US12060821B2
An inline reductant filter assembly includes a filter housing, a filter media, and one or more valves. The filter housing is fluidly coupled to an upstream portion of a reductant line and a downstream portion of the reductant line. The filter media is positioned in the filter housing. The one or more valves are selectively movable from a first position to a second position. In the first position, the one or more valves permit fluid to flow along a first fluid flow path from the upstream portion of the reductant line, through the filter media, to the downstream portion of the reductant line. In the second position, the one or more valves prevent fluid from flowing along the first fluid flow path through the filter media.
US12060811B2
The invention relates to a fan rotor for a turbomachine, including a fan disk, fan blades with a leading edge and a trailing edge, platforms inserted between the blades and fixed to the periphery of the disk, each including an aerodynamic surface extending from the leading edges to the trailing edges of the blades. The aerodynamic surface includes an upstream longitudinal portion on the side of the leading edges and a downstream longitudinal portion on the side of the trailing edges, the upstream longitudinal portion being supported by a first member of the platform fixed to the disk in a pivotable manner, and the downstream longitudinal portion being independent of the upstream longitudinal portion and supported by a second member of the platform which is independent of the first member and fixed to the disk in a pivotable manner.
US12060807B2
An aircraft turbine engine includes a gas generator and a fan arranged upstream from the gas generator and configured to generate a main gas flow, one portion of which flows in a flow path of the gas generator to form a primary flow, and another portion of which flows in a flow path around the gas generator to form a secondary flow. The gas generator has a low-pressure body with a rotor driving the fan and a low-pressure compressor situated upstream from an intermediate housing. The turbine engine also includes an electric machine, mounted coaxially downstream from the fan and upstream from the intermediate housing. An intermediate shaft is driven by the rotor of the low-pressure body and drives rotors of the electric machine and of the low-pressure compressor.
US12060804B2
A turbine housing can include a bearing housing end and a treatment unit end; a volute wall that defines a volute; a wall that defines at least a portion of a turbine wheel space that defines a turbine wheel space axis and a turbine wheel space diameter, where the wall extends to an axial peak to define an extended space with an extended space outlet having an extended space outlet dimension; and an outlet wall that defines an outlet space with a treatment unit end outlet having an outlet dimension, where the extended space is disposed at least in part axially between the turbine wheel space and the outlet space to increase axial velocity uniformity at the treatment unit end outlet.
US12060803B2
A split labyrinth seal assembly having split stationary and rotary sealing elements, and a split clamping mechanism. The clamping mechanism is configured to secure the rotary element to a rotating shaft. The rotary element can also include an integrally formed valve element that moves between a contacting and a non-contacting position in response to rotation of the shaft. The rotary element and the clamping mechanism can have surface features associated therewith to promote nesting between the components.
US12060802B1
The present application provides a replaceable galvanic protection anode system for preventing and limiting the effects of liberation and damage to airfoils in a gas turbine, wherein turbine components are covered by a sacrificial material. The galvanic protection layer of the replaceable anodes may include a sacrificial material, such as aluminum, wherein the material provides corrosion resistance to the substrate. Additionally, the galvanic protection layer may include a sacrificial conductive material insert for increasing the conductivity of the sacrificial material and further improve the corrosion resistance of the replaceable anodes.
US12060793B2
Disclosed is a downhole tool and method suitable for geosteering within a lateral formation. The downhole tool includes a gamma sensor for monitoring gamma radiation within the lateral formation. The method provides for monitoring of the location of the drill bit or a RSS within a borehole and correcting the angle of inclination to maintain the drill bit or RSS within the target zone of the lateral formation.
US12060784B2
A fracturing and power generation switchable apparatus, a well site, a control method of the well site, a control device, and a storage medium are provided. The fracturing and power generation switchable apparatus includes a power device, a speed transmission device, and a bearing base. The switchable apparatus is configured to switch between a first state and a second state, under the first state, the plunger pump is fixed on the bearing base and is connected with the speed transmission device, and the switchable apparatus is supplied as a fracturing apparatus, and under the second state, the electric generator is fixed on the bearing base and is connected with the speed transmission device, and the switchable apparatus is supplied as a power generation apparatus.
US12060780B2
A downhole gas separator and pump assembly. The downhole gas separator and pump assembly comprises a drive shaft; a first fluid mover having an inlet and an outlet; a separation chamber located downstream of the first fluid mover and fluidically coupled to the outlet of the first fluid mover; a gas flow path and liquid flow path separator located downstream of the separation chamber, having an inlet fluidically coupled to the separation chamber, having a gas phase discharge port open to an exterior of the assembly, and having a liquid phase discharge port; and a second fluid mover mechanically coupled to the drive shaft, located downstream of the first gas flow path and liquid flow path separator, and having an inlet fluidically coupled to the fluid phase discharge port of the first gas flow path and liquid flow path separator.
US12060776B2
A downhole tubing rotator that has a housing configured into a production tubing string in a well in a reservoir, the housing being generally cylindrical with a hollow center and containing a two pole, three phase induction squirrel cage motor operatively connected to a tubing rotator configured to clamp onto a production tubing joint and rotate one or more production tubing joints (but not an entire production tubing string) when the motor is activated. An armor-protected insulated power and control cable connects the motor to a control box positioned at a surface of a reservoir and various sensors provide feedback for the unit. Methods of using this tool are also provided.
US12060770B2
The invention presents a system and method for reducing pressure and draining the annulus of submerged flexible pipes, with application in all flexible pipe structures and in any industry that uses these types of pipes. Its objectives are to eliminate condensed water and reduce the partial pressure of CO2, thus restoring the integrity of the pipes. In addition, with the reduction of the pressure of the annulus gases, the operations of collection of the pipes can be carried out with greater speed, that is, in less time. The previous relief of the annulus pressure further reduces the risk of rupture of the outer cap during the operation, thus reducing the risk of exposing operators to the presence of harmful gases, when the pipe reaches the deck of the PLSV vessel.
US12060762B2
A method of conditioning a well bore featuring an annulus (50) between a bore-lining tubing (20) and a surrounding bore wall (110) comprises pumping conditioning fluid through an inner tubing (10) located within the bore-lining tubing (20) and into a portion of the well bore containing the bore-lining tubing to affect the temperature of the portion of the well bore containing the bore-lining tubing. The annulus (50) between the bore-lining tubing (20) and the surrounding bore wall (110) is at least partially filled with settable material (54). The affected temperature of the portion of the well bore containing the bore-lining tubing influences the setting of the settable material. For example, heating the bore may accelerate setting of the material, while cooling the bore may retard setting of the material.
US12060761B2
A system and method for treating a subterranean formation. The method may include utilizing a diluted stream and a high-loading stream which are combined to form a diverting composition. The diverting composition may then be injected into a wellbore. The system may include devices to prepare the diluted stream and high-loading stream, combine the streams, and introduce the combined stream into the wellbore.
US12060756B2
A bottomhole assembly (BHA) located on a conveyance string for actuating downhole tools in a wellbore, such as sleeve valves. The bottomhole assembly has a shifting tool that is capable of being hydraulically actuated independently of a mechanically actuated treatment tool also located on the BHA. The shifting tool has hydraulically actuated shifting dogs for engaging with the sleeve valves, and a shifting-assist mechanism for applying a downhole force on the BHA. The treatment tool is mechanically actuated via manipulation of the conveyance string to isolate the wellbore, for example to treat a formation through an opened sleeve valve. A hydraulically cycled flow control valve can be located on the BHA for more convenient control of the fluid flow and pressure in the BHA. The BHA can also have a repositioning mechanism for positioning the shifting tool downhole of an opened sleeve valve without requiring repositioning of the entire BHA.
US12060753B2
The present application pertains to a coiled tubing injector system. The system comprises a coiled tubing injector; an injector tilt configured to be mounted to a trailer wherein the injector tilt is configured to receive the coiled tubing injector; a securing mechanism to secure the coiled tubing injector to the injector tilt; and a sensor configured to detect whether the securing mechanism is positioned to substantially secure the coiled tubing injector to the injector tilt. Advantageously, the system is configured such that the injector can only be tilted if the sensor detects that securing mechanism is positioned to substantially secure the coiled tubing injector to the injector tilt.
US12060751B2
The present invention relates to a transparent substrate comprising a multiple layer coating stack and the use of same in the manufacture of a double glazing unit, wherein the multiple layer coating stack comprises, n functional metal layer, m; and n plus 1 (n+1) dielectric layer, d, wherein the dielectric layers are positioned before and after each functional metal layer, and wherein n is the total number of functional metal layer in the stack counted from the substrate and is greater than or equal to 3; and wherein each dielectric layer comprises one or more layers, characterized in that the geometrical layer thickness of each functional metal layer in the coating stack Gm, is greater than the geometrical layer thickness of each functional metal layer appearing before it in the multiple layer coating stack, that is, Gmi+1>Gmi wherein i is the position of the functional metal layer in the coating stack counted from the substrate, and wherein for each dielectric layer d located before and after each functional metal layer m, the optical layer thickness of each dielectric layer (opln) is greater than or equal to the optical layer thickness of the dielectric layer (opln−1) positioned before it in the coating stack with the proviso that: twice the optical layer thickness of the first dielectric layer (opl1) in the coating stack, is less than the optical layer thickness of the second dielectric layer (opl2) in the coating stack, that is, (2×opl1)
US12060742B2
A method for operating a door system having a movable door leaf and a control unit, with at least one sensor unit being configured, with which the approach of at least one person is detected, includes: providing the sensor unit in the form of a radar sensor and/or a camera with an image processing unit; recording a distance of the person from the door system using the sensor unit; recording an approach speed with the sensor unit, at which the person approaches the door system; transmitting the distance and approach speed; determining a probable approach time of the person with the control unit; determining the movement parameters for moving the door leaf by the control unit and actuating the door leaf by the door actuator based on the movement parameters determined by the control unit. A door system having a control unit is configured to carry out this method.
US12060740B2
A multi-position hinge for the angular connection of two adjacent cable trays, includes a pin that defines a geometric articulation axis, a first member and a second member articulated together around the geometric axis. The first member and second member are each configured to be coupled to a corresponding cable tray. The multi-position hinge Includes two intermediate attachment members. Each of the intermediate attachment members are to be simultaneously coupled to a respective first member and second member and to a respective cable tray Each of the intermediate attachment members includes first coupling means configured to be coupled to a respective articulated element and second coupling means configured to be coupled to a respective cable tray.
US12060732B2
A locking device is adapted for a first object and a second object that are movable with respect to each other. The locking device includes a first element and a second element. The first element can be in a locking state or an unlocking state. The second element drives the first element and thereby moves the first element from the locking state to the unlocking state in response to the second object being displaced with respect to the first object from a retracted position to a predetermined position in an opening direction.
US12060727B2
A rackable panel assembly is provided includes including a plurality of vertical members each having a rail engagement opening defined therein; and at least one rail having sets of opposed openings spaced along a longitudinal length of the rail, each set of opposed openings adapted to receive a vertical member of said plurality of vertical members therethrough and at least partially cover the rail engagement opening of said vertical member. The assembly further includes at least one coupling member adapted to be at least partially received in each said vertical member for pivotally coupling the vertical member to the at least one rail.
US12060726B2
Provided may be a temporary structure comprising a junction assembly comprising a hub, wherein the hub is an annular member; a plurality of hinges, each of the plurality of hinges disposed on the hub; and a plurality of brackets, each of the brackets swivably attached to each of the plurality of hinges, each of the brackets having a first tine, a second tine, and a top wall. The temporary structure may further comprise a plurality of posts, each of the plurality of posts having a post top end and a post bottom end; a plurality of feet, each of the plurality of feet comprising a foot column and a base, wherein each of the plurality of feet are sized to accept the post bottom end and each of the plurality of brackets are sized to accept the post top end; and a plurality of panels.
US12060722B2
A drive wheel assembly for a floor stripping machine permits a drive wheel to be selectively locked to and unlocked from a drive axle and reduces the quantity of debris that is able to accumulate on the tire of a wheel during a floor stripping operation.
US12060714B2
A roofing material is provided having an asphalt-coated mat or felt made up of or in combinations of fiberglass, polyester, nylon, cotton, cellulosic fibers or materials, polyethylene, polypropylene, co-polymers, melamine, phenolic, acrylics, polycarbonate, carbon fiber, clay, metallic in woven, non-woven, strands or sheets, styrene compounds, rubber, silk, leather, or wool in a woven, non-woven, or solid form. The surfacing materials can be made up of or in combination minerals, plastic particles or film, metal particles or film, cement particles, clay particles, paints, coatings, glass, ceramics, wood, wood fiber, or composite materials.
US12060707B2
A storage system is described where goods are stored in containers and the containers are stored in stacks. Above the stacks runs a grid network of tracks on which load handling devices run. The load handling devices take containers from the stacks and deposit then at alternative locations in the stacks or deposit then at stations where goods may be picked out. The containers comprise liners formed from flame retardant or flame suppressant material. Containers comprising liner means are used to store ignitable items within the storage system.
US12060701B2
A pair of levers are provided extending from a common junction to free tips which are spaced from each other. The junction is coupled to a valve of a faucet, with such a coupling either being direct or with intervening structures. The valve can be controlled by a user manual gripping and applying force to either the first lever or the second lever. The levers are sufficiently far apart that a user can control the valve while only touching one of the levers. The junction can be removably attachable to a control knob coupled to the valve or can be built into the faucet. The two levers are preferably elongate in form and preferably include indicia thereon indicating that one of the levers should be used first and the other of the levers should be used last. In one embodiment, the indicia include the wording “dirty” and “clean.”
US12060700B2
A connector assembly for connecting a valve seat with an outlet pipe and a faucet having the same are provided. The valve seat includes an outlet channel provided with an insertion hole and a first axial connection portion arranged at an outer cylindrical wall thereof. The first axial connection portion is located below the insertion hole. The outlet pipe includes an inlet end provided with a mounting portion and a second axial connection portion arranged at an outer surface of the outlet pipe and located close to the mounting portion. The second axial connection portion is detachably mounted into the first axial connection portion from bottom up to form a rotation point. By the outlet pipe rotated around the rotation point, the mounting portion is forced to be mounted and positioned inside the insertion hole of the valve seat firmly with sealing effect.
US12060699B2
Apparatus for producing liquid water from the condensation of atmospheric water vapor includes a transportable housing defining a first air inlet, a second air inlet, and an air outlet; first and second doors operable selectively to open and close the first and second air inlets, respectively; and at least one water condensation unit located in the housing between the first air inlet and the air outlet, and between the second air inlet and the air outlet. The housing is configured so that, when at least one of the first and second air inlets is open, at least a portion of an air flow into the at least one open air inlet is passed through the at least one condensation unit and out the air outlet.
US12060691B2
A load bearing clamp including a first clamp member, the first clamp member including a first semi-annular clamping surface, a second clamp member, the second clamp member including a second semi-annular clamping surface, the second semi-annular clamping surface opposing the first semi-annular clamping surface and at least one member for drawing the first clamp member and the second clamp member toward each other, wherein at least one of the first semi-annular clamp surface and the second semi-annular clamp surface includes at least one irregular surface that deforms at least a portion of a shaft clamped between the first and second clamp members.
US12060690B2
A ditch check system and methods for storm water control are provided. The ditch check system can include a velocity-restricting component of non-woven geotextile fabric with one or more porosities configured to control the velocities of storm water flows for sediment control and silt retention. The velocity-restricting component can have one or more reinforcing elements to provide additional support to protect against tearing and/or undue movement of the fabric, as well as provide attachment points for fasteners used to fasten the fabric to support members. The ditch check system can further include a front water seal and a rear scour guard attached to the velocity-restricting component at ground level which are substantially impermeable to vertical water flow to inhibit ditch scouring and prevent the flow of storm water under the ditch check system. To facilitate transportation, installation, and assembly, one or more of the components of the ditch check system can be supplied as a pre-assembled package.
US12060689B1
A provisional facility for retaining earth using a guide bracket and a ground anchor for stepwise retention during deep excavation includes multiple thumb piles disposed vertically at predetermined intervals, a wale disposed across the multiple thumb piles, a guide bracket installed at a predetermined position of the wale, and a ground anchor having the other side anchored to a ground while a tensile member is wound around the guide bracket.
US12060688B2
A generator supported by a foundation includes a generator housing defining a first side and a second side that extend along a rotational axis of the generator, a first frame foot removably attached to the first side, and a second frame foot removably attached to the second side, wherein a height of the first frame foot and the second frame foot is selected to position the rotational axis at a desired height above the foundation, and wherein a width of the first frame foot and the second frame foot is selected to engage the foundation.
US12060678B2
Processes and apparatus for dyeing a textile product are provided whereby an undyed textile product is introduced into a substantially anaerobic dyeing chamber having an oxygen content of less than 1000 ppm oxygen therein, and at least two dye mixtures having a differential dye exhaustion rate of at least 10% are applied onto the textile product within the substantially anaerobic dying chamber. Thereafter the dyed textile product may be exposed to an oxygen-containing atmosphere so as to oxidize the applied dyes. At least one of the dyes may have a dye exhaustion rate of at least about 25%, or even at least about 50%. The embodiments herein are especially adapted to dyeing of textile products whereby one dye in the at least two dye mixtures is a sulfur dye and another dye in the at least two dye mixtures is a leuco indigo dye.
US12060677B2
A system for the functionalization of polyolefin fiber includes a reactor chamber, a fiber pulley system, and a precursor sprinkler system. The reactor chamber defines an interior reactor space and a plurality of fiber inlet/outlet pairs positioned at opposite ends of respective fiber processing axes. The fiber pulley system is arranged to direct polyolefin fiber through the plurality of fiber inlet/outlet pairs, along a fiber processing path comprising the respective fiber processing axes. The precursor sprinkler system is operable to aerosolize a precursor solution and contact the aerosolized precursor solution with the polyolefin fiber. A method for functionalizing polyolefin fiber includes aerosolizing the precursor solution to form an aerosolized precursor solution, passing polyolefin fiber along the fiber pulley system into the reactor chamber, contacting the polyolefin fiber with the aerosolized precursor solution, and passing functionalized polyolefin fiber out of the interior reactor space of the reactor chamber.
US12060672B2
An apparatus for use in the treatment of substrates with a solid particulate material, said apparatus comprising: (a) a housing having mounted therein a rotatably mounted drum (8) having an inner surface and an end wall; and (b) access means for introducing said substrates into said drum, wherein said drum comprises storage means (2) for storage of said solid particulate material and a plurality of flow paths to facilitate flow of said solid particulate material between said storage means and the interior of said drum (8), characterised in that: said drum (8) comprises a dispensing flow path (5) to facilitate flow of said solid particulate material from said storage means (2) to the interior of said drum (8), and a collecting flow path (6) to facilitate flow of said particulate material from the interior of said drum (8) to said storage means (2), wherein said dispensing flow path (5) and said collecting flow path (6) are different flow paths.
US12060667B2
A method of operating a tufting machine including a sliding needle bar with a plurality of needles, a presser foot mounted slidable with the needle bar, an end yarn feed, a needle selection mechanism, a plurality of loopers, a plurality of knives to cut a loop of yarn on a respective looper, and a dislodge mechanism to selectively dislodge a loop of yarn from the looper before the yarn is cut. The method controls the feed of yarn to the needles and, when a cut end is required, a determination is made whether a predetermined yarn condition is present in the yarn at its cut end and, in response to such a determination, an additional loop of yarn, not required by the pattern data is formed, such that the additional loop of yarn forms a yarn buffer that can be pulled back through the backing medium.
US12060663B2
A reed (16) including multiple slats (20), which are arranged in a transverse direction (Q) at a distance from one another is disclosed. Each slat (20) extends from an upper end (21) to a lower end (22). The upper ends (21) are connected by an adhesive bond to two upper plate parts (32) of an upper holding shaft (23). The lower ends (22) of the slats (20) are connected by an adhesive bond to two lower plate parts (43) of a lower holding shaft (24). The plate parts (32, 43) are each produced from a fiber-reinforced composite material. The entire upper holding shaft (23) and the entire lower holding shaft (24) preferably are made of parts produced from a fiber-reinforced composite material.
US12060661B2
A high thread/yarn count woven textile fabric (800) is provided. The high thread/yarn count woven textile fabric (800) includes a plurality of warps (810), and a plurality of wefts (820). The high thread/yarn count woven textile fabric (800) having 250 to 3000 picks per inch in the weft (820) which can be extended up to 6000. Further, at least two recycled separable multi-filament parallel yarn picks are woven in groups together in the weft (820). It is provided that the recycled separable multi-filament parallel picks are separable and distinguishable from other picks very clearly. Furthermore, a denier of the recycled separable multi-filament yarn is range from 5 to 50. Usually, the thread/yarn count of woven textile fabric (800) is in between 400 to 3000 which can go up to 6000.
US12060658B2
Methods of treating fibers comprising a polymer including at least one of a vinyl acetate moiety or a vinyl alcohol moiety, and resulting fibers or the products comprising the resulting fibers are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a fiber having a surface region and an interior region, includes a polymer comprising at least one of a vinyl acetate moiety or a vinyl alcohol moiety chemically modified with a modification agent. The fiber has a transverse cross-section including the interior region comprising the polymer having a first degree of modification and the surface region comprising the polymer having a second degree of modification greater than the first degree of modification.
US12060657B2
The invention relates to a filament comprising a core material (CM) comprising a fibrous filler (FF) and a thermoplastic polymer (TP1), and the core material (CM) is coated with a layer of shell material (SM) comprising a thermoplastic polymer (TP2). Further, the invention relates to a process for the preparation of said filament, as well as to three-dimensional objects and a process for the preparation thereof.
US12060652B2
A linear showerhead for growing GaN, including a first gas base, a second gas base, and a third gas base. First central gas passages are disposed in the middle of the first gas base. A first gap is disposed between two adjacent first central gas passages. A first nozzle is disposed at the bottom of a first central gas passage. The second gas base is disposed on the first gas base. Second central gas passages are disposed in the middle of the second gas base. A second gap is disposed between two adjacent second central gas passages. Two sides of a second central gas passage are provided with a second nozzle. The third gas base includes third central gas passages. A third central gas passage penetrates a first gap and a second gap. A third nozzle is disposed at the bottom of a third central gas passage.
US12060651B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a process chamber for processing of semiconductor substrates. The process chamber includes an upper lamp assembly, a lower lamp assembly, a substrate support, an upper window disposed between the substrate support and the upper lamp assembly, a lower window disposed between the lower lamp assembly and the substrate support, an inject ring, and a base ring. Each of the upper lamp assembly and the lower lamp assembly include vertically oriented lamp apertures for the placement of heating lamps therein. The inject ring includes gas injectors disposed therethrough and the base ring includes a substrate transfer passage, a lower chamber exhaust passage, and one or more upper chamber exhaust passages. The gas injectors are disposed over the substrate transfer passage and across from the lower chamber exhaust passage and the one or more upper chamber exhaust passages.
US12060648B2
A method for microengineering a gradient structure on a metal surface. A metal surface including at least first, second, and third metal surface regions is exposed to a metal-removing agent. A portion of surface metal atoms is removed by the metal-removing agent in each of the first, second, and third metal surface regions. Sequential metal removal processes expose only the second and third regions to the metal-removing agent, followed by exposing only the third region to the metal-removing agent. A gradient metal surface is formed having different properties in each of the first, second, and third metal surface regions. In a further aspect, quantitative surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy may be performed using the treated metal surface. An amount of an analyte is determined based on its position in one of the first, second, or third metal surface regions.
US12060641B2
A film forming method includes: placing a substrate on which a pattern, which includes a plurality of convex and concave portions, is formed on a stage disposed inside a chamber; and selectively forming a silicon-containing film on the plurality of convex portions of the pattern by applying a bias power to the stage and introducing microwaves into the chamber while supplying a processing gas containing a silicon-containing gas and a nitrogen-containing gas into the chamber to generate plasma, wherein the selectively forming the silicon-containing film includes a first film formation of forming a silicon-containing film around upper sides of the plurality of convex portions and a second film formation of forming a silicon-containing film on upper portions of the plurality of convex portions.
US12060636B2
A method for conditioning a plasma processing chamber including a chuck is provided. The method comprises a plurality of cycles, wherein each cycle comprises cleaning an interior of the plasma processing chamber and the chuck and forming a silicon oxide based coating on the interior of the plasma processing chamber and the chuck. The silicon oxide based coating has a first layer and a second layer.
US12060625B2
A process is divulged for recovering metals from a metal-bearing material containing, in oxidized form, more than 1% of Co, a total of Co and Ni of more than 15%, and more than 1% Mg, comprising smelting said metal-bearing material in a bath furnace together with slag formers, thereby producing an alloy phase with more than 80% of the Co, and less than 1% of the Mg, and a slag phase, by applying reducing smelting conditions, and by selecting CaO, SiO2, and Al2O3 as slag formers, in amounts to obtain a final slag composition according to the ratio's 0.25
US12060622B2
A method of direct reduction of iron (DRI) is disclosed, the method comprising generating metallic iron by removing oxygen from iron ore using a reducing gaseous mixture with excess carbon monoxide that produces an excess CO2 by-product is provided. CO2 by-product is optionally sequestered. A system for carrying out the method is also disclosed.
US12060613B2
The present disclosure encompasses embodiments of nucleic acids comprising genetic elements which are useful for the detection of diseased cells.
US12060612B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, and apparatus for deducing the fetal DNA fraction in maternal plasma without using paternal or fetal genotypes. Maternal genotype information may be obtained from a maternal-only DNA sample or may be assumed from shallow-depth sequencing of a biological sample having both maternal and fetal DNA molecules. Because sequencing may be at shallow depths, a locus may have only few reads and may fail to exhibit a non-maternal allele even if a non-maternal allele is present. However, normalized parameters that characterize non-maternal alleles sequenced can be used to provide an accurate estimate of the fetal DNA fraction, even if the amount of non-maternal alleles is in error. Methods described herein may not need high-depth sequencing or enrichment of specific regions. As a result, these methods can be integrated into widely used non-invasive prenatal testing and other diagnostics.
US12060611B2
By a genome-wide gene analysis of expression profiles of over 50,000 known or putative gene sequences in peripheral blood, the present inventors have identified a consensus set of gene expression-based molecular biomarkers associated with subclinical acute rejection (subAR). These genes sets are useful for diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring of subAR.
US12060609B2
The present disclosure relates to polymer coatings covalently attached to the surface of a substrate and the preparation of the polymer coatings, such as poly(N-(5-azidoacetamidylpentyl)acrylamide-co-acrylamide) (PAZAM), in the formation and manipulation of substrates, such as molecular arrays and flow cells. The present disclosure also relates to methods of preparing a substrate surface by using beads coated with a covalently attached polymer, such as PAZAM, and the method of determining a nucleotide sequence of a polynucleotide attached to a substrate surface described herein.
US12060607B2
Compositions, methods and kits are disclosed for high-sensitivity single molecule digital counting by the stochastic labeling of a collection of identical molecules by attachment of a diverse set of labels. Each copy of a molecule randomly chooses from a non-depleting reservoir of diverse labels. Detection may be by a variety of methods including hybridization based or sequencing. Molecules that would otherwise be identical in information content can be labeled to create a separately detectable product that is unique or approximately unique in a collection. This stochastic transformation relaxes the problem of counting molecules from one of locating and identifying identical molecules to a series of binary digital questions detecting whether preprogrammed labels are present. The methods may be used, for example, to estimate the number of separate molecules of a given type or types within a sample.
US12060606B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an improved biosensor for biological or chemical analysis. According to embodiments of the invention, backside illumination (BSI) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors can be used to effectively analyze and measure fluorescence or chemiluminescence of a sample. This measured value can be used to help identify a sample. Embodiments of the invention also provide methods of manufacturing an improved biosensor for biological or chemical analysis and systems and methods of DNA sequencing.
US12060603B2
The present disclosure relates in some aspects to methods for analyzing a target nucleic acid in a biological sample. In some aspects, the methods involve the use of a set of polynucleotides, including one or more polynucleotides (e.g., a detection padlock probe) for detecting a region of interest and one or more polynucleotides (e.g., a control padlock probe) as an internal control, for analyzing target nucleic acids. In some aspects, the presence, amount, and/or identity of a region of interest in a target nucleic acid is analyzed in situ. Also provided are polynucleotides, sets of polynucleotides, compositions, and kits for use in accordance with the methods.
US12060599B2
Methods, compositions, and systems are provided for detecting one or more a bacterial vaginosis issues by characterizing the microbiome of an individual, monitoring such effects, and/or determining, displaying, or promoting a therapy for the bacterial vaginosis issue. Methods, compositions, and systems are also provided for generating and comparing microbiome composition and/or functional diversity datasets. Methods, compositions, and systems are also provided for generating a characterization model and/or therapy model for bacterial vaginosis.
US12060592B2
Methods for the improved acylation of chemical substrates using LovD acyltransferases, thioesters having acyl groups, and (i) thiol scavengers and/or (ii) precipitating agents are presented. An improved method for the production of simvastatin using (i) activated charcoal as a thiol scavenger and/or (ii) ammonium hydroxide as a precipitating agent is also presented.
US12060589B2
The present invention relates to polypeptide variants and methods for obtaining variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
US12060575B2
A method of expanding and maintaining human embryonic stem cells (ESCs) in an undifferentiated state by culturing the ESCs in a suspension culture under culturing conditions devoid of substrate adherence is provided. Also provided are a method of deriving ESC lines in the suspension culture and methods of generating lineage-specific cells from ESCs which were expanded in the suspension culture of the present invention.
US12060573B2
Stabilized amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) as a supplement of cell culture media and the cell culture medium supplements comprising stabilized ACC are provided. In particular the stabilized ACC is useful for enhancing the growth of cell and tissue cultures, gametes and embryos in vitro.
US12060564B2
The invention provides DNA molecules and constructs, including their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants and plant cells. Transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, seeds, and commodity products comprising the DNA molecules operably linked to heterologous transcribable polynucleotides are also provided, as are methods of their use.
US12060558B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for treating a subject in need thereof, such as a subject with deficient LAL protein expression or a subject having Cholesteryl Ester Storage Disease.
US12060556B2
Provided is a drug that allows highly-efficient skipping of exon. The present invention provides an antisense oligomer wherein two or more unit oligomers targeting sequences that are neither consecutive nor overlap with each other in the same exon are connected.
US12060551B2
Protein-rich nutrient supplements and animal feed supplements derived from an anaerobic bacterial process are generated through a myriad of cell rupturing and protein fractionation/purification processes. Bacterial fermentation systems and methods of obtaining one or more protein-containing portions from a fermentation process using carbon monoxide-containing gaseous substrates increasing protein product yield from bacterial cells are provided. The invention further provides compositions of protein-rich nutrient supplements with useful applications for intake by a variety of different animals and humans.
US12060547B2
A photobioreactor for cultivation and/or propagation of a photosynthetic organism and associated systems/methods are disclosed herewith. The photobioreactor includes (1) a substantially spherical vessel having a wall defining an interior vessel volume; (2) a water-submersible system for converting electrical energy into electromagnetic radiation; (3) a temperature management system for circulating heat dispersal fluid into and out of the water-submersible system; and (4) a photobioreactor control system comprising a processor and a controller.
