Provided is a cover for use with a ballistic panel carrier having front and rear carrier panels interconnected by shoulder straps. The cover includes front and rear outer cover shell components, together defining a neck opening between shoulder portions and having sides that, when sides of the ballistic panel carrier are secured together, define arm opening edges. A yoke lining component is attached to the outer cover shell components at the neck opening and separably attached to the outer cover shell components along at least portions of the arm opening edges.
US12044507B2
An optics system includes a convex catching mirror located within respect to the concave primary mirror to form an optical path for a field of view. A conical volume is formed with respect to the concave primary mirror and the convex catching mirror, the optical path not obstructed by the conical volume. A component within the conical volume.
US12044505B2
A foldable sight implementable on a firearm includes a base, a hinge and a sight body. The base is configured to be mounted on a portion of the firearm. The sight body is pivotably attached to the base by the hinge and contains a position holding device therein. The position holding device is configured to hold the sight body at either a first position or a second position responsive to the sight body being rotated from one of the first and second positions to another of the first and second positions.
US12044497B2
A device for cleaning an interior surface of a firearm includes a housing, an expandable scraping assembly, a control knob, and a drive rod. The housing extends longitudinally along a longitudinal axis. The housing has a forward end and a rear end longitudinally opposite the forward end. The expandable scraping assembly is located at the forward end of the housing. The control knob is located at the rear end of the housing. The drive rod is received within the housing and coupled to the scraping assembly and the control knob. Rotation of the control knob in a first direction expands the scraping assembly toward an open position. Rotation of the control knob in a second direction opposite the first direction contracts the scraping assembly toward a closed position.
US12044491B2
The invention relates to firearms and is aimed at improving the ergonomics of guns, by reducing the overall length and providing ease of the installation of the magazine. These results are achieved by the fact, that the receptacle of the magazine is located above the trigger guard, and the magazine is placed in the receptacle of the magazine through the hole on the side surface of the firearm.
US12044487B2
A plate-type heat exchanger and a method for manufacturing same are provided. A plate-type heat exchanger includes a first plate and a second plate which have flange parts vertically adhered by an adhesive, respectively. The flange parts are formed in a stepped shape and may thus increase an area adhered to the first plate and the second plate.
US12044482B2
A heat exchanger includes a shell to which a secondary heat medium is configured to be supplied and a plate fin coil body provided in the shell. The plate fin coil body includes a plurality of plate fins and a coil which passes through the plurality of plate fins and through which a primary heat medium is configured to flow.
US12044475B2
Thermal pretreatment method and equipment for organic solid waste based on forced hot air convection
A thermal pretreatment method for organic solid waste based on forced hot air convection is performed as follows. Experimental materials are grouped into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group is subjected to thermal pretreatment in a thermal pretreatment device, and then removed. The experimental group and the control group are subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis and physicochemical characterization, and the analysis results are compared. A thermal pretreatment device for organic solid waste based on forced hot air convection is also provided.
US12044474B1
A method for drying at least one sample of material is provided. The method includes placing the at least one sample of material into a chamber and then sealing the chamber. The method includes applying a vacuum to the chamber in order to reduce the pressure therein. The method includes heating the at least one sample using electromagnetic energy while applying the vacuum to the chamber. The method includes measuring at least one condition of the chamber and determining that the sample is dry based on the at least one monitored condition.
US12044466B2
A system includes a door sensor that provides a status of whether a door of a refrigeration system is open or closed, a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of a food compartment of the refrigeration system, a power sensor that measures an amount of power consumed by the refrigeration system, and a compressor sensor that provides acoustic data about a compressor of the refrigeration system. The system further includes a remote computing system configured to send an alert indicating that the refrigeration system needs servicing when the temperature of the food compartment of the refrigeration system is determined to be above a predetermined temperature while: the door of the refrigeration system is closed, the amount of power consumed by the refrigeration system is within a predetermined power range, and acoustic signals of the compressor of the refrigeration system are within a predetermined acoustic range.
US12044455B2
The present invention provides an ice shaver with a modular, thermally-isolated and removable shave disc that carries a blade and secures the blade relative to a frame and a column pressing an ice block against the blade. The shave disc is positioned opposite a spike plate and receives the ice block thereon. The shave disc is modular with an upper metal slip disc upon which the ice block rotates, and a lower plastic isolation pad that carries the metal disc and isolates the slip disc from the frame of the ice shaver. The isolation plate can carry the blade and the blade can extend therefrom through a slot in the slip disc. The shave disc, with the isolation pad, the blade and the slip disc, can be retained in a shave deck of the frame of the ice shaver and removed without tools for ease of cleaning.
US12044450B2
A method for terminating defrosting of an evaporator (104) is disclosed. The evaporator (104) is part of a vapour compression system (100). The vapour compression system (100) further comprises a compressor unit (101), a heat rejecting heat exchanger (102), and an expansion device (103). The compressor unit (101), the heat rejecting heat exchanger (102), the expansion device (103) and the evaporator (104) are arranged in a refrigerant path, and an air flow is flowing across the evaporator (104). When ice is accumulated on the evaporator (104), the vapour compression system (100) operates in a defrosting mode. At least two temperature sensors (306, 307) monitor an evaporator inlet temperature, Te,in, at a hot gas inlet (304) of the evaporator (104) and an evaporator outlet temperature, Te,out, at a hot gas outlet (305) of the evaporator (104). A difference between Te,in and Te,out, is monitored and defrosting is terminated when the rate of change of the difference between Te,in and Te,out approaches zero.
US12044447B2
In accordance with one embodiment, a method is provided that includes providing a liquid nitrogen storage system configured to cool a supply of liquid nitrogen to a temperature below the vapor point of liquid nitrogen; coupling a piping system with the liquid nitrogen storage system to convey a portion of the supply of liquid nitrogen from the liquid nitrogen storage system; coupling the piping system with a liquid nitrogen control valve configured to control a flow of liquid nitrogen to at least one liquid nitrogen dispensing head; disposing the at least one liquid nitrogen dispensing head above a conveyance device operable to convey an aggregate stream of a concrete batching plant during use; and disposing the at least one liquid nitrogen dispensing head in a position to dispense an output flow of liquid nitrogen onto the aggregate stream of the concrete batching plant during use.
US12044445B2
A heat pump system, a defrosting method for the heat pump system, and a controller. The heat pump system includes a heat exchanger assembly for exchanging heat with a fluid medium, the heat exchanger assembly comprised a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger arranged in parallel, the second heat exchanger being arranged upstream of the first heat exchanger in the flow direction of the fluid medium, and when the heat pump system is operating in a heating mode and the temperature and/or ambient humidity to which the heat exchanger assembly is currently exposed reach a pre-set value, the second heat exchanger and the first heat exchanger function as a condenser and an evaporator, respectively.
US12044444B2
A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a first expansion device, a second expansion device, and a second heat exchanger are connected by refrigerant pipes and through which refrigerant circulates, an accumulator provided to the refrigerant circuit, formed to store liquid refrigerant, and from which gas refrigerant is caused to be sucked into the compressor, a liquid-level sensing device provided to the accumulator and sensing a liquid level of the liquid refrigerant stored in the accumulator, and a controller performs, in a case in which the liquid level sensed by the liquid-level sensing device is higher than a threshold, a limiting operation of reducing an amount of suction of the gas refrigerant that is sucked from the accumulator into the compressor and, in a case in which the liquid level is lower than or equal to the threshold, a normal operation.
US12044427B2
For balancing a hydronic network that comprises a plurality of parallel zones with a regulating valve in each zone, individual flow characteristics are determined (S1) for each of the regulating valves, by recording the total flow of fluid measured at different valve positions of a respective regulating valve, while the remaining other regulating valves are set to a closed valve position. Dependent flow characteristics are determined (S2) by recording the total flow of fluid measured at different valve positions of the respective regulating valve, while the remaining other regulating valves are set to an open valve position. Correction factors are determined (S3) for each of the regulating valves, using the individual flow characteristics and the dependent flow characteristics. The hydronic network is balanced (S4) by setting the valve positions of the regulating valves using target flows and the correction factors.
US12044422B2
A refrigeration cycle system includes a refrigeration cycle apparatus, an operation signal transmitter, a detection unit, a notification unit, and a processing unit. The refrigeration cycle apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit. The operation signal transmitter transmits an operation signal for the refrigeration cycle apparatus. The detection unit detects leakage of a refrigerant. The notification unit notifies of leakage of the refrigerant by emitting at least one of sound and light in a case in which the detection unit has detected leakage of the refrigerant. The processing unit causes the notification unit to execute test behavior of emitting at least one of sound and light in a case in which the operation signal transmitter transmits the operation signal to the refrigeration cycle apparatus.
US12044421B2
Systems and methods for controlling temperature and humidity within a space in a building. Outdoor air and return air from the space are passed through particular equipment in a particular order. Equipment includes a secondary direct-expansion refrigeration circuit, a recovery wheel, a primary cooling coil, secondary circuit evaporator and condenser coils, and a dehumidification wheel. Various embodiments include multiple zones, chilled beams, and a dedicated outdoor air supply (DOAS) subsystem delivering dehumidified air to active chilled beams. In various embodiments, supply air passes first through the recovery wheel, then through the primary cooling coil, then through the dehumidification wheel, and then to the space. Further, in some embodiments, exhaust air passes through the dehumidification wheel and then through the recovery wheel. Pump modules may supply chilled beams and control their temperature to avoid condensation. A chiller may supply cooling water to both the primary cooling coil and the pump modules.
US12044416B2
A greenhouse, for cold weather climates, is configured with a gable that is offset toward the north wall and therefore the south extension of the roof, from the gable to the south wall is longer than the north extension. A greater amount of light can enter through this south extension and the inside surface of the north wall is configured with a reflective surface to allow light to be more uniformly distributed around the plants. The north wall may have no widows and may be thermally insulated to prevent the greenhouse from getting too cold during the night. A ground to air heat transfer (GAHT) system may be configured to produce a flow of greenhouse air under the greenhouse for heat transfer, to moderate the temperature of the greenhouse. A thermal medium may flow to a thermal reservoir for heat exchange with the conduits of the GAHT system.
US12044411B2
A combustor includes an end cover and at least one fuel nozzle extending from the end cover and at least partially surrounded by a combustion liner. The combustor further includes an outer sleeve spaced apart from and surrounding the combustion liner such that an annulus is defined therebetween. The combustor further includes a fuel injection assembly. The fuel injection assembly includes a fuel injector that extends through the outer sleeve, the annulus, and the combustion liner to the secondary combustion zone. A fuel supply conduit positioned outside of the outer sleeve. The fuel supply conduit extending to the fuel injector. A shielding assembly coupled to the outer sleeve and at least partially surrounding the fuel supply conduit. The at least one fuel sweep opening is defined in the outer sleeve and disposed within the shielding assembly.
US12044409B2
An additively manufactured attritable engine includes an engine case, a fuel ring integral and conformal with the engine case, and a fuel manifold attached to the fuel ring and configured to deliver fuel to the fuel ring. The engine also includes a fuel injector attached to the fuel ring and configured to receive fuel from the fuel ring.
US12044403B2
Provided is a torch including a body having a first portion and a second portion angled relative to the first portion, a control knob at a top of the second portion for adjusting a flow of fuel through the torch, a trigger at a top of the first portion that is movable from an off position to an on position to at actuate an igniter, and a burn tube extending from an end of the second portion away from the first and second portions.
US12044390B1
Provided is a power adapter for strip lights having a control function, comprising a main housing, a PCBA, wires, and pins; wherein one end of the wire is electrically connected to the PCBA while the other end is provided with a connection seat for connecting strip lights; the pins partially protrude out of the front face of the main housing; the PCBA is electrically connected with an indicator light which partially protrudes out of the rear face of the main housing; the PCBA has a main control unit which is connected with a power management module, a light control module, an infrared receiver, and a wireless communication module.
US12044384B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of decorative lamps, and provides an articulated device and a foldable star lamp including the same. The articulated device includes an articulated joint and an articulated base, wherein the articulated joint includes an articulated joint bottom and an articulated joint top, the articulated joint bottom is sleeved on the articulated base and is capable of pivoting around a fixed axle, the articulated base is provided with a first stop block for preventing excessive rotation of the articulated joint.
US12044382B2
The present disclosure is directed to wallpacks containing at least one light source, such as a light-emitting diode (LED). The wallpack light fixtures disclosed herein generally contain a housing, at least one light source, a power supply, and a plurality of heat sink fins.
US12044379B2
Reflector unit (1) comprising a single pieced reflector (2), said reflector (2) being obtained by way of a molding process, and a frame structure (3) for supporting the single pieced reflector (2), wherein the reflector (2) comprises at least two reflecting chambers (2a) for reflecting light from a light source (8), wherein the at least two chambers (2a) are being spaced from another, and wherein the reflector (2) is firmly and essentially non-adjustably connected to the frame structure (3) by at least two connecting means (4), wherein the reflector (2) is non-movable with regard to the frame structure (3) along the portions of the connecting means (4), wherein the frame structure (3) comprises at least one adjusting screw (5a, 5b) being connected with an engaging portion (7a, 7b) of the frame structure (3) and an engaging portion (6a, 6b) of the reflector (2), wherein the engaging portions (6a, 6b, 7a, 7b) are configured to allow rotational movement of the respective adjusting screw (5a, 5b), and wherein rotational movement of the at least one adjusting screw (5a, 5b) translates into linear movement of the respective engaging portions (6a and 7a, 6b and 7b) with respect to one another for adjusting the distance between the respective engaging portions (6a, 6b) of the reflector (2) and the respective engaging portion (7a, 7b) of the frame structure (3) and thus bending the reflector (2) with regard to the firm portions of the connecting means (4).
