US12073746B2
A visual indicator support which is intended to be irreversibly assembled on an outer face of a payment device and is configured to assume an orientation position, in which, when assembled with the payment device, it is mobile in rotation about an axis substantially perpendicular to the outer face of the payment device.
US12073740B2
Example embodiments may relate to a system, method, apparatus, and computer readable media configured for monitoring a user performing various athletic movements and generating performance characteristics based on the data corresponding to such athletic movements. Users may also be encouraged to participate in athletic challenges or competitions against other users or groups of users. In addition, athletic movement data for multiple persons can be collected at a central location, and subsequently displayed to a user at a desired remote location, so that the user can compare his or her athletic activities to others.
US12073732B2
The present disclosure relates to action control device and an action control method and a program that enable more appropriate action control to be achieved. An EKF processing unit selects a self-position estimation unit used to estimate a position of a drone from a plurality of the self-position estimation units which is different in estimation accuracy on the basis of waypoints that are indexes when the drone acts, and obtains a state of the drone. Then, a navigator controls an action of the drone according to an action plan created in advance on the basis of the state of the drone. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a mission flight control device that controls a mission flight of a drone.
US12073731B1
A mission monitor for planning non-scheduled flight plan operations during a flight such that a user or the system may direct the aircraft to a safe position if the pilot or aircraft cease to perform as planned. Upon user selection or a triggering event the mission monitor may select and cause the aircraft to fly a determined best course of action at any particular point inflight. The mission monitor may remotely and wirelessly receive flight, pilot, aircraft, and operator information. In some implementations mission monitor features may be distributed between individual modules. In one embodiment the system determines current aircraft configuration against an expected aircraft configuration to detect configuration errors, and then utilize configuration errors and error trends to manage aircraft configuration and mission operation. The system may divert the aircraft to the best available landing sites or reconfigure the aircraft to resolve configuration errors.
US12073725B2
In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method for coordinating an arrival of an asset at a location includes identifying one or more assets arriving at a transfer hub, based at least in part on one or more attributes associated with the one or more assets. The method includes determining an arrival time for the one or more assets, based at least in part on an available capacity associated with the transfer hub for receiving the one or more assets. The method includes controlling the one or more assets to arrive at the determined arrival time.
US12073724B2
A system and method for determining car to lane distance is provided. In one aspect, the system includes a camera configured to generate an image, a processor, and a computer-readable memory. The processor is configured to receive the image from the camera, generate a wheel segmentation map representative of one or more wheels detected in the image, and generate a lane segmentation map representative of one or more lanes detected in the image. For at least one of the wheels in the wheel segmentation map, the processor is also configured to determine a distance between the wheel and at least one nearby lane in the lane segmentation map. The processor is further configured to determine a distance between a vehicle in the image and the lane based on the distance between the wheel and the lane.
US12073718B2
This important region setting device is provided with: a means for changing an important region within a region that can be imaged by a predetermined camera, in accordance with the illumination state of a lamp in a predetermined traffic signal; and a means for notifying the important region to the camera or to a device which transmits images captured by the camera.
US12073710B2
A haptic button assembly may be used for detecting inputs and providing haptic outputs at an electronic device. The haptic outputs may be provided in response to detected inputs or in response to other conditions at the electronic device. The haptic button assembly may define an input surface along an exterior of the electronic device. Inputs may be provided to the input surface of the haptic button assembly. An input may include a touch input on or along the input surface and/or a force input directed substantially perpendicularly to the input surface. The haptic button assembly may provide a haptic output by moving an input member of the haptic button assembly laterally (e.g., substantially parallel to the input surface).
US12073707B2
Method, devices and systems are described. A diagnostics system for a premises monitoring system at a premises is provided. The diagnostic system includes processing circuitry configured to: receive premises system data associated with the premises monitoring system, perform supervised learning of a deep learning process based at least in part on the premises system data, and determine a classified set of resolutions based at least in part on the performed supervised learning where each resolution of the classified set of resolutions is associated with at least one premises event, and the at least one premises event relates to the premises monitoring system.
US12073699B2
A system, method, and apparatus for implementing workflows across multiple differing systems and devices is provided herein. During operation a workflow for a first camera is automatically suggested, or a new workflow generated for the first camera, based upon a workflow being created for a second camera having a similar field of view as the first camera. In particular, a workstation (or server) will receive an indication that a workflow was created for a camera. The workstation (or server) then determines if any other cameras have similar field of views. New workflows will then be suggested (or implemented) for the cameras having similar field of views. The suggested/implemented workflows will have a similar trigger and a similar action.
US12073696B1
An auxiliary unit can be connected to existing automated retail system such as vending machine, kiosks, or automated ticketing machines to increase interactions and sales with customers. The auxiliary unit can have a display unit to show multiple identities and their corresponding scores. The scores can be changed after a transaction between the automated retail system and the customers is complete. The display unit can be a form of a scoreboard and the identities can be either parties in competition or issues worth surveying.
US12073693B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and apparatus for detecting a skimmer via a vibration sensor on a transaction card. The method includes receiving, at a server, from a user equipment, vibration information recorded by a transaction card in response to an execution of a transaction at a point-of-service (POS) terminal of a plurality of POS terminals using the transaction card. The vibration information may be recorded by a microphone or an accelerometer on the transaction card while the transaction card is swiped through the POS terminal or inserted into or removed from the POS terminal. The method includes determining, at the server, a state of the POS terminal based on the received vibration information and in response to a determination of the state of the POS being compromised, sending to one or more stakeholders of the transaction a warning message containing the POS terminal information including the POS terminal's state.
US12073687B2
An electronic gaming machine includes a cabinet, a display mounted to the cabinet, a wireless interface for communicating with a portable electronic device, a network interface for communicating with a validation server, a bill validator coupled to a game controller configured to accept bills and printed ticket vouchers, and a removable cash box. The game controller includes a processor and a memory configured to control a wager-based game played on the EGM, redeem virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers, receive an indication to transfer value to the EGM via a virtual ticket voucher, receive the virtual ticket voucher including a virtual ticket voucher validation number from the portable electronic device via the wireless interface, validate the virtual ticket voucher with the validation server via the network interface, deposit a credit amount associated with the virtual ticket voucher, and notify the validation server that the virtual ticket voucher is redeemed.
US12073677B2
A value note box has a first storage compartment for storing notes of value as well as at least a second storage compartment for storing notes of value. Further, the value note box comprises a switch unit for selectively feeding notes of value into the first storage compartment or into the second storage compartment. The switch unit comprises a switch element, a portion of which delimits one side of the first storage compartment.
US12073675B2
An access device is provided for use in an access control system. The access device includes a processor having control of a door lock, and a communication module connected to the processor. The processor is able to receive a reservation certificate presented by a portable terminal through the communication module. The processor activates the door lock when the current reservation certificate has been presented and disables an alarm system when the current reservation certificate has been presented.
US12073672B2
It is provided a method for determining when a portable key device is located on a front side or on a back side in relation to a barrier secured by an electronic lock. The method is performed in a location determiner and comprises the steps of: obtaining a channel impulse response, CIR, based on an impulse signal transmitted from the portable key device, the CIR being based on a plurality of samples of the impulse signal as received by an antenna being fixedly mounted in relation to the electronic lock; and determining, based on the CIR, whether the portable key device is located on the front side or on the back side.
US12073666B1
A vehicle monitoring system includes a controller and one or more wheel-integrated monitoring devices that are each disposed between a wheel of a vehicle and a tire that is mounted to that wheel. The wheel-integrated monitoring device has multiple sensors, a transceiver, and a power unit. The sensors generate different measurements during each rotation of the wheel. The transceiver wirelessly transmits the different measurements to the controller. The power unit provides power to the sensors and the transceiver. The controller analyzes the measurements and generates alerts on a dashboard or console in response to the measurements revealing wheel alignment, tire tread, and/or other driving characteristics that differ from manufacturer specifications by more than a threshold amount or that present safety hazards to the driver.
US12073661B2
A method for operating a local network for a terminal device by a first communication device of a first motor vehicle is provided. A first mobile network connection is set up between the first motor vehicle and a network external to the motor vehicle Using the first communication device. The local network is created for the terminal device as a function of the first mobile network connection. A current first state of charge of a first electrical energy storage unit of the first motor vehicle is determined by the first communication device and the local network is created as a function of the determined first state of charge that is determined.
US12073650B2
A display panel and an electronic device are provided. The display panel includes a first panel, a second panel, and a binding layer. The first panel includes light-emitting units, and also includes light-transmitting regions. The second panel includes photoelectric sensing elements and a second driving circuit layer. The second driving circuit layer includes second driving transistors. The second driving transistors are electrically connected to the photoelectric sensing elements, and the photoelectric sensing elements are opposite to the light-transmitting regions. The binding layer is disposed between the first panel and the second panel, and configure to bind the first panel and the second panel.
US12073637B1
An apparatus and method for loop plating, the apparatus including a scanning system, at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the processor to generate, using an optical scanning system, a first scan of a plate digitally connected to a user profile, track content data of the plate as function of the first scan, classify the content data to the user profile, wherein classifying the content data includes generating a loop assessment, verify the content data as function of the classification, generate, using the optical scanning system, a second scan of the plate, identify plating feedback as a function of the second scan, and update the user profile based on the plating feedback, wherein updating the user profile includes generating a progress report.
US12073630B2
This disclosure provides a moving object tracking method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining a current frame captured by a camera; predicting a current state vector of the camera based on an inertial measurement unit IMU and the current frame, to obtain a predicted value of the current state vector of the camera; predicting a current state vector of a target object that is moving in the current frame, to obtain a predicted value of the current state vector of the target object; and updating a Kalman state vector based on a measurement result of an image feature in the current frame. According to technical solutions provided in this disclosure, a target object that is moving in a surrounding environment can be tracked and a pose of the target object can be estimated while a pose of a system can be estimated.
US12073628B2
A guidance processing apparatus (100) includes an information acquisition unit (101) that acquires a plurality of different pieces of guidance information on the basis of states of a plurality of people within one or more images, and a control unit (102) that performs control of a plurality of target devices present in different spaces or time division control of a target device so as to set a plurality of different states corresponding to the plurality of pieces of guidance information.
US12073627B2
A guidance processing apparatus (100) includes an information acquisition unit (101) that acquires a plurality of different pieces of guidance information on the basis of states of a plurality of people within one or more images, and a control unit (102) that performs control of a plurality of target devices present in different spaces or time division control of a target device so as to set a plurality of different states corresponding to the plurality of pieces of guidance information.
US12073626B1
A system configured to communicate with a plurality of premises monitoring systems. The system includes at least one processor configured to, for each premises monitoring system of a first subset of the premises monitoring systems, receive premises data comprising flood sensor data indicating that a potential water leak, receive user confirmation data confirming that a water leak event occurred at the premises, identify at least one camera associated with the premises monitoring system that captured video of at least a portion of the water leak event, and collect the video captured by the at least one camera. A machine learning (ML) model is trained using the video collected from each premises monitoring system of the first subset of the premises monitoring systems. The ML model is deployed to at least a second subset of the plurality of premises monitoring systems for detecting a water leak.
US12073623B2
A system for capturing images for training an item identification model obtains an identifier of an item. The system detects a triggering event at a platform, where the triggering event corresponds to a user placing the item on a platform. The system causes the platform to rotate. The system causes at least one camera to capture an image of the item while the platform is rotating. The system extracts a set of features associated with the item from the image. The system associates the item to the identifier and the set of features. The system adds a new entry to a training dataset of the item identification model, where the new entry represents the item labeled with the identifier and the set of features.
US12073618B2
Systems and methods for enhancing computer-generated visualization of items, including enhancing visualization of product images in a web-based augmented reality (AR) user interface, displaying elements that enable users to select AR-enabled images of products (e.g., room décor, furniture, or other products), and transmitting AR-enabled images of the products in a room to one or more distributed computer systems (e.g., in real time). These and other images may be saved or selected in the various platforms, web-based documents, or locally-run applications as AR-enabled images of products to view a set of user-selected AR-enabled images in a single view (e.g., on a web page), and, when in a room, selectively display and interact with an AR-enabled view in the room of the corresponding products from the AR-enabled images list.
US12073614B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for monitoring a location of a client device associated with a transportation service and generating augmented reality images for display on the client device. The systems and methods use sensor data from the client device and a device localization process to monitor the location of the client device by comparing renderings of images captured by the client device to renderings of the vicinity of the pickup location. The systems and methods determine navigation instructions from the user's current location to the pickup location and select one or more augmented reality elements associated with the navigation instructions and/or landmarks along the route to the pickup location. The systems and methods instruct the client device to overlay the selected augmented reality elements on a video feed of the client device.
US12073613B1
Described is a system for adapting to perception errors in object detection and recognition. The system receives, with a perception module, perception data from an environment proximate a mobile platform that reflects objects in the environment. Perception probes representing perception characteristics of object detections are generated from the perception data. Using the perception probes, spatial logic-based constraints and temporal logic-based constraints are generated. Spatial perception parameters are determined by solving an optimization problem using a set of the spatial logic-based constraints. Temporal perception parameters are determined by solving an optimization problem using a set of temporal logic-based constraints. The spatial perception parameters and the temporal perception parameters are combined to estimate a final perception parameter. The perception module is adjusted based on the final perception parameter.
US12073604B2
In various examples, the present disclosure relates to using temporal filters for automated real-time classification. The technology described herein improves the performance of a multiclass classifier that may be used to classify a temporal sequence of input signals—such as input signals representative of video frames. A performance improvement may be achieved, at least in part, by applying a temporal filter to an output of the multiclass classifier. For example, the temporal filter may leverage classifications associated with preceding input signals to improve the final classification given to a subsequent signal. In some embodiments, the temporal filter may also use data from a confusion matrix to correct for the probable occurrence of certain types of classification errors. The temporal filter may be a linear filter, a nonlinear filter, an adaptive filter, and/or a statistical filter.
US12073599B2
An apparatus includes a memory and a processor. The memory may be configured to store image data of an input image. The processor may be configured to detect one or more objects in the input image using a quantized multi-stage object detection network, where quantization of the quantized multi-stage object detection network includes (i) generating quantized image data by performing a first data range analysis on the image data of the input image, (ii) generating a feature map and proposal bounding boxes by applying a region proposal network (RPN) to the quantized image data, (iii) performing a region of interest pooling operation on the feature map and a plurality of ground truth boxes corresponding to the proposal bounding boxes generated by the RPN, (iv) generating quantized region of interest pooling results by performing a second data range analysis on results from the region of interest pooling operation, and (v) applying a region-based convolutional neural network (RCNN) to the quantized region of interest pooling results.
US12073598B2
A market system capable of providing, via a network, data necessary for a production facility performing production through image processing for a workpiece imaged by an imaging system, includes a storage section configured to store multiple pieces of shape data that are created from a captured image of the workpiece for respective imaging systems and are used as a reference for a shape of the workpiece in the image processing, in correlation with a type of the imaging system and a type of the workpiece, and a providing section configured to provide data stored in the storage section to a customer of the production facility via the network.
US12073596B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus and method which enable an increase in a load of decoding processing of coded data of a point cloud to be suppressed. Positional information of a point cloud expressing an object with a three-dimensional shape as a set of points is encoded in an order which causes a decoding result of coded data of the positional information to be output in a processing order of attribute information of the point cloud, and coded data thereof is generated. In addition, coded data of positional information of a point cloud expressing an object with a three-dimensional shape as a set of points is decoded and a decoding result thereof is to be output in a processing order of attribute information of the point cloud. For example, the present disclosure can be applied to an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, a coding apparatus, a decoding apparatus, an electronic device, an information processing method, a program, or the like.
US12073591B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: selecting, as one or more candidates for calculating a predicted value of attribute information of a first three-dimensional point, one or more three-dimensional points from a plurality of three-dimensional points, the one or more three-dimensional points being closest to the first three-dimensional point; calculating a predicted value using pieces of attribute information of the one or more three-dimensional points selected as the one or more candidates; calculating a prediction residual that is a difference between the attribute information of the first three-dimensional point and the predicted value calculated; and generating a bitstream, based on the prediction residual. In the selecting, when the plurality of three-dimensional points include three-dimensional points equidistant from the first three-dimensional point, the one or more candidates are selected based on a first Morton code of the first three-dimensional point.
US12073576B2
Disclosed herein is a method for generating a depth map from multi-view images, the method including receiving multi-view images and parameters thereof; generating an initial depth map, an initial normal map, and an initial reliability map for the multi-view images; performing selection of multiple initial vertices and triangulation based on the initial depth map and the initial normal map and generating depth values and normal values for the result of triangulation; performing regularization based on triangulation, selecting additional vertices in the initial depth map, and generating additional depth values and additional normal values based on the additional vertices and regularization; and refining the initial depth map into a refined depth map by replacing depth values and normal values having reliability below a preset level in the initial depth map and the initial normal map with the additional depth values and the additional normal values.
US12073567B2
A method of analysing objects in a first frame and a second frame is disclosed. The method includes segmenting the frames, and matching at least one object in the first frame with a corresponding object in the second frame. The method optionally includes estimating the motion of the at least one matched object between the frames. Also disclosed is a method of generating a training dataset suitable for training machine learning algorithms to estimate the motion of objects. Also provided are processing systems configured to carry out these methods.
US12073565B2
A method may include identifying a first image for training a deep learning network, wherein the first image includes at least one target object associated with at least one location in the first image, and wherein the first image is associated with a mask image; determining a set of deformations to create a training set of deformed images, wherein the training set is to be used to train the deep learning network; generating the training set of deformed images by applying the set of deformations to the first image; and generating a set of deformed mask images by applying the set of deformations to the mask image, wherein each deformed image of the training set of deformed images is associated with a respective mask image to identify the location of the at least one target object in each deformed image.
US12073564B2
The present invention discloses a method for automatic segmentation of a fuzzy boundary image based on active contour and deep learning. In the method, firstly, a fuzzy boundary image is segmented using a deep convolutional neural network model to obtain an initial segmentation result; then, a contour of a region inside the image segmented using the deep convolutional neural network model is used as an initialized contour and a contour constraint of an active contour model; and the active contour model drives, through image characteristics of a surrounding region of each contour point, the contour to move towards a target edge to derive an accurate segmentation line between a target region and other background regions. The present invention introduces an active contour model on the basis of a deep convolutional neural network model to further refine a segmentation result of a fuzzy boundary image, which has the capability of segmenting a fuzzy boundary in the image, thus further improving the accuracy of segmentation of the fuzzy boundary image.
US12073562B2
A device configured to transcribe an appearance of a human being, including a common housing holding an image capturing sensor, a computing device having a data processor, and a computer program product including a first machine learning model trained for detecting and labeling human beings, a second machine learning model trained for detecting appearances of human beings and a transcription module to transcribe the detected appearances of human beings to text.
US12073561B2
Systems and methods for analyzing pathologies utilizing quantitative imaging are presented herein. Advantageously, the systems and methods of the present disclosure utilize a hierarchical analytics framework that identifies and quantify biological properties/analytes from imaging data and then identifies and characterizes one or more pathologies based on the quantified biological properties/analytes. This hierarchical approach of using imaging to examine underlying biology as an intermediary to assessing pathology provides many analytic and processing advantages over systems and methods that are configured to directly determine and characterize pathology from underlying imaging data.
US12073549B2
A stress analysis device includes: an imaging element that obtains temperature images over a same time range for a same region of an object; a feature point extractor that extracts a feature point in each of the temperature images; a projection transformer that performs projective transformation on each of the temperature images to align the feature point in the temperature images, and aligns the temperature images with respect to a temperature image being a reference; a pixel rearranger that rearranges a pixel array of each of the temperature images subjected to the projective transformation with respect to a pixel array of the temperature image that is the reference; a stress converter that obtains a stress image by multiplying each of the temperature images after pixel rearrangement by a stress conversion coefficient; and an additional averaging part that obtains an additional averaging stress image by adding and averaging the stress images.
US12073545B2
A computing device is configured to detect inconsistencies on a vehicle that are typically small and difficult to detect using conventional inspection techniques. Particularly, a spotlight illuminates a target area on the vehicle. The color of the spotlight is the same color as the ambient light illuminating the vehicle but is a higher intensity. Additionally, the color of the spotlight and the ambient light is selected based on the type of inconsistencies expected to be detected. Images of the target area are then captured, digitally processed, and stored in memory, such as a database, for example. Based on the processing of these images, a weighting coefficient is computed and used to generate an enhanced contrast feature map. Inconsistencies are then detected based on the enhanced contrast feature map.
US12073540B2
Techniques for using motion data to generate a high resolution output color image from multiple images having sparse color information are disclosed. A camera generates multiple images. The camera's sensor is configured to have a sparse Bayer pattern. While the camera is generating the images, IMU data for each image is acquired. The IMU data indicates a corresponding pose the camera was in while the camera generated each image. The images and the IMU data are fed as input into a motion model. The motion model performs temporal filtering on the images and uses the IMU data to generate a red-only image, a green-only image, and a blue-only image. A high resolution output color image is generated by combining the red-only image, the green-only image, and the blue-only image.
US12073539B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with denoising medical images such as fluoroscopic images using deep learning techniques. A first artificial neural network (ANN) is trained to denoise an input medical image in accordance with a provided target noise level. The training of the first ANN is conducted by pairing a noisy input image with target denoised images that include different levels of noise. These target denoised images are generated using a second ANN as intermediate outputs of the second ANN during different training iterations. As such, the first ANN may learn to perform the denoising task in an unsupervised manner without requiring noise-free training images as the ground truth.
US12073538B2
Existing, low quality images can be restored using reconstruction or a combination of post-reconstruction techniques to generate a real patient phantom. The real patient phantom (RPP) can then be simulated in Monte Carlo simulations of a higher performance system and a lower performance system. Alternatively, the RPP can be simulated in the higher performance system, and a real scan can be performed by an existing, lower performance system. The higher performance system can be differentiated from the lower performance system in a variety of ways, including a higher resolution time of flight measurement capability, a greater sensitivity, smaller detector crystals, or less scattering. A neural network can be trained using the images produce by the higher performance system as the target, and the images produced by the lower performance system as the input. After training, the trained neural network can be used to output input images taken in a lower performance system with higher performance system characteristics.
US12073537B1
An image data enhancement method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: segmenting an original image to obtain segmented images and target categories of the segmented images, and obtaining, by means of the target categories, categories to be enhanced (S1); binarizing the original image according to the categories to be enhanced, and obtaining instance images, according to a connected domain of the binary images, from the original image (S2); performing perspective processes on the instance images to obtain first instance images, and zooming the first instance images to obtain second instance images (S3); obtaining a vanishing point position from the original image, determining pasting positions of the second instance images according to the vanishing point position and the second instance images, and pasting the second instance images to the original image according to the pasting positions to obtain an enhanced image (S4).
US12073535B2
The present invention refers to a method of processing an energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX)/X-ray fluorescence (XRF) map (1), comprising selecting a data point (dp) among a plurality of data points of the EDX/XRF map (1), wherein each of the data points comprise a local measured value (m) and a local dispersion value (v) of a measured variable; determine a first modified mean value (M[1]) based on the local measured value (m) of the selected data point (dp) and the local measured value of at least one neighboring data point neighboring the selected data point (dp) and determine a first modified dispersion value (V[1]) based on the local dispersion value (v) of the selected data point (dp) and the dispersion value of the at least one neighboring data point, when m
US12073529B2
Provided is a system and method for moving a virtual object within virtual space in response to an external input supplied by a user. A machine learning model may predict a movement of the virtual object and implement such movement in a next frame of the virtual space. An example operation may include one or more of receiving a measurement of an external input of a user with respect to a virtual object displayed in virtual space, predicting, via execution of a machine learning model, a movement of the virtual object in the virtual space in response to the external input of the user based on the measurement of the external input of the user, and moving the virtual object in the virtual space based on the predicted movement of the virtual object by the machine learning model.
US12073513B1
Techniques for meshing a plurality of objects include determining, for at least a portion of the objects, a respective priority level. A mesh is then generated for each object. Thereafter, at least a portion of the meshes are sequentially imprinted to each other such that conflicts arising between meshes are resolved in favor of an object having a higher priority level. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US12073512B2
A sequence of frames including color and depth data is processed to identify key frames while minimizing redundancy. A sparse 3D point cloud is obtained for each frame and represented by a set of voxels. Each voxel has associated data indicating, e.g., a depth and a camera viewing angle. When a new frame is processed, a new sparse 3D point cloud is obtained. For points which are not encompassed by the existing voxels, new voxels are created. For points which are encompassed by the existing voxels, a comparison determines whether the depth data of the new frame is more accurate than the existing depth data. A frame is selected as a key frame based on factors such as a number of new voxels which are created, a number of existing voxels for which the depth data is updated, and accuracy scores.
US12073510B2
The model generation system may receive an object image and identify the parts of the object based on the object image. The model generation system may determine whether the model generation system has stored a part model that would correspond to the identified part. The model generation system may compare the portion of the object image that corresponds to the part to model images of a set of part models. The model generation system may identify a part model that best corresponds to the identified part based on similarity scores of the model images associated with the part model and the portion of the object image associated with the identified part. The model generation system may perform this process for each part of the object and then assemble an object model based on the part models for each part of the object.
US12073508B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for image processing. An image data processing system is disclosed comprising an image cutting engine for image cutting based on image data; a region of interest processing engine for selecting at least a rendering method for a region of interest; a processing engine for adjusting sampling rate; and rendering engine for rendering the image, with the rendering method selected by the region of interest processing engine. More particularly, the present invention relates to image processing techniques that perform image manipulation, volume rendering, displaying targeted regions of interest and other related functions.
US12073507B2
A scene modeling system receives a plurality of input two-dimensional (2D) images corresponding to a plurality of views of an object and a request to display a three-dimensional (3D) scene that includes the object. The scene modeling system generates an output 2D image for a view of the 3D scene by applying a scene representation model to the input 2D images. The scene representation model includes a point cloud generation model configured to generate, based on the input 2D images, a neural point cloud representing the 3D scene. The scene representation model includes a neural point volume rendering model configured to determine, for each pixel of the output image and using the neural point cloud and a volume rendering process, a color value. The scene modeling system transmits, responsive to the request, the output 2D image. Each pixel of the output image includes the respective determined color value.
US12073502B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a camera, a display, a sensor, a memory, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to display an avatar corresponding to an external object included in one or more images acquired using the camera through the display, determine at least one characteristic of the avatar based on avatar information stored in the memory, control the avatar displayed through the display based on at least one configuration value of configuration information stored in the memory, determine a rotational angle of the electronic device in a first mode of the electronic device, determine whether the rotational angle in the first mode is within a first threshold rotation range, and reversely rotate at least a portion of an action or a position of the avatar by the rotational angle in the first mode if the rotational angle in the first mode is within the first threshold rotation range.
US12073499B2
Glyph editing techniques through use of an adornment object are described. In one example, an input is received identifying a glyph and an adornment object in digital content displayed in a user interface. Glyph anchor points are obtained based on the glyph and adornment anchor points based on the adornment object. A link is generated between at least one said glyph anchor point and at least one said adornment anchor point. An edit input is received specifying an edit to a spatial property the glyph. The spatial property of the edit is propagated to a spatial property of the adornment object based on the link.
US12073493B2
A computer-implemented method comprises: providing at least two exploratory views; segmenting a first object in the at least two exploratory views to determine first two-dimensional object masks; segmenting the second object in the at least two exploratory views tow determine second two-dimensional object masks; determining a first three-dimensional object mask as a function of the first two-dimensional object masks; determining a second three-dimensional object mask as a function of the second two-dimensional object masks; and determining an overlap of the first object and the second object for at least one capture trajectory as a function of the first three-dimensional object mask and the second three-dimensional object mask.
US12073492B2
A system for estimating attenuation coefficients from only single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) emission data using deep neural networks includes an artificial neural network based upon machine learning system estimating attenuation maps for SPECT emission data, and associated attenuation correction method.
US12073472B2
A data processing system for recommending insurance plans implements obtaining an electronic copy of demographic information associated with a user; analyzing the demographic information with a first machine learning model to recommend a bundle of insurance policies based on the demographic information, wherein the first machine learning model is configured to group insured people having similar demographics into clusters and to generate the bundle of insurance policies based on predicted medical insurance consumption associated with a respective group into which the model predicts that the first user falls; customizing the recommended bundle of insurance policies based on the demographic information associated with the user to generate a customized bundle of insurance policies; generating an insurance recommendation report that presents the customized bundle of insurance policies to the user; and causing a user interface of a display of a computing device associated with the user to present the insurance recommendation report.
US12073467B2
A tracking liquidity order and related market center and process are disclosed which allow posting market centers (e.g. exchanges) to fill routable, smaller orders that would have otherwise routed off the posting market center. Such tracking liquidity orders increase the liquidity of that posting market center and allow it to execute more orders internally, without having to route them to an away market center.
US12073458B2
Systems and methods for purchasing items using a payment processing service (PPS) that checks inventory of merchant(s) and generates interactive components displayed by a third-party platform. Inventory data for merchants is stored by the PPS. The PPS receives an indication of input to a graphical user interface (GUI) presented by the third-party platform. The input represents a desire of a customer to purchase an item from a brick-and-mortar store of a particular merchant. The PPS determines that the merchant does not have the item available but determines it is available at a similar merchant's store. The PPS generates an interactive component comprising an image of the item and a selectable control to be used to initiate purchase from the similar merchant. The interactive component is displayed via the GUI, overlaid with customer-specific item variant information. Selection of the component allows the customer to add the item to a cart.
US12073457B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments for processing an information screen to enable filtering of another information screen. Embodiments operate by identifying a UI element code in the information screen based on a parameter data structure. The embodiments request a set of filter responses from a database based on the parameter data structure. The embodiments generate a set of UI elements that are each configured to perform a first action performed by the UI element code. Each UI element is further configured to perform a second action comprising filtering the other information screen using one of the set of filter responses. The embodiments then present the information screen with the generated set of UI elements to enable filtering of the other information screen.
US12073456B2
A system includes location indicators, a central computing system, and a mobile scanning device. The location indicators transmit location signals and are arranged in a store that includes stocked items. The central computing system stores an item association table that maps location values to the stocked items. The location values indicate locations of the stocked items in the store. The mobile scanning device receives ordered items from the central computing system, detects location signal(s), and determines a first location value based on the detected location signal(s). The mobile scanning device arranges the ordered items on a display based on the first location value, scans a first ordered item, and transmits data to the central computing system indicating that the first ordered item is associated with the first location value. The central computing system updates the item association table based on the data.
US12073453B2
There is provided systems and method for generating sale transaction from voice data input by a user. A user device may receive voice data including a preference for purchasing an item. The user device may convert the voice data to the preferences and perform a search for a sales transaction corresponding to the preferences. The search may include parameters about the user, such as a location. The sales transaction may include purchase prices, times, locations, or other relevant data. A user may accept or decline the sales transaction with additional user data. If the user accepts the sales transaction, the sales transaction may be completed with a payment provider and a transaction history given to the user for later redemption of the item. If the user declines the sales transaction, further sale transactions with additional items may be present to the user.
US12073449B2
This specification generally describes technology for identifying connection accessories for electrical cables. In some implementations, a system includes a product repository that includes electrical cable product data, the product data including, for each electrical cable represented in the product data, an electrical cable part number and various characteristic values for the electrical cable. An association data structure associates, for an electrical cable part number and a connection accessory type, connection accessories that are compatible for use with the electrical cable. A computing server is configured to handle requests for electrical cable and/or connection accessory information. User interfaces are provided to computing devices to facilitate information requests.