US12060539B2
Provided among other things are a cleaning composition comprising a carrier fluid comprising in the carrier fluid polymer comprising particulate super absorbent polymer (PSAP), wherein the PSAP as in the cleaning composition is substantially at the percolation volume fraction or higher; wherein the cleaning composition can be passed over a surface driven by a pressure drop effective to render the composition traditional biofilm (TBF) cleaning effective and protein cleaning effective.
US12060536B2
A defoaming agent obtainable by a process that includes: polymerizing (A) at least one polymerizable monomer in a composition, the composition comprising (C) a solvent and (B) at least one non-polymerizable polysiloxane dissolved in the (C) solvent, wherein the component (A) optionally comprises at least one Si-atom-containing monomer in an amount of less than 10 mass % on the basis of the total mass of the component (A).
US12060519B1
The present invention discloses a plant-based self-degradable gel diverting agent and a preparation method therefor. The preparation method comprises the following steps: adjusting a pH of a formaldehyde solution, adding urea in three batches, heating and stirring, adding furfural in the process of adding a second batch of urea until a plant-based urea-formaldehyde resin is obtained through the reaction, completely dissolving starch in water, uniformly stirring to obtain a gelatinized starch solution, adding the plant-based urea-formaldehyde resin, adding a curing agent, and uniformly stirring, mixing and curing to obtain a product. The resin plugging agent is a liquid homogeneous system and has a low initial viscosity; the system is particle-free, can enter tiny slits; and the gel temporary plugging agent does not need to be added with a gel breaker at a temperature of 100-180° C., the temporary plugging agent can be completely degraded.
US12060513B2
The present invention relates to polymer stabilized nematic liquid crystal microlenses. The microlenses can be made from a nematic liquid crystal, a chiral dopant, a reactive monomer, and a photoinitiator. The microlenses can be prepared by spin coating a liquid crystal mixture onto an array including a nickel transmission electron microscope grid. The focal length of the microlens array can be tuned electrically.
US12060507B2
A scintillator material includes a polymer matrix, a primary dye in the polymer matrix, the primary dye being a fluorescent dye; a secondary dye, and a Li-containing compound in the polymer matrix, where the Li-containing compound is a Li salt of a short-chain aliphatic acid. In addition, the scintillator material exhibits an optical response signature for thermal neutrons that is different than an optical response signature for fast neutrons.
US12060500B2
A disclosed adhesive contains non-functionalized lignin and natural rubber latex in an aqueous medium having pH ≥9. The aqueous medium may further include 0.1% to 3% by mass of at least one alkali selected from the group comprising ammonium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, potassium hydroxides, and a salt such as sodium bicarbonate. A mass fraction of lignin may be between 0.1 and 20%, and the adhesive may include cellulose particulate material having sizes in a range between 5 μm and 5 nm, and/or fibrillated cellulose, and/or crystalline cellulose. The cellulose may have a dry mass fraction between 0.05 and 5%. A method of manufacturing may include forming a mixture by adding solid, non-functionalized lignin to a colloidal dispersion of natural rubber latex in an aqueous medium having pH ≥9, and stirring the mixture for a period of 10 to 20 minutes at room temperature and pressure.
US12060496B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical laminate for a flexible display device comprising: a support substrate layer; and a hard coating layer positioned on at least one surface of the support substrate layer and having a thickness of 10 μm to 250 μm, wherein the hard coating layer is a polysiloxane containing 70 mol % or more of a repeating unit including an epoxy group-containing functional group; and an elastomeric polymer including polycaprolactone polyol, and wherein the polysiloxane has a number average molecular weight of more than 3,000 and less than 10,000, and a polydispersity Index (PDI) of 1.0 or more and less than 5.0, and a flexible display device including the same.
US12060494B2
An active energy ray-curable coating composition, includes the following components (A), (B), (C), and (D): (A) urethane (meth)acrylate having a polycarbonate skeleton and three or more polymerizable unsaturated groups in one molecule and having a weight average molecular weight in a range of 10,000 to 40,000; (B) urethane (meth)acrylate having a weight average molecular weight in a range of 1,000 or more and less than 10,000; (C) at least one compound selected from the group consisting of (c1) to (c3); and (D) a photopolymerization initiator.
US12060482B2
A curable resin composition includes a polyether polyol resin represented by general formula (1) and having an epoxy equivalent of 7,000 to 100,000 g/eq, an epoxy resin having a functionality of 3 or more, and an epoxy resin curing agent. Provided is a curable resin composition that is excellent in heat resistance and also excellent in bending resistance in a well-balanced manner and that is applicable in various fields that require heat resistance and toughness, particularly, electrical and electronic fields. n is an integer of 1 or more. A1 and A2 are each a divalent organic group having an aromatic structure and/or an alicyclic structure. B is a hydrogen atom or a glycidyl group.
US12060479B2
Disclosed is a thermoplastic elastomer composition comprising a blend of at least two fluoropolymers. The first fluoropolymer has from 0 to 30 weight percent of a monomer J selected from the group consisting of hexafluoropropene (HFP), fluorinated or perfluorinated vinyl ethers, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, trifluoropropene, 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoro propene or combinations thereof. The second fluoropolymer has at least 30 weight percent, preferably at least 35 weight percent, of monomer T selected from the group consisting of hexafluoropropene (HFP), fluorinated or perfluorinated vinyl ethers, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, trifluoropropene, 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoro propene or combinations thereof.
US12060473B2
Nano-composite films and methods for their fabrication. The nano-composite films include a polymer matrix (e.g., polyethylene, polypropylene, or the like) and a filler capable of exfoliation such as graphene or hexagonal boron nitride (e.g., TrGO). The filler provides reinforcement, increasing tensile strength, Young's modulus, or both for the resulting nano-composite film, as compared to what it would be without the filler. The nano-composite film may have a specific tensile strength that is greater than 1 GPa/g/cm3, a specific Young's modulus that is greater than 100 GPa/g/ccm3, or both. Tensile strength and modulus values of up to 3.7 GPa/g/cm3 and 125 GPa/g/cm3, respectively, have been demonstrated. The film may be formed by combining powdered filler and polymer matrix powder in a solvent (e.g., decalin), high-shear extruding the resulting solution to disentangle the polymer chains and exfoliate the filler, freezing the solution to form a solid film, and then drawing the film.
US12060460B2
Process for producing endcapped, liquid siloxanes having chain lengths of greater than 3 silicon atoms from end-of-life silicones, especially from silicone elastomers and/or silicone rubbers, by acid-catalysed depolymerization thereof in a solvent-free reaction system comprising at least one compound providing end groups MR, at least one compound providing D units, and at least one Brønsted acid.
US12060451B2
Process for producing cold-cure flexible slabstock PU foams by reaction of at least one polyol component and at least one isocyanate component in the presence of water and at least one catalyst and at least one crosslinker, wherein no nitrogen-containing crosslinkers having an expanded OH number above 1000 mg KOH/g are employed in a total amount >0.5 parts by weight, preferably >0.1 parts by weight, based on 100 parts by weight of polyol.
US12060446B2
Provided is a resin composition that can suppress yellowing even when used in a transparent molded article having a large thickness. The resin composition according to the present invention contains a vinylidene fluoride polymer as a main component, and further contains an alkyl quaternary ammonium sulfate. A percentage of irregular sequences in the vinylidene fluoride polymer is 4% or greater.
US12060444B2
The invention relates to a method for producing polymer powder compositions which are redispersible in water and which are based on polymerisates of one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers. In a first step, an aqueous polymerisate dispersion is produced by means of a radically initiated polymerization of one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers in an aqueous medium, said polymerisate dispersion being convened into the polymer powder composition which is redispersible in water by means of a diving process. The invention is characterized in that the polymerization and the drying process are each carried out in a continuous manner, and the polymerization and the diving process are carried out in separate interconnected modules.
US12060437B2
The present invention is directed to an antibody that specifically binds an IgE receptor and methods of its use.
US12060433B2
Disclosed are combination therapies comprising administration of a CD73 inhibitor and an adenosine A2A or A2B receptor inhibitor. The disclosed combination therapies are useful in the treatment of diseases related to the activity of adenosine receptors and/or CD73 including, for example, cancer, inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases. Anti-CD73 antibodies and A2A/A2B inhibitors are also disclosed.
US12060432B2
The present invention relates to combination therapies with anti-CD38 antibodies.
US12060423B2
Humanized, mouse or chimeric anti-CD47 monoclonal antibodies are provided. The antibodies bind to human glycosylated and deglycosylated CD47 with an optimized Koff value, they disrupt the human CD47-SIRPα interaction, and find use in various therapeutic, preventive or diagnostic methods. The invention includes isolated antibodies and derivatives and fragments thereof, pharmaceutical formulations comprising one or more of the humanized or chimeric anti-CD47 monoclonal antibodies; and cell lines that produce these monoclonal antibodies. Also provided are amino acid and nucleotide sequences of the antibodies.
US12060413B2
Methods for preparing engineered antibodies exhibiting improved pH-dependent antigen binding are disclosed. The methods are based on introduction of histidine residues at a subset of defined amino acid positions within the antibody CDRs. The set of amino acid positions selected for histidine substitution is derived from a heat-map of histidine occurrence within the CDRs of functional antibodies from a natural antibody repertoire. The methods provide a simpler and less time-consuming approach to the identification of pH-dependent antibody variants.
US12060410B2
COVID-19 results from the infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and has spread quickly to literally infected the world. Although coronavirus spike proteins can recognize a broad range of host cell-surface proteins, inhibiting spike protein binding to a survival factor called GRP78 results in a significant reduction in SARS-CoV-2 attachment, entry and replication in lung and kidney cells. This inhibition is accomplished with a novel type of inhibitor that potently blocks the binding of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and whole virus to surface-bound GRP78. These novel GRP78 inhibitors also down regulate cytokines (IL10, IL6), immune co-inhibitory checkpoint proteins (PD-L1, B7H3, B7H4), and up regulate immune co-stimulatory proteins (MHC-II, CD-86) resulting in the reduction of the immune suppressive nature of infected lung alveolar epithelial cells in vitro and in vivo. Finally, these novel GRP78 inhibitors inhibit the hyperfibrinolysis of infected lung cells by reducing the activation of plasmin on cell surfaces.
US12060408B2
A method of screening candidate agents for their ability to modulate RAGE activity where such RAGE activity is induced by an active co-located GPCR, the method comprising the steps of: contacting a RAGE polypeptide with a GPCR polypeptide in the presence of a candidate agent where the GPCR polypeptide is constitutively active and/or is activated by addition of an agonist, partial agonist or allosteric modulator of that GPCR; and detecting whether the candidate agent is a modulator of RAGE ligand-independent activation of RAGE by activated co-located GPCR by detecting an effect indicative of modulation of RAGE activation by the presence of the candidate agent and/or by detecting RAGE-dependent signalling that is modulated by the presence of the candidate agent.
US12060398B2
Disclosed herein are engineered bacteria that manufacture biofilms from bacterial amyloid structures. These biofilms and biofilm matrices are capable of generating fibrous proteinaceous networks and being used as 3D-printing inks.
US12060396B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for inhibiting collagen production mediated by the Fused in Sarcoma (FUS) ribonucleoprotein. As disclosed herein, the C terminal domain of FUS contains an uncommon nuclear localization sequence (NLS) motif called PY-NLS that binds the nuclear import receptor transportin. Phosphorylation of FUS leads to its association with transportin and nuclear translocation with consequent increased in collagen production. Therefore, disclosed herein is an isolated peptide having a transportin-binding moiety, which inhibits FUS from binding transportin, linked to a membrane translocating motif. These compositions and methods can be used to inhibit FUS-mediated collagen production, and treat fibrotic disease involving FUS-mediated collagen accumulation in kidneys and other organs displaying fibrotic diseases.
US12060382B2
The invention relates to novel crystalline phases of 5,6-dichloro-2-(isopropylamino)-1-(β-L-ribofuranosyl)-1H-benzimidazole (Maribavir), pharmaceutical compositions thereof and their use in medical therapy.
US12060379B2
A compound presented by the general formula (1), its racemic form, or their salt thereof: wherein in general formula (1), X represents an oxygen atom, nitrogen atom, sulfur atom, or carbon atom, R1 represents R1a—Y—R1b, wherein R1a and R1b independently represent a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group, aromatic group, heterocyclic group, or a combination thereof, and Y represents an oxygen atom, nitrogen atom, sulfur atom, or carbon atom, R2 independently represents a saturated or unsaturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group, and R3 represents choline, ethanolamine, inositol, or serine.
US12060378B2
Provided is a solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization which is capable of exerting favorable ethylene responsiveness while forming a propylene homopolymer having high stereoregularity, when subjected to ethylene-propylene copolymerization reaction. The present invention provides a solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization, comprising titanium, magnesium, halogen, and an internal electron-donating compound, wherein the internal electron-donating compound comprises an electron-donating compound (i) having a phthalic acid ester structure, and an electron-donating compound (ii) having two or more kinds of groups selected from an ether group, an ester group and a carbonate group and having no phthalic acid ester structure, wherein a content ratio of the electron-donating compound (ii) having two or more kinds of groups selected from an ether group, an ester group and a carbonate group and having no phthalic acid ester structure is 0.5 to 1.5% by mass.
US12060359B1
Synthesis and characterization of organoselenium-based triazolo pyrimidines and their use in treating hypoxia and inhibiting prolyl-hydroxylase domain (PHD) activity. The organoselenium-based triazolo pyrimidines have the formula: wherein R is selected from the group consisting of —SeCH3, —SePhenyl, —CH2SeCH3, and —CH2SePhenyl.
US12060356B2
The present invention provides a compound of Formula (I) wherein R is (II) or (III); or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, useful for treating psoriasis or systemic lupus erythematosus.
US12060355B2
The present invention relates to compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof for use in the treatment or prevention of fascioliasis. Some of these compounds are novel per se and also have activity as inhibitors of Schistosoma growth. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such novel compounds, salts or solvates and to the use of such novel compounds as medicaments, in particular in the treatment or prevention of schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia.
US12060348B2
Process for the preparation of a disubstituted diaryloxybenzoheterodiazole compound having general formula (I):
US12060345B2
The present application provides a method of preparing 4-[3-(3-[(cyclopropylamino)methyl]azetidine-1-carbonyl)-4-fluorobenzyl]phthalazin-1(2H)-one, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, intermediates in the preparation thereof, methods of preparing the intermediates, and compositions and products comprising 4-[3-(3-[(cyclopropylamino)methyl]azetidine-1-carbonyl)-4-fluorobenzyl]phthalazin-1(2H)-one made from the methods that result in high purity and yield.
US12060327B2
Novel amisulpride derivatives and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are disclosed. The amisulpride derivative disclosed herein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof may have better membrane permeability compared to amisulpride. The amisulpride derivative disclosed herein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof may be used for antagonizing dopamine and/or serotonin (e.g., 5-HT2a) and/or α2 receptor in a subject, either individually or in combination with other CNS active agents. The amisulpride derivative disclosed herein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof may be used for treating one or more conditions responsive to modulation of dopamine and/or serotonin (e.g., 5-HT2a) and/or α2 receptor in a subject, either individually or in combination with other CNS active agents. The amisulpride derivative disclosed herein or a pharmaceutical composition thereof may be used for treating one or more disorders associated with an abnormality in levels of dopamine and/or serotonin in the brain, either individually or in combination with other CNS active agents.
US12060324B2
Methods for preparing isotopically modified 1,4-diene systems from non-isotopically modified 1,4-dienes involve selective oxidation of one or more bis-allylic position(s), or the preparation of isotopically modified 1,4-diene systems via trapping pi-allylic complexes with a source of deuterium or tritium. Such methods are useful for preparing isotopically modified polyunsaturated lipid including polyunsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acid derivatives.
US12060322B2
A method for producing acetic acid includes an absorption step that suppresses corrosion inside a distillation column when a solution after that has absorbed a target component is subjected to distillation. The method for producing acetic acid also includes an absorption step of supplying, to an absorption column, at least a portion of offgas generated in an acetic acid production process, bringing the offgas into contact with an absorbent containing one or more liquids selected from a hydrocarbon, an ester of a carboxylic acid having 3 or more carbon atoms, an ester of a carboxylic acid and an alcohol having 2 or more carbon atoms, and an ether, to allow the absorbent to absorb an iodine compound in the offgas, and separating into a gas component having a lower iodine compound concentration than the offgas and a solution containing the absorbent and the iodine compound.
US12060320B2
Novel MEL framework type zeolites can be made to have small crystallite sizes and desirable silica/SiO2 molar ratios. Catalyst compositions comprising such MEL framework type zeolites can be particularly advantageous in isomerization C8 aromatic mixtures. An isomerization process for converting C8 aromatic hydrocarbons can advantageously utilize a catalyst composition comprising a MEL framework type zeolite.
US12060318B2
A nanosized complex includes a nucleic acid and a compound comprising formula (I): wherein R1 is an alkylamino group or a group containing at least one aromatic group; R2 and R3 are independently an aliphatic group or hydrophobic group; R4 and R5 are independently H, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an acyl group, or an aromatic group, or a polymer, a targeting group, a detectable moiety, or a linker, or a combination thereof, and at least one of R4 and R5 includes a retinoid or retinoid derivative that targets and/or binds to an interphotoreceptor retinoid binding protein; a, b, c, and d are independently an integer from 1 to 10; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
US12060316B2
A carboxylate represented by formula (I), a quencher and a resist composition including the same: wherein R1, R2 and R3 each represent a halogen atom, an alkyl fluoride group or a hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent, —CH2— included in the hydrocarbon group may be replaced by —O—, —CO—, —S— or —SO2—, m1 represents an integer of 0 to 5, m2 represents an integer of 0 to 4, m3 represents an integer of 0 to 3, and X1 represents a single bond, —CH2—, —O—, —S—, —CO—, —SO— or —SO2—.
US12060312B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide a method for producing an isocyanate compound safely and efficiently. The method for producing an isocyanate compound according to the present invention is characterized in comprising the steps of irradiating a high energy light to a halogenated methane at a temperature of 15° C. or lower in the presence of oxygen, and further adding a primary amine compound to be reacted without irradiating a high energy light.
US12060311B2
The present invention can provide a method for producing an aromatic nitrile in which a fixed-bed reactor including a plurality of reaction tubes is used to subject a gaseous mixture comprising an aromatic hydrocarbon, ammonia, and oxygen by contact catalytic reaction on a catalyst to thereby produce the corresponding aromatic nitrile, wherein the catalyst is composed of an oxide containing vanadium, chromium, and boron and one or more supports selected from among alumina, silica-alumina, zirconia, and titania. One of the reaction tubes is filled with the catalyst of one kind and examined as to where a hot spot lies therein. An inert substance is filled into that portion of each of the plurality of reaction tubes which corresponds at least to the hot spot, and the catalyst is filled into the remaining portions.
US12060309B2
A process is provided comprising contacting and reacting the compound CF3CF2CHXCl, wherein X is H or Cl, or the compound CF3CF═CXCl, wherein X is H or Cl, with hydrogen in the presence of a catalyst consisting essentially of Cu, Ru, Cu—Pd, Ni—Cu, and Ni—Pd, to obtain as a result thereof reaction product comprising hydrofluoropropenes or intermediates convertible to said hydrofluoropropenes, notably CF3CF═CH2 and CF3CH═CHF.
US12060305B2
Methods of manufacturing a ceramic honeycomb body having a honeycomb structure with a matrix of intersecting walls, and a skin disposed on an outer peripheral portion of the matrix where the skin has a first average porosity and the interior portion of the matrix has a second average porosity that is greater than the first average porosity. The methods include coating at least the skin with a fluid formulation containing a sintering aid and subsequently firing the honeycomb structure. In certain embodiments, a glass layer is formed in the skin or in regions of the walls directly adjacent to the skin. In certain embodiments, the coating is applied to a green honeycomb structure, and in other embodiments the coating is applied to a ceramic honeycomb structure. Other honeycomb bodies and methods are described.
US12060290B2
A method and system to significantly reduce odor emissions caused by ammonia and other noxious gasses and reduce nitrogen levels in animal husbandry wastewater effectively and efficiently by the use of flush water that has been biochemically conditioned to lower the pH thus reducing the level of un-ionized compounds including NH3 which can volatilize into the atmosphere and which method and system can also be used to remove ammonia and nitrogen from the wastewater system. The present disclosure includes the use of flush water that has been biochemically conditioned to lower its pH thus sequestering non-ionized ammonia from being released from a liquid as ammonia gas. This disclosure relates to the new use of nitrification for biochemical conditioning of wastewater for use as flush water to reduce atmospheric ammonia emissions.
US12060286B2
The disclosure provides automated methods and systems for optimized dosing of chemicals, such as coagulants, acids, and/or bases, in water treatment processes. The methods and systems of the disclosure can provide a coagulant dosing regimen that mitigates turbidity and organic contaminant content while maintaining effective floc precipitation, agglomeration, and settling without significant human intervention.
US12060284B2
Various lithium cobalt oxides materials having a chemical formula of LixCoyOz, and method and apparatus of producing the various lithium cobalt oxides materials are provided. The method includes adjusting a molar ratio MLiSalt:MCoSalt of a lithium-containing salt, and a cobalt-containing salt within a liquid mixture to be equivalent to a ratio of x:y, drying a mist of the liquid mixture in the presence of a gas to form a gas-solid mixture, separating the gas-solid mixture into one or more solid particles of an oxide material, and annealing the solid particles of the oxide material in the presence of another gas flow to obtain crystallized particles of the lithium cobalt oxide material. The process system has a mist generator, a drying chamber, one or more gas-solid separator, and one or more reactors.
US12060282B2
A preparation method according to the present invention includes use of an amine-based coupling agent to prepare plate-type manganese dioxide nanoparticles. The plate-type manganese dioxide nanoparticles thus prepared can be suitably mixed with a carbon-based conductive material and are thus useful a positive electrode material for pseudo-capacitors.
US12060272B2
A method is disclosed for forming nanoscale coatings on a solid substrate surface. In certain embodiments, the method includes the following steps: contacting a substrate with a first liquid organic solvent; adding a liquid agent to the first liquid organic solvent to form a liquid agent film on a surface of the substrate; and adding the nanocoating precursor in the first liquid organic solvent to react the nanocoating precursor with the liquid agent to form the nanocoating on the surface of the substrate.
US12060271B2
Methods and apparatuses for continuous, large scale, commercially viable production of nanoforests. A roll-to-roll process passes a flexible substrate, including fibers and fabrics, through a furnace. Precursors are introduced in a growth zone in which a vertical or horizontal nanoforest of nanotubes or nanowires is grown on the substrate. Sensors and actuators with feedback control are provided for parameters such as substrate speed, substrate tension, furnace temperature, precursor flow rate, nanoforest thickness, and nanoforest. The furnace is preferably enclosed for environmental and safety purposes. The feed roll and take-up roll are disposed in housings can be attached to the furnace via airlocks, which enables rapid loading and unloading of the rolls using techniques well known in the industry while maintaining furnace conditions. The furnace can encompass flattening rollers and a second growth zone to enable manufacture of orthogonal nanoforests comprising a vertical nanoforest grown on a horizontal nanoforest.
US12060264B2
The present invention discloses an SOC PMUT suitable for high-density system integration, an array chip and a manufacturing method thereof. With the SOC PMUT suitable for high-density system integration, vertical stacking and monolithic integration of a SOC PMUT array with CMOS auxiliary circuits is realized by means of direct bonding of active wafers and a vertical multi-channel metal wiring structure; in addition, the extension to the package layer is implemented by means of TSVs, without any bonding mini-pad on the periphery of the array for communication with the CMOS. Thus, the bottleneck of metal interconnections in conventional ultrasonic transducers is overcome, the chip area occupied by metal interconnections in ultrasonic transducers is greatly reduced, the metal wiring length is reduced, thus the resulting adverse effects of an electrical parasitic effect on the performance of the ultrasonic transducer array are reduced.
US12060262B2
Disclosed is a coil module, comprising: a vibrating membrane suspended on an air chamber defined and supported by a first substrate, at least one planar coil, embedded in the vibrating membrane, and at least a soft magnet, embedded in the vibrating membrane and disposed surrounding at least a portion of a contour of the planar coil; wherein a substantial portion of the planar coil locates at substantially the same plan where a portion of the soft magnet is arranged. A microspeaker and a method for preparing the same are also disclosed.
US12060260B2
A stirrup having a deformable and detachable structure includes a frame, a pedal, and a side arm. The frame is C-shaped and has a first end and a second end. An opening is defined between the first end and the second end. The second end has a first coupling portion. The pedal is disposed on a bottom of the frame. The side arm is made of a flexible material and located at the opening of the frame. The side arm has a second coupling portion. A connecting member is configured to connect the first coupling portion and the second coupling portion. When a sufficient force is applied on the inner side of the side arm to curve and deform the side arm, the side arm is rotatable relative to the frame with a joint of the first coupling portion and the second coupling portion as a pivot.
US12060259B2
A fuel transfer station may provide for the refilling of fuel canisters providing fuel to combustion powered equipment. The fuel transfer station may include a base, a frame coupled to the base, a first connection port and a second connection port provided in the base, and fluid flow lines connecting the first connection port and the second connection port. A supply tank may be supported by the frame and detachably connected to the first connection port. A fuel canister to be refilled may be detachably connected to the second connection port. Fuel contained in the supply tank may be selectively supplied to the fuel canister through the fluid flow lines in response to a pressure gradient drawing the fuel into the fuel canister.
US12060253B2
An industrial truck includes a loading platform and two masts which are arranged opposed to each other. The two masts lift and lower the loading platform which is arranged between the two masts in a lifting and lowering direction. Each of the two masts includes two pulleys which are arranged spaced apart in the lifting and lowering direction, a flexible pulling device which revolves around each of the two pulleys, and a drive device which rotationally drives at least one of the two pulleys.
US12060251B2
A handheld remote control for a crane includes a wireless transceiver, an input device, a display screen, and processing circuitry. The wireless transceiver is configured to wirelessly communicate with a controller of the crane. The input device is configured to receive a user input. The display screen is configured to display information regarding deployment of a stabilizer of the crane. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain the user input via the input device, and cause at least one stabilizer of the crane to deploy or retract based on the user input.
US12060248B2
An elevator safety device includes: a light projector configured to emit light beam; a reflector reflecting the light beam emitted from the light projector; and a light receiver configured to receive the light beam reflected by the reflector. The light projector and the light receiver are arranged between a car landed on a landing floor and a wall of an elevator shaft and above an upper end of an entrance opening. The reflector is arranged between the car landed on the landing floor and the wall of the elevator shaft and below a lower end of the entrance opening.
US12060246B2
Proposed is a friction shaft for a slitter that enables a winding pipe to stably roll unit materials formed by cutting a raw material, such as a raw fabric or film, with predetermined intervals, that can fix the rolling pipe even at a low pressure of compressed air, and that has a wide range of available rolling tension because the pressure range of compressed air that can adjust winding torque is wide.
US12060244B2
Image forming apparatus have a plurality of models including a common control board and different in number of electrical components used. The image forming apparatus includes a wire harness including: a third connector removably connected to a first connector provided to the control board; fourth connectors removably connected to second connectors provided to the electrical components; and a plurality of cables connecting the third connector and the fourth connectors. In all of the plurality of models, cables are connected to pins located at both ends of the third connector. In a model in which the number of the plurality of cables is smaller than the number of pins of the third connector, pins of the third connector to which the plurality of cables are not connected are arranged at a central portion in a longitudinal direction of the third connector or near the central portion.
US12060239B2
A reel body is the reel body in which an adhesive film having an adhesive layer on a base material layer is wound around a winding core. The adhesive film does not have a protective layer on the adhesive layer and is wound around the winding core in a state in which the adhesive layer and the base material layer are contiguous to each other in the radial direction of the winding core. A width of the winding core in an axial direction is smaller than a width of the adhesive film. In a rolled body of the adhesive film, an overhang portion jutting out in the axial direction of the winding core is provided.
US12060237B2
An apparatus (100) for loading a shipping container (101), comprising a transfer plate (103) having a series of holes (201, 202) therein and configured to slide, together with an article thereon, into and out of the shipping container (101), and a transfer means (104) positioned underneath the transfer plate (103) and configured to engage with the holes in the transfer plate and to retract or extend after engagement with the holes to pull the transfer plate into and out of the shipping container.
US12060232B2
A core box with interchangeable rails for holding a variety of sizes of cores.
US12060225B2
A control device (500) includes a selector (550) that selects one of a first vehicle and a second vehicle as a remaining vehicle that stores a first article and a second article and that remains at a receiving location where the first article and the second article are to be received, and selects another of the first vehicle and the second vehicle as a departing vehicle that departs from the receiving location, when the second vehicle storing the second article arrives at the receiving location while the first vehicle storing the first article stays at the receiving location. Additionally, the control device (500) includes a storage controller (560) that identifies the first article or the second article stored in the selected departing vehicle as a transfer article to be transferred from the departing vehicle to the remaining vehicle, and causes the identified transfer article to be stored in the remaining vehicle. Furthermore, the control device (500) includes a movement controller (540) that causes the departing vehicle to depart from the receiving location when the transfer article is stored in the remaining vehicle.
US12060215B2
A system for dispensing material contained in a collapsible package from a dispensing device. The system includes a piercing nozzle attachable to a dispensing end of the dispensing device, and a plunger attachable to a plunger rod of the dispensing device configured to compress the package against the piercing nozzle. The piercing nozzle includes a nozzle sidewall and a nozzle end wall defining an internal nozzle cavity configured to receive a first end of the package. One or more recessed members extend into the internal nozzle cavity in part from a recessed member. The piercing projection pierce the package when compressed thereagainst, allowing the material in the package to be dispensed through a nozzle opening. An internal nozzle rib can extend across a nozzle opening defined through the nozzle end wall.
US12060208B2
The present invention discloses a gradient slow-release active composite film and a preparation method thereof. The active composite film, from inside to outside, is composed of an antioxidative hygroscopic internal layer, at least one gradient anti-microbial antioxidative intermediate layer and at least one waterproof external layer; wherein the antioxidative hygroscopic internal layer is prepared by an alcohol-soluble protein-water-soluble protein substrate and a water-soluble antioxidant; the gradient anti-microbial antioxidative intermediate layer is prepared by an alcohol-soluble protein-water-soluble protein substrate and a lipid-soluble plant essential oil and a water-soluble antioxidant, wherein a mass ratio of the alcohol-soluble protein to the water-soluble protein is (1-2):(1-2); and the waterproof external layer is composed of a hydrophobic alcohol-soluble protein layer.
US12060205B2
The present disclosure provides a splash guard to minimize potential contact between the chemical product and a vent membrane during transport and/or transfer of containers, thereby resulting in preservation of the integrity of a vent membrane during transport and/or transfer of a chemical product. The splash guard is affixed to the fitment and so can be removed from the interior of the container prior to transfer of the chemical product out of the container. The splash guard may be used with fitments of varied shapes, sizes and/or structures, and with containers of varied shapes, sizes and/or structures. The splash guard is easy and inexpensive to manufacture and easy to install, e.g., by snapping onto a ring (lower perimeter) of a fitment. For example, the splash guard covers the entire circumference of the neck of a container, and is formed of a moldable material that provides rigidity.
