US12105987B2
An electronic system includes: a host; and a storage device configured to exchange data with the host using an interface protocol. The host provides a fault insertion command, including a fault type, a target location, and a fault condition, to the storage device, based on the interface protocol. The storage device performs a fault detection operation, selected based on the fault type among an assert code execution operation, a memory polling operation, an interrupt polling operation, and a latency detection operation, on the target location in response to the fault insertion command, and stores a snapshot of the storage device when the fault condition is detected as a result of performing the fault detection operation. The host obtains the stored snapshot using the interface protocol, and debugs the storage device using the obtained snapshot.
US12105984B2
An exemplary register circuit includes a plurality of slots to store respective addresses and data pairs. During a write operation, each slot of a plurality of slots preceding a particular slot of the plurality of slots indicated as empty is shifted by one slot to fill the particular slot such that a first end slot of the plurality of slots is made available to receive a new write address and data pair. Each slot of the plurality of slots subsequent to the particular slot retains existing address and data pairs.
US12105982B1
Techniques for resynchronizing storage resources of two sites configured for synchronous replication can include tracking in-progress write requests in a map. Responsive to a site failure or a replication link failure resulting in failure or fracture of the synchronous replication, processing can be performed to resynchronize impacted resources of the two sites configured for synchronous replication. The processing can use the in-progress write requests in combination with resource snapshots and snapshot differences to resynchronize the impacted resource of the two sites. In at least one embodiment, the synchronous replication configuration can include active paths between both sites and a host. In at least one embodiment, the synchronous replication configuration can include an active path between the host and one site, and a passive path between the host and the second site. The synchronous replication can be bi-directional or two-way synchronous replication between the two sites.
US12105980B2
A tool for tape library hierarchical storage management. The tool determines there is available tape capacity on a tape cartridge mounted to a tape drive to migrate data from a migration queue during recall operations. The tool sends a locate end of data (EOD) command to the tape drive. The tool determines the migration queue is within a longitudinal position (LPOS) range. The tool writes data from the migration queue to the tape cartridge within the LPOS range.
US12105966B1
Methods and systems for managing systems based on power consumption are disclosed. To operate data processing systems, power may be supplied to the systems. Power supply capacity may be provisioned based on the estimated power consumption for the systems. To estimate the power consumption of the systems, limits on the operation of components of the systems may be taken into account. These limits may reduce the power consumption by the components from nominal power consumption ascribed by a manufacturer. The limits may be caused by the communication architecture or other features of the systems.
US12105960B2
Various embodiments include techniques for performing self-synchronizing remote memory operations in a multiprocessor computing system. During a remote memory operation in the multiprocessor computing system, a source processing unit transmits multiple segments of data to a destination processing. For each segment of data, the source processing unit transmits a remote memory operation to the destination processing unit that includes associated metadata that identifies the memory location of a corresponding synchronization object. The remote memory operation along with the metadata is transmitted as a single unit to the destination processing unit. The destination processing unit splits the operation into the remote memory operation and the memory synchronization operation. As a result, the source processing unit avoids the need to perform a separate memory synchronization operation, thereby reducing inter-processor communications and increasing performance of remote memory operations.
US12105954B2
An LCS data compression/decompression system includes an orchestrator device in a resource system with a host operating system and coupled to a storage system via a network. The orchestrator device receives a read instruction from the host operating system directed to data stored in the storage system and, in response, retrieves and uses a data read decompression policy to select one of the storage system and the orchestrator device to perform data decompression operations on the data. The orchestrator device then provides a data read decompression instruction to the storage system to cause the storage system to provide the data to the orchestrator device such that the orchestrator device provides the data to the host operation system after the one of the storage system and the orchestrator device selected using the data read decompression policy performs the data decompression operations on the data.