US12073445B2
A system and method for selecting diverse product titles to display on a website are disclosed. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems described herein identify available products to be displayed, cluster the identified products based on their similarity to one another, select one or more products from each of the clusters, and display information, such as a title, associated with the randomly selected products.
US12073444B2
Embodiments provide a computer-executable method, computer system and non-transitory computer-readable medium for programmatically analyzing a consumer review. The method includes programmatically accessing, via a network device, one or more consumer reviews for a commercial entity or a commercial object. The method also includes executing a consumer review processing engine to programmatically identify an attribute descriptor in the one or more consumer reviews, and executing the consumer review processing engine to programmatically generate a sentiment score associated with the one or more consumer reviews. The method further includes storing, on a non-transitory computer-readable storage device, the attribute descriptor and the sentiment score in association with the commercial entity or the commercial object.
US12073442B2
Aspects described herein may facilitate an automated trade-in of a vehicle with limited human interaction. A server may receive a request to begin a value determination of a vehicle associated with the user. The server may receive first data comprising: vehicle-specific identifying information, and multimedia content showing a first aspect of the vehicle. The user may be directed to place the vehicle within a predetermined staging area. The server may receive, from one or more image sensors associated with the staging area, second data comprising multimedia content showing a second aspect of the vehicle. The server may create a feature vector comprising the first data and the second data. The feature vector may be inputted into a machine learning algorithm corresponding to the vehicle-specific identifying information of the vehicle. Based on the machine learning algorithm, the server may determine a value of the vehicle.
US12073441B2
A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that cause the one or more processors to perform: training a machine learning model using one or more training features, wherein each training feature of the one or more training features is segmented in a respective group of one or more groups by a respective time period; executing, after training the machine learning model, the machine learning model to generate a forecasting system to predict at least a predicted return on an ad spend (ROAS) value; and providing access to the forecasting system to predict one or more input parameters for an electronic advertising campaign to forecast one or more campaign predictions associated with the electronic advertising campaign. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US12073413B2
The present technology pertains to keeping track of a purchase status of a product and delivering pre-purchase product experiences prior to the purchase of the product and a post-purchase product experience after the purchase of the product. The present technology provides for a device to identify a product and to request a purchase experience that is both informative and useful based on the purchase status of the product.
US12073406B2
A system and method in accordance with exemplary embodiments may include systems and methods for providing fraud management, which may include, receiving account holder data, determining vertical spend patterns associated with merchants to define a merchant risk for each merchant, generating a transactional behavior patter for the account holder, and generating a fraud score and/or action set (e.g., refer/decline/queue for review) based on the transactional behavior pattern and merchant risk. Account holder data may include, for example, an account type, an account balance, account credits and debits, and transaction data including merchant name, location, and transaction details.
US12073399B2
A computer-implemented method and system for blockchain network congestion-adaptive handling of events relating to digital assets, including creation and transfer operations. A congestion metric is measured to determine current congestion of the blockchain network. If below a first threshold level, then digital asset request are implemented using blockchain transactions at layer 1 as they are received. If the metric is above the first threshold level, then the received requests are queued until a queue trigger is detected, whereupon the queued requests are processed at layer 2 and a batch blockchain transaction is used to implement the two or more requests by recording the updated state on chain. When the metric falls below a second threshold, the process reverts to using layer 1 blockchain transactions instead of queueing requests for layer 2 batch processing.
US12073395B2
There are provided systems and methods for flexible digital tokens with application programming interfaces for reduced computing calls. A service provider, such as an electronic transaction processor for digital transactions, may provide a processing system, stack and API that allows for generation of flexible payment tokens that can be used for electronic transaction processing with external service providers including social networking platforms and services. The processing system for the transaction processor may include an API in a compatible language with the APIs of the external service providers. Specific API calls and queries, which may correspond to GraphQL mutations, may be used to execute operations between the APIs of the interfacing systems to have a legacy processing system and API to generate a billing agreement. Once generated, the billing agreement may be tokenized, and a payment token used for payment processing.
US12073393B2
A cryptographic scheme associated with a transaction service is received at a first computer system. Subsequent to receiving the cryptographic schema, the first computer system performs a configuration process for a transaction to be performed with the transaction service. The configuration process includes receiving a request for transaction configuration information from a client device. The request includes a cryptographic token generated by a second computer system the transaction service. The first computer system determines whether to grant the request based on analyzing the cryptographic token according to the cryptographic schema. Based on the determining, the first computer system sends transaction configuration information. The configuration process is performed by first computer system independent of communication between the second computer system and the first computer system.
US12073381B2
In certain embodiments, location-based activation of card identifiers may be facilitated. In some embodiments, an electrophoretic display card may store a set of location-specific card identifiers, where each card identifier of the set is associated with (i) an account of a user and (ii) creation location information indicating a device location of the user at a creation time of the card identifier. In response to being powered by a user device, the card may initiate wireless communication with the user device. The card may determine a device location of the user device, select a card identifier from the set of card identifiers that matches the device location, and switch a state of the card identifier to an active state to enable transaction processing for the card identifier. In some embodiments, the card may cause the active card identifier to be presented on an electrophoretic display of the card.
US12073380B2
A method for activating a portable contactless payment object of the timepiece or piece of jewellery type able to participate in the making of an electronic payment by tokenisation, the method including the following steps: obtaining of a payment token by an electronic device, in particular mobile, coming from a server of a trusted third party providing a payment service by tokens, and configuration of the portable object with a view to use thereof providing a transmission of the token included in the electronic device to the portable object with an activation terminal.
US12073368B2
A system for selecting providers and scheduling meetings remotely is described, comprising an application server; at least one provider device; and at least one user device; wherein the application server, at least one provider device and at least one user device, intercommunicate with each other, through a communication network. The application server includes at least one general storage unit comprising a user profile memory block, where the information related to the users who connect to the server through at least one user device is stored; a provider profile memory block, where all the information of the providers that connect to the application server through at least one provider device is stored; a query storage unit, to store all the information related to the queries made by users; a proposal storage unit, to store all the information related to the proposals made by the providers; and, at least one information processing means, to communicate with the at least one user device and the at least one provider device and interact with the other elements contained in the application server.
US12073363B2
Systems, methods, and storage media for providing a dashboard for a collaboration work management platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information for maintaining a collaboration environment; obtain a first set of units of work where a first user is associated with first units of work within the first set but not assigned to the first units of work; and/or effectuate presentation of a dashboard displaying work information for the first units of work within the first set and indicating titles for the first units of work within the first set, statuses of the first units of work within the first set, and user information for the one or more other users assigned to the first units of work within the first set.
US12073360B2
A quantity sensing storage device enables automatic ordering of a product using an ordering engine that monitors quantity signals generated by a quantity sensor that is configured to provide the quantity signals based on a quantity of a first set of a product stored at the quantity sensing storage device. Base on the quantity of the first set, the ordering engine determines whether an order threshold has been satisfied. The quantity sensing storage device automatically provides instructions to a service provider device via a wireless communication subsystem to order a second set of the product in response to determining that the order threshold has been satisfied. The ordering engine continuously updates the order threshold such that when the second set of the product is received by a user of the quantity sensing storage device, an optimal portion of the first set of the product remains stored in the storage enclosure.
US12073359B2
Systems and methods are provided for an automatically updated, self-reporting bill of materials. System components report important identifying information including firmware versions, software versions, and part numbers. In particular, when the system detects a change in a component, the bill of materials is updated. Additionally, a log of changes is saved.
US12073358B2
A method for permissioning part manufacturing is provided, the method including associating a first user with a first part manufacturing template, the part manufacturing template defining a first vendor for providing a first part associated with the first part manufacturing template. The method then receives an indication from the first user to assign permissions associated with the first part manufacturing template to a second user. The method then provides the second user with limited access to the first part manufacturing template, such that the second user can order instances of the first part from the first vendor. The method then accepts an order for an instance of the first part placed by the second user and records analytics in a database accessible by the first user related to the order placed by the second user.
US12073357B2
Systems and methods for autonomous provision replenishment are disclosed. Parts used in a manufacturing process are stored in an intermediate stock queue. When the parts are consumed by the manufacturing process and the number of parts in the queue falls below a threshold, a provision-replenishment signal is generated. One or more self-driving material-transport vehicles, a fleet-management system, and a provision-notification device.
US12073354B2
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a system and method for fast checkout from a retail store. The system includes a portable computerized device that is configured to track items which are inserted or removed from a shopping container.
US12073352B2
Systems and methods herein describe receiving a transport request from a first device, transmitting the transport request to a second device, causing the second device to display a first instruction, determining that a current location of a securable container associated with the second device matches the first location, based on the determination, generating a first access code operable to access the securable container, and transmitting the first access code to a third device, receiving an indication that the securable container has been opened using the first access code, based on the indication, causing the second device to display a second instruction, determining that a subsequent location of the securable container matches the second location, based on the determination, generating a second access code and transmitting the second access code to the first device; and receiving a subsequent indication that the securable container has been opened using the second access code.
US12073348B2
Systems for dynamically updating a priority queue for scheduling data operations associated with data records. A method includes: detecting event data meeting a threshold value for identifying a shift in data operation relevance and traversing a cascading data structure to identify an auditable entity corresponding to one or more data records associated with the event data, the one or more data records corresponding to at least one branch of the cascading data structure. The method includes generating an updated priority queue for scheduling data operations based on priority weights associated with branches of the cascading data structure, the updated priority queue based on event data corresponding to the identified auditable entity relative to event data associated with one or more records corresponding to other auditable entities and transmitting a signal for dynamically communicating the updated priority queue for scheduling data operations associated with data records of respective auditable entities.
US12073347B2
In some implementations, a first set of user activity data is received from a plurality of sensors where the first set of user activity data corresponds to a plurality of users. A task list of an objective is extracted from the received first set of user activity data based on patterns formed in the first set of user activity data in association with the plurality of users pursuing the objective. Based on determining a second set of user activity data indicates pursuit of the objective by a user, it is determined that at least a task of the task list is uncompleted by the user based on comparing the second set of user activity data to the task. Content corresponding to the task is provided to a user device associated with the user based on determining the task is uncompleted.
US12073339B2
Techniques herein attempt to provide actors with more flexible and satisfactory experiences regarding obtaining tickets for an event. A learning model may identify attributes indicative of whether a particular actor (e.g., attempting to purchase tickets to an event) possesses a desirable characteristic (e.g., is likely to attend the event). Each actor can then be evaluated to estimate whether she is a good actor (possesses the characteristic). If so, favored opportunities may be made available, such as the opportunity to buy high-demand tickets. An actor may further have the opportunity to hold or reserve tickets for a period time, during which other actors cannot purchase them. A fee for holding or reserving tickets (and/or maintaining the hold or reserve) can be dynamically set based on market factors. Opportunities to modify seat assignments to allow a group of friends to sit together may also be provided.
US12073337B2
The utility of a portable consumer device is extended by allowing account holders the ability to gain entry into access-controlled venues using a portable consumer device that is associated with an account that was used to purchase the admission or tickets to the event at the access-controlled venue. Merchandise or other goods and services may be pre-purchased by the consumer. Pre-purchasing may occur at the time that the price of admission is paid or before entry into the venue. The portable consumer device may be validated at the entrance to the access-controlled venue. After the consumer's entry into the venue, an arrival notification alert may be triggered to provide additional goods or services. For example, when a consumer successfully enters the venue using the consumer portable device, the pre-purchased items may be delivered to the consumer location at a specific time.
US12073336B2
A first sub-blockchain and a second sub-blockchain are retrieved. The sub-blockchains are predefined fragments of a blockchain that are intended to be used to build a larger blockchain. At least one of the first sub-blockchain and the second sub-blockchain was originally stored in a read-only computer memory or was originally stored in a barcode/RFID tag. A blockchain that comprises the first sub-blockchain and the second sub-blockchain is created. The blockchain is used to track inventory of a product.
US12073334B2
A method includes: obtaining a text entered by a user; determining at least one topic related to the text; determining a target dialogue robot from the plurality of dialogue robots based on the at least one topic related to the text and a predefined mapping relationship between a dialogue robot and a topic, where a target topic corresponding to the target dialogue robot is some or all of the at least one topic related to the text; allocating the text to the target dialogue robot; and obtaining a reply for the text from the target dialogue robot, where the reply is generated by the target dialogue robot based on at least one semantic understanding of the text.
US12073322B2
A computer-implemented method for training a classifier (Φη), including: training a pretext model (ΦΘ) to learn a pretext task, so as to minimize a distance between an output of a source sample via the pretext model (ΦΘ) and an output of a corresponding transformed sample via the pretext model (ΦΘ), the transformed sample being a sample obtained by applying a transformation (T) to the source sample; S20) determining a neighborhood (NXi) of samples (Xi) of a dataset (SD) in the embedding space; S30) training the classifier (Φη) to predict respective estimated probabilities Φηj(Xi), j=1 . . . C, for a sample (Xi) to belong to respective clusters (Cj), by using a second training criterion which tends to: maximize a likelihood for a sample and its neighbors (Xj) of its neighborhood (Nxi) to belong to the same cluster; and force the samples to be distributed over several clusters.
US12073321B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a method for training an image caption model, the image caption model including an encoding convolutional neural network (CNN) and a decoding recurrent neural network (RNN). The method includes: obtaining an image eigenvector of an image sample by using the encoding CNN; decoding the image eigenvector by using the decoding RNN, to obtain a sentence used for describing the image sample; determining a matching degree between the sentence obtained through decoding and the image sample and a smoothness degree of the sentence obtained through decoding, respectively; and adjusting the decoding RNN according to the matching degree and the smoothness degree.
US12073317B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide methods and systems for processing a neural network associated with an input matrix having a first number of elements. The method can include: dividing the input matrix into a plurality of vectors, each vector having a second number of elements; grouping the plurality of vectors into a first group of vectors and a second group of vectors; and pruning the first group of vectors and the second group of vectors.
US12073303B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a test data record (12) for an algorithm (1), comprising the following steps: 1.1 a trained artificial intelligence (8) is provided. 1.2 the artificial intelligence (8) is stimulated, particularly using a random signal (11) and/or using a quasi linearity property for visual concepts, and 1.3 the artificial intelligence (8) produces at least one test data record (14), which comprises image data (15) and action regions (16) associated with the image data (1g) and/or sensor data and action regions associated with the sensor data. The invention furthermore relates to a method for operating a system for the automated, image-dependent control of a device and an apparatus for carrying out the aforementioned method. Finally, the invention relates to a control system for a device which comprises such an apparatus, and a computer program product, a computer-readable medium, the production of a data storage device and the use of an artificial intelligence (8).
US12073297B2
A system for providing performance optimization for a software solution may scan multiple predefined levels of the software solution to extract corresponding metadata information from each of the multiple predefined levels. The system may store the extracted corresponding metadata information pertaining to standard parameters associated with performance of the software solution. The system may determine a standard score based on a plurality of attributes of the extracted corresponding metadata information, optimize the determined standard score based on training data received from a learning model, and generate an insight information comprising information related to determined rule violations and of evaluation steps involved in determining the determined standard score.
US12073294B2
A system for generating a stress balance instruction set for a user, the system comprising a computing device, wherein the computing device is configured to receive a plurality of user data to calculate a stress score of a user. Calculating the stress score further comprises training a machine-learning model as a function of stress score training data that numerically describes stress in a user. Computing device generates a plurality of user metrics as a function of the plurality of user data and the machine-learning model and calculates an overall stress score. Computing device determines a stress imbalance using the overall stress score by training a machine-learning model and determining any difference between an anticipated normal stress score and user the stress score. Computing device generates a stress balance instruction set by training a machine-learning model, identifying a strategy, and generating an instruction set for implementing the strategy.
US12073288B2
A resonator is based on a coplanar waveguide (CPW) structure that includes a first end portion having a first width and configured to be coupled to a first qubit. There is a middle portion having a second width that is narrower than the first width. There is a second end portion having a third width that is wider than the second width and configured to be coupled to a second qubit.
US12073286B2
Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for providing artificial-intelligence-based indicia data editing are provided. For example, an example computer-implemented method may include determining, based at least in part on a data processing model associated with a scan setting module, a first decoded data string corresponding to a first indicia; determining, based at least in part on user input data, a first input data string corresponding to the first indicia; generating a predictive indicia data editing model based at least in part on providing the first decoded data string and the first input data string to an artificial intelligence algorithm; and updating the scan setting module based at least in part on the predictive indicia data editing model.
US12073262B2
A host system compiles a set of local programs which are provided over a network to a plurality of subsystems. By defining the synchronisation activity on the host, and then providing that information to the subsystems, the host can service a large number of subsystems. The defined synchronisation activity includes defining the synchronisation groups between which synchronisation barriers occur and the points during program execution at which data exchange with the host occurs. Defining synchronisation activity between the subsystems allows a large number of subsystems to be connecting whilst minimising the required exchanges with the host.
US12073256B2
A method of partitioning a graph for processing may include sorting two or more vertices of the graph based on incoming edges and outgoing edges, placing a first one of the vertices with fewer incoming edges in a first partition, and placing a second one of the vertices with fewer outgoing edges in a second partition. The first one of the vertices may have a lowest number of incoming edges, and the first one of the vertices may be placed in a first available partition. The second one of the vertices may have a lowest number of outgoing edges, and the second one of the vertices may be placed in a second available partition. A method for updating vertices of a graph may include storing a first update in a first buffer, storing a second update in a second buffer, and transferring the first and second updates to a memory using different threads.
US12073254B2
A system for providing synchronous access to hardware resources includes a first network interface element to receive a network time signal from a data communication network and a memory to store sequence of one or more instructions selected from an instruction set of the first processing circuit. The sequence of one or more instructions include a first instruction that is configured to synchronize execution of a second instruction of the sequence of one or more instructions with the network time signal. The system further includes a first processing circuit to use the first instruction and a timing parameter associated with a second instruction to execute the second instruction in synchrony with the network time signal.
US12073249B2
A location history manager may be configured to determine a location history associated with a user, and a resource usage manager may be configured to determine a computing resource usage history associated with the user. A location monitor may be configured to determine a location of the user. A resource predictor may be configured to generate a prediction of a computing resource, based on the location history, the computing resource usage history, and the location. A resource provider may be configured to provide the computing resource, based on the prediction.
US12073240B2
Some embodiments provide a method of operating several logical networks over a network virtualization infrastructure. The method defines a managed physical switching element (MPSE) that includes several ports for forwarding packets to and from a plurality of virtual machines. Each port is associated with a unique media access control (MAC) address. The metho defines several managed physical routing elements (MPREs) for the several different logical networks. Each MPRE is for receiving data packets from a same port of the MPSE. Each MPRE is defined for a different logical network and for routing data packets between different segments of the logical network. The method provides the defined MPSE and the defined plurality of MPREs to a plurality of host machines as configuration data.
US12073239B2
Interface and mode selection for digital action execution is provided. For example, a system loads a script library embedded in an electronic resource. The system determines a historic level of engagement between a client computing device and one or more digital assistants. The system selects, based on a first property of the client computing device and the historic level of engagement, a type of digital interface. The system generates, based on the type of digital interface, a digital interface with the call-to-action. The system determines, responsive to an instruction to execute the call-to-action, a mode of execution. The system selects a digital assistant and a second client device to execute the call-to-action. The system transmits the call-to-action to the second client device for execution.
US12073237B2
Execution of a process using a select platform-specific process application is provided, including identifying, from a set of received inputs, a collection of selection input parameter values uniquely associated in memory with a select platform-specific process application among different platform-specific process applications configured to implement a process of a process type, identifying a process population template associated in memory with the select platform-specific process application, the process population template identifying data input fields accepted as inputs to the select platform-specific process application, receiving, from a uniform user interface, a set of user inputs, and executing the process population template. The executing includes modifying the set of user inputs to generate modified inputs of a form consistent with the data input fields accepted as inputs to the select platform-specific process application and executing the select platform specific process application based on the modified inputs.
US12073235B2
A system call method and apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes that: when a simulator runs on an operating system, a library file of the simulator and a pre-scanned system call table of the simulator are loaded, the system call table including a system file called by a simulation system in the simulator, and position information of the system file; a target system file associated with the library file is searched in the system call table; and the position information of the target system file is modified to a execution function corresponding to the simulator in the system call table, so as to call the target system file through the execution function.
US12073214B2
Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for chained fused multiply add. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a decoder to decode a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, a first source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands of a first type that have packed data elements of a first size, a second source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and a field for a memory location that stores a scalar value. A register file having a plurality of packed data registers includes registers for the plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a first size, the source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and the destination operand. Execution circuitry executes the decoded single instruction to perform iterations of packed fused multiply accumulate operations by multiplying packed data elements of the sources of the first type by sub-elements of the scalar value, and adding results of these multiplications to an initial value in a first iteration and a result from a previous iteration in subsequent iterations.
US12073206B2
A method for updating an imaging device is described comprising, receiving update information comprising a compatibility update filter indicating which generations of supply item are compatible with the imaging device, and updating a compatibility filter of the imaging device based on the update information, the compatibility filter configured to control which generations of supply item are classified as compatible with the imaging device. An imaging device is also described that comprises firmware and a memory, the memory storing a compatibility filter configured to control which generations of supply item are classified as compatible, wherein the firmware is configured to read the compatibility filter, and the imaging device is configured to update the compatibility filter. Finally, an imaging device supply item is also described.
US12073204B2
Embodiments of systems and methods to provide a firmware update to devices configured in a redundant configuration in an Information Handling System (IHS) are disclosed. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include first and second Remote Access Controllers (RACs) that each includes computer-executable instructions to receive, by the first RAC, a firmware update image associated with the device in which the firmware update image conforms to a PLDM specification. The first RAC may then, issue a command to the firmware device indicating that the firmware device is to request a firmware update from the first RAC in which the command includes information about the second RAC. The information indicates the ability of the second RAC to complete a transfer of the firmware update image when the first RAC partially completes the transfer of the firmware update image.
US12073203B2
A control system includes a movable object control unit configured to control a movable object, an update control unit configured to control a program update of the movable object control unit, and a communication path that is a path for the movable object control unit and the update control unit to perform an information communication, a path that is connected to an external diagnosis apparatus configured to perform a diagnosis of the movable object control unit and used for transmitting information of the movable object to the external diagnosis apparatus and the communication path are at least partially in common, and the control system includes a restriction control unit configured to restrict, when the program update and the diagnosis of the movable object control unit by the external diagnosis apparatus are to be performed, one of the diagnosis by the external diagnosis apparatus and the program update.
US12073200B2
A compiler device, for generating an instruction sequence to be executed by an arithmetic processing device, includes at least one memory and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to receive a first instruction sequence for a first process and a second instruction sequence for a second process to be executed after the first process; generate third instructions, each third instruction being generated by merging a first instruction included in the first instruction sequence and a second instruction included in the second instruction sequence; and generate a third instruction sequence by concatenating the third instructions, instructions included in the first instruction sequence that are not merged into the third instructions, and instructions other than the second instruction among the plurality of instructions included in the second instruction sequence that are not merged into the one or more third instructions.
US12073197B2
Systems and methods may generate code, for a model, with one or more service access points generated and at locations in the code based on an analysis of model constraints and deployment specifications (e.g., RTE specifications or OS specifications). The systems and methods may analyze the model and identify a functionality that needs an RTE service. The system and methods may receive deployment specifications. The systems and methods may generate code for the model, where an analysis of model constraints and the deployment specifications determine which service access points are generated and where in the code the service access points are located. In an embodiment, the code may be executed by different RTEs. In an embodiment, the systems and methods may determine, based on the analysis of the model constraints and the deployment specification, one or more admissible implementations for an RTE service that may be implemented in different ways.
US12073195B2
A retrieval-augmented code completion system uses the context of a partially-formed source code snippet of a source code program and a hint to predict the source code tokens needed to complete the partially-formed source code snippet. The hint is a source code segment that completes a semantically-similar source code segment of the partially-formed source code snippet. The hint is found in a retrieval source code database using a hybrid retrieval technique. A deep learning decoder model uses the context of the partially-formed source code snippet and the hint to predict the most likely candidate sequence of source code tokens to complete the partially-formed source code snippet.
US12073188B1
Systems and methods for multilingual keyword generation for low-resource language passages are disclosed. For example, high-resource language passages describing items in a catalog or other such passages may include numerous keywords for classifying and searching for the item while a low-resource language description of the item may not include the same rich keyword environment due to lower usage and traffic in the low-resource language. The systems and methods herein provide for leveraging the high-resource language through a multilingual natural language processing algorithm to identify similar passages across language barriers and identify keywords in the high-resource language for input into a decoder to generate keywords in the low-resource language.
US12073179B2
Systems and methods are presented herein for providing a user with a notification or with access to live media on an audio/visual user entertainment system based on a user's conditional request for media content. The user may provide the condition of the request by speaking or by entering the condition of the request into an interactive interface. An identification application analyzes the elements of the user's request and generates a question. The application finds a live media stream with identifiers related to the elements and posts the generated question to a live chat forum associated with the live media stream. The application analyzes posts on the forum made by other users to determine if the condition of the user's request is met. When the application determines a post confirms the condition is met, the application generates a notification and provides the user access to the live media stream.
US12073175B2
An apparatus, system, and method, each of which: stores in a memory information relating to a plurality of forms each issued by a first user; receives, from a first terminal of the first user, a request for applying a service based on a particular form of the plurality of forms, and an identifier of the particular form; and transmits a request for applying the service and the identifier of the particular form to a second terminal.
US12073174B2
The present technology provides a browser extension that can recognize downloadable objects on a webpage and provides functionality that makes it easier and more efficient to download the downloadable objects to a location in a content management system. For example the present technology can analyze a document object model of a webpage to find attributes indicating a URL is associated with a downloadable object.
US12073168B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method that includes removing portions of a substrate to form a continuous fin protruding from an upper surface of the substrate. A doping process is performed to selectively increase a dopant concentration of a first portion of the continuous fin. A first gate electrode is formed over a second portion of the continuous fin, and a second gate electrode is formed over a third portion of the continuous fin. The first portion of the continuous fin is between the second and third portions of the continuous fin. A dummy gate electrode is formed over the first portion of the continuous fin. Upper portions of the continuous fin that are arranged between the first gate electrode, the second gate electrode, and the dummy gate electrode are removed, and source/drain regions are formed between the first, the second, and the dummy gate electrodes.
US12073163B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a first, second and third semiconductor cell regions. The first cell region includes a first active region having a first dopant type. The second semiconductor cell region abuts the first cell region in a second direction, and includes second and third active regions having correspondingly a second dopant type and the first dopant type. The second active region is between the first and third active regions. The third cell region abuts the second cell region in the second direction, and includes a fourth active region having the second dopant type. The third active region is between the fourth active region and the second active region. The second semiconductor cell region has a height 2H, and the first, second and third semiconductor cell regions collectively have a height 3H.
US12073144B2
A method for interfacing tones with a computer enables a music device to emulate the functions of a computer keyboard. The method includes receiving a digital signal representing one or more note events and identifying a group of concurrent notes from the one or more note events, wherein the one or more note events each have a pitch, a velocity and an initiation. In accordance with a pitch class of a base note of the group of notes and intervals computed between pitch classes of the notes of the group as ordered by the pitch of the note events, the group of notes are translated into a computer input signal representative of one or more keystrokes on a computer keyboard and the computer input signal is sent to a computer for output or further processing.
US12073129B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a printer that performs printing on paper; and a first hardware processor that is able to execute a color adjustment process of a color to be printed on the paper by the printer on the basis of a result of printing on the paper; a second hardware processor that acquires paper information of the paper to pass through the printer; and a third hardware processor that determines whether or not the color adjustment process by the first hardware processor is possible on the basis of a result of acquisition of the paper information by the second hardware processor.
US12073127B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a print service relays an authentication request and a document acquisition request received from a multi-function printer to a document management service, and transmits authentication information and information of printing result acquired from the document acquisition request to the document management service. The document management service transmits a result of an authentication process, a document, and charge information to the print service based on a request received from the print service, stores and manages the information of print result received from the print service in association with a user account, and performs a process for charging a user for the printing later based on the information of print result.
US12073126B2
A printing device is configured to perform printing with an allowed print amount. The printing device includes a controller to obtain addition type information representing a first guaranteed print amount or a second guaranteed print amount. The first guaranteed print amount corresponds to a first printing privilege to be purchased manually by a user, and the second guaranteed print amount corresponds to a second printing privilege to be automatically purchased. The controller switches, based on the addition type information, a control mode between a first mode in which the first guaranteed print amount is added to the allowed print amount and a second mode in which the second guaranteed print amount is added to the allowed print amount.
US12073125B2
A system and method for satisfying Quality of Service (QoS) attributes for a stream using a storage device with multi-stream capability is described. The storage device may include memory to store data. A host interface may receive requests, some of which may be associated with a stream. A host interface layer may schedule the requests in a manner that may satisfy the QoS attribute for the stream.
US12073118B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing, using a storage node, one or more updates to one or more metadata pages of a multi-node storage system. The one or more updates may be stored in one or more data containers in a cache memory system of the storage node, thus defining an active working set of data containers. Flushing ownership for each data container of the active working set may be assigned to one of the storage nodes based upon an assigned flushing ownership for each data container of a frozen working set and a number of updates within the frozen working set processed by each storage node, thus defining an assigned flushing storage node for each data container of the active working set. The one or more updates may be flushed, using the assigned flushing storage node, to a storage array.
US12073115B2
A memory system having a mode indicator, a set of hardware resources, a set of media, and a controller. When the mode indicator identifies a factory mode, a first portion of the hardware resources is reserved for performance of factory functions by the controller and a second portion of the hardware resources is allocated for performance of normal functions. When the mode indicator identifies a user mode, both the first portion and the second portion are allocated for the performance of the normal function. The normal functions are performed by the controller to at least store data in and retrieve data from the set of media in response to requests from a host system.
US12073111B2
A control component implements pipelined data processing operations in either of two timing domains bridged by a domain-crossing circuit according to one or more configuration signals that indicate relative clock frequencies of the two domain and/or otherwise indicate which of the two timing domains will complete the data processing operations with lowest latency.
US12073106B2
A correlation request is received at a first application instance from a second application instance for a data record of the first application instance. A correlation index is updated with a directional correlation entry in response to a determination that the correlation request is approved. In response to determining that the data record has been modified, the updated correlation index is utilized to determine that the modified data record is to be provided for correlation to the second application instance. A version of the modified data record is provided to the second application instance.
US12073100B2
Methods, systems, and devices for host-enabled block swap techniques are described. In some examples, a host system may receive an indication of a health metric associated with a first physical block and a second physical block of a memory system, where a first logical block of the memory system is associated with a first type of data and is mapped to the first physical block, and where a second logical block of the memory system is associated with a second type of data. The host system may then determine that the health metric associated with the first physical block satisfies a threshold and may update a mapping associated with the first virtual block, the second virtual block, the first physical block, and the second physical block.
US12073099B2
A method and system for dynamic storage scaling based on automatically parallelizing access of names and data across multiple nodes or micro object stores (MOSs) is provided. A dynamic storage scaling device cluster is provisioned for a particular level of parallelism (e.g., N MOSs) when the cluster is created. The N MOSs may initially reside in a few physical servers (e.g., one server). When the data distribution causes peak resource usage of the physical servers, new server(s) can be added. Some micro object stores (MOSs) are moved to the new physical server(s) through a meiosis process. The storage devices associated with the moved MOSs are unmounted from the original servers and mounted to the new server(s). The meiosis continues until the cluster grows to full capacity. The scaling is dynamic and efficient since no data copy is involved in the meiosis and the initial resource cost is optimized.