US12060198B2
A liquid container made entirely from natural plant materials is revealed. The liquid container includes a cap and an upper portion made from plant fiber by mold injection, a body made of a spiral paper tube having at least two-layer structure, and a base produced by molding of composite paper. The body and the base are connected by adhesives. A fastening member is disposed on an area where the upper portion and the body are connected for improving reliability and structural strength of the area while a mounting groove formed by rolling is arranged at an area where a bottom end of the body and the base are connected by adhesives. The fastening member and the mounting groove improve connection reliability and structure strength. The liquid container with excellent structural strength is more resistant to pressure in radial and longitudinal directions and used to fill pressurized beverages or liquid such as carbonated drinks.
US12060190B2
A system for printing on a printable portion of a liner for a package to receive smoking articles includes a package assembler configured to receive an outer blank and fold the outer blank around the liner to create the package. The liner comprises a material configured to absorb ink and a front surface, the front surface configured to be seen by a user when the package is open. The liner also includes a printable portion positioned on the front surface, the printable portion configured to receive ink. The system further comprises a printer coupled to the package assembler, the printer configured to dispense the ink on the printable portion when the package is in an at least partially assembled state.
US12060188B2
A packaging machine with a platform (6) on which a container (27) can be supported and sensor (23) for detecting the presence or absence of a container (27) at a position on the platform (6). A control apparatus with a memory is configured to cause the packaging machine to perform a setup operation in which relative motion between the platform (6) and sensor (23) is caused and monitored. A parameter relating to the amount of relative motion from a starting position to a position at which the sensor output changes to reflect the presence or absence of a container (27) is stored in the memory. The control apparatus is also configured to use the stored parameter to control the machine in a packaging operation.
US12060185B2
A sealing station configured to heat seal a wall made from heat-sealable film material, preferably metal-free heat-sealable film material, onto one another wall of heat-sealable material, e.g. another wall of heat-sealable film material, to create a sealed seam. The sealing station comprises an impulse sealing device comprising a first jaw and a second jaw, wherein at least the first jaw comprises at the respective front surface thereof at least one, e.g. a single elongated, impulse heatable member that extends along the respective front surface and that is covered by a heat-resistant non-stick covering.
US12060183B2
At least one example embodiment relates to a system for filling a plurality of containers with oral products. The system comprises a container station and a shuttle assembly. The container station is configured to provide a plurality of containers. The shuttle assembly is configured to move between a first shuttle position to receive a plurality of oral products and a second shuttle position to deposit the oral products into the containers. At least one example embodiment relates to a method of filling a plurality of containers with oral products.
US12060180B2
The present invention provides void fill dispenser systems and methods that highly effectively enable the easy and usable creation of void fill with expanded slit sheet paper in a manner unattainable in the existing art. According to some illustrative embodiments, a void fill dispenser is provided that advantageously dispenses unique void fill in a manner not previously possible. In some embodiments, the void fill dispenser is made with a recyclable material, such as, e.g., a corrugated box made from paper. In some embodiments, the void fill dispenser is made with metal and/or other rigid and/or non-recyclable materials. In some embodiments, the void fill dispenser can comprise an automated metal dispensing system that dispenses expanded slit sheet paper particularly for void fill in an automated manner.
US12060178B2
The invention comprises a method of making and/or using a shampoo, comprising the steps of: placing shampoo into a container; combining a carbon dioxide precursor with the shampoo; sealing the container to yield a sealed container; and forming carbon dioxide inside the sealed container from the carbon dioxide precursor, the carbon dioxide formed in the sealed container comprising a concentration of greater than one thousand parts per million. Optionally and preferably, the sealed container includes a finger operated valve to release the shampoo from the container and at least one of a carbonic acid, a bicarbonate, and/or a carbonate as the carbon dioxide precursor, where a reaction forms at least one-half of dissolved carbon dioxide in the sealed container.
US12060170B2
Systems, methods, computer-readable medium, vehicles, and engines provided herein include or implement flexible engine monitoring features. In one aspect, a user-modifiable file containing selected parameters is uploaded to a vehicle having a propulsion system, such as an engine. A computing device associated with the engine generates, without modifying reporting software or any other software, a parameter reporting list that includes the selected parameters. During operation, parameter values for the selected parameters are recorded. In another aspect, a data query is transmitted to an aerial vehicle while in-flight. The data query includes a user-modifiable file that contains selected parameters for which parameter values are to be recorded. A computing device associated with the engine generates, without modifying reporting software or any other software, a parameter reporting list that includes the selected parameters. Recorded parameter values for the selected parameters are transmitted in-flight to a remote station. In another aspect, a vehicle receives a data communication that includes a user-modifiable file containing data indicating a target condition and one or more selected parameters for which parameter values are to be recorded when the target condition is met. A computing device associated with an engine of the vehicle generates, without modifying reporting software or any other software, a parameter reporting list that includes the selected parameters. When the condition is met, parameter values for the selected parameters are recorded.
US12060162B2
A spark containment cap for forming a sealed cavity around an end of a fastener protruding from a structure is disclosed having a cap body with an annular base terminating at a rim which surrounds an opening into an air cavity arranged to enclose the end of the fastener. An annular sealing volume extends around the rim arranged to receive an annular bead of a curable sealing material around the opening into the cavity to provide a seal between the cap body and the structure to seal a volume of gas within the cavity. An engaging feature is configured to engage with the end of the fastener to prevent rotation of the fastener relative to the cap when the end of the fastener is received by the cap. A fastening system, a joint, an aircraft and a method of securing a fastener and a spark containment cap to a structure are also disclosed.
US12060157B2
A mount for a double-walled vessel includes a first support to support the mount against an outer wall of the double-walled vessel, a second support to support the mount against an inner wall of the double-walled vessel, and a flexible member connecting the first support and the second support. The first support and can be arranged at a first end of the flexible member and the second support can be arranged at a second end of the flexible member opposite to the first end. Further described are a vessel including at least one such mount as well as a vehicle including such vessel.
US12060153B2
An insert for an air intake of a suction duct, the insert including an inner portion configured to extend within the suction duct, a mating portion configured for sealingly engaging the air intake, and an outer portion configured for extending outside of the suction duct. The inner portion includes a conduit having a central axis extending along an inlet direction at the inlet end and along an outlet direction at the outlet end, the inlet and outlet directions being non-parallel. The outlet end has a smaller cross-sectional area than that of the suction duct. The insert includes an inlet in fluid communication with the inlet end of the conduit. The outer portion includes a curved lip surrounding at least part of an inlet opening of the inlet, the lip configured to direct a flow into the inlet opening and toward the inlet end of the conduit.
US12060145B2
A panel assembly for use in a vehicle includes a first face sheet, a second face sheet, and a core layer disposed between the first and second face sheets. The core layer is defined by a base material along a first section of the panel assembly, and the core layer is defined by a honeycomb structure along a second section of the panel assembly. The first section and the second section are discrete, and the first section that includes the base material extends along a perimeter of the panel assembly.
US12060144B1
A stowable propulsion device for a marine vessel having a deck. A base is configured to be coupled to the marine vessel below the deck. A propulsor is configured to propel the marine vessel in water. An arm couples the propulsor to the base such that moving the arm moves the propulsor into and between a stowed position located proximate to the marine vessel and a deployed position located relatively distal from the marine vessel as compared to the stowed position, and such that moving the arm rotates the propulsor about the arm. An actuator comprises a first link movably coupled to the base and a second link that movably couples the first link to the arm. An actuator moves the actuator linkage to thereby move the propulsor into and between the stowed position and the deployed position.
US12060142B2
An outboard motor comprises an engine and a cover that covers the periphery of the engine. The cover includes an outer cover that defines an outer appearance and an inner cover that covers the engine inside the outer cover. The outer cover comprises an outer side division structure that can be divided into a plurality of parts, and the inner cover has a structural part providing access to the engine.
US12060131B2
An operating device for a human-powered vehicle comprises a base structure, a first switch unit, and a first coupling structure. The first switch unit comprises a first switch base member, a first switch, and a first movable member. The first switch is configured to be activated in response to a first user input. The first switch is mounted to the first switch base member. The first movable member is pivotally coupled to the first switch base member about a first pivot axis such that the first movable member activates the first switch in response to the first user input. The first coupling structure is configured to couple the first switch base member to the base structure such that a position of the first switch base member is adjustable relative to the base structure about the first pivot axis.
US12060129B2
An electronic bicycle component includes a memory configured to store a first communication protocol and a second communication protocol, and a processor. The processor is configured, within a pairing session, to generate one or more first messages based on the first communication protocol, broadcast the one or more first messages, and identify whether a first response is received from another electronic bicycle component within a predetermined time period. The predetermined time period is after the broadcast of a first message of the one or more first messages. The response is a response to the broadcast one or more first messages. When, based on the identification, the response is not received within the predetermined time period, the processor is further configured to generate one or more second messages based on the second communication protocol, and broadcast the one or more second messages.
US12060128B2
An adjustable saddle may include a mounting frame couplable with a saddle half base and a discrete or analog saddle half adjustment mechanism configured to adjust an orientation of the saddle half base relative to the mounting frame. The discrete saddle half adjustment mechanism may pivotally attach the saddle half base to the mounting frame in at least two different discrete pivot points. The analog saddle half adjustment mechanism may position the saddle half base relative to the mounting frame along a continuous range of pivot points with a high mechanical advantage that prevents migration of the saddle half base over time. The adjustable saddle may also include a slope adjustment mechanism configured to pivotally adjust a slope of the saddle half base relative to a slope adjustment frame of the adjustable saddle.
US12060124B2
Provided is a robot device including a plurality of legs to perform a moving work. The robot device includes: a plurality of legs; and a body portion to which the legs are attached, the body portion having a bottom surface higher than a ground plane of the legs that are shortened to a maximum. The body portion includes a loading portion on which a load is placed in a space surrounded by the plurality of legs. Furthermore, an outer casing that covers the entire robot device including the plurality of legs is further provided. The outer casing includes an openable/closable lid or door on at least one of an upper surface, a front surface, a rear surface, a left side surface, or a right side surface.
US12060122B2
A modular frame for a track system is disclosed. The modular frame includes an upper frame member operatively connectable to an axle of a vehicle and removably connectable to a first lower frame member. The first lower frame member is configured to connect with at least one of a support wheel assembly and an idler wheel assembly, and connection of the upper frame member to the first lower frame member confers a first lower frame member-specific function to the track system. Another modular frame, track systems having the modular frames, tensioners and track systems having the tensioners are also disclosed.
US12060119B2
A method for estimating a value of a friction force exerted on a part of a power steering system of a vehicle, the part of the power steering system including at least one motor exerting a motor torque, the value of the friction force making it possible to modify the motor torque, by means of a mathematical model.
US12060116B2
An actuator with reverse input blocking clutch has a function of switching the reverse input blocking clutch to a state in which torque can be transmitted between an input member and an output member, in a state in which reverse torque is input to the output member from an output-side mechanism, by applying torque to the input member by an actuator in an opposite direction to a direction of the reverse torque, and then by giving an instruction to the actuator to apply torque having a magnitude smaller than a magnitude of the reverse torque to the input member in the opposite direction, transmitting the reverse torque to the input member.
US12060111B2
The present invention relates to a side sill of a vehicle, the side sill being structurally more robust while having reduced costs and weight. The side sill of a vehicle according to an embodiment comprises: a side sill internal panel; a side sill external panel which is spaced apart from the side sill internal panel; a side sill external reinforcement coupled to the side sill external panel; a partition member arranged between the side sill internal panel and the side sill external reinforcement; a first reinforcing member arranged between the partition member and the side sill internal panel; and a second reinforcing member arranged between the partition member and the side sill external reinforcement.
US12060108B2
A vehicle has a frame including a front frame module defining at least in part a cockpit, and a rear frame module having a cargo bed support structure. The vehicle has a rear seat row or a cargo bed support structure extension disposed rearwardly of a front seat row. A wheelbase length measured between centers of front and rear wheels of the vehicle is approximately the same regardless of which of the rear seat row and the cargo bed support structure extension is disposed rearwardly of the front seat row. A longitudinal cargo pivot distance measured between the center of the front wheels and a cargo bed pivot axis is approximately the same regardless of which of the rear seat row and the cargo bed support structure extension is disposed rearwardly of the front seat row. A method of assembling a vehicle of a family of vehicles is also contemplated.
US12060094B2
Systems and methods for train consist management are provided. In an aspect, a method includes, but is not limited to, designing a train consist; analyzing the train consist with a physics-based dynamic force model to determine whether the train consist would experience at least one of in-train force imbalances or lateral force imbalances indicative of at least one of a component malfunction or a derailment scenario for a proposed train route; and validating the train consist when it is determined that the train consist would not experience in-train force imbalances indicative of at least one of a component malfunction or a derailment scenario for the proposed train route.
US12060089B2
A spraying apparatus for applying a friction modifying fluid to a railroad rail, comprising: a nozzle body disposed in a housing; a fluid inlet conduit in fluid communication with an opening in housing; a fluid inlet disposed in the housing in fluid communication with a first fluid conduit defined by or disposed in the nozzle body; wherein the first fluid conduit runs from fluid inlet to a hollow nozzle tip body disposed on and protruding through a bottom of housing and wherein fluid inlet is also disposed below, and in fluid communication with, the fluid inlet conduit; a control fluid supply line and an atomizing fluid supply line each partially disposed in the housing and each having respective portions external of the housing for connecting with the same fluid supply or respective fluid supplies; wherein the control fluid supply line injects a pressurized control fluid against a piston assembly disposed in a piston cavity; wherein the piston assembly carries stopper needle which is biased towards hollow nozzle tip body by a spring so that the needle closes a nozzle tip opening of hollow nozzle tip body; wherein the atomizing fluid supply line provides a pressurized atomizing fluid into hollow nozzle tip body to atomize the first fluid supplied by the first fluid conduit into the hollow nozzle tip body via a fluid cap disposed on the hollow nozzle tip body; wherein in operation the control fluid supply line and the atomizing fluid supply line are operated simultaneously while the first fluid is supplied by the first fluid conduit into the hollow nozzle tip body via a fluid cap such that the pressurized control fluid injected by control fluid supply line against a piston assembly displaces needle out of the nozzle tip opening and allows the first fluid to exit out of the nozzle tip opening where the first fluid is atomized by the pressurized atomizing fluid supplied by the atomizing fluid supply line.
US12060088B2
For reliable detection of the wear on a cable sheave of a cable car system, the distance between a cable sensor and a hoisting cable is measured when the cable car system is at a standstill and the wear on the at least one cable sheave is deduced from the distance measured at a standstill.
US12060085B2
The present disclosure provides a controller for controlling an ego vehicle in an uncertain environment. The controller is caused to acquire knowledge of the environment from measurements associated with sensors the ego. The measurements are based on a state of the ego vehicle and sensing instructions associated with controlling an operation of the sensors. The controller is further caused to estimate a state of the environment, including uncertainty of a state of the at least one moving object or obstacle in the environment. Further a sequence of control inputs is determined by solving a multivariable and a multistage stochastic constrained optimization of a model of the motion of the ego vehicle. The controller is then caused to control the ego vehicle and the sensors based on the sequence of control inputs and the sequence of sensing instructions.
US12060082B1
Techniques are discussed for interaction probabilities associated with regions of an environment around a vehicle. An interaction probability of a region may indicate a likelihood an object positioned at the region will interact with the vehicle. A top-down multi-channel image representing a top-down view of the environment and objects therein may be generated and input to a machine learned (ML) model. The ML model may output a probability map, a portion of the probability map comprising a region and an interaction probability associated with the region that indicates a likelihood objects positioned at the region will interact with the vehicle. A priority for resource assignment or analysis may be determined based on the interaction probability for an object positioned in the region. Control of the vehicle may be performed based at least in part on the priority for resource assignment or analysis.
US12060077B2
A confidence score (or measure) that is related to the reliability of signal phase and time (SPAT)-compliant messages received at a vehicle. Vehicle-to-everything (V2X)-compliant messages are received from other vehicles and compared to the SPAT-compliant messages. Behavior of vehicles (as indicated in the V2X-compliant messages) in view of the content of the SPAT-compliant messages is evaluated for consistency and a numeric (or other type of) score or measure assigned to the SPAT-compliant message (indicating reliability of the SPAT message). The score is compared to a threshold and based upon the comparison, a determination can be made as to whether to use the SPAT-compliant message to perform an action.
US12060074B2
A system for adjusting external position information of a vehicle driving on a road, including a sensor configured to sense a predetermined static lane object of the road, the vehicle driving on the road, and an electronic control device configured to: receive external position information indicating the vehicle position, detect the static lane object based on a sensor output received from the sensor, determine the position of the static lane object with regard to the vehicle position based on the received sensor output, and adjust the external vehicle position information by calibrating the vehicle position with regard to the determined position of the static lane object.
US12060052B2
A valve assembly may comprise: a housing defining an inlet port, an outlet port, a solenoid valve inlet port, and a solenoid valve outlet port, the inlet port in fluid communication with the solenoid valve inlet port; a shutoff valve disposed in the housing, the shutoff valve including a shutoff valve inlet port in fluid communication with the inlet port and a shutoff valve outlet port in fluid communication with the outlet port, and a second shutoff valve inlet port in fluid communication with the solenoid valve outlet port; a filter disposed downstream of the valve inlet port; and a check valve disposed between the shutoff valve outlet port and the outlet port of the housing.
US12060048B2
A system that includes a first control unit having one or more processors. The one or more processors may operate a first traction control unit and a first braking device of a first vehicle of a vehicle system based on an operator input command signal. The system also includes a second control unit in communication with the first control unit and having one or more processors configured to operate a second traction device and a second braking device of a second vehicle of the vehicle system based on at least one operational objective of the vehicle system.
US12060044B2
Disclosed is a method for actuating a parking brake system in a utility vehicle. In an example, the parking brake system includes an operational actuator for actuating a parking brake and a control unit for controlling the operational actuator. When the utility vehicle is stopped, a stored brake-application characteristic is selected for the parking brake as a function of a current vehicle condition of the utility vehicle. Based on the selected application characteristic, the operational actuator is activated by the control unit in order to apply the parking brake. In addition, or alternately, when the utility vehicle is started, a stored brake-release characteristic is selected for the parking brake as a function of a current vehicle condition of the utility vehicle. Based on the selected brake-release characteristic, the operational actuator is activated by the control unit in order to release the parking brake.
US12060038B2
A trailer door system that comprises at least one trailer door assembly operably engaged with the trailer; and at least one driving assembly operably engaged with the trailer and the at least one trailer door assembly. The at least one driving assembly further comprises an expansion assembly operably engaged with the at least one trailer door assembly. The at least one driving assembly further comprises a rotary actuator operably engaged with the expansion assembly, wherein the rotary actuator is configured to transition the expansion assembly between a collapsed position and an expanded position for pivoting the at least one trailer door assembly between a closed position and an opened position about an axis parallel to a vertical axis defined by the trailer. A trailer monitoring system may be included with the trailer door system for automating the state of the trailer during a towing operation.
US12060031B2
A gas generator includes an igniter assembled to one end portion of a housing, a gastight container arranged in the inside of the housing, and a coil spring interposed between the one end portion of the housing and the gastight container. The gastight container melts or bursts as a result of activation of the igniter. A gas generating agent is accommodated in the gastight container. The coil spring serves to fix the gastight container in the inside of the housing. The coil spring is arranged substantially coaxially with an ignition portion to surround the ignition portion without interposition of another member between the coil spring and the ignition portion, so as to restrict a degree of opening of a cup body included in the ignition portion of the igniter at the time of cleavage of the cup body.
US12060030B2
A safety airbag device, including a safety airbag having an inflated state and a stowed state, a gas generator, used to generate gas to inflate the safety airbag so that the safety airbag enters the inflated state; and a deflector, used to guide the gas generated by the gas generator before the gas generated by the gas generator enters the safety airbag. The deflector includes a first cavity and a second cavity. The first cavity includes a first gas inlet and a first gas outlet. The second cavity includes a second gas inlet and a second gas outlet. The first gas outlet and the second gas inlet are in fluid communication with each other.
US12060025B2
An apparatus and method for helping to protect occupants of an autonomous vehicle in the event of a collision. An airbag has a stored, pre-deployment condition in a vehicle roof. The airbag is deployable downward toward the vehicle floor in front of a vehicle occupant. The airbag includes an upper portion for receiving the occupant's head and torso. A lower portion extends downward and forward from the upper portion. The lower portion is for receiving the occupant's lower legs.
US12060022B2
An occupant protection device for protecting an occupant seated in a seat includes a seatbelt having at least a tongue, a buckle, and a lap belt portion, an inflator, and an airbag provided in the lap belt portion. In a state where a main body portion of the airbag is inflated, an end portion on a tongue side of a conduit portion of the airbag in a left-right direction of the seat extends as far as a position equivalent to that of an end portion on the tongue side of the main body portion, or nearer than the end portion on the tongue side of the main body portion to the tongue.
US12060017B1
A car license plate holder without drilling holes is provided, which includes an adjustment screw rod, a rotation shaft screw, an arc-shaped groove, and the car license plate holder. The adjustment screw rod is connected to an anti-scratch pad through a thread fit, and slidably connected to a flipping bracket. A thread groove provided on the flipping bracket is connected to the rotation shaft screw, and the rotation shaft screw is rotatably connected to a fixed cross frame. The present application consists of the adjustment screw rod and a fixed block to form a fixed structure for a grille. The fixed cross frame and the car license plate holder form a fixed structure for the car license plate, and together with the flipping bracket, the fixed structure of the grille is combined with the fixed structure of the car license plate to form an overall structure of the holder.
US12060013B2
A device for a motor-propelled vehicle includes a camera mounted on a support. The camera is transposable from a retracted position to a capture position through a cover by an actuator. The cover is able to be displaced in both directions between a closed position and an open position. Simultaneously with the displacement of the camera, the cover is able to be split into two portions by a longitudinal displacement along an axis, perpendicular to the axis, of the portions. The camera is able to be displaced along an axis transverse with respect to the displacement of the portions.
US12060005B2
A plurality of vehicular electrochromic mirror reflective elements includes first and second vehicular electrochromic mirror reflective elements, each having a respective planar rear glass shaped substrate and a respective planar front glass substrate. The planar front glass shaped substrates are cut out from a planar glass sheet. Each planar rear glass shaped substrate is joined with a respective planar front glass substrate portion of the planar glass sheet via a respective perimeter seal. With the planar rear glass shaped substrate joined with the planar front glass shaped substrate, the circumferential perimeter cut edge of the planar front glass shaped substrate and the circumferential perimeter cut edge of the planar rear glass shaped substrate are processed to provide a circumferential rounded perimeter edge of the respective vehicular electrochromic mirror reflective element having a radius of curvature of at least 2.5 mm.
US12060004B2
A sensor device is adapted for position detection associated with a drive assembly of a rear view device of a vehicle, with the drive assembly including at least one shaft driven by a DC motor, the sensor device having a membrane position sensor acting as a potentiometer the resistance of which depends on the relative rotational position of the motor shaft.
US12059996B2
A vehicle headlight (1) includes a first lamp unit (10), a second lamp unit (20), a region determination unit (55), and a control unit (CO). A first irradiation spot (S1f) overlaps with a second irradiation spot (S2). The control unit (CO) controls the first lamp unit (10) so that an amount of the light of a light emitting element (13f) corresponding to the first irradiation spot (S1f) overlapping with a predetermined region (80) is reduced, and controls the second lamp unit (20) so that an amount of the light of a light emitting element (23) corresponding to the second irradiation spot (S2) overlapping with the predetermined region (80) is reduced or becomes 0, and light is emitted from the light emitting element (23) corresponding to the second irradiation spot (S2) overlapping with the first irradiation spot (S1f) and not overlapping with the predetermined region (80).
US12059995B2
An apparatus and a method correct a level of a headlamp, in which a sight of the driver may be sufficiently secured while an influence on a sight of a driver of a preceding vehicle is minimized by specifying a level of a cutoff line of the headlamp using a transverse length and a longitudinal length of a number plate frame image. The specified level is compared with a level of a target line calculated based on a change of an inter-vehicle distance. The method includes determining whether it is necessary to perform a correction of raising or lowering the level of the headlamp, and a correcting the level of the headlamp such that the cutoff line of the headlamp follows the level of the target line at the corresponding inter-vehicle distance.
US12059991B2
A system and methods for translating a cable-specific roll-off dumpster onto a vehicle. The system includes a hook lift system having a control arm. The system also includes an assembly that is configured to engage with the control arm. The assembly also includes a frame that is rotatably engaged with a hook lift system of the vehicle. The assembly also includes a tow ring that is rotatably engaged with the frame. The tow ring is adapted to engage a hook of the cable-specific roll-off dumpster. The assembly and the hook lift system translate the cable-specific roll-off dumpster between a loaded position and an unloaded position relative to the vehicle.
US12059984B2
An infant carrier includes an infant support portion, a carrying handle and a locking mechanism. The carrying handle includes a handle part and a side segment, the side segment being pivotally connected with the infant support portion, and the handle part being slidably connected with the handle part, the handle part and the side segment being rotatable in unison relative to the infant support portion for adjusting an inclination of the carrying handle, and the handle part being slidable relative to the side segment for adjusting an extension of the handle part from the side segment. The locking mechanism is carried with the handle part and is operable to lock the handle part to the side segment so that the handle part is held at a desired extension from the side segment.
US12059980B2
A method of controlling a seat system. A physiological condition of the seat occupant may be assessed based on at least two of the heart rate, breathing rate, and heart rate variability. A countermeasure may be executed to alter the physiological condition of the seat occupant and/or data associated with the heart rate, breathing rate, and/or heart rate variability may be communicated.
US12059973B2
There is disclosed herein examples of system and procedure for assigning state-of-charge profiles to vehicles to extend battery lives of batteries of the vehicles. Determining an optimal state-of-charge profile for the vehicle may take into account battery degradation of the battery of the vehicle and/or characteristics of an operational assignment to which the vehicle is being assigned. The state-of-charge profiles assigned to the vehicles may extend the battery life of the battery of the vehicle and reduce battery replacements of the battery.
US12059965B2
A system for an electric vehicle charger with a reel button for an electric vehicle is illustrated. The system comprises a charging cable, a charger base connected to the charging cable, a cable storage device, the cable storage device including a retraction mechanism configured to pay out and retract the cable when activated and at least a reel button configured to activate the retraction mechanism.
US12059963B2
A modular charging and power system for generating and supplying electrical power to electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, other manned and unmanned remotely operated vehicles, drones, robotics, marine and aerospace vehicles, equipment, or apparatus, portable power units, propulsion systems, and other electrically powered systems. The modular charging and power system comprises a racking system for retaining one or more interchangeable power modules. Each power module comprises a generator driven by a power unit, a compressor to deliver high-pressure driving fluid to the power unit, and a battery bank. Electrical power generated by the generator powers the compressor, the battery bank, and/or an external electronic device or system.
US12059962B2
A method for controlling a power supply system for a moving body, the system including a plurality of energy storage apparatuses that are connected to a moving-body load and connected in parallel with each other, and a current breaker that is provided for each of the energy storage apparatuses and cuts off current of each energy storage apparatus. The method including: a step of detecting an abnormality in each of the energy storage apparatuses; and a step of bringing the current breaker of at least one of the energy storage apparatuses into an energized state when all the energy storage apparatuses are abnormal.
US12059959B2
A drive system for an all-terrain vehicle (ATV). The drive system may comprise an electric motor, at least three wheel and tire assemblies, a primary battery, a control module and a throttle device. The primary batter may be located within at least two opposing frame rails of a chassis of the all-terrain vehicle.
US12059947B2
A mobile object includes drive parts each having one side coupled to each wheel, in which the drive part includes: a first motor including a first rotary shaft and configured to rotate a respective one of the wheels about the first rotary shaft; a second motor including a second rotary shaft spaced apart from the first rotary shaft in a radial direction of the respective one of the wheels, the second motor being configured to rotate the respective one of the wheels about the second rotary shaft; and a third motor including a third rotary shaft extending in a direction intersecting the first rotary shaft and the second rotary shaft, the third motor being configured to steer the respective one of the wheels about the third rotary shaft.
US12059945B2
A vehicle air conditioning system provides a heat exchanger and a vehicle air conditioning system comprising same, which can simplify the overall structure and can easily perform cooling/heating of air for air conditioning and dehumidification heating by using an integrated heat exchanger which is selectively supplied with low- and high-temperature cooling water by a supply valve to perform heat exchange.
US12059943B2
A heat pump system for a vehicle regulates a temperature of a battery module by use of one chiller in which a coolant and a refrigerant exchange heat, and recovers various heat sources in a heating mode of the vehicle and utilizes the recovered heat sources for indoor heating to improve heating efficiency, and may include a first valve that controls a flow of a coolant introduced into an internal, an electrical component cooling device, a battery cooling device, an indoor heating device, an indoor cooling device, a centralized energy device, and a chiller, in which the first valve may include at least one port through which the coolant is introduced or discharged.
US12059941B2
A ventilation seat of a vehicle is proposed. The ventilation seat includes a ventilation duct assembly mounted to a seat of the vehicle and configured to suck indoor air and to discharge air toward a vehicle room or a surface of the seat, an air cleaning assembly arranged in an air flow path of the ventilation duct assembly and configured to clean air passing through the air flow path in operation thereof, and a controller configured to operate the ventilation duct assembly in operation of an air cleaning mode of the vehicle to generate an air flow flowing through the seat, and configured to operate the air cleaning assembly to allow the air flow of the ventilation duct assembly to clean air in the vehicle.
US12059940B2
An air conditioner for a vehicle, which includes an air conditioning case having an air passage formed therein, a cooling heat exchanger provided in the air passage of the air conditioning case to heat-exchange with air passing through the air passage, and a heating heat exchanger, comprises: a front seat temperature door which adjusts an opening degree between a front seat cold air passage and a part of a hot air passage; a first rear seat temperature door which is disposed between the cooling heat exchanger and the heating heat exchanger and adjusts an opening degree of another part of the hot air passage; and a second rear seat temperature door which is disposed in the downstream of the heating heat exchanger and adjusts an opening degree between the hot air passage and a rear seat cold air passage, wherein the second rear seat temperature door includes an asymmetric dome.
US12059939B2
A corner module apparatus for a vehicle includes a driving unit configured to provide driving power to a wheel of the vehicle; a braking unit, coupled with the driving unit, configured to apply or release braking power; an upper arm module, connected to the driving unit, adjustable to vary a camber angle of the wheel; a lower arm module, connected to the driving unit, configured to absorb road surface impact while the vehicle moves; and a steering unit configured to support the upper arm module and the lower arm module, and adjust a steering angle of the wheel.
US12059935B1
An electronic safety system for preventing vehicle damage during the disconnection of a pulling portion of a vehicle from its towed portion, such as a trailer, has been disclosed. The safety system monitors a series of safety conditions on the pulling portion and optionally on the towed portion of the vehicle. When the safety conditions are met, the coupler, such as a fifth wheel or ball hitch, disconnect function is enabled. When the safety conditions are not met, the coupler disconnect function is disabled and, optionally, the vehicle operator is alerted to the unsafe configuration of the vehicle.