US12105946B2
In some implementations, a system may transmit, to a user device associated with a user account, a first set of user interface (UI) data that indicates: a rectangular-shaped element, a track positioned on the rectangular-shaped element and having a first end and a second end, and an interaction element located at the first end of the track and slidable between the first and second ends of the track. The system may receive, from the user device, interaction data indicating an interaction, by a user of the user device, with the interaction element from the first end to the second end of the track. The system may transmit, to the user device, a second set of UI data that indicates: the rectangular-shaped element and an account identifier associated with the user account and positioned on the rectangular-shaped element.
US12105943B2
A controlling method of an electronic apparatus is provided. The controlling method of the electronic apparatus according to an embodiment includes displaying cooking description information for one cooking step from among a plurality of cooking steps included in recipe information, receiving other cooking description information that can replace the displayed cooking description information from an external device, classifying the received other cooking description information according to a predetermined criterion, displaying the classified other cooking description information, and based on one of the displayed other cooking description information being selected, updating the recipe information by replacing the displayed cooking description information with the selected other cooking description information.
US12105942B2
In some embodiments, a device displays functionality information in response to receiving an indication of a first input for which a contact meets functionality display criteria. In some embodiments, a device generates a user interface that includes a navigation bar including images from different positions in a respective content item, and a representation of an adjacent content item. In some embodiments, a device moves a selection-indicator in a user interface by a predefined amount in response to receiving an indication of a first input that meets unitary movement criteria. In some embodiments, a device interprets movement of a contact of an input based at least in part on a grip of a user. In some embodiments, a device displays a plurality of character selection options when a text entry field is not tolerant of character ambiguity and a first input corresponds to a plurality of candidate characters.
US12105934B2
An electronic apparatus including a display; a memory configured to store at least one instruction; and at least one processor connected to the display and the memory, and configured to execute the at least one instruction to: control the display to display a user interface (UI) screen including a plurality of graphical user interface (GUI) items and a focus indicator positioned on a focused GUI item from among the plurality of GUI items; control the display to provide UI feedback on the focus indicator based on a user input to the UI screen being not identified for greater than or equal to a critical time period; and control the display to stepwise change the UI feedback on the focus indicator as a time in which the user input is not identified continues.
US12105924B2
In a display device according to the present disclosure, the display device includes a display panel and an input sensor layer. The display panel includes a display area that includes a first area through which an optical signal passes and a second area by which the optical signal is blocked. The first area includes a first sub-area having a first light transmittance and a second sub-area having a second light transmittance lower than the first light transmittance. The input sensor layer includes a first sensing pattern that overlaps the second area and includes first openings, and a second sensing pattern that overlaps the first area. The second sensing pattern includes second openings that overlap the second sub-area and are larger than the first openings, and at least one third opening that overlaps the first sub-area and is larger than the second openings.
US12105923B2
A touch sensor satisfies three characteristics of rub resistance, bending properties, and suppression of occurrence of a moire. The touch sensor includes a transparent substrate having a display region and a non-display region and a fine metal wire disposed in the display region. A mesh pattern is composed of fine metal wires, and the fine metal wire includes a layer to be plated and a metal layer formed on the layer to be plated in this order from a transparent substrate side. The layer to be plated is a convex shape and includes an organic component as a main component, the fine metal wire has an average line width of 1 to 2.5 μm, and a ratio of the average line width of the fine metal wires to an average line width of layers to be plated is 1.25 to 1.6.
US12105922B2
The touch panel includes a base which has a black matrix thereon, and openings in the black matrix and spaced from each other, the touch panel is divided into first regions and second regions, a portion of a touch structure is arranged in a first part of the openings and in the first regions; a color filter layer is arranged in a second part of the openings and in the second regions; the first regions include first sub-regions and second sub-regions, first electrodes for forming the touch structure are arranged in the first sub-regions, and second electrodes for forming the touch structure are arranged in the second sub-regions; each first electrode include two electrode bodies and a bridge electrode connecting the two electrode bodies together; and an insulating layer is arranged in the first part of the openings and is made of a material of the color filter layer.