US12073092B2
In certain aspects, a memory device includes an array of memory cells. The array of memory cells includes N main banks and M redundant banks, where each of N and M is a positive integer, and N is greater than M. A redundant bank of the M redundant banks is located between two main banks of the N main banks or adjacent to one main bank of the N main banks.
US12073091B2
One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for resynchronization. For example, a request may be received to create pseudo snapshots of a first consistency group, hosted by a first storage controller, and a second consistency group, hosted by a second storage controller, having a synchronous replication relationship with the first consistency group. Incoming client write requests are logged within an intercept tracking log at the first storage controller. After a first drain without hold of incoming write requests is performed, a first pseudo common snapshot of the second consistency group is created. After a second drain without hold of incoming write operations is performed, a second pseudo common snapshot of the first consistency group and the intercept tracking log is created. The pseudo snapshots and the intercept tracking log (e.g., indicating a delta between the pseudo snapshots) are used to resynchronize the first and second consistency groups.
US12073088B2
A processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, is configured to provide a plurality of functions for accessing the memory device, wherein a function of the plurality of function receives input/output (I/O) operations from a host computing system. The processing device further determines a quality of service level of each function of the plurality of functions, and assigns to each function of the plurality of functions a corresponding function weight based on a corresponding quality of service level. The processing device also selects, for execution, a subset of the I/O operations, the subset comprising a number of I/O operations received at each function of the plurality of functions, wherein the number of I/O operations is determined according to the corresponding function weight of each function. The processing logic then executes the subset of I/O operations at the memory device.
US12073081B2
Non-volatile data storage of a data storage system is organized into multiple RAID extents. Each RAID extent contains multiple logically contiguous RAID stripes. In response to detecting a failed drive in the data storage system, an initial rebuilding pass is performed on each one of the RAID extents. The initial rebuilding pass recovers data that was previously stored on the failed drive and was located within high priority RAID stripes in the RAID extent. After the initial rebuilding pass is completed on all of the RAID extents, at least one subsequent rebuilding pass is performed on each one of the RAID extents. The subsequent rebuilding pass recovers data that was previously stored on the failed drive and was located within RAID stripes in the RAID extent that are not high priority.
US12073080B2
Deterioration of compression throughput including a decompression check after data compression is suppressed. Provided is a storage system including an interface and a controller. The controller includes a compression circuit configured to generate compressed data by compressing received data received via the interface; and a decompression circuit configured to decompress the compressed data before storing the compressed data in a storage drive to confirm data consistency. The compression circuit sequentially executes a compression task of the received data, sequentially generates packets of the compressed data, and transfers the packets to the decompression circuit. The decompression circuit decompresses the received packet in parallel with the compression task.
US12073073B2
A method is disclosed for providing personal training services, at a portable electronic device having a touch screen display, comprising displaying a user interface comprising a first region and a second region, where the first region is configured to display still images or videos and the second region comprises one or more timers. The method further includes displaying, in the first region of the user interface, a plurality of synchronized video panels and conveying audible information in synchronicity with the one or more timers. The method further includes, in response to detecting a first gesture on the touch screen display, while displaying the plurality of synchronized video panels, displaying, in the first region of the user interface, a first video panel of the plurality of synchronized video panels.
US12073067B2
A foldable computing device can be configured to provide a user interface (UI) optimization that enables an application window to be presented in a predictable location when an application is launched, a UI optimization that enables an application window to be moved to an active display area, a UI optimization that enables a modal UI element to be presented in such a way that it does not overlap a seam on the device, a UI optimization that enables an image presented by the device to be adjusted to maintain a view of the focal point of the image across device posture or orientation changes, a UI optimization that enables the device to transition between UI modes optimized for front-facing and world-facing image capture, and/or a UI optimization that enables the device to provide a UI for instructing a user to flip the device when a biometric sensor is in use.
US12073060B1
An information handling system display has a joystick input device that manages selections from an on screen menu with plural joystick input device inputs to navigate from a root menu to a command a function. A one-action function menu is selectable to manage inputs made at the joystick input device so that each of the up, down, left and right joystick inputs commands a function with a single press and a press down joystick input returns the on screen display menu to offer other input options with multiple inputs. The one-action joystick inputs are configurable through the root menu so that an end user can select which commands are quickly available, such as input source selection or picture in picture activation.
US12073058B1
A method includes presenting, on a first computing device associated with a user, a user interface comprising a control for selecting an emergency response policy from a plurality of emergency response policies; receiving, by a server device, a signal indicating an emergency response policy selected by the user from the plurality of emergency response policies, the selected emergency response policy being associated with an institution and defining one or more emergency response protocols; storing, in a database, the selected emergency response policy; receiving, by the server device, a signal indicating a request to initiate an emergency response for the institution; and executing, by the server device, the emergency response based on the selected emergency response policy.
US12073057B2
An information display method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining prompt information of a target application; generating, on a virtual screen, a target window corresponding to a window identifier, and taking a screenshot of the target window to obtain a current window screenshot; in a case that a historical window screenshot of the target window exists and that a difference region exists between the current window screenshot and the historical window screenshot, using the difference region as target display information; in a case that no historical window screenshot of the target window exists, using the current window screenshot as target display information; and displaying the target display information in a target region.
US12073055B2
An icon display method includes: obtaining a current use scenario of the mobile terminal; determining a primary icon and a subordinate icon in desktop icons of the mobile terminal based on the current use scenario of the mobile terminal; and displaying the primary icon on a first screen. The first screen is a screen that currently faces a user in the two screens, the subordinate icon is used to be displayed on a second screen, and the second screen is a screen that is currently backwards the user in the two screens.
US12073037B2
A display panel includes: a pixel driving circuit layer, an anode layer, a light emitting layer, a cathode layer, an encapsulation layer and a touch function layer sequentially disposed on a base substrate. The display panel includes a plurality of light transmitting regions and a plurality of pixel cell regions, a plurality of traces of the pixel driving circuit layer are connected between adjacent pixel cell regions, and there are slits between adjacent traces. An orthographic projection of a wiring of the touch function layer on the base substrate overlaps with that of the slits on the base substrate. The display panel includes a second display region including the plurality of light transmitting regions and the plurality of pixel cell regions and a first display region. The number of pixel cells per unit area in the first display region is greater than that in the second display region.
US12073035B2
Information having a hierarchical structure is appropriately selected and displayed in accordance with a change in a user. Provided are: a display unit; a storage unit configured to store information to be displayed on the display unit, the information having a plurality of hierarchical structures; and a display control unit configured to read information from the storage unit while selecting a level and display the read information on the display unit, based on a maximum viewing distance between the display unit and a viewer viewing the display unit at which the viewer is able to view the display unit while holding a device housing, and on a current viewing distance between the viewer and the device housing.
US12073034B2
A pen is configured to supply an N-bit internal digital value NA to a sensor device, and includes an integrated circuit that acquires a series of the internal digital values NA(s) based on a state OPS of a writing pressure detector. The integrated circuit supplies a first internal digital value NA to the sensor device by transmitting, from an antenna, first transmission data MF including a first standard digital value MS corresponding to the first internal digital value NA. The integrated circuit supplies a second internal digital value NA to the sensor device by transmitting, from the antenna, second transmission data MF that is smaller than N bits and includes an M-bit relative digital value (M
US12073033B2
An active pen includes an integrated circuit that transmits a downlink signal through a first electrode and receives an uplink signal through a second electrode different from the first electrode. The active pen includes a stop filter inserted between the second electrode and the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit, in operation, performs transmission of the downlink signal and the reception of the uplink signal at the same time.
US12073024B1
Systems and methods of controlling activation of different input elements using an actuator are disclosed herein. An example method includes in response to detecting that a representation of a finger is located by a first input element: obtaining information regarding a first amount of force to actuate the first input element, and causing adjustment of a physical characteristic of an actuator so that a first amount of force directed to a component of the actuator activates the first input element. In response to detecting that the representation of the finger is located by a second input element, the method also includes: obtaining information regarding a second amount of force distinct from the first amount of force, and causing adjustment of the physical characteristic of the actuator so that the second amount of force directed to the component of the actuator activates the second input element.
US12073022B2
A system to provide a human-machine interface to enable a user in a real space to act/sense in a virtual space. The system includes: a ring wearable by a finger of the user; a plurality of sensors, and a plurality of feedback units. The plurality of sensors being multimodal, including: a tactile sensor disposed on an inner surface of the ring; and a temperature sensor disposed on an outer surface of the ring. The plurality of feedback units being multimodal, including: a vibrator disposed on the ring, the vibrator being disposed on the outer surface of the ring; and a heater disposed on the inner surface of the ring. The system includes a controller configured to drive the plurality of sensors and the plurality of feedback devices to enable concurrent multimodal sensing and multimodal feedback.
US12073021B1
A wearable device that tracks body movement is disclosed. The device includes a housing and a connection member. The connection member is coupled to the housing, and the connection member enables the device to be coupled to a user's body part. This body part is associated with the conductive matter. The device includes an RF sensor in the housing. The RF sensor oscillates at a preselected frequency. The RF sensor is tuned to resonate when the RF sensor is located a preselected distance from the conductive matter. As the conductive matter moves closer or farther from the RF sensor based on user movement, a resulting waveform generated based on data from the RF sensor is modified, and the resulting waveform is usable to determine how the user moved.
US12073015B1
A method for calibrating eye tracking data for a head wearable optical device includes receiving eye tracking data from an imaging device oriented towards a combiner. The method includes determining a gaze direction of an eye of a user based on the eye tracking data. The method includes receiving calibration data from the imaging device that includes an indication of positions of one or more calibration indicators. The method includes determining the gaze direction based at least in part on the calibration data received from the imaging device (or factors adjusted by the calibration data).
US12073004B2
A verification information creation apparatus acquires an installation directory of software from equipment on which the software is installed, and acquires a file path and a hash value of a file whose hash value is acquirable based on types of files stored in the acquired directory. Then, the verification information creation apparatus creates verification information about the software, where the verification information includes the acquired file path and the hash value of the file.
US12072997B2
A method includes receiving a build request containing build step instructions from a user. The build step instructions specify a usage of containers within memory hardware for building an output container. The containers include at least one private container having private contents and/or at least one public container having public contents. The method also includes authenticating the user initiating the build request and determining whether the user is authorized to access the private containers. When the user is authenticated and authorized to access the private containers, the method includes obtaining the containers specified by the build step instructions from the memory hardware, executing the build step instructions to build the output container while using the received containers, and outputting the built output container.
US12072996B2
A file is enabled to be downloaded from a web server on behalf of a client browser, via an isolated browser of an RBI server. An isolated browser engine detects the file download and notifies an isolated browser controller. The isolated browser controller determines whether the file download is permitted. Responsive to determining that the file download is not permitted, the file is deleted at the RBI server and a policy event is transmitted to the client browser. Responsive to determining that the file download is permitted, the file is transmitted to the client browser. The file may be streamed to the client browser, or it may be published via an independent web server and a notification is transmitted to the client browser. The client browser is controlled to issue a request to the independent web server to download the file to the client browser.
US12072995B2
A computer-implemented method for managing data records subject to placement condition rules in a distributed data management system comprising a plurality of nodes. The method may include receiving, by an endpoint management component of the distributed data management system, a request for a data record. The method may also include routing, by the endpoint management component of the distributed data management system, the request to a node of the distributed data management system. The method may also include upon determining that the request is a create request, verifying, by a service component of the distributed data management system, a placement condition rule for the data record, where the placement condition rule is retrieved from a configuration component of the distributed data management system.
US12072994B2
A method and system for encrypting and reconstructing data files, including related metadata, is disclosed. The method involves separately encrypting data and metadata as chaining processes and integrating a plurality of encryption/encoding techniques together with strategic storage distribution techniques and parsing techniques which results in the integrated benefits of the collection of techniques. As disclosed, the content data is separated from its metadata, encryption keys may be embedded in the metadata, and in a content data encryption chaining process, the method chunks, encrypts, shards, and stores content data and separately shards and stores metadata, and stored in a flexible, distributed, and efficient manner, at least in part to assure improved resiliency In addition, the processes are preferably implemented locally, including at the site of the content data or a proxy server.
US12072992B2
A security level tagging process to enable a user to associate a security level descriptor with a file, or a namespace directory where files and subdirectories inherit the security level descriptor from a parent directory. A parser can be used to automatically set a security level descriptor based on the contents of the file and/or attributes of files, or an administrator can associate a security level to a storage tier in the file system so that files are placed on the storage tiers with the matching security level as the file security level descriptor. The placement of the file on a storage tier depends on the data security level descriptor of the file and the security level of the storage so that files are placed on tiers where security level associated with the tier is greater than or equal to data security level of the file. Files can be migrated among storage tiers as their security levels may change.
US12072986B2
A system includes a security and vulnerability analysis processor, one or more endpoint devices in communication with the security and vulnerability analysis processor through a communication network, and a vulnerability data ingestion processor configured to obtain, from one or more data sources, security data associated with the one or more endpoint devices. The security and vulnerability analysis processor includes a machine learning model configured to generate predictions about the risk impact of conducting vulnerability remediations to a particular endpoint device of the one or more endpoint devices. The machine learning model is trained using a training set comprising the security data associated with the one or more endpoint devices.
US12072984B2
A technology is disclosed to perform real-time and online identification and prioritization of vulnerabilities of components of software applications. Agents are deployed to components of monitored applications that monitor and report application topology, communication, code execution and code loading activity. Reported code loading and execution activity data is used to detect the loading and execution of vulnerable code, topology and communication data is used to create a topology model of the application containing communication paths, trust boundaries and location of sensitive data. The analysis of code loading and execution data reveals the extend to which vulnerable code is used by monitored application components. The topology data combined with code execution data reveals the extent to which components executing vulnerable code are exposed to untrusted entities and/or accessing sensitive data. Execution data of vulnerable code, exposure and access data of components executing the vulnerable code are used to calculate priority scores for identified vulnerabilities.
US12072982B2
A virtual BIOS engine may be configured to, during runtime of an operating system, in response to an operating system event for updating firmware, load onto an isolated compute domain of the processor to emulate firmware update processes of a non-transitory computer-readable media with a virtual non-transitory computer-readable media and emulate the firmware update processes of the cryptoprocessor with a virtual cryptoprocessor, extract a firmware payload to the virtual non-transitory computer-readable media, and execute a virtual trust chain to measure the firmware payload in the virtual non-transitory computer-readable media.
US12072973B2
A manufacturing system is disclosed herein. The manufacturing system includes one or more stations, a monitoring platform, and a control module. Each station of the one or more stations is configured to perform at least one step in a multi-step manufacturing process for a component. The monitoring platform is configured to monitor progression of the component throughout the multi-step manufacturing process. The control module is configured to detect a cyberattack to the manufacturing system. The control module is configured to perform operations. The operations include receiving control values for a first station of the one or more stations. The operations further include determining that there is a cyberattack based on the control values for the first station using one or more machine learning algorithms. The operations further include generating an alert to cease processing of the component. In some embodiments, the operations further include correcting errors caused by the cyberattack.
US12072970B2
A method and system for generating password based on images captured by a user is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes identifying a relevant event associated with a user; determining a set of preliminary information associated with the relevant event and a first set of images captured by the user during the relevant event; creating a plurality of second sets of images; presenting the plurality of second sets of images to the user; receiving from the user, for each of the plurality of second sets of images, user selection of the associated image added from the first set of images; generating a plurality of sets of keywords; receiving for each of the plurality of sets of keywords, a user selection of one or more keywords; and generating a password based on the one or more keywords selected by the user and associated images selected by the user.
US12072967B2
A method is disclosed for determining an identifier value of a device, the device comprising an array of individually addressable cells, each cell comprising an electronic component having a quantum tunnelling barrier. The method comprises, for each cell of a selection of the individually addressable cells of the array, applying a potential difference across the electronic component of the cell, the potential difference sufficient to enable tunnelling of charge carriers through the quantum tunnelling barrier. The method further comprises, for each cell of a selection of the individually addressable cells of the array, comparing an electrical signal representative of a quantum tunnelling current through the quantum tunnelling barrier with a reference electrical signal. The method further comprises, for each cell of a selection of the individually addressable cells of the array determining, from the comparison, an identifier value for the cell. The method further comprises determining, from the identifier values of each cell of the selection of individually addressable cells, an identifier value for the device. Devices, apparatuses, controllers, and computer-readable media are also described.
US12072965B2
The present invention is generally related to systems and methods for providing an improved authentication and verification system through the use of compiled user data and user location or traffic data from multiple channels of input. Multiple devices may be utilized by the system in order to receive and process data to authenticate user identities and verify the validity of account activity.
US12072956B2
Provided in this disclosure is a method of organizing data from an unordered, unclustered dataset including data points having attributes. The data points are sorted into neighborhoods each having categories based on the attributes. Similarity clusters are created based on a user-selected similarity cluster scope. The clusters are arranged into a similarity tree organized dataset where the clusters are grouped into a hierarchy of similarity levels. New data points are inserted by determining similarity of their attributes to data points in grouped clusters at the highest levels of the hierarchy, and then comparing to data points in grouped clusters at progressively lower levels until a suitable cluster is determined, whereupon the new data point is then inserted. In this manner, only a selected portion of data points are compared, representing an improvement over previous methods that require comparisons to all the data points in a dataset.
US12072939B1
A data intake and query system can generate local data enrichment objects and receive federated data enrichment objects from another data intake and query system. In response to receiving a query, the data intake and query system can determine whether the query is subquery of a federated query. If the query is a subquery, the data intake and query system can use the federated data enrichment objects to execute the query.
US12072933B2
A recording apparatus to record, to a recording medium, a moving image file including video data and an additional information file, which is a file of additional information of the video data; and a control unit configured to perform control to record identification information for identifying category information of the additional information file or a data structure of the additional information file on the recording medium as a file other than the additional information file.
US12072909B2
A method and device for data synchronization, a storage medium and an electronic device are provided. The method for data synchronization includes operations as follows. Synchronization configuration information for data to be synchronized is determined, and the synchronization configuration information at least includes a data identification of the data to be synchronized and a source data table identification of a source data table where the data to be synchronized is located. A source database is queried based on the source data table identification to obtain a target source data table where the data to be synchronized is located. A field identification of the data to be synchronized is determined from the target source data table based on the data identification. A target data table is constructed based on the field identification, and the data to be synchronized is synchronized into the target data table.
US12072901B2
Systems and methods include reception of an object instance representing a date dimension member and comprising a key value, a user interface representation of the date dimension member, key values of ancestor date dimension members, and user interface representations of the one or more ancestor date dimension members, display of the user interface representation and the user interface representations of the ancestor date dimension members, reception of a request to cast the date dimension member to a higher granularity, and, in response to the request, generation of a second object instance representing a second date dimension member comprising key values of a second one or more of the ancestor date dimension members and user interface representations of the second one or more of the ancestor date dimension members, and display of the user interface representations of the second one or more of the ancestor date dimension members.
US12072900B2
Adding a read-only query engine to perform queries to a point-in-time of a write-accessible database
A database system may add a read-only query engine to perform read-only queries associated with points-in-time of a database. In various embodiments, the read-only query engine may be added in response to a manual request, an automatic refresh of a network endpoint, a query specifying a point-in-time, or a connection request. The read-only query engine may perform the point-in-time queries on a version the database at the point-in-time and return results for the queries. Upon completion of the queries or at a determined time, the database system may remove the read-only query engine. The specified point-in-time may refer to a current time, a prior time, or a future time with respect to the current time.
US12072891B1
The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a data intake and query system. The method includes receiving a search query by a search head, defining a search process for applying the search query to indexers, delegating a first portion of the search process to indexers and a second portion of the search process to intermediary node(s) communicatively coupled to the search head and the indexers. The first portion can define a search scope for obtaining partial search results of the indexers and the second portion can define operations for combining the partial search results by the intermediary node(s) to produce a combination of the partial search results. The search head then receives the combination of the partial search results, and outputs final search results for the search query, where the final search results are based on the combination of the partial search results.
US12072884B2
A monitoring system is configured to distinguish between two types of alert rules— namely, invariant alert rules and variant alert rules—and to apply a different method of alert rule evaluation to each, wherein each alert rule evaluation method deals with the issue of latent data ingestion in a different way. By tailoring the alert rule evaluation method to the type of alert rule being evaluated, the system can apply an optimized approach for each type of alert rule in terms of achieving a trade-off between alert latency, alert accuracy, and cost of goods sold. In an embodiment, the system utilizes a machine learning model to classify a query associated with an alert rule as either increasing or non-increasing. Then, based on the query classification and a condition associated with the alert rule, the system determines if the alert rule is invariant or variant.
US12072883B2
The present disclosure relates to linking record objects between systems of record based on a comparison of object field-value pairs to a ground truth. A domain name may be identified from an electronic activity. It may be determined that the electronic activity does not match with any first record objects. A second record object including the domain name as a value may be identified. Object field-value pairs of the second record object may be identified. It may be determined that a third record object matches with the second record object. The electronic activity may be matched to the third second record object or a fourth record object. An association between the electronic activity and the third record object or the fourth record object may be stored.
US12072869B2
Methods and systems for data management include representing, organizing, and accessing very large data sets. Embodiments describe supporting data sets of various size based on attributed data slices (ADSs) to enable reduced memory requirements, query decomposition and parallel execution, and constant execution times for concurrent queries. The ADSs can include data buckets comprising items that are grouped by an attribute key. Attribute groups can be further sorted (e.g., in ascending order) based on the attribute key. According to some embodiments, the essential structure of an ADS provides additional functionality while preserving the behavior expected of an ADS through the use of an Extension Block containing attribute location data.
US12072861B2
Described herein is a regulatory parser that downloads and efficiently processes regulatory documents. The regulatory documents may be from different sources and may have different formats. The regulatory parser parses all of the text in the regulatory documents and converts into a predetermined, single format for downstream applications. The text is organized and stored in a structured tree, organized into one or more hierarchies with nodes storing segments of text from a regulatory document. In some embodiments, each node in the regulatory tree may represent a segment of text. Partitioning the text of a regulatory document into segments of text may make the storage and querying of the regulatory documents more manageable. The organization and structure of the structured tree may reduce the times and resources needed for accessing and searching for a regulatory citation. The structured tree may allow a user to manipulate a regulatory document or text.
US12072854B2
Techniques are provided for moving data between partitions. Such a process may be performed without requiring any locks that block transactions that target a partition from being executed. Instead, such transactions may proceed while a move operation is being performed. The move operation involves copying data from the targeted partition to another partition that is hidden from (or “invisible” to) those transactions that attempt to read from or write to the partition. During the move operation, changes that are made to the partition are also reflected in a journal. Eventually, the changes reflected in the journal are drained and applied to the hidden partition. Once the partition and the hidden partition are synchronized, the identities of the partitions are swapped so that future transactions will target the previously-hidden partition instead of the previously-viewable partition.
US12072852B1
A schema consistency mechanism monitors data ingested by a data intake and query system for changes to the structure, or data schema, associated with the data. A schema consistency monitor obtains data from a data source (or, more generally, from any number of separate data sources) at a plurality of points in time. The data is analyzed to determine whether a first portion of the data received at a first point in time conforms to a first data schema and that a second portion of the data received at a second point in time conforms to a second data schema that is different from the first data schema (thereby indicating a change to the associated data schema). A graphical user interface (GUI) can be generated that includes indications of identified changes to one or more data schemas associated with data.
US12072844B2
Example implementations relate to storing data in a storage system. An example includes receiving, by a storage controller of a storage system, a data unit to be stored in persistent storage of the storage system. The storage controller determines maximum and minimum entropy values for the received data unit. The storage controller determines, based on at least the minimum entropy value and the maximum entropy value, whether the received data unit is viable for data reduction. In response to a determination that the received data unit is viable for data reduction, The storage controller performs at least one reduction operation on the received data unit.
US12072840B2
Techniques for executing show commands are described herein. A plurality of navigation steps is utilized, each navigation step corresponding to a different layer in a database structure and each navigation step including an operator to fetch items from a metadata database up to respective bounded limits. Dependency information is also fetched for objects of the specified object type in the show command. After a set of objects from the last layer are processed, memory for the navigation steps is flushed and the next set of objects are processed.
US12072839B2
Techniques are described herein for enabling more computationally efficient organization of files within a cloud storage system. A method includes: receiving information identifying a document and a set of folders; for each folder in the set of folders, using a trained model to predict a similarity measure between the folder and the document; for each folder in the set of folders, determining a score for the folder based on the predicted similarity measure for the folder; selecting a candidate folder from the set of folders using the scores of the folders within the set of folders; and providing, on a user interface, a selectable option to associate the document with the candidate folder.
US12072836B2
A reconfigurable processor includes an array of configurable units connected by a bus system. Each configurable unit has a configuration data store, organized as a shift register, to store configuration data. The configuration data store also includes individually addressable argument registers respectively made up of word-sized portions of the shift register to provide arguments to the configurable unit. The configurable unit also includes program load logic shift data into the configuration data store, and argument load logic to directly load data into the argument registers without shifting the received argument data through the shift register. A program load controller is associated with the array to respond to a program load command by executing a program load process, and a fast argument load (FAL) controller is associated with the array to respond to an FAL command by executing an FAL process.
US12072835B2
Techniques are disclosed for the use of a hybrid architecture that combines a programmable processing array and a hardware accelerator. The hybrid architecture implements a data driven synchronization process to maintain synchronization between the programmable elements (PEs) of the programmable processing array. The hybrid architecture implements a timer-based solution to ensure data-driven synchronization between the PEs of the programmable processing array meets the time-based synchronization requirements of the overall system. The timers function to introduce a delay or latency to the time required by each of the PEs of the programmable processing array to perform their respective tasks, thereby forcing the hardware blocks to wait to receive the processed data samples output via the PEs and perform their hardware-based computations.
US12072833B2
An integrated circuit includes a memory configured to store a plurality of functions; a mapping interface configured to perform a mapping from a received first signal to a first function of the plurality of functions; and a state machine configured to, in response to said mapping, execute the first function; wherein the integrated circuit is arranged to, in dependence on the execution of the first function at the state machine, modify said mapping between the first signal and the first function so as to re-map the first signal to a second function of the plurality of functions such that, on receiving a subsequent first signal, the state machine is configured to execute the second function.
US12072830B2
An apparatus includes processing hardware, storage hardware, and serial communication hardware. The processing hardware receives selection of a serial communication protocol. The serial communication protocol is selected amongst multiple serial communication protocols to control operation of a power converter. Via the processing hardware or other suitable entity, the storage hardware is populated with a set of command decode functions (a.k.a., command descriptors) assigned to the selected serial communication protocol. During operation, the serial communication hardware receives commands over a serial communication interface and executes the received commands via the set of command decode functions in the storage hardware. Each of the multiple commands communicated over the serial communication interface is encoded in accordance with the selected serial communication protocol. The serial communication hardware uses the set of command decode functions to execute the received commands.
US12072827B2
Techniques provide communications bandwidth between storage processors (SPs). Such techniques involve electrically coupling the SPs with a first side of a midplane. Such techniques further involve electrically coupling a network interface controller (NIC) device with a second side of the midplane that is opposite the first side of the midplane. Such techniques further involve configuring the NIC device to convey communications between the SPs while the SPs are electrically coupled with the first side of the midplane and while the NIC device is electrically coupled with the second side of the midplane that is opposite the first side of the midplane.
US12072815B1
Various embodiments include a network for transmitting data words from a source node to a destination node. The source node optionally inverts the logic levels of each data word so that the number of logic ‘1’ bits in each data word is less than or equal to half of the data bits. The destination node recovers the original data words by passing the data words not inverted by the source node and inverting the data words that were inverted by the source node. As the packet is transmitted through the network, each node encodes and/or decodes the data words by generating an output transition for each logic ‘1’ bit of the input data word. Because no more than half the bits of the input data word are logic ‘1’ bits, the node generates output transitions for no more than one half of the data bits.
US12072809B2
The memory system is provided to include a memory device, and a memory controller configured to control the memory device. The memory controller is configured to transmit, after the host completes a first initial setting operation for the memory system, mapping information between a logical address and a physical address to a host in order to load the mapping information between the logical address and the physical address into a host memory area located in the host, and to transmit, before the host executes a second initial setting operation for the memory system, to the host, updated mapping information between the logical address and the physical address to update, based on a change made to the host memory area.
US12072808B2
A processor comprising a first storage managed as a circular buffer to store a plurality of data structures. Each data structure comprises: an identifier, a size indicator and first data associated with instructions for execution of a task. The processor is configured for searching for a data structure in the first storage. A data structure subsequent to the tail data structure can be located using a storage address in the first storage of a tail data structure and the size indicator of all data structures preceding the second data structure among the plurality of data structures. When a data structure is found, the task may be executed based at least in part on the first data of the found data structure.
US12072804B2
A coherence protocol applied to memory pages maintains coherence between memory spaces on a plurality of nodes so that the threads of the runtime are operable on any of the nodes. The nodes operating according to the coherence protocol track a state and an epoch number for each memory page residing therein. The states include a modified state in which only one particular node has an up-to-date copy of the memory page, an exclusive state in which only one particular node owns the memory page, a shared state in which all nodes that have the memory page in the shared state have the same copy, and a lost state in which the memory page cannot be either read or written. The epoch number is a number that is incremented each time the page enters the modified state and is used to determine whether the page contains data that is stale.
US12072799B2
A programmable address generator has an iteration variable generator for generation of an ordered set of iteration variables, which are re-ordered by an iteration variable selection fabric, which delivers the re-ordered iteration variables to one or more address generators. A configurator receives an instruction containing fields which provide configuration constants to the address generator, iteration variable selection fabric, and address generators. After configuration, the address generators provide addresses coupled to a memory. In one example of the invention, the address generators generate an input address, a coefficient address, and an output address for performing convolutional neural network inferences.
US12072792B2
The system can identify data stored in repositories that indicate changes in the version of the application relative to a prior version of the application tested or deployed before receipt of the request to test the performance of the version of the application. The system can determine, based on the data and using machine learning with historical data associated with applications tested or deployed to test performance of the version, and without execution of the tests, a score for each of a plurality of tests configured to test performance of the version of the application. The system can select, based on the scores, a subset of the tests to execute, and provide an indication of the selected subset of the tests to cause execution of the subset of the tests to evaluate performance of the version of the application prior to deployment of the version of the application.
US12072791B2
A computing device includes a processor and a medium storing instructions. The instructions are executable by the processor to: identify, based on a blob detection analysis, a plurality of potential input elements in a graphical user interface (GUI); determine a set of rows including potential input elements that are in a horizontal alignment and in a same size range; determine a set of columns including potential input elements that are in a vertical alignment and in a same size range; determine a set of input elements comprising multiple potential input elements that are located at intersections of the identified set of rows and the identified set of columns; and perform automated testing of the GUI using the determined set of input elements.
US12072783B1
Information retrieved from monitoring agents currently installed on instrumented entities within a system is analyzed to discover additional entities within the system that are connected to the instrumented entities. Each of these discovered entities is analyzed to determine whether a monitoring agent is able to be installed within the entity; if installation is possible, such installation is automatically performed (or a guided manual installation is implemented utilizing an interface). After a monitoring agent is installed within a discovered entity, information is retrieved from that monitoring agent and is used to discover additional entities within the system that are connected to that discovered entity. In this way, an iterative discovery of all entities within a system may be performed.