US12044366B2
A device including a material including halide perovskite nanocrystals forming a film and configured to receive first electromagnetic radiation having a first wavelength emitted by an excitation source, the first electromagnetic radiation is modulated to include information prior to being received by the material, the material is configured to absorb the first electromagnetic radiation including the information and to emit second electromagnetic radiation having a second wavelength and also including the information, the second wavelength being in the visible range, and the first wavelength of the first electromagnetic radiation is shorter than the visible range; a detector configured to receive the second electromagnetic radiation and to extract the information; and a screen connected to the detector and configured to display the information.
US12044364B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for assessing a pipeline failure based on a smart gas Internet of Things (IoT). The method is implemented by a smart gas safety management platform of an IoT system for smart gas pipeline network safety management, and the method includes obtaining at least one first failure risk in a gas pipeline and a downstream user feature, generating a plurality of candidate gas processing schemes based on the at least one first failure risk, and determining at least one second failure risk based on the at least one first failure risk and at least one of the candidate gas processing schemes.
US12044360B2
A tank device for storing a gaseous medium, in particular hydrogen, includes a valve device and a tank. The valve device includes a valve housing having a longitudinal axis, in which valve housing an interior is formed. An actuation valve element is movable along the longitudinal axis and is arranged in the interior, which actuation valve element interacts with a valve seat in order to open and close an outlet opening and thus forms an actuation valve. The valve device includes a solenoid. The valve seat is formed downstream on the valve housing and at the outlet opening, and the cylindrical outlet opening leads into a cylindrical passage channel, the diameter D of the passage channel is greater than the diameter d of the outlet opening.
US12044358B2
A lubrication system for pneumatic machinery includes a lubricant vessel and a lubricant-control valve connected to a drop-dispensing body to discharge a demanded drop of lubricant inside a sealable drip chamber, which has a pressurized-gas inlet and a lubricated-gas outlet. A lubricator-pad assembly includes a lubricator-pad holder securing a lubricator pad to receive the drop of lubricant. Pressurized gas flows through the holder when exiting the drip chamber. A drop detector detects the demanded drop of lubricant. A controller connects to the drop detector and receives an indication that the demanded drop of lubricant has been detected. When a lubrication-demand tracker of the controller determines, based upon time or flow measurement or a combination thereof, that a lubrication threshold is reached, the controller initiates a drop cycle. If a maximum drop time passes before the demanded drop of lubricant is detected, the controller activates a missing-drop cycle.
US12044357B1
A method of assembling a mobile electric power generation system includes using a generator trailer having an electric generator, a gas turbine trailer having a gas turbine, an exhaust trailer configured to exhaust air, and an air filter and ventilation trailer having an anti-icing system. The generator trailer and the gas turbine trailer is positioned at a work site such that the generator trailer and the gas turbine trailer are in an end-to-end configuration. The gas turbine trailer is operably coupled to the generator trailer.
US12044355B2
A display device support arm comprises: a securing component; a first support arm element pivotally attached to the securing component and coupling to an attachment means for receiving a coupling mechanism, incorporating a load indicator, at the lower end of a second support arm element. At the other end thereof is an attachment head and a display mounting head rotatably secured thereto. The mounting head includes a toothed arcuate surface to which there is pivotally mounted a trigger adapted to move one or more locking blocks out of biased engagement with the arcuate surface. Constant friction joints, a modified securing foot with tool holder, a tilt mechanism; a display rotation lock operably coupled to a display mounting interface; interchangeable rail assemblies; display mounting brackets for attachment to the rail assemblies; and methods of installing a support arm and setting a tilt mechanism are also defined.
US12044354B2
A quick mounting bracket for a pump is provided. The bracket includes a flexible handle that moves relative to stabilizer tabs. The bracket has ramped surfaces that guide a portion of the pump housing into a receiving slot of the bracket. A hinge of the handle biases the handle away from the pump such that the handle is driven to overlap the portion of the pump housing that seats into the receiving slot, thereby locking the pump onto the bracket until the handle is move to clear receiving slot and allow the pump to be removed from the bracket.
US12044350B2
A modular multi-monitor amount system for a gaming chair assembly having a monitor framing assembly with a plurality of tubular framing elements selectively coupled together and with two opposing leg frame elements and a central monitor frame element coupled to the opposing leg frame elements and having two substantially parallel sections flanking and defining a central channel and having a left side and right side opposing the left side of the central monitor frame element and having a first screen support bracket frame element with opposing ends respectively coupled to the two substantially parallel sections of the central monitor frame element and disposed within the central channel defined thereon, the central monitor frame element having at least one electronic display bracket coupled thereto, wherein the electronic display bracket is operably configured to retain an electronic display thereon.
US12044347B2
A method for positioning and/or communicating with a pig located in a hollow and elongate object is provided. The object is preferably a pipeline. At least one inner transducer of the pig is arranged on the inner side of a wall of the object. At least one outer transducer is arranged on an outer side of the wall of the object, and at least one ultrasound signal is generated in the wall. By means of an evaluation and/or communication device, and from the amplitude of the ultrasound signal preferably generated by the inner transducer, and in particular from a change of the amplitude, a relative position and/or a spacing A between the two transducers is derived and/or a communication is initiated via the transducers.
US12044340B2
A pipe coupling includes two or more partially annular clamp housings, each of which includes two opposing clamp members and one or more tightening elements for tightening the clamp members towards each other in a direction transverse to an axial length of the annular clamp housings. An elastomeric seal assembly is located in seal housings at opposite axial ends of a cylindrical shell. Tightening the clamp members towards each other causes the elastomeric seal assembly to apply a radially-inward clamping force on a pipe or pipes clamped by the pipe coupling. Radial force grippers are spaced about a circumference of each of the annular clamp housings. Radially-inward forces of the radial force grippers create axially-directed forces on the pipe or pipes clamped by the pipe coupling.
US12044323B2
A valve assembly includes a linearly moving main slider, a pilot valve, a control oil inlet, and a control oil return. The pilot valve is designed as a 4/3 proportional directional valve, via which a first end face and an opposite second end face of the main slider can be fluidly connected selectively to the control oil inlet or the control oil return so that the main slider (20) is hydraulically movable by adjusting the pilot valve. The pilot valve is electrically adjustable depending on a target current. A position sensor is provided, with which an actual position of the main slider can be measured. A positioner is provided, with which the actual position can be regulated by adjusting the target current to a predefinable target position. The pilot valve is connected to the control oil return via a check valve. The check valve only permits fluid flow from the pilot valve toward the control oil return. The check valve is preloaded to a closed position by means of a first spring so that it opens at a predetermined opening pressure. The leakages at the pilot valve from the control oil inlet toward the check valve are designed to be so large that if the pressure at the control oil inlet exceeds the opening pressure by at least 2 bar, the opening pressure of the check valve is present immediately upstream of the check valve.
US12044322B1
A volume liquid fixed-ratio multi-batch mixing valve includes a valve body, including a first inlet liquid chamber, a second inlet liquid chamber and a mixing chamber; a first valve core, controlling liquid inflow into the first inlet liquid chamber; a second valve core, controlling liquid inflow into the second inlet liquid chamber; a liquid drainage valve core, controlling liquid drainage; a rotary shaft includes a first impeller and a second impeller. The first impeller and the second impeller alternately control flow to the first inlet liquid chamber and the second inlet liquid chamber and to the second inlet liquid chamber and the mixing chamber. The first impeller and the second impeller are symmetrically about the rotary shaft; when the first inlet liquid chamber and the second inlet liquid chamber are communicated, the second valve core closes the second inlet liquid chamber and the mixing chamber.
US12044319B2
A high flow/low flow valve includes a valve body having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet connected to one another by a fluid passageway. A valve seat is disposed in the fluid passageway. A low flow valve plug is disposed in the fluid passageway proximate valve seat, the low flow valve plug cooperating with the valve seat to control fluid flow through the valve seat. A high flow valve plug is disposed in the fluid passageway proximate valve seat, the high flow valve plug cooperating with the valve seat to control fluid flow through the valve seat. A low flow actuator is operatively connected to the low flow valve plug and a high flow actuator operatively connected to the high flow valve plug.
US12044306B2
A planetary gearbox includes a first planetary stage with a component, a sun gear, and a planet gear meshing with the sun gear via a toothing system, a second planetary stage, and a lubricant transfer device arranged between the first planetary stage and the second planetary stage. The lubricant transfer device includes a discharge component arranged in a co-rotating manner on a component of the second planetary stage, and a receiving component designed to receive lubricant and arranged in a co-rotating manner on the component of the first planetary stage. A lubricant conduit communicates with the lubricant transfer device and is configured to extend over an entire axial extent of a tooth engagement region of the sun gear of the first planetary stage radially within the toothing system of the sun gear with the planet gear of the first planetary stage.
US12044305B2
A planetary reduction gear (10) for an aircraft turbine engine, said reduction gear comprising a rotatable sun gear, a rotatable ring gear (9) and satellite gears meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear and carried by a planet carrier intended to be fixed to a stator, the reduction gear further comprising an annular trough for recovering and channelling lubrication oil that is mounted around the ring gear, characterised in that the reduction gear further comprises an annular deflector (22) fixed to the ring gear and configured to route the oil exiting radially towards the outside of the ring gear up to the trough by virtue of centrifugal forces, the trough comprising an annular chamber (18) which is axially remote relative to a median plane (P) substantially passing through the centre of the ring gear, and an annular duct (20) located on a side of said chamber and emerging in said chamber.
US12044302B2
A transmission system for an aircraft powerplant includes a transmission shaft, where an input end of the transmission shaft is sleeved with a driven gear. One end of the driven gear is axially limited, and the other end of the transmission shaft is configured to connect a rotating member. Furthermore, the other end of the driven gear is in transmission connection with a stop hub, and the stop hub is in transmission connection with an overload clutch. The overload clutch is in transmission connection with the transmission shaft. A disc spring member is interposed between one end of the overload clutch and the stop hub, and the other end of the overload clutch is axially limited. A limit distance is formed between the overload clutch and the stop hub, and a force value of the overload clutch varies with a pressure applied.
US12044286B2
A method and apparatus for a damper. The damper comprises a fluid chamber having a piston dividing the chamber into a compression and rebound sides, a reservoir in fluid communication with the compression side of the chamber, and an isolator disposed between the compression side and the reservoir, whereby the isolator obstructs fluid flow between the compression side and the reservoir. In one embodiment, a bypass provides a fluid path between the compression side and the isolator.
US12044277B2
To provide a simple-structured cam clutch capable of preventing unwanted jamming of cams, thereby enabling smooth operation including switching operation between operation modes, and offering potential for higher functionality and size reduction. The plurality of cams of the cam clutch include first cams and second cams having different engaging directions. The cam clutch includes an operation mode switching mechanism for switching operation modes, and a switch actuating mechanism. The operation mode switching mechanism includes an outer cage ring, an inner cage ring, and a position-restricting cage ring. The switch actuating mechanism includes an outer guide, an inner guide, and a rotation ring circumferentially movable relative to the outer guide and inner guide and provided for controlling the axial positions of the outer cage ring and inner cage ring.
US12044263B2
The invention relates to a screw element comprising an internal torque limitation for fastening a liquid-conducting line to a device connector or to a coupling for a further line, said screw element having a connection part, which preferably has a thread, and an actuation part; and having a torque limiting unit that limits a torque that can be transmitted from the actuation part to the connection part, wherein the torque limiting unit is arranged between the connection part and the actuation part and has a limiting element, in particular a separate limiting element, that can be assembled from at least two limiting element parts connectable to one another and that limits the torque limiting unit in an axial direction of a longitudinal axis of the screw element. The invention further relates to a system comprising at least one screw element and a line fastened to the screw element.
US12044261B2
An attachment system is provided for attaching a first component to a second component and includes a hook member attachable to the first component, and a pin member attachable to the second component, the pin member including a first member and a second member attached to and extending perpendicular to the first member. The second member is received through a gap in the hook member and in an opening of the first member to place the pin member in a mounting orientation relative to the gap the pin member is pivoted to a securing orientation relative to the opening in Which position the second member is blocked from being removed from the opening by portions of the hook member.
US12044260B2
A joint piece and jointing system using that joint piece are described. The invention is of particular value in making furniture which can be easily assembled and where the joints formed by joint pieces are visible only on the exterior of right-angled corners on one side of the exterior corner. Each joint piece (7) consists of a base having a protruding collar with a head. The base is circular or polygonal and fits into a recess made on one side of one of the panels (5) to be joined. Once fitted, the protruding collar and head fit into keyhole-shaped slots formed on the adjacent panel (6). An advantage of this jointing system is that the panels (5, 6) to be joined may all be produced by CNC milling from one side of a large original sheet of material, e.g. of wood or high density fibreboard.
US12044258B2
A hybrid actuation device including a first plate and a second plate coupled to the first plate, a shape memory alloy wire coupled to the first plate and the second plate, a bladder positioned between the first plate and the second plate, the bladder housing a fluid, a first fixed electrode coupled to the second plate, and a flexible electrode coupled to the first plate and extending along the first fixed electrode.
US12044244B2
A ceiling fan or ceiling fan assembly can include a motor to rotatably drive a set of fan blades. The set of fan blades are attached to the motor via a blade iron, which mounts the blades to a rotating rotor of the motor. A grommet is provided within holes of the blades, between the blade and a fastener, to reduce vibration and improve dampening at the junction between the blades and the motor. Multiple flanges are formed at the end of each grommet. The multiple flanges provide for improved compressibility to improve ease of installation, which resisting sliding of the grommet from the holes in the blades.