US12105920B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device capable of performing a touch input by a touch input device, and a touch input system including the same. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a display device comprising a display unit comprising a plurality of emission areas, a plurality of touch electrodes disposed between the plurality of emission areas to sense a touch, a plurality of code patterns formed by covering a part of a front surface of at least one of the plurality of touch electrodes with a predetermined code shape, and a plurality of light-blocking patterns formed on at least one of the plurality of touch electrodes on which the plurality of code patterns is not formed, to block light, wherein the plurality of light-blocking patterns is formed by covering at least one of a front surface and side surfaces of the at least one touch electrode with a predetermined pattern shape.
US12105919B2
A three-dimensional touch sensor and a display device are provided. The three-dimensional touch sensor determines a position of a touch force by a first capacitance formed by the pressure receiving electrodes and the transmitting electrodes, and determines a magnitude of the touch force by a second capacitance formed between the pressure receiving electrode and the pressure sensing electrode. Therefore, not only the position of the touch force but also the magnitude of the touch force can be determined. Synchronous sensing of the position and the magnitude of the touch force is achieved, which is beneficial to human-computer interaction.
US12105917B2
A touch sensing apparatus is disclosed comprising a panel that defines a touch surface, a plurality of light emitters and detectors arranged along a perimeter of the panel. The light emitters are arranged to emit a respective beam of emitted light that travels above the touch surface, wherein the light detectors are arranged to receive detection light from the emitted light. The plurality of light emitters and detectors are arranged above the touch surface and are connected to a substrate extending in a direction parallel with a normal axis of a plane in which the panel extends. A method of assembling a touch sensing apparatus is also disclosed.
US12105915B2
A display device includes a display unit including pixels. A sensor unit overlaps with the display unit and includes sensors. A sensor driver transmits a driving signal to the sensors, and receives sensing signals corresponding to the driving signal from the sensors. One sensing period includes a first sensing period and a second sensing period. The sensor driver transmits a first driving signal having a first frequency to the sensors in the first sensing period, and transmits a second driving signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency to the sensors in the second sensing period.
US12105904B2
An electronic device includes a signal readout line and a sensor component electrically connected to the signal readout line. The sensor component includes a pixel sensor and a sensor pad. The pixel sensor includes a first transistor, a first capacitor and a second transistor. The first transistor includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a first control terminal. The first capacitor is electrically connected to the first control terminal and the second terminal. The second transistor includes a third terminal, a fourth terminal and a second control terminal. The fourth terminal is electrically connected to the signal readout line. The sensor pad is electrically connected to the second terminal. The pixel sensor includes a third transistor including a fifth terminal, a sixth terminal and a third control terminal. The third control terminal is electrically connected to the second terminal. The sixth terminal is electrically connected to the third terminal.
US12105899B1
A method for estimating stylus position and a stylus are provided. The method includes the following operation. An image is captured towards a display through an image capturing device disposed on a stylus. A distance between the stylus and the display is detected through a distance sensor disposed on the stylus. A display bezel of the display in the image is detected. A spatial position of the stylus relative to the display is determined according to the display bezel in the image and the distance.
US12105896B2
A computer mouse module comprising a power supply component; a movement sensor, an encoder operable to encode data collected by the movement sensor, a transmitter for transmitting the encoded data to a computer and a physical connector for detachably attaching a handle portion to the computer mouse module. The computer mouse module may be attached to the handle portion to form a functioning mouse where a user grips the mouse handle portion to control the mouse.
US12105892B2
An electronic device includes: at least one connection interface, to receive an external signal. A first signal switching multiplexer is connected to the connection interface. A laptop system is connected to the first signal switching multiplexer, to operate in a laptop mode. A drawing board system is connected to the first signal switching multiplexer, to operate in a drawing board mode and an independent screen mode. A switching switch generates a switching signal and transmits it to the first signal switching multiplexer, the laptop system, and the drawing board system, to select the laptop mode, the drawing board mode, or the independent screen mode.