US12072780B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for testing AI chip computing performance, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: forming computing performance result data of a to-be-tested AI chip according to a plurality of items of simulation data formed in a development process of the to-be-tested AI chip; acquiring a function instruction set matched with a to-be-tested service function, wherein the function instruction set is composed of a plurality of instructions in a standard instruction set matched with the to-be-tested AI chip; and predicting computing time required by the to-be-tested AI chip to execute the to-be-tested service function according to the function instruction set and the computing performance result data.
US12072779B2
A method includes determining, by an analysis system, a system aspect of a system for an issue recovery communications evaluation. The method further includes determining, by the analysis system, at least one evaluation perspective and at least one evaluation viewpoint for use in performing the issue recovery communications evaluation on the system aspect. The method further includes obtaining, by the analysis system, issue recovery communications data regarding the system aspect in accordance with the at least one evaluation perspective and the at least one evaluation viewpoint. The method further includes calculating, by the analysis system, an issue recovery communications rating as a measure of system issue recovery communications maturity for the system aspect based on the issue recovery communications data, the at least one evaluation perspective, the at least one evaluation viewpoint, and at least one evaluation rating metric.
US12072776B2
A circuit includes a primary register region and a primary shadow register; a secondary register region and a secondary shadow register; and a safety controller having multiple states. The safety controller transitions to a first write state when a first write signal to write a first value to the primary register region is detected, and copies the first value written to the primary register region to the primary shadow register; transitions to a second write state when a second write signal to write a second value to the secondary register region is detected within a set amount of time of detection of the first write signal, and in the second write state, copies the second value written to the secondary register region to the secondary shadow register; transitions to a compare state to receive a comparison signal indicating whether the first value is the same as the second value; and transitions to an update state when the first value is the same as the second value.
US12072775B2
An embodiment may involve, in response to determining that a software service satisfies a degradation criterion, generating an alert that indicates the software service and a change request specifying that configuration data used by the software service was changed in a current snapshot of the configuration data; based on the change request, determining a set of configuration changes between the current snapshot and a previous snapshot of the configuration data; and providing a representation of the set of configuration changes indicating one or more parameters that were changed in the current snapshot and one or more paths in a tree-based arrangement of the configuration data that lead to the one or more parameters that were changed in the current snapshot.
US12072772B1
A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, a data restore request; determining, by the computing device, at least one object in response to the data restore request; and querying, by the computing device, a client population to determine at least one client which has resources and network cardinality to assist the data restore request. The at least one client creates a distributed and crowd sourced cache of objects for the data restore request.
US12072764B2
Methods, systems, and devices for command and data path error protection are described. In some examples, a memory system may receive data units from a host device. The data units may include respective sets of parity bits, and the memory system may perform an error detection operation on the data units. A first controller of the memory system may generate a protocol unit using data (e.g., a subset of data) from the data units. The protocol unit may include a set of parity bits (e.g., a different set of parity bits), and a second controller of the memory system may perform an error detection operation on the protocol unit. The second controller of the memory system may generate a data storage unit using data (e.g., a subset of data) from the protocol unit, and may store the data unit and another set of parity bits to a memory device.
US12072760B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to control execution of tasks in a computing system. The methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture include at least one storage device and at least one processor to, execute instructions to at least obtain a request to perform an inverse operation on a data flow, the data flow previously transformed during a forward operation, determine a first processor core that executed the forward operation, the data flow including an identifier of the first processor core, and transmit the data flow to a second processor core to perform the inverse operation.
US12072754B2
A method and apparatus for managing a controller includes indicating, by a processor of a first device, to the controller of a second device to enter a second power state from a first power state. The controller of the second device responds to the processor of the first device with a confirmation. The processor of the first device transmits a signal to the controller of the second device to enter the second power state. Upon receiving a wake event, the controller of the second device exits the second device from the second power state to the first power state.
US12072751B2
A wearing state detection method, a wearing state detection device, and a wearable device are provided. The method detects a wearing state of the wearable device and includes: emitting, by the light emitting unit, light of at least two different wavelengths to a subject in a time division manner; receiving, by the light receiving unit, reflected light corresponding to light of each wavelength after being reflected by the subject; obtaining intensity of reflected light corresponding to the light of each wavelength respectively; calculating a fluctuation range of a light intensity ratio, which is a ratio between intensity of the reflected light corresponding to light of the at least two different wavelengths received by a same light receiving unit; and determining that the device is in a wearing state when the fluctuation range is greater than or equal to a first threshold.
US12072749B2
Systems and methods for machine learning-based power capping and virtual machine placement in cloud platforms are disclosed. A method includes applying a machine learning model to predict whether a request for deployment of a virtual machine corresponds to deployment of a user-facing (UF) virtual machine or a non-user-facing (NUF) virtual machine. The method further includes sorting a list of candidate servers based on both a chassis score and a server score for each server to determine a ranked list of the candidate servers, where the server score depends at least on whether the request for the deployment of the virtual machine is determined to be a request for a deployment of a UF virtual machine or a request for a deployment of an NUF virtual machine. The method further includes deploying the virtual machine to a server with highest rank among the ranked list of the candidate servers.
US12072748B2
A processor IC has multiple power base units (PBUs), arranged in an array. Each PBU includes a switch, a memory unit and a compute unit. It further includes a power estimator for the switch, memory unit, and compute unit. The PBUs communicate with an array-level power accumulator via dedicated wiring. Communication via the dedicated wiring may use timestamps to ensure time-accurate aggregate estimates. The switch power estimator estimates dissipation based on port activity. The memory power estimator estimates dissipation based on read and write activity and bit toggling in the memory. The compute power estimator estimates power based on monitoring input data zero values, bit toggling, instruction type, and activity of reconfigurable processing units. The array-level power accumulator calculates the array-level nominal dynamic power estimate. A power clock management controller scales the dynamic power estimate for the actual clock frequency and measured supply voltage, and adds a static power estimate.
US12072747B2
In one embodiment, a printed circuit board (PCB) includes a substrate, one or more signal layers including a first signal layer, a first segment of a transmission line disposed at the first signal layer electrically coupling a first location to a second location, and a first signal via disposed at the second location. The PCB circuit includes a second segment of the transmission line disposed at the first signal layer electrically coupling a third location to a fourth location and a second signal via disposed at the third location. The PCB includes a power-over-cable circuit disposed on a first surface of the substrate and electrically coupled to the first and second signal via, where the first and second segments carry a signal of an image sensor and the first segment carries power from the power-over-cable circuit to the image sensor, where the image sensor is used for an autonomous vehicle.
US12072744B2
A hinge structure includes a first rotary bracket that rotates about a first virtual axis and a second rotary bracket that rotates about a second virtual axis The hinge structure also includes a fixed bracket that includes the first rotary bracket and the second rotary bracket fixed thereto. The hinge further structure includes a first rotary member, a second rotary member, a first arm and a second arm. Additionally, the hinge structure includes a cam part that includes bumpy structures. A first elastic body is mounted on the first rotary member and supports at least one side of the cam part and second elastic body is mounted on the second rotary member and supports at least an opposite side of the cam part. The hinge structure also includes a support bracket that supports the first elastic body and the second elastic body.
US12072743B2
An electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing including a cover, a hinge engaging portion, and a hinge protrusion, and a hinge structure configured to rotate the second housing relative to the first housing, the hinge structure including a first base facing the hinge engaging portion and a second base connected to the first base, and the second base includes a first contact surface contacting the hinge protrusion as the second housing transitions between the closing position and the intermediate position, and a second contact surface contacting the hinge protrusion while the second housing transitions between the intermediate position and the opening position.
US12072730B2
The present disclosure provides a synchronization signal generating circuit, a chip, and a synchronization method and a synchronization device, based on a multi-core architecture, configured to generate a synchronization signal for M node groups, wherein each of the node groups includes at least one node, and M is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The synchronization signal generating circuit includes: a synchronization signal generating sub-circuit and M group ready signal generating sub-circuits. The M group ready signal generating sub-circuits are in one-to-one correspondence with the M node groups. The synchronization signal generating sub-circuit generates a first synchronization signal based on the first to-be-started signal, wherein the first synchronization signal is configured to instruct the K nodes in the first node group to start synchronization.
US12072729B2
To increase an overall access speed and a performance of a bus system, in the present disclosure, a master device is designed to use a clock signal with different clock frequencies to address slave devices and read/write data from/to the slave devices. In an address phase, a first operating frequency which the master device can successfully address the slave devices is used as a clock frequency of the clock signal for addressing. In a read/write phase, a minimum one (i.e., a second operating frequency) of multiple working frequencies of the slave devices is used as the clock frequency of the clock signal for reading/writing, wherein the master device is connected to the slave devices via a bus. The working frequency of the slave device means a maximum clock frequency supported by the slave device.
US12072728B2
A device including at least one processor, and an analog-to-digital (ADC) circuit, wherein the at least one processor is configured to generate an excitation signal and provide the excitation signal to a crystal in a pierce oscillation configuration, wherein after providing the excitation signal, the ADC circuit is configured to obtain as input a signal output from the crystal and convert the signal to a digital output; the at least one processor is configured to compare the digital output of the ADC circuit to a plurality of thresholds and based on the comparisons is further configured to drive the crystal to cause the crystal to operate as a pierce oscillator and to generate a clock signal from at least of one of the comparisons.
US12072727B2
An operating unit for a utility vehicle is provided. The operating unit has a grip zone, at least one actuation unit and a control unit. The grip zone includes a plurality of contact-detecting sensor units. The control unit is designed to detect signals from the sensor units and to identify an intended operation on the basis of the signals. An arrangement of the sensor units is formed in such manner that various hand positions are identifiable by means of the control unit. The control unit is designed to release control signals generated by the operating unit and/or the at least one actuation unit depending on the position of the hand.
US12072703B2
In various examples, at least partial control of a vehicle may be transferred to a control system remote from the vehicle. Sensor data may be received from a sensor(s) of the vehicle and the sensor data may be encoded to generate encoded sensor data. The encoded sensor data may be transmitted to the control system for display on a virtual reality headset of the control system. Control data may be received by the vehicle and from the control system that may be representative of a control input(s) from the control system, and actuation by an actuation component(s) of the vehicle may be caused based on the control input.
US12072695B2
A work order initiation and tracking system is coupled between various plant asset diagnostic systems and a work or business management system within a process plant. The work order initiation and tracking system includes a user interface that enables a user to review diagnostic data, recommendations, and other information from one or more of the diagnostic systems regarding potential or recommended changes to plant assets, and to initiate the generation of one or more work orders to implement the recommendations or corrections based on information from the diagnostic systems. The work order initiation and tracking system assists the user in generating work orders by tracking and viewing the created work orders associated with various assets in the plant based on previous diagnostic information or recommendations, by enabling the user to copy data or information from the asset diagnostic applications into the work order generation system, by translating or associating asset name and tag data from the diagnostic systems to the work order generation system to assure that the correct assets are identified in the work orders, and by tracking the progress of the work orders sent to and generated by the business and work management system to provide the user with information pertaining to previously ordered work within the plant.
US12072692B2
A system includes an article supply location, wherein the article supply location includes a plurality of articles to be sorted, first and second transport vehicles, each having a first position in which an article is stowed about the vehicle and a second position in which the article is deposited into a proximal container. And a control system. The control system is configured to receive an order for a plurality of disparate articles, determine one destination container of a plurality of destination containers to direct the transport vehicle to deposit a selected article, direct the first transport vehicle to transport a selected article to the destination container and deposit the article by manipulation of the first transport vehicle from the first position to the second position for deposit of the selected article in the destination container.
US12072688B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium includes instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to receive, from an edge device of an industrial automation system, data indicative of a type of one or more devices in the industrial automation system, one or more types of data generated by the one or more devices, one or more components included in the one or more devices, firmware of the one or more devices, or any combination thereof. When executed, the instructions also cause the processing circuitry to identify, based on the received data, either a firmware update for the industrial automation system or, from a container repository, a container that is implementable on the edge device. Additionally, when executed, the instructions cause the processing circuitry to cause a container image for the container or firmware update for the firmware to be sent to the edge device.
US12072682B2
A support device that supports development of a sequence program executed by a control device includes an operation reception module that receives an operation on the support device, and setting module that sets a switching option of a display mode for a call instruction selected from call instructions of a unit program in the sequence program in accordance with the operation received. When the sequence program is displayed, the call instruction is switched to an image of a circuit configuration represented by a sequence logic defined by a corresponding unit program based on the option set and displayed.
US12072674B2
A component for the internal parts or the movement for a timepiece or a piece of jewellery including a substrate partially coated with a black layer and decorated with at least one stone, the black layer including carbon nanotubes or aluminium oxide, the substrate being at least devoid of the black layer on the portion facing the stone. It also relates to the method for manufacturing this component for the timepiece or the piece of jewellery.
US12072667B2
A cartridge includes a container, a light guide including incident and emergent portions, and a cover including outer and inner surfaces. When a direction directing from the outer surface toward the inner surface is a first direction, and a direction in which the incident and emergent portions are arranged is a second direction, (i) the outer surface is recessed toward a downstream side of the first direction between the incident and emergent portions, (ii) a first end of a bottom of the recessed portion on an incident portion side is positioned on a side downstream with respect to the first direction, of a second end of the bottom on an emergent portion side, and (iii) the bottom is curved so as to be recessed toward the downstream side of the first direction between the first and second ends relative to an imaginary rectilinear line connecting these ends.
US12072666B2
A sheet conveying device includes a pair of conveyors each including a conveyance face to convey a recording medium inside an image forming apparatus. One of the pair of conveyors further includes an exposed face, a handle, and a swing fulcrum. The exposed face is exposed to an outside of the apparatus while an inside of the apparatus is open. The handle is exposed to the outside of the apparatus and operatable to expose the conveyance face to the outside of the apparatus while the inside of the apparatus is open. The swing fulcrum swings the one of the pair of conveyors to expose the conveyance face to the outside of the apparatus when the handle is operated while the inside of the apparatus is open. The handle includes a partial annular portion. The partial annular portion is included in a plane including a swing direction around the swing fulcrum.
US12072664B2
A cartridge includes a photosensitive drum and a developing roller, with the developing roller being configured to develop a latent image formed on the photosensitive drum with toner. The cartridge also includes a first electrical contact electrically connected to the charging roller and the second electrical contact electrically connected to the developing roller. As viewed along the axis of the photosensitive drum, the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact are positioned on opposite sides with respect to a line that passes through an axis of the photosensitive drum and an axis of the developing roller.
US12072663B2
An image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet, the image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, and a detachable unit. The detachable unit includes a first positioned portion and a second positioned portion. The apparatus body includes a frame member having a first positioning portion and a second positioning portion which respectively engage with the first positioned and second positioned portion, so that the detachable unit is positioned with respect to frame member in the attaching direction and the first direction. The second positioning portion is arranged closer to a center portion of the detachable unit in the second direction than the first positioning portion.
US12072661B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a first rotary member, a second rotary member, a web, a feed roller, a winding roller, a contact member, a detection unit, and a control unit. In a state where the apparatus is turned from a first power-ON state to a second power-ON state through a power-OFF state after the contact member reached a notch, if a difference between a diameter of a web at an end of the first power-ON state and the diameter of the web at a start of the second power-ON state is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the control unit controls the image forming unit not to form a toner image. In the state after the contact member reached the notch, if the difference is smaller than the predetermined value, the control unit permits the image forming unit to form a toner image.
US12072658B2
A sheet laminator includes a thermal fixing roller pair, a first heater, a second heater, multiple temperature detectors, and a driver. The thermal fixing roller pair includes a first thermal fixing roller and a second thermal fixing roller facing the first thermal fixing roller. The thermal fixing roller pair thermally fixes and conveys a two-ply sheet and a sheet medium nipped between two sheets of the two-ply sheet. The first heater heats the first thermal fixing roller. The second heater heats the second thermal fixing roller. The multiple temperature detectors are at different positions along an axial direction of the thermal fixing roller pair. The multiple temperature detectors detect a surface temperature of the thermal fixing roller pair. The driver drives the thermal fixing roller pair.
US12072650B2
An image heating device comprising: a first rotating member, a heater, a heater holder, and a second rotating member, wherein the heater holder has a flat surface portion provided downstream of the heater in a conveying direction of a recording material, the flat surface portion being in contact with the inner peripheral surface of the first rotating member, wherein the flat surface portion has a first region and a second region in a longitudinal direction, wherein the first region includes a region corresponding to a region of a nip portion through which a central portion of the recording material passes, and the second region is a region on an end portion side from the first region in the longitudinal direction, and wherein in the conveying direction, the downstream end portion of the second region is located upstream of the downstream end portion of the first region.
US12072649B2
A fixing device includes a first rotating body, a second rotating body, a frame, a shutter, a pressure arm, a cam, a shutter arm, and an arm cam. The shutter is rotatable about a first axis between a closed position and an open position. The pressure arm presses the first rotating body against the second rotating body. The cam is rotatable about a second axis and pushes the pressure arm. The shutter arm is connected to the shutter and rotates about the second axis independent of the cam, to cause the shutter to rotate between the closed position and the open position. The arm cam rotates about the second axis to push the shutter arm at a position offset from the second axis and cause the shutter arm to rotate about the second axis.
US12072648B2
A conductive roller includes a support member, an elastic layer disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the support member, and a surface layer disposed on an outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer. The elastic layer includes a cylindrical elastic foam and a conductive covering layer covering an exposed surface of the elastic foam, and the elastic layer has a hysteresis loss of 44% or less.
US12072646B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus including: an annular transfer belt having an outer surface on which an image is transferred; a transferring unit including a transfer cylinder having a transfer area that sandwiches a recording medium with the outer surface of the transfer belt to transfer the image from the outer surface of the transfer belt to the recording medium, and a pair of first rotating bodies disposed on both axial end sides of the transfer cylinder; a pair of circulating members each being wound around the first rotating body and being circulated by rotation of the first rotating bodies; and a holding unit attached to the circulating members, the holding unit configured to hold the recording medium, transport the recording medium with circulation of the circulating members, and pass the recording medium through the transfer area.
US12072645B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on an intermediate transfer member; a transfer member configured to output a transfer voltage in order to cause a transfer current to flow so as to transfer the image to a sheet; a measurement unit configured to measure a density of the image; and a control unit configured to control the image forming unit to form a test image on the intermediate transfer member based on test image data, control the measurement unit to acquire a measured density of the test image, correct the measured density based on an evaluation value of an electric resistance of a path through which the transfer current flows, and generate data for density correction based on the test image data and a corrected measured density.
US12072644B1
An image forming apparatus includes a forming unit, a supply unit, a first measurement unit, a control unit, a second measurement unit, an adjustment unit, and a changing unit. The forming unit forms a toner image on an image carrier using developer which is contained in a developer container and includes toner and a magnetic carrier. The supply unit supplies the toner to the developer container. The first measurement unit measures a density of the toner in the developer contained in the developer container. The control unit controls the supply unit such that the density measured by the first measurement unit approaches a target density. The second measurement unit measures an image density formed by the forming unit. The adjustment unit adjusts a development contrast potential so that a formation density measured by the second measurement unit approaches a predetermined appropriate density with regard to the toner image formed by the forming unit under a predetermined condition. The changing unit is configured to change a target density if the adjustment unit is not able to adjust the development contrast potential so that the formation density measured by the second measurement unit approaches the appropriate density.
US12072642B2
A integrated light source module includes a planar optical waveguides layer having N light incident ports aligned with respect to each other, M light exit ports aligned with respect to each other, and optical waveguides connected to the N light incident ports and the M light exit ports, and N optical semiconductor devices facing each of the N light incident ports arranged so that light emitted from each of the N optical semiconductor devices can be incident on each of the N light incident ports, wherein light emitted from the M light exit ports can be applied to an object to be irradiated.
US12072639B2
A vibration attenuation structure includes: a detection component covering an outer surface of a pipe and configured to detect a vibration frequency of the pipe, and an attenuation component covering the outer surface of the pipe; wherein, the pipe being configured to transmit fluid, the detection component and the attenuation component are arranged in parallel along a direction parallel to an axis of the pipe, and the attenuation component is capable of adjusting a vibration-absorbing frequency of the attenuation component according to the vibration frequency to attenuate vibration of the pipe.
US12072623B2
This disclosure is directed to two-dimensional conformal optically-fed phased arrays and methods for manufacturing the same. The method includes providing a wafer substrate, depositing a first cladding layer on the wafer substrate, and depositing a core layer on the first cladding layer. The method further includes photolithographically patterning the core layer to provide a plurality of optical waveguide cores, and depositing a second cladding layer on the core layer to cover the plurality of optical waveguide cores to provide a plurality of optical waveguides. In addition, the method includes forming a plurality of antennas on the second cladding layer, each antenna of the plurality of antennas located near a termination of a corresponding optical waveguide of the plurality of optical waveguides, and providing a plurality of photodiodes on the second cladding layer, each photodiode of the plurality of photodiodes connected to a corresponding antenna.
US12072620B2
A method for manufacturing a membrane assembly for EUV lithography, the method including: providing a stack including: at least one membrane layer supported by a planar substrate, wherein the planar substrate has an inner region and a border region around the inner region; and a first sacrificial layer between the planar substrate and the membrane layer; selectively removing the inner region of the planar substrate such that the membrane assembly has: a membrane formed from the at least one membrane layer, and a border holding the membrane, the border having the border region of the planar substrate and the first sacrificial layer situated between the border region and the membrane layer, wherein the selectively removing the inner region of the planar substrate includes using an etchant which has a similar etch rate for the membrane layer and its oxide and a substantially different etch rate for the first sacrificial layer.
US12072617B2
A light source optical system includes: a first optical system configured to guide a first light beam having a first wavelength emitted from a light source to a wavelength conversion element; the wavelength conversion element configured to convert the first light beam into a second light beam having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and emit the second light beam; and a second optical system through which the second light beam emitted from the light conversion element passes. The second optical system includes a light guide element configured to guide a portion of the second light beam from one end surface of the light guide element to the other end surface of the light guide element to separate the portion of the second light beam from the second light beam.
US12072611B2
The present embodiment relates to a camera module comprising: a first body including a lens; a second body coupled to the first body, and including a hole; and a shield cover disposed within the second body, wherein the shield cover is adhered to the second body, and a portion of a side plate of the shield cover is exposed by means of the hole of the second body.
US12072602B2
The present invention includes an optical deflector that changes a deflection angle depending on an applied voltage, a voltage control unit that applies a voltage to the optical deflector, and a storage unit that stores a value of a voltage to be output by the voltage control unit. The voltage control unit outputs a voltage of a value stored in the storage unit to the optical deflector. The storage unit stores a goal voltage V=ggoal(t), which provides a deflection angle θ with the goal time dependency θ=θgoal(t).
US12072597B2
Provided are a reflection film, which enables high visible light transmittance, an increase in the brightness of a display image, and favorable transparency of an external tint, a windshield glass, and a head-up display system. The reflection film includes a selective reflection layer formed of a cholesteric liquid crystal layer with a cholesteric liquid crystalline phase immobilized. In each of a wavelength range of 400 nm or more and less than 500 nm and a wavelength range of 500 nm or more and less than 600 nm, a maximum value of a natural light reflectivity is 10% to 25%, the greatest difference between the greatest maximum value and the smallest minimum value of the natural light reflectivity is 3% or more, and a total value of wavelength bandwidths in a region where a reflectivity is higher than an average value of the maximum value and the minimum value of the natural light reflectivity is 20 nm to 80 nm. In a wavelength range of 600 nm or more and 800 nm or less, a maximum value of a natural light reflectivity is 10% to 25%, and a total value of wavelength bandwidths in a region where a reflectivity is higher than an average value of the maximum value and the minimum value of the natural light reflectivity is 120 nm or more.
US12072584B2
The invention provides an electronic device, including a substrate, a semiconductor layer, a light blocking layer, and a spacer. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate and has a channel area. The light blocking layer is disposed between the substrate and the channel area. The spacer is disposed on the semiconductor layer. The light blocking layer overlaps with the spacer and the channel area. The electronic device of the embodiment of the invention may have an enhanced opening rate.
US12072581B2
Disclosed is a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device which is a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal alignment film to which an alignment regulating force is imparted by a photo-alignment treatment, including: a film forming step of forming a film containing a polymer whose main chain is cleaved by irradiation with light; a photo-alignment step of imparting an alignment regulating force to the film formed in the film forming step by irradiation of the film with light in an atmosphere of a temperature lower than 100° C.; and a removing step of removing a low-molecular weight component generated by cleaving the main chain of the polymer through the light irradiation after the light irradiation. Also disclosed is a liquid crystal display device manufactured by the manufacturing method.
US12072580B2
A light source module, liquid crystal display device and display apparatus. The light source module comprises a light guide plate and a light source disposed on the light guide plate side, and a plurality of micro structures are disposed on a light guide surface of the light guide plate. The light source module can provide a reflective liquid crystal display panel with an area light source similar to ambient light to improve light exiting brightness of the reflective liquid crystal display panel such that reflective liquid crystal display panel also has a better display effect in a dark environment and under a condition without ambient light.
US12072564B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit including a photosensitive drum, a housing configured to house the image forming unit, and a display operation panel located on an upper surface of the housing. The display operation panel includes a display panel including a display surface on an upper surface of the display panel, and a touch panel including a touch surface on an upper surface of the touch panel. The touch surface includes a first region overlapping the display surface, and a second region not overlapping the display surface. A front end edge of the display panel is located behind and above a front end edge of the touch panel such that the second region is located in front of and below the first region.
US12072557B2
An ophthalmic lens and technologies relating to the ophthalmic lens including an intermediate portion that includes a portion in which a power is strengthened and thereafter weakened when the lens is viewed in an X direction from the center toward the periphery, and includes a portion A′ in which the power is strengthened and thereafter weakened when the lens is viewed in an X′ direction from the center toward the periphery, the X′ direction being exactly opposite to the X direction, the power being strengthened in the portion A and the portion A′ to be stronger than a far-vision power of a far-vision portion or a near-vision power of a near-vision portion that is arranged in a ring shape along an outer edge of the intermediate portion.
US12072553B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens, arranged in order from an object side. The first lens is shaped such that a length of a first axis, which intersects an optical axis, is greater than a length of a second axis, which intersects the optical axis and is perpendicular to the first axis. The optical imaging system satisfies 4.5
US12072549B2
A reflective module assembly including a housing having an internal space, and a reflective module accommodated in the internal space of the housing, wherein the reflective module includes a reflective holder supporting a reflective member configured to change a path of incident light, at least one damper coupled to the reflective holder, and a damper holder supporting the at least one damper, and wherein the at least one damper is coupled to the reflective holder through the damper holder.
US12072531B2
A polarization rotator structure includes: a first core structure formed at a first layer, extending from the first end to a second end, and a second core structure formed at a second layer that is at a different depth than the first layer and formed in proximity to the first core structure. The first core structure and the second core structure provide mode hybridization between at least two orthogonally polarized waveguide modes of the PRS. An optical splitter structure is optically coupled at a first end to the second end of the PRS, and optically coupled at a second end to at least two optical waveguides, and includes: a first core structure that is contiguous with at least one of the first or second core structures of the PRS, and a second core structure that is separate from both of the first and second core structures of the PRS.
US12072529B2
A process for forming glass planar waveguide structure includes producing or obtaining a fusion drawn glass laminate (10) comprising a core glass layer (10) and a first clad glass layer (14) and a second clad glass layer (16) then removing or thinning portions of at least the second glass clad layer (16) leaving remaining or thicker portions of the second glass clad layer (16), the remaining or thicker portions corresponding to a planar waveguide pattern and resulting in a glass planar waveguide structure.
US12072528B2
An optical beam combiner circuit includes a plurality of branch portions configured to divide optical beams output from a plurality of input waveguides, a combiner unit configured to combine optical beams, each of the optical beams being one of the divided optical beams obtained by one of the plurality of branch portions, an output waveguide configured to output an optical beam obtained by the combiner unit combining the optical beams, a plurality of monitoring waveguides configured to output optical beams, each of the optical beams being another of the divided optical beams obtained by one of the plurality of branch portions, and a plurality of light-blocking grooves provided on both sides with respect to each input waveguide, the plurality of light-blocking grooves being positioned to enable stray light not coupled to the plurality of input waveguides to be reflected toward an end surface different from an exit end surface of each monitoring waveguide and also different from an exit end surface of the output waveguide.
US12072514B2
Provided are an optical element, including a plurality of optically anisotropic layers, each of which has an in-plane alignment pattern in which orientations of optical axes derived from a liquid crystal compound change continuously and rotationally along at least one in-plane direction, in a thickness direction, in which the optically anisotropic layers each have regions where lengths over which the orientations of the optical axes rotate by 180° in the one direction are different from each other, and at least one of the plurality of optically anisotropic layers is an inclined optically anisotropic layer having a region where a plurality of pairs of bright lines and dark lines in a cross-sectional image are present and the pairs of the bright lines and the dark lines are inclined at inclination angles which are different from each other with respect to a normal line of an interface of the optically anisotropic layer.
US12072509B2
Provided are a positioning method and apparatus for a display screen in an optical module. The positioning method for the display screen in the optical module comprises the following steps: arranging light paths of an optical lens and image receiving device of a product coaxially; providing the display screen, and activating the display screen, wherein the display screen displays an image, and a light path formed by a light ray from the image passes through the optical lens; the image receiving device receives the light path passing through the optical lens in real time to obtain a virtual image; calculating a slope deviation of the display screen; calculating a distance deviation from the display screen to the optical lens; calculating a plane position deviation of the display screen; and calibrating a relative position of the display screen according to a calculation result.
US12072507B2
A laser radiation optical system for laser doping and post-annealing, the laser radiation system including A. a laser apparatus configured to generate pulsed laser light that belongs to an ultraviolet region, B. a stage configured to move a radiation receiving object in an at least one scan direction, the radiation receiving object being an impurity source film containing at least an impurity element as a dopant and formed on a semiconductor substrate, and C. an optical system including a beam homogenizer configured to shape the beam shape of the pulsed laser light into a rectangular shape and generate a beam for laser doping and a beam for post-annealing that differ from each other in terms of a first beam width in the scan direction but have the same second beam width perpendicular to the scan direction.
US12072504B2
Head-mounted display assemblies may include a first eyecup and a second eyecup that are configured for respectively positioning a first lens and a second lens in front of intended locations of a user's eyes when the head-mounted display assembly is donned. The first eyecup and the second eyecup may be movable relative to each other to adjust for an interpupillary distance of the user's eyes. A single near-eye display screen may be configured for displaying an image to the user through the first and second eyecups. An enclosure over the single near-eye display screen may include a first transparent component positioned between the first lens and the single near-eye display screen and a second transparent component positioned between the second lens and the single near-eye display screen. Various other methods, devices, systems, and assemblies are also disclosed.
US12072477B2
A variable magnification optical system includes, in order from an object side, a first lens group having positive refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; and a third lens group having positive refractive power; upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, a distance between the first lens group and the second lens group and a distance between the second lens group and the third lens group being varied. The variable magnification optical system further includes a V lens group GV having negative refractive power and being moved to have a component in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and an F lens group GF having positive refractive power and being moved along the optical axis upon focusing from an infinitely distant object to a close object, the V lens group GV being disposed on the more object side than the F lens group GF. Thereby, it is possible to provide the compact variable magnification optical system with a high zoom ratio and high performance, an optical apparatus therewith and a method for manufacturing the variable magnification optical system.