US12059931B2
A method for detecting a change in location of the wheels of a motor vehicle, the vehicle having at least one central processing unit, and two wheel units which each includes an electronic assembly of sensors and which are each mounted on one of the wheels. The method including a monitoring step, during which a first pattern representative of the location of the wheel unit is established, when the vehicle is at a standstill, and an evaluation step, during which a possible first variation in each first pattern is measured to estimate if the location of the wheel has changed.
US12059925B2
A method of modifying a hub with a wheel adaptor. The wheel adaptor includes a cylindrical body, a first set of holes that includes six symmetrically spaced holes located at a first radial distance, a second set of holes that include three holes located at a second radial distance, and a third set of holes that include another three holes located at a third radial distance. The method includes coupling the wheel adaptor to the hub. The coupling includes passing six symmetrically spaced lugs of the hub through the wheel adaptor at the first set of holes and fastening using six hub lug nuts. The method further includes drilling six holes through the hub using the second set of holes and the third set of holes of the wheel adaptor as drilling guides.
US12059921B2
A rim (3) for a tire has an axis of rotation DD′ and a rim seat (31) extended axially towards the outside by a rim flange (32), said rim flange (32) having a first portion (321) that is oriented substantially in a perpendicular plane and is situated radially on the outside with respect to said rim seat (31), characterized in that said rim flange (32) has a second portion (322) that is inclined towards the outside, is situated axially on the outside with respect to said first portion (321) and is situated at least partially radially on the outside with respect to said rim seat (31), said rim having a connecting portion (320) between said first portion (321) and said second portion (322).
US12059919B2
A method for producing an electronic document including a concealed magnetic strip, comprising a step of providing a surface of an electronic document body, a step of applying of a magnetic strip to at least part of the surface of the electronic document body, a visible surface, formed by the surface of the body covered at least in part by the magnetic strip, having a Delta E contrast equal to or less than 15, and a step of applying a decor that covers the surface of the body over the magnetic strip, the decor having a thickness of at most 10 μm and having an opacity ratio at wavelengths in the visible domain of at least 70%; and a corresponding electronic document.
US12059917B2
A bookbinding machine (100) is proposed. The bookbinding machine (100) comprises a driving system (225) for driving transport elements (210a-210c) of book blocks (215a-215c) in succession across at least one engagement processing station 5 (205d) and one or more disengagement processing stations (205a,205e) which process the book blocks while stationary therein. Control means (120) stop the driving system (225) when each of the transport elements (210b) is at the engagement processing station (205d) engaged with the driving system (225) and other transport elements (210a,210c) are at the disengagement processing stations (205a,205e) disengaged from the driving system (225). A bookbinding plant comprising one or more of these bookbinding machines (100) is also proposed. Moreover, a corresponding method for operating a bookbinding machine (100), a computer program and a computer program product for implementing the method are proposed.
US12059913B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for establishing the suitability for printing of a thermoplastic film for use in a packaging of absorbent hygienic articles, said thermoplastic film comprising at least 30% recycled polymer material. The method comprises scanning a sample of said film for Gel Spots, defining an Amount of Gel spots and a Relative Gel Spot Coverage area, and, determining that if the Amount of Gel Spots is less than or equal to a first threshold and the Relative Gel Spot Coverage Area is less than or equal to a second threshold, determining that said thermoplastic film is suitable for printing. The disclosure also relates to a method of forming a package from a thermoplastic film, and to a package comprising a thermoplastic film.
US12059898B2
A MEMS chip assembly includes: a support structure having a chip mounting surface; a MEMS chip mounted on the chip mounting surface, the MEMS chip having an active surface including one or more rows of MEMS devices and a row of bond pads disposed alongside a connection edge of the MEMS chip and parallel with the rows of MEMS devices; electrical connectors connected to the bond pads; and an encapsulant material covering the electrical connectors. The MEMS chip has a plurality of trenches defined in the active surface, the trenches extending parallel with the rows of MEMS devices and disposed between the bond pads and the MEMS devices. The encapsulant material does not encroach past the trenches towards the MEMS devices.
US12059891B2
An autonomous moving apparatus includes a handheld housing adapted to contain a printing head, an actuating mechanism adapted to move the housing on top of a printing surface, an audio sensor, and at least one non-audio sensor selected from a group comprising a distance sensor, a touch sensor, and an image sensor. Processing circuitry is adapted to execute a code for analyzing an audio signal captured by the audio sensor to detect a voice command; in response to the detection of the voice command, analyzing readings of at least one non-audio sensor to identify a triggering event; in response to the detection of the triggering event, instructing the actuating mechanism such that the housing moves along a printing pattern associated with the triggering event, and instructing the printing head to print media extracted from the readings, selected according to an analysis of the readings.
US12059890B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a conveyor, a discharger, a first mover, an output device, a second mover, and circuitry. The conveyor conveys an elongated web in a conveyance direction in a state in which tension is applied to the web. The discharger discharges liquid to the web conveyed by the conveyor. The first mover moves the discharger in a width direction intersecting the conveyance direction. The output device outputs position information of the web in the width direction. The second mover moves the output device in the width direction. The circuitry controls movement of the discharger based on the position information of the web. The circuitry controls movement of the output device based on information of a length of the web in the width direction and expansion-and-contraction range information of the web in the width direction to change a position of the output device in the width direction.
US12059884B2
Provided is an organic EL display device including an optical laminate, and a foldable device formed of the organic EL display device. The optical laminate includes a glass plate, a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, a polarizer layer, a second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and an optically anisotropic layer in this order, in which the glass plate has a thickness of less than 100 μm, the polarizing layer is formed of a composition for forming a polarizing layer which contains a liquid crystal compound and an organic dichroic material, a distance A between the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and the polarizer layer is 10 μm or less, and a distance B between the polarizer layer and the second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is 10 μm or less.
US12059874B2
A fixing rotating member comprising a base layer, an elastic layer and a surface layer, in this order, the surface layer containing PFA and PFPE, and having pores with openings at a first surface; at least part of the pores containing the PFPE, wherein when after removing the PFPE in the pores, placing a first observation region on the first surface, defining a ratio of a sum of areas of the openings in the first observation region relative to an area of the first observation region as P1; and placing a second observation region in a cross section of the surface layer, and defining a ratio of a sum of areas of the pores in the second observation region relative to an area of the second observation region as P2, P2/P1 is 1.3 or higher.
US12059872B2
An acrylic multilayer foil includes a layer A in which silica particles are uniformly distributed in an acrylic polymer matrix and a coating layer D. Due to adhesive promoting properties of the layer A containing silica particles, the coating layer D can be advantageously applied onto the layer A. The foil has a high weathering resistance and excellent mechanical properties. Therefore, the foil is highly suitable for surface-protection of materials such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and for use in high-pressure laminates (HPLs).
US12059871B2
A multilayer film is provided that includes a) a barrier layer including a thermoplastic polyester elastomer or a polyamide copolymer; b) an intermediate layer provided on the barrier layer and including a maleic anhydride (MAH)-grafted polyolefin and an α-olefin copolymer; and c) an adhesive layer provided on the intermediate layer and including a thermoplastic polyester elastomer or a polyamide copolymer. The multilayer film enables production of gas-tight multilayer laminates which exhibit an excellent peel resistance combined with a low weight and/or thickness. Further, a multilayer laminate and an inflatable airbag that include a fabric layer adhered to the multilayer film, as well as methods of manufacturing are described.
US12059870B2
A glass laminate comprises an external glass sheet, an internal glass sheet, and a polymer interlayer formed between the external glass sheet and the internal glass sheet. The external glass sheet can be a thin chemically-strengthened glass sheet or can be a non-chemically strengthened glass sheet, the polymer interlayer can have a thickness of less than 1.6 mm, and the internal glass sheet can be a non-chemically-strengthened glass sheet or a thin chemically strengthened glass sheet.
US12059867B2
One aspect is an apparatus including a first node including a first bonding surface and a second node including a second bonding surface. The apparatus includes a feature configured to accept an adhesive and an adhesive channel coupled to the feature configured to accept the adhesive. The apparatus includes a shear joint coupling the first node and the second node, the shear joint configured to receive the adhesive in an adhesive region formed by the first bonding surface and the second bonding surface, the adhesive for coupling the first bonding surface to the second bonding surface through the feature configured to accept the adhesive.
US12059858B2
An article, including a substrate having a surface with a groove pattern including microprisms thereon. The groove pattern includes a first set of first grooves intersecting with a second set of second grooves, the first grooves are parallel to each other along a same first direction across the groove pattern, and each of the first grooves include a plurality of repeating variable depth zones. Each of the variable depth zones include: a dive section having a first maximum depth, ZD2, and a rise section having a second maximum depth, ZR2. The second grooves are parallel to each other along a same second direction across the surface, the second direction being substantially perpendicular to the first direction.
US12059856B2
In an example, a method of shimming an uncured substructure for assembly is disclosed. The method comprises emitting a signal from an inspection system proximate a mating surface of the substructure, detecting a reflection of the signal with the inspection system, generating a data set based on detecting the reflection of the signal, the data set representing a shape of the mating surface, determining distances between a plurality of points on the mating surface and respective points on an inner surface of a support structure based on the data set, generating filler dimension data based on the distances, wherein the filler dimension data includes a varying thickness, shaping a filler structure with a computer numerical controlled shaping device using the filler dimension data, adhering a first surface of the filler structure to the mating surface of the substructure to form a shimmed substructure subassembly, and curing the shimmed substructure subassembly.
US12059855B1
A method of forming a net shape preform for a high performance ballistic helmet includes preparing one or more full prepreg plies, preparing one or more filler prepreg plies, wherein a shape and orientation of one filler prepreg ply of the one or more filler prepreg plies is different from a shape and orientation of another filler prepreg ply of the one or more filler prepreg plies, layering the one or more full prepreg plies with one or more filler prepreg plies to form a ply stack and deforming a portion of the ply stack while constraining the ply stack by applying in-plane tensional force to the ply stack to form the net-shape preform.
US12059854B2
A mold core for producing a component of fiber composite material with a cavity makes a particularly simple and efficient demolding process possible by the mold core extending along a longitudinal axis and in the form of a hybrid core and which includes, viewed in a cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, a first core portion and a second core portion, wherein the first core portion has a thickness that is substantially greater than a thickness of the second core portion. The first core portion is formed from a first material with high stiffness and low coefficient of thermal expansion, and the second core portion is formed from a second material that differs from the first material, and is configured such that, under predetermined conditions, its form changes in a predetermined manner such that removal of the mold core from a cavity in the cured component is made easier.
US12059850B2
A turf joining system i ncluding a first piece and second piece of a synthetic turf and a bridge support. The first and second pieces have side edges which are closely adjacent each other. The bridge support heat welds to the overlying first and second pieces to form an elongated first heat weld and elongated second heat weld each proximate and spaced from the respective side edge to define a water channel therebetween. A method of sealing a plurality of synthetic turf pieces together is disclosed.
US12059847B2
An additive manufacturing method for printing an object includes receiving three-dimensional printing data corresponding to the object, defining an internal region of the object to be formed with a structured air pocket and printing the object with an additive manufacturing system. The object includes an internal region formed with a structured air pocket.
US12059844B2
An apparatus for regulating pressure in a three-dimensional printer comprises a controller and a connector. The controller is configured to receive a value of a measured pressure within the three-dimensional printer. The connector is connectable between a gas outlet of the printer and an inlet of an external gas extraction system. The controller is configured to compare the received value of measured pressure with a predetermined value. If the received value differs from the predetermined value, the controller is configured to permit ambient air to flow into the external extraction system.
US12059843B2
An arrangement for manufacturing a plurality of orthodontic appliances in parallel, includes an additive printing machine comprising a build platform and configured for additively manufacturing a plurality of teeth models in parallel, a plurality of plates each configured for teeth model printing by the additive printing machine, whereby each plate comprises a unique machine-readable identifier and each plate is detachable and precisely fixed to the build platform, and a thermoforming machine configured for thermoforming a thermoformable material over the plurality of teeth models for receiving the plurality of orthodontic appliances.
US12059840B2
A method of forming a three-dimensional body from a mixture, wherein the mixture can comprise dispersed solid polymeric particles and a curable binder. In a particular embodiment the solid polymeric particles can be fluoropolymeric particles. The method can include at least partial removal of the cured binder and sintering, to obtain a sintered polymeric three-dimensional body. In one embodiment, the sintered three-dimensional body can be PTFE.
US12059837B1
Provided herein are methods for using hempcrete. In some instances, the present disclosure provides methods for 3D printing hempcrete. The 3D printed hempcrete may be printed in tandem with other materials, including hemp-based plastics. Hempcrete formulation may be 3D printed to form a building scaffolding.
US12059836B2
A heating system for heating a heat shrink layer of a heat shrink component during a heat shrink process includes a heating unit arranged in thermal contact with at least a part of the heat shrink layer and heating the heat shrink layer to a heat shrink temperature. The heating unit has a first heating zone and a second heating zone. The first heating zone has a different heating energy than the second heating zone for a period of time of the heat shrink process.
US12059821B2
A mold assembly and method for molding two concrete blocks in face-to-face non-contacting relationship forms blocks having smooth front faces. The mold assembly includes a mold box having two mold cavities configured to form two blocks in face-to-face non-contacting relationship. A common partition plate separates the two mold cavities and opposite sides of the partition plate form the smooth front faces of the blocks. The two mold cavities are each configured to form a block having a raised front face with a beveled edge around its entire perimeter and a border around the entire perimeter of the beveled edge. The portions of the border at the top and the sides of the raised front face are curved and the portion of the border at the bottom of the raised front face is straight. A core bar is slidably inserted into the mold box beneath the bottom of the partition plate, and opposite sides of the core bar extend into and form the front bottom portions of the mold cavities.
US12059818B1
In one aspect, a method for manufacturing a composite material for structural applications may include steps of sawing and arranging bamboo woods into bamboo bundles; heating the bamboo bundles; dipping the bamboo bundles in phenolic resin; drying the bamboo bundles; arranging the bamboo bundles with the green surface facing outside and the yellow surface facing inside; and forming bamboo beams with a hot-pressing process.
US12059815B2
A blade set for a hair cutting appliance includes a stationary blade and a cutter blade. The stationary blade has a blade base and a plurality of teeth extending from the blade base in a longitudinal direction. The teeth are arranged in a series alternating with tooth gaps therebetween, where the tooth gaps define hair entry slots. The teeth have a first side arranged to cooperate with the cutter blade to cut hair and a second side arranged as a skin-facing side. The teeth have processing edges at the first side at their longitudinal extension, where the smoothened processing edges have smoothened edge transitions.
US12059814B2
A method includes receiving sensor data for an environment about the robot. The sensor data is captured by one or more sensors of the robot. The method includes detecting one or more objects in the environment using the received sensor data. For each detected object, the method includes authoring an interaction behavior indicating a behavior that the robot is capable of performing with respect to the corresponding detected object. The method also includes augmenting a localization map of the environment to reflect the respective interaction behavior of each detected object.
US12059812B2
A sensor system includes a first member that extends along a rotational axis and has a surface disposed circumferentially about the rotational axis. A conductive element is disposed on the surface of the first member and disposed about the rotational axis. A second member extends along the rotational axis. A rotational position between the first member and the second member is adjustable. A target is mounted to and rotatable with the second member and is movable relative to the second member between first and second positions. The target is spaced apart from the conductive element in both the first and second positions and is spaced further from the conductive element in the second position compared to the first position. The conductive element detects a change in movement of the target from the first position to the second position for any rotational position between the first member and the second member.
US12059808B2
A method includes: accessing a coating thickness range for workpiece coating; triggering an optical sensor to capture scan data representing the workpiece; triggering a depth sensor to capture a first depth value; assembling the scan data into a first virtual model representing the workpiece; defining first spray parameters corresponding to a minimum coating thickness; defining a first toolpath; driving a coating applicator along the first toolpath to spray the coating onto the workpiece; triggering the depth sensor to capture a second depth value; calculating a first coating thickness based on the first depth value and the second depth value; in response to the first coating thickness falling below the target minimum coating thickness defining a second set of spray parameters and a second toolpath; and driving the coating applicator along the second toolpath to spray the coating onto the workpiece according to the second set of spray parameters.
US12059796B2
Inserts disposed in a housing of a pneumatically or hydraulically powered tool having a motor adapted to rotate a drive lug in either of first and second rotational directions. The insert is composed of a material resistive to creep and/or stress relaxation. The insert contacts fasteners applying a clamping force to the tool and remove the housing from the load path of the clamping force, thereby reducing the possibility of fluid leaks.
US12059794B2
A hand-held power tool includes a drive unit actuatable via at least one manual switch, a control unit at least for controlling the drive unit, the control unit having a control-unit housing. The power tool further includes at least one user interface having at least one operating element, and a housing that at least partially accommodates the control unit and the user interface. The hand-held power tool also includes a positioning device, the user interface being supported on the control-unit housing by use of the positioning device.
US12059790B2
A working machine may include: a fan configured to generate an air flow inside a first space; a control unit disposed inside the first space; a partition wall separating the first space from a second space; a first aperture communicating the first space with the second space; and a rib extending from the partition wall and forming an air passage in which the air flow passes, wherein the air passage is positioned between the control unit and the rib. The control unit may include a case housing a circuit board. The control unit may include a first surface facing the rib. In a first direction perpendicular to the first surface, the rib and the first surface may at least partially overlap with each other. A distance between the rib and the first surface may be smaller than a thickness of the case in the first direction.
US12059789B2
A rotation direction switching device of a pneumatic tool includes a valve sleeve, an intake valve and a control member disposed in a tool body. Under a condition that a pivot connecting portion of the control member is pivotally connected to a pivot shaft of the tool body and each driving portion of the control member can drive a driven portion of the intake valve, the control member can drive the intake valve in an arc trajectory to rotate, so that when the control member is in the forward or the reverse rotation control position, the vent of the intake valve is in communication with corresponding one of clockwise and the reverse rotation holes of the valve sleeve, so as to control the pneumatic tool to rotate forward or reversely. Therefore, the assembly cost and production cost can be effectively reduced.
US12059774B1
A sanding block with a base block, an end block, and a locking shaft. The base block has a cavity extending into the base block and a locking shaft aperture extending through the base block. The end block is slidably coupled with the cavity. The locking shaft extends through the locking shaft aperture and has at least one notch that engages with at least one ridge on the end block. The end block is slidable within the cavity between a retracted position and an extended position. When the end block is in the retracted position, the at least one notch is empty and the locking shaft is moveable along the locking shaft aperture. When the end block is in the extended position, each of the at least one ridge is within the at least one notch and the locking shaft is restricted in movement along the locking shaft aperture.
US12059768B2
A blocking piece for vacuum blocking a lens blank is disclosed. The blocking piece includes a blank contacting element formed of a rigid fluid-permeable material having an upper surface for contacting the lens blank. The blocking piece further includes a support element having an upper part tightly enclosing the blank contacting element on a peripheral surface of the blank contacting element and a lower part adapted to engage with a clamping device for clamping the blocking piece. The lens blank is fixed to the upper surface of the blank contacting element by applying a vacuum within the blocking piece to provide suction through essentially the entire upper surface of the blank contacting element. The disclosure further relates to a method for blocking a lens blank and a use of an element formed of a rigid fluid-permeable material as a part of a blocking piece.
US12059766B2
The present disclosure relates to a machine tool, such as a moving column-type machining center, and a method of operating the same, which are capable of shortening tool change time, improving productivity, minimizing a collision or mechanical interference, and increasing stability and reliability in a medium-sized or large-sized machine tool having a long length in a width direction by means of a magazine installed on a saddle, a tool changing unit movably installed on the saddle, and a tool changing unit transfer part configured to move the tool changing unit independently of a column.
US12059755B2
A smart welding system and smart welding process which integrates technology to increase performance and safety in welding operations.
US12059750B2
An NC device controls a processing machine body so as to form an opening by cutting the periphery of an opening forming area in a material. In a case where a skid interferes with the opening forming area and the interfering skid is positioned within a margin from a first gravity center of the opening forming area in an alignment direction of the skid, the NC device controls the processing machine body so as to cut the opening forming area with a dividing line set at a position that is apart by a predetermined distance from the skid in the alignment direction of the skid. The predetermined distance is a distance in which the material is not welded to the skid, and is a distance in which a second gravity center of a scrap interfering with the skid is positioned at a distance longer than the margin from the skid.
US12059742B2
In a double-acting friction stir spot welding device or a double-acting friction stir spot welding method, a pin member and a cylindrical shoulder member that rotates around the axis of the pin member are used as rotary tools, and a clamp member that has a cylindrical shape positioned so as to surround the outside of the shoulder member and is configured to press a workpiece from an obverse surface with an annular pressing surface of the distal end is used as a holding jig. The clamp member has an inclined surface that is adjacent to the inner edge portion of the pressing surface and inclined so as to reduce the inner diameter of the clamp member toward the back side as viewed from the pressing surface.
US12059740B2
A welding method for a new flexible and rollable silicon-based solar module includes the following steps: cutting a cell piece into a small piece cell string including N small piece cells without splitting; cutting a hard protective layer into N small pieces according to a size of a small piece cell; allowing the cut hard protective layer to be covered on and bonded to a glue-dispensed small piece cell string to form a small string cell piece; arranging the small string cell pieces into a small standard piece according to a required size distribution, and covering the small standard piece with an adhesive film; welding positive electrodes and negative electrodes of the small standard pieces in series simultaneously to form a 1P standard part; and arranging the 1P standard parts, and fixing the 1P standard parts by bonding the adhesive films to each other to form a 5P standard part.
US12059728B2
A deformation-driven solid-phase extrusion device and a one-step alloy bar preparation method by using the same are provided. The device includes a stir tool, an extrusion container and an ejector rod. The stir tool has an integral structure composed of an upper mounting part and a lower working part and having a hollow channel. The lower working part is disposed in a groove of the extrusion container, and the ejector rod is disposed in the hollow channel of the stir tool. The method includes adding alloy powder to the extrusion container, enabling the stir tool to exert a pressure and revolve at a high speed to cause large plastic deformation of the powder and generate heat by friction and deform among powder and the friction working surface of the working part, sintering the alloy powder and extruding the same through the hollow channel of the stir tool.
US12059727B1
Systems and methods for additive manufacturing of objects are disclosed. The system includes an object builder subsystem configured to additively manufacture an object in a powder bed, an object extraction subsystem configured to extract the object from the powder bed, and a depowdering subsystem configured to remove powder from the object while the object is gripped by the gripper assembly. The object extraction subsystem includes a gripper assembly comprising two or more gripper members that each include a perforated mesh structure.
US12059724B2
The invention relates to a method of producing an article selected from the group consisting of casting mold, core, feeder and molding compound for production of part of a casting mold, core or feeder, comprising the following steps: (S1) producing or providing in the foundry: a first component (A), comprising a first binder component (b1) of a binder system and an amount of a first mold base material and, spatially separated therefrom, a second component (B), comprising a second binder component (b2) of the binder system and an amount of a second mold base material wherein the first binder component (b1) and the second binder component (b2) are suitable for chemical reaction with one another and for curing of a mixture of the first component (A) and the second component (B), (S2) mixing by contacting the first component (A) and the second component (B) in a particular mass ratio, so as to result in a self-curing molding compound.
US12059714B2
An apparatus for processing a substrate may include an upper chamber, a lower chamber being combined with the upper chamber and separated from the upper chamber, and at least one driving member for moving the lower chamber in an upward direction and a downward direction. The least one driving member may include a supporting element for supporting the lower chamber, a first driving element for moving the lower chamber and the supporting element, a second driving element for moving the lower chamber, the supporting element and the first driving element, the second driving element being disposed adjacent to the first driving element, and a connecting element for connecting the first driving element to the second driving element. A processing space may be provided between the upper chamber and the lower chamber when the lower chamber is combined with the upper chamber.
US12059712B2
A sorting device for sorting agricultural products coming from a bulk flow and a corresponding method are described. A sorting device includes an image acquisition unit; an image processing unit configured to identify and analyze each product in the bulk flow; a decision unit configured to determine the products to be separated; a separation unit arranged to separate at least some of the products coming from the bulk flow; and a unit for conveying the agricultural products in the form of bulk flow. The sorting device may further include means for turning over the agricultural products on themselves, mounted in the conveying unit facing the image acquisition unit, and configured to allow an exposure to the image acquisition unit, of the different parts of the conveyed agricultural products.
US12059709B2
An actuator includes a housing, a moving element and two springs connected between the housing and the moving element such that one of the two springs crosses the other of the two rotor springs without contacting the other of the two springs. A drive component causes the moving element to move.
US12059693B2
A nozzle of a fire suppression system includes a housing. Two or more orifices in the housing emit a fire suppression agent. Each of the two or more orifices emits the fire suppression agent in a rotational vortex.
US12059688B2
A method and apparatus for continuous magnetic filtration of ferrous mill scale from liquid solution employs a tank for receipt of fluids laden with mill scale. A curvate trough within the tank receives a rotatable magnetic drum and establishes a channel therebetween. An air compressor and associated manifold generate bubbles within the tank and adjacent the rotatable magnetic drum. The mill scale attaches to the bubbles, which are attracted to the surface of the drum where the mill scale accumulates. The accumulation of mill scale particles is moved about the surface of the rotating drum by a scraper proximate the surface thereof. By moving the accumulated mill scale particles to regions of the rotating drum that are of a magnetic force insufficient to retain them upon the surface of the drum, the mill scale particles are removed and passed to a conveyor system.
US12059684B2
A concentrating-enriching magnetic bead purifier includes a base, at least one first mixing sleeve socket, at least one second mixing sleeve socket, and a plurality of wells, and a controlling module. The first mixing sleeve socket includes a first magnetic rod, and a first magnetic rod sleeve. The second mixing sleeve socket includes a second magnetic rod and a second magnetic rod sleeve. A diameter of a cross section of the second magnetic rod sleeve is smaller than that of the first magnetic rod sleeve. The wells include at least one binding well, at least one washing well, and at least one elution well. The volume of the elution well is smaller than that of the binding well. The controlling module controls the first magnetic rod sleeve to only mix or adsorb in the binding well and the washing well and controls the second magnetic rod sleeve to mix or adsorb in the washing well and the elution well.
US12059681B2
Methods, devices, systems, and kits useful for the collection and analysis of samples obtained by swabs are disclosed. Swab containers configured for receiving a swab containing a sample; cartridges for holding one or more of: a swab container, a swab, assay units, pipette tips, vessels, transport units, and implements; systems (which may include a sample processing device); kits; and methods for their use are disclosed. A swab container may include an entry port; an assay chamber having an assay port; a conduit comprising an interior channel connecting the entry port; and an interior channel providing fluidic communication between the entry port and assay chamber. An interior channel may be configured to squeeze a portion of a swab placed in or through the conduit. A cartridge may include a cartridge frame configured to receive one or more of swab containers, assay units, transport units, pipette tips, vessels or implements.
US12059678B2
Provided is a microfluidic device including a lower panel including flow velocity measuring structures for measuring a flow velocity of a fluid; an upper panel separated from the lower panel and including a microfluidic channel through which a sample passes; a thin film provided at a portion where the lower panel and the upper panel adjoin each other in order to prevent the sample passing through the microfluidic channel from coming into direct contact with the flow velocity measuring structures, the thin film being configured to separate the lower panel and the upper panel to enable the lower panel to be repeatedly used multiple times; a specific functional unit configured to perform a specific operation on the sample passing through the microfluidic channel; and a negative pressure forming means configured to suck the lower panel and the upper panel with a negative pressure.
US12059674B2
A small volume aqueous sample followed by an air gap and a droplet of oil can be drawn into a pipette tip as a means of storing and protecting the sample from the environment for extended periods of time.
US12059672B2
Supported chromium catalysts with an average valence less than +6 and having a hydrocarbon-containing or halogenated hydrocarbon-containing ligand attached to at least one bonding site on the chromium are disclosed, as well as ethylene-based polymers with terminal alkane, aromatic, or halogenated hydrocarbon chain ends. Another ethylene polymer characterized by at least 2 wt. % of the polymer having a molecular weight greater than 1,000,000 g/mol and at least 1.5 wt. % of the polymer having a molecular weight less than 1000 g/mol is provided, as well as an ethylene homopolymer with at least 3.5 methyl short chain branches and less than 0.6 butyl short chain branches per 1000 total carbon atoms.
US12059670B2
A novel catalyst composition and its use in the dehydrogenation of alkanes to olefins. The catalyst comprises a Group VIII noble metal selected from the group consisting of nickel, iron, cobalt, and combinations thereof, and a metal selected from the group consisting of molybdenum, indium, phosphorous, zinc, and combinations thereof, on a support. The catalyst composition is an active and selective catalyst for the catalytic dehydrogenation of alkanes to olefins.
US12059654B2
The present invention relates to self-assembled nanostructures comprising polyalkyleneimine (PAI) and a detergent solubilized transmembrane protein, such as an aquaporin protein.
US12059651B2
A methane destruction apparatus for capturing and converting fugitive methane gas emissions into carbon dioxide and water comprises a methane-capturing module for capturing the fugitive methane gas emissions and a methane conversion module for receiving captured methane from the methane-capturing module. The methane-capturing module includes a fugitive methane gas emission intake connected to an emissions line having a backpressure equal to 1 to 3 inches of water (249 to 746 Pa), a natural gas feed for feeding natural gas into the methane-capturing module, may include a relief vent for preventing overpressure within the methane-capturing module and a drain for draining liquids that have condensed within the methane-capturing module. The methane conversion module includes a conversion pad for catalytically converting the captured methane into carbon dioxide and water, a water vapour opening for outputting the water and a carbon dioxide opening for outputting the carbon dioxide.
US12059639B2
Provided is an easy and clean processing machine. The processing machine includes a processing chamber having a discharge port; a tank having an inflow port with a gap from the discharge port; a drawer to be stowed in the processing chamber and pulled out rearward from the processing chamber, the drawer including a front plate, a pair of side plates, and a bottom plate including a filter disposed in a front portion, a guide including a stopper; and a slider including a latch portion to collide with the stopper to stop the drawer at an intermediate position. The discharge port is located above the bottom plate, and the filter is located above the inflow port when the drawer is located at the intermediate position.
US12059636B2
Provided is a mixing/clarifying device 100 including a coagulant feeder 10 that feeds coagulant to water to be treated to obtain coagulant-containing water and a tank 20 in which the coagulant-containing water is mixed to form a floc and solid-liquid separation is performed. The tank 20 includes an outer cylinder 21 having an inflow port 210 that flows the coagulant-containing water into the tank 20 and an inner cylinder 22 arranged inserted from the upper side of the tank 20 to the lower side of the inflow port of the outer cylinder 21 and having a lower end open in the tank 20.
US12059612B2
An extendable mechanism may include an extension member. The extendable mechanism may further include a link member which is provided with an extension-member-guide element. The extension member may be in engagement with the extension-member-guide element of the link member in a manner so as to be retractably extendable from the link member in an extension direction along an axis of the extension member. The extendable mechanism may further include a link-member-guide element for being disposed at the body structure. The link member may be in engagement with the link-member-guide element in a manner so as to be retractably extendable from the link-member-guide element in the extension direction. The extendable mechanism may further include a biasing member for being arranged between the link member and the body structure. A controller may include a controller body and the extendable mechanism.