US12044241B2
To provide a vacuum pump that is capable of efficiently cooling gas and requires less maintenance. The vacuum pump includes: a main body casing having an inlet portion and an outlet portion for gas; a turbomolecular pump mechanism portion in which a stator blade and a rotor blade are formed; a thread groove pump mechanism portion provided at a downstream side of the turbomolecular pump mechanism portion; a cooling trap portion that cools the gas led out from the turbomolecular pump mechanism portion and causes the gas to flow out to a side of the thread groove pump mechanism portion; and a partition wall that guides the gas led out from the turbomolecular pump mechanism portion to the cooling trap portion.
US12044239B2
A storage unit is configured to store a drive electric current of a submersible pump detected by an electric current detection unit. An identification unit is configured to calculate at least one electric current parameter of a plurality of electric current parameter based on the temporal change of the drive electric current and identify an operation state indicating whether there is an abnormality in the submersible pump and a type of an abnormal operation, based on the electric current parameter.
US12044234B2
A cover, a fluid end and a plunger pump are provided. The cover includes: a body, the body being cylindrical, and the body including a first end, a second end, and a side surface connecting the first end and the second end; a main flow channel extending along an axis of the body; a plurality of subsidiary flow channels, each of the plurality of subsidiary flow channels being communicated with the main flow channel; a first opening, located at the first end and communicated with the main flow channel; and a plurality of second openings, located at the side surface of the body; each of the plurality of subsidiary flow channels being communicated with at least one of the plurality of second openings.
US12044232B2
There are provided an operation number control device and a method for controlling the same that can level the operation times of the fluid machines, which are connected to the operation number control device. A fluid machine system comprises a plurality of fluid machines, and an operation number control device capable of individually controlling start and stop of the fluid machines. The operation number control device sets a continuous operation time for each of the fluid machines based on total operation times of the fluid machine and other fluid machines. When among fluid machines in operation, there is a fluid machine for which the continuous operation time set for the fluid machine has elapsed and there is a fluid machine at stop, the operation number control device causes the fluid machine at stop to start and causes the fluid machine to stop.
US12044227B2
An air compressor improves the dustproof performance of an intake path to a crankcase. The air compressor includes a compression assembly that reciprocates a piston in a cylinder to produce compressed air, a crankcase accommodating the compression assembly and having an inner inlet to allow outside air to be drawn, a filter located in the crankcase and covering the inner inlet from outside, a filter cover having an outer inlet and covering the filter from outside, and a dust cover covering the filter cover from outside, covering the outer inlet, and including an outer circumferential portion. The outer circumference portion and the filter cover have a space to draw outside air between the outer circumference portion and the filter cover.
US12044225B2
A linear compressor includes a shell including an intake pipe configured to suction a refrigerant, a cylinder provided inside the shell, a piston configured to reciprocate inside the cylinder, the piston including a piston body and a piston flange, and an intake muffler coupled to the piston and configured to flow a refrigerant suctioned through the intake pipe into the piston body and reduce a flow noise of the suctioned refrigerant. The intake muffler includes a first muffler disposed in the piston body, a second muffler disposed below the first muffler and configured to communicate with the first muffler, and a third muffler configured to accommodate a portion of a rear end of the first muffler and the second muffler.
US12044219B2
A suspension assembly is described. The suspension assembly including a static member or plate; a moving member or plate movable about an x-axis and a y-axis with respect to the static plate; a sensor mounting region on the moving plate; and one or more shape memory alloy (SMA) elements extending between and coupled to the static plate and moving plate. The SMA elements, when driven by a controller, move the moving plate and the sensor mounting region thereon about the x-axis and the y-axis with respect to the static plate.
US12044213B2
A method for controlling wind farm operation during a weak grid condition includes determining when a threshold number of the plurality of wind turbines have tripped based on the received one or more inputs. Furthermore, the method includes determining a sampled power output of the wind farm based on received sensor data after it is determined that the threshold number of the plurality of wind turbines have tripped. Additionally, the method includes controlling the operation of the one or more wind turbines of the plurality of wind turbines that have not tripped after it is determined that the threshold number of the plurality of wind turbines have tripped such that the power output of the one or more wind turbines of the plurality of wind turbines that have not tripped is less than or equal to the sampled power output.
US12044212B2
The present invention relates to controlling a wind turbine with an updated power coefficient. The updated power coefficient being adjusted by a degradation function which is determined in an iterative adjustment process. The wind turbine is controlled in partial load operation mode based on a tip-speed ratio (TSR) tracking scheme based on an estimated wind speed. The iterative adjustment process comprises operating the wind turbine to obtain a measurement set. The degradation function that represents the values of the measurement set is calculated and assigned to the mean operating TSR of the measurement set. The iterative process is continued until a difference between the selected TSR and the mean operating TSR is below a preset difference. A continuous degradation function for a range of the mean operating TSR value(s) is thereby obtained to determine an updated power coefficient to be used as the operating power coefficient.
US12044206B2
A wind turbine and a method for locating an event corresponding to a failure of a heating element at a wind turbine blade, the heating element comprising an electric resistive material configured to generate heat using electrical power, the method comprising: —providing a location of an event corresponding to a failure of a heating element, wherein the heating element is in an Ohmic contact with a reference potential; —applying a voltage impulse to the heating element relative to the reference potential at a first point in time; —measuring a voltage at the reference potential at a second point in time; —determine the location based at least on the first point in time and the second point in time.
US12044201B1
An energy storage and electricity generating system for alternately storing energy and producing electricity includes a framework, which is positionable proximate to a surface of a body of water and to which a motor and a turbine are attached. A cable is operationally engaged to the motor by a pair of guide pulleys. A pair of tanks is attached singly to opposed ends of the cable, positioning the motor to selectively raise one of the tanks while the other is being lowered. Actuated valves and release valves on the tanks allow pressurized air to be selectively generated within the tanks and pressurized water to be forced from the tanks, respectively, as the tanks are lowered and raised. The water is forced through a hose onto blades of the turbine to generate an electrical current.
US12044193B2
A thrust reverser including doors and at least one flexible deflector obstructing a lateral opening of the thrust reverser when the doors are open. Such a deflector allows better controlling the airflows in thrust reverser configuration and maximizing the counter-thrust force.
US12044188B2
A vehicle drive has an internal combustion engine, an air conduit system, an exhaust system and a diagnostic unit for identifying a leak in the air conduit system of the internal combustion engine. The diagnostic unit is designed to carry out a method for diagnosing a leak in an internal combustion engine, including by determining mass flows in the air conduit system, and identifying a leakage mass flow.
US12044184B2
This gas turbine equipment comprises a gas turbine and a control device. A combustor of the gas turbine uses ammonia as fuel, and uses the RQL method. A compressor of the gas turbine includes an intake adjustor that adjusts an intake rate which is the flow rate of air that flows into a compressor casing. When the concentration of NOx in exhaust gas reaches or exceeds a predetermined value, the control device controls the operation of the intake adjustor so that the intake rate decreases.
US12044174B2
An adjustable injector system for adjusting a radial distribution of a mixed fuel includes an adjustable injector configured to receive first and second non-carbon fuels and configured to adjust the radial distribution of the mixed fuel with a movable part, wherein the mixed fuel is obtained from mixing the first non-carbon fuel with the second non-carbon fuel; a sensor configured to determine an instability of a flame generated by the mixed fuel; and a controller electrically connected to the adjustable injector and the sensor, and configured to change a configuration of the adjustable injector, based on an input signal from the sensor, to control the radial distribution of the mixed fuel.
US12044171B1
An intercooler for a gas turbine engine can include a shell having a partial annular shape, the shell defining a duct comprising an inlet and an outlet, the shell defining a first flow path between the inlet and the outlet; a supply manifold disposed proximate the outlet of the duct and extending circumferentially around the shell; and an outlet manifold disposed proximate the inlet of the duct and extending circumferentially around the shell, the supply manifold in fluid communication with the outlet manifold through a heat transfer region in the duct.
US12044166B1
A combined heat and power (CHP) system and a method of operating is provided. The CHP system includes an oxygen-air separation device. A combustion chamber has an inlet coupled to the oxygen-air separation device. The combustion chamber receives an expanded heated CO2 working gas for combustion of solid fuel and generates a CO2 exhaust gas. The expanded heated CO2 working gas comprising at least a portion of the CO2 exhaust gas. A heat exchanger receives combustion gases and outputs a cooled CO2 working gas. A turbine is provided having a compression section and an expansion section, the compression section configured to receive and compress the cooled CO2 working gas and to direct it to the heat exchanger. The turbine receives a heated CO2 working gas at the expansion section and expands the heated CO2 working gas. In an embodiment, CO2 products may be generated from the system.
US12044165B2
Provided is a gas turbine system, including: an ammonia tank; a combustor including a combustion chamber, which is connected to the ammonia tank; an intake flow passage connected to the combustor; a compressor provided in the intake flow passage; a cracked-gas reservoir connected to the combustor; and an ammonia cracking catalyst arranged in a bleed flow passage connected to the compressor, between the compressor and the combustor in the intake flow passage, or in a space in the combustor, which brings the combustion chamber and the intake flow passage into communication with each other, the ammonia cracking catalyst being connected to the ammonia tank and the cracked-gas reservoir.
US12044162B2
A valve (100) controls a volute connecting opening (240) and a bypass opening (250) of a dual-volute turbine (200). The valve (100) has valve closing body (110), a lever arm (120) and a spindle (130). The valve closing body (110) has a main body (111) and a collar (112). The valve (100) is of a monoblock design with the valve closing body (110), the lever arm (120) and the spindle (130) being made of a single part.
US12044160B2
A pre-chamber component for an internal combustion engine includes a chamber for accommodating an air-fuel-mixture to be ignited, wherein the pre-chamber component includes a first opening into the chamber for arranging an ignition device, in particular a spark plug, and a second opening for introducing the air-fuel-mixture in the form of a mixture flow into the chamber. The pre-chamber component includes a mixture flow guiding device, which is shaped such that the mixture flow of the air-fuel-mixture in the chamber is oriented substantially transversely with respect to a longitudinal axis from the second opening of the chamber to at least a part of the chamber adjacent to the first opening and/or in the form of a turbulent flow.
US12044157B2
Various embodiments include a method for regenerating a coated particulate filter arranged in an exhaust-gas duct of a motor vehicle. The method may include: detecting a need for particulate filter regeneration; determining a first diagnosis value before initiating particulate filter regeneration; after determining the first diagnosis value, carrying out particulate filter regeneration; determining a second diagnosis value after particulate filter regeneration; determining a difference between the first determined diagnosis value and the second determined diagnosis value; comparing the determined difference with a threshold value; and identifying a particulate filter defect if the determined difference exceeds the threshold value.
US12044148B2
A nozzle component according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure is a nozzle component included in a variable nozzle mechanism of a variable geometry turbocharger. The nozzle component is composed of an iron-based alloy and satisfying the following relational expression: 6.6×A+B≥8.0, where A is a total value (mass %) of carbon content and nitrogen content, and B is a total value (mass %) of 0.5 times tungsten content and molybdenum content. The total value B is 1.5 mass % or more.
US12044147B1
Examples disclosed herein include a fan blade of a gas turbine engine. The disclosed fan blade includes a main body having a leading edge and a trailing edge. The fan blade includes a leading edge guard covering the leading edge and a leading section of the main body adjacent to the leading edge. The leading edge guard includes a plurality of leading edge guard segments consecutively arranged in a spanwise direction along the leading edge of the fan blade. Each of the plurality of leading edge guard segments are oriented at an angle relative to a root of the fan blade. Each of the plurality of leading edge guard segments includes a nose portion coupled to the leading edge and a wing portion coupled to opposing sides of the leading section of the main body.
US12044146B2
An airfoil includes an airfoil wall that defines a leading end, a trailing end, and suction and pressure sides that join the leading end and the trailing end. The airfoil wall is formed of a silicon-containing ceramic. A first environmental barrier topcoat is disposed on the suction side of the airfoil wall, and a second, different environmental barrier topcoat is disposed on the pressure side of the airfoil wall. The first topcoat is vaporization-resistant and the second topcoat is resistant to calcium-magnesium-aluminosilicate.
US12044140B1
A stator vane for a turbomachine is provided. The stator vane includes an airfoil that has a nominal suction-side profile substantially in accordance with suction-side Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z set forth in TABLE I. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are defined relative to a point data origin at a base of the airfoil. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values that are convertible to dimensional distances expressed in a unit of distance by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z by a scaling factor of the airfoil in the unit of distance. The X and Y values are connected by smooth continuing arcs to define suction-side profile sections at each Z value. The suction-side profile sections at the Z values are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil suction-side shape.
US12044137B2
Lubrication module for at least one lubrication station of a turbomachine, the lubrication module comprising at least one positive displacement pump including a pump body delimiting a main chamber configured to be in fluid communication with a main lubrication circuit and an auxiliary chamber configured to be in fluid communication with an auxiliary lubrication circuit, and a piston movably mounted in the pump body between an inactive configuration and an active configuration, the piston being configured to perform, in the active configuration, a pumping movement between a top dead center and a bottom dead center by cooperation with a cam of a shaft of the turbomachine and, in the inactive configuration, not to cooperate with the cam of the shaft of the turbomachine, the positive displacement pump including a return element configured to return the piston to the active configuration.
US12044134B2
An adjustment ring (200) for a variable turbine geometry (100). The adjustment ring (200) comprises a disk-shaped body (210) and a plurality of coupling regions (220) which are configured in the disk-shape body (210). The coupling regions (220) are spaced apart in the circumferential direction (26), and each coupling region (220) is adapted for at least partially receiving a vane lever (140) for adjusting a guide vane (120) of a variable turbine geometry (100). Each coupling region (220) circumferentially is fully surrounded by the disk-shaped body (210). The disk-shaped body (210) on one or more of the coupling regions (220) has at least one reinforcement means (230) which extends in the axial direction (22) from the disk-shaped body (210) and circumferentially at least partially surrounds the coupling region (220).