US12072475B2
An optical lens assembly includes five lens elements and provides a TTL/EFL<1.0. In an embodiment, the focal length of the first lens element f1
US12072474B2
The present disclosure discloses a camera lens group including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens having negative refractive power, a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a second lens having refractive power, a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a third lens having positive refractive power, a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having refractive power and a concave object-side surface; a sixth lens having positive refractive power, a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; and a seventh lens having negative refractive power. A maximum field-of-view FOV of the camera lens group satisfies: FOV>133.0°. An amount of distortion of the camera lens group is below 25.0%.
US12072470B2
The present invention provides an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens comprises seven lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens may be provided with shortened system length, decreased Fno, increased field of view and image height.
US12072463B2
Systems and methods are discussed to image lithological data within the strata beneath the earth surface, including a subterranean object detection system. The system may further comprise a pipeline operable to conduct a working fluid and an instrumented pig operable to travel within the pipeline and operable to image lithological strata and voids within the strata beneath and around the pipeline. The instrumented pig may comprise an outer case, a battery coupled to the outer case, a ground imaging unit operable to send a signal to image the lithological strata and voids within the strata beneath and around the pipeline and may be operable to receive a reflected signal indicating lithology data, wherein the ground imaging unit may be operably coupled to the battery.
US12072458B2
A marine seismic acquisition system includes a frame that includes a central longitudinal axis and members that define orthogonal planes that intersect along the central longitudinal axis; a data interface operatively coupled to the frame; hydrophones operatively coupled to the frame; a buoyancy engine operatively coupled to the frame where the buoyancy engine includes at least one mechanism that controls buoyancy of at least the frame, the hydrophones and the buoyancy engine; and at least one inertial motion sensor operatively coupled to the frame that generates frame orientation data, where the hydrophones, the buoyancy engine and the at least one inertial motion sensor are operatively coupled to the data interface.
US12072457B2
Resistive plate electrode (110, 120; 210, 220; 310, 320) with modulable surface resistivity comprising a supporting plate (130; 230; 330) coupled to a layer (131; 231; 331) of polymer material on which a DLC layer (135; 235; 335) is deposited that is connected to a connection assembly (145, 245, 345) configured to be connected to a high voltage power supply.
US12072456B2
A radiation detection probe and a manufacturing method therefor, and a radiation detection chip. The method comprises: simulating each of a plurality of cadmium zinc telluride crystals having different three-dimensional sizes; obtaining the radiation response characteristics of each cadmium zinc telluride crystal; according to the radiation response characteristics, selecting a specific cadmium zinc telluride crystal from the plurality of cadmium zinc telluride crystals, wherein the specific cadmium zinc telluride crystal is a cadmium zinc telluride crystal having optimal performance indexes corresponding to the radiation response characteristics in the plurality of cadmium zinc telluride crystals; and configuring a first electrode and a second electrode for the specific cadmium zinc telluride crystal so as to constitute the radiation detection probe.
US12072452B2
Disclosed are a flat panel detector and a manufacturing method thereof. The flat panel detector including: a first optical assembly, having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side in a thickness direction of the flat panel detector, and including: a first scintillator layer configured for converting at least part of rays into a first visible light; and a first light guide component stacked with the first scintillator layer and configured for guiding the first visible light; a first image sensor assembly stacked with the first optical assembly, configured for receiving the first visible light, and including: a first image sensor located at the first side of the first optical assembly; and a second image sensor located at the second side of the first optical assembly.
US12072446B2
A LIDAR device for scanning a scanning area. The LIDAR device includes a transmitting unit for generating beams and for deflecting the beams along the scanning area, and a receiving unit including at least one detector for receiving reflected beams. Individual sections of the detector are consecutively activatable at defined intervals for the detection of the reflected beams, or the reflected beams being deflectable onto individual sections of the detector by a deflector at a changing deflection angle. A control unit and a receiving unit are also provided.
US12072436B2
A target detection and/or high resolution RF system is provided herein in which the resolution of a legacy target angle detection (direction of arrival) system is improved without any change to the existing hardware of the legacy target detection system. Rather, the target detection and/or high resolution RF system can apply virtual aperture postprocessing to reflected signals to achieve improvements in the detection of one or more targets.
US12072432B2
A sensor control method includes: obtaining first indication information, where the first indication information indicates a first scenario; determining a configuration parameter of at least one sensor based on the first indication information, where the configuration parameter is corresponding to the first scenario; and sending the configuration parameter to the at least one sensor. The sensor control method may be applied to automatic driving or intelligent driving, and may be specifically applied to assisted driving or unmanned driving. The sensor can be flexibly controlled through configurable parameters of sensors such as radar or a camera.
US12072430B2
An underwater navigation system comprising a transmitter (12) for transmitting an electromagnetic signal, a receiver (14) for receiving an electromagnetic signal from the transmitter, and determining means for determining the position of the receiver relative to the transmitter using the received electromagnetic signal. The system determining means may determining the direction of propagation using field strength at three or more receiver locations by determining the direction of propagation by comparison of the field strength received at each antenna, or by comparison of the field strength received at three or more different receiver locations.
US12072414B2
An obstacle detection device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire path information to a parking position and range information representing a position and a range of an object existing around an own vehicle, an operation control unit configured to generate a driving signal, for operating a traveling driving device that travels a vehicle, according to the path information and outputs the generated driving signal to the traveling driving device, an inside/outside determination unit configured to determine, when receiving surroundings information representing a situation around the own vehicle, whether a target object included in the received surroundings information is an object positioned inside the range represented by the range information or an object positioned outside the range, and an obstacle determination unit configured to determine whether or not the object that has been determined to be positioned outside the range is an obstacle to the own vehicle traveling in a parking path.
US12072412B2
A broadband RF imaging device includes a broadband RF aperture array, at least one RF receiver, and a computer. The at least one RF receiver has short RF connections with the broadband RF aperture array, e.g. length 10 meters or less. The computer has a digital data connection to the at least one RF receiver. Each RF receiver is configured to receive broadband RF signal data over a sampling time interval from the broadband RF aperture array, and to digitize the broadband RF signal data to generate digitized broadband RF signal data, and to store the digitized broadband RF signal data locally at the RF receiver. The computer receives the digitized broadband RF signal data stored locally at the at least one RF receiver, and is programmed to reconstruct an RF image from the digitized broadband RF signal data received from the at least one RF receiver.
US12072411B2
A system for accurate geospatial location and time transfer using radio transmissions without satellite signals. A position and timing measurement system uses standard uncorrelated radio broadcast signals, each of which transmits on an assigned frequency from a known position defined in latitude and longitude, and each of which transmits a modulated or unmodulated carrier signal. A reference unit at known fixed position receives the said standard broadcast signals in the vicinity, samples the frequencies and content values of their signals and broadcasts the said measured frequency and content data nearly simultaneously with a time mark representing the time of said measurement and further broadcasts its position in latitude and longitude. A mobile unit at an unknown position to be determined receives the said standard broadcast signals in the vicinity and measures the time of arrival of their broadcast, recording the time of said measurement.
US12072404B2
A system and method of mapping and correcting the inhomogeneity of a magnetic field within an object using an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system where there is a single dominant resonance. The method includes acquiring at least three MRI images, each at different echo times (TE). At least two ΔTE images (ΔTEi=1 . . . N) are generated based on the at least three MRI images, wherein the subscripts I=1 N refer to images with sequentially increasing ΔTE times. Aliasing in the ΔTE1 image is permitted. The ΔTE times of ΔTE1 and ΔTE2 are set such that the alias points at which wrapping occurs in ΔTE1 does not overlap with the alias points of ΔTE2. Each ΔTE image is unwrapped. A final B0 map is set to the unwrapped ΔTEN image.
US12072397B2
A magnetic field detection apparatus includes first and second projections that are provided on a flat surface of a substrate and that each include first and second inclined surfaces. First and second MR films are provided on the first and second inclined surfaces, respectively. A first wiring line couples the first MR films provided on the respective first inclined surfaces of the first and second projections. A second wiring line couples the second MR films provided on the respective second inclined surfaces of the first and second projections. The first and second projections are adjacent in a first direction, with the first inclined surface of the first projection and the second inclined surface of the second projection opposed to each other in the first direction. One or more patterns are provided on the first inclined surface of the first projection, the second inclined surface of the second projection, or both.
US12072391B2
A method for controlling a charging current limiting value for a battery management system. In one example, the method includes determining, for a measured temperature and a prescribed state of charge, reference currents for various time intervals; calculating a corresponding reference time constant for each reference current by using a model for the calculation of a mean value of a charging current based on a continuous current; constituting a diagram for the relationship between the reference time constant and the reference current; determining a predictive time constant by the comparison of a measured value of a charging current with the reference currents; calculating a predictive limiting mean value of the charging current; and calculating a first predictive limiting value ipredS for a short predictive time tpredS, a second predictive limiting value ipredL for a long predictive time tpredL, and a third predictive limiting value ipredP for a continuous predictive time.
US12072380B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus comprising a host device and a memory component coupled to the host device. The memory component can comprise an array of memory cells, and an interface comprising a boundary scan architecture, wherein the boundary scan architecture includes an instruction register configured to store data indicative of a presence of a test data input (TDI) signal.
US12072375B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes: one input terminal; multiple output terminals; multiple first current control elements connected between the input terminal and the respective output terminals; a control circuit that controls the first current control elements; a fault detection circuit that includes multiple voltage comparator circuits each of which compares a voltage proportional to a voltage of one of the output terminals with a predetermined threshold voltage and that detects an open-circuit state or a short-circuit state of the output terminals; an external terminal connected to an external resistor; a voltage convertor circuit that generates the threshold voltage according to a voltage of the external terminal that is generated by flowing a current through the external resistor, the threshold voltage being applied to an input terminal of each of the voltage comparator circuits; and a detection result output terminal for outputting a detection result by the fault detection circuit.
US12072367B2
An apparatus includes a mechanical switch and a solid-state switch, such as a diamond switch or antiparallel-connected thyristor pair, coupled in series between an AC source and the load, such as a substation input transformer. The control circuit may be configured to connect the AC power source to the load by closing the mechanical switch and turning on the solid-state switch thereafter. The control circuit may be configured to interrupt a connection of the AC source to the load by turning off the solid-state switch and closing the mechanical switch thereafter. Operations of the switches may be coordinated with a fuse coupled in series with the solid-state switch to address different types of fault conditions.
US12072363B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining at least one physical characteristic value of an electromechanical oscillatory system, which comprises a piezoelectric element and at least one additional element coupled, with respect to oscillation, to the piezoelectric element, the piezoelectric element having an electrode and a counter electrode. The method comprises the following steps: (a) applying an electrical alternating voltage between the electrode and the counter electrode for the duration of an excitation interval in order to induce mechanical oscillation of the oscillatory system or of a sub-system of the oscillatory system, so that after the excitation interval has expired, the oscillatory system or the sub-system performs a free oscillation without excitation, (b) after the end of the excitation and during the free oscillation of the oscillatory system or of the sub-system without excitation: (i) measuring a time curve of a voltage U between the electrode and the counter electrode, or (ii) short-circuiting the electrode and the counter electrode with a line and measuring a time curve of a current I through the line, and (c) determining the at least one physical characteristic value of the electromechanical oscillatory system from the time curve of the voltage U, which time curve was measured in step b) i), or the time curve of the current I, which time curve was measured in step b) ii).
US12072359B2
A power distribution terminal provided with a display module, a wireless power distribution display system and a wireless power distribution display method are disclosed. The wireless power distribution display system includes a local gateway, and at least two power distribution terminals which are communicated with the local gateway in a short-distance wireless communication mode and send their terminal identification data to the local gateway; at least one of the at least two power distribution terminals is provided with a display module; the local gateway outputs the terminal identification data in a short-distance wireless communication mode; and the at least one power distribution terminal provided with a display module receives the terminal identification data of other distribution terminals from the local gateway in a short-distance wireless communication mode, and displays the terminal identification data.
US12072356B2
A voltage detection circuit and method for an integrated circuit, and an integrated circuit are provided. The voltage detection circuit includes: a first current source, a first branch and a second branch. A current outputted by the first current source is allocated to the first branch and the second branch. The first branch includes a first voltage control current component and a first load connected in series. The second branch includes a current signal detection component and a second load connected in series. A voltage signal to be detected is inputted to a control signal input terminal of the first voltage control current component. The current signal detection component is configured to output, in real time, a preset signal characterizing a second current flowing through the second branch, to determine change of the voltage signal to be detected based on the preset signal.
US12072355B2
An apparatus for measuring a flow of current through at least one electrical conductor of an electrotechnical device which is disposed in a cooling channel, wherein a non-conductive cooling medium flows through the cooling channel during operation of the electrotechnical apparatus, the apparatus including a flux conductor which is disposed around the at least one electrical conductor, and an evaluation circuit which is coupled to the flux conductor and is configured to determine the flow of current through the at least one electrical conductor by evaluating an electrical parameter of the flux conductor, wherein at least a part of the flux conductor is disposed in the cooling channel.
US12072351B1
A new integrated III-V/silicon Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) active optical probe integrates a III-V semiconductor laser source and a silicon cantilever AFM probe into a robust easy-to-use single III-V/silicon chip to enable AFM measurements, optical imaging, and spectroscopy at the nanoscale.
US12072349B2
To provide a method of manufacturing a low heat-resistant sensor that has high chemical resistance, excellent drip-proof properties, and excellent dust-proof properties. A method of manufacturing a low heat-resistant sensor includes a step of disposing a sensor unit in a recessed portion of a container composed of fluorine resin, inserting a cable into a through-hole in communication with the recessed portion, and electrically connecting the sensor unit that is disposed in the recessed portion and the cable to each other, a step of disposing a plate composed of fluorine resin such that the plate covers an opening of the recessed portion and capping the recessed portion, a step of covering the cable by using a tube composed of fluorine resin, a step of disposing a frame body composed of fluorine resin such that the frame body surrounds a perimeter of the plate, a step of thermally bonding the frame body, the container, and the plate to each other, and a step of thermally bonding the container and the tube to each other.
US12072347B2
A vehicle rotational speed sensor has a sensor element, a cylindrical sensor housing in which the sensor element is accommodated, an electrical connection cable which is guided out of the sensor housing, and a bend limiting element. The bend limiting element is configured to limit a radius of curvature of the connection cable directly in a region in which the connection cable is guided out of the cylindrical sensor housing.
US12072346B2
Tools, methods, and systems for evaluating a demulsifier performance from an emulsion mixture are described. The systems include a measuring instrument including a body with an open end, a cover attachable to the body, a sample holder sized to hold the emulsion mixture and to be received inside the body, the body and the cover define a sealable chamber; a sensor system positioned inside the sealable chamber an environmental control system positioned to enclose the sealable chamber; a data acquisition and processing system is in electronic communication with the sealable chamber, the sensor system, and the environmental control system. The sensor system includes a handle attached to and extruding from the cover of the measuring instrument; and a sensor loaded onto the handle, sized to be submerged inside the emulsion mixture of the sample holder, and operable to measure performance of the demulsifier.
US12072343B2
A method includes, under control of control circuitry implementing a mixing protocol, aspirating reagents from multiple different reagent reservoirs into a cache channel. Designated amounts of the reagents are automatically aspirated from the corresponding reagent reservoirs by corresponding sippers based on the mixing protocol implemented by the control circuitry. The method also includes discharging the reagents from the cache channel into a mixing reservoir, and mixing the reagents within the mixing reservoir to form a reagent mixture.
US12072325B2
An information processing apparatus (20) includes a use environment information acquisition unit (210), a model selection unit (220), and a prediction unit (230). The use environment information acquisition unit (210) acquires use environment information indicating a use environment of a physical system having input-output. The model selection unit (220) selects, from a storage unit storing a plurality of prediction models of the physical system in association with section information indicating a section based on the use environment, a prediction model being associated with section information of a section matching the use environment indicated by the use environment information. The prediction unit (230) performs prediction based on output of the physical system by use of the selected prediction model.
US12072324B2
To enable appropriate analysis to easily be performed in accordance with an object to be analyzed, provided is an apparatus for determining a chromatograph analysis method includes: an input portion (220) configured to receive input of a sample name of a sample to be analyzed and a component name; a storage (230) configured to store an analysis method for a component corresponding to the component name in the sample corresponding to the sample name so that the analysis method is associated with the sample name and the component name; and a controller (210) configured to search the storage for the analysis method, which corresponds to the sample name and the component name input to the input portion, to read the analysis method from the storage, and present the analysis method to a user.
US12072320B2
The present invention is in the field of a non-contact system for monitoring a metallic magnetic structure under dynamic load for detecting an impact induced propagating stress wave, and a method of determining strain in a metallic magnetic structure under dynamic load, such as a tube-like structure, such as a monopile for a wind turbine.
US12072315B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for real-time visualization of a material during ultrasonic non-destructive testing. The system includes a graphical user interface (GUI) capable of showing a three-dimensional (3-D) image of a composite laminate constructed of a series of two-dimensional (2-D) cross sections. The GUI is capable of displaying the 3-D image as each additional 2-D cross section is scanned by an ultrasonic testing apparatus in real time or near real time, including probable defect regions that contain a flaw such as a hole, crack, wrinkle, or foreign object within the composite. Furthermore, in one embodiment, the system includes an artificial intelligence capable of highlighting defect areas within the 3-D image in real time or near real time and providing data regarding each defect area, such as the depth, size, and/or type of each defect.
US12072307B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to systems, tools, and methods for flow assurance monitoring within pipe structures. In an embodiment is provided a method of determining at least one property of a mixture flowing through a system that includes introducing an inhibitor to a fluid flowing through the system to form the mixture; exposing the mixture to electromagnetic energy to induce at least one paramagnetic response from at least one diamagnetic species present in the mixture flowing through the system; performing electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy on the at least one paramagnetic response to generate an EPR spectrum; and determining the at least one property of the mixture based on the EPR spectrum. Apparatus for determining fluid properties and systems for extracting hydrocarbons from a subterranean reservoir are also provided.
US12072301B2
An inspection system (100) for inspecting a lighting device (150) during an assembly process of the lighting device; wherein the lighting device comprises a base plate (153) and a plurality of components (155) mounted on the base plate; wherein the inspection system comprises: a light source (120) arranged for illuminating the lighting device according to a first light output spectrum for providing a luminance contrast between the base plate and the plurality of components; an imaging unit/camera (130) arranged for capturing a first image of the illuminated lighting device; a controller (110) comprising a processing unit for determining a luminance contrast measure of the captured first image; wherein the processing unit is further arranged for, when the luminance contrast measure of the captured first image exceeds a threshold value, adapting the first light output spectrum, and wherein the imaging unit is further arranged for capturing a second image of the lighting device illuminated according to the adapted first light output spectrum; and wherein the controller further comprises: a comparing unit arranged for comparing the second image with a reference image; a determination unit arranged for determining a defect in the base plate and/or in the plurality of components based on the comparison.
US12072299B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for synthesizing a diamond using a diamond synthesis machine. A processor receives a plurality of images of a diamond during synthesis within a diamond synthesis machine, each of the plurality of images captured within a time period. The processor executes a diamond state prediction machine learning model using the plurality of images to obtain a predicted data object, the predicted data object indicating a predicted state of the diamond within the diamond synthesis machine at a time subsequent to the time period. The processor detects a predicted defect, a number of defects, defect types, and/or sub-features of such defects and/or other characteristics (e.g., a predicted shape, size, and/or other properties of predicted contours for the diamond and/or pocket holder) of the predicted state of the diamond. The processor adjusts operation of the diamond synthesis machine.
US12072295B1
A viewing device is configured to magnify and view a marking on a gemstone. The viewing device includes a light source, a mask, a magnifying optical device, and a camera. The light source generates light directed along a first path towards the gemstone. The mask partially obscures the light from the light source to generate a pattern. The partially obscured light is reflected off of the gemstone and magnified by the magnifying optical device. The camera is positioned to capture the magnified light. One or more additional light sources generate light directed along a second path towards the gemstone. The light enters the gemstone through a preferred facet and internally reflects. Internally reflected light scatters off of an internal mark in the gemstone and exits the gemstone through the gemstone's top face. The reflected and scattered light is magnified by the magnifying optical device and captured by the camera.
US12072294B2
A variety of techniques for authentication of jewelry and gemstones is provided. With some examples, blockchain may be used to store a reference signature for the jewelry/gemstone, and a digital asset such as a non-fungible token can link this reference signature with the physical jewelry/gemstone. During an authentication process, the reference signature stored on the blockchain can be accessed and compared with a test signature derived from an item that is purported to be the original jewelry/gemstone to determine whether they match to support a declaration that the purported jewelry/gemstone is authentic.
US12072286B2
A digital projection and reflected glare reduction system according to various aspects of the present technology may include a digital display device capable of generating a one or two dimensional source grid pattern back-illuminated by a light source to project an image of a source grid onto a retroreflective background. The projected source grid image may then be re-imaged onto the original grid element at a slight offset eliminating the need to generate a separate cutoff grid thereby reducing the amount of time required to setup and adjust the system. The digital display device is also capable of switching between a schlieren visualization capability to some other visualization capability (such as particle tracking velocimetry (PTV), particle imaging velocimetry (NV), temperature sensitive paint measurements (TSP), pressure sensitive paint measurements (PSP), photogrammetry, etc.) allowing for the simultaneous use of two different imaging techniques.
US12072279B2
A method to determine vapor phase corrosion load in paper and board manufacturing system is disclosed. The method allows optimizing oxidative biocide content in aqueous solutions, suspensions and slurries in the paper and board manufacturing system. The method is based on determination of redox values (rH) of the system during determined time period. A correlation between rH values exceeding a predetermined rH threshold values and corrosion load provides an estimate of increased or decreased corrosion load and allows timely changes to biocide dosage.
US12072267B2
A method and system for vacuum chamber integrity verification after chamber maintenance or venting. The method includes a computing system causing a measurement cycle that includes causing a pump to pump down pressure of the vacuum chamber for a set duration of time or to a target pressure; causing an isolation valve to isolate the vacuum chamber; receiving sensor data from an optical emission sensor; and analyzing the sensor data to determine whether the sensor data satisfies one or more sensor data criteria. The method further includes, the computing system, causing one or more repetitions of the measurement cycle until the sensor data meets the one or more sensor data criteria. The method further includes analyzing the sensor data that meets the sensor data criteria to determine at least one of vacuum chamber leak rate or vacuum chamber moisture content. The system includes the vacuum chamber, pump, isolation valve, optical emission sensor, and computing system.
US12072261B2
Method for monitoring an ignition system of an aircraft turbine engine, the ignition system including a combustion chamber fitted with a spark plug and an ignition casing, the turbine engine including an accelerometer and an acoustic sensor. The method includes steps of: acquiring accelerometric and acoustic data representative of spark plug breakdown noises from signals generated by the accelerometer and the acoustic sensor, detecting breakdown peak times from the accelerometric data and the acoustic data, correlating the breakdown peak times detected from the accelerometric data and the breakdown peak times detected from the acoustic data, and establishing a diagnosis of the health of the ignition casing and a diagnosis for the spark plug on the basis of the correlation results.
US12072258B2
A torque sensor unit may include a ring magnet that is connectable to a first partial shaft and is concentric with a longitudinal axis. Two first magnetic flux conductors are connectable to a second partial shaft, are arranged in a ring magnet magnetic field, and conduct magnetic fluxes. A spatially fixed sensor unit may have two second magnetic flux conductors and a magnetic sensor on a printed circuit board, all of which are receivable in a housing. The sensor unit can detect a change in a rotation angle between the partial shafts by measuring magnetic flux density between the first magnetic flux conductors. A second housing surrounds the ring magnet, the first magnetic flux conductors, and the sensor unit. A magnetic shield surrounds the sensor unit at least partially circumferentially relative to the longitudinal axis and is arranged between a housing cover closing the second housing and the second housing.
US12072257B2
A device for use in pressure sensing has a housing enclosing a chamber and having at least one port that communicates with the chamber. A pressure sensor receives fluid pressure from the chamber. The chamber has a compliance that exhibits a marked change in volumetric stiffness repeatably at a fixed pressure.
US12072241B2
In described examples, a spatial light modulator includes groups of pixels. Each group is arranged to transmit only a respective portion of a light spectrum. The respective portion has a respective dominant color. The respective portions of the light spectrum are distinct from one another, according to their respective dominant colors. Each group is controlled by a respective reset signal. The spatial light modulator is coupled to receive a selection from the integrated circuit and in response to the selection: cause a selected one of the groups to transmit its respective portion of the light spectrum; and cause an unselected one of the groups to block transmission of its respective portion of the light spectrum. A photodetector is coupled to: receive the respective portion of the light spectrum transmitted by the selected group; and output a signal indicating an intensity thereof.
US12072222B2
Disclosed herein is a method for assessing a flow a sprayed coating, including the steps of spraying a coating onto a surface and capturing a plurality of images of the sprayed surface at a predetermined frequency within a predetermined interval of time, and a computer program product for assessing a flow of a sprayed coating.
US12072221B2
An ultrasonic flowmeter and a fluid pipeline. The ultrasonic flowmeter includes: a housing, which defines a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet with a fluid passage therebetween; and at least two pairs of ultrasonic sensors, wherein each pair of the at least two pairs of ultrasonic sensors have a first ultrasonic sensor and a second ultrasonic sensor arranged opposite to each other; wherein at least some of the at least two pairs of ultrasonic sensors are arranged in grooves on an inner wall of the fluid passage, and center points of front end faces of at least some of the at least two pairs of ultrasonic sensors are located on a cylindrical curved surface defined by the inner wall of the fluid passage.
US12072217B2
The invention relates to a detector device having pixels in a two-dimensional arrangement, the detector device comprising row pixels, a row readout wiring for each row of said row pixels and a column select wiring for each column of said row pixels, as well as column pixels, a column readout wiring for each column of said column pixels and a row select wiring for each row of said column pixels. Analog-to-digital converters adapted for row-parallel and column-parallel operation are connected to the readout wirings, and simultaneously one or more columns of row pixels for row parallel readout and one or more rows of column pixels for column parallel readout can be selected. The invention further relates to a positioning code and to a position detecting method.
US12072216B2
An encoder apparatus including a reflective scale and a readhead. The readhead includes at least one light emitting element, at least one sensor and at least one optical device, which together with the scale form an optical system in which the optical device forms an image of an illuminated region of the reflective scale onto the sensor. The system's optical path, from the light emitting element to the sensor, passes through the optical device on its way toward and after reflection from the scale, and includes an unreflected optical path between the light emitting element and the optical device and an unreflected optical path between the optical device and the sensor.
US12072205B2
This interaction system comprising a display assembly associated with an avionic screen and including a video acquisition module configured to acquire a first graphic feed coming from an avionic system and a second graphic feed coming from an open-world equipment item, a media management module configured to control the display on the avionic screen and to generate windowing data relative to the positioning of different windows on the display screen and an interaction assembly able to generate interaction data. The system further comprises a connection box of the open-world equipment item and a control module of the open-world equipment item configured to process the windowing data and the interaction data in order to generate, from at least some of the interaction data, a command intended for the open-world equipment item.
US12072203B2
An example method involves identifying one or more potential route segments that collectively connect at least two geographical points, receiving spatiotemporal weather information that predicts future weather conditions along each of the potential segments, and, for each potential segment, evaluating a partial cost function that comprises a summation of a set of segment-weighted cost factors, where at least one segment-weighted cost factor comprises an adverse weather risk factor based on the future weather conditions along the potential segment. The method also involves selecting, based on a minimization of a total cost function, a set of selected segments and corresponding segment target speeds for the vehicle to utilize while traversing between the at least two geographical points so as to avoid adverse weather conditions, the total cost function being the sum of partial cost functions associated with a set of segments that collectively connect the at least two geographical points.
US12072202B1
An augmented navigational system is provided for autonomous vehicles. The augmented navigational system may further be coupled to an artificial intelligence system that provides object recognition and image recognition. A machine learning system may provide further feedback as to whether the pickup and drop off location was appropriate, and whether the recognition of one or more objects was appropriate.
US12072193B2
A method for notifying and mitigating a suboptimal event occurring in a transport climate control system that provides climate control to a climate controlled space of a transport unit is provided. The method includes monitoring an amount of power available for powering the transport climate control system, monitoring a power demand from the transport climate control system, and accessing operational data of the transport climate control system and the transport unit. The method also includes a controller determining whether a suboptimal event is detected based on one or more of the monitored amount of power available, the monitored power demand and the accessed operational data. Also, the method includes the controller generating a notification when a suboptimal event is detected, and the controller instructing the generated notification to be displayed on a display.
US12072184B2
Disclosed is a hole wall thickness gauge. In the technical solution, a deburring function and a measurement function are integrated, and measurement is completed while deburring is completed. The hole wall thickness gauge is ingenious in design, flexible and high in efficiency and has a quite high practical application value.
US12072183B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided in a vehicle having a Hitch Articulation Angle (HAA) calculation system for estimating an HAA between the vehicle and a towed trailer. The method includes: receiving a plurality of ultrasonic sensor (USS) range measurements for a first USS on the vehicle while the vehicle is towing the trailer in a forward direction; receiving a plurality of HAA values calculated using geometric equations or a kinematic model that correspond to the plurality of USS range measurements; receiving a USS range measurement for the first USS while the vehicle is operating in a reverse direction or experiencing a high HAA but not from a second USS; estimating an HAA value from the USS range measurement by applying the USS curve characteristics for the first USS; and providing the estimated HAA value to a vehicle motion control system for use in controlling vehicle and trailer motion.
US12072178B2
A 3D scanner for recording the 3D topography of an object, the 3D scanner including: a projector unit configured for projecting a structured beam of probe light onto the object; an imaging unit arranged to acquire 2D images of the object when the object is illuminated by the structured probe light beam; and an actuator unit arranged to control the position of the structured probe light beam at the object by rotating a movable portion of the projector unit around a pivoting axis, the actuator unit including a rotation motor including or arranged to drive a wheel, where the surface of the wheel operatively coupled to the movable portion of the projector unit has a radial distance from the axis of the rotation motor which changes with the rotation.
US12072175B2
A measurement apparatus including an illumination system configured to illuminate a target with light including light of a first wavelength and light of a second wavelength, a wavefront changing unit configured to change a wavefront aberration in light from the target, and a control unit configured to control the wavefront changing unit, wherein the wavefront changing unit includes a first region where the light of the first wavelength enters, and a second region where the light of the second wavelength enters, and the control unit controls the wavefront changing unit such that a first correction wavefront for correcting a first wavefront aberration in the light of the first wavelength is generated in the first region, and a second correction wavefront for correcting a second wavefront aberration in the light of the second wavelength is generated in the second region.
US12072165B2
Break barrel airguns are provided with a loading system that uses the cocking action of the break barrel type airgun to load projectiles from a magazine held by a magazine holder into a shuttle system that is positioned by the magazine holder during loader and moved to a position aligned with the barrel during firing. The loading system has a resilient barrier between the magazine holder and the shuttle that reduces the risks of loading errors caused by adhesion between the bolt and a pellet.
US12072164B2
Disclosed is an arrangement for feeding ammunition to a weapon. The weapon is mounted to an elevation device arranged to allow elevation movement of the weapon about an elevation axis. The arrangement includes a feeding chute connected at one end to the weapon. The feeding chute includes a set of elements assembled together in a stacked configuration. The set of elements is arranged about a shaft configured to be concentrically arranged relative to the elevation axis so as to allow movement of individual elements of the set of elements about the shaft in connection to elevation movement of the weapon about the elevation axis. The invention also relates to a vehicle with an arrangement according to the present invention.