US12059608B2
A self-stabilizing, one-wheeled electric skateboard may include improved features. In some examples, the vehicle includes a status indicator viewable through a slot formed in an upper surface of the board. In some examples, the vehicle includes a convertible carrying handle transitionable between stowed and deployed positions. In some examples, the vehicle includes an interchangeable fender and fender substitute that may be removably coupled to an upper surface of the board. In some examples, a motor controller of the vehicle may operate a field-oriented control (FOC) scheme configured to control the electric motor by manipulating a direct current aligned with a rotating rotor flux angle and a quadrature current defined at ninety degrees from the rotating rotor flux angle. In some examples, the motor controller may be configured to permit intuitive dismounting of the vehicle by tilting and/or moving the vehicle backward.
US12059605B2
A golf bag bumper dimensioned and adapted to removably coupled along a bottom portion of the golf bag, wherein the golf bag bumper is adapted to absorb the energy of impacts, minimizing repair costs to the golf bag and to objects that collides with the energy-absorbing bumper. The golf bag bumper would also enable an aesthetic and/or branding opportunity to the bottom of the golf bag while providing this protection.
US12059593B2
An exercise machine with multiple platforms for an exerciser to perform a variety of exercises generally includes an elongated frame structure supporting stationary first and second end platforms, a longitudinal rail extending between the end platforms and having an upper surface comprising a central platform, and a slideable carriage platform that reciprocates on the rail over the central platform and between the end platforms. The platforms provide multiple support surfaces at multiple elevations on which exercisers can position parts of their bodies during exercise. The platforms may be provided with positioning indices and provide continuous support surfaces over substantially the entire length of the exercise machine. The central platform may be provided with finger grips for exercisers to grasp. One or more mounting platforms may be provided to facilitate mounting and dismounting of the exercise machine.
US12059591B2
A system for rehabilitation is disclosed. The system for rehabilitation includes one or more electronic devices comprising one or more memory devices storing instructions, one or more network interface cards, and one or more sensors, wherein the one or more electronic devices are coupled to a user. The system for rehabilitation further includes one or more processing devices operatively coupled to the one or more memory devices, the one or more network interface cards, and the one or more sensors. The one or more processing devices are configured to execute the instructions to receive information from the one or more sensors. The one or more processing devices are further configured to execute the instructions to transmit the information to a computing device controlling an electromechanical device, via the one or more network interface cards.
US12059584B2
A portable power-driven system, such as an ascender/descender arrangement, ensures that a rope used in relation to the portable power-driven system is securely handled when in an operational state.
US12059580B2
The present invention is concerned with a method and system for guiding a radiation therapy system. The method comprises: capturing an image of a target area to which radiation is to be delivered; analysing the image with a trained convolutional neural network to determine the position of one or more objects of interest present in the target area; and outputting the determined position/s to the radiation therapy system.
US12059576B2
A light-based dental treatment system includes a handle generator having a generator housing and at least one light element configured to generate therapeutic light. The handle generator includes an alignment collet having a light passage extending along a movable interior collet profile. At least one delivery shaft assembly is selectively coupled with the handle generator. The at least one delivery shaft assembly includes a delivery shaft having proximal and distal shaft profile and a proximal light port. A distal light port of the delivery shaft is configured to deliver therapeutic light from the delivery shaft to a treatment location. The interior collet profile of the alignment collet is configured to grasp the delivery shaft and align the proximal light port with the at least one light element.
US12059575B2
A device can include a first compliant optrode. The first compliant optrode can be introduced into a tissue sample and can include a stack of flexible waveguide materials providing a first optical interface. The stack of flexible waveguide materials can have a thickness of less than about 100 microns. The first compliant optrode can be linear and can be configured to bend at a turn radius of less than about 300 microns.
US12059573B2
A cardiac defibrillation system. The system comprising a housing and an implantable lead. The implantable lead comprising two ends, including a first end connected to the housing and a second end being a free end. The implantable lead also comprising a defibrillation electrode and at least three detection electrodes including a first detection electrode, a second detection electrode, and a third detection electrode. The first detection electrode and the second detection electrode forming a first dipole. The third detection electrode and the first detection electrode, or, the third detection electrode and the second detection electrode, or, the housing and one of said detection electrodes, forming a second dipole, where a length of the first dipole is between 5 and 50 millimeters and a length of the second dipole is between 50 and 400 millimeters.
US12059570B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems and methods for connecting a lead to an implantable medical device. The apparatuses, systems and methods may include a clamp arranged within a connector port configured to secure the lead with a header in response to frictional engagement between a portion of the implantable lead and the clamp.
US12059567B1
Stimulation treatments for various medical disorders, such as neurological disorders, comprise novel systems, strategies, and methods for providing TMS, electrical, magnetic, optical and other stimulation modalities. Some stimulation methods comprise varying the stimulation parameters to improve the therapeutic efficacy of stimulation, and decrease risk of habituation and side-effects such as interference with normal brain, sensory, motor, and cognitive processes. The creation, and subsequent variation, of stimulation parameters can use sensed data in order to match, adjust, or avoid matching characteristics of the stimulation therapy relative to certain endogenous brain activities. Improvements for the treatment of pain are disclosed.
US12059565B1
Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of methods and systems for (i) modulating, enhancing, or maintaining slow waves using phase-locked neurostimulation; (ii) modulating, enhancing, or maintaining unconsciousness; or (iii) reducing the amount of anesthesia required in a subject. Briefly, therefore, the present disclosure is directed to applying neurostimulation to the brain of a subject to enhance anesthesia, thereby decreasing drug requirements of anesthesia.
US12059562B2
Self-righting articles, such as self-righting capsules for administration to a subject, are generally provided. In some embodiments, the self-righting article may be configured such that the article may orient itself relative to a surface (e.g., a surface of a tissue of a subject). The self-righting articles described herein may comprise one 5 or more tissue engaging surfaces configured to engage (e.g., interface with, inject into, anchor) with a surface (e.g., a surface of a tissue of a subject). In some embodiments, the self-righting article may have a particular shape and/or distribution of density (or mass) which, for example, enables the self-righting behavior of the article. In certain embodiments, the self-righting article a tissue 10 interfacing components. In some embodiments, each tissue-interfacing component may comprise an electrically-conductive portion configured for electrical communication with tissue and an insulative portion configured to not be in electrical communication with tissue.
US12059559B2
Sensors for catheter pumps are disclosed herein. The catheter pump can include a catheter assembly comprising a catheter and a cannula coupled to a distal portion of the catheter. The cannula can have a proximal port for permitting the flow of blood therethrough. The catheter assembly can include a sensor to be disposed near the proximal port. A processing unit can be programmed to process a signal detected by the sensor. The processing unit can comprise a computer-readable set of rules to evaluate the signal to determine a position of the cannula relative to an aortic valve of a patient.
US12059557B2
A medication delivery device is equipped with a sensing system to determine the amount of a dose set and/or delivered by operation of the device. Such amount is determined based on the sensing of relative rotational and/or axial movements during dose setting or delivery between members of the medication delivery device, where the sensed movements are correlated as applicable to the amount of the dose set. The device includes one or more wiper assemblies coupled to one or more rotatable device members. Sensing bands are coupled to another device member, and arranged in contacting relationship with wipers. During relative rotation and/or axial movement between the device members, each sensing band is operable to generate an output associated with the relative angular and/or linear position of the wiper along an operational angular length of the sensing bands indicative of relative rotational positions of the device members.
US12059556B2
A data collection device comprises an attachment assembly for attaching the data collection device to a dose setting dial of a medicament administration device and a sensor configured to detected an identifier provided on a surface of an internal component of the medicament administration device, the sensor comprising an ultrasound sensor configured to detect a geometric identifier formed on the surface of the internal component of the medicament administration device. A system comprises the data collection device and the medicament administration device.
US12059548B2
A self-compensating chucking device may be provided. The chucking device may form a portion of a latching door handle of a door of an infusion pump. The door and a housing of the infusion pump may form a clam-shell clamp that secures infusion tubing to pumping mechanisms of the infusion pump. The latching door handle may include a latching door mechanism that includes a tapered pin. The tapered pin may extend through an outer portion of a door housing, an opening in a handle of the door, and into an opening in an inner portion of the door housing. The opening in the handle of the door may have a tapered inner surface that corresponds to the taper the tapered pin to form the chucking device. The pin may include a groove configured to accept an E-clip that retains the tapered pin within the door housing.
US12059546B2
Methods and systems are provided for adaptive scan control. In one embodiment, a method includes, upon a first contrast injection of a first contrast bolus, processing acquired projection data of a subject to measure a contrast signal of the first contrast bolus, setting a timing for a second contrast injection of a second contrast bolus to a fallback injection timing, and responsive to identifying an adaptive injection timing for the second contrast injection based on the contrast signal before the fallback injection timing is reached, updating the timing for the second contrast injection to the adaptive injection timing and commanding initiation of the second contrast injection at the adaptive injection timing, otherwise commanding initiation of the second contrast injection at the fallback injection timing.
US12059545B2
Some embodiments disclosed herein relate to medical connectors with a housing comprising a proximal body member and a base member that form an internal cavity with a proximal abutment surface. An elastomeric seal without a guide member is positioned within the internal cavity. A rigid, hollow elongated portion is located within the internal cavity such that in an open configuration, a tip of the elongated portion is more proximal than a proximal surface of the elastomeric seal.
US12059527B2
A method and a circuit system for driving a nebulizer are provided. When the nebulizer receives acoustic waves, a control circuit extracts audio signals from the acoustic waves. Afterwards, the control circuit determines if the audio signals are within a predetermined frequency range, and can determine whether or not to drive a circuit to produce an aerosol based on the audio signals. Further, a volume of the acoustic waves can also be used to determine whether or not to produce the aerosol, and also determine an output rate of the aerosol. The circuit system of the nebulizer includes an audio receiver for receiving the acoustic waves, an aerosol generator for producing the aerosol, and the control circuit used to control a driving circuit of the aerosol generator to drive a vibrational element to produce the aerosol through vibration in response to the audio signals and the volume.
US12059525B2
There is disclosed an aerosol delivery device. The aerosol delivery device includes a first aerosol first aerosol sized for pulmonary penetration; and a second aerosol sized to inhibit pulmonary penetration. The second aerosol is transmissible within at least one of: a mammalian oral cavity and a mammalian nasal cavity, and the second aerosol comprising an active component for activating at least one of: one or more taste receptors in said oral cavity and one or more olfactory receptors in said nasal cavity. The second aerosol generator includes a Venturi aperture to generate the second aerosol. There is disclosed a consumable for a substitute smoking device and a substitute smoking system. The consumable includes an airflow passage between an upstream inlet of the consumable and a downstream outlet of the consumable. The consumable also includes a porous member for passive aerosol generation. The airflow passage is constricted by the porous member to form a narrowed portion of the airflow passage. In another embodiment, the consumable also includes an inner porous member (315) for passive aerosol generation. The airflow passage has an annular portion surrounding at least a portion of the porous member. In another embodiment, a portion of the airflow passage is located between a porous surface of the porous member and an opposing airflow passage wall. A minimum distance between the porous surface of the porous member and the opposing airflow passage wall is less than 1000 microns. In another embodiment, the consumable also includes a porous member (315) for passive aerosol generation located within the airflow passage. The porous member is tapered along a longitudinal axis of the consumable. In another embodiment, the consumable has a longitudinal axis and includes an airflow passage (308) between an upstream inlet of the consumable and a downstream outlet of the consumable. The consumable also includes a porous member (315) for passive aerosol generation. A longitudinal cross section of the airflow passage includes an inclined portion forming a passage angle with the longitudinal axis of the consumable. The passage angle is greater than zero degrees and less than 90 degrees and a wall of the inclined portion is formed from a porous surface (318) of the porous member. In another embodiment, the consumable includes an active aerosol generator (304) for generating a first aerosol from a first aerosol precursor (310), and a passive aerosol generator (305) for generating a second aerosol from a second aerosol precursor (316). In another embodiment, the consumable also includes an aerosol generator for generating an aerosol. An external portion of the aerosol generator is located at the outlet of the consumable. In another embodiment, the consumable also includes an aerosol generator for generating an aerosol at an aerosol generation location. The aerosol generation location is substantially at the outlet located at a mouthpiece of the consumable. In another embodiment, the outlet is located at a mouthpiece portion of the consumable; and the mouthpiece portion includes a nozzle for control of an aerosol from the aerosol generator.
US12059508B2
Systems and methods for the automated demineralization of bone and decellularization of soft tissue include a mixing assembly communicatively coupled with a control and reporting system. The mixing assembly includes a housing that supports a cannister sub-assembly forming a mixing chamber having a reagent inlet, a reagent outlet, and an internal fluid agitator. A motor is operably coupled with the agitator and configured to spin the agitator in first and second directions relative to the cannister, thereby agitating fluid contained within the mixing chamber. At least one pump is configured to progressively inject measured quantities of a plurality of reagents into the mixing chamber. The associated control and reporting system includes a user terminal that displays a graphical user interface enabling a user to initiate an automated demineralization or decellularization procedure in which the mixing assembly demineralizes tissue placed within the mixing chamber. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US12059506B2
Implant devices are coated with biologically active compounds, in particular with plant extracts from vinification residues. The implant devices are bone implants, and in particular dental implants. A method for functionalizing a surface of an implant device is includes the steps of a) optionally, treating the surface of the implant device with air, oxygen, argon, nitrogen plasma, and plasma capable of removing the surface layer of hydrocarbon contamination, b) treating the surface of the implant with an amine substrate, c) treating the surface of the implant resulting from step b), alternatively with a marcs extract, and drying the functionalized surface, or by co-adsorbing a marcs extract and hyaluronic acid, and drying the functionalized surface, or by adsorbing hyaluronic acid and post-adsorbing a marcs extract, and drying of the functionalized surface.
US12059502B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising an HDAC inhibitor, a pharmaceutically acceptable acid or salt thereof or a mixture of the acid and salt, provided both in a immediate release form and in an extended release form wherein 70-90 weight % of the HDAC inhibitor is provided in the immediate release form and the remainder of the HDAC inhibitor is provided in the extended release form. In further aspects the present invention relates to a kit comprising a number of doses of an HDAC inhibitor, a pharmaceutically acceptable acid or salt thereof or a mixture of the acid and salt thereof provided both in an immediate release form and in an extended release form. In still further aspects the present invention relates to an HDAC inhibitor, a pharmaceutically acceptable acid or salt thereof or a mixture of the acid and salt, provided in both an immediate release form and an extended release form, for use in a method of pretreating cancer, and a method of pretreating cancer using said HDAC inhibitor provided both in said immediate release form and said extended release form. Further aspects relate to combination treatment of cancer and to a dispenser for a blister pack.
US12059500B2
Disclosed herein are therapeutic constructs including a delivery particle, at least one mitotic kinase inhibitor, and at least one immune checkpoint inhibitor. Also disclosed are therapeutic constructs including a mitotic kinase inhibitor, an immune checkpoint inhibitor, and a chemical linker. These therapeutic constructs cause cancer death by both therapeutic and immune effects and promote targeted delivery of more therapeutics to the surviving cancer cells in a positive feed-back loop. They enhance therapeutic index of free drugs and can be used intratumorally or systemically. This strategy can treat broad cancer types and is particular useful for cancer without obvious receptors for cancer-targeted delivery of otherwise toxic therapeutics.
US12059496B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a mixture of empty liposomes, wherein said mixture of empty liposomes comprises (a) a first empty liposome comprising cholesterol, wherein the amount of cholesterol is at least 30% (weight per weight); and (b) a second empty liposome comprising sphingomyelin, for use in adjunctive treatment of 5 pneumonia in a human patient.
US12059483B2
The invention relates to a process of producing a dental zirconia restoration, the dental zirconia restoration having an outer and an inner surface, the process comprising the step of firing a porous dental zirconia restoration and a glass until the porous dental zirconia restoration is sintered, the glass being located during the firing step on at least a portion of the outer surface of the porous dental zirconia restoration, wherein the zirconia material of the porous dental zirconia restoration and the glass are selected such that during the firing step the glass infiltrates the pores of the porous dental zirconia restoration to an extent of not more than 5 μm in depth. The invention also relates to a sintered dental zirconia restoration obtainable by such a process and a kit of parts comprising a porous dental zirconia mill blank and a surface treating agent containing a glass for use in such a process.
US12059482B2
Activity-based probe compounds for use in labeling a cysteine protease are provided. The compounds are targeted to the protease through a specific targeting element. The compounds additionally include a detectable element, such as a fluorescent label, a radiolabel, or a chelator. In some cases, the compounds additionally include a quenching element that is released upon reaction with the protease. Also provided are compositions comprising the compounds and methods for using the compounds, for example in labeling a protease in an animal and in visualizing a tumor in an animal.
US12059478B2
An inhibitor of p53 activation for use in haematopoietic stem and/or progenitor cell gene therapy, preferably wherein the inhibitor is an inhibitor of p53 phosphorylation, more preferably an inhibitor of p53 Serine 15 phosphorylation.
US12059476B2
The present invention provides biodegradable, biomimetic particles for interacting with cells, including immune cells. In various embodiments, the particles comprise a polymer blend comprising a polyester, such as poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) and a polyamine, such as poly(beta-amino ester) (PBAE). The particles further comprise, on their surface, one or more ligands for one or more cell surface receptor(s) or cell surface molecule(s). In some embodiments, the cell surface receptor or cell surface molecule is on an immune cell, such as a lymphocyte (T cell or B cell), natural killer cell, dendritic cell, or other cell of the immune system or tumor microenvironment.
US12059468B2
The present invention provides a phosphorothioate-modified oligonucleotide comprising a structure shown below: The present invention also provides a phosphorothioate-modified oligonucleotide comprising a structure having formula (CIII):
US12059455B2
A system for preparing a thrombin serum that can include a containment device, a cage received within the containment device, a cap attachable to the containment device, an inlet port configured to introduce a non-anti-coagulated autologous blood fluid into the containment device, and an outlet port. An activator, such as glass beads, can be present within the containment device.
US12059443B2
Described herein are compositions and methods for treating a disease, particularly a cancer, with a Dengue Virus and, optionally, primed dendritic cells recognizing a tumor antigen. Lysis protocols are described where the lysis does not result in complete or less than complete lysis of cells in order to provide cell surface molecules maintained in a cell surface-embedded state. Non-lethal Dengue virus strains are also provided for therapeutic purposes.
US12059419B2
The present invention relates to stable pharmaceutical composition comprising phthalazinone derivatives having good activity as poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors.
US12059418B2
The invention provides methods of treating or preventing malaria comprising administering to an animal an effective amount of a compound of formula I: Q-Y—R1—R2 (I), wherein Q, Y, R1, and R2 are as described herein. Methods of inhibiting a plasmodial surface anion channel of a parasite in an animal are also provided. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound represented by formula I in combination with any one or more compounds represented by formulas II, V, and VI. Use of the pharmaceutical compositions for treating or preventing malaria or for inhibiting a plasmodial surface anion channel in animals including humans are also provided. Also provided by the invention are clag3 amino acid sequences and related nucleic acids, vectors, host cells, populations of cells, antibodies, and pharmaceutical compositions.
US12059410B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of treating gastrointestinal stromal tumors to a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of ripretinib or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US12059408B2
The invention relates to the treatment of cognitive impairment associated with schizophrenia (CIAS) with a specific GlyT1 inhibitor ([5-(methylsulfonyl)-2-{[(2R)-1,1,1-trifluoropropan-2-yl]oxy}phenyl]{(1R,5R)-1-[5-(trifluoromethyl)-1,2-oxazol-3-yl]-3-azabicyclo[3.1.0]hex-3-yl}methanone). A 12-week treatment in a phase 2 study showed improvement in cognitive function as measured by the MATRICS Consensus Cognitive Battery (MCCB) overall composite score.
US12059406B2
Stable, injectable pharmaceutical compositions are provided, which are useful as ready-to-dilute (RTD) or ready-to-use (RTU) liquid injectable compositions comprising bendamustine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and which are suitable for intravenous administration. Preferably, solution formulations comprise (a) bendamustine, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, or hydrates thereof, (b) at least one pharmaceutically acceptable non-aqueous solvent; (c) optionally, at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, and (d) optionally, a pH adjuster, where the pharmaceutical composition is antioxidant-free, and formulated as a ready-to-dilute or ready-to-use liquid composition suitable for parenteral administration. The invention further relates to methods for manufacturing stable, antioxidant-free injectable solutions of bendamustine.
US12059404B2
The invention relates to the alkaloids mesembranol or mesembrenol, or pharmaceutical acceptable salts or complexes thereof, for use in the prophylaxis or treatment of a disease that responds to treatment with an AMPA (α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid) receptor antagonist. The prophylaxis or treatment attenuates AMPA mediated neurotransmission in the hippocampus of a subject.
US12059403B2
The invention provides the use of SWELL1 inhibitors and modulators for therapeutic use, e.g., to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes.
US12059402B2
The invention relates to psychoactive medicines including 2C-B, methylone, MBDB, their respective metabolites, isomers, enantiomers, polymorphs, and analogues (2C-series and cathinones); their preparation, formulations, intermediates, routes of administration, dosing and schedule for medical uses for psychiatric and neurological conditions and disorders.
US12059389B2
The invention provides for a delivery system including a delivery assembly configured to allow delivery of a single dose of a therapeutic agent (e.g., vaccine, drug, medicament, etc.) from a Blow-Fill-Seal (BFS) vial to a patient.
US12059388B1
A supple carrier for carrying a container of medically useful solution or suspension. The supple carrier includes a first monitoring window providing a first visualization perspective of the container contained by the envelope and one or more adjustable pressurizers. The supple carrier can delay the temperature change of the medically useful solution or suspension carried by the carrier.
US12059387B2
A charge device is provided that includes a charge barrel having a charge. The charge barrel has an exit aperture and a flexible positioning device at the exit aperture. The charge is located inside the charge barrel. The charge barrel is adapted and arranged so that the charge is able to exit the charge barrel via the exit aperture.
US12059386B2
A device for organizing and tracking medication. The device includes compartments to contain medication, and each compartment includes an access door. A sensor element can detect if the device is moved, if the access door is opened and/or closed, and/or if medications have been placed into or removed from a compartment. A processor and/or external computing system provides alarms if medications is not properly taken, a filling service for stuffing the compartments and an administration service to verify the medications are properly taken.
US12059383B2
A motorized tensioning mechanism for orthotic devices, such as a knee brace, wherein the controls for the motorized tensioning mechanism may be manual, automatic, or a hybrid of both. Sensors associated with the orthotic device may inform the user regarding tension or other aspects of the device, and, in cases, may automatically adjust tension in the motorized tensioning mechanism.
US12059368B2
According to some embodiments of the invention, an anchoring system includes a sleeve having an inner surface defining a first lumen, a first annular sealing mechanism disposed at a proximal end of the sleeve, and a second annular sealing mechanism disposed at a distal end of the sleeve. The anchoring system further includes a pressure tube in fluid connection with an outer surface of the sleeve, a sheath in mechanical connection with the sleeve, the sheath forming a second lumen, the second lumen being in fluid connection with the first lumen, and open-cell foam disposed on the outer surface of the sleeve. Application of negative pressure to the pressure tube causes a seal to form between the first and second annular sealing mechanisms and an inner surface of a tissue cavity. Application of negative pressure to the pressure tube also creates a frictional force that resists displacement of the sleeve.
US12059359B2
The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. In one embodiment, the fusion device includes a central ramp, a first endplate, and a second endplate, the central ramp capable of being moved in a first direction to move the first and second endplates outwardly and into an expanded configuration. The fusion device is capable of being deployed down an endoscopic tube.
US12059358B2
The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. In one embodiment, the fusion device includes a central ramp, a first endplate, and a second endplate, the central ramp capable of being moved in a first direction to move the first and second endplates outwardly and into an expanded configuration. The fusion device is capable of being deployed down an endoscopic tube.
US12059341B2
A method of making a self-sealing membrane for a prosthetic implant includes applying tension to a first layer of a cured elastomeric material to stretch the first layer, and while the first layer remains stretched, applying a second layer of an uncured elastomeric material over a first major surface of the first layer. After the second layer is cured, the tension on the first layer is released, whereupon the first layer returns to a non-stretched configuration for holding the second layer in contraction. The method includes, while the first layer remains stretched, applying a third layer of an uncured elastomeric material over a second major surface of the first layer. After curing the second and third layers, tension is released from the first layer, which returns to the non-stretched configuration for holding the second and third layers in contraction.
US12059328B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for making elastomeric laminates that may be used as components of absorbent articles. Aspects of the methods for assembling elastomeric laminates may utilize elastic strands supplied from beams that may be joined with first and second substrates, and may be configured to carry out various types of operations, such as bonding and splicing operations.
US12059327B2
An item of clothing for treating skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders, includes a tubular body with at least one relatively inelastic part having an inner layer defining an inner face of the inelastic part, the inner layer including a plurality of protruding spaced apart elements. A relatively elastic part extends from a first axial end to an opposite axial end of the tubular body and connects a first edge of the inelastic part to a second edge of the inelastic part. The item further includes: a flap which is relatively inelastic and has an inner layer defining an inner face of the flap, the inner layer including a plurality of protruding spaced apart elements, the flap being secured to at least part of the first edge of the inelastic part, and a device for reversibly attaching the flap to at least part of the second edge of the inelastic part.
US12059321B2
The present invention provides methods and systems including orthodontic tooth positioning appliances. An exemplary appliance can include teeth receiving cavities shaped such that, when worn by a patient, repositioning the patient's teeth from a first arrangement toward a subsequent or target arrangement. Appliances can include a cavity having one or more shaped features or protrusions shaped and/or positioned so as to apply a desired force to a patient's tooth received in the cavity and move the tooth along a desired path or direction.
US12059306B2
An ultrasound imaging system includes an ultrasound probe including transducers, a digital acquisition board including electronic circuits adapted to control the transducers to emit ultrasound waves and to convert signals sensed by transducers into digital data; a real-time sequencer adapted to control the electronic circuits to drive the emission and reception of ultrasound signals, based on working parameters and sequence parameters; and a computer connected to the digital acquisition board and including a computer's memory, the parameters being stored in the computer's memory. The digital acquisition board further includes a DMA controller adapted to access the computer's memory in reading and writing by implementation of DMA protocols, and the sequencer is adapted to send requests to the DMA controller to recover the parameters from the computer's memory in real time.
US12059302B2
Provided is an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including a transceiver that transmits and receives first ultrasound of a low acoustic output and second ultrasound of a high acoustic output, and a first hardware processor that generates the ultrasound image based on a first reception signal acquired by transmitting and receiving the first ultrasound. The first hardware processor includes a learning model formed of a neural network, and generates the ultrasound image based on an output result of the learning model.
US12059299B2
An ultrasonic probe includes a wireless transmitter-receiver configured to perform communication through a wireless network having a plurality of channels and obtain identification information of apparatuses connected to the wireless network from the apparatuses; a memory configured to store identification information for identifying other ultrasonic probes from among the apparatuses; and a processor configured to count other ultrasonic probes connected with the wireless network on a per channel basis with respect to the plurality of channels based on the identification information obtained by the wireless transmitter-receiver and the identification information stored in the memory, and determine to connect to a channel at which the number of the other ultrasonic probes counted by the processor is smallest.
US12059297B2
Disclosed in an ultrasonic probe for obtaining an ultrasonic image. The ultrasonic probe includes piezoelectric elements forming a plurality of rows arranged to form a pair along a lateral direction, a kerf formed between the piezoelectric elements along the lateral direction, a first circuit layer disposed below the piezoelectric elements, a second circuit layer disposed to be spaced apart from a lower side of the first circuit layer and including a plurality of wires extending along the rows, the second circuit layer being provided with a first region in selectively contact with the piezoelectric elements and a second region disposed at opposite ends of the first region and folded without being in contact with the piezoelectric elements, and a first connection part to electrically connect the first circuit layer and the second circuit layer, wherein the first region is, when the plurality of wires extending along one row of the pair of rows extends from the first region to the second region, provided such that the plurality of wires is distributed to the other adjacent row.
US12059290B2
A fetal head direction measuring device includes a medical ultrasonic probe for scanning and acquiring a preset ultrasonic image, an angle sensor fixed to the medical ultrasonic probe for sensing an angular change of a scanning direction of the medical ultrasonic probe, and a data processing unit for calculating a fetal head direction. A fetal head direction measuring method includes: obtaining an angle value sensed by the angle sensor at an initial position; acquiring a preset ultrasonic image and recording an angle value sensed by an angle sensor at this time; marking preset fetal head feature points and calculating a directional angle of the preset fetal head feature points in the preset ultrasonic image; and determining the fetal head direction. A fetal head orientation can be measured and calculated more conveniently and flexibly, and the user operation is simpler and more flexible.
US12059287B2
A radiographing system includes a radiation generation apparatus emitting a radiation, a radiation detection apparatus detecting the radiation to generate a radiographic image, and a radiographing apparatus controlling operation of the radiation detection apparatus by communicating with the radiation detection apparatus. The radiographing system further includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information about the radiation detection apparatus, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the radiation detection apparatus includes an automatic exposure control (AEC) function, based on the information about the radiation detection apparatus acquired by the acquisition unit.
US12059278B2
A system and method using an inflatable jacket over the compression paddle of a mammography and/or tomosynthesis system to enhance imaging and improve patient comfort in x-ray breast imaging.
US12059276B2
Many variations of systems, methods and apparatus for counting medical procedure objects, reconciling same, estimating patient blood loss during and/or after a procedure, and/or communicating between medical equipment used in a medical procedure setting are disclosed and/or illustrated herein. More particularly, many systems, methods and apparatus for counting and/or reconciling medical sponges with passive or active tracking devices, properly detecting/estimating blood loss during and/or after a medical procedure to assist with transfusion decision-making and identifying or at least alerting as to post-procedure patient risks, and/or for communicating between devices used during procedures to provide a smart/connected medical procedure environment are disclosed and/or illustrated herein.
US12059275B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus can include a robotic arm cart for transporting, delivering, and securing robotic arms to a surgical table having a table top. The arm cart can include an arm container and a base. The arm container can be configured to receive and contain one or more robotic arms. The arm cart can include a first coupling member configured to engage with a second coupling member associated with a surgical table such that, when the first coupling member is engaged with the second coupling member, the one or more robotic arms can be releasably coupled with the surgical table. The arm cart can provide for movement of the one or more robotic arms in at least one of a lateral, longitudinal, or vertical direction relative to the table top prior to the securement of the one or more robotic arms to the surgical table.
US12059274B2
A patient monitoring system can have a display screen or portion thereof with graphic user interface for displaying indications of a patient's oxygen state. The indications can include the patient's SpO2, dissolved oxygen index, and/or an increasing or decreasing trend of dissolved oxygen index. The displays of oxygen state indications can be compact, and/or able to provide direct visual information to a user of various aspects of the patient's oxygen state. The display elements can be used to represent any other physiological parameters.