US12105867B2
An apparatus and a method are described herein related to the art of augmented reality type monitor virtualization. A monitor-virtualization system, such as a head-mountable device, an ophthalmic device or an intraocular implant, can render a virtual monitor in augmented reality. A liquid lens or an optical phased array can position the virtual monitor in space by optical means. A dimmable occlusion matrix can be additionally operated such as to make the image of the virtual monitor substantially opaque. A coordinator module can synchronize the activities of monitor positioning and occlusion masking. The virtual monitor can be anchored to real-world artifacts using bokode technology. Various dimming modes of the occlusion matrix reduce operator fatigue. The apparatus may operate in smart sunglass mode when the virtual monitor function is paused. The virtual monitor can be hidden or visualized differently when thresholds in terms of user geolocation or viewing angle are breached.
US12105849B2
A method and a system for providing recommendations to users by securely accessing user sensitive data in a trusted execution environment (TEE) is disclosed. The method includes receive a request comprising a unique user identifier for accessing user sensitive data corresponding to at least one user. The method further includes validating a source of the request; providing an access to the user sensitive data upon identifying the source of the request to be the trusted application. The method for providing the access includes hosting a secure application session with the trusted application based on the unique secret key. The method further includes processing the user sensitive data for generating one or more user specific product and service recommendations corresponding to each of the at least one user; and rendering the one or more user specific product and service recommendations to each of the at least one user.
US12105847B2
Techniques for implementing a differentially private variational autoencoder for data obfuscation are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer system performs operations comprising: encoding input data into a latent space representation of the input data, the encoding of the input data comprising: inferring latent space parameters of a latent space distribution based on the input data, the latent space parameters comprising a mean and a standard deviation, the inferring of the latent space parameters comprising bounding the mean within a finite space and using a global value for the standard deviation, the global value being independent of the input data; and sampling data from the latent space distribution; and decoding the sampled data of the latent space representation into output data.
US12105840B2
Techniques for leveraging a distributed Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure for preserving Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data for distributed resolvers using a hash to policy pair (HPP) database are described. A DNS security service receives metadata including PII associated with a client. A cryptographic hash function is applied to the metadata including PII associated with the client to generate a client hash value. A client HPP is created by mapping the client hash value to a set of DNS policy instructions associated with the client. The client HPP is stored in a HPP database. A distributed resolver is authorized to provide DNS services to the client. Finally, the HPP database is published to the distributed resolver.
US12105839B2
An authentication and applications access system provides access to a plurality of backend applications via a social media application installed on a user device. Metadata associated with a request to access one of the plurality of backend applications is initially extracted. The metadata is used to authenticate the request via a plurality of validation steps. Upon authentication, the information from the request is provided to the backend application to receive the results responsive to the request. Any sensitive data included in the results is suppressed via data substitution steps from the transmission to the user device. The output from the applications access system with the sensitive data occluded is provided for display on a social media user interface (UI) on a user device.
US12105837B2
A method and system for generating synthetic privacy preserving training data for training a language classifier machine-learning (ML) model includes receiving a request to generate the synthetic privacy-preserving training data for the language classifier ML model, retrieving labeled training data associated with training the language classifier ML model, providing the labeled training data, one or more privacy parameters, and a domain type associated with the labeled training data to a synthetic data generation ML model, the synthetic data generation ML model being configured to generate synthetic training data in a privacy-persevering manner, receiving synthetic privacy-preserving training data as an output from the synthetic data generation ML model, and providing the synthetic privacy preserving training data to the language classifier ML model for training the language classifier ML model in classifying text.
US12105836B2
There is provided a method and corresponding system for handling and/or generating anonymous biometric and/or behavioural data. The method comprises the steps of mapping (S1) biometric data originating from a subject into a biometric key using a one-way locality-sensitive hash function or receiving the biometric key. The method also comprises storing (S2) additional anonymous behavioural data bound to this key into an existing biometric trajectory in a database, wherein the behavioural data describes the user behavior of the subject. The method is performed to anonymize biometric data from a multitude of individuals, or subjects, per key, where each biometric key maps to biometric data of several subjects, and such a set of subjects resulting in the same biometric key is called a hash group, and a biometric trajectory is developed for each hash group.