US12072161B2
Provided is a hinged firearm receiver configured to operate with an AR-pattern Bolt carrier group, buffer, buffer spring, and buffer tube. The firearm upper receiver has an integral hinge that connects to a rear receiver body and provides an AR-pattern firearm the ability to have a folding stock to reduce length for storage or transportation purposes.
US12072160B2
A device for converting a semiautomatic firearm to a non-semiautomatic firearm. The device includes a bolt stop lever pivotally attachable to a receiver of a firearm, a spring configured to be installed in contact with the bolt stop lever and a firearm receiver such that the spring exerts a force on the bolt stop lever to retain the bolt stop lever in a first position, and, a bolt release mechanism operatively coupleable to the bolt stop lever and configured to pivot the bolt stop lever against the force of the spring into a second position. The bolt release mechanism is operatively decoupled from the bolt stop lever when the bolt stop lever reaches the second position. When in the first position the bolt stop lever restricts motion of a bolt of the firearm, and when in the second position, the bolt stop lever permits motion of the firearm bolt.
US12072159B2
Disclosed herein is an attachment device for use with a firearm. The attachment device has a central axis and includes an annular body having first and second ends and an external surface. A first connector, for connecting to a muzzle attachment, is located proximate to the first end. The first connector allows for axial movement of the muzzle attachment but prevents radial movement of the connected muzzle attachment. A second connector is located proximate to the second end. The second connector connects the attachment device to the firearm.
US12072158B2
A bolt assembly of a gun includes a bolt body displaceable along a longitudinal axis, a firing pin guided to move axially in the bolt body, a firing pin spring associated with the firing pin, and a small breech arranged at the rear end of the bolt body. A sliding sleeve actuatable by a cocking slide is arranged to cock and uncock the firing pin spring. The cocking slide contains a control cam for axial displacement of the sliding sleeve by a slide part that can be moved in a straight line in the direction of longitudinal axis of bolt body and projecting rearward relative to the small breech.
US12072156B2
A system for providing discharge monitoring of a firearm includes a first sensor, a trigger pull sensor assembly, an event detection module and a display. The first sensor senses a first acceleration along a first axis and sends a first input signal. The trigger pull sensor assembly senses mechanical movement of a trigger of the firearm, and communicates a second input signal corresponding to a position of the trigger. The event detection module receives the first input signal and compares the first acceleration to an acceleration threshold indicative of a shot; receives the second input signal and determines whether the second input signal is satisfies a second threshold indicative of a shot; determines whether a discharge has occurred based on both the first signal satisfying the acceleration threshold and the second input signal satisfying the second threshold; and generates an event detection signal based on the determination.
US12072151B2
An induced draft air-cooled condenser for steam condensing applications includes a pair of inclined tube bundles defining a interior space therebetween in fluid communication with ambient air heated as it flows through the tube bundles. A fan supported above the interior space comprises rotatable fan blades disposed inside a cylindrical annular fan shroud. A drive mechanism operable to rotate the fan blades includes a motor operably coupled to the fan blades. The motor is supported inside the fan shroud and may be housed in a protective enclosure which may be insulated. A motor cooling system includes an air inlet duct fluidly coupled to ambient air outside the shroud and the enclosure. When the fan operates, cool ambient air is drawn via a vacuum formed by the fan through the duct to cool the motor. The air thus bypasses and is not heated by the tube bundles.
US12072138B2
A refrigerator according to the present invention includes a storage chamber configured to store food, a cold air supply part configured to supply cold air to the storage chamber, a tray configured to form an ice making cell being a space in which water is phase-changed into ice by the cold air, a temperature sensor configured to sense the temperature of water or ice in the ice making cell, a heater configured to provide heat to the tray, and a controller configured to control the heater, in which the controller controls the heater to be turned on so that ice can be easily separated from the tray when the ice making is completed, and the controller controls the heater to be turned off when a temperature sensed by the temperature sensor reaches a first turn-off reference temperature greater than zero after a first reference time elapses in a state in which the heater is turned on.
US12072134B2
Described herein are methods for making clear ice. In one embodiment, a method for making clear ice includes providing a mold of any of the embodiments described herein, optionally inserting a skewer through the mold, the skewer being coupled to an item; circulating, using fluid inlet and outlet valves, a fluid in a mold cavity defined by the mold; varying overtime one or both of: a temperature of the cooling apparatus or a fluid flow rate, through the fluid inlet valve, as a percentage of max flow; and optionally retracting the skewer when the ice formation encases at least a portion of the item. In some embodiments, the method optionally includes a period of flow reversal, such that the fluid inlet valve becomes the fluid outlet valve and the fluid outlet valve becomes the fluid inlet valve. In some embodiments, the method optionally includes releasing the ice from the mold.
US12072131B2
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a climate control system and methods for controlling the system. Some embodiments include a system that includes a refrigerant circuit with both a main circuit and a bypass circuit, where the main circuit directs the refrigerant fluid from a compressor to a first heat exchanger, a metering device, a second heat exchanger, and an accumulator, and the bypass circuit selectively directs a portion of the refrigerant fluid to a third heat exchanger. The bypass circuit includes a bypass control valve and a bypass metering device, the bypass control valve controlling the flow of the portion of the refrigerant fluid to be directed to the third heat exchanger, and the bypass metering device lowering the temperature of the portion of the refrigerant fluid before the portion of the refrigerant fluid enters the third heat exchanger. The third heat exchanger may be located proximate the accumulator.
US12072123B2
The invention relates to a frame (3) for an electric heating device (1), comprising at least one housing (7) intended to receive a heating element (5), said housing being defined by a plurality of longitudinal walls (23, 25) forming an insertion path for a heating element, and said insertion path being defined longitudinally by a back wall extending opposite an opening through which the heating element can be inserted into the housing. According to the invention, at least one of the longitudinal walls comprises a displacement reducing element (10) projecting from the wall. The displacement reducing element (10) comprises a ramp (11) that slopes gradually into the housing, towards the opposite longitudinal wall, said displacement reducing element (10) being arranged such that the downstream end (14, 15) thereof extends at a distance from the back wall (21).
US12072121B2
An automated filter exchange apparatus is disclosed including a filtration chamber in fluid communication with the return ducting and the HVAC unit, the filtration chamber including a plurality of active filter stations, a filter storage chamber adjacent to the filtration chamber having a plurality of filter storage stations, each of the plurality of filter storage stations being paired with one of the active filter stations through an exchange aperture to define a plurality of exchange units each comprised of one of the plurality of active filter stations and one of the plurality of filter storage stations, and a plurality of carriages disposed in one of the plurality of exchange units and being configured and arranged to removably receive an HVAC filter and transition the HVAC filter between one of the plurality of filter storage stations and one of the plurality of active filter stations.
US12072113B2
A fan device includes a motor and a control unit. The motor has a variable number of revolutions. The motor includes a shaft supported by a bearing enclosing lubricant. The control unit drives the motor. The control unit executes, when continuously driving the motor at a first number of revolutions or less for a first time period, driving the motor at a second number of revolutions more than the first number of revolutions for a second time period shorter than the first time period. The first number of revolutions causes poor oil film formation of the lubricant in the bearing if the motor is driven for more than the first time period. The second number of revolutions causes oil film formation of the lubricant in the bearing if the motor is driven for the second time period.
US12072107B2
A water heating system can include a water heater having a tank, and a first temperature sensor disposed toward a top end of the tank to measure a first temperature and a second temperature sensor disposed toward a bottom end of the tank to measure a second temperature. The water heating system can further include a controller communicably coupled to the first temperature sensor and the second temperature sensor, where the controller determines an amount of heated water in the tank based on a plurality of algorithms and measurements made by the first and second temperature sensors. The plurality of algorithms solves for at least one calculated temperature for at least one point between a first location of the first temperature sensor and a second location of the second temperature sensor, where the at least one calculated temperature is used to determine the amount of heated water in the tank.
US12072103B2
A turbine engine can include a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement. The combustion section can include a combustor with a fuel premixer. The fuel premixer can include an annular shroud defining an interior, a center body located within the interior, and an annular swirler located within the interior.
US12072100B1
A combustor for an aircraft gas turbine engine includes a dome structure, a swirler assembly connected to the dome structure, and a cowl connected to the dome structure and defining a plenum between the dome structure and the cowl, and surrounding the swirler assembly. The cowl includes an airflow opening through an upstream wall portion of the cowl for providing a flow of compressed air into the plenum. In addition, the cowl includes a cowl steam channel therewithin and a plurality of steam injection nozzles that provide a flow of steam from the cowl steam channel into the plenum.
US12072099B2
An engine can utilize a combustor to combust fuel to drive the engine. A fuel nozzle assembly can supply fuel to the combustor for combustion or ignition of the fuel. The fuel nozzle assembly can include a swirler and a fuel nozzle to supply a mixture of fuel and air for combustion. Increasing efficiency and meeting emission needs can be met with the use of alternative fuels, which combust at higher temperatures or higher speeds than traditional fuels, requiring improved fuel introduction without the occurrence of flame holding or flashback.
US12072098B1
An ultra wideband (UWB) combustion sensor detects presence or absence of combustion corresponding to an effect on a transmitted, time-gated pulse and detection by a presence or absence of charged particles associated with combustion. A combustion system includes a UWB combustion sensor. A method for operating a combustion system includes operation of a UWB combustion sensor.
US12072094B2
A method for predicting a blowdown rate of one or more boilers includes generating output data with a first model that specifies an empirical relationship between multiple input temperatures, multiple plant gas feed rates, and multiple outputs of the boilers. The method further includes collecting an ambient operating temperature and a current steam demand of the boilers and comparing the ambient operating temperature and the current steam demand to the output data to determine a current required blowdown rate. Once determined, the blowdown rate of the boilers is adjusted according to the current required blowdown rate.
US12072087B2
Lamp assembly with thermal transporter. The present disclosure includes disclosure of a lamp assembly, comprising a housing; a cover attached to the housing defining a volume; a light source disposed within the volume; and a thermal transporter in thermal communication with the light source; wherein the thermal transporter comprises a plurality of graphite sheets structured to transfer heat generated by the light source away from the light source.
US12072076B2
A light guide assembly for a vehicle, the light guide assembly including a light guide having a first end face. The light guide assembly further includes a first light source and a second light source having different heights and being mounted on a common support plane. Further, the first and second light sources are arranged to emit light rays in a light emission direction toward the first end face. The first end face includes a first inlet portion configured to receive light from the first light source and a second inlet portion configured to receive the light from the second light source. The first and second inlet portions are offset from one another in the light emission direction in such a way that the space between the common support plane and each inlet portion is proportional to the height of the light source in front of the corresponding inlet portion.
US12072075B2
Disclosed are a primary optical structure, a high-beam lighting device, and an anti-glare high-beam light. The primary optical structure comprises a reflection unit and a shading structure located in front for blocking part of the reflected light from the reflection unit. The primary optical structure is configured for use in a left vehicle lamp or a right vehicle lamp, where the shading structure is arranged at a left side portion or a right side portion of the lamp, respectively. The light blocked by the shading structure and the light that is not blocked are bounded by a right side edge or a left side edge respectively, and an upper side edge of the shading structure. In a vehicle lamp, the primary optical structure can form a high-beam profile having a dark area to prevent glare, such that the dark area formed has an adjustable width and position, improving driving safety.
US12072073B2
A method for manufacturing light emitting elements is described and includes providing an un-coated light converting platelet. The un-coated light converting platelet has a top surface, a bottom surface, and side surfaces. A plurality of LED dies is provided. Side surfaces of the un-coated light converting platelet are coated with an at least partly reflective material to form a coated light converting platelet. The coated light converting platelet is separated into light converting tiles. An outline of the light converting tiles substantially corresponds to an outline of one of the plurality of LED dies. The light converting tiles and the plurality of LED dies are assembled to form light emitting elements.
US12072072B2
The present disclosure provides a decorative lamp string and a method for manufacturing the same. The decorative lamp string includes a wire and a supporting strip. The wire includes a plurality of lamps and a plurality of wire portions. The plurality of lamps are positioned along the wire between the plurality of wire portions. The wire winds around the supporting strip in a spiral fashion. At least one part of the wire is embedded in the supporting strip.
US12072064B2
Provided are a method for filling hydrogen gas into banks, configured so as to typically maintain high-pressure banks, thereby reducing time delays for supplying hydrogen gas to a second and subsequent FCV; and a hydrogen station. The hydrogen gas filling method and the hydrogen station are characterized by: filling hydrogen gas from a compressor into a bank (target bank) of which pressure is below the preset predetermined pressure; and if there are a plurality of other target banks, selecting as the filling bank a bank that may reach the filled state the fastest by being filled with hydrogen gas from the compressor.
US12072052B2
A water socket (110) couplable with a water system, the water socket (110) comprising: a base body (112) defining an annular surface and having a longitudinal axis (LL1); a coupling nipple (114) defined with the base body (112) along the longitudinal axis (LL1), and one or more coupling pins (116) operatively coupled on the annular surface of the base body (112), wherein the one or more coupling pins (116) is movable with respect to the base body (112) along the longitudinal axis (LL1), to an open position and a closed position, and wherein coupling of the hose connector (150) and the water socket (110) is such that the one or more coupling pins (116) at least partially moves to the open position within the base body (112), based on engagement of the coupling pin (116) with the at least one indent (162).
US12072046B2
A bracket for securing fire sprinkler line piping is provided which includes a center panel with attached first and second side flaps positioned at approximately 90 degrees to the center panel. The bracket is insertable between the sidewalls of a ceiling track and sprinkler line pipe is engaged into the pipe guide by using a swivel ring on a threaded rod. Once engaged, the bracket prevents lateral movement of the sprinkler line pipe relative to the ceiling track.
US12072042B2
A valve sealing arrangement is disclosed for use with a valve having a valve body, a control member arranged in a flow passage of the valve body, a rotary shaft arranged in a bore of the valve body configured to move the control member between closed and open positions, and a valve seat. The valve seat can include an anchor portion secured to the valve body that has an anchor section with a first sealing surface and a convolution section extending from the anchor section with at least one bend, a first seat portion with a second sealing surface contacting the control member that is moveable via the at least one bend of the convolution section, and a second seat portion extending from the first seat portion with a contact surface contacting a side wall of the flow passage.
US12072028B2
A control valve and a control valve system. The control valve comprises a valve body and valve cores; the valve cores comprise a first valve core and a second valve core; the control valve comprises a valve cavity; the valve body has multiple ports; the first valve core and the second valve core are located in the valve cavity; rotation of the valve cores can open or close ports corresponding to fluid channels of the valve cores. The control valve further comprises a first transmission portion and a second transmission portion, the first transmission portion and the first valve core are integrally formed or in transmission connection, and the second transmission portion and the second valve core are integrally formed or in transmission connection; a valve core shaft and the first valve core are in transmission connection.
US12072007B2
A powershift transmission for a vehicle including an input shaft, a first intermediate shaft, a second intermediate shaft, and an output shaft. The input shaft includes a low driving gearwheel and a high driving gearwheel. The first intermediate shaft includes a low output gearwheel, a high output gearwheel, a first speed driving gearwheel, a second speed driving gearwheel, and a third speed driving gearwheel. The second intermediate shaft includes a first speed output gearwheel, a second speed output gearwheel, a third speed output gearwheel, a first-second group driving gearwheel, and a fourth speed output gearwheel. The output shaft includes a first-second group output gearwheel and a third group gearwheel.
US12071996B2
Improved equipment bases and methods for making and using same are disclosed herein. The equipment base can include a first coated substrate including a first part having a first thickness sized to provide the load-bearing support for the equipment, a first elastomer coating the first part, a second coated substrate positioned adjacent to the first coated substrate, the second coated substrate including a second part having a second thickness sized to provide the load-bearing support for the equipment, and a second elastomer coating the second part. A first seam can be formed between the first and second coated substrates to allow for moisture to pass between the first and second coated substrates so that moisture is allowed to seep away from the bottom of the equipment.
US12071995B2
A torque-limiting coupler for connecting an electric motor to a rotatable input of a vehicle is provided, including: a rigid frame that is configured to be coupled to one of the rotatable input or an output shaft of the electric motor; and an clastic member, configured to engage the other of the rotatable input or the output shaft of the electric motor, that engages the rigid frame such that the elastic member substantially maintains its shape and inhibits angular displacement between the rotatable input and the output shaft when an amount of torque received from the output shaft is below a predetermined torque limit, the elastic member changes shape permitting angular displacement between the rotatable input and the output shaft when an amount of torque received from the output shaft exceeds the predetermined torque limit.
US12071993B2
A latching mechanism for a brake actuator is provided. The latching mechanism comprising an annular flange and a plurality of resilient elements extending radially inwardly from the annular flange. Each of the plurality of resilient elements comprises a U-shaped cross-section and a tooth on a radially inner end. The tooth is configured to conform to and engage with ratchet teeth of a wear compensation sleeve of a brake actuator.
US12071990B2
An electromagnetic brake assembly includes a solenoid coil; a fixed ferrous brake stator; a ferrous armature having a braking face, wherein the armature is moveable in a translation direction relative to the brake stator between a disengaged position and an engaged position; and a rotating member including a mating surface and that rotates relative to the armature when the armature is in the disengaged position. When the solenoid coil is energized, the armature translationally moves from the disengaged position to the engaged position, and in the engaged position the braking face of the armature interacts with the mating surface of the rotating member to apply a braking force to the rotating member. The braking face and the mating surface may form a conical interface, and the conical interface further may include a friction O-ring positioned within a slot that permits the O-ring to roll along the braking interface when the armature moves between the disengaged position and the engaged position.
US12071988B2
An electronic automatically decoupling hub assembly. The decoupling hub assembly has an axle and a hub shell rotationally positioned about the axle. A controller provides automatic activation/deactivation signals to an inductor. The decoupling hub assembly has a bearing rotationally positioned about the axle and a cassette body assembly, having a plurality of teeth, rotationally positioned about the bearing. One or more pawls are provided to engage with at least some of the teeth of the cassette body assembly and a seal is used to contain the pawls within the decoupling hub assembly. A cassette body assembly is coupled with the ratchet ring and an end cap is used to prevent a contaminant from entering into the decoupling hub assembly.
US12071978B2
A turbomachine engine including an engine core including a high-pressure compressor, which has an exit stage having an exit stage diameter (DCORE), a high-pressure turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the high-pressure compressor and the high-pressure turbine, a power turbine in flow communication with the high-pressure turbine, and a low-pressure shaft coupled to the power turbine and characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec)1/2 and three hundred (ft/sec)1/2. The low-pressure shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). The turbomachine engine is configured to operate up to the redline speed without passing through a critical speed associated with a first-order bending mode of the low-pressure shaft. The low-pressure shaft has a length (LMSR) defined by an engine core length (LCORE) given by: LCORE=[m(20+m)*n(10+n)](1/100)*DCORE+CIS.
US12071969B2
A thermally stabilized fastener system and method is disclosed. The disclosed system/method integrates a fastener (FAS) incorporating a faster retention head (FRH), fastener retention body (FRB), and fastener retention tip (FRT) to couple a mechanical member stack (MMS) in a thermally stabilized fashion using a fastener retention receiver (FRR). The MMS includes a temperature compensating member (TCM), a first retention member (FRM), and an optional second retention member (SRM). The TCM is constructed using a tailored thermal expansion coefficient (TTC) that permits the TCM to compensate for the thermal expansion characteristics of the FAS, FRM, and SRM such that the force applied by the FRH and FRR portions of the FAS to the MMS is tailored to a specific temperature force profile (TFP) over changes in MMS/FAS temperature. The TCM may be selected with a TTC to achieve a uniform TFP over changes in MMS/FAS temperature.
US12071952B2
Provided are a scroll compressor, a refrigeration device, and a vehicle. In the scroll compressor, an oil discharging hole of an oil separation structure and an oil storage tank are connected to each other by an oil outlet channel disposed in a housing, and an oil outlet of the oil outlet channel is located above an oil inlet. The oil outlet channel can guide a refrigeration oil discharged from the oil discharging hole to flow into the oil storage tank. After passing through the oil outlet channel, a flow rate and a pressure of the refrigeration oil decrease, and thus an impact of the refrigeration oil on the remaining refrigeration oil in the oil storage tank is reduced when discharged from the oil outlet. Therefore, the refrigeration oil within the oil storage tank remains stable and can always immerse an oil return hole of the oil storage tank.
US12071951B2
A scroll compressor has a regulating part, provided in a modular manner outside of a compression part, for determining whether to selectively supply oil from one oil-feeding path to a plurality of regions inside the compression part that compresses a refrigerant.
US12071947B2
In a scroll compressor, a discharge chamber is provided in an inner space of a back pressure chamber inner wall, a discharge port is provided inside the discharge chamber, a bypass hole is provided around the discharge port, and a communicating recess portion allowing the discharge chamber to communicate with the bypass hole is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the back pressure chamber inner wall forming the discharge chamber. Through this, the bypass hole may be easily configured in addition to the discharge port, thereby increasing an operation range of the compressor and suppressing overcompression.
US12071944B2
The invention relates to a method and to an apparatus for vibration compensation in a piston compressor, the piston compressor of which is driven by means of a crankshaft by a three-phase motor controlled by a frequency converter, wherein the current position the crankshaft of the piston compressor is determined, and based on this the frequency converter, a torque (MM) for the three-phase motor is predetermined, which torque follows the load torque (ML) of the piston compressor in order to reduce the vibration stimulation of the entire piston compressor.
US12071943B2
A fluid sensing safety may include a pump, and a prime mover configured to drive the pump. A fluid vessel may be associated with the pump. A sensing system may be configured to determine the presence of fluid within the fluid vessel.
US12071941B2
A tube retention device includes first and second wall surfaces having a first attachment point and a second attachment point, respectively. A first clamp component, having a first tube-engagement surface, is pivotably coupled to the first wall surface at the first attachment point, and configured to rotate about an axis at least approximately normal to the first wall surface. A second clamp component, having a second tube-engagement surface, is pivotably coupled to the second wall surface at the second attachment point, and configured to rotate about an axis at least approximately normal to the second wall surface. The clamp components may be configured to rotate, in opposite directions and in response to application of force by a tube piece upon the tube-engagement surfaces, from an open position to a closed position, where the tube piece is retained between the clamp components when the clamp components are in the closed position.
US12071938B2
A concentrating solar power plant includes a solar light capturing part configured to capture solar light; and a heat exchange part configured to transform solar energy, from the captured solar light, into heat, which is stored in a solid medium, wherein the solid medium is stored underground. The solar light capturing part has a heliostat farm, a beam down solar concentrator, and a compound concentrator, each configured to reflect the solar light.
US12071930B1
A vertical axis wind turbine is disclosed. The wind turbine may include a mast, a first arm, a second arm, a blade, a first vertical bracing member, and a second vertical bracing member. The first arm may be attached to the mast at a first mast connection point, and the second arm may be attached to the mast at a second mast connection point via respective arm proximal ends. The blade may be attached to the first arm and the second arm via respective arm distal ends. The first vertical bracing member may connect the mast with the first arm, and the second vertical bracing member may connect the mast with the second arm. The wind turbine may further include one or more horizontal bracing members connecting adjacent wind turbine arms.
US12071929B2
A savonius wind turbine including a rotational shaft and a compound blade operatively coupled to the rotational shaft is provided. The compound blade includes a primary blade portion and a secondary blade portion. The primary blade portion extends between a first end and a second end and defines a primary concave surface therebetween. The secondary blade portion is coupled to the primary blade portion between the first end and the second end. The secondary blade portion defines a secondary concave surface configured to generate a torque about the rotational shaft.
US12071928B2
A condition monitoring system comprises a measurement device and a processing server. The measurement device measures a condition of an apparatus provided for a wind power generation facility. The processing server associates measurement data measured by the measurement device with load data representing an operating load of the wind power generation facility acting at a time when the measurement data is measured and cumulative load data representing a cumulative operating load accumulated up to the time when the measurement data is measured, to generate a data set of the load data, the cumulative load data, and the measurement data for the time when the measurement data is measured.
US12071924B2
The present disclosure relates to devices (300) for wind turbine blades (22) and methods for reducing vibrations in wind turbines (10). More particularly, the present disclosure relates to devices (300) for mitigating vortex induced vibrations and stall induced vibrations, wind turbine blades (22) comprising such devices (300), and methods for reducing wind turbine vibrations when the wind turbine (10) is parked, especially during wind turbine installation and/or maintenance. A device (300) comprises a proximal support (310) configured to be arranged around a first portion (221) of a wind turbine blade (22), a distal support (320) configured to be arranged around a second portion (222) of the wind turbine blade (22), and a barrier (330) extending between the proximal support (310) and the distal support (320). The first portion (221) of the wind turbine blade (22) is at a different longitudinal position along the blade (22) than the second portion (222). The proximal (310) and distal (320) supports are configured to provide a gap (350) between the barrier (330) and a wind turbine blade surface.
US12071923B2
A rotor blade for a wind turbine including a first blade segment and a second blade segment extending in opposite directions from a chord-wise joint. Each of the first and second blade segments include one or more shell members and an internal support structure. The internal support structure of the first blade segment includes a beam structure extending between a receiving end and a second end. The internal support structure of the second blade segment includes a receiving section that receives the receiving end of the beam structure of the first blade segment. The rotor blade further includes one or more connection locations where the first and second blade segments are secured together. Moreover, when the beam structure is received within the receiving section, a gap including a varying thickness is defined and maintained between the beam structure and the receiving section in a span-wise direction of the rotor blade.
US12071913B1
A bypass duct assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a bypass duct, a heat exchanger assembly, and an inlet cowl. The bypass duct is configured to direct bypass air around an engine core of the gas turbine engine. The heat exchanger assembly includes a heat exchanger located in the bypass duct and configured to transfer heat to the bypass air. The inlet cowl is coupled with the bypass duct and the heat exchanger assembly. The inlet cowl includes a cowl duct configured to collect a first portion of the bypass air and conduct the first portion of the bypass air into the heat exchanger and a flow diverter that guides a second portion of the bypass air around the heat exchanger.
US12071903B2
A system for bleeding air from a core flow path of a gas turbine engine includes a bleed valve in a bleed air duct configured to receive bleed air from a first entrance point to the core flow path into the bleed air duct; a pressurized air valve in a pressurized air duct configured to receive pressurized air from a second entrance point to the core flow path, the pressurized air at a pressure greater than that received into the first entrance point; an eductor outlet from the pressurized air duct located in the bleed air duct; and a control system operable to control operation of the bleed valve and the pressurized air valve.
US12071902B2
A method of determining an inlet total air pressure includes determining a first parameter indicative of a first inlet total air pressure. The method includes executing a sequence that includes: determining a mass air flow passing through the air inlet based on the first parameter, determining a Mach number of air passing through the air inlet based on the mass air flow, determining a static air pressure at the air inlet, determining an air pressure ratio based on the Mach number, generating a subsequent parameter indicative of the revised inlet total air pressure based on the air pressure ratio and the static air pressure, and substituting the subsequent parameter for the first parameter. The method includes executing at least one additional instance of the sequence with the subsequent parameter, and outputting the subsequent parameter as the inlet total air pressure.
US12071899B2
A pump system for a gas turbine engine including a first pump connected to a fluid flow demand line for delivering fluid to a fluid flow demand and a second pump connected, in parallel to the first pump, to the fluid flow demand line and supplementing fluid to the actuation or burner system based on the fluid flow demand. A pressure regulating valve (PRV) is fluidly connected to the flow demand line for bypassing flow to a pump inlet pressure of the first pump and second pump, and controlling a modulated pressure flow signal to a bypass valve, wherein the bypass valve is in fluid communication with the second pump and the PRV for receiving modulated pressure from the PRV and regulating delivery of fluid from the second pump to a bypass flow line.
US12071893B2
A turbomachine comprising a cone positioned at an upstream end and secured in rotation to the low-pressure shaft, a system for deicing said cone, comprising resistive heating elements positioned in the cone, an energy transfer system, an electrical power source coupled to the high-pressure shaft and connected to the energy transfer system by a set of switches, and a computer configured so as to define a power set point for deicing the cone depending on ambient temperature and pressure data, and on an operating speed of the low-pressure shaft, and, depending on the electrical power supplied by the electrical power source, define a duty cycle of the set of switches to deliver electrical power to the resistive heating elements.
US12071887B2
An engine assembly for a vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and an exhaust system. The exhaust system includes a catalytic converter, a main muffler, a hydrocarbon trap, a pre-muffler disposed upstream from the main muffler and the hydrocarbon trap, and an exhaust path valve. The exhaust path valve is movable between first and second exhaust path positions. The exhaust path valve obstructs a second exhaust path in the first exhaust path position such that exhaust gas flows from an exhaust port of an engine cylinder to the catalytic converter to the main muffler and to the atmosphere. The exhaust path valve obstructs a first exhaust path in the second exhaust path position such that exhaust gas flows from the exhaust port of the engine cylinder to the catalytic converter to the hydrocarbon trap and to the atmosphere.
US12071884B2
A transmission system selectively coupled to an engine crankshaft of an internal combustion engine arranged on a vehicle includes a transmission, an aftertreatment system, an accessory device and a controller. The aftertreatment system reduces emissions in an exhaust of the internal combustion engine. The accessory device is configured to provide power. The controller operates in an aftertreatment heat-up mode such that the aftertreatment system is heated up to an elevated temperature and emissions are thereby reduced based on the elevated temperature. The controller is configured to heat up the aftertreatment system to reach between one (1) and two (2) kilowatt hours (kWh) of enthalpy before two minutes at engine startup by (i) operating the internal combustion engine in cylinder deactivation mode (CDA); (ii) operating the internal combustion engine at an elevated idle speed; and (iii) operating the accessory device at a threshold power.
US12071881B2
The present invention relates to a selective catalytic reduction catalyst comprising a porous wall-flow filter substrate; wherein in the pores of the porous internal walls and on the surface of the porous internal walls, the catalyst comprises a selective catalytic reduction coating comprising a selective catalytic reduction component comprising a zeolitic material comprising one or more of copper and iron. The present invention further relates to a process for preparing a selective catalytic reduction catalyst using particles of a carbon-containing additive and an aqueous mixture comprising said particles of a carbon-containing additive.
US12071874B2
A sound attenuating engine exhaust system and methods are provided for directing exhaust gases away from an internal combustion engine of a vehicle and attenuating undesirable exhaust sounds during engine operation. The sound attenuating engine exhaust system comprises an exhaust inlet configured to receive exhaust gases from the internal combustion engine. A first resonator coupled with the exhaust inlet is configured to dampen at least one frequency of exhaust sound waves by way of destructive wave interference. The first resonator includes an exhaust outlet for directing the exhaust gases out of the first resonator. A second resonator is coupled with the first resonator and configured to dampen one or more frequencies of exhaust sound waves by way of a combination of destructive wave interference and Helmholtz resonance. Hangers facilitate attaching the sound attenuating engine exhaust system to an undercarriage of the vehicle.
US12071871B1
Apparatuses, systems and methods are disclosed including apparatus for a ventilation system for supplying air to a crankcase of an internal combustion engine. The apparatus can optionally include a housing, an air filter, a lid and a pressure relief valve. The housing can form a cavity and having an inlet and an outlet therein. The inlet communicates with the cavity and is offset from a centerline axis of the housing. The air filter can be received by the cavity. An outer circumference of the air filter can be oriented at an angle that is substantially tangent to the inlet. The lid can be attachable to and removable from the housing for selectively accessing the air filter. The pressure relief valve coupled to the housing and in fluid communication with the cavity.