US12059269B2
A wearable device for measuring a cardiovascular system of a user includes an attachment component, a blood pressure measurement module, and a sensor configured to detect an existence of a limb part of the user. The attachment component is for attaching the wearable device to the limb part of the user and includes a connecting mechanism. A condition of the connecting mechanism can be used to determine whether the attachment component is in a connected configuration or in a disconnected configuration. The blood pressure measurement module has an expander, an actuator, and a blood pressure measurement sensor. The expander can be disposed on the limb part and can contact against the user. The expander can be controlled by the actuator to be inflated, by which the blood pressure measurement sensor can measure blood pressure in the cardiovascular system of the user.
US12059261B2
Systems and methods for identifying one or more P-waves in real-time are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a plurality of signals from an ECG lead configured to be connected with a patient; determine a noise level of the plurality of signals during a pre-determined time interval; identify a plurality of QRS-complex candidates from the received plurality of signals; extract one or more features from each QRS-complex candidate based on the determined noise level of the plurality of signals; cluster, based on the extracted one or more features from each QRS-complex candidate, the plurality of QRS-complex candidates; and identify one or more P-waves from the clustered plurality of QRS-complex candidates. Based on the identified one or more P-waves, a heart block event can be detected.
US12059260B2
This disclosure relates to integrated channel integrity detection and to reconstruction of electrophysiological signals. An example system includes a input channels configured to receive respective electrical signals from respective electrodes. An amplifier stage includes a plurality of differential amplifiers, each of the differential amplifiers being configured to provide an amplifier output signal based on a difference between a respective pair of the electrical signals. Channel detection logic is configured to provide channel data indicating an acceptability of each of the input channels based on an analysis of a common mode rejection of the amplifier output signals.
US12059258B2
The present invention relates to a method for calibrating on-line a direct neural interface implementing a REW-NPLS regression between an output calibration tensor and an input calibration tensor. The REW-NPLS regression comprises a PARAFAC iterative decomposition of the cross covariance tensor between the input calibration tensor and the output calibration tensor, each PARAFAC iteration comprising a sequence of M elementary steps (2401, 2401, . . . 240M) of minimisation of a metric according to the alternating least squares method, each elementary minimisation step relating to a projector and considering the others as constant, said metric comprising a penalisation term that is a function of the norm of this projector, the elements of this projector not being subjected to a penalisation during a PARAFAC iteration f not being penalisable during following PARAFAC iterations. Said calibration method makes it possible to obtain a predictive model of which the non-zero coefficients are sparse blockwise.
US12059255B2
Disclosed are analyte monitoring systems and methods for calibrating an analyte sensor using one or more reference measurements. These systems and methods may include using a conversion function and first sensor data to calculate a first sensor analyte level, weighting a first reference analyte measurement (RM1) and one or more previous reference analyte measurements according to a weighted average cost function, updating the conversion function using the weighted RM1 and the one or more weighted previous reference analyte measurements as calibration points, and using the updated conversion function and second sensor data to calculate a second sensor analyte level. In some aspects, the systems and methods may include updating one or more of lag parameters used to calculate the sensor analyte levels.
US12059248B2
Neuromuscular monitoring is described that uses a novel lead assembly and a monitor that can select the appropriate electrodes on the lead assembly and calibrate the stimulation signals applied to the patient through the lead assembly. The monitoring can also set a noise floor value to reduce the likelihood of an erroneous train of four calculations. The present system can automatically sense train of four response of a patient and reduce the likelihood of false train of four indications.
US12059244B2
A catheter is responsive to external and internal magnetic field generators for generating position data of the catheter position and pressure data to determine pressured exerted on a distal end of the catheter when engaged with tissue, with a reduced number of sensing coils and reduced number of sensing coil leads for minimizing lead breakage and failure. The catheter includes a distal section adapted for engagement with patient tissue, where the distal section has a proximal portion, a distal portion and a flexible joint with a resilient member adapted to allow axial displacement and angular deflection between the proximal and distal portions of the distal section. The catheter may have three or less sensing coils with three or less leads, each transmitting signals between a respective sensing coil and the signal processor.
US12059228B2
Connection systems and methods for establishing optical and electrical connections through a drape are disclosed. A connection system can include a plug and a receptacle, the plug being configured to insert into the receptacle with the drape therebetween. The plug can include an optical terminal extending from a plug housing and an electrical terminal extending from the plug housing. The electrical terminal can be configured as a piercing element for piercing the drape. The receptacle can include an optical receiver within a receptacle housing and an electrical receiver within the receptacle housing. The optical receiver can be configured to form the optical connection with the optical terminal, and the electrical receiver can be configured to form the electrical connection with the electrical terminal when the plug is inserted into the receptacle with the drape therebetween.
US12059225B2
A robotic surgical system includes at least one robotic arm comprising at least one movable joint and an actuator configured to drive the at least one movable joint, and a controller configured to generate a first signal, the first signal comprising a first oscillating waveform having a first frequency and being modulated by a second oscillating waveform having a second frequency, wherein the second frequency is higher than the first frequency. The actuator is configured to drive the at least one movable joint based on the first signal to at least partially compensate for friction in the at least one movable joint.
US12059219B2
Systems and method for assisted catheter steering are provided. Instructions for steering a catheter within a patient are received. A graph defining paths between a plurality of configurations of a robotic catheter navigation system is constructed based on the received instructions. Each of the plurality of configurations are associated with a respective view of the patient. A path is determined in the graph to a target configuration of the plurality of configurations of the robotic catheter navigation system. The catheter is automatically steered within the patient based on the determined path in the graph to recover the respective view of the patient associated with the target configuration.
US12059216B2
A method and a system for image-guided intervention such as a percutaneous treatment or diagnosis of a patient may include at least one of a pre-registration method and a re-registration method. The pre-registration method is configured to permit for an efficient virtual representation of a planned trajectory to target tissue during the intervention, for example, as a holographic light ray shown through an augmented reality system. In turn, this allows the operator to align a physical instrument such as a medical probe for the intervention. The re-registration method is configured to adjust for inaccuracy in the virtual representation generated by the pre-registration method, as determined by live imaging of the patient during the intervention. The re-registration method may employ the use of intersectional contour lines to define the target tissue as viewed through the augmented reality system, which permits for an unobstructed view of the target tissue for the intervention.
US12059212B2
An instrument registers and tracks a portion of a patient's anatomy by an Augmented Reality (AR) device worn by a surgeon during a surgical procedure. The instrument may be attached to the patient's anatomy. The instrument may be a tripod with a platform. A target plate having front and back faces may be securely attached to the platform. A two-dimensional (2D) code detectable by the AR device may be presented on the front and back faces of the target plate. The 2D code may define a coordinate system having a known relationship to a coordinate system for the patient's anatomy, e.g., through a transformation matrix. The AR device may utilize the coordinate system for the detected 2D code and the transformation matrix to present holograms in predetermined positions relative to the patient's anatomy.
US12059209B2
An optical coherence tomographic device of polarization-sensitive type may include: an image capturing unit configured to capture a tomographic image of a subject eye, and a display unit configured to display the tomographic image captured by the image capturing unit. The tomographic image may include at least two images selected from a group consisting of: an image showing a tissue in the subject eye by scattering intensity, an image showing a melanin distribution in the subject eye, an image showing a fiber density in the subject eye, an image showing a fiber direction in the subject eye, and an image showing a blood flow in the subject eye. The display unit may be configured to display the at least two images at a same position and on a same cross section such that the at least two images are superimposed on each other.
US12059207B2
A method of testing a subject for impairment includes presenting the subject with a display of a smoothly moving object, repeatedly moving over a tracking path and, while presenting the display to the subject, measuring the subject's right eye positions and measuring the subject's left eye positions. The method further includes generating a disconjugacy metric by comparing the measured right eye positions with the measured left eye positions, comparing the disconjugacy metric with a predetermined baseline to determine whether the disconjugacy metric is indicative of an impairment, and generating a report based on the disconjugacy metric.
US12059188B2
Implant delivery systems for delivering sheet-like implants include a delivery shaft, an implant expander, a sheath, and a sheet-like implant. In some embodiments, the delivery shaft has a proximal end and a distal end. The implant expander is mounted to the distal end of the delivery shaft. The implant expander includes a central portion and a plurality of leg portions radiating from the central portion. The implant expander is evertable between an unstressed configuration in which a distal surface of the implant expander defines a concave surface, and a first compact configuration in which the distal surface of the implant expander defines a convex surface. The implant expander has a first lateral extent when the implant expander is free to assume the unstressed configuration. The sheath defines a lumen having a lumen diameter. At least a portion of the delivery shaft is slidably disposed in the lumen. The lumen diameter is smaller than the first lateral extent of the implant expander so that the sheath holds the implant expander in the first compact configuration when slidably disposed therein. The sheet-like implant overlays at least a portion of the distal surface of the implant expander with portions of the sheet-like implant extending between the leg portions of the implant expander and the sheath. Methods of treating a rotator cuff of a shoulder are also disclosed.
US12059169B2
Various systems and methods for controlling an ultrasonic surgical instrument according to the location of tissue grasped within an end effector are disclosed. A control circuit can be configured to apply varying power levels, via a generator, to an ultrasonic transducer driving an ultrasonic electromechanical system to oscillate an ultrasonic blade. Further, the control circuit can measure impedances of the ultrasonic transducer corresponding to the varying power levels and determine a location of tissue positioned within the end effector according to a difference between the impedances of the ultrasonic transducer relative to a threshold.
US12059159B2
A medical device for treating hip joint osteoarthritis in a human patient by providing at least one artificial hip joint surface. The medical de ice comprises a prosthetic part or a bone plug adapted to be placed in a hole in the pelvic bone and a supporting member connected to said prosthetic part or bone plug, wherein the prosthetic part or the bone plug is adapted to be inserted into said hole from the abdominal side of the acetabulum and oriented, during the insertion, such that the concave interior surface is facing in the direction towards the caput femur. Wherein the medical device comprises an artificial caput femur surface or artificial acetabulum surface, and wherein a largest cross-sectional distance of said artificial caput femur or acetabulum surface is smaller than said bole, such that said artificial caput femur surface can pass through said hole.
US12059157B2
Devices for occluding an aneurysm are provided. In particular, the device include an upper member that sits against the dome of the aneurysm, a lower member that sits in the neck of the aneurysm, and a means of adjusting the overall dimensions of the device. Also provided are methods of making and using these devices.
US12059154B2
A surgical stapling instrument. Various embodiments include an actuation system for selectively generating a plurality of control motions. A surgical end effector is operably coupled to the actuation system. The actuation system interfaces with an actuation member configured to operably engage rotatable camming members to fire staples within the end effector into forming contact with an anvil portion of the end effector.
US12059150B2
A method for operating a medical device, comprising: (1) providing a surgical end effector at a distal end of an instrument shaft and a rotating actuator at a proximal end of the instrument shaft, and (2) operating the rotating actuator to perform at least one of actuating the surgical end effector by sliding the rotating actuator in a proximal direction and rotating the surgical end effector with respect to the instrument shaft and about a shaft axis.
US12059149B2
A tissue displacing and fastening device is provided for manipulating and fastening tissue together. The device includes a tissue displacing elements, which displaces tissue. A fold is formed from the displaced tissue and the tissue is fastened together to secure the fold.
US12059135B2
A system for performing a surgical procedure includes a bronchoscope, monitoring equipment coupled to the bronchoscope, a tracking system, a positioning assembly, and a biopsy tool. The biopsy tool includes an elongated flexible body extending from a proximal end to a distal end and a biopsy member formed on the distal end of the elongated flexible body. The biopsy member includes a tissue-receiving portion defining an opening including sharpened edges. The sharpened edges are disposed on the interior perimeter of the opening and are capable of cutting tissue. A biopsy tool is also provided.
US12059134B2
Introduced here is an ingestible device that can comprise a capsule, an intervention tool, and a processor configured to controllably employ the intervention tool to manipulate structures in a living body. The ingestible device may further comprise a camera that is configured to generate images of various in vivo environments as the ingestible device traverses the living body. These images may be wirelessly transmitted to an electronic device located outside of the living body to enable greater control over the intervention tool.
US12059132B2
A camera head with multiple image sensors that may be detachably connected to an endoscope is presented. Each sensor capturing a portion of the image by the attached endoscope. One sensor receives two portions of the image light at opposing sides of the central image area, and another sensor receives the central image area. The output from the multiple sensors is combined and manipulated into a single higher resolution image which can then be displayed to the user. A virtual horizon rotation feature is also provided which can rotate a displayed image within a combined field of view including data from the multiple image sensors. Various light directing element designs are provided to direct image light to the multiple sensors.
US12059120B2
A cyclonic separation device and a vacuum cleaner including the cyclonic separation device are disclosed. The cyclonic separation device includes a housing and a cyclonic separation device. The cyclonic separation device is provided in the housing to allow dirt in a dust-containing airflow to be separated. The cyclonic separation device includes a first-stage cyclone separator and second-stage cyclone separators located downstream of the first-stage cyclone separator in a flow direction of the airflow. The second-stage cyclone separators surround the first-stage cyclone separator. The first-stage cyclone separator includes an air guide channel and a first-stage cyclone channel surrounding a part of the air guide channel. The dust-containing airflow enters, from the air guide channel, the first-stage cyclone channel for cyclonic separation and then enters the second-stage cyclone separators again through the air guide channel.
US12059105B2
A combined shower and toilet arrangement 10 comprises a shower, comprising: a shower fluid outputting arrangement 12; and a shower floor 14; and: a toilet 16, comprising a receiving area 19 for receiving human waste; wherein the combined shower and toilet arrangement is operable in a shower use mode or a toilet use mode, wherein, in the toilet use mode, the shower floor is in a position that does not obstruct use of the toilet, and is in a non-use position, not usable as a floor for the shower; and in the shower use mode, the shower floor 14 is in a shower use position, above a portion or a whole of the receiving area of the toilet 16, and is usable as a floor for the shower.
US12059095B2
A mixing apparatus includes an inner container and an outer container which define mixing fluid passageways between them. The inner container is received in the outer container with at least two different orientations. Each orientation forms a different set of passageways each including a mixing chamber and a riser passage, where the passageways lead from the inner container to the mixing chamber. The different orientations create different designs of the passageways, to give different mixing functionality.
US12059094B2
The invention concerns a method for producing a beverage by dissolution of soluble beverage powder with water in a beverage preparation apparatus, —said apparatus comprising at least one chamber (1) for receiving and mixing a dose of soluble beverage powder with water, said chamber comprising : —an opened top to receive the dose of soluble beverage powder, and —a lateral side wall (11) said lateral side wall comprising a water inlet (2), and —a bottom wall (12), said bottom wall comprising a beverage outlet conduit (3), and —said method comprising the steps of: a) —introducing water through the water inlet (2) to wet the internal surface of the funnel of the bottom wall, then b) —stopping the introduction of water, then c) —introducing the dose of soluble beverage powder in the chamber, then d) —introducing water in the chamber to dissolve the powder.
US12059090B2
A system is presented that can be used to install pinch pleat drapery as well as ripplefold drapery onto a drapery rod as well as a drapery track. The system includes the use of a plurality of attachment members that have a center channel, a left channel and a right channel that are configured to receive a drapery pin therein. When a pinch pleat drapery is installed, drapery pins are placed in the center channels of the attachment members. When a ripplefold drapery is installed, drapery pins are installed in the attachment members in a pattern wherein adjacent drapery pins point in opposite directions thereby forming a pattern of drapery pins that point left, right, left, right and so on. In this way, a single system may be used that installs both pinch pleat drapery as well as ripplefold drapery onto a drapery rod as well as a drapery track.
US12059088B2
A mailbox management system includes a server, a client-mailbox store, a mailbox management application installed on a mobile device of a client-mailbox store operator, and a mobile application installed on a mobile device of a mailbox user. The client-mailbox store includes a physical mailbox assigned to the mailbox user, and the server is connected to the mailbox management application, the mobile application, and a third party virtual mailbox provider. The mailbox management application is configured to receive label information of a mail, and the server is configured to receive the label information from the mobile application and send it to the mobile application of the recipient mailbox user. The mobile application is further configured to present an open and scan action option, a forward action option, a shred action option, and a trash action option to the mailbox user concerning the mail.
US12059080B2
A baby carrier includes a carrying assembly and a support sheet. The carrying assembly includes a waist member and two shoulder straps. A front end of the waist member is connected with a lower portion of the support sheet. An upper portion of a front end of each shoulder strap is connected with an upper portion of the support sheet. A rear end of each shoulder strap is connected with a middle portion of the support sheet. A lower portion of a front end of each shoulder strap forms a circular structure connected with the waist member. A fixing member is disposed on the front end of the waist member. The lower portion of the front end of each shoulder strap is slidably connected with the fixing member. A width between the two shoulder straps is adjusted by a slide of each shoulder strap on the fixing member.
US12059076B2
In some implementations, a system includes a bed having a mattress. The system further includes a sensor configured to generate pressure data of the mattress. The system further includes a processor device configured to receive the pressure data; and determine a user state from at least the pressure data. The system further includes a user-interface device comprising user-interface hardware that is capable of providing user interfaces, the user-interface device configured to select, from a plurality of available user interfaces, a selected user interface; and providing the selected user interface to a user. Other systems, methods, devices, products, and software may be used.
US12059058B2
A cycling shoe assembly is basically provided with a cleat and a shoe. The cycling shoe is configured to be coupled to the cleat. In one configuration, the cycling shoe has a first connector that is configured to be electrically connected to a pedal in a coupled state where the cleat is coupled with the pedal. In another configuration, the cleat has a second connector that is configured to be electrically connected to a pedal in a coupled state where the cleat is coupled with the pedal.
US12059055B2
A method for the three-dimensional forming of an upper of a footwear, comprises: preparing a sock comprising thermoplastic yarns; fitting the sock on a reference form of an upper to be formed; placing the reference form with the sock in an oven; heating the sock in the oven up to determining the at least partial fusion of thermoplastic material of the thermoplastic yarns of the sock; cooling the sock up to determining the cross-linking of the thermoplastic material and the formation of the upper with more rigid portions and less rigid portions; removing the upper from the reference form.
US12059049B2
A protective visored helmet with disinfected air flow property used in order to prevent infection (virus, bacteria, allergen) agents in cases of high contagion (during the treatment of viral/bacterial infections with high risk of airborne transmission, epidemics, pandemics).
US12059046B2
An artificial eyelash extension unit includes a lash band supporting a plurality of artificial lashes. The lash band is an elongated member having a non-uniform property along its length. The property may include a cross-sectional dimension, composition, or a chemical or physical property such as modulus of elasticity or degree of cross-linking.
US12059041B1
A breast sport bra and a breast support bra for providing a women wearer with a comfortable breast support, a balance of the breasts, and freedom of movement, the breast support bra includes a first breast cup and a second breast cup. The breast cups are attached to a top portion of horizontal, elastic, breast cup band. The breast cup band is releasably attached the first and second breast cups for separating the cup one from another. A first shoulder strap is attached to a top portion of the first breast cup and an opposite end of the first shoulder strap is attached to a side of the second breast cup and an end portion of the breast cup band. A second shoulder strap is attached to a top portion of the second breast cup and an opposite end of the second shoulder strap crossing the first shoulder strap in an “X” configuration and attached to a side of the first breast cup and an end portion of the breast cup band.
US12059039B2
An aerosol delivery device is provided that includes a housing, microelectromechanical systems-based (MEMS-based) sensor and microprocessor. The MEMS-based sensor is within the housing and configured to detect a pressure on the MEMS-based sensor caused by airflow through at least a portion of the housing. The MEMS-based sensor is configured to convert the pressure to an electrical signal, and output the electrical signal. The microprocessor is configured to receive the electrical signal from the MEMS-based sensor, and control operation of at least one functional element of the aerosol delivery device based thereon.
US12059029B2
An aerosol generating device that heats an aerosol generating article including a metal wrapper, the aerosol generating device includes: an accommodation portion configured to accommodate the aerosol generating article through an opening of the aerosol generating device; and a cutting portion disposed in the accommodation portion. The cutting portion may cut at least part of the metal wrapper when the aerosol generating article is inserted into the accommodation portion.
US12059027B2
A radiant heater adapted to fit on the head of a hookah. The heater uses one or more resistance wire coils to generate heat which is transferred to shisha in the hookah. The heater includes an exterior chimney which surrounds the resistance ribbon and allows air to flow past the heating elements, and an interior chimney allowing cool air to mix with the heated air. The heated air further mixes with cool air drawn through a ventilation gap below the chimney and the mixed air drawn through one or more vents in a heat shield. The heat shield and hot air vaporize the shisha.
US12059022B2
A system, apparatus and method of manufacturing a tubular element (500) for use in an aerosol generating article. The tubular element (500) may comprise gel (124), or comprise a porous medium (125) loaded with gel (124), or comprise thread loaded with gel (214), or comprise a combination thereof.
US12059015B2
A maternal composition wherein said maternal composition is specifically formulated for a woman who has given birth prematurely or who is at risk of giving birth prematurely.
US12059013B2
A frozen food product is described to include frozen foodstuffs combined with a polysaccharide, protein, or other water absorber, individually or in combination, separated from the food stuff through one or more mechanisms including but not limited to, suspension of the polysaccharide, protein, or other water absorber in oil, encapsulation of the polysaccharide, protein, or other water absorber, or a dry mixture of the polysaccharide, protein, or other water absorber and seasoning applied to frozen foodstuffs. As the frozen foodstuffs are cooked, water expressed from the foodstuffs activates or hydrates the polysaccharide, protein, or other water absorber.
US12059001B2
The present disclosure relates to a sprout inhibitor composition containing dihydrocarvyl acetate and use thereof. The sprout inhibitor composition contains the active ingredient dihydrocarvyl acetate or isomers thereof. In sprout inhibition tests for the sprout inhibitor in tobacco and potato, when the dosage of the active ingredient is equivalent to carvone, the sprout inhibitor exhibits a significantly better sprout inhibition effect than that of carvone. The sprout inhibitor provided by the present disclosure is effective on tobacco and potato plants in low dosage with long effective duration. Moreover, no phytotoxicity of the sprout inhibitor on the tobacco or the potato is found within the application range.
US12059000B1
The disclosure provides a human-safe method of killing or controlling insects using a non-toxic composition comprising erythritol ((2R,3S)-butane-1,2,3,4-tetraol). The disclosure also provides non-toxic compositions comprising erythritol suitable for killing insects in residential, commercial, and agricultural locales.
US12058996B2
This disclosure is related to methods of preserving biological samples, organs, and organisms. This disclosure is based, at least in part, on the discovery that in the presence of heterogenous extracellular ice, endothelial cells have improved attachment and viability after preservation, and particularly by uniformly nucleating ice across the microvasculature using ice nucleating agents, the chance of intracelluar ice formation can be significantly reduced.
US12058993B2
A lighting mosquito killer lamp which includes a main body and a base joined with the main body. The main body includes a housing, a lampshade arranged in the housing, and a high-voltage mesh wire arranged on the lampshade. The base receives power. The lighting mosquito killer lamp further includes a lighting lamp and an ultraviolet lamp. The lighting lamp is different from the ultraviolet lamp, and the lighting lamp and the ultraviolet lamp are controlled independently of each other. The lighting mosquito killer lamp further includes a cleaning brush having bristles that clean away mosquitos attached to the high-voltage mesh wire as the cleaning brush moves along a guide rod of the housing. The cleaning brush includes a brush handle that protrudes from the housing for operation by a user.
US12058979B2
A system and a method for detecting animals in a region of interest are disclosed. An image that captures a scene in the region of interest is received. The image is fed to an animal detection model to produce a group of probability maps for a group of key points and a group of affinity field maps for a group of key point sets. One or more connection graphs are determined based on the group of probability maps and the group of affinity field maps. Each connection graph outlines a presence of an animal in the image. One or more animals present in the region of interest are detected based on the one or more connection graphs.
US12058972B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV515799. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV515799, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV515799 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV515799 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV515799.
US12058966B2
A plant processing system includes a mobile cart with a support rail, a rack with a rack rail, and a hanger configured to support one or more plants therefrom. The hanger is hangable from either the support rail or the rack rail. The hanger includes a first end having a hook deigned to engage either the support rail or the rack rail. A second end of the hanger includes a tab having a magnet that engages either the support rail or the rack rail to limit movement of the second end of the hanger. A series of crossbars can be attached to the hanger at select locations along the length of the hanger. Each crossbar is configured to support plants or other items along the length of the hanger.
US12058964B2
An apparatus for trimming plant material includes a rotatable tumbler through which the plant material is to be axially propagated while rotationally tumbling, and a plurality of cutting reel systems adjacent the tumbler. The plurality of cutting reel systems includes a first cutting reel system adjacent the tumbler, and a second cutting reel system adjacent a landing zone of the rotatable tumbler. The landing zone is an angular range about the axis of the tumbler within which plant material tends to land on the tumbler after tumbling through a central volume of the tumbler.
US12058957B2
A mower includes: a housing; a movable upper cover, disposed on the housing; and a cutting assembly, disposed on the housing. The cutting assembly includes a blade carrier assembly, and the blade carrier assembly includes a blade carrier and a blade. The blade carrier includes a disc body and a blade receiving groove recessed inwardly from an edge of the disc body along an axial direction of the disc body. The blade is mounted in the blade receiving groove and arranged to be that the blade is not protruded out of the blade receiving groove in the axial direction of the disc body.
US12058955B2
An air-boom spreader has a hopper for containing particulate material, a metering device having a plurality of sluices, a plurality of outlets transversely spaced-apart on a boom in a direction perpendicular to the direction of travel of the spreader, and a plurality of air lines connecting the plurality of sluices to the plurality of outlets for conveying the particulate material in an air stream from the plurality of sluices to the plurality of outlets. The spreader has more than twice as many outlets as sluices, and the plurality of outlets has an innermost outlet, an outermost outlet and at least three other outlets between the innermost outlet and the outermost outlet whereby each of the innermost outlet and the outermost outlet are supplied with half as much of the particulate material as each of the at least three other outlets.
US12058954B2
Various embodiments of a system for automatically sensing and spraying plants and/or plant precursors as they are planted or otherwise distributed on and/or within the ground is disclosed.
US12058946B2
Agricultural devices, row unit adjustment systems, and methods of adjusting a depth of a furrow. In some aspects, an agricultural device is adapted to plant seeds and includes a frame, a furrow opener coupled to the frame and adapted to cut a furrow including a depth, a sensor adapted to sense a characteristic associated with planting seeds and generate a signal associated with the sensed characteristic, and a processing unit receiving the signal associated with the sensed characteristic. The depth of the furrow is adjustable based on the signal associated with the sensed characteristic. Such characteristic may be a characteristic of the soil, a force applied to the agricultural device, or a position of a portion of the agricultural device.
US12063871B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of forming an inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer on a substrate, forming a trench in the IMD layer, forming a synthetic antiferromagnetic (SAF) layer in the trench, forming a metal layer on the SAF layer, planarizing the metal layer and the SAF layer to form a metal interconnection, and forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on the metal interconnection.
US12063869B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer and a third magnetic layer having a fixed magnetization direction antiparallel to a magnetization direction of the second magnetic layer, first, second and third nonmagnetic layers. The firs nonmagnetic layer is between the first and second magnetic layers, the second magnetic layer is between the first nonmagnetic layer and the third magnetic layer, the third magnetic layer is between the second magnetic layer and the second nonmagnetic layer, the third nonmagnetic layer is between the second and the third magnetic layers, the third magnetic layer contains Co and Pt, and the second nonmagnetic layer contains at least one of Mo and W.
US12063866B2
A multilayer magnetic tunnel junction etching method and an MRAM device. A wafer is processed according to particular steps without interrupting vacuum. A reactive ion plasma etching chamber (10) and an ion beam etching chamber (11) are used separately at least one time. The processing of a multilayer magnetic tunnel junction is always in a vacuum environment, thereby avoiding the impact of an external environment on etching. By means of the process of combining etching and cleaning, a device structure maintains good steepness, and the metal contamination and damage of a magnetic tunnel junction film structure are significantly decreased, thereby greatly increasing the performance and reliability of a device. In addition, use of both the ion beam etching chamber (11) and the reactive ion plasma etching chamber (10) solves the technical problem of an existing single etching method, and increases production efficiency and etching process precision.
US12063861B2
A heat flow switching element includes a substrate of which at least an upper surface is formed of an insulating material, an N-type semiconductor layer, a P-type semiconductor layer, and an insulator layer, in which one semiconductor layer of the N-type semiconductor layer and the P-type semiconductor layer is formed on the substrate, the insulator layer is formed on the one semiconductor layer, and the other semiconductor layer of the N-type semiconductor layer and the P-type semiconductor layer is formed on the insulator layer. In this way, electric charges induced by an external voltage are generated both at and near an interface between the N-type semiconductor layer and the insulator layer and at and near an interface between the P-type semiconductor layer and the insulator layer.
US12063855B2
Provided are an organic electric element having a first electrode, a second electrode, and at least an organic material layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic material layer comprising an emitting layer and the emitting layer comprising a mixture of host materials which improves luminous efficiency, stability, and lifespan of the element; and an organic electronic device comprising the element.
US12063854B2
An organic electroluminescence device comprising: a cathode; an anode; and an organic layer disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the organic layer includes an emitting layer and a first layer; the first layer is disposed between the cathode and the emitting layer; the emitting layer contains a compound represented by the following formula (A1); and the first layer contains a compound represented by the following formula (B1).
US12063853B2
This invention relates to the development of heterocyclic materials with high triplet excitation energy, which can be used as host materials in electroluminescent devices such as a PHOLED. The materials improve the performance of such devices by enhancing the lifetime and efficiency of the device when the newly developed heterocyclic materials are utilized as a host.
US12063851B2
A nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic derivative in which a nitrogen atom of an indenocarbazole skeleton optionally having a hetero atom or an indenoindole skeleton optionally having a hetero atom is bonded to a dibenzofuran or a dibenzothiophene directly or indirectly. The derivative realizes an organic EL device with a high emission efficiency and a long lifetime.
US12063850B2
An organometallic compound, wherein the organometallic compound has a C2 symmetric structure, and is represented by Formula 1, wherein the sum of Δ(Ir—N) and Δ(Ir—C) is about 0.002 angstroms or less: Ir(L1)2(L2) Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, L1 is a ligand represented by Formula 2 as provided herein, wherein one of two L1s is a first L1 ligand and the other L1s is a second L1 ligand and the first L1 ligand and the second L1 ligand are identical to each other, L2 is a ligand represented by Formula 3 as provided herein, and Δ(Ir—N) and Δ(Ir—C) are as defined herein.
US12063834B2
The present disclosure relates to display panels and display devices including the display panels, and more for example, to a display panel with excellent luminance and a display device including the display panel, by including an insulating film having an inclined portion with a high-inclined portion.
US12063832B2
A light-emitting device is provided. The light-emitting device includes a circuit substrate, an array substrate, a plurality of light-emitting units and a driver. The circuit substrate has a top surface. A top circuit is disposed on the top surface. The array substrate is disposed on the top surface of the circuit substrate and electrically connected to the top circuit. The light-emitting units are disposed on the array substrate. The light-emitting device further includes an electrical connection structure, a plurality of light extraction layers, a protective layer, a plurality of test pads, and a light absorption layer. The plurality of test pads are disposed on the array substrate, and the light absorption layer covers at least one of the test pads.