US12105833B2
A data broker platform may store one or more data sharing preference settings of a subscriber for the subscriber data of the subscriber in a corresponding subscriber preference record of a subscriber preference blockchain ledger. The platform may further store one more access policy settings with respect to the subscriber data in a corresponding access configuration record of an access configuration blockchain ledger. The platform may receive a data request from a computing device of a third-party entity to access a set of subscriber data of the subscriber. Accordingly, the platform may provide the computing device of the third-party entity with access to the set of subscriber data when the platform determines using records in the subscriber preference blockchain ledger and the access configuration blockchain ledger that the third-party entity is permitted to access the set of subscriber data.
US12105832B2
A differentially private security system communicatively coupled to a database storing restricted data receives a database query from a client. The database query includes an operation, a target accuracy, and a maximum privacy spend for the query. The system performs the operation to produce a result, then injects the result with noise sampled from a Laplace distribution to produce a differentially private result. The system iteratively calibrates the noise value of the differentially private result using a secondary distribution different from the Laplace distribution and a new fractional privacy spend. The system ceases to iterate when an iteration uses the maximum privacy spend or a relative error of the differentially private result is determined to satisfy the target accuracy, or both. The system sends the differentially private result to the client.
US12105826B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for securely certifying products in an ecosystem. In some implementations, a digital platform receives a user request to access digital models. The digital platform determines whether the user is authorized to access the digital models. In response, the digital platform generates a transaction request to send to a location of the digital models, wherein the transaction request comprises data identifying operations to perform using the digital models. The digital platform transmits, to the location of the digital models, the generated transaction request that causes execution of the operations. The digital platform receives data representative of a result of the operations performed. The digital platform provides, to a user interface of the user device, the data representative of the result. The digital platform audits the data related to the transaction request and the data representative of the result.
US12105825B2
Systems and methods are provided for backing up a data file. One example computer-implemented method includes generating an L4 key and, for each contact attribute of the data file, generating an L3 file including the L4 key and an identifier of a user and encrypting the L3 file with an un-masked version of the contact attribute. The method also includes compiling the encrypted L3 file(s) and the masked version(s) of the contact attribute(s) into an L2 file, generating an L2 key, encrypting the L2 file with the L2 key, compiling the encrypted L2 file and L2 key into an L1 file, generating an L1 key, encrypting the L1 file with the L1 key, compiling an L4 file to include identity attributes of the user, encrypting the L4 file with the L4 key, and combining the encrypted L4 file and the encrypted L1 file.
US12105821B2
A transportation data aggregator platform (“TDAP”) receives, from a carrier computing device, a selection of one or more electronic logging device (“ELD”) provider systems associated with ELDs of vehicles of a carrier. The TDAP, for each of the one or more selected ELD provider systems, (1) displays, on the computing device of the carrier computing device, a request for credentials associated with the selected ELD provider system, (2) receives, via the carrier computing device, an input comprising the credentials, (3) communicates, to the ELD provider system, the credentials, and (4) receives, from the ELD provider system, a response confirming a validity of the communicated credentials. The TDAP, in response to receiving the response for each of the one or more selected ELD provider systems, generates a letter of authorization (“LOA”) and accesses ELD data logged by ELDs of the carrier from the one or more selected ELD provider systems.
US12105820B2
A server kernel processing system receives an input/output (I/O) request from a user mode computing environment. The I/O request is analyzed to determine whether it is a modification request to modify data in a target volume. If so, target analysis logic determines whether the request is for a target volume that is within a first or second protected volume. If the request is to modify data stored in the first protected volume, the request is blocked. If the request is to modify data in a second protected volume, then a whitelist is examined to determine whether the requesting process and user are on the whitelist. If not, the request is also blocked.