US12044133B2
An adjustable stator blade position maintaining structure for an aero-engine compressor, which keeps an adjustable stator blade at a preset position when a compressor works. The adjustable stator blade position maintaining structure includes a positioning section, a limiting section and a force transmission section The positioning section is mounted in a mounting hole in a casing; the limiting section is cone-shaped and thus fits into a conical hole in the top of a journal of the adjustable stator blade; and the force transmission section is connected between the positioning section and the limiting section so as to transmit a load from the limiting section to the positioning section.
US12044107B2
A gravel packing system includes a shoe assembly including a washdown shoe at an end of the shoe assembly and a blank section uphole of the washdown shoe, a base pipe having an upper base pipe joint and a lower base pipe joint coupled at a base pipe joint connection, a screen disposed around the base pipe, wherein the lower base pipe joint is uphole of and adjacent to the blank section of the shoe assembly, and a swellable packer installed around the blank section of the shoe assembly. The shoe assembly, the swellable packer, the base pipe, and the screen are disposed in an uncased section of the wellbore.
US12044096B2
A method for permanently sealing or bridging perforations disposed in a wellbore that was previously subjected to various completion operations and comprises a plurality of perforated sections comprising a plurality of perforations. In one embodiment, the method comprises configuring a ball injector or multiple ball injectors at the surface of the wellbore, pumping non-degradable perforation ball sealers into the perforated sections via the ball injector, wherein the non-degradable perforation ball sealers permanently seal all perforated sections in the wellbore, and monitoring pressure within the wellbore during operation to determine a successful seal of all the perforated sections.
US12044088B2
A wellbore cleanout magnet tool includes a housing and a door positioned within the housing. The housing can be connected to a wellbore tubing. The housing defines an interior volume and an opening on a circumferential surface of the housing. The door is positioned within the housing. The door can transition between an open position in an absence of wellbore fluid flow through the housing and a closed position in a presence of the wellbore fluid flow through the housing. A magnet is disposed in the interior volume. In the absence of the wellbore fluid flow through the housing, the door exposes the opening and the magnet to an environment outside the housing. In the presence of the wellbore fluid flow through the housing, the door closes the opening on the circumferential surface of the housing and isolates the magnet from the environment.
US12044081B2
A rod handler apparatus for outer tubes and inner tubes, the rod handler apparatus has a manipulator arm adapted to be aligned with an elongated rod. An alignment jaw assembly is at a first end of the manipulator arm, the alignment jaw assembly translationally supports an inner tube and/or an outer tube in coaxial alignment with the elongated rod. A high-speed jaw assembly is at a second end of the manipulator arm, the high-speed jaw assembly adapted to support at least the inner tube, the high-speed jaw assembly operable to cause a translation of the inner tube in or out of the elongated rod. A low-speed jaw assembly is between the alignment jaw assembly and the high-speed jaw assembly, the low-speed jaw assembly adapted to support the outer tube, the low-speed jaw assembly operable to cause concurrent translation and rotation of the outer tube for screwing engagement with the elongated rod.
US12044073B2
Ladders, feet for ladders and related methods are described herein. In one embodiment, a ladder is provided that includes, a first rail and a second rail, a plurality of rungs extending between and coupled to the first rail and the second rail, a first foot coupled with the first rail. The first foot includes a lower tread portion, a first wall is coupled with the lower tread portion and positioned adjacent a first surface of the first rail. A first boss is positioned against a second surface of the first rail. A first fastener extends through the first wall, through the first surface and second surface of the rail, and into the first boss.
US12044072B2
The roller shade system provides increased support, additional adjustments and/or increased safety. The slip plate allows the brake to slip forward and minimize damage to the clutch spring when a user pulls too hard on the hembar. The center drive mechanism extends through a bracket to allow the drive shaft to distribute power in both directions and drive two shade tube simultaneously. The tube adapter absorbs force from the spinning shade tube to minimize damage to the other components and the bead chain. An adjustment arm is adjusted to help level the shade band. The shade bands may be removed without disturbing the other shade bands in the system. A height of a hembar may be adjusted by rotating a rod within the hembar.
US12044067B1
Provided herein are window blinds systems having a first section, double slats within the first section, a second section below the first section, single slats within the second section; outer supporting cords, inner supporting cords, and transverse cords associated with the outer supporting cords and the inner supporting cords, wherein pairs of transverse cords are provided by one upper transverse cord and one lower transverse cord alongside each other, and wherein an amount of space between the double slats larger than an amount of space between the single slats when the windows blinds system is in a fully opened shading arrangement, wherein the window blinds system is configured to be positioned into a variety of shading arrangements by adjusting a tilt angle of the plurality of double slats and the plurality of single slats and by adjusting a distance between neighboring slats of the set of slats.
US12044063B2
The invention relates generally to the field of construction, and in particular to the use of a glass unit instead of the opening sashes of windows and doors, without using sash profiles into which conventional insulating glass units or insulating glass units with one protruding outer pane are usually fixed. The adaptive insulating glass unit is intended for use on windows and doors pre-installed in an opening or facade, as well as for use in the production of new windows and doors, which in turn are used for glazing door and window openings (fixed glazing or one with a sash opening inward, sideways, outward or upward off the frame) in residential buildings, in public and industrial buildings, display structures. The technical result of the invention is a quicker and more accurate assembly of multi-chambered insulating glass units with glued-in profiles, increased light transmission, thermal insulation and soundproofing properties of existing window and door systems without the need to reconfigure production processes, without the need to readjust and replace equipment used in the production of windows, as well as increased light transmission, thermal insulation and soundproofing properties of window and door systems pre-installed in the openings and facades of buildings without the need to reinstall them. The adaptive insulating glass unit designed to be used instead of the opening sashes of windows and doors, without the use of sash profiles into which conventional insulating glass units or insulating glass units with one protruding outer pane are usually fixed, offers new prospects for the design of new window and door systems. The adaptive insulating glass unit contains two outer panes and at least one inner pane, spaced from each other by spacer frames placed between the panes. Moreover, the outer panes are always larger than the inner ones, and between them there is a profile inserted all the way to all the inner panes and simultaneously to one of the outer panes and glued to said outer pane by means of hard glue with additional fixation of the glued profile to another outer pane through the aid of a spacer element, with the gap formed between the profile and the outer pane to which the profile is not glued by means of hard glue filled with elastic glue and sealant, with the outer part of the profile adapted to fixing fittings and seals, which adapt the adaptive insulating glass unit to specific window systems.
US12044061B2
A sash guide for a hung window includes a plate having a first end and an opposite second end defining a longitudinal axis. The first end configured to mount to a side rail of a window sash and the second end having an outside surface spaced from the side rail in a transverse direction. The transverse direction being substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis. A cam block is disposed proximate the second end and between the plate and the side rail. An adjustment fastener is coupled to the cam block and configured to slide the cam block along the longitudinal axis such that the outside surface of the second end is adjustable along the transverse direction and in relation to the side rail.
US12044060B1
A first gate is disposed within a second gate of a barrier for extending across a passageway of a residence. The second gate can be closed to, for example, minimize access of toddlers to the passageway, while the first gate can be opened to, for example, maximize access of small dogs to the passageway. The barrier includes a locking mechanism between the second gate and a frame of the barrier.
US12044053B2
The present invention relates to a drive device, comprising a cable which is connected at one end to a cable pulley, an actuator for driving the cable pulley, and a torsion bar which generates a torsional moment, wherein the torsion bar is supported on a higher-level assembly in such a way that it can move between a first and a second state of the torsion bar, wherein the torsion bar applies a torque in a first direction over a first partial movement range, applies a torque in a second direction opposite to the first direction over a second partial movement range, and does not apply torque over a third partial movement range. The present invention also relates to a superordinate hatch arrangement.
US12044045B2
A vehicle door handle to control the opening of a vehicle door includes a door latch mechanism to release the vehicle door when actuated and a handling element mobile with respect to a handle frame between a rest position and an actuation position in which it actuates the door latch mechanism. The vehicle door handle also includes at least one static magnetic element fixed in motion with the handle frame and at least one mobile magnetic element solidary in motion with the handling element, generating a haptic feedback by defining stable or unstable positions of the handling element in which the static and mobile magnetic element face and attract or repel each other.
US12044038B2
A combination lock can be operated manually via the manipulation of rotatable dials and by way of a key, such as an electronic key. The lock includes one or more rotatable dials each having multiple indicia disposed thereon. Rotation of the rotatable dials to predetermined indicia places the lock in the unlocked position. The lock can further include an electronic port and an actuator. Upon receipt of a predetermined credential via the port, the actuator can place the lock in in the unlocked position. The lock further includes a knob that, when the lock is in the unlocked position, can be rotated between a first position in which the lock is in a latched position and a second position in which the lock is in an unlatched position. The combination lock may automatically scramble the positions of the dials upon opening for security purposes.
US12044035B2
A handle assembly and a household appliance having same. The handle assembly comprises a mounting assembly (10) and a handle (20), the mounting assembly (10) comprises a pre-mounted piece (111) and retractable elements (112), handle grooves (1111) are provided on the pre-mounted piece (111), limiting bosses (21) are provided on the handle (20), and a limiting groove (213) is provided on each limiting boss. The limiting bosses (21) fit with the handle grooves (1111) to realize the mounting of the handle (20), and the retractable elements (112) can extend into the limiting grooves (213) to lock the handle (20), ensuring the high reliability of the mounting of the handle, so that a user can mount the handle on a household appliance without other specialized tools, improving the user experience, and achieving simple and reliable handle mounting.
US12044025B1
The ground post support and level device includes a collar, a plurality of legs, and a plurality of post clamps. The ground post support and level device may retain a post upright within a post hole dug into the ground while concrete is poured and sets in the post hole. A plurality of levels located within the collar may aid in aligning the post to be vertical. The plurality of post clamps may removably couple the collar to the post. The plurality of legs may extend from the collar to the ground to elevate the collar and provide clearance for pouring the concrete.
US12044019B2
The present disclosure provides kits, apparatuses, adjustable tracks, systems, or processes for fastening elongate objects such as reinforcing bar (rebar) in place either to tack the elongate objects together for subsequent welding, or alternatively, as a final fastener when, for example, the elongate objects are subsequently to be embedded in a material such as concrete.
US12044015B2
A multilayer flooring includes a decorative layer and a core layer. The decorative layer is configured to provide a desired appearance of the multilayer flooring. The core layer is disposed below the decorative layer and is configured to provide stability. The core layer is made of a substrate fiber bound together by a thermoplastic binder fiber. The substrate fiber includes cellulose fiber and/or synthetic fiber. The thermoplastic binder fiber includes a bicomponent fiber.
US12044010B2
A rebar movement-prevention-type one-touch coupler is configured to allow rebars to be fixed without a movement of the rebars after performing a one-touch insertion. A fixation of the rebars is completed by performing an additional tightening operation to housing units into which the rebars are inserted. The coupler increases both the fixation stability of the rebar and the safety of a structure employing the rebar.
US12044007B2
The present disclosure relates to an adjustable glass mounting groove, comprising a U-shaped groove body, a support block, a first screw and a first nut, wherein the U-shaped groove body includes a groove bottom, a left groove arm and a right groove arm, the support block includes a bottom support portion, a side support portion, and a matching portion in rotational connection with the first screw, the first nut is fixed in the U-shaped groove body, the first screw is in rotational connection with the support block, and the support block is slidingly fitted with the U-shaped groove body along the movement direction of the first screw. The present disclosure is provided with a functional component for fine-tuning the installation depth and angle of the glass, reducing the risk of glass damage and saving labor, the overall structure is reasonable and stable.
US12044005B2
A smart wall comprises: a frame structure including a mounting cell; an electronic product disposed in the mounting cell; and an art wall covering the front of the frame structure, wherein the frame structure comprises: a first steel section; a second steel section which includes a second fastening part formed at the end thereof and is disposed in a direction perpendicular to the first steel section; a first fastening part which includes multiple first fastening holes arranged in the width direction of the first steel section; the second fastening part which is located at the end of the second steel section and includes multiple second fastening holes corresponding to the multiple first fastening holes; and fastening screws passing through the first fastening part and the second fastening part, and the first fastening part comprises multiple first fastening parts disposed at predetermined intervals in the extension direction of the first steel section. Accordingly, various frame structures can be implemented and thus reduced manufacturing costs can be achieved.
US12044004B2
A fire damper including a frame and a plurality of blades rotatably mounted to the frame such that each blade is rotatable about a respective rotational axis between an open rotational position and a closed rotational position, each blade including at least one substantially planar portion; and a side edge portion which is curved away from a plane of the substantially planar portion, wherein a first curved side edge portion of a first of the blades is adapted to engage a second curved side edge portion of a second of the blades, adjacent the first, when the blades are in the closed position; and wherein the first curved side edge portion curves in an opposite direction to the second curved side edge portion when the first and second blades are engaged.
US12043995B2
An inductive pull-out faucet includes a faucet body defining a pulling channel, a pull-out hose movably disposed in the pull-out channel and defining a water outlet channel, a pulling head connected with a water outlet end of the pulling hose, a control valve configured to control opening and closing of the water outlet channel, and a switch assembly electrically connected with the control valve. The switch assembly includes a metal component connected with one of the faucet body and the pull-out hose and an induction coil component connected with the other one of the faucet body and the pull-out hose. During a pulling process, when an attenuation value or an inductance value of an alternating magnetic field generated by approaching or moving away of the metal component from the induction coil component reaches a respective predetermined value, the control valve controls the water outlet channel to open or close.