US12063827B2
A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a first power signal line and a pixel defining layer. The first power signal line includes first power signal sub-lines extending along a first direction and second power signal sub-lines extending along a second direction. The pixel defining layer includes a plurality of openings to define effective light-emitting regions of a plurality of sub-pixels, the plurality of sub-pixels include a sub-pixel pair including two sub-pixels arranged along the second direction, and the sub-pixel pair includes two effective light-emitting sub-regions with an interval therebetween. In a plan view, the first power signal sub-line passes through the interval between the two effective light-emitting sub-regions, at least one second power signal sub-line includes a fracture, and the two effective light-emitting sub-regions are located at the fracture.
US12063815B2
An electroluminescence display device having a narrow bezel structure includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels, a thin film transistor, a planarization layer, a light emitting diode, a plurality of trenches, a dummy light emitting layer, an encapsulation layer and a cover plate, the substrate includes a display area and a non-display area; a light emitting diode includes an anode electrode, a light emitting layer and a cathode electrode, and is disposed on the planarization layer; a plurality of trenches formed at the planarization layer in the non-display area, and surrounding the display area; and a dummy light emitting layer disposed in the non-display area as to be extended from the light emitting layer.
US12063812B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a heat dissipation plate disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, and a guide holder disposed on a rear surface of the heat dissipation plate and configured such that a printed circuit board connected to the display panel is coupled to a rear surface of the heat dissipation plate. The guide holder is formed through double injection-molding such that at least a portion of the guide holder is formed of different materials.
US12063804B2
Provided is an organic light-emitting device including an emission layer that includes a host, a sensitizer, and an emitter.
US12063799B2
The present disclosure provides a photoelectric conversion film having a high light absorption ability and a long carrier life. A photoelectric conversion film of the present disclosure includes a perovskite compound including a monovalent formamidinium cation, a Pb cation and an iodide ion. The film thickness of the photoelectric conversion film is greater than or equal to 1 μm. In the photoelectric conversion film, the ratio of root mean square roughness Rq to the film thickness is less than or equal to 0.13.
US12063795B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first bit line disposed on the substrate, a first tunnel insulation layer disposed on the first bit line, a variable resistance structure disposed on the first tunnel insulation layer and having a pillar structure, a second tunnel insulation layer disposed on an upper surface of the variable resistance structure, a second bit line disposed on the second tunnel insulation layer, a barrier insulation layer disposed on a sidewall surface of the variable resistance structure, and a word line disposed on the barrier insulation layer. A dielectric constant of the barrier insulation layer is greater than a dielectric constant of each of the first and second tunnel insulation layers.
US12063794B2
High-density three-dimensional (3-D) vertical memory (3D-MV) includes lightly-doped-segment (LDS) 3D-MV and non-circular-hole (NCH) 3D-MV. The preferred LDS 3D-MV takes advantage of longitudinal space, instead of lateral space, to guarantee normal write operation. On the other hand, the lateral cross-section of the memory hole of the preferred NCH 3D-MV includes at least two intersecting pairs of parallel sides, with each pair formed through a single DUV exposure and having a minimum spacing <50 nm.
US12063790B2
Semiconductor device and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes a first source/drain feature and a second source/drain feature, a first metal line disposed in a first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first source/drain feature, a second metal line disposed in the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the second source/drain feature, and a first memory element disposed over the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first source/drain feature by way of the first metal line. A width of the first metal line is different from a width of the second metal line. By changing the widths of the first metal line and the second metal line, a source line series resistance of a semiconductor device can be advantageously reduced without changing a pitch of two metal lines.
US12063785B2
A memory cell, an integrated circuit and method of manufacturing the same are provided. The memory device includes a substrate, gate layers and insulating layers, an isolation column, a channel layer, a first conductive feature, a second conductive feature, a storage layer and a pair of isolation structures. The isolation column extends through the gate layers and the insulating layers along a first direction. The channel layer laterally covers the isolation column. The first conductive feature and second conductive feature extend along the first direction and adjacent to the isolation column. The storage layer is disposed between the gate layers and the channel layer. The pair of isolation structures extends along the first direction. The pair of isolation structures includes a first isolation structure disposed between the first conductive feature and the gate layers, and a second isolation structure disposed between the second conductive feature and the gate layers.
US12063783B2
In some embodiments, a memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprise laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers. Operative channel-material strings of memory cells extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. Insulative pillars are laterally-between and longitudinally-along immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory blocks. The pillars comprise vertically-spaced and radially-projecting insulative rings in the conductive tiers as compared to the insulative tiers. Other embodiments, including methods, are disclosed.
US12063776B2
A flash memory includes a linear array of flash memory cells having a source region extending along a first direction. Each flash memory cell includes a floating gate disposed adjacent the source region. The linear array of flash memory cells further includes isolation strips disposed between the floating gates of the flash memory cells. An erase gate line extends along the first direction and is disposed over the source region. A control gate line extends along the first direction and is disposed over the isolation strips and over the floating gates of the flash memory cells. The control gate line has a non-straight edge proximate to the source region that is indented away from the source region at least where the control gate line is disposed over the isolation strips.
US12063772B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate; bottom electrodes on the substrate, each bottom electrode including a first region and a second region, the second region containing an additional element relative to the first region; a first supporting pattern on the substrate and in contact with a portion of a side surface of each bottom electrode; a top electrode on the bottom electrodes; a dielectric layer between the bottom electrodes and the top electrode; and a capping layer between the bottom electrodes and the dielectric layer, the capping layer covering a top surface and a bottom surface of the first supporting pattern, wherein the second region is in contact with the capping layer, and the capping layer and the dielectric layer include different materials from each other.
US12063770B2
A novel memory device is provided. The memory device includes a transistor and a capacitor device. The transistor includes a first oxide semiconductor; a first conductor and a second conductor provided over a top surface of the first oxide semiconductor; a second oxide semiconductor that is formed over the first oxide semiconductor and is provided between the first conductor and the second conductor; a first insulator provided in contact with the second oxide semiconductor; and a third conductor provided in contact with the first insulator. The capacitor device includes the second conductor; a second insulator over the second conductor; and a fourth conductor over the second insulator. The first oxide semiconductor has a groove deeper than a thickness of each of the first conductor and the second conductor.
US12063761B1
Embodiments disclosed include a heat exchange apparatus and method comprising, in an electronic device, a first heat exchanger for exchanging heat with the device wherein the heat exchanger comprises a flow duct for receiving a fluid, and at least a portion of the flow duct is arranged for thermal communication with the device. Preferred embodiments include a pressure reducing unit comprising a pump associated with the flow duct and a Venturi tube configured for reducing the pressure of the fluid in the portion of the flow duct arranged in thermal communication with the device and less than the pressure external to the duct. An embodiment includes a fluid reservoir, and a second heat exchanger for removing heat from the fluid reservoir wherein the second heat exchanger comprises an evaporator in a refrigerant system through which refrigerant is passed in a closed loop via an expansion valve from a gas cooler and back into a compressor.
US12063758B2
An edge seal for a modular thermal isolation barrier for preventing passage of air through a gap in a data processing equipment arrangement includes a seal portion and a base portion. The seal portion is formed of a resilient material capable of deflection by a rigid adjacent structure. The base portion is formed of a rigid material and includes a pair of side channels opening at opposite sides thereof and a panel-receiving end channel. Each of the pair of side channels includes a first distal flange arranged to extend inwardly from one side of the respective channel and a second distal flange arranged to extend inwardly, and toward the first distal flange, from the other side of the respective channel, whereby each side channel is generally C-shaped and includes a channel opening having a width that is narrower than a width of a channel interior. Each of the seal portion and the base portion has a generally uniform cross-sectional shape.
US12063756B2
A modular liquid-cooled thermal heat sink device configured to thermally engage with a thermal substrate. The device comprises a housing assembly having a body defining a volume, the housing assembly comprising a thermal cooling plate configured to be in thermal contact with the thermal substrate, a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, the housing assembly being configured to facilitate fluid circulation within the body to effect an operative cooling of the thermal substrate through the thermal cooling plate, the body comprising a plurality of first engaging features spaced about a perimeter of the body. The device further comprises a plurality of removable arms each comprising a first and second end, each of the plurality of arms being configured to mate with the body at a respective one of the plurality of first engaging features, wherein each of the first ends defines a second engaging feature dimensioned to cooperate and form an engagement with a respective first engaging feature, and wherein each of the second ends is configured to effect an operative fixing of the device to a supporting surface through application of a force on each of the second ends, the force being perpendicular to the supporting surface.
US12063752B2
A circuit board includes first circuit substrate and second circuit substrate; first circuit substrate includes: a first base layer arranged on the first circuit layer and a plurality of first conductive bodies on the substrate layer; the first circuit layer includes a hot pressing area and a non-hot pressing area except the hot pressing area. One end of the first conductive body is electrically connected to the hot pressing area and the other end is exposed to the first base layer; second circuit substrate includes: a second base layer, a second base layer arranged on the second circuit layer and a plurality of second conductive bodies; one end of the second conductive body is electrically connected to the second circuit layer, and the other end is exposed on the second base layer; The body is electrically connected to the second conductive body.
US12063750B2
A method for manufacturing a circuit board with narrow conductive traces and narrow spaces between traces includes a base layer and two first wiring layers disposed on opposite surfaces of the base layer. Each first wiring layer includes a first bottom wiring and a first electroplated copper wiring. The first bottom wiring is formed on the base layer. The first bottom wiring includes a first end facing the base layer, a second end opposite to the first end, and a first sidewall connecting the first end and the second end. The first electroplated copper wiring covers the second end and the first sidewall of the first bottom wiring.
US12063749B2
The present application provides a method for manufacturing a microelectrode film. The method includes: forming at least one recess on the carrier substrate by isotropic etching; forming a microelectrode seed pattern in the recess; growing a microelectrode in the recess by using the microelectrode seed pattern; making a first substrate to be in contact with a side of the carrier substrate having the recess thereon; separating the microelectrode from the carrier substrate to transfer the microelectrode onto the first substrate.
US12063735B2
An electronic substrate includes a dielectric core, a first conducting layer on a first side of the core and a second conducting layer on the second side of the core opposite the first side. At least one differential coaxial through-via includes a first inner signal through-via that is at least electrical conductor lined for a first signal path and at least a second inner signal through-via that is also at least electrical conductor lined positioned side-by-side and being dielectrically isolated from the first inner signal through-via for a second signal path. An annular-shaped outer ground shield enclosure is at least conductor lined that surrounds and is dielectrically isolated from both the first and second inner signal through-vias.
US12063719B2
A heating device includes a heater electrode disposed in the inner portion of a plate-like body and including a heater line portion; and a plurality of specific portions arranged side by side in a predetermined arrangement direction. The heater line portion includes a first heater line portion and a second heater line portion arranged in a location closer than the first heater line portion to the specific portions. The second heater line portion has a projecting line part passing through a first virtual straight line and curving toward a side of the first heater line portion; and a recessed line part extending to avoid a second virtual straight line and curving toward a side opposite to the side of the first heater line portion.
US12063718B2
A leakage current compensation system may be used in an appliance such as a cooking appliance or another device utilizing a sheathed electrical heating element, and may sense a leakage current in one or more phases of a multi-phase power circuit that supplies the appliance or other device using a current transformer and generate a compensating current in a different phase of the multi-phase power circuit to compensate for the leakage current and thereby reduce the likelihood of a false GFCI trip in the multi-phase power circuit.
US12063717B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a stage having a placing surface on which a workpiece is accommodated; a heater provided in the stage and configured to adjust a temperature of the placing surface of the stage; and a controller. The controller is configured to control a supply power to the heater; measure the supply power in a transient state where the supply power to the heater increases and in a second steady state where the supply power to the heater is stable in an extinguished state of plasma; calculate a heat input amount and a heat resistance by performing a fitting on a calculation model that calculates the supply power in the transient state using the heat input amount from the plasma and the heat resistance between the workpiece and the heater as parameters; and calculate a temperature of the workpiece in the first steady state.
US12063712B2
A system and method for identifying devices with WiFi connection incompatibility are described. Data related to connectivity for at least one customer premise equipment (CPE) connected to each terminal in a satellite network is collected in order to generate a set of metrics associated with each of the at least CPE using the collected data. A first set of results indicative of network incompatibility is determined for each of the CPEs. Next, a second set of results indicative of network incompatibility is determined for each CPE using at least one machine learning algorithm. Information indicative of network incompatibility is subsequently generated for each CPE based on the first set of results and the second set of results.
US12063710B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device in which a processing system detects installation of a subscriber identity module (SIM) on a communication device configured for connection to the network; the SIM includes a radio policy manager (RPM) provided by the network operator to manage network policies. The system also monitors connection of the communication device to the network and communications between the SIM and a processor of the communication device. The RPM determines whether the communication device is compliant with the network policies; if the communication device is not compliant with the network policies, the RPM causes the connection of the communication device to the network to be disabled. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12063695B2
The disclosure provides beam indication methods and apparatuses One example method includes that a terminal device determines first random access information associated with a first synchronization broadcast block (SSB) and associated with a beam parameter of a satellite beam, where the beam parameter is used to distinguish the satellite beam. The terminal sends a preamble to a satellite based on the first random access information. The satellite receives the preamble from the terminal, and determines the first random access information. The satellite determines the first SSB and the beam parameter of the satellite beam that are associated with the first random access information.
US12063685B2
Examples pertaining to a floating frame-based channel occupancy time (COT) in a fixed frame period (FFP) in mobile communications are described. An apparatus implemented in FBE performs clear channel assessment (CCA) of a channel. The apparatus then transmits during a COT within a FFP in response to the CCA indicating the channel to be clear for transmission.
US12063682B2
This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus, to determine a TC-state used for data transmission and correctly receive downlink data, thereby improving data transmission efficiency. The method includes: receiving a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), where the first PDCCH is used to schedule a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); receiving a downlink signal by using a first transmission configuration indicator state (TC-state); obtaining a time interval between the first PDCCH and the first PDSCH; and if the time interval is less than a preset threshold, obtaining the first PDSCH from the downlink signal.
US12063679B2
The disclosure provides example communication methods and apparatuses. One example method includes determining a highest-priority CORESET, so that a terminal device monitors a PDCCH on the highest-priority CORESET. A highest-priority CORESET is determined in M CORESETs belonging to T CORESETs based on one or more of cell identifiers, quasi co-location properties, search space set types, and search space set identifiers that are associated with the M CORESETs in a time unit, and a PDCCH is monitored on the highest-priority CORESET.
US12063668B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE), such as a vehicular UE, may perform proactive beam management in a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications system. In some cases, road conditions may affect V2X connectivity for the V-UE. For example, if the V-UE is using a narrow beam and approaches a road with a steep gradient, the narrow beam may be unable to detect other V-UEs, which could lead to connection loss. Instead, the V-UE may proactively perform beam management or beam refinement to adjust the beam and maintain connectivity. For example, the V-UE may select a wider beam which has greater coverage, or the V-UE may update a direction of the narrow beam to maintain connection with neighboring V-UEs. The V-UE may use onboard sensor and computer vision-based techniques to detect changes to road conditions or its trajectory.
US12063667B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for transmission processing and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes determining for at least two transmissions that the starting position of a first transmission is earlier than a point G; and transmitting the first transmission from the starting position of the first transmission to the point G, or transmitting the first transmission from the starting position of the first transmission to the ending position of the first transmission. The point G is a time point of first preset time before the starting position of a second transmission.
US12063666B2
A wireless device and a method therein for receiving positioning system information from a radio network node. The wireless device and the radio network node operate in a wireless communications network. The wireless device receives positioning system information broadcast scheduling information comprising information about positioning System Information Blocks that are comprised in a System Information message. Further, the wireless device receives an indication that a pSIB is segmented into pSIB segments. Based on the indication and on the pSI the wireless device determines whether or not the pSIB segments are scheduled via contiguous scheduling. When the pSIB segments are determined to be scheduled via contiguous scheduling, the wireless device monitors scheduled resources, retrieves the contiguously scheduled pSIB segments and decodes position system information of the retrieved pSIB segments.
US12063660B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for adjusting a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) monitoring period. The method includes switching, by a terminal device within a plurality of PDCCH search spaces corresponding to a first Bandwidth Part (BWP), a PDCCH search space for monitoring a PDCCH. Different PDCCH search spaces correspond to different PDCCH monitoring periods. On a basis of the above technical solution, the PDCCH monitoring period of the terminal device can better match actual scheduling conditions of a network device. For example, a shorter PDCCH monitoring period can be used in a case of dense scheduling, and a longer PDCCH monitoring period can be used in a case of a long scheduling interval, thereby reducing energy consumption of the terminal device.
US12063659B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method by which a wireless communication apparatus receives a signal comprises: monitoring control channel candidates in a bandwidth part (BWP) comprising one or more sub-bands (SBs), on the basis of a control channel search-space set (SS) configuration and a control resource set (CORSET) configuration that are associated with each other; and obtaining control information from the control channel detected as the result of monitoring the candidates, wherein, in monitoring of the candidates, the wireless communication apparatus sets the CORESET frequency resource region of each SB in the BWP on the basis of the CORESET frequency resource region of a specific SB in the BWP, and the specific SB can be restricted to one SB located in the lowest frequency, from among the one or more SBs included in the BWP.
US12063652B2
A user equipment may receive information indicating whether a reference signal is associated with a full-duplex operation; receive the reference signal; and transmit feedback based at least in part on the reference signal and the information indicating whether the reference signal is associated with the full-duplex operation.
US12063639B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive, from a second UE, a control message that indicates a duration of time the second UE has reserved at least a first subchannel of a first subband of a set of shared spectrum subbands. The duration of time may include a quantity of time periods. The first UE may transmit, during a time period of the quantity of time periods and in a second subchannel of the first subband, a power reservation signal that indicates a transmission power associated with the first UE beginning transmission to a third UE in a second subband of the set of shared spectrum subbands and partway through the time period. The first UE may transmit signaling to the third UE in the second subband partway through the time period and after transmitting the power reservation signal.
US12063636B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE receives a first signaling, receives a first radio signal in a first time window, and then transmits a feedback on the first radio signal in a second time window. The first signaling is used for determining time-domain resources occupied by the first radio signal; a first time-domain deviation is a deviation in time domain between the second time window and the first time window; when the first signaling carries a first identifier, the first time-domain deviation is one of K1 first-type candidate deviation(s), and K1 is a positive integer; when the first signaling carries a second identifier, the first time-domain deviation is one of K2 second-type candidate deviation(s), and K2 is a positive integer.
US12063635B2
A method of transmitting uplink data is provided. The method includes establishing connections with a first serving cell and a second serving cell, determining, by a user equipment (UE), a time period for a device-to-device (D2D) discovery signal communication via the second serving cell, determining, by the UE and based on an uplink grant received via the first serving cell, a first subframe associated with an uplink signal to an evolved NodeB (eNB) associated with the first serving cell, and in response to determining that the first subframe overlaps in time with the time period, refraining from transmitting the uplink signal in the first subframe, and transmitting, based on a retransmission timing, the uplink signal.
US12063629B2
Methods and apparatus for providing a resource element identification system to process received uplink transmissions. In an embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving soft-demapped symbols that comprises resource elements. The method also includes descrambling the resource elements of the symbols one-by-one using descrambling bits generated by at least one linear feedback shift register (LFSR). After each symbol is descrambled, a state of the at least one LFSR is stored as a stored state. The method also comprises restoring the stored state to the at least one LFSR before a next symbol is descrambled so that generation of the descrambling bits continues from symbol to symbol. The method also comprises forwarding the descrambled symbols to a downstream combining function.
US12063602B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for power headroom report regarding multiple TRPs in a wireless communication system. The systems and methods of the present invention address, expand, and improve how networks perform power control on multiple TRPs, how networks manage power control for uplink transmissions for different links, and how a UE derives one or more PH/PHR for different links.
US12063600B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may receive an uplink transmission from a user equipment (UE) over a wireless channel and measure a post-digital post-distortion (post-DPOD) signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the uplink transmission. The base station may generate a power output back-off indication for the UE according to the post-DPOD SNR and a change in a post-DPOD noise level of the transmission between a non-linear distortion noise component and a thermal noise component. The base station may transmit the power output back-off indication and a downlink transmission to the UE. In response, the base station may receive an uplink transmission from the UE over the wireless channel. The uplink transmission may be based on the power output back-off indication, a signal quality metric of the downlink transmission, or both.
US12063597B2
The present disclosure discloses an example communication method and device. One example communication method includes detecting first downlink control information (DCI) by a terminal device. It is determined, by the terminal device and based on a detection result of the first DCI, whether to receive a reference signal, where the reference signal is used by the terminal device to perform time and frequency synchronization with a network device, and the detection result of the first DCI is further used to indicate whether to detect a first downlink control channel within a first time period.
US12063593B2
One aspect in the present specification is a method for a terminal to connect to a network in a wireless communication system, wherein the method can include: searching a network usable by the terminal; receiving, from the searched network, information about access groups supported by the searched network; determining, on the basis of the access group information, whether an identifier of the access group included in an allowed access group list preset in the terminal is included in the access group information; receiving, from the searched network, control information related to an access group for selecting the searched network; transmitting a registration request message to the searched network on the basis of the control information; and receiving a response message from the searched network as a response to the registration request message.
US12063592B2
Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to user plane system selection based on latency in mobile networks. In particular, the systems, devices, and techniques can be implemented in fifth generation (5G) mobile networks to provide selection of a user plane function (UPF) based on latency. The UPF can measure a latency toward an access network and provide an indication of the latency to a policy control function (PCF). The PCF can select the UPF based on the indication and can request the UPF to provide services to a user equipment (UE) originating a priority request. In response, the UPF can provide services to the UE.
US12063587B2
An operating method of a terminal configured to communicate with at least one of a plurality of cells includes generating first cell search training data for the plurality of cells, determining at least one training candidate cell based on the first cell search training data, updating a classification based on second cell search training data among the first cell search training data and network information about the terminal to obtain an updated classification, the second cell search training data corresponding to the at least one training candidate cell, and determining a valid cell among the plurality of cells based on the updated classification.
US12063570B2
A user computing device for identifying a driver of a vehicle on a trip is provided. The user computing device is associated with a first vehicle occupant, and is programmed to: (i) detect a second user computing device associated with a second vehicle occupant, (ii) initiate a ping exchange process including emitting a set of non-audible sonic ping signals and detecting a set of signals from the second user computing device over a duration of the trip, (iii) generate a relative positioning map of the user computing device with respect to the second user computing device, (iv) determine that the first vehicle occupant is one of a driver and a passenger of the vehicle, and (v) transmit, to a driver identification (“DI”) server, a trip report including the determination and the generated relative positioning map.
US12063559B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to allow for the allocation and/or other deployment of a complementary network slice to partially and/or fully replace a network slice associated with a piece of user equipment when the piece of user equipment moves outside of the area associated with its current network slice application. When a piece of user equipment moves outside of its current network slice, application area, its services may be provided over a complementary network slice, or a complementary network slice may be allocated for a non-supporting user equipment to be used in the RAN and/or core network. In some example implementations, the allocation and/or other use of one or more complementary network slices enables the operator to predefine and use sets of policies that may differ from those associated with a user equipment's current and/or typical network slice.
US12063557B2
A signal resource measurement method and a terminal are provided. The method includes: measuring a first signal resource of a target cell, to obtain a first measurement; and when the first measurement satisfies a first preset condition, measuring a second signal resource of the target cell, to obtain a second measurement; where the second signal resource is different from the first signal resource.
US12063545B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit first information on a fragmentation level to be used for data to be transmitted to a recipient by using the transceiver in an add Block ACK (ADDBA) setup procedure.
US12063544B2
Disclosed are a message transmitting method and apparatus, and a control method and apparatus therefor for solving the problem of whether a congestion control back-off timer still running in a first PLMN is still valid in a second PLMN after a UE moves from the first PLMN to the second PLMN. The message transmitting method comprises: when it is necessary to establish a new PDU session after a UE moves from a first PLMN to a second PLMN, determining indication information of a network side; and when the UE needs to transmit a session management (SM) message in the second PLMN, determining, according to the indication information, whether a congestion control back-off timer of the UE in the first PLMN is still valid in the second PLMN.
US12063538B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a set of measurements based at least in part on a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) transmitted via a set of beams. The UE may transmit a measurement report indicating the set of measurements based at least in part on the DMRS. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12063536B2
A wireless device operates with dual connectivity to a Master node and a Secondary node, which are both New Radio, NR, nodes. It receives measurement and/or reporting configuration information from a network. It determines whether the received 5 configuration information relates to a MCG or a SCG. Specifically, it is determined that the received configuration information relates to the MCG if the configuration information is received directly within an RRCReconfiguration message received via SRB1, or that the received configuration information relates to the SCG if the configuration information is received directly within an RRCReconfiguration message 0 received via SRB3, or alternatively if the configuration information is received in an RRCReconfiguration message that is embedded within an RRCReconfiguration message received via SRB1.
US12063535B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a transmitting network node in a radio access network, the method comprising transmitting, based on determined presence of BS-to-BS interference, first reference signaling, the first reference signaling indicating that the transmitting network node is a victim node of the BS-to-BS interference. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods.
US12063533B2
This application relates to a discontinuous reception method. In the first time unit, for example, the first symbol, after a hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ feedback occasion of a sidelink HARQ process, a first terminal may start a drx-HARQ-RTT-TimerSL and start a drx-RetransmissionTimerSL when the drx-HARQ-RTT-TimerSL expires. During running of the drx-RetransmissionTimerSL, the first terminal monitors a physical downlink control channel. In this way, sidelink retransmission efficiency can be improved, an increase of a sidelink retransmission delay can be avoided, and sidelink-based applications, such as unmanned driving, automatic driving, assisted driving, intelligent driving, networked driving, intelligent networked driving, and car sharing in the field of artificial intelligence can be better supported.
US12063530B2
According to certain embodiments, a method in a wireless device for measurement reporting comprises: receiving an instruction to perform measurement reporting for a neighbor cell: determining, based at least on a radio access technology (RAT) of the neighbor cell and a frequency range of the neighbor cell, a measurement reporting timer value for performing the measurement reporting; and measuring a radio signal of the neighbor cell during the time specified by the determined measurement reporting timer value.
US12063529B2
A technical solution is proposed, which allows mobility experience to be improved by properly tuning Cell Individual Offset (CIO) and/or Time-To-Trigger (TTT) parameters in a wireless communication network. More specifically, information about a number of Handover (HO) attempts made between a source network node and each of its neighboring network nodes for a predefined period of time and a number of occurrences of each type of HO problems during the HO attempts are collected as a data vector. Then, for each “source network node—neighboring network node” pair, two data sub-vectors are obtained by aggregating the numbers from the data vector at a carrier level and an inter-node level, respectively. After that, the two data sub-vectors are used by an ensemble of two Machine-Learning models to predict whether the TTT and/or CIO parameters need to be changed.
US12063527B2
System and methods are disclosed for automatically provisioning and commissioning an electronic device (“device”), such as a satellite modem coupled to a reconfigurable satellite antenna. The device is provisioned at a first location, e.g., at a manufacturing facility, using first provisioning data and first commissioning data that is sufficient for the device to establish a communication link with a network and a server having an activated user account. The first provisioning data and first commissioning data is based at least in part upon machine learning over a plurality of devices of a similar type. The device is then set-up and powered-on at a second location, e.g., an end-use location. The device connects to the network, logs in to the user account, and provides a serial number and the second location to the server. The server downloads second provisioning data this based at least in part upon the second location to the device.
US12063516B2
An information handling system executing an on-demand network slice overlay optimization system includes a processor executing the on-demand network slice overlay optimization system to receive wireless network load profile metrics from a regional edge device and the endpoint load profile metrics; receive core metrics from a radio access network (RAN) service provider descriptive of the load capacity of a core network to provide data throughput at a given time; determine whether the real-time data load demand of the grouped plurality of endpoint devices can be provisioned to the load capacity described in the core metrics; and provide instructions to dynamically adjust network slices at the regional edge device to provide for any changes in the real-time data load demand based on an elastic client business policy enforced at the regional edge device for wireless connectivity data for the grouped plurality of endpoint devices.
US12063501B2
A technique for implementing AP-local dynamic switching involves Layer 2 switching. This may be accomplished by providing data associated with wireless stations to an AP sufficient to enable the AP to determine whether traffic from a particular wireless station should be locally switched. Alternatively, the wireless station may be able to determine whether to locally switch traffic based upon the traffic itself. For example, it may be desirable to AP-locally switch voice traffic to avoid latency, which is particularly detrimental to voice transmissions such as voiceover-IP. Traffic that is not to be switched locally is Layer 2 tunneled upstream.
US12063499B2
An apparatus and system for reducing URLLC latency are described. A single packet mode is described in which, when a packet arrives at the PDCP layer for transmission, an indication is sent to a scheduler with the expected size of the packet after ciphering. The packet is then sent to the RLC layer and concurrently submitted to the ciphering engine to enable ciphering to occur in parallel with the other activities. The scheduler determines the expected TB size for transmission of the packet by determining the size of the PDCP, MAC, and RLC headers. The scheduler matches the resource allocation for transmission to the expected TB size.
US12063496B2
The present disclosure provides a mechanism to synchronously drive distributed speakers around a user based on localization outputs of ultra wideband (UWB) communication chips already existing in devices. Distances may be determined between a user device, such as a phone or wearable, and a plurality of distributed speakers or other devices. Based on an intersection point of such distances, the user's location can be identified. Such location can be used to modify how audio is played on each of the plurality of distributed speakers.
US12063494B2
A transducer assembly comprising: a magnet motor assembly comprising a first magnet plate and a second magnet plate arranged along an axis, a first support plate positioned between inward facing surfaces of the first magnet plate and the second magnet plate, a second support plate positioned along an outward facing surface of the first magnet plate to form a first magnetic gap between the first support plate and the second support plate, and a third support plate positioned along an outward facing surface of the second magnet plate to form a second magnetic gap between the first support plate and the third support plate; a voice coil coupled to the magnet motor assembly, wherein the voice coil is positioned around the first support plate and within the first magnetic gap and the second magnetic gap; and a piston coupled to the voice coil, wherein the piston is operable to vibrate in a direction parallel to the axis.
US12063488B2
A mobile device includes a panel audio loudspeaker including a display panel and an actuator coupled to the display panel. The mobile device includes a temperature sensor arranged to sense a temperature of the display panel, and an electronic control module in communication with the actuator and the temperature sensor. The electronic control module is programmed to perform operations including: obtaining, from the temperature sensor, data indicating a temperature of the display panel; and based on the data indicating the temperature of the display panel, adjusting a power signal provided to the actuator to drive the panel audio loudspeaker. The power signal can be adjusted by selecting, based on the data indicating the temperature of the display panel, a target temperature of the display panel; mapping the target temperature to a target power level; and changing the power signal provided to the actuator to the target power level.