US12105810B2
A data poisoning method and a data poisoning apparatus are provided. In the method, a training dataset and a validation dataset are retrieved. A perturbation is randomly initiated and added to data in the training dataset to generate poisoned training data. Values of multiple kernel functions of the poisoned training data and the validation dataset are computed by using kernel functions in a Gaussian process, and used to compute a mean of the Gaussian process on the validation dataset. A loss between the mean and the data in the validation dataset is computed by using a loss function of the Gaussian process, and used to generate an objective function that maximizes the loss. The objective function is solved to compute the perturbation that can maximize the loss.
US12105803B2
A self-programming synthesizer with neuroplastic behavior using variable binding and substitution that, on input of a data n, produces a new algorithm f(n) as well as affects an existing algorithm f(n). The synthesizer comprises at least one bare metal and a plethoral of coprocessors, an inference calculus implemented n reprogrammable logic. The synthesizer may also include a microvisor, analog-to-digital conversion and digital-to-analog outputs for some applications. Additionally, the synthesizer may include an internal or separate external clock frequency generator. The portion of plasticity provided by the inference calculus adds a reconfigurable artificial intelligence. The invention combines dynamic threat detection with direct control of system resources to detect and mitigate threats and anneal the system from cyber attack.
US12105802B2
Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for secure container operation. A behavior profile of normal container operation can be generated, such as by using crowd sourced data. A container monitor can provide container actions of an application in a deployed container. The container action can be compared to a behavior profile that indicates normal behavior of the container. A communication can in response to the container actions being inconsistent with the normal behavior of the behavior profile. The container can be halted to stop the abnormal behavior.
US12105799B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for improving cybersecurity protections across entities. One system includes a response system including one or more processing circuits including memory and at least one processor configured to identify or collect incident data corresponding with a cybersecurity incident. The at least one processor further configured to record the incident data in a distributed ledger or data source and analyze the incident data utilizing a cybersecurity model to generate one or more verified intelligences corresponding to at least one cybersecurity threat. The at least one processor further configured to determine the one or more verified intelligences corresponds to at least one of the plurality of entities and decode the one or more verified intelligences into one or more entity-specific data formats. The at least one processor further configured to configure or re-configure at least one security tool.
US12105787B1
Disclosed are embodiments for pairing wearable electronic devices, such as smart rings. The paired smart rings are configured so as to provide access to certain resources requiring a higher level of security. In some embodiments, a credential is sharable between the two devices. Thus, a bank manager is able to transfer a credential providing access to bank resources to a second bank employee. The bank manager is able to configure is time and/or use limit on the transferred credential. Thus, for example, by transferring the credential, the bank manager is able to delete certain authority to the bank employee while also limiting that authority as appropriate.
US12105785B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for initiating content interpretation operations prior to vocalization of content to be interpreted. Initiating content interpretation operations prior to vocalization of content to be interpreted includes receiving signals representing facial skin micromovements; determining from the signals at least one word to be spoken prior to vocalization of the at least one word in an origin language; prior to the vocalization of the at least one word, instituting an interpretation of the at least one word; and causing the interpretation of the at least one word to be presented as the at least one word is spoken.
US12105781B2
An authentication device includes a deciding unit that, based on distribution information of the feature points included in a pattern present in some part of the body of the user, decides on the position of that part of the body to be used in authentication of the user. The authentication device further includes a guiding unit that, based on the decided position, guides the concerned part of the body to the decided position for the purpose of authentication of the user. The authentication device further includes an authenticating unit that performs authentication of the user based on feature information of the pattern as obtained due to the guiding.
US12105762B2
A method and server for ranking digital documents for a query are disclosed. T server hosts a search engine associated with an inverted index. The method includes accessing inverted index for retrieving query-independent data for a first document-term pair and a second document-term pair, where the query-independent data is indicative of (i) a term-specific occurrence of the first term in content of the document and (ii) a term-specific occurrence of the second term in the content of the document. The method includes generating a query-dependent feature using the query-independent data and which is indicative of a group occurrence of the first term with the second term in the content of the document. The method includes generating a ranking feature for the given document based on at least the first term, the second term, and the query-dependent feature, and ranking the given document based on at least the ranking feature.