US12043990B2
A convergence determination unit determines whether a state of the bucket has converged to a current target state. A target state update unit is configured to update a target state of the bucket when the convergence determination unit determines that the state of the bucket has converged to the current target state. The convergence determination unit includes a first convergence determination unit and a second convergence determination unit. The first convergence determination unit determines whether a swing angle of each mechanism has converged to the corresponding target swing angle under a first convergence condition. The second convergence determination unit determines whether a swing angle of each mechanism has converged to the corresponding target swing angle under a second convergence condition, which is stricter than the first convergence condition.
US12043981B2
A drive assembly for a work vehicle includes an electric machine input arrangement with a first electric machine configured to generate a first source of power, an electric machine input gear assembly configured to receive the first source of power from the first electric machine, and a second electric machine configured to generate a second source of power. The drive assembly further includes a combination gear arrangement coupled to selectively receive the first source of power from the electric machine input gear assembly and the second source of power from the second electric machine to produce a combined power; and an electric machine output arrangement configured to receive and transfer the combined power from the combination gear arrangement.
US12043967B2
An automatic treatment material spreader device that is designed to automatically spread a treating material such as a salt or fertilizer for treating lawns, gardens, driveways, and parking lots. The device includes a rectangular body having a truck bed for storing treatment material, tank treads for mobility, and a funnel with rotating blades for metering and spreading the treatment material to a target area. The device is remotely controlled by an operator through a software application wherein the device can run on electrical supply provided through an internal battery. The internal batter can be charged by a wireless charging dock. The device can be programmed through the software application to spread the treatment material within a specified area and a specified treatment schedule. The device provides real time information about its location, material volume, and battery status.
US12043958B2
A chip chute for transporting wood chips includes: first, second, third, and fourth planar lateral walls defining an open area having a rectangular cross-section, with an inlet opening configured to receive the wood chips, wherein the first and second planar lateral walls oppose each other and extend in a height (H) direction and a first length (Li) direction, and wherein the third and fourth planar lateral walls oppose each other and extend in the height (H) direction and a second length (L2) direction perpendicular to the first length (L1) direction; a curved bottom wall that is located at a bottom of the planar lateral walls and curves from the first planar lateral wall to the second planar lateral wall; and a cylindrical outlet tube protruding laterally from one of the planar lateral walls and configured to discharge the wood chips.
US12043957B2
The present invention relates to a process for manufacturing an upgraded bio-oil derived from black liquor, comprising the following steps: —Providing black liquor, which comes from the pulp and paper manufacturing industry; —Subjecting black liquor to a pyrolysis treatment with formation of a pyrolyzed black liquor gas and a solid mass, which comprises char and salts; —Catalytic conversion of said pyrolyzed black liquor gas by contacting at least part of the latter with a bi-metallic modified zeolite catalyst with formation of the upgraded bio-oil, which comprises benzene, toluene, xylene (BTX), naphthalene and non-BTX products.
US12043946B2
An atomizing generator, a clothing treatment device, and a control method therefor to solve the problems of the structural complexity and poor liquid level measurement accuracy of existing atomizing generators. The atomizing generator includes an outer shell and an atomizing module, an atomization cavity capable of accommodating liquid being disposed in the outer shell, and a liquid inlet, an air inlet, and a mist outlet in communication with the atomization cavity being arranged on the outer shell, the atomizing module including an ultrasonic atomizing sheet, and the atomizing module being arranged to be capable of atomizing the liquid in the atomization cavity by vibration of the ultrasonic atomizing sheet and detecting the height of the liquid level in the atomization cavity by the vibration, which simplifies the structure of the atomizing generator and increases the precision and accuracy of liquid level measurement.
US12043942B2
A dispenser for a laundry washing machine. The dispenser includes one or more screens adjacent one or more detergent trays. The one or more screens reduce the splashing of fluid to adjacent detergent trays. The one or more screens, or portions thereof, may include a plurality of though openings in fluid communication between one or more sprayers and one or more detergent trays.
US12043930B1
A wool knitting machine comprising a shell, a knitting device, a yarn feeding device and a clamping device. When each crochet needle reaches the position of a yarn inlet of a yarn feeding port, the clamping device is clamped with the current crochet needle for clamping the wool, and at the same time, an accelerating gear device is arranged in a hand crank to increase the speed of hand knitting, so that a user can make the first knitting circle compact enough without manually tensioning the wool.
US12043928B2
A weaving method for braid edge overlock includes: first fore-and-back trip, second fore-and-back trip, third fore-and-back trip and fourth fore-and-back trip. The tissue form of the braid edge in the present application includes sinking lock sites and floating lock sites, and the structure of two side edges of the braid enables the sinking and floating of the upper and lower layers misalign properly, forming misaligned positions of warp yarns so as to make the weft yarn weave pair locks, which makes the structures of the left and right edges of the braid form shaggy, fluffy and soft round corners, so as to not scratch when contacting with the skins, and wear more comfortably.
US12043925B2
The invention relates to a method for recovering fibers from non-backed, backed and/or deformed carpet scraps and/or back-up material scraps of textile multi-layer composites, in particular of passenger compartment carpeting or luggage compartment carpeting in the field of automobile manufacture.
US12043921B2
The present invention discloses a method for preparing a fiber with spatial structure, and the fiber prepared thereby and its use as well. In this method, the fiber is prepared through a wet spinning process, wherein a spinning solution prepared from low molecular weight polysaccharide based polyelectrolyte optionally with inert conductive material distributed therein, is injected through a syringe into a coagulation bath, which is formed by adding high molecular weight polysaccharide based polyelectrolyte into a coagulation tank. This method has the advantages such as simple equipment, low cost, good spinnability, and is applicable for large-scale production. The prepared fiber with spatial structure, especially the hollow multilayered fiber, has the controllable layers, cavities, and diameter, a high tensile strength, and an ultra-high specific surface area.
US12043920B2
Multi-row coaxial melt-blown system including support including first duct to convey polymeric fluid parallel to a delivery direction and second duct to convey air or gas, a box removably constrained to the support and including acceleration ducts parallel delivery direction including tubing in fluid connection with first duct to distribute the fluid, first holes parallel the delivery direction, centred and spaced relative to acceleration ducts along the delivery direction to house each part of a respective tube, second holes parallel the delivery direction for air or gas passage, and a slit extending transversely to the delivery direction between the acceleration ducts and the first holes in fluid connection with the second holes. The support includes a housing to contain the box and the slit extends in the box from side to side in fluid connection with the second duct to convey air or gas from second duct to second holes.
US12043919B2
Methods and compositions are described herein for primer extension target enrichment of immune receptor (BCR or TCR) sequences.
US12043914B2
The present invention provides a method for producing an aqueous tin methanesulfonate solution by dissolving tin (II) oxide in an aqueous methanesulfonic acid solution, wherein if A is the number of moles of the tin (II) oxide and B is the number of moles of the methanesulfonic acid, the value of B/2A is within the range of from 1.0 to 1.4. This method for dissolving tin (II) oxide into an aqueous methanesulfonic acid solution is able to achieve a high tin ion concentration.
US12043913B2
This handling device comprises a chassis carrying the intervention tool, and a means of displacement allowing movement of the chassis, in particular along the superstructure of the electrolytic cell. The means of displacement is adapted to rest against the superstructure.
US12043911B2
A hydrogel is formed by a reaction which is induced, in an electrolytic solution, by an electrode product electrochemically generated by electrodes installed in the electrolytic solution. An apparatus including an electrolytic tank with a bottom surface on which a two-dimensional array of working electrodes is provided and a counter electrode installed in the electrolytic tank is prepared. An electrolytic solution containing a dissolved substance that causes electrolytic deposition of a hydrogel is housed in the electrolytic tank. By applying a predetermined voltage to one or more selected working electrodes of the two-dimensional array, a hydrogel with a two-dimensional pattern corresponding to the arrangement of the selected working electrodes is formed.
US12043909B2
A method of operating a solid oxide electrolyzer system includes providing a water inlet stream to at least one solid oxide electrolyzer cell (SOEC), generating a wet hydrogen product stream from the at least one SOEC, providing the wet hydrogen product stream to at least one hydrogen pump, generating a compressed hydrogen product and an unpumped effluent in the at least one hydrogen pump, and recycling at least a portion of the unpumped effluent upstream of the at least one hydrogen pump.
US12043906B2
Assemblies and methods for monitoring the cathodic protection of underground or submerged structures may include a coupon assembly including a conductive test coupon and a reference electrode for determining the voltage potential difference of the protected structure without substantially interrupting surrounding current sources. The reference electrode may be at least partially covered with an electrolytic material in electrical contact with the surrounding environment via a plug including a porous material. A method of installation of the assembly may allow a single technician to install the coupon assembly using a probe rod without extensive on-site excavation. The coupon assembly may be configured to seat securely with the probe rod for stability during installation, and release from the probe rob when the probe rod is separated from the coupon assembly and withdrawn from the ground, leaving the coupon assembly at a preselected depth or preselected distance from the protected structure.
US12043899B2
A system and method for depositing a film within a reaction chamber are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a temperature measurement device, such as a pyrometer, to measure an exterior wall surface of the reaction chamber. A temperature of the exterior wall surface can be controlled to mitigate cleaning or etching of an interior wall surface of the reaction chamber.
US12043896B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and apparatuses for a substrate processing assembly with a laminar flow cavity gas injection for high and low pressure. A dual gas reservoir assembly is provided in a substrate processing chamber, positioned within a lower shield assembly. A first gas reservoir is in fluid communication with a processing volume of the substrate processing assembly via a plurality of gas inlet, positioned circumferentially about the processing volume. A second gas reservoir is positioned circumferentially about the first gas reservoir, coupled therewith via one or more reservoir ports. The second gas reservoir is in fluid communication with a first gas source. A recursive path gas assembly is positioned in an upper shield body adjacent to an electrode to provide one or more gases to a dark space gap.
US12043893B2
A system, apparatus and method are provided for processing articles. The system includes subsystems for synthesizing, pre-treating, conducting a vapor phase coating process and post-treating articles in the form of powders and solid or porous workpieces. The apparatus permits vapor phase synthesis, treatment and deposition processes to be performed with high efficiency and at high overall throughput. The methods include converting solids, liquids or gases into gaseous and solid streams that can be separated or exchanged with or without treatment and/or coating steps, and produce optimized composite articles for specific applications.
US12043891B2
Sputter depositing a metallic layer on a substrate in the fabrication of a resonator device includes providing a magnetron sputtering apparatus comprising a chamber, a substrate support disposed within the chamber, a target made from a metallic material, and a plasma generating device, wherein the substrate support and the target are separated by a distance of 10 cm or less; supporting the substrate on the substrate support; performing a DC magnetron sputtering step that comprises sputtering the metallic material from the target onto the substrate so as to form a metallic layer on the substrate, wherein during the DC magnetron sputtering step the chamber has a pressure of at least 6 mTorr of a noble gas, the target is supplied with a power having a power density of at least 6 W/cm2, and the substrate has a temperature in the range of 200-600° C.
US12043889B2
The present application provides mask plate, fabrication method thereof, and mask plate assembly. The mask plate includes two opening areas being respectively on different sides of mask pattern area along first direction, and two welding areas. One welding area is on a side of one opening area away from the mask pattern area along first direction, and the other welding area is on a side of the other opening area away from mask pattern area along first direction. Evaporation holes are arranged in mask unit, buffer holes are arranged in each opening area, and ratio of maximum dimension of buffer hole in any direction in plane where the mask plate is located to maximum dimension of evaporation hole in the direction is greater than 100. Buffer holes are distributed at equal intervals along a second direction, and second direction is in the plane and is perpendicular to first direction.
US12043887B2
Provided are new high strength 6xxx aluminum alloys and methods of making aluminum sheets thereof. These aluminum sheets may be used to fabricate components which may replace steel in a variety of applications including the transportation industry. In some examples, the disclosed high strength 6xxx alloys can replace high strength steels with aluminum. In one example, steels having a yield strength below 340 MPa may be replaced with the disclosed 6xxx aluminum alloys without the need for major design modifications.
US12043878B2
A method for the manufacturing of an object. The method includes receiving a desired alloy composition for the object, depositing a plurality of foils in a stack to form the object, applying heat to the stack at a first temperature to bond the plurality of foils to each other, and applying heat to the stack at a second temperature to homogenize the composition of the stack. The homogenized stack has the desired alloy composition.
US12043875B2
Disclosed is a ferritic stainless steel with improved workability and high temperature strength through control of component composition and precipitate distribution, and a manufacturing method thereof. The ferritic stainless steel excellent in workability and high temperature strength according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes, in percent (%) by weight of the entire composition, C: 0.0005 to 0.02%, N: 0.005 to 0.02%, Si: 0.01 to 1.0%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.2%, P: 0.001 to 0.05%, Cr: 10.0 to 25.0%, Mo: 1.5 to 3.0%, Nb: 0.3 to 0.7%, W: 0.5 to 2.0%, the remainder of iron (Fe) and other inevitable impurities, and the number of precipitates with an average diameter of 0.5 μm or less is 105 pieces/mm2 or less.
US12043872B2
This application provides a kit or a device for detection of lung cancer, comprising a nucleic acid(s) for detecting a miRNA(s) in a sample from a subject, and a method for detecting lung cancer, comprising measuring the miRNA(s) in vitro.
US12043864B2
Methods of uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are provided. Kits for uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are also provided. The molecules to be labeled may include, but are not limited to, RNAs, cDNAs, DNAs, proteins, peptides, and/or antigens.