US12071866B1
A power generation system includes an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) electric generator thermally coupled to a stack of industrial heat pumps (IHPs). The ORC requires heat to generate electricity. The IHPs require electricity to generate heat. The IHPs have an efficiency much greater than 100% because some of the output heat from an IHP is pre-existing heat extracted from available source water, The temperature of the source water can be as low as 70° F. By configuring the IHPs to maximize their efficiency, the electricity required to operate the IHPs can be reduced below the output electricity from the ORC. The surplus electricity produced by the ORC is available for export. This coupled ORC/Heat Pump system is an electric generator that requires no fuel to operate and produces no emissions. The required energy is provided by the heat extracted from the source water by the IHPs.
US12071865B2
A bypass turbomachine is disclosed. The turbomachine includes a longitudinal axis having an upstream blower impeller and a downstream air-flow straightening assembly of a secondary annular passage delimited radially on the inside by a radially inner shroud and radially on the outside by a radially outer shroud, blades extending between the radially inner and outer shrouds and being attached at a first end portion to the radially inner shroud and at a second end portion to the radially outer shroud, the blades including a useful portion extending between the first and second end portions and defining a lower face and an upper face. For each blade, in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, each aerodynamically useful portion is bent into a C-shape in the circumferential direction.
US12071862B2
A vibration damping system includes a vibration damping element for a turbine nozzle or blade. A body opening extends through the turbine nozzle or blade between the tip end and the base end thereof, e.g., through the airfoil among potentially other parts of the nozzle or blade. A vibration damping element includes a plurality of stacked plate members within the body opening. Each plate member is in surface contact with at least one adjacent plate member to cause friction that dampens vibration of the nozzle or blade. The body opening has an inner dimension, and each plate member has an outer dimension sized to frictionally engage the inner dimension of the body opening to damp vibration. Plate members may each include a central opening therein, and a fixed elongated body or cable may extend through the central openings. The damping element may alternatively include a helical metal ribbon spring.
US12071860B2
A system includes a casing alignment system configured to align an inner wall with an outer wall of a multi-wall casing of a turbomachine having a rotor. The casing alignment system includes a first alignment positioner configured to bias a first lip of the inner wall in a direction of rotation of the rotor disposed within the multi-wall casing. The alignment positioner may include a spring, a fluid-driven alignment positioner, an electric-driven alignment positioner, or a combination thereof. The alignment positioner may be configured to bias the first lip within a first recess adjacent a first flanged coupling between first and second wall sections of the outer wall.
US12071858B2
Fire retardant engine casing apparatus are disclosed. An example engine casing includes an inner shell circumferentially surrounding blades of a fan, a compressor, or a turbine, an outer shell positioned around the inner shell, and a fire retardant material between the inner shell and the outer shell.
US12071853B2
A turbomachine including a gas generator endowed with a first shaft, a gear box, at least one reversible electric machine coupled to the gear box, and a free turbine endowed with a second shaft and rotationally driven by a gas stream of the gas generator and at least one accessory coupled to the accessory gear box, wherein the turbomachine includes a first mechanical coupling means configured to mechanically couple said first mechanical shaft to the accessory gear box in a first configuration and to mechanically uncouple said first mechanical shaft from the accessory gear box in a second configuration, and a second mechanical coupling means configured to mechanically couple said second mechanical shaft to the accessory gear box in a first configuration and to mechanically uncouple said second mechanical shaft from the accessory gear box in a second configuration.
US12071850B2
A method for producing heavy oil, the method including testing a plurality of samples either from a reservoir play or simulating a reservoir play in a temperature and pressure controlled gravity drainage experiment. Test injection fluids are injected into the samples at a reservoir temperature and pressure and Cumulative Oil Production (COP) or Recovery Factor (RF) or similar feature measured over time. An injection profile is obtained by selecting n injection fluids based on a best COP or RF at a given time Tn, wherein n is a number of fluid injection stages and switching to an n+1 injection fluid when a rate of change (ROC) in the COP or RF drops at least 25%-75%, but preferably 40-60% or 50%. The injection profile is then implemented in the reservoir to produce heavy oil. Optimized injection profiles for certain reservoirs are also provided.
US12071846B2
A method of monitoring a well state with intermittent well state sampling includes determining a measured volume differential by measuring flow out of a wellbore, measuring flow into the wellbore, and calculating a difference between the measured flow out and the measured flow in. The method includes determining an expected volume differential by calculating a fluid volume of the wellbore system, determining a wellbore pressure difference, determining a well system bulk modulus, and multiplying the fluid volume of the wellbore by the wellbore pressure difference and dividing a result by the well system bulk modulus. If the expected volume differential is not substantially equal to the measured volume differential, reporting to the user that the well state is experiencing a significant change requiring user intervention.
US12071844B2
A method for drilling a well includes generating a plurality of proposed drilling actions using a plurality of working agents based on a working environment, simulating drilling responses to the proposed drilling actions using a plurality of validation agents in a validation environment that initially represents the working environment, determining rewards for the proposed drilling actions based on the simulating, using the validation agents, selecting one of the proposed drilling actions, and causing a drilling rig to execute the selected one of the proposed actions.
US12071841B2
A blender power unit (BPU) for use in fracturing jobs. The BPU comprises a transformer having an input and an output and configured to receive electrical power via the input at a first voltage to output electrical power via the output at a second voltage; a motor power bus coupled to the output of the transformer; a motor starter bus; at least one motor soft starter having an input coupled to the motor power bus and having an coupled to the motor starter bus; a plurality of electric power relays coupled to the motor power bus and configured to supply electric power from the motor power bus to a load when in a closed state; and a plurality of start electric power relays coupled to the motor starter bus and configured to supply electric power from the motor starter bus to a load when in a closed state.
US12071828B2
A subsea tree including a fluid swivel, the fluid swivel comprising: (a) a fixed inner body defining an inlet for fluid communication with a production conduit fora subsea well; (b) a rotatable outer body defining an outlet and an attachment point for fluid communication with a riser; (c) a first interface between the fixed inner body and the rotatable outer body defining a fluid chamber in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet; and (d) a first seal between the fixed inner body and the rotatable outer body; wherein, when the fluid swivel is attached to the riser, the riser is capable of rotational movement around the subsea tree.
US12071826B2
A method for operating an apparatus for installing a tubing hanger in a subsea wellhead or X-mas tree without hydraulic cables from the surface and without valves for controlling hydraulic functions. The method includes: providing an apparatus for installing the tubing hanger; preparing the apparatus for installation; actuating the tubing hanger's locking function via pressurized completion fluid that causes direct actuation of ring pistons that are arranged to operate the locking sleeve and the locking segments of the tubing hanger; verifying the tubing hanger is locked; and releasing the apparatus mechanically or hydraulically from the installed tubing hanger.
US12071822B2
A system can be used for generating a pressure signal in a flow path defined by a tubular. The system can include a pressure source, a valve, and a controller. The controller can output a command to control the pressure source for outputting a fluid hammer, according to the command, through the valve and into a flow path defined by a wellbore tubular. The system can be positioned external to the flow path. The system can determine, based on the reflection signal, a presence of a deposition, a blockage, or a leak within the flowline while the flowline is in operation.
US12071819B2
A technique facilitates assembly of well equipment at a wellsite. To help lift certain types of well tools, a mounting frame may be releasably coupled to a well string, e.g. a coiled tubing string. A cable guide and a cable attachment member may be releasably coupled to a well tool which is to be moved into engagement with the well string. A cable may be routed from the cable attachment member, through the cable guide, to a cable mounting feature of the mounting frame, and to a winch. The winch is operable to draw in the cable so as to move the well tool into alignment with and up into engagement with a connector of the well string.
US12071815B2
Provided is a whipstock and well system. The whipstock, in one aspect, includes a coupling section having a first radius of curvature, the coupling section configured to engage with a mill bit when running in hole. The whipstock, in accordance with this aspect, further includes a casing breakthrough section having a second radius of curvature, and a controlled exit section having a third radius of curvature, wherein the second radius of curvature is less than the third radius of curvature.
US12071811B2
Systems and methods for configuring a user device to remotely control a plurality of architectural structural coverings are described. A user device receives a plurality of broadcast signals from a plurality of architectural structural coverings. Each individual broadcast signal is associated with an individual architectural structural covering and relays position information for the individual architectural structural covering. Each broadcast signal is also associated with an individual entry in a list of entries displayed on a user interface of the user device. Each entry comprises a representation of an architectural structural covering having a displayed position that matches position information from the broadcast signal and a position control for controlling a physical position of the associated architectural structural covering. When a user adjusts the position via the position control, an adjusted position instruction is sent to the associated architectural structural covering. The displayed position of the representation on the UI is changed to mirror a change in the physical position of the architectural structural covering as the user device observes broadcast position data from the architectural structural covering.
US12071810B2
A glazing unit with a glass panel that is low in reflectance for RF radiation, a coating system that is high in reflectance for RF radiation disposed on the glass panel and creating onto the glazing unit a dual band bandpass filter. The glazing unit further features at least one frequencies selective decoated portion of the coating system extending along a plane, P, defined by a longitudinal axis, X, and a vertical axis, Z; having a width, DW, measured along the longitudinal axis, X, and a length, DL, measured along the vertical axis, Z. The frequencies selective decoated portion includes a first decoated element with a plurality of unit cells forming a regular grid, and a plurality of second decoated elements wherein a second decoated element is placed in each unit cell of the first decoated element and no second decoated element is in contact with the first decoated element.
US12071807B2
In an aspect, an insulation kit for insulating an interior side of a window is provided. The window includes a window pane and a window frame having a window aperture in which the window pane is mounted, and at least one surface on the interior side of the window which extends around an exterior edge of the window aperture. The insulation kit includes a adhesive member and a sheet of insulating, biodegradable film sized to be mounted to a surface of the window frame by the adhesive member so as to cover the window aperture, and being heat shrinkable to form an airtight seal, insulating the window pane on the interior side of the window. The sheet of film is constructed to be mounted to the at least one surface of the window frame for a period of at least four months before degradation of the film occurs.
US12071792B2
A door latch device includes: a first position switch and a second position switch, each including a first contact hole, a second contact hole, and a common contact hole; a common pin configured to be electrically conducted to the common contact hole of the first position switch and the first contact hole of the second position switch by being inserted therein; a first signal pin configured to be electrically conducted to the first contact hole of the first position switch by being inserted therein; and a second signal pin configured to be electrically conducted to the common contact of the second position switch by being inserted therein, wherein the first position switch and the second position switch are configured to perform a switch operation at a same timing of an operation of a predetermined operation detection target.
US12071787B2
A electric unlocking device for a push bar latch, comprising: a base frame having an external sliding slot; a linear motor having a stepping stud, the stepping stud is equipped with a stud return spring, and the stepping stud has a binding rod; an unlocking unit having a pair of side plate and an end plate, the side plate has a pair of internal sliding slot, and the end plate has a non-circular hole; a binding unit having a limit oval head rivet and a non-circular barrel, the non-circular barrel sets through the non-circular hole and makes the limit oval head rivet arranged inside the unlocking unit, and makes the non-circular barrel combine with the binding rod, sleeves a buffer spring on the non-circular barrel; and an unlocking connecting rod, the outer end is combined with the push bar returning unit, and the inner end is provided with an unlocking pin.
US12071777B2
A foldable safety gate apparatus for use in relation to a hoist or lift, comprising: a main safety gate body, said main safety gate body comprising: a gate frame forming an opening; and a gate, wherein the gate frame holds said gate within the opening for preventing entry into a hoist car; a cantilever platform, said cantilever platform comprising: a supporting arm for securing to a slab; and two or more load points or securing the cantilever platform to the slab; wherein, when in a deployed state, the main safety gate body is substantially perpendicular to the cantilever platform, and, when in a collapsed state, the main safety gate body rests substantially parallel to the cantilever platform.
US12071773B2
This application discloses a flooring edge finish that includes a flexible strip having an adhesive affixed to a top surface of the flexible strip and a hinge, wherein the hinge is a gap or an absence of the adhesive or a lower amount of the adhesive, on a portion of the top surface of the flexible strip, and wherein the flooring edge finish is upwardly foldable along the hinge to bind, protect, and conceal a flooring edge.
US12071770B2
A floor panel for forming a floor covering, wherein this floor panel is at least composed of a substrate; wherein the floor panel, on at least one pair of opposite edges, comprises coupling parts, which coupling parts allow that two of such floor panels can be coupled to each other by means of a downward movement of one floor panel in respect to the other floor panel; wherein these coupling parts, in the coupled condition of two of such floor panels, form a first locking system, which effects a locking in a first direction perpendicular to the plane of the floor panels, and form a second locking system, which effects a locking in a second direction perpendicular to the edges and in the plane of the floor panels.
US12071757B2
The present invention provides an improvement for toilet fixtures that reduces the amount of wastewater that splashes out of a toilet during its use. This reduction in splashing reduces the odor and unsanitary conditions that frequently occur on and around a toilet. Advantageously, the invention allows a user to temporarily change an existing fixture to function similarly to a urinal and then return the fixture to its function as a toilet for both liquid and solid waste removal.
US12071755B2
A floor drain structure includes a floor drain cover plate and a floor drain body. The floor drain body includes an upper end portion and a lower end portion, the upper end portion of the floor drain body is provided with a first mounting portion at a middle position in an upward extending manner, the floor drain cover plate is movably connected to the first mounting portion, and a hair collection structure is fixedly arranged at the lower end portion of the floor drain body. According to the present invention, the upturned floor drain cover plate can draw the floor drain body out, which is simple in operation and convenient in use; soft material will not cause collision damage to a human body; and a staggered cross bar structure of the present invention can make hairs conveniently wound, avoiding blockage of drain holes.
US12071754B2
A bath waste and overflow drain system of the present disclosure may comprise both drain and overflow assemblies. The drain assembly generally includes a drain elbow, drain gasket, drain spud, drain trim, and drain stopper. The drain trim may possess weep channels that urge stagnated water from a periphery of the drain spud and into the drain. The overflow assembly generally includes an overflow elbow, overflow gasket, retaining nut, and overflow faceplate. The overflow faceplate may have bayonet channels that engage with a protrusion of the overflow elbow so as to accommodate variances in tub design when effecting an installation. The system according to an embodiment may also comprise test plugs of the overflow and drain varieties which are, together, operable to permit pressure-related tests of the system prior to completing an installation. The overflow and drain test plugs are simple to manipulate and install/remove with quick-engaging, complementary locking features.
US12071741B2
A shovel includes a lower traveling structure, an upper swing structure swingably mounted on the lower traveling structure, an attachment attached to the upper swing structure and including a boom, an arm, and a bucket, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to cause the shovel to automatically perform work by causing the upper swing structure and the attachment to automatically operate. The work is at least one of the work of banking earth and the work of filling with earth.
US12071731B2
The present disclosure relates to a molding station (20) for molding (210), a preforming station (30) for preforming (220), a hot-pressing station (40) for final shaping (230) a formed part (10) made of environmentally-friendly-degradable fiber material (11) in a fiber-forming process in a fiber-forming system (100). The fiber-forming system (100) produces the formed part (10) having the above components (20, 30, 40) by means of the method (200) performed in the fiber-forming system (100) as a fiber-forming process.
US12071729B2
A fibrous structure may include a plurality of wetformed knuckles or pillows, where the wet-formed knuckles or pillows of the pattern may form a plurality of rows oriented in an X-direction and/or a Y-direction, and the plurality of rows may be curved in a repeating wave pattern, where the repeating wave pattern may have an amplitude and a wavelength, and wherein the amplitude may be between about 0.75 mm and about 3.0 mm, and the wavelength may be between about 25.0 mm and about 125.0 mm.
US12071719B2
A detergent feeding device includes a water box and a feeding box in the water box. A downpipe is arranged inside the feeding box and vertically penetrating through an upper side and a lower side. An upper end and a lower end of the downpipe are respectively located at the upper side and the lower side of the feeding box, to guide residual water on a top surface of the feeding box to a bottom of the water box below the feeding box via the downpipe. Through this arrangement, residue of water on the top surface of the feeding box is avoided, and the residual water is prevented from leaking to the outside of the washing machine when the user pulls the feeding box out.
US12071709B2
A raw material gas is supplied to a space in which a silicon carbide seed crystal is placed. A silicon carbide single crystal is grown on the seed crystal by keeping a monosilane partial pressure at 4 kPa or more and heating the space to a temperature of 2400° C. to 2700° C. The temperature of the space and supply of the raw material gas are controlled such that a temperature gradient of a growth crystal surface of the silicon carbide single crystal in a radial direction is 0.1° C./mm or less, and a radius of curvature of the growth crystal surface is 4.5 m or more, thereby producing a silicon carbide single crystal ingot having a growth length of 3 mm or more and an internal stress of 10 MPa or less. The ingot is then cut into a silicon carbide single crystal wafer.
US12071705B2
Methods for forming a unitized crucible assembly for holding a melt of silicon for forming a silicon ingot are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods involve a porous crucible mold having a channel network with a bottom channel, an outer sidewall channel that extends from the bottom channel, and a central weir channel that extends from the bottom channel. A slip slurry may be added to the channel network and the liquid carrier of the slip slurry may be drawn into the mold. The resulting green body may be sintered to form the crucible assembly.
US12071702B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising one or a mixture of two or more quinoline-polyethylene glycol containing compound, each quinoline-polyethylene glycol containing compound comprising: one to three quinoline group and one or more polyethylene glycol group, wherein, in each said quinoline-polyethylene glycol containing compound, one to three of said one to three quinoline group is connected via one or more oxygen atom of said one or more polyethylene glycol group via carbon 6 or carbon 8 of said one to three quinoline group.
US12071701B2
A plating system is provided. The plating system includes an electroplating chamber defining a plating region within which a wafer is plated. The electroplating chamber includes an inlet configured to introduce plating solution into the plating region of the electroplating chamber. The electroplating chamber includes an outlet configured to remove the plating solution from the plating region of the electroplating chamber. The plating system includes a barrier configured to inhibit removal of the plating solution from the plating region.
US12071697B2
Methods for forming a metal oxide electrolyte include applying a metal compound to a first material in powder form thereby forming a slurry, applying the slurry to an electrode, and converting at least some of the metal compound to form a metal oxide, thereby forming the metal oxide electrolyte on the electrode. Unexpectedly, the metal oxide electrolyte may have an ionic conductivity greater than the bulk ionic conductivity of the first material and of the metal oxide, possibly because of the nature of the interface between the first material and the metal oxide.
US12071695B2
Provided is a method for increasing magnetic induction intensity of soft magnetic metallic materials. The method includes carburizing or carbonitriding the soft magnetic metallic materials with carbon source or a carbonitriding agent by a heat treatment process, to increase the magnetic induction intensity of the soft magnetic metallic materials, wherein the soft magnetic metallic materials are amorphous materials, nanocrystals, silicon steel, or pure iron.
US12071685B2
A method of coating particles includes dispensing particles into a vacuum chamber to form a particle bed in at least a lower portion of the chamber that forms a half-cylinder, evacuating the chamber through a vacuum port in an upper portion of the chamber, rotating a paddle assembly such that a plurality of paddles orbit a drive shaft to stir the particles in the particle bed, injecting a reactant or precursor gas through a plurality of channels into the lower portion of the chamber as the paddle assembly rotates to coat the particles, and injecting the reactant or precursor gas or a purge gas through the plurality of channels at a sufficiently high velocity such that the reactant or precursor a purge gas de-agglomerates particles in the particle bed.
US12071683B2
The present disclosure relates to a clamping device configured to clamp a substrate. The clamping device includes a clamping plate and a flattening mechanism. The flattening mechanism includes at least one adjusting member configured to operably act on the clamping plate to apply a force to the clamping plate to flatten the clamping plate.
US12071682B2
A steel sheet having a specified chemical composition and a tensile strength of 1,320 MPa or more, and methods for producing the steel sheet. The steel sheet has a specified microstructure including martensite and bainite, the total area fraction of the martensite and the bainite being 92% or more and 100% or less, the balance being one or more selected from ferrite and retained austenite. The forumulae [% Ti]+[% Nb]>0.007 and [% Ti]×[% Nb]2≤7.5×10−6 are satisfied in the chemical composition.
US12071681B2
A method for smelting low-phosphorus high-manganese steel based on reduction dephosphorization of ferromanganese is provided in the present application, relating to the technical field of high-manganese steel smelting, where the dephosphorization of ferromanganese is carried out under reducing atmosphere conditions through mediate-frequency induction furnace to obtain molten ferromanganese with lower phosphorus content, which is subsequently mixed with low phosphorus molten steel obtained by smelting in oxidative period of electric arc furnace in LF ladle refining furnace to make the Mn content of steel reach the requirement of high-manganese steel, and smelting is carried out under the condition of reducing atmosphere by adjusting the composition and temperature of the molten steel to meet the requirements of the target composition of the steel grade before tapping the steel.
US12071679B2
A method for the manufacturing of an object. The method includes receiving a desired alloy composition for the object, depositing a plurality of foils in a stack to form the object, applying heat to the stack at a first temperature to bond the plurality of foils to each other, and applying heat to the stack at a second temperature to homogenize the composition of the stack. The homogenized stack has the desired alloy composition.
US12071678B2
A non-limiting embodiment of a titanium alloy comprises, in weight percentages based on total alloy weight: 2.0 to 5.0 aluminum; 3.0 to 8.0 tin; 1.0 to 5.0 zirconium; 0 to a total of 16.0 of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of oxygen, vanadium, molybdenum, niobium, chromium, iron, copper, nitrogen, and carbon; titanium; and impurities. A non-limiting embodiment of the titanium alloy comprises an intentional addition of tin and zirconium in conjunction with certain other alloying additions such as aluminum, oxygen, vanadium, molybdenum, niobium, and iron, to stabilize the α phase and increase the volume fraction of the α phase without the risk of forming embrittling phases, which was observed to increase room temperature tensile strength while maintaining ductility.
US12071677B2
The inventions described herein provide methods and systems for recycling lithium iron phosphate batteries, including: adding an oxidizing agent to a recycling stream of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries to form a leach solution; filtering the leach solution to remove a residue and obtain a lithium rich solution; modifying pH of the lithium rich solution for filtering impurities and obtaining a purified Li solution; and adding a precipitant to the purified Li solution thereby precipitating a lithium compound.
US12071670B2
A method for determining in vitro or ex vivo the immune status of an individual, preferably a patient, including a step of detecting and/or quantifying the expression of one or more HERV/MaLR sequences in a biological sample of the individual. Also relates to the tools for implementing the method and to the uses thereof.
US12071666B2
The present invention provides genetic markers on human chromosome 6 that are associated with a beneficial response to a treatment that targets Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) toxin B (TcdB), e.g. a TcdB antibody. These TcdB treatment response markers are useful, inter alia, to identify patients who are most likely to benefit from treatment that targets TcdB in methods of treating patients having a disease susceptible to treatment with a TcdB antibody, and in methods for selecting the most appropriate therapy for such patients. The invention also provides antibodies, drug products, and kits useful with the TcdB Treatment response markers of the invention.
US12071665B2
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compositions and methods for amplification of nucleic acid templates, including hybridizing a linear polynucleotide to an immobilized primer on a surface, circularizing the linear polynucleotide to form a circular polynucleotide, and extending the primer with a polymerase.
US12071659B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for tagging long fragments of a target nucleic acid for sequencing and analyzing the resulting sequence information in order to reduce errors and perform haplotype phasing, for example.
US12071658B2
The subject matter of the present invention is a microfluidic process for treating and analysing a solution containing a biological material, comprising a step of introducing the solution into microchannels of a microfluidic circuit (1), a step of forming drops of this solution, under the effect of modifications of the surface tension of the solution, a step of moving the drops to one or more drop storage zones(s) (130), under the effect of modifications of the surface tension of the drops, a step of treating the drops and a step of analysing the drops.
US12071654B2
Provided herein are methods of normalizing nucleic acid libraries. The method uses nucleic acid probes with nucleic acid sequences that are complementary to one or more of these adaptor sequences are added to the nucleic acids libraries. The probes can hybridize to the adaptor sequences in the single stranded nucleic acid molecules derived from the libraries to form hybridization complexes. The probes are conjugated to a first binding member, which can interact with a second binding member that is conjugated to solid supports. The solid supports can then be collected and the single stranded nucleic acid molecules can be recovered in a volume of elution buffer to reach a desired concentration. As compared to standard methods, the methods are more efficient and cost-effective.
US12071653B2
The disclosure provides methods for sequencing nucleic acids using, including with nucleotide analogs and subsequently appended labels.
US12071643B2
The present invention relates to variants of a parent alpha-amylase having an improved wash performance when compared to the parent alpha-amylase. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants, nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides, and method of producing the variants of the present invention.
US12071640B2
Materials and methods for gene editing using improved targeted endonucleases and endonuclease systems (e.g., Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) endonuclease systems) are provided herein.
US12071639B2
A polynucleotide encoding a ThermoCas9 protein from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans and a constitutive promoter are used to engineer eukaryotic cells, e.g. fungi, yeast or algae, so that the ThermoCas9 endonuclease is integrated and expressed from the genome of the cell. Then, a second expression plasmid is used to transfect these ThermoCas9 expressing cells, the second plasmid containing an inducible promoter and a polynucleotide encoding a guide RNA. The guide RNA combines with the ThermoCas9 to provide the targeted endonuclease activity to cleave the cell DNA at a desired locus or gene of interest. A repair-oligo is also provided to the cell whereby following DNA cleavage, homologous recombination takes place in the cell with the repair-oligo so that either a deletion or substitution of nucleotides in the locus or gene of interest is achieved. Expression vectors and methods of using the vectors to achieve ThermoCas9 mediated gene editing are described whereby higher temperatures, e.g. greater than 30° C., are used.
US12071630B2
Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.
US12071628B2
The present invention provides novel DNA molecules and constructs, including their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants and plant cells. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, seeds, and commodity products comprising the DNA molecules operably linked to heterologous transcribable polynucleotides, along with methods of their use.
US12071622B2
The present disclosure provides compositions comprising miR-3132 and one or more pharmaceutical agents that upregulate TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) or activate TRAIL signaling pathway, and methods for treating a cancer comprising administering miR-3132, or a composition comprising miR-3132 and one or more pharmaceutical agents that upregulate TRAIL or activate TRAIL signaling pathway, to a subject.
US12071619B2
The invention relates to RNAi agents, e.g., double-stranded RNAi agents, targeting the Serpina1 gene, and methods of using such RNAi agents to inhibit expression of Serpina1 and methods of treating subjects having a Serpina1 associated disease, such as a liver disorder.
US12071607B2
The present disclosure is directed to the organic growth and phasing design for a system for the industrial growth of biologics. A system may include a number of subsystems, such as a buffer distribution subsystem, a media preparation subsystem, a bioreactor subsystem, a harvest subsystem, and/or a purification subsystem. The subsystems may be highly interconnected for flexible process flow design. Additionally, the subsystems may be constructed with a total output capacity with a total number of equipment stations and operated at a lower output capacity with fewer than the total equipment stations to maintain headroom for growth in phases.
US12071598B2
The present disclosure relates methods and systems for refining grain oil compositions using water, and related compositions produced therefrom. The present disclosure also relates to methods of using grain oil derived from a fermentation product in an anti-foam composition and/or feedstock to make diesel.
US12071592B2
A multi-stage process for the production of a Product Heavy Marine Fuel Oil compliant with ISO 8217: 2017 as a Table 2 residual marine fuel from a high sulfur Feedstock Heavy Marine Fuel Oil compliant with ISO 8217: 2017 as a Table 2 residual marine fuel except for the sulfur level, involving hydrotreating under reactive distillation conditions in a Reaction System composed of one or more reaction vessels. The reactive distillation conditions allow more than 75% by mass of the Process Mixture to exit the bottom of the reaction vessel as Product Heavy Marine Fuel Oil. The Product Heavy Marine Fuel Oil has a maximum sulfur content (ISO 14596 or ISO 8754) less than 0.5 mass %. A process plant for conducting the process for conducting the process is disclosed.
US12071570B2
Provided herein are multilayer tape constructions comprising a damping layer and a bonding layer, wherein the multilayer tape construction effectively dissipates vibrations at low temperatures. The materials and configurations of the layers are selected such that the glass transition temperature of the bonding layer is greater than the glass transition of the damping layer, and the difference between the glass transition temperatures is related to the relative thicknesses of the damping layer and the bonding layer. The multilayer tape constructions may further comprise a carrier layer. Also provided are systems and methods using the disclosed multilayer tape constructions.
US12071566B2
Radiation curable compositions for additive fabrication are described and claimed. Such compositions are particularly suited for investment casting applications, and include a cationically polymerizable component, a radically polymerizable component, a certain type of prescribed antimony-free, sulfonium salt-based cationic photoinitiator, and a free-radical photoinitiator. In other embodiments, the composition may also include a photosensitizer and/or a UV/absorber. Also described and claimed is a method for using a liquid radiation curable resin for additive fabrication with a certain type of prescribed antimony-free, sulfonium salt-based cationic photoinitiator and a certain type of prescribed photosensitizer in an investment casting process.
US12071565B2
The present invention relates to a display device, in particular a backlit display device having a visible side and a back side, which appears opaque in colour and texture on viewing of the visible side without backlighting, but, with the backlighting switched on, is sufficiently transparent that the transmission of information by the light source from the back side is possible, and to the production of a display device of this type and to the use thereof.
US12071564B2
Disclosed are a method of producing an electrochromic composition capable of diversifying colors, an electrochromic composition produced thereby, and an electrochromic device including the electrochromic composition. The electrochromic composition may be produced through a solution direct reaction using an electro-spray machine including two nozzles symmetrically inclined toward a central axis. The method may include preparing, respectively, a first coating composition comprising a first electrochromic compound and a second coating composition comprising a second electrochromic compound; loading, respectively, the first coating composition and the second composition into an electro-spray machine; spraying the first coating composition and the second coating composition under application of a voltage to the electro-spray device; and forming a electrochromic composition by reacting the first electrochromic compound with the second electrochromic compound during spraying.
US12071560B2
The present disclosure provides for an aqueous coating composition to coat and form a film on porous construction materials to help in controlling efflorescence in the porous construction materials. The aqueous coating composition includes a binder having an acrylic polymer in an acrylic polymer waterborne dispersion, wherein the acrylic polymer has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 1° C. to 60° C.; and an alkoxy silane coalescing agent in a waterborne silane coalescing emulsion. The aqueous coating composition optionally further includes an additive selected from the group consisting of a pigment, a filler and combinations thereof. In one embodiment, the alkoxy silane coalescing agent provides the only coalescing agent for the acrylic polymer waterborne dispersion in the aqueous coating composition.
US12071556B2
Provided is a curable ink composition, in particular a curable inkjet ink composition. The ink composition has a dye monomer, a carrier monomer and an initiator. The dye monomer has a chromophore moiety that is covalently bonded to at least one polymerizable functional group and is present at 1.0 wt % or more based on total weight of the ink composition. The carrier monomer has at least one polymerizable functional group and is present in at 50 wt % or more based on total weight of the ink composition. The ink compositions are suitable for radiation curing such as UV curing and have good cure properties or light fastness properties.
US12071552B2
There is an alcohol-based dry erasable ink for writing instrument having as separating agent, more specifically as the only separating agent, a mixture of a pentaerythritol tetraester (a1), a fatty acid monoester (a2) and a fatty acid diester (a3). There also is a writing instrument having an alcohol-based dry erasable ink.