US12063484B2
A portable birdfinding device comprising a plurality of PDM microphone sensors (e.g. a microphone array) coupled to processing electronics that electronically filter the acoustic signals to detect sounds from birds, and to interpret the acoustic signals to identify the angle-of-arrival (e.g. azimuth and elevation) and distance from which the bird sound is coming. Additional electronic processing may provide an identification of the bird species. In some embodiments, the microphone array may have sensors spaced so that sounds from distant birds have a different time of flight to reach the different microphone sensors, while having the spacing between microphones be less than half of the wavelength for sounds made by a predetermined bird species. The microphone array may be positioned onto an object wearable by the birdwatcher, such as a hat or a jacket. In some embodiments, the electronic processing may be carried out using a smartphone.
US12063482B2
A sound enrichment system for provision of tinnitus relief, the sound enrichment system includes a noise generator, at least one signal modulator for random or pseudo-random modulation of a noise signal that is obtained using the noise generator, and an output transducer for conversion of the modulated noise signal to an acoustic signal for presentation to a user. A method of providing a noise enriched sound signal for provision of relief of tinnitus includes generating a randomly or pseudo-randomly modulated noise signal, generating an acoustic noise signal using the modulated noise signal, and presenting the acoustic noise signal to a tinnitus suffering person.
US12063481B2
A balanced armature receiver can include a motor disposed in a case. The motor can include an armature having a first portion fixed to and extending from a yoke and a second portion extending through a coil tunnel. The second portion can have a free end-portion movably disposed in a magnet gap. The balanced armature receiver can include a damping compound-locating structure disposed on one or both of the armature and another portion of the receiver proximate the armature. The balanced armature receiver can include damping compound contacting the damping compound-locating structure and located between the armature and another portion of the receiver.
US12063478B2
A customized in-ear hearing device includes a light source, photodetector, light emission window, and light transmission window. The light source and the photodetector together function as a physiological sensor by emitting light from the light source through the light emission to the skin of a user's ear canal, and detecting at the photodetector light reflected by the skin that passes through the light detection window. The light emission window and light detection window are located at a customized portion of the sidewall of the device that contacts the skin in the ear canal.
US12063474B2
A sound transducer device includes a multilayer component board having a first side and an opposite second side, and a sound port extending between the first and second sides of the multilayer component board. The sound transducer also includes a MEMS sound transducer die including a suspended membrane structure, wherein the MEMS sound transducer die is arranged at the first side of the multilayer component board such that the suspended membrane structure is in fluid communication with the sound port. The sound transducer also includes a mesh structure for providing an environmental barrier, the mesh structure covering the sound port from either one of the first and second sides of the multilayer component board.
US12063473B2
A microphone module comprises a housing, an audio bus, and a first plurality of microphones in communication with the audio bus. The microphone module further comprises a module processor in communication with the first plurality of microphones and the audio bus. The module processor is configured to detect the presence of an array processor in communication with the audio bus, detect the presence of a second microphone module in communication with the audio bus, and configure the audio bus to pass audio signals from both the first plurality of microphones and the second microphone module to the array processor.
US12063471B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic device may include a housing including a first housing and a second housing receiving at least a portion of the first housing and configured to guide a slide of the first housing, a display including a first display area disposed on the second housing and a second display area extending from the first display area, a speaker module disposed in the housing, a resonance space facing at least a portion of the speaker module and configured to vary in size based on a slide of the first housing with respect to the second housing, and a processor configured to adjust a sound output from the speaker module based on the size of the resonance space.
US12063470B1
An acoustic package structure includes a substrate, a covering structure and an acoustic chip. The covering structure is disposed on the substrate and has a plurality of first openings. The acoustic chip is disposed between the substrate and the covering structure, wherein the acoustic chip includes a membrane.
US12063457B2
Examples described relate to systems, methods, and apparatus for transmitting image data. The apparatus may comprise a memory buffer configured to store data elements of an image frame and generate a signal indicating that each of the data elements of the image frame have been written to the memory buffer, a processor configured to initiate a flush operation for reading out at least one data element of the image frame from the memory buffer and to output the at least one data element at a first rate, a rate adjustment unit configured to receive the at least one data element from the processor at the first rate and to output the at least one data element at a second rate, and a multiplexer configured to receive the at least one data element from the processor at the first rate and configured to receive the at least one data element from the rate adjustment unit at the second rate. The multiplexer may select the at least one data element at the second rate for transmitting on a bus in response to receiving the signal from the memory buffer.
US12063454B2
An electronic device includes a receiving unit, a signal processing unit, a transmitting unit, and an audio timing unit. The receiving unit receives audio data and first video data. The signal processing unit generates second video data and a pixel clock signal for playing the second video data according to the first video data. The transmitting unit transmits the second video data, the audio data, the pixel clock signal, and a cycle time stamp (CTS) to a receiver. The audio timing unit generates an internal reference signal adjusts a frequency of the internal reference signal according to a receiving speed of the audio data, and generates the CTS according to the internal reference signal and the pixel clock signal so that the receiver can generate an audio clock signal for playing the audio data according to the pixel clock signal and the CTS.
US12063444B1
A method is provided for operating an event-based image sensor comprising a plurality of pixel circuits arranged to form a pixel array, each pixel being arranged at a location defined by an address defined by pixel coordinates in the array, wherein each pixel circuit is configured to generate an event, such that each time a light intensity change is detected, an event is characterized by a polarity reflecting a direction of the change. The method comprises performing a line readout of groups of adjacent pixels of a line of pixels, wherein the line readout comprises generating, for each group, at least one packet expressing occurrences of events of a same polarity in said group, each packet being characterized by a polarity and a group address. The method further comprises sending the packets to a processing pipeline where the packets are successively processed, involving a memory access based on the group address, wherein two packets sharing the same group address have different polarities and are consecutively processed.
US12063439B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for image signal processing. For example, methods may include, based on a sequence of orientation estimates for an image sensor and an orientation setpoint, invoking a mechanical stabilization system to adjust an orientation of the image sensor toward the orientation setpoint; receiving an image from the image sensor; determining an orientation error between the orientation of the image sensor and the orientation setpoint during capture of the image; and, based on the orientation error, invoking an electronic image stabilization module to correct the image for a rotation corresponding to the orientation error to obtain a stabilized image.
US12063435B2
There is provided an image capturing apparatus. An image capturing unit captures an image at an image capturing frequency that depends on a transmission setting. In a case where the transmission setting is a first setting, the image capturing frequency is higher than in a case where the transmission setting is a second setting or a third setting. A generation unit generates additional information associated with a captured image obtained by capturing an image at the image capturing frequency in the case where the transmission setting is the first setting or the third setting. The additional information is for use in control processing for a control device to control at least one of position and attitude of the image capturing apparatus.
US12063431B1
Multiple sets of framing for a video may define different positioning of multiple viewing windows for a video. The multiple viewing windows may be used to provide different punchouts of the video within a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface may enable creation/change in the sets of framing for the video. The graphical user interface for the punchouts may include a single timeline representation for the video. Framing indicators that represent different sets of framing for the video may be presented along the single timeline representation at different times.
US12063426B2
An imaging unit (50) includes an imaging sensor chip (1), a package substrate (2) on which the imaging sensor chip (1) is mounted, an adhesion member (5) that adheres a back surface of the imaging sensor chip (1) opposite to a light receiving surface (10) and a bottom surface (2d) that is a surface of the package substrate (2) on which the imaging sensor chip (1) is mounted to each other, and a circuit board (52) that is adhered to a back surface of the package substrate (2) opposite to the bottom surface (2d). The adhesion member (5) is composed of a central adhesion part (5a) adhered to a central portion (1A) of the imaging sensor chip (1) and a peripheral adhesion part (5b) adhered to a peripheral portion (1B) of the imaging sensor chip (1) that is separated from the central portion (1A).
US12063424B2
The pixel unit includes a base, the base being provided with an installation space; a photodiode, the photodiode being installed in the installation space, and the photodiode including a red photodiode, a green photodiode, and a blue photodiode that are spaced from each other; and an optical splitter, the optical splitter being installed on the base, at least part of the optical splitter being located in the installation space, the optical splitter having a light-in surface, a first light-out surface, a second light-out surface and a third light-out surface, and the optical splitter being configured to disperse light entering the light-in surface and then emit the light from the first light-out surface, the second light-out surface and the third light-out surface, where the first light-out surface faces the red photodiode, the second light-out surface faces the green photodiode, and the third light-out surface faces the blue photodiode.
US12063422B2
Methods and apparatus for providing attribute-based search of media assets such as video and audio assets, and associated augmented reality functions including dynamic provision of relevant secondary content relating to the identified attribute(s). In one embodiment, media or content assets are ingested into a processing system and processed according to one or more attribute detection, identification, and characterization algorithms. Attributes detected may include for example the presence of tangible items such as clothing or chattels, particular persons such as celebrities, and/or certain contexts such as sporting activities and musical performances, as rendered within the media asset. In one implementation, the characterized assets are provided a unique ID, and stored so as to permit cross-correlation based on, e.g., the identified and characterized attributes. Secondary content (e.g., advertising or promotional content) is correlated to each identified asset, and dynamically served upon a user providing some threshold level of interaction with the attribute.
US12063417B2
Systems and associated methods are described for providing content recommendations. The system accesses content item consumption data for a plurality of users subscribed to a media service. Then, the system determines that a first subset of the plurality of users has unsubscribed from the media service and that a second subset of the plurality of users has not unsubscribed from the media service. The system identifies a time slot typical for the first subset of users and atypical for the second subset of users based on content item consumption data of the first subset of users and content item consumption data of the second subset of users. In response to determining that a user is consuming a first content item at the identified time slot, the system generates for display a recommendation for a second content item that is scheduled for a different time slot.
US12063415B2
Systems and methods are described to selectively stream content based on parental control ratings. A particular frame of a live broadcast of a media asset that is to be transmitted to a first device is identified, and it is determined whether the particular frame of the media asset depicts content associated with a parental control rating. In response to such determination, the particular frame and metadata associated with the particular frame that indicates that the particular frame depicts content associated with the parental control rating may be transmitted to the first device, where the transmittal of the metadata causes the first device to perform an action related to display of the particular frame based on comparing the parental control rating with a local parental control setting.
US12063413B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a device and system for streaming media interaction. The device includes: a short range communication module; a wireless communication module configured to be capable of communicating with a remote server, a processor communicatively connected to the short range communication module and the wireless communication module; a memory having stored therein instructions which, when executed by the processor, enable the processor to: transmit, through the wireless communication module, a control input which is received through the short range communication module; receive a media stream responsive to the control input through the wireless communication module; and output the media stream to an external apparatus.
US12063409B2
A method of synchronizing video and audio when recording with a video recording device and an audio recording device configured for wireless data communication with each other including activating a recording at the video recording device, sending an audio recording command from the video recording device to the audio recording device, storing a recorded video data stream in a memory of the video recording device, receiving an audio data stream from the audio recording device at the video recording device and storing in the memory of the video recording device, determining a delay of the stored audio data stream relative to the stored video data stream, and joining the stored audio data stream and the stored video data stream together, taking the determined delay into consideration, in order to provide a recording data stream with synchronized video and audio.
US12063405B2
The present technology pertains to a penannular slider in a user interface. The penannular slider can accept an input to drag an indicator about the penannular slider to a location between a first terminal end of the penannular slider representing a first input source, and a second terminal end of the penannular slider representing input audio from playback of a media item. The location of the indicator can control a mixing of audio from the first input source and the input audio, and generating a mix includes first audio from the first input source at a first volume level and second audio from the input audio at a second volume level based on the location of the indicator about the penannular slider.
US12063403B2
There is provided a method for estimating play out resolution of a video delivered to a client device by an encrypted video stream communicated over a network. The method selects a current chunk of the encrypted video stream comprising data packets expected to carry video data of the same level of playout resolution and determines values for a predetermined set of features indicative of conditions in the network. By accessing a pregenerated model, a corresponding set of state transition probabilities is obtained, defining a Markov chain whose states comprise the different levels of resolution. The determined state transition probabilities are then used to calculate, from a first probability distribution arising from a first or previous step in the Markov chain, a second probability distribution for the plurality of states of the Markov chain expected to result from the indicated network conditions.
US12063397B2
An example display apparatus includes a communicator configured to receive video content from a video service server through a network and transmit data to the video service server; an image processor configured to decode the video content and output an image frame; and an image display on which the image frame is displayed, wherein the image processor transmits one of a video resolution reduction signal for allowing the video service server to transmit video content having a resolution lower than a reference resolution in response to an increase in traffic of the network and a frame rate reduction signal for allowing the video service server to transmit video content having a frame rate lower than a reference frame rate in response to an increase in traffic of the network.
US12063381B2
An apparatus for receiving a video data stream as an input bitstream is provided. The video data stream has a video encoded thereinto, wherein, for a playback speed modification factor (Nx), the apparatus is to determine a decoding capability requirement depending on a decoding capability requirement limit, wherein the playback speed modification factor (Nx) is a forward playback speed modification factor or is a backward playback speed modification factor.
US12063376B2
A Local illumination compensation system for video encoding and decoding uses memory for storing illumination compensation parameters and does not require access to reconstructed pixels of neighboring blocks. A set of illumination compensation parameters is stored in a dedicated buffer, which is of limited size, and which is decoupled from the coding unit level storage of information. The buffer contains a set of illumination compensation parameters, which may be, for example, computed (or determined in some other manner) on the fly or determined beforehand (for example for example obtained from the video signal or from a device).
US12063367B2
An apparatus configured to decode video data includes a shared memory and one or more processors configured to execute a plurality of video decoding cores. At least one of the plurality of video decoding cores in communication with the shared memory, and each of plurality of video decoding cores are configured to track completion of decoding samples of one or more regions of a frame of video data, write information to the shared memory, the information indicative of the completion of decoding the samples of the one or more regions of the frame of video data, read, prior to decoding a subsequent region of the frame of video data, the information in the shared memory, and determine whether to decode the subsequent region of the frame of video data based on the information.
US12063366B2
An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise the steps of: if a current block is partitioned into sub-partition transform blocks, deriving a prediction sample of the current block on the basis of intra prediction mode information; determining an LFNST set including LFNST matrices on the basis of an intra prediction mode derived from the intra prediction mode information; selecting one of the LFNST matrices on the basis of the LFNST set and the LFNST index; deriving transform coefficients for the sub-partition transform blocks on the basis of the selected LFNST matrix; and deriving residual samples for the current block on the basis of the transform coefficients.
US12063360B2
A prediction processing system includes a processing circuit and a reference data buffer. The processing circuit performs a first inter prediction operation upon a first prediction block in a frame to generate a first inter prediction result, and further performs a second inter prediction operation upon a second prediction block during a first period. The reference data buffer buffers a reference data derived from the first inter prediction result. The processing circuit further fetches the reference data from the reference data buffer, and performs a non-inter prediction operation according to at least the reference data during a second period, wherein the second period overlaps the first period.
US12063340B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for multi-aperture ranging are disclosed. An embodiment of an image processing system includes at least one processor and memory configured to receive a multi-aperture image set that includes a high-resolution subaperture image and a low-resolution subaperture image, wherein the high-resolution subaperture image and the low-resolution subaperture image were captured simultaneously from a camera using dissimilar focal lengths, predict a high-resolution predicted disparity map from the high-resolution subaperture image using a neural network, predict a low-resolution predicted disparity map from the low-resolution subaperture image using the neural network, and generate an integrated range map from the high-resolution and low-resolution predicted disparity maps, wherein the integrated range map includes an array of range information that corresponds to the multi-aperture image set and that is generated by overlaying common points in both the high-resolution predicted disparity map and the low-resolution predicted disparity map.
US12063336B2
An image forming apparatus performs printing of only a special color area by extracting an area to which a special color ink is to be applied or an area to which a decorative printing, such as a texture, is to be performed and not applying ink on an area other than the extracted area.
US12063320B2
An electronic device is provided in this disclosure. The electronic device includes a body, a shaft sleeve, a function module, and a rotating resistance device. The shaft sleeve is fixed to the body. The function module includes a shaft portion rotatably disposed on the shaft sleeve. The rotating resistance device is disposed on the shaft sleeve or fixed to the body and is against the shaft portion of the flip function module to apply rotational resistance to the shaft portion of the function module, so that the function module stably stays at any position without being affected by an external force.
US12063319B2
A foldable module and a corresponding device are provided. The foldable module includes a first connection part, a first pin, a first drive ring, and a first spring. The first pin passes through the first drive ring, a first pin hole which is disposed on the first connection part, and the first spring. A first convex part and a first concave part are disposed between the first drive ring and the first connection part. The first convex part is located between (a) the first spring and (b) the first concave part or the first convex part. When the first connection part rotates, or in a folding or unfolding process, the first convex part slides out of the first concave part, to provide damping force for unfolding or folding. The first connection part directly drives the first convex part and the first concave part to move correspondingly, thereby improving transmission accuracy.
US12063318B2
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture provide for an injection management platform that allows the verification and management of injection event transactions involving injectors equipped with NFC or RFID chips utilizing a distributed and secure technology such as blockchain. An injection event transaction ledger allows for digital receipts of injection event transactions to be securely verified and updated. In accordance with some embodiments, injectors may comprise blow-fill-seal (BFS) injectors that are pre-filled with a single dose of a fluid agent comprising a vaccine or medicament, allowing for tracking of individual doses of the fluid agent via the injection event transaction ledger.
US12063311B2
A system and method for internet-access age-verification is described which has direct application for controlling access to age-limited internet content, such as gambling sites, by secure communication with an age-verification server. After registering with an age-verification server, the internet user installs a software application on his multimedia device which manages the age-verification transaction between an age-restricted content provider and the age-verification server whenever the user attempts to access age-restricted content. The invention maintains anonymity between the user and the content provider yet provides secure and authenticated verification of the age of the user. No user website data is transmitted to the age-verification server, thus maintaining the privacy of the internet user.
US12063303B2
Systems and methods enable a marketplace system to display, in an interface accessible to a user, first digital tokens maintained in a first token-holding data structure of a first token-holding data structure provider of a blockchain network. A selection of a second token-holding data structure provider and a selection of a second token-holding data structure associated with the second token-holding data structure provider may be received from the user. An authentication message may be received, the authentication message including encrypted information which may be decrypted to extract information for authentication of the user as owner of the second token-holding data structure. Upon authentication, a link to the second token-holding data structure may be established, and information about second digital tokens maintained in the second token-holding data structure may be received via the link to display the first digital tokens and the second digital tokens in the interface.
US12063302B2
Multivariate encryption systems and methods are provided herein. An example method includes receiving a multivariate input set that includes a plurality of sensitive data objects arranged according to a record template, encrypting the multivariate input set into an encrypted representation, receiving a request for at least a portion of the plurality of sensitive data objects, extracting the at least a portion of the plurality of sensitive data object from the encrypted representation and generating a response message that includes only the at least a portion of the plurality of sensitive data objects that were extracted from the encrypted representation.
US12063289B2
A communication system includes a first processor that performs processing for transmitting a signal to and receiving a signal from a communication destination device and a second processor that performs processing of an additional function. The second processor includes a decoding unit that decodes a transmission signal encoded by the first processor or a reception signal encoded by the communication destination device, an information acquiring unit that acquires information from the transmission signal or the reception signal decoded by the decoding unit, an additional function executing unit that performs the processing of the additional function using the information acquired by the information acquiring unit, and an encoding unit that performs processing for encoding the decoded transmission signal and outputting a resulting signal to the communication destination device or processing for encoding the decoded reception signal and outputting a resulting signal to the first processor.
US12063281B2
A method for controlling tracking elements of a web page is disclosed. The method is performed at an electronic device. The electronic device is configured to communicate to a server device and to a web server. The method comprises obtaining a web page address of the web page to connect to the web server. The method comprises transmitting a web page request to the web server based on the web page address. The method comprises receiving, from the web server, a web page response. The web page response comprises tracking elements. The web page response comprises a control tag configured to control tracking elements of the web page. The method comprises rendering the web page based on the web page response. Rendering the web page comprises invoking the control tag. Invoking the control tag comprises obtaining a first set of tracking tags of the web page.
US12063280B2
An apparatus to facilitate provenance audit trails for microservices architectures is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to obtain provenance metadata for a microservice from a local blockchain of provenance metadata maintained for the hardware resource executing a task performed by the microservice, the provenance metadata comprising identification of the microservice, operating state of at least one of a hardware resource or a software resource used to execute the microservice and the task, and an operating state of a sidecar of the microservice during the task; access one or more policies established for the microservice; analyze the provenance metadata with respect to the one or more policies to identify if there is a violation of the one or more policies; and generate one or more evaluation metrics based on whether the violation of the one or more policies is identified.
US12063270B2
In a running distributed data storage system that actively processes I/Os, metadata nodes are commissioned and decommissioned without taking down the storage system and without introducing interruptions to metadata or payload data I/O. The inflow of reads and writes continues without interruption even while new metadata nodes are in the process of being added and/or removed and the strong consistency of the system is guaranteed. Commissioning and decommissioning nodes within the running system enables streamlined replacement of permanently failed nodes and advantageously enables the system to adapt elastically to workload changes. An illustrative distributed barrier logic (the “view change barrier”) controls a multi-state process that controls a coordinated step-wise progression of the metadata nodes from an old view to a new normal. Rules for I/O handling govern each state until the state machine loop has been traversed and the system reaches its new normal.
US12063267B1
The present disclosure generally relates to leveraging DNS (Domain Name Service) based client-side load balancing that directs IoT devices (clients) to network load balancer IP addresses. A management system obtains socket usage information about publicly accessible network load balancers. The system then uses socket thresholding information to determine whether individual network load balancers are exhausting a fixed set of available sockets. The system can then implement remedial actions to reduce individual network load balance presence to ensure that the IoT devices are equally distributed across all first layer network load balancers to maximize usage of capacity.
US12063262B2
A multi-media video conferencing platform and method which includes a user database configured to store usernames and details; a processor configured route multiple media streams to a user location; and a compiler configured to present a multimedia template at a client workstation, the template having a plurality of tiles, where each tile corresponds to a different media type, and the compiler is configured to identify a media type of an incoming media stream or media presentation. The processor routes the incoming media to a tile having a matching media type so that the media stream or presentation displays in the tile corresponding to its media type. The template presented by the compiler has tiles corresponding to at least incoming streaming video, incoming still media, and two-way interactive video.
US12063256B2
Embodiments described herein are directed to managing device compliance for devices that are connected to an enterprise network. For example, a mobile device manager may provide configuration settings to a computing device, which implements the settings in order to be compliant with an enterprise's data and/or security policy. The mobile device manager also maintains a local reference of each device's configuration settings implemented thereby. When the mobile device manager subsequently performs a determination as to whether the computing device is still in compliance, the mobile device manager simply needs to refer to the local reference to determine the computing device's settings instead of explicitly querying the computing device for its settings. The foregoing techniques may be extended for security baseline compliance determinations, IoT device compliance determinations and compliance determinations for other types of devices, such as devices utilized by business partners of the enterprise that utilize the enterprise's network.
US12063251B1
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, attack mitigation apparatuses, and network security systems that improve network security for web applications are illustrated. With this technology, a web application resource associated with a protected web application is obtained from a server following receipt of a request for the web application resource from a client. A determination is made when the client is suspicious, and when the determination indicates the client is suspicious. The web application resource is modified by injecting a honeypot into source code of the resource. The honeypot comprises a conviction trap that can be engaged by the client. The modified web application resource is then sent to the client in a response to the request for the web application resource. Subsequently the client can be convicted as malicious if it is determined that the honeypot is engaged, thereby providing a more effective and accurate identification of manual attackers.
US12063250B2
Embodiments disclosed describe a security awareness system may adaptively learn the best design of a simulated phishing campaign to get a user to perform the requested actions, such as clicking a hyperlink or opening a file. In some implementations, the system may adapt an ongoing campaign based on user's responses to messages in the campaign, along with the system's learned awareness. The learning process implemented by the security awareness system can be trained by observing the behavior of other users in the same company, other users in the same industry, other users that share similar attributes, all other users of the system, or users that have user attributes that match criteria set by the system, or that match attributes of a subset of other users in the system.
US12063245B2
Among other things, this document describes systems, methods and apparatus for identifying and mitigating network attacks, particularly botnet attacks and other volumetric attacks. In some embodiments, a distributed computing platform provides client-facing service endpoints and a request routing mechanism (request router or RR) directing clients to a particular service endpoint or cluster thereof to obtain a service. The state of the RR at a given time is communicated to enforcement points in the system, which may be cluster equipment, service endpoints, or other components. When client traffic arrives at a particular enforcement point it is checked for consistency with the RR's directions, referred to as ‘mapping consistency’. This information is incorporated into decisions about how to handle the packets from the client.
US12063242B2
In an embodiment, a vulnerability scanner component determines one or more target software objects of a remote file system for a vulnerability scan, and performs, via a file system application programming interface (API), a file system decoding procedure based on information associated with the remote file system to determine a subset of disk blocks of the remote file system that comprise the one or more target software objects. The vulnerability scanner component transmits, to a remote device, a read request associated with the subset of disk blocks, and obtains, in response to the read request, the subset of disk blocks (e.g., rather than a full disk image). The vulnerability scanner component extracts the one or more target software objects from the subset of disk blocks, and performs the vulnerability scan on the extracted one or more target software objects.
US12063241B2
A system for governing access to a network environment, including: at least one communication node communicatively coupled to a network infrastructure; a network assurance agent configured to monitor the at least one communication node, wherein the network assurance agent performs actions including: generating, in response to an access request for a network resource from the at least one communication node, an environmental model of the at least one communication node relative to the network environment, wherein the environmental model includes operational data of the at least one communication node or at least one other communication node in the network environment, calculating a risk score for the at least one communication node via a machine learning algorithm, based on the environmental model, and granting or denying the access request based on the risk score.
US12063240B2
In an embodiment, a computer implemented method receives flow data for one or more flows that correspond to a device-circuit pair. The method calculates a time difference for each flow that corresponds to a device-circuit pair. Based on the calculated time differences and the received flow data, the method updates a probability distribution model associated with the device-circuit pair. Then, the method determines whether a time bucket is complete or open based on the updated probability distribution model.
US12063238B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing hardware and software for enhancing collaborative experience security. A computing platform may receive, from a user device, a request to join an enhanced reality collaborative experience involving use of an avatar in an AR or VR environment. The computing platform may verify an authorization channel for the user device, and may grant the user device access to the enhanced reality collaborative experience. The computing platform may receive biometric information corresponding to the user. Using data collected by the user device and the biometric information, the computing platform may perform anomaly detection to detect anomalies in the avatar's participation in the enhanced reality collaborative experience. In response to detecting the anomalies, the computing platform may perform one or more security actions for the enhanced reality collaborative experience.
US12063237B2
A method for tracing malicious endpoints in communication with a back end may include: providing a reverse proxy to intercept traffic exchanged between a client and the back end; providing a processing unit with an algorithm; intercepting, using the proxy, each TLS Client HELLO directed to the back end and generating a TLS Client HELLO hash using the algorithm; intercepting and processing, using the proxy, each HTTP request to extract a Client User Agent; processing the Client User Agent to generate an Agent hash; processing the HELLO hash and Agent hash by calculating a number of occurrences in which the HELLO hash is associated with the Agent hash to obtain a relative frequency value, to determine whether the HELLO hash is common to or anomalous for the Agent hash of the client; and performing one or more attack protection actions of a Man-in-the-Middle type if the HELLO hash is anomalous.
US12063231B2
A method for disrupting a detected cyberthreat can include receiving a request, the request identifying suspected malicious content; identifying one or more indicators of compromise (IOCs) associated with the content; enriching the request with the IOCs; verifying the request; and reporting the verified request and the one or more IOCs to a disruption network.
US12063228B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by a process, an executed function flow of a daisy chained serverless function-as-a-service (FaaS) function, the executed function flow having been injected with a particular trace identifier in response to an initial event trigger and span identifiers having been injected by each service that was executed; generating, by the process, a serverless flow graph associated with the particular trace identifier based on linking a path of serverless functions according to correlation of the span identifiers between the serverless functions; performing, by the process, a trace-based analysis of the serverless flow graph through comparison to a baseline of expectation; detecting, by the process, one or more anomalies in the serverless flow graph according to the trace-based analysis; and mitigating, by the process, the one or more anomalies in the serverless flow graph.
US12063226B1
The present disclosure relates to a system, method, and computer program for graph-based multi-stage attack detection in which alerts are displayed in the context of tactics in an attack framework, such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The method enables the detection of cybersecurity threats that span multiple users and sessions and provides for the display of threat information in the context of a framework of attack tactics. Alerts spanning an analysis window are grouped into tactic blocks. Each tactic block is associated with an attack tactic and a time window. A graph is created of the tactic blocks, and threat scenarios are identified from independent clusters of directionally connected tactic blocks in the graph. The threat information is presented in the context of a sequence of attack tactics in the attack framework.
US12063217B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for generating and implementing a security profile. Disclosed methods may include the steps of generating a customer intent interface configured to receive input comprising a value associated with an intent parameter; receiving, via the customer intent interface, security intent information comprising the value and the intent parameter; generating a configuration file based on the security intent information; based on the configuration file, generating a security profile for a target device; and generating, by code generator framework, one or more scripts based on the security profile.
US12063216B2
Systems and methods to manage and efficiently perform authorization of multiple proxy clients are disclosed. Furthermore, systems and methods to measure and check whether the web traffic of one or more client devices has reached a permissible limit of web traffic assigned by the proxy service provider. Specifically, a proxy is configured to gather and save authorization information of one or more clients within its memory. Therefore, the proxy server can verify and authorize one or more clients by utilizing the data from its memory. Furthermore, the proxy is configured to measure and report the utilized web traffic of one or more client devices to a messaging platform. In another aspect, systems and methods to check whether one or more client devices have reached a permissible amount of web traffic limit are disclosed.
US12063209B2
The present invention provides a certificate issuing system based on a block chain, the system having a means for directly generating a certificate-specific public key and a certificate-specific private key in a user terminal operated by a user, guiding the certificate-specific public key and the certificate-specific private key so as to be generated in a state in which a network in the user terminal is blocked, and eliminating the costs incurred for constructing, operating, and maintaining the certificate issuing system having a high-grade security system linked therewith so as to block hacking, which occurred in the past, as much as possible, since the certificate-specific public key requiring maintenance is stored and managed in an electronic wallet, installed in servers that hold block chains, through a peer-to-peer network (P2P)-based distributed database, not by a server run by a certificate authority (CA).
US12063202B2
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for detecting identified information in privacy firewalls are provided. A repeating field in a data collection may be analyzed to determine whether the field is likely to include information that identifies particular individuals. An access request of a user may be received. A permission record associated with the user may be accessed. In response to the field being likely to include information that identifies particular individuals and a first value in the permission record, access to the field may be denied, in response to the field not being likely to include information that identifies particular individuals and the first value in the permission record, access to the field may be provided, and in response to a second value in the permission record, access to the field may be provided.
US12063192B2
An information display method, an information sending method, and an electronic device are provided. The information display method includes: receiving reminder information sent by a target group, where the reminder information includes first information, a name of the target group, and reply information for the first information; displaying the reminder information and displaying a first button and a second button; and in a case that an input on the first button is received, displaying a group chat session screen corresponding to the name of the target group, where currently displayed content of the group chat session screen includes the reply information; or in a case that an input on the second button is received, displaying a first session screen corresponding to a user sending the first information, and displaying the first information and the reply information on the first session screen.