US12043863B2
Provided herein is a method of labeling the epigenetic modification 5-hydroxymethyl-cytosine along a DNA molecule that involves attaching a 5-hydroxymethyl-cytosine specific labeling agent to the DNA molecule, which is effected by enzymatically synthesizing UDP-6-N3-Glucose by subjecting 6-azidoglucose to an enzymatic catalysis by N-acetylhexoseamine 1-kinase (NahK) in the presence of ATP to thereby obtain a phosphorylated 6-azidoglucose, followed by subjecting the phosphorylated 6-azidoglucose to enzymatic catalysis by uridyltransferase (GlmU) in the presence of UTP to thereby obtain UDP-6-N3-Glucose, followed by incubating the DNA molecule with UDP-6-N3-Glucose and ß-glucosyltransferase, to thereby obtain a 5-hydroxymethyl-cytosin e glycosylated by a 6-azidoglucose residue in the DNA molecule, and reacting the modified DNA molecule with a labeling agent which is chemically compatible with the azide group of the 6-azidoglucose residue.
US12043861B2
An method of malaria detection includes providing an interdigitated sensor having a first electrode with a plurality of fingers and a second electrode with a plurality of fingers, interspersed and spaced apart from the fingers of the first electrode. A quantity of blood to be tested is received on the sensor. The blood is to be dried and is measured for at least one measurable characteristic, including a resistance of the blood. The presence of malaria infected blood is determined based on a comparison between the measurable characteristics and a predetermined threshold related to the measurable characteristics.
US12043857B2
Provided is a method for improving the yield of rhamnolipids comprising culturing in medium containing a triglyceride containing oil and sweetener as a carbon source.
US12043854B2
In some variations, a process for converting a biomass feedstock into a pretreated biomass material comprises: providing a biomass feedstock containing cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin; introducing the biomass feedstock and a recycled vapor stream to a biomass-heating unit, thereby generating a heated biomass stream at a first temperature, wherein the recycled vapor stream is at a first pressure of at least atmospheric pressure; feeding the heated biomass stream to a biomass digestor operated at a second temperature and a second pressure to pretreat the biomass feedstock, thereby generating a digested stream comprising a solid-liquid mixture and a digestor vapor, wherein the second temperature is higher than the first temperature, and wherein the second pressure is higher than the first pressure; recycling at least a portion of the digestor vapor to the biomass-heating unit; and recovering or further processing the solid-liquid mixture as a pretreated biomass material. Many variations are disclosed.
US12043849B2
The invention provides a method and a kit for combined virus inactivation and capture/purification of a feed containing a protein of interest. The method comprises the steps of: contacting a feed comprising a protein of interest with negatively charged particles or media, conditioning the particles or media such that the pH is acidic thereby inactivating said virus, and eluting said protein of interest.
US12043828B2
The disclosure provides for methods to form compact cross-linked polynucleotide/protein structures that can then be labeled using a barcoded oligonucleotide array in order to reconstruct physical linkage and/or genomic proximity (and phase) of polynucleotide fragments.
US12043819B2
A wax composition is disclosed, comprising a hydrogenated natural oil with (i) at least about 50 wt % of a triacylglycerol component having a fatty acid composition from about 14 to about 25 wt % C16:0 fatty acid, about 45 to about 60 wt % C18:1 fatty acid and about 20 to about 30 wt % C18:0 fatty acid, (ii) a nickel content of less than 1 ppm, and (iii) a melt point of about 49° C. to about 57° C. The hydrogenated natural oil is filtered and/or bleached to obtain a nickel content of less than 0.5 ppm. A candle is also disclosed, comprising a wick and the above described wax.
US12043816B2
A grease composition may contain a base oil (A) and a urea-based thickener (B). Particles containing the urea-based thickener (B) in the grease composition may satisfy requirement (I). The base oil (A) may be a mixed base oil containing a high-viscosity base oil (A1) having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 250 mm2/s to 550 mm2/s, a low-viscosity base oil (A2) having a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 5.0 mm2/s to 110 mm2/s, and an ultra-high viscosity hydrocarbon-based synthetic oil (A3) having a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 2,500 to 4,500 and a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 25,000 mm2/s to 50,000 mm2/s. The base oil (A) may have a kinematic viscosity at 40° C. of 25 mm2/s to 105 mm2/s and a viscosity index of 120 or more. Both low-temperature characteristics and a lubricating life can be achieved.
US12043813B2
The invention addresses a problem of providing a lubricating oil composition for gas engines capable of suppressing viscosity increase while reducing a sulfated ash content and excellent in high-temperature detergency and base number retention. The lubricating oil composition is used for gas engines and contains a base oil (A), at least one ash-free additive (B) selected from an ash-free sulfur-based antioxidant (B1) and a hindered amine compound (B2), and a boronated imide-type dispersant (C), and satisfies the following requirements (X1) to (X3): Requirement (X1): the sulfated ash content is 0.2% by mass or less. Requirement (X2): the content of the ash-free additive (B) is 1.2% by mass or less based on the total amount of the lubricating oil composition, provided that in the case where the ash-free additive (B) contains the hindered amine compound (B2), the content of the hindered amine compound (B2) is less than 1.0% by mass based on the total amount of the lubricating oil composition. Requirement (X3): the content of the boron atom derived from the boronated imide-type dispersant (C) is 200 ppm by mass or more based on the total amount of the lubricating oil composition.
US12043810B2
Systems and methods for controlling an amine contactor are provided. An exemplary method includes determining a pickup ratio for a solvent in the contactor, measuring a temperature of a lower tray of the contactor, adjusting the pickup ratio based, at least in part, on the temperature, and adjusting a flow rate for an injection of lean solvent into the contactor based, at least in part, on the pickup ratio.
US12043809B2
A process for producing a deacidified fluid stream from a fluid stream comprising methanol and at least one acid gas, comprising a) an absorption step in which the fluid stream is contacted with an absorbent in an absorber to obtain an absorbent laden with methanol and acid gases and an least partly deacidified fluid stream; b) a regeneration step in which at least a portion of the laden absorbent obtained from step a) is regenerated in a regenerator to obtain an at least partly regenerated absorbent and a gaseous stream comprising methanol and at least one acid gas; c) a recycling step in which at least a substream of the regenerated absorbent from step b) is recycled into the absorption step a); d) a condensation step in which a condensate comprising methanol is condensed out of the gaseous stream from step b); wherein the regenerator additionally comprises a rescrubbing section, and the condensate from step d) is recycled into the regenerator partly in the upper region of the rescrubbing zone or above the rescrubbing zone.
US12043808B2
The present disclosure provides fuel additives including quaternary ammonium salt mixtures, fuel compositions including such additives, and methods of improving performance of fuel injector using such additives.
US12043802B2
The application belongs to the technical field of reactor of dehydrogenation apparatus, in particular to reactor of UOP propane dehydrogenation apparatus and maintenance method thereof. The reactor includes a reduction cylinder and a catalytic cylinder connected end to end, and a feeding elbow located at a lower end of the catalytic cylinder. Inside the catalytic cylinder there is a conical distributor, an inner net and an outer net located on a same axis and arranged in sequence from inside to outside. Upper ends of the conical distributor, the inner net and the outer net are all connected with an upper cover plate through bolt gaskets. Through the integral design of the inner net, the outer net and the lower cover plate, it is convenient to lift out as a whole, and workers may be prevented from being dispatched to go down into the narrow reactor to dismantle the bolts.
US12043801B2
The present disclosure relates to apparatus and processes for pyrolysis of feeds, such as plastic feeds. In at least one embodiment, a process includes introducing a plastic melt including a plastic component into a reactor via a nozzle coupled with the reactor. The process includes introducing a catalyst into the reactor via a first conduit coupling the reactor with a riser or a regenerator. The process includes pyrolyzing the plastic component to form a pyrolysis product. The process includes removing the pyrolysis product from the reactor via a second conduit disposed at a top ½ height of the reactor. The process includes removing the catalyst from the reactor via a third conduit disposed at a bottom ½ height of the reactor, wherein the catalyst removed from the reactor comprises ash.
US12043797B2
Proppant particulates like sand are commonly used in hydraulic fracturing operations to maintain one or more fractures in an opened state following the release of hydraulic pressure. Fracturing fluids and methods of hydraulic fracturing may also use proppant particulates composed of high-flow polyolefin coated mineral particles (referred to as high-flow polyolefin coated mineral proppant particulates). In some instances, the high-flow polyolefin-coated mineral proppant particulates have a particle density of equal to or less than about 1.35 grams per cubic centimeter, and further may be prepared using a one-pot hot melt process.
US12043796B2
The present invention is concerned with an injection fluid comprising liquid or super-critical carbon dioxide (CO2) and alkoxylated alcohols and the use of such fluids in oil recovery processes. More specifically, the invention it relates to the reduction of the miscibility pressure during CO2 injection oil recovery processes by the use of alkox-ylated alcohols. Further, the invention relates to an oil recovery process injecting CO2 and alkoxylated alcohols.
US12043786B2
A flexible cellular foam or fabric product is coated with a coating including highly thermally conductive nanomaterials. The highly thermally conductive nanomaterials may be carbon nanomaterials, metallic, or non-metallic solids. The carbon nanomaterials may include, but are not necessarily limited to, carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoplatelets. The highly thermally conductive nanomaterials may include but are not limited to nano-sized solids that may include graphite flakes, for example. When coated on a surface of flexible foam, the presence of nanomaterials may impart greater thermal effusivity, greater thermal conductivity, and/or a combination of these improvements. The flexible foam product may be polyurethane foam, latex foam, polyether polyurethane foam, viscoelastic foam, high resilient foam, polyester polyurethane foam, foamed polyethylene, foamed polypropylene, expanded polystyrene, foamed silicone, melamine foam, among others.
US12043780B2
A quantum dot comprising zinc, tellurium, and selenium and not comprising cadmium, wherein a maximum luminescent peak of the quantum dot is present in a wavelength range of greater than about 470 nanometers (nm) and a quantum efficiency of the quantum dot is greater than or equal to about 10%, and wherein the quantum dot comprises a core comprising a first semiconductor nanocrystal and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the core.
US12043770B2
A temporary bonding composition is provided. The temporary bonding composition includes a polyfunctional crosslinker, a polymer and a solvent. The polyfunctional crosslinker includes a compound containing at least two functional groups selected from the group consisting of blocked isocyanate groups, alkenyl ether groups, and alkoxyhydrocarbyl groups. Each of the blocked isocyanate groups is an isocyanate group blocked by a blocking agent. The polymer has a functional group reacting with the polyfunctional crosslinker.
US12043758B2
Described herein is a method for treatment of a metallic surface, including the step of contacting the metallic surface with an acidic aqueous composition. Also described herein is an acidic aqueous composition used in the method for treatment, a master batch to produce such acidic aqueous composition, a method of using the acidic aqueous composition to treat metallic surfaces and substrates including the thus treated metallic surfaces.
US12043740B2
Provided are a composition for a light transmittance control film, and a light transmittance control film. According to the inventive concept, the light transmittance control film includes a matrix part including a copolymer and a polymer chain which is grafted to the copolymer, and a dispersed part including a polymer derived from a first monomer, and are provided in the matrix part, wherein the polymer chain is derived from the first monomer, first light transmittance is shown while external force is applied, and second light transmittance which is greater than the first light transmittance may be shown after the external force is removed.
US12043737B2
A molded article which exhibits an improved vibration-damping effect. The vibration-damping molded article includes a resin composition including at least a thermoplastic resin A, an olefin-based elastomer B having a reactive functional group, and an inorganic filler C, wherein the inorganic filler C is coated with the olefin-based elastomer B.
US12043725B1
The disclosure of the present patent application relates generally to a process to recycle both polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and carbon fiber reinforced composite (CFRP) prepreg (fibers pre-impregnated with typically thermoset resin) and/or CFRP materials to produce a PET/Carbon Fiber Composite where the optimum amount of carbon fibers positively affects the mechanical and physical properties, and such properties were improved over pure recycled PET. The process of breaking down both the PET and CFRP product(s) into pieces for recycling is mechanical-only, and the broken-down pieces are combined in a single screw extruder with varying percentages of recycled CFRP pieces to determine the amount of CFRP pieces that produces the optimum mechanical and physical properties that are particularly improved over pure recycled PET.
US12043721B2
A polymer composition having antimicrobial properties, the composition comprising from 50 wt % to 99.99 wt % of a polymer, from 10 wppm to 900 wppm of zinc, less than 1000 wppm of phosphorus, and less than 10 wppm coupling agent and/or surfactant, wherein zinc is dispersed within the polymer; and wherein fibers formed from the polymer composition demonstrate a Klebsiella pneumonia log reduction greater than 0.90, as determined via ISO20743:2013 and/or an Escherichia coli log reduction greater than 1.5, as determined via ASTM E3160 (2018).
US12043712B2
The present invention provides a graphite sheet polyimide film derived from a first precursor composition comprising a first polyamic acid, the polyimide film comprising a sublimable inorganic filler and a graphene-containing spherical polyimide-based filler.
US12043708B2
A method of making a homogeneous mixture of polyolefin solids and liquid additive without melting the polyolefin solids during the making. The method comprises applying acoustic energy at a frequency of from 20 to 100 hertz to a heterogeneous mixture comprising the polyolefin solids and the liquid additive for a period of time sufficient to substantially intermix the polyolefin solids and the liquid additive together and while maintaining temperature of the heterogeneous mixture above the freezing point of the at least one liquid additive and below the melting temperature of the polyolefin solids, thereby making the homogeneous mixture without melting the polyolefin solids.
US12043667B2
Provided herein are VHH-containing polypeptides that bind CLEC12a. Uses of the VHH-containing polypeptides are also provided.
US12043665B2
The present invention provides a bispecific biologic comprising a ligand specific for CTLA-4 and a ligand specific for a pMHC complex.