US12071547B2
Automated oligonucleotide synthesis-compatible sulforhodamine dye phosphoramidite compounds and labeled polynucleotides incorporating these dyes are provided.
US12071546B2
A wax composition that improves at least one of traction or a grip of sporting equipment comprises: 1-98 wt. % of a primary wax component, wherein the primary wax component is not derived from petroleum, is not synthetic, is not derived from a mineral, is not derived from an animal, and is not derived from an annual plant; 1-40 wt. % of a softening agent; and at least one of a) above 0-40 wt. % of a tackifier or b) above 0-70 wt. % of a filler.
US12071545B2
A high-modulus rubber composition is based on at least a diene elastomer, a reinforcing filler, from 1 to 45 phr of reinforcing resin, from 1 to 10 phr of sulfur, and from 0.5 to 15 phr of vulcanization accelerator having a vulcanization initiation time, referred to as “t0”, of less than 3 minutes, said composition comprising no vulcanization accelerator having a “t0” of greater than or equal to 3 minutes or comprising less than 2 phr thereof.
US12071544B2
The invention relates to a radiation-curable silicone composition for additive-manufacturing technology comprising mercapto-functional polyorganosiloxane(s) as Component A, organosiloxane(s) with at least two aliphatic unsaturated carbon-carbon moieties as Component B, photo-initiator(s) as Component C for initiating a curing reaction between Component A and Component B, dye(s) as Component D dissolved in mercapto-functional polyorganosiloxane(s) as Component E, the mercapto-functional polyorganosiloxane(s) having a fraction of (mercaptoalkyl)methylsiloxane units of at least 50 mol %, wherein Component D is dissolved in Component E before Component D is combined with the other components of the radiation-curable silicone composition. The invention also relates to a process of producing a radiation-curable composition wherein the process comprises the steps of providing a solution of dye(s) in a composition comprising mercapto-functional polyorganosiloxane(s) having a fraction of (mercaptoalkyl)methylsiloxane units of at least 50 mol %, combining the solution containing the dye(s) dissolved in the mercapto-functional polyorganosiloxane(s) with mercapto-functional polyorganosiloxane(s), organosiloxane(s) with at least two aliphatic unsaturated carbon-carbon moieties, photo-initiator(s) for initiating a curing reaction between Component A and Component B, optionally filler(s), stabilizer(s) and additive(s).
US12071541B2
Provided is a thermoplastic resin composition for refrigerant transporting piping having high barrier properties, flexibility, and good extrusion processability. The thermoplastic resin composition for refrigerant transporting piping is composed of: a matrix containing a thermoplastic resin; and a domain containing a rubber dispersed in the matrix, and is characterized in that the thermoplastic resin has a melting point of 150° C. or higher, the rubber is a butyl-based rubber or an olefin-based rubber, the matrix contains a viscosity stabilizer, the thermoplastic resin composition contains a processing aid and at least one selected from the group consisting of a phenylenediamine-based anti-aging agent, a quinoline-based anti-aging agent, and a trihydric alcohol having a triazine skeleton, and at least a portion of the rubber is crosslinked.
US12071538B2
A transparent antistatic composition based on polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), including: 55% to 99.9% by weight of PMMA, and 0.1% to 45% by weight of at least one polyamide (PA) block-containing and polyether (PE) block-containing copolymer (PEBA) including polyethylene glycol (PEG), with respect to the total composition weight, said copolymer being characterized in that it includes in the range 50% to 80% by weight of PEG with respect to the total weight of copolymer.
US12071526B2
The embodiments relate to a polyamide-based film excellent in optical properties such as transmittance, haze, and yellow index and mechanical properties such as modulus and thickness uniformity, to a process for preparing the same, and to a cover window and a display device comprising the same. The polyamide-based film comprises a polyamide-based polymer and has an XRD pattern comprising a first peak whose highest point is located in a section where 2θ is 14° to 16°.
US12071525B2
The present disclosure relates to a polyester film and a preparation method of the same. Since the polyester film includes a resin layer formed from a mixture comprising a polyester resin, which includes a first diol moiety derived from isosorbide and a second diol moiety derived from cyclohexanedimethanol in a controlled ratio, and polyethylene terephthalate in a specific ratio, it is possible to exhibit improved heat resistance and adhesion with excellent light transmittance.
US12071516B2
The disclosure pertains to the field of treatment of patients with implantable delivery devices for long-term release of therapeutic agents. In particular, the disclosure provides devices and methods for the stabilization of the therapeutic agents inside the device for the duration of the implantation. The devices control the long-term release of the therapeutic agents by using a nanoporous membrane. The stabilization is achieved by using high-molecular weight stabilizers of a size that is larger than the diameter of the pores of the membrane, thereby preventing the release of the stabilizers.
US12071515B2
The present invention, in one aspect, relates to monomers and photopolymers that exhibit a high refractive index. The photopolymers of the invention have properties suitable for fabricating holographic optical elements (HOEs).
US12071504B2
Provided is a polyester polyol that can be used for forming a polyurethane excelling in durability and solvent resistance. A polyester polyol of the present invention is represented by Formula (1) and has a molecular weight distribution of less than 1.2: In Formula (1), R1 and R2 represent, identically or differently a divalent hydrocarbon group, and n is an integer. R3 to R7 represent, identically or differently a hydrogen atom, a monovalent hydrocarbon group, or a group represented by Formula (2): In Formula (2), m and s represent, identically or differently an integer of 1 or greater. 2m occurrences of R8 represent, identically or differently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an alkoxy group. Note that at least two of the groups represented by R3 to R7 are represented by Formula (2):
US12071492B2
A styrene resin having a syndiotactic structure, with an endothermic amount in a range of 175 to 260° C. of less than 30% based on the total endothermic amount, and a styrene resin composition containing 50 to 95% by mass of a thermoplastic resin composition and 5 to 50% by mass of a glass filler, the thermoplastic resin composition containing 100 parts by mass containing 80 to 100% by mass of a styrene resin having a syndiotactic structure and 0 to 20% by mass of a rubbery elastic material, 0.2 to 2.0 parts by mass of at least one kind of an antioxidant selected from a phenol-based antioxidant and a sulfur antioxidant, 1.5 to 5.0 parts by mass of at least one kind of a compound selected from a polyphenylene ether or a modified polyphenylene ether, and at least one kind selected from a nucleating agent or a release agent.
US12071489B2
Crosslinked nucleotide polymers. A crosslinked nucleotide polymer may be formed by reaction of a biomass comprising DNA and/or RNA with one or more crosslinker(s). A crosslinked nucleotide polymers may be formed by a crosslinking reaction including an aza-Michael addition reaction. Crosslinked nucleotide polymers may be present in various forms and compositions and form various articles of manufacture. Crosslinked nucleotide polymers may be used in therapeutic methods, coating methods, and cell-free protein production methods.
US12071486B2
The present invention relates to bispecific and other multispecific antigen binding constructs. In certain aspects, the invention relates to bispecific antigen binding constructs comprising a single domain antibody (VHH) antigen binding region fused to an IgG Fc domain; a heavy chain-Fc domain portion of a conventional IgG antibody, and a light chain portion of a conventional IgG antibody. The bispecific antigen binding constructs of the invention are capable of targeting two different antigens separately or in a protein complex.
US12071472B2
The disclosure pertains to antibodies that bind A-beta oligomers and methods of making and using said antibodies.
US12071466B2
The present disclosure provides for chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) that specifically target a human Kallikrein-2 (hK2), and immunoresponsive cells comprising such CARs, for the treatment of cancer.
US12071453B2
Described herein are neuroactive steroids of the Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; wherein -------, R1, R2, R3, A and L are as defined herein. Such compounds are envisioned, in certain embodiments, to behave as GABA modulators. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of the present invention and methods of use and treatment, e.g., such for inducing sedation and/or anesthesia.
US12071446B1
Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) comprising an isoreticular series of MOFs based on face centered cubic (feu) topology. These MOFs can contain a rare earth metal (RE) located at the center and a ligand, for example, terephthalic acid or bipyridine and their extended forms. These MOFs can be combined with single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) to obtain a carbon nanotube (CNT)-metal organic framework (MOF) composite (CNT@MOF). This CNT@MOF is useful for, e.g., removing dyes from wastewater and can be tailored to meet the size of the dye to be removed.
US12071442B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula I, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same for the inhibition of HPK1, and the treatment of HPK1-mediated disorders.
US12071439B2
The present disclosure is related to processes for preparing baricitinib, salts thereof, and related synthetic intermediate compounds and salts thereof.
US12071432B2
Described herein are compounds that are inhibitors of autophagy and their use in the treatment of disorders such as cancers.
US12071430B2
Itraconazole, a widely used antifungal drug, has been found to possess potent anti-angiogenic and anti-hedgehog activities, exhibiting promising antitumor activity in several human clinical studies. The wider use of itraconazole in the treatment of cancer, however, has been limited by its potent inhibition of the drug metabolic enzyme CYP3A4 which causes drug-drug interactions. In an effort to eliminate the CYP3A4 inhibition of itraconazole while retaining its anti-angiogenic activity, we synthesized a series of itraconazole derivatives. The newly synthesized analogs of itraconazole were evaluated for their cytotoxicity against human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) and their inhibitory activity against CYP3A4 enzyme.
US12071425B2
Described herein are phenoxy-pyridyl-pyrimidine compounds with inositol requiring enzyme 1 (IRE1) modulation activity or function having the Formula I structure or stereoisomers, tautomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and with the substituents and structural features described herein. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments that include the Formula I compounds, as well as methods of using such IRE1 modulators, alone and in combination with other therapeutic agents, for treating diseases or conditions that are mediated or dependent upon estrogen receptors.
US12071416B2
The present invention relates to prodrugs of 4-((1R,3S)-6-cloro-3-phenyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl)-1,2,2-trimethylpiperazine in the form of 1a and 1b; and 4-((1R,3S)-6-chloro-3-(phenyl-d5)-2,3-dihydro-1H-inden-1-yl)-2,2′-dimethyl-1-(methyl-d3)piperazine in the form of 2a and 2b, wherein X− is a counter ion, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical composition comprising prodrugs, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, of the invention.
US12071407B1
An 6-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-2-(2-cthoxycthoxy)-4-(4-methoxyphenyl)nicotinonitrile compound, its synthesis, and its use as an antimicrobial agent.
US12071403B2
The present invention describes compounds modulating the function of mitochondrial complex I (NADH-quinone oxidoreductase) having formula (I)
US12071400B2
The present invention describes a selective glycerol oxidation process comprising a set of steps. In the first step, a glycerol-containing raw material and an oxidizing agent are fed into a reaction vessel containing an iron oxide-containing catalyst. Subsequently, the glycerol-containing raw material, the oxidizing agent, and said iron oxide-containing catalyst are brought into contact at a temperature in the range of 100 to 350° C., wherein the glycerol-oxidation reaction occurs.
US12071398B2
A process for catalyzed reaction of CO and H2 into methanol includes the step of reacting the CO and H2 with a catalyst comprising a transition metal and at least one Lewis basic ligand together with at least one nucleophilic promoter so as to produce the methanol as a product.
US12071395B2
A method for producing a carbodiimide compound, comprising a carbodiimide production step of reacting an aliphatic tertiary isocyanate compound (A) in the presence of an inorganic alkali metal compound (B) and at least one of a phase transfer catalyst (C), a compound (D-1) represented by general formula (2-1), and a compound (D-2) represented by general formula (2-2).
US12071391B2
The present disclosure provides industrially scalable methods of making (Z)-endoxifen or a salt thereof, crystalline forms of endoxifin, and compositions comprising them. The present disclosure also provides methods for treating hormone-dependent breast and hormone-dependent reproductive tract disorders.
US12071389B2
The present disclosure relates in its first aspect to a process of converting a stream comprising methane into chemicals, said process being remarkable in that it comprises the steps of providing a first stream (1, 5, 11) comprising methane, providing a second stream (79) which is a bromine-rich stream, putting into contact said first stream (15) with said second stream (79) to obtain a third stream (21) comprising at least unreacted methane, methyl bromide, dibromomethane, and hydrogen bromide and removing said dibromomethane from said third stream (21), to produce a dibromomethane stream (103) and a fourth stream (27) comprising unreacted methane, methyl bromide and hydrogen bromide; wherein the fourth stream (27) is converted into chemicals. In its second aspect, the present disclosure concerns an installation for carrying out the process of the first aspect.
US12071388B2
A full continuous flow synthesis process of fluorine-containing aromatic hydrocarbon compounds. Aromatic amine and hydrogen fluoride are respectively pumped into thermostats A and B, then flow into micro-channel reactor C for salt forming reaction whose temperature is kept constant; sulfuric acid solution of nitrosylsulfuric acid is pumped into thermostat D; after keeping the temperature constant, the sulfuric acid solution of nitrosylsulfuric acid and salt forming product flowing out from the micro-channel reactor C flow into micro-channel reactor E for diazotization reaction; the obtained product flows into micro-channel reactor F for thermal decomposition reaction, is cooled in cooler G, then enters three-phase separator H for continuous separation, fluorine-containing aromatic hydrocarbon crude product is subjected to continuous alkaline washing, drying and rectification to obtain fluorine-containing aromatic hydrocarbon finished product, and mixture of hydrofluoric acid and sulfuric acid is continuously distilled to obtain hydrogen fluoride and sulfuric acid.
US12071381B2
A method includes forming a ceramic matrix composite component by infiltrating an array of ceramic-based fibers with a ceramic-based matrix; forming a plurality of cooling holes in the ceramic matrix composite component; applying a slurry of particles in a carrier fluid to the ceramic matrix composite component such that the slurry passes through the cooling holes and wicks into the ceramic matrix composite material; and processing the ceramic matrix composite component to remove the carrier fluid, thereby leaving a filler at a wall surface of the plurality of cooling holes. A component is also disclosed.
US12071379B2
Certain examples of the present invention relate to a method for manufacturing a ceramic object derived from a 3D printed ceramic structure. The method comprises: carbonising the 3D printed ceramic structure. Such carbonising of the 3D printed ceramic structure may comprise introducing a network of carbon bonding into the 3D printed ceramic structure via: impregnating and/or coating the 3D printed ceramic structure with a carbon precursor, or printing the 3D printed ceramic structure using a ceramic printing medium comprising a carbon precursor. The resultant 3D printed ceramic structure which comprises a carbon precursor is pyrolysed so as to form a network of carbon bonding within/surrounding the 3D printed ceramic structure.
US12071378B2
Disclosed is a method of making high temperature fiber including incorporating an inorganic atom into a polymer precursor fiber to form a modified polymer precursor fiber and converting the modified polymer precursor fiber to a high temperature fiber having a bonded inorganic atom.
US12071377B2
The present disclosure provides a preparation method of a fly ash-based ceramic membrane support, including the following steps: 1) subjecting fly ash to alkali washing and acid washing to obtain pretreated fly ash; 2) blending a raw material including the pretreated fly ash, and then conducting aging and extrusion molding to obtain a green body; and 3) spraying a surface water-retaining agent (including glycerol, tung oil, a diol, and polyethylene glycol) on a surface of the green body to allow static curing in a constant-temperature and constant-humidity environment, and then conducting drying and sintering after the curing is completed. The preparation method can effectively improve molding and sintering performances of the fly ash to obtain a fly ash-based ceramic membrane support with a qualified performance.
US12071375B1
The present disclosure provides a cemented filling material with bionic structure, a preparation method and an application thereof, and belongs to the field of structural modification methods of cemented filling materials and research and development of civil materials with ultra-high energy absorption characteristics. The cemented filling material with bionic structure includes a bionic honeycomb skeleton and cemented filling slurry, where the cemented filling slurry is poured in the bionic honeycomb skeleton.
US12071374B2
A concrete mix, including: cementitious content between 25 and 200 kg/m3; fly ash content between 25 and 175 kg/m3; dirty sand with fine aggregates between 3% and 20%; water content between 150 I/m3 and 250 l/m3; and a chemical admixture comprising one or more components selected from the following: an acrylic, formaldehyde-free polymer-based admixture, modified in aqueous solution; a surfactant admixture configured to entrain micro air bubbles in concrete; and an organic polymer comprising hydrophilic groups for increasing the viscosity of the mixture.
US12071363B2
A glass article includes a central layer including a first crystalline phase having a first coefficient of thermal expansion and a surface layer surrounding an entirety of the central layer and including a second crystalline phase having a second coefficient of thermal expansion smaller than the first coefficient of thermal expansion. Accordingly, the strength of the glass article may be improved.
US12071362B2
The invention relates to a system for producing a particularly rotationally symmetrical glass container, such as a glass syringe, a glass carpule, a glass vial, or a glass ampoule, from a particularly rotationally symmetrical glass tube blank, which defines a rotational axis, comprising a chuck for mounting the glass tube blank in a rotating manner, a length-cutting device for cutting to length glass containers of predetermined length from the glass tube blank, and an air bearing, which is arranged downstream of the chuck and upstream of the length-cutting device, for contactlessly mounting the glass tube blank.
US12071353B2
A process includes supplying a bromide brine and removing organic compounds from the bromide brine. The method also includes acidifying the bromide brine to form a stream containing hydrobromic acid and separating the hydrobromic acid from the stream containing hydrobromic acid.
US12071339B2
A wafer-level package for micro-acoustic devices and a method of manufacture is provided. The package comprises a base wafer with electric device structures. A frame structure is sitting on top of the base wafer enclosing particular device areas for the micro-acoustic devices. A cap wafer provided with a thin polymer coating is bonded to the frame structure to form a closed cavity over each device area and to enclose within the cavity the device structures arranged on the respective device area.
US12071337B2
A liquid dispensing apparatus for dispensing water and a flavored beverage. The dispensing apparatus may dispense chilled drinking water, hot drinking water and/or ambient temperature drinking water. The dispensing apparatus may further dispense a chilled, ambient temperature and/or hot flavored beverage. The flavored beverage may be coffee, tea, hot chocolate or another flavored beverage. The dispensing apparatus may include a replaceable five (5) gallon water bottle stored in a lower portion of the dispensing apparatus or an external source of water. Preferably, the liquid dispensing apparatus dispenses chilled drinking water and hot coffee from a replaceable five (5) gallon water bottle stored in a lower portion of the dispensing apparatus wherein the replaceable five (5) gallon water bottle is stored in an upright orientation, i.e., the discharge port of the replaceable five (5) gallon water bottle is oriented above a bottom of the replaceable five (5) gallon water bottle.
US12071330B2
An exemplary lifting platform for motor vehicles has four supporting arms that are pivotally mounted on a lifting device, especially on two lateral lifting columns, and the free ends of which are movable under support points of a motor vehicle being raised. The supporting arms form a first pair and a second pair of supporting arms. At least the supporting arms of the first pair of supporting arms are adjustable in length and are implemented in the form of rigid supporting arms, which are pivotable solely about their articulation points on the lifting device. The supporting arms of the second pair of supporting arms are in the form of double-jointed arms having an additional articulated joint and, in the retracted state, are typically at least twice as long as the supporting arms of the first pair of supporting arms.
US12071329B1
An insert for an aerial work assembly includes a main body configured to be received in an aerial lift bucket. The main body includes first through fourth sides, each defining an outer sidewall and an inner sidewall. The main body includes a bottom portion connected with the first side, the second side, the third side, and the fourth side. An open top is defined at an upper portion of the main body. An interior space is defined in the main body and receives a user. The extension assembly includes a bottom lip extending from the upper portion of the main body. A connecting sidewall extends upwardly from the bottom lip. An upper lip extends from the connecting sidewall. The extension assembly is configured to extend upwardly to extend a height of the main body with respect to the aerial lift bucket.
US12071321B2
A sheet material detecting device includes a leading end flag, a pair of middle size flags, a pair of large size flags which take stand-by positions and operating positions by contacting a sheet, respectively. Each of middle size flags changes from the stand-by position to the operating position linking with changing to the operating position of each of large size flags. A link is moved from a first position to a second position in a case that both of middle size flags take the operating positions and is restricted in movement to the second position in a case that both of middle size fags do not take the operating portions. A controller detects a width of the sheet base on a timing of the operating position of the leading end flag and a timing of movement of the link from the first position to the second position.
US12071319B2
Disclosed is a film discharging device including a supply unit configured to supply a film product, a branch unit including a branch conveyer configured to transfer a film product supplied from the supply unit, and a conveyer rotating member configured to selectively guide the branch conveyer passing through the branch conveyer to any one of a predetermined first branch path and a predetermined second branch path by rotating the branch conveyer in a predetermined forward direction or a reverse direction opposite to the forward direction to change an alignment angle of the branch conveyer, a first discharging unit configured to discharge the film product guided to the first branch path, and a second discharging unit configured to discharge the film product guided to the second branch path.
US12071317B2
A plastic film roll includes: a convolute cardboard tube including a tubular body having a tubular body wall formed by a plurality of layers of a straight rolled cardboard sheet having a weight equal to or less than 300 gsm; a plastic film wound about the convolute cardboard tube to form a plurality of plastic film windings around the convolute cardboard tube, the plastic film windings creating a radial compression force equal to or greater than 10 bar on the tubular body wall, wherein the cardboard sheet includes a plurality of fibers, at least a majority of the fibers being substantially aligned in a tangential direction relative to the tubular body to allow the convolute cardboard tube to resist the radial compression force.
US12071315B2
In a method for separating a sawn timber pack obtained from one trunk into main yield and side cuttings using a separating conveyor, the sawn timber pack is conveyed in a longitudinal direction via an underside transport device of the separating conveyor. While the single- or multi-piece main yield is supported by the transport device, one or more side boards are separated transverse to the conveying direction using gravitational force and/or external forces, whereby lateral retaining elements are briefly opened for release. In order to be able to process trunks with as large a diameter range as possible, the side boards located on opposing sides of the sawn wood pack are separated in two successive separating stages, whereby the lateral retaining elements of the separating conveyor are opened on one side on a respective release side in the successive separating stages.
US12071308B2
Systems and methods are provided for conveyor operation and maintenance that employ one or both of a “smart shoe” technology where one or more conveyor shoes incorporate features, such as an RFID tag, and a “missing pin detection” technology where one or more pin components of conveyor shoes incorporate features, such as an RFID tag, allowing selective wireless tracking and identification capability. A conveyor system comprises a shoe management system allowing interactions directly with one or more RFID readers, which can detect, store and/or monitor information associated with “smart shoe” and/or “missing pin detection” RFID tags, where interface between this application and the reader can be implemented via a socket interface. An open platform communications (OPC) wrapper can be created around the interface so that a Human Machine Interface (HMI) could interact directly with shoe management system.
US12071307B2
A system and method of order fulfilment is described. The system includes a storage and retrieval system, a transfer system and at least one pick station. The transfer system includes conveyance means disposed between the storage and retrieval system and the pick station such that items delivered to the transfer system from the storage and retrieval system may be conveyed to the pick stations independently of the normal operation of the pick station.
US12071306B2
An automated order fulfillment system is disclosed having different temperature zones and robots and containers capable of and/or configured to work in these different temperature zones.
US12071305B2
The invention relates to a mobile storage system having a mobile container with an automated storage and retrieval system arranged inside. The automated storage and retrieval system has a storage grid structure having vertical members defining multiple columns, such as storage columns for storing storage bins on top of each other in vertical stacks. The vertical members are interconnected at their upper ends by a first rail system arranged to guide at least one bin handling vehicle thereon. The bin handling vehicle is configured to raise storage bins from, and lower storage bins into, the storage columns, and to transport the storage bins above the storage columns. The invention also relates to a method for providing such a system. The invention also relates to a mobile storage system having a plurality of mobile containers connected together and a method for providing such a system.
US12071296B2
A computer server includes processor and memory hardware. The processor hardware executes instructions including parsing a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from a first user agent to identify a first data object matching a set of characteristics and generating a new data element based on the HTTP request. The instructions include, in response to the first data object being present: extracting a first set of serialized data elements and serializing them with the new data element to generate a second data object. The instructions include, in response to the first data object being absent and a user associated with the first user agent being identifiable: determining a second set of serialized data elements based on an identity of the user, and serializing them with the new data element to generate the second data object. The instructions include transmitting an HTTP response including the second data object.
US12071295B2
A laminate has a substrate layer, an intermediate layer, and a fluorine-based resin layer in that order, in which the substrate layer contains any one or more kinds of a polyolefin-based resin, a polyester-based resin or a vinyl-based resin, the intermediate layer contains a polyethylene resin and a modified polyethylene resin, and the intermediate layer has a thickness of 5 μm or more and 50 μm or less.
US12071293B2
A container includes: a skeleton shell defining a container body of the container, the skeleton shell being formed from a recycled and/or biodegradable pulp material; and, a bag or liner removably disposed within the skeleton shell. Wherein the skeleton shell includes at least one separation feature that facilitates separation of the skeleton shell from the bag or liner.
US12071291B2
A carrier for holding a plurality of containers includes an attachment panel having a plurality of container retention openings for at least partially receiving respective containers of the plurality of containers, and container retention features including the plurality of container retention openings and at least one container retention tab in at least partial face-to-face contact with the attachment panel and for being positioned between adjacent containers of the plurality of containers to urge the plurality of containers into engagement with the attachment panel.
US12071285B2
A food jar provides an individual the ability to transport food or drink. The food jar includes a container and a lid. The container has a closed bottom end, an open upper end, and a sidewall defining a receiving space for holding food or drink. The lid is removably connected to the container. The lid includes a stopper having a valve. The stopper is positioned in the open upper end of the container. The valve is configured in the stopper for removing air from the receiving space of the container through an outlet passage through the stopper and then through a channel between the threading of the lid and the container.
US12071275B2
A drinking vessel comprising: a first attachment interface; an electronic display unit having a display screen and comprising a second attachment interface; and a remote control comprising remote control circuitry within a remote control housing; wherein: the first and second attachment interfaces are configured to cooperate to releasably attach the electronic display unit to the drinking vessel; the remote control is operable to wirelessly transmit instructions to the electronic display unit, including instructions relating to the content displayed on the display screen; the remote control housing is resistant to ingress of liquid when submerged in liquid at least up to the maximum depth containable by the drinking vessel; and the remote control housing is resistant to heat so as to protect the remote control circuitry from damage when the remote control housing is submerged in liquids heated to up to 100 degrees Celsius.
US12071273B2
A pallet module configured to allow formation of a nested pallet assembly of at least two similar pallet modules, including a main structural body having a generally quadrilateral peripheral border with first to fourth lateral sides, first and second lateral flanges extending outwardly from the peripheral border along the first and second lateral sides and configured to cooperate with first and second lateral grooves extending inwardly from the peripheral border along the third and fourth lateral sides of another similar pallet module to form the nested pallet assembly, a foot structure disposed on a lower side of the main structural body, and first and second toggle latch components arranged in the vicinity of the first and second lateral sides, respectively, configured to cooperate and releasably interlock with third and fourth toggle latch components arranged in the vicinity of the third and fourth lateral sides, respectively, of another similar pallet module.
US12071272B2
Disclosed herein are fusion packaging and fusion packages. A package includes a frame which provides structure, a sidewall fused to the frame, and a cap connected to one end of the frame. Another package includes a sleeve, a cap fused to one end of the sleeve, and a seal configured to be fused to a remaining end of the sleeve after filling with content. Another package includes a frame, a film fused to the frame, a cap connected to one end of the frame, and a seal connected to another end of the frame, where one of the cap and seal are connected to the frame after material placement. Sealed edges are formed at junctures between a frame, sleeve, or cap and a sidewall or film when frame, sleeve, or cap material embeds with sidewall or film material.
US12071271B2
A holding structure for simultaneously holding containers for pharmaceutical, medical, or cosmetic compositions, includes: at least 10 receptacles for receiving the containers and being formed by side walls; a flat base frame including a central recess; first webs running parallel to each other in a first direction across the central recess; second webs running parallel to each other in a second direction across the central recess, the first webs and the second webs being arranged such that the first webs and the second webs form the side walls, each of the first webs and the second webs being formed as a continuous beam having a maximum waviness wmax of 4.0 mm; and a support structure connected with the first webs and the second webs and being formed as an outer frame or a plurality of stabilizing ribs in a grid pattern.
US12071265B2
A wire locking mechanism (200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700) for a reinforcement bar, rebar, wire tying device (100), the locking mechanism comprising (200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700) a holding member (210, 310) and a counter-holding member (220, 320) arranged to engage respective and opposite sides of a wire (230) to releasably hold the wire (230) in a locking position, where a holding force exerted on the wire (230) by the holding member (210, 310) is normal to a holding plane (A2), wherein the holding member (210, 310) is supported on a first end of an excentre arm (240, 340), the excentre arm (240, 340) being rotatably supported on a first shaft (250, 350) to rotate (R1) about an excentre arm center of rotation (255, 355), wherein the holding member (210, 310) is arranged distanced (D) along a first axis (A1) from the excentre arm center of rotation (255, 355), the first axis (A1) forming an acute angle (A) with the holding plane (A2) when in the locking position.
US12071264B2
There is provided a method for wrapping a load comprising an upper portion defining an upper peripheral surface and a lower portion defining a lower peripheral surface. The method includes configuring a first material dispenser including a first material web in a first starting position and a second material dispenser including a second material web in a second starting position. The method includes and providing a rotation between the load and the material dispensers, such that, upon the rotation, the first material dispenser wraps the upper peripheral surface of the load with the first material web and the second material dispenser wraps the lower peripheral surface of the load with the second material web. The first material dispenser wraps the upper peripheral surface of the load simultaneously while the second material dispenser wraps the lower peripheral surface of the load during at least a portion of a wrapping cycle.
US12071262B2
The present disclosure relates to a robotically controlled satellite refueling tool and associated robotically controlled support and site preparation tools which facilitates on-orbit refueling by teleoperation of fill/drain valves of various designs and dimensions on satellites not originally prepared for on-orbit servicing, through the installation of quick connect safety valves, using vision-based feedback as well as feedback from sensors embedded in the refueling tool to operate a suite of adaptable and adjustable mechanisms. The refueling tool has an open architecture to allow a refueling tool vision system to see the fill/drain valve and the section of the refueling tool that is engaged with the fill/drain valve. The support tools include a blanket cutter tool, a blanket handler tool, a wire cutter tool, a gripper tool, and the site preparation tools include a B-nut removal tool and a crush seal removal tool. Each of these tools includes a common base structure which is interfaced to the end effector of the robotic arm for transmitting rotation and torque to the various tools.
US12071261B2
A drone docking/landing system includes: a docking portion having a shape of any one of a polygonal pyramid, a truncated polygonal pyramid, a cone, and a truncated cone and being capable of docking a drone; and a landing portion mounted at a lower portion of the drone, having a lower portion that is open, into which the docking portion is inserted, and having an empty inner space, wherein the landing portion has a shape of any one of a polygonal pyramid, a truncated polygonal pyramid, a cone, and a truncated cone, wherein the shape corresponds to the shape of the docking portion so that the docking portion is inserted into the landing portion.
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Aircraft engine systems include a core assembly having at least a burner section and a fuel cell configured to generate electrical power. A cryogenic fuel source is configured to supply a fuel through a fuel supply line to each of the burner section and the fuel cell for reaction to generate the electrical power. A system controller is configured to direct fuel to each of the combustor section and the fuel cell. The controller determines if an amount of fuel in the fuel supply line is in excess of that necessary for operation of the core assembly and, based on a determination that excess fuel is present, the controller is configured to direct at least a portion of the excess fuel from the fuel supply line to the fuel cell to generate the electrical power.