US12043646B2
Methods and systems for control of solid phase peptide synthesis are generally described. Control of solid phase peptide synthesis involves the use of feedback from one or more reactions and/or processes (e.g., reagent removal) taking place in the solid phase peptide synthesis system. In some embodiments, a detector may detect one or more fluids flowing across a detection zone of a solid phase peptide synthesis system and one or more signals may be generated corresponding to the fluid(s). For instance, an electromagnetic radiation detector positioned downstream of a reactor may detect a fluid exiting the reactor after a deprotection reactor and produce a signal(s). In some embodiments, based at least in part on information derived from the signal(s), a parameter of the system may be modulated prior to and/or during one or more subsequent reactions and/or processes taking place in the solid phase peptide synthesis system. In some embodiments, the methods and systems, described herein, can be used to conduct quality control to determine and correct problems (e.g., aggregation, truncation, deletion) in reactions (e.g., coupling reactions) taking place in the solid phase peptide synthesis system.
US12043645B2
Compounds having methyltransferase inhibitory activity are disclosed. The compounds have the structures The compounds disclosed are useful in the treatment of cancer and similar diseases associated with inappropriate methyltransferase activity.
US12043643B2
The present invention relates to a synthetic saccharide of general formula (I) that is related to Klebsiella pneumoniae serotype O1, O2, O2ac, and O8 O-polysaccharide and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 O-polysaccharide and conjugate thereof. Said synthetic saccharide, said conjugate and pharmaceutical composition containing said synthetic saccharide or said conjugate are useful for prevention and/or treatment of diseases associated with Klebsiella pneumoniae. Furthermore, the synthetic saccharide of general formula (I) is useful as marker in immunological assays for detection of antibodies against Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteria.
US12043641B2
A dendrimer including a ring core moiety, a paramagnetic group, a linking moiety and a branching moiety for continuously probing and quantifying an analyte is provided together with methods, kits and devices for performing sensitive, accurate and durable measurements.
US12043639B2
New cationic lipids are provided that are useful for delivering macromolecules, such as nucleic acids, into eukaryotic cells. The lipids can be used alone, in combination with other lipids and/or in combination with other transfection enhancing reagents to prepare transfection complexes.
US12043632B2
The present disclosure provides 6-heteroaryloxy benzimidazole and azabenzimidazole compounds and compositions thereof useful for inhibiting JAK2.
US12043629B2
Disclosed herein are kinase inhibitory compounds, such as a receptor-interacting protein-1 (RIP1) kinase inhibitor compounds, as well as pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising such inhibitory compounds. The disclosed compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and/or combinations may be used to treat or prevent a kinase-associated disease or condition, particularly a RIP1-associated disease or condition.
US12043628B2
Nonlinear optical chromophores having thiophene-containing bridging groups between the electron-donating and electron-accepting ends of the chromophore are disclosed, including bridging groups which contain cyclic moieties in combination with conjugated double bonds between the electron-donating and electron-accepting ends of the chromophore.
US12043625B2
The invention relates to new proline derivatives of formula (I) as cGAS inhibitors, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10 and G are defined as in claim 1, and prodrugs or pharmaceutically acceptable salts of these compounds for the treatment of diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, systemic sclerosis (SSc), non-alcoholic steatotic hepatitis (NASH), interstitial lung disease (ILD) and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
US12043620B2
Disclosed are novel benzazole compounds and compositions comprising the compounds. The compounds are useful as kinase inhibitors including interleukin receptor associated kinases (IRAK) inhibitors. Also disclosed are methods of making and using the compounds and compositions. The disclosed compounds and/or compositions may be used to treat or prevent an IRAK-associated disease or condition.
US12043618B2
An organic compound has a benzonaphthofuran skeleton and is represented by General Formula (G1). In General Formula (G1), A represents a pyrene skeleton. In the case where the pyrene skeleton has a substituent, the substituent is a diarylamino group including two substituted or unsubstituted aryl groups each having 6 to 13 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group having 6 to 13 carbon atoms, an alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic saturated hydrocarbon group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted polycyclic saturated hydrocarbon group having 7 to 10 carbon atoms. The two aryl groups of the diarylamino group may be the same or different. In X1 represented by General Formula (G1-1), one of R6 and R7 is bonded to N in General Formula (G1), and the other of R6 and R7 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 7 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic saturated hydrocarbon group having 3 to 20 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted polycyclic saturated hydrocarbon group having 7 to 10 carbon atoms.
US12043610B2
Substituted benzofuran, benzopyrrole, benzothiophene, and structurally related complement inhibitors
Disclosed are compounds of formulae I and II, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof, which are inhibitors of the complement system. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising such a compound, and methods of using the compounds and compositions in the treatment or prevention of a disease or condition characterized by aberrant complement system activity.
US12043602B2
The invention relates generally to the following novel fendiline derivatives, and the preparation and use thereof: Formula I (I) and Formula II (II)
US12043601B2
The present invention relates to the discovery of novel N-(substituted)-1H-1,2,4-triazole-3-carboxamide compounds capable of inhibiting DksA activity in a bacteria cell. In certain embodiments, the compounds are capable of killing or weakening bacteria. In another aspect, the invention relates to methods of treating bacterial infection in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising administering to the subject a compound of the invention.
US12043596B2
A thermochromic pigment composition including compounds of formula (I): in which: X represents CHR2, O, OCO or CH═CH; Y represents O, COO, or OCOO; R1 represents H or (CH2)pCH3; R2 represents phenyl or H; m=12-18; n=0-14; p=12-18; and on the condition that, if n=0, X represents CHR2 or CH═CH. The thermochromic pigment compositions having compounds of formula (I), include thermochromic pigment microcapsules. The thermochromic pigment capsules are useable for thermochromic pigment compositions in ink which may be used writing instruments.
US12043582B2
A process for marking a surface of a refractory ceramic part, known as the “surface to be marked.” The part has a microstructure of grains including more than 50% by mass of ZrO2, bound by a silicate binder phase, and a total porosity of less than 5% by volume. The process involves irradiation of the surface with a laser beam. The beam is emitted by a laser device set to comply with relationship: a.V2+b.F2+c.VF+d.V+e. F+f<0, in which: a=104. D+2×106, b=0.5×106. D−150×106, c=0.5×106. D−300×106, d=5×103. D−2.5×106, e=−5×103. D+2.0×106, and f=−5×109. D+1.8×1012. V is expressed in mm/second, D is expressed in mm and F is expressed in kHz.
US12043580B2
Process for producing coated mixed lithium oxide particles, in which mixed lithium oxide particles and a mixture comprising aluminium oxide and titanium dioxide are subjected to dry mixing by means of a mixing unit having a specific power of 0.1-1 kW per kg of mixed lithium oxide particles and mixture used, in total, under shearing conditions. Coated mixed lithium oxide particles comprising a mixture of aluminium oxide and titanium dioxide as coating material, wherein the aluminium oxide and the titanium dioxide are in the form of aggregated primary particles and the weight ratio of aluminium oxide to titanium dioxide is 10:90-90:10. Battery cell comprising the coated mixed lithium oxide particles.
US12043575B2
A laminated glass article comprises a core layer comprising a core glass composition, and a cladding layer directly adjacent to the core layer and comprising a clad glass composition. A stress of the cladding layer increases with increasing distance from an outer surface of the cladding layer from a compressive stress to a tensile stress, transitions to a compressive stress as a step-change at an interface region between the core layer and the cladding layer, and increases with increasing distance from the interface region to a center of the core layer from the compressive stress to a tensile stress.
US12043573B2
This invention relates to compositions and methods for improving the adhesion of resin compositions to substrate materials, pre-treating substrate materials to improve the adhesion of resin compositions to the substrate materials, and/or controlling gel formation of resin compositions. More particularly, the invention relates to compositions and methods for improving the adhesion of ring opening metathesis polymerization (ROMP) compositions to substrate materials using adhesion promoters containing isocyanate groups in a resin composition. The invention also relates to methods for improving the adhesion of resin compositions to substrate materials by pre-treating substrate materials with adhesion promoters containing isocyanate groups. The invention further relates to a method of providing a gel-modified ROMP composition, in which a hydroperoxide is added to a ROMP polymerizable resin composition in order to control gel formation of the polymerizing resin. An improved ROMP composition is further disclosed, comprising a cyclic olefin, a ROMP metathesis catalyst, an adhesion promoter, and an added hydroperoxide gel modifier. The polymer products produced via ROMP reactions of the invention may be utilized for a wide range of materials and composite applications. The invention has utility in the fields of catalysis, organic synthesis, and polymer and materials chemistry and manufacture.
US12043571B2
Embodiments disclosed therein generally pertain to selectively strengthening glass. More particularly, techniques are described for selectively strengthening cover glass, which tends to be thin, for electronic devices, namely, portable electronic devices.
US12043568B2
A process for making anti-reflective optical glass comprises the steps of: A. implementing an abrading tool including a carrier having a plurality of diamond cutting wires formed on the carrier; and B. centrifugally and resiliently abrading a substrate of optical glass by the abrading tool to form a plurality of microscopic protuberances or moth-eye like structures on the substrate to thereby reduce the light reflection from the substrate and increase the light transmission in the substrate.
US12043563B2
There is provided a method for heating a thermoplastic plate to be subjected to bending which is horizontally arranged while holding at least part of a peripheral edge portion of the thermoplastic plate, causing a portion inside the peripheral edge portion to sag under a self-weight, and bending the thermoplastic plate to a desired curvature. The method includes applying tension in a planar direction of the thermoplastic plate at the time of holding at least the part of the peripheral edge portion of the thermoplastic plate in a molding frame defining a peripheral edge shape in a shape as a goal for reshaping. Since the thermoplastic plate is pulled in the planar direction during the heating of the thermoplastic plate, moderate tension acts on the thermoplastic plate to prevent breakage. The degree of curvature of the thermoplastic plate can be adjusted by adjusting the mass of each weight.
US12043562B2
A sleeve shaft includes an inlay. A fluid can flow through the sleeve shaft along an axial direction which is parallel to a main extension of the sleeve shaft. The inlay includes a first wall section and the inlay is inserted at least in part into the sleeve shaft such that the inlay together with a first area of an inner surface of the sleeve shaft encloses a volume domain, which volume domain is limited in the axial direction by a limiting element comprised by the inlay. The first area of the inner surface of the sleeve shaft is an inner surface of a first section of the sleeve shaft, the first section having an inner diameter which is larger than an inner diameter of a further section of the sleeve shaft that follows the first section in a direction antiparallel to the axial direction.
US12043557B2
A method of operating a filtration unit of a filtration system includes feeding, during filtration, feed water containing suspended particulate material to an inside of each of a plurality of hollow fibres through a first inlet and a second inlet of each hollow fibre while simultaneously removing a filtrate from an outside of each of the hollow fibres through an outlet of a filtration elements. In addition, the method includes feeding, during back-washing, back-wash water to the outside of the hollow fibres through the outlet of the filtration element. Further the method includes discharging, in a first back-wash cycle, back-wash water containing entrained particulate material from the inside of the hollow fibres from one end thereof. Still further, the method includes discharging, in a second back-wash cycle, back-wash water containing entrained particulate material from the inside of the hollow fibres from the other end thereof.
US12043544B2
A flexible boron nitride nanoribbon aerogel has an interconnected three-dimensional porous network structure which is formed by mutually twining and contacting boron nitride nanoribbons and consists of macropores having a pore diameter of more than 50 nm, mesopores having a pore diameter of 2-50 nm and micropores having a pore diameter of less than 2 nm. The preparation method of the flexible boron nitride nanoribbon aerogel includes the following steps: performing high-temperature dissolution on boric acid and a nitrogen-containing precursor to form a transparent precursor solution, preparing the transparent precursor solution into precursor hydrogel, subsequently drying and performing high-temperature pyrolysis to obtain the flexible boron nitride nanoribbon aerogel. The boron nitride nanoribbon aerogel has excellent flexibility and resilience and can withstand different forms of loads from the outside within a wide temperature range.
US12043542B2
A microelectromechanical structure including a first wafer structure attached by bonding to a second wafer structure. The first wafer structure includes a build part of silicon wafer material, a through via, and an isolation structure separating the through via from the build part. The through via extends between a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact through the first wafer structure in a first direction. The first electrical contact of the first wafer structure is accessible externally and the second electrical contact of the first wafer structure connects to an internal electrical contact on the second wafer structure. In the first direction, the extent of the isolation structure includes a hollow section and a via fill section where the isolation structure is filled with solid electrically insulating material. enables considerable increase of gap height in MEMS structures.
US12043541B2
A overhanging device cavity structure comprises a substrate and a cavity disposed in or on the substrate. The cavity comprises a first cavity side wall and a second cavity side wall opposing the first cavity side wall on an opposite side of the cavity from the first cavity side wall. A support extends from the first cavity side wall to the second cavity side wall and at least partially divides the cavity. A device is disposed on, for example in direct contact with, the support and extends from the support into the cavity.
US12043523B2
A crane with a pivotal boom. The crane has a first and a second main hoisting system, which main hoisting system are configured for independent operation. Each system comprises a hoisting cable, an upper sheave block, a hoisting block assembly suspended from the upper sheave block by the hoisting cable in a multiple fall configuration, and a hoisting winch. The upper sheave blocks of the first and second main hoisting systems are each independently pivotable about a common pivot axis relative to the boom. Each hoisting block assembly comprises a hoisting block body, multiple fixed sheaves that are fixed on the hoisting block body, and multiple disconnectable sheave members, each disconnectable sheave member comprising a frame and at least one sheave rotatably supported by the frame.
US12043512B2
An image forming apparatus includes a sheet storage unit including a sheet tray on which one or more sheets are to be stacked, a sensor configured to detect that the sheet storage unit is being operated, and a processor configured to execute a predetermined process after the sensor detects that the sheet storage unit has been operated, and a predetermined condition relating to an occurrence of the sheet conveyance error is satisfied.
US12043511B2
A sheet feeding mechanism includes a feeding path, at least one card feeding roller mounted to the feeding path, at least one paper feeding roller coaxial with the at least one card feeding roller, at least one card idle roller contacting with the at least one card feeding roller, at least one paper idle roller contacting with the at least one paper feeding roller, at least one elastic unit connected to the feeding path, and a stroke limiting unit. The at least one elastic unit is fastened to the feeding path. The at least one elastic unit has a stretching stroke. The stroke limiting unit controllably shortens the stretching stroke.
US12043506B2
A document feeder constituting an image forming apparatus includes a paper feeder to supply a document to a document transport path, a first transporter to transport the document toward image reading positions, and a second transporter to transport the document toward the document discharging tray while supplying the document to the image reading positions. Furthermore, the document feeder includes a motor provided on the first frame, a first driver provided on the first frame and to transmit driving force generated by the motor to the paper feeder and the first transporter, a second driver provided on the second frame and to transmit the driving force generated by the motor to the second transporter, and a second driver to transmit the driving force generated by the motor to the second transporter, and a relay transmission member to transmit the driving force generated by the motor to the second driver.
US12043497B2
A technique allows efficient processing of workpieces to be transported (transportation objects). A transportation system includes a holder device transportable on a predetermined transportation path while holding a transportation object and a transportation device including the predetermined transportation path to transport the holder device on the predetermined transportation path. The holder device includes a processing device that performs a predetermined processing operation of the transportation object and a receiver that receives driving power for driving the processing device from the transportation device while the holder device is being transported by the transportation device. The transportation device includes a transmitter that transmits the driving power to the receiver.
US12043494B2
A vibratory feeder having a feeder plate comprising a layered structure of a solid material and a material containing voids, such as a metal foam, sintered metal or glass, a ceramic, a foamed polymer, an aerogel or an arrangement of spacers. Scarf plates are particularly described.
US12043493B2
A sorting device for sorting out discrete products from a product stream includes a friction element driven by a roller. The friction element is movable to press against a product to be sorted out and thereby apply a frictional force to the product to sort the product out of the product stream.
US12043489B2
A belt and a belt conveyor are provided for transporting particulate material and especially oilseeds up the belt conveyor. The belt conveyor can include an intake end having a hopper, a discharge end, a body extending between the intake end and the discharge end and a belt. The belt travels along a travel path in the belt conveyor; the belt traveling through the hopper, up an upper run in the body to the discharge end, down a return run in the body, and back through the hopper. The belt can have a top surface having pairs of adjacent ridges provided on the top surface, each ridge having a pair of arms extending from a point, in a travel direction of the belt, wherein each pair of adjacent ridges define a v-channel on the top surface of the belt.
US12043485B2
System for use in directing an article sorting operation includes a routing engine, first and second vehicles, and a grid comprising a plurality of grid cells, each grid cell having a grid cell length X. First size vehicle has a first vehicle length greater than the grid cell length X and second size vehicle has a second vehicle length greater than the first vehicle length. The system is configured to: receive article information of first and second articles; assign the first article to be transported by the first size vehicle, and the second article to be transported by the second size vehicle; determine a first route for the first size vehicle such that the first route has a first width equaling A*X, and a second route for the second size vehicle such that the second route has a second width equaling B*X.
US12043481B2
An autonomous mobile robot includes a placement part, an arm configured to extend from and retract into the placement part in a horizontal direction, and a control unit configured to control a movement of the arm. The control unit moves a tip of the arm into a groove formed in a bottom surface of an object supported from underneath thereof, and then the control unit returns the tip of the arm hooked in the groove to the placement part, or the control unit moves the tip of the arm hooked in a groove formed in a bottom surface of an object placed on the placement part toward a rack configured to support the object from underneath thereof.
US12043478B2
A container with a moulded bag dispenser and a moulded bag sealer is disclosed. The bag sealer includes a roll of adhesive tape and a rotatable star wheel having a number of radial recesses at equal angular distances for receiving an article to be bound with tape, and a peripheral surface.
US12043475B2
A collapsible intermodal shipping container is provided. The container includes door frame posts and sidewalls that are each segmented into long and short portions that enable the door frames and sidewalls to articulate. When collapsed, the long portions of the door frame posts lie folded at right angles to the short portions of the door frame posts and the long portions of the sidewalls lie folded at right angles to the short portions of the sidewalls.
US12043460B2
A cable tie includes a body having a composition wherein the composition includes a base plastic, an antimicrobial additive, and a detectable additive selected from a detectable metal additive, an X-ray detectable additive, and combinations thereof, a head having a bard including a metallic barb material, and wherein the body and the head are integrally formed. The antimicrobial additive can be configured to be resistant against silver-ion resistant pathogens. The antimicrobial additive can include complexes of zinc, copper, other metallic ions, and combinations thereof.
US12043455B2
A storage case where a case cover is openably and closably connected to a case body, the storage case includes a latch mechanism fixing the case cover to the case body and a handle swingably connected to the case body. The handle includes a support arm swinging about a swing shaft extending in a case width direction, and a grip extending from the support arm in the case width direction. A part of the latch mechanism is located on a side of the grip from the support arm in the case width direction when the handle is downed.
US12043453B2
The present invention relates to a container with multiple compartments arranged in a linear pattern between four container walls. A lid may be configured at a container top. The lid may be closed to conceal all the compartments. The lid may be opened to expose the compartments. The lid may be partially opened to expose some of the compartments and conceal some of the compartments. The lid may slide along the container top parallel to a container bottom. The container may have a ball detent wherein a spring biases a ball towards the container top whereby a protruding ball portion of the ball is received by a ball detent receiver configured in a lid bottom. As the lid slides along the container top, the protruding ball portion may enter divots of the ball detent receiver, thereby stopping the lid at multiple partially closed positions.
US12043452B2
A lid for use with a beverage container is described. The lid includes a lid body to fit into an opening of the beverage container. The lid includes a stopper that threadably engages with the lid body. A fluid passage is formed between the lid body and the stopper. The rotation of the stopper relative to the lid body provides an indication that the stopper and the lid body are in the open configuration and/or the removable configuration. The indication may include an audible indication, a tactile indication, or an increase in resistance.
US12043440B2
Systems and methods for an automated paper cone closing machine are disclosed. A paper cone closing machine may comprise a plurality of tamping rods, a pair of plates, and a plurality of ejection rods arranged above a tray shuttle. The plurality of tamping rods for compacting a material contained in a plurality of paper rolls removeably received in the tray shuttle in a row. The pair of plates for pressing on the top of each paper roll to flatten the top of each paper roll into a flap. The plurality of ejection rods configured to press on the flap of each paper roll to press the flap into a top of each paper roll into a dimple thereby closing each paper roll.
US12043437B2
A laser ablation marking system for providing an image to a web of packaging material is provided. The marking system includes at least one marking device having at least one laser having a plurality of individually controlled light outputs arranged in the cross-wise direction of the web of packaging material, each light output having a power output of at least 60 W and being configured to emit light to provide laser ablation, and a controller being connected to the marking device and configured to control the light outputs based on the speed of the web of packaging material such that the emitted light will always hit the web of packaging material at the same angle.
US12043435B1
A packing machine and a method of use thereof for packing articles in airbags. The packing machine includes three consecutive stations that can receive airbags in a series of airbags one by one, wherein the article to be packed is placed in the airbag. The first station can receive a new bag containing the article. In the first station, the airbag can be horizontally sealed at the top to close the opening and can then be inflated. In the second station and the third station, the airbag can be vertically sealed and can then be dropped into a conveyor at the end of the third station. An air tube that extends between the first station and the second station can be used to inflate the airbags. Two linear actuators with gripping heads can move the airbags from between stations, and break the leading airbag from the series of airbags.
US12043431B2
A transfer element for being arranged between a dosing device and the filling device of a tubular bag machine, the dosing device allowing for the dosing of a prespecified filling quantity of the filling material to be filled into a tubular bag, and the transfer element comprising at least one input station, at least one dispensing station and several transfer containers, and a prespecified filling quantity of a filling material being transferable from the dosing device to the transfer containers in the input station, and the transfer containers being transported to the dispensing station along a transfer line, and the filling material being transferable from the transfer containers to the filling device in the dispensing station, and the transfer containers being transported back to the input station along a return transfer line, the transfer element being controlled by a transfer control system, the transfer control system controlling the transfer process for transferring the filling material from a transfer container to the filling device of the tubular bag machine in the dispensing station a) in accordance with the position of the transfer container relative to the filling device and/or b) in accordance with the speed of the transfer container.
US12043429B2
A coupling method for coupling a component of a container to the container is presented. The method includes: arranging a coupling unit including a coupling assembly with a frame, a gripping device for the component, a coupling device for constraining the component to the container; arranging the container and the component at least partially within the container, providing at least a minimum spacing between a bottom of the component and a base of the container; moving and activating the gripping device at a removal position of the component; moving the retaining element and the coupling element to a coupling position; deactivating the retaining element, thus deactivating a constraint between the gripping element and the component; and activating said coupling element to produce a stable coupling between the couplable portion of the component and the container, deactivating and moving the coupling element.
US12043428B2
A banknote strapping device comprises a banknote floor moveable generally parallel to a first linear direction from a floor home position to a floor strapping position, a banknote cradle having a cradle stacking position, and a plunger assembly having an anvil, wherein the plunger assembly is configured to move the anvil generally parallel to the first linear direction from an anvil home position on a first side of the cradle stacking position of the banknote cradle to an anvil strapping position located on a second side of the cradle stacking position. When a first predetermined number of banknotes have been stacked on the banknote cradle, a stack of banknotes that had been stacked thereupon is transferred to the banknote floor positioned at the floor home position, wherein the anvil moves the stack of banknotes and the banknote floor to a strapping position at which the stack of banknotes is strapped.
US12043427B2
A method of packaging a plurality of food containers and a package for food containers are disclosed. The method is fast and inexpensive and optimizes the use of cardboard or paperboard to make the package without plastics and may be used in the mass production of packaging for containers. The package is defined by a plurality of containers placed on a tray of optimal dimensions according to the dimensions of the containers. The tray is creased and has two side flaps that can be rotated to attach to the side faces of the containers by glue. The extension of the flaps is proportional to the height of the containers and the flaps can be punched in order to have aesthetically appreciable shapes and to reduce the bulk and the risk of breaking the package made.
US12043411B2
In an example embodiment, a drone-based system comprises: a base station, wherein the base station is configured to provide drone control and power, a drone; a tether connecting the base station to the drone and configured to provide the drone with the power from the base station; and a lighting system, operably attached to the drone via the tether, configured to generate illumination of a ground area, wherein the illumination of the ground area is controllable by modifying least one of an intensity of the illumination and a height of the drone above the ground area.
US12043410B2
A method is provided for supporting flight operations of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft in an urban air mobility (UAM) environment that includes a vertiport. The method includes accessing first observed weather data obtained by sensors located on-site at the vertiport and second observed weather data obtained by sensors onboard VTOL aircraft. A data fusion is performed to integrate the first observed weather data and the second observed weather data to produce a collection of weather data that describes the weather in an environment of the vertiport, and an environment of the VTOL aircraft. And a weather map is produced based on the collection of weather data, the weather map illustrating one or more meteorological features of the weather in the environment of the vertiport and/or the VTOL aircraft, the weather map produced for use in supporting flight operations of the VTOL aircraft.
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A measurement device includes a substrate having accommodations with an emerging opening in which sensors are provided, the substrate including a cavity with a flexible printed circuit. The device is installed on a surface to characterize a fluid flow at this surface. The circuit uses hierarchized buses comprising two data communication buses emerging at the two longitudinal ends of the substrate and an internal data acquisition bus, the bus linking control circuits, each control circuit being connected to one of the communication buses, the sensors being connected to the bus in a distributed fashion on either side of each control circuit. The data from the sensors can be transmitted to the two surrounding circuits and may be acquired if one of them is faulty.
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An aircraft hybrid propulsion system (5) comprising an inboard gas turbine engine (10a, 10c) and an outboard gas turbine engine (10b, 10d), each comprising a propulsor (12a, 12b) and a respective electric machine (32a, 32b) coupled to one or more engine shaft (24a, 24b). An electrical interconnection (34) is provided between the electric machine (32a) of the inboard gas turbine engine (10a) and the electric machine (32b) of the outboard gas turbine engine (10b). A controller (36) is configured to transfer electrical power between the inboard gas turbine engine electrical machine and the outboard gas turbine engine electrical machine when a thrust setting change is selected.
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A system comprising an aerial vehicle or an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to control pitch, roll, and/or yaw via airfoils having resiliently mounted trailing edges opposed by fuselage-house deflecting actuator horns. Embodiments include one or more rudder elements which may be rotatably attached and actuated by an effector member disposed within the fuselage housing and extendible in part to engage the one or more rudder elements.
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A landing gear for an aircraft includes a landing strut having proximal and distal ends with the proximal end couplable to the fuselage of the aircraft. The landing strut includes a gas chamber, a liquid chamber, a cylinder and a piston that is movable relative to the cylinder between extended and retracted positions. A wheel is coupled to the distal end of the landing strut. A force sensor is disposed between an extend stop surface of the piston and the chamber. Pressurized gas in the gas chamber biases the piston to the extended position such that the force sensor experiences a preload force. The force sensor is configured to detect a reduction in the preload force during a landing maneuver responsive to contact between the wheel and a landing surface.
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A system for an unmanned aerial vehicle can include an altitude control system, which further includes a compressor assembly, a valve assembly, and an electronics assembly. The compressor assembly may include a driveshaft and a bearing assembly configured to rotate the driveshaft. The driveshaft may be formed from a first material and a compressor housing may be formed from a second material. The first and second materials may have different rates of thermal expansion. A dynamic preloading mechanism, such as a flexible plate, may be provided within the compressor assembly to exert a preloading force on the bearing assembly. Throughout the duration of the flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle, the preloading mechanism can continually compensate for differences in rates of thermal expansion between the first and second materials throughout.