US12105753B2
Example systems and methods for automated cover song identification are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine-readable instructions, and one or more processors to execute the machine-readable instructions to at least execute a constant Q transform on time slices of first audio data to output constant Q transformed time slices, binarize the constant Q transformed time slices to output binarized and constant Q transformed time slices, execute a two-dimensional Fourier transform on time windows within the binarized and constant Q transformed time slices to output two-dimensional Fourier transforms of the time windows, generate a reference data structure based on a sequential order of the two-dimensional Fourier transforms, store the reference data structure in a database, and identify a query data structure associated with query audio data as a cover rendition of the audio data based on a comparison of the query and reference data structures.
US12105750B2
A method for mining an entity relationship, apparatus, electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. An implementation of the method may include: searching, in a query statement set, for a query statement satisfying a preset condition corresponding to a target entity word; in response to at least one query statement satisfying the preset condition corresponding to the target entity word being found in the query statement set, mining an associated entity word corresponding to the target entity word based on the found at least one query statement satisfying the preset condition corresponding to the target entity word.
US12105746B1
Embodiments are directed to surveying security environments. A subject index that includes entries may be generated based on a survey of a content system. A question a client may be matched to entries in the subject index. A prompt associated with the content system may be generated based on the entries, the data sources, or the question. Query models may be employed to obtain data associated with the question from the data sources. Other prompts may be generated based on the data from the data sources to generate candidate answers based on the question and the data from the data sources. An evaluation prompt that includes the candidate answers and the question may be generated to rank the candidate answers for correctness. Answers may be determined based on the ranking of the candidate questions such that top ranked candidate answers are provided to the client.
US12105743B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to receiving a query from a user associated with a requested digital element, determining whether the query comprises an attribute associated with the requested digital element, identifying at least one digital element comprising the attribute, determining whether the requested digital element can be identified from the at least one digital element, and performing an action on the requested digital element according to the query.
US12105740B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for implementing a low-latency data stream monitoring system. The data stream monitoring system may obtain raw data from a data source as soon after the data is generated, and may classify the data according to different topics. The topics may be published in a publish-subscribe messaging model, and data enrichment systems may subscribe to the topics to receive data for enrichment. The data enrichment systems may supplement or replace the raw data with additional information, and may further classify or reclassify the enriched data into different topics. The enriched data may then be published to an alert generation system, which may apply various criteria to the enriched data to determine that alerts should be generated, generate the alerts, and publish or transmit the alerts to client devices. Individual data streams, topics, enrichments, criteria, and alarms may be added, removed, or modified as required.
US12105729B1
A system and method for providing governed search capabilities using generative artificial intelligence (AI) and large language learning models to permit users to parse and search through and to generate detailed content from both structured and unstructured datasets.
US12105723B2
A method for point-in-time visualization system management is provided. The method includes receiving organizational structure queries from user interfaces, creating organizational hierarchy database queries from the organizational structure query, and converting the results of those queries into entity change parameters lists and organizational tree structures for display on the user interface. The displayed organizational tree structure and entity change parameters can be filtered via controls available on the user interface.
US12105719B2
Various systems and methods are provided that retrieve raw data from issuers, reorganize the raw data, analyze the reorganized data to determine whether the risky or malicious activity is occurring, and generate alerts to notify users of possible malicious activity. For example, the raw data is included in a plurality of tables. The system joins one or more tables to reorganize the data using several filtering techniques to reduce the processor load required to perform the join operation. Once the data is reorganized, the system executes one or more rules to analyze the reorganized data. Each rule is associated with a malicious activity. If any of the rules indicate that malicious activity is occurring, the system generates an alert for display to a user in an interactive user interface.
US12105716B2
Embodiments herein describe techniques for preparing and executing tasks related to a database query in a database accelerator. In one embodiment, the database accelerator is separate from a host CPU. A database management system (DBMS) can offload tasks corresponding to a database query to the database accelerator. The DBMS can request data from the database relevant to the query and then convert that data into one or more data blocks that are suitable for processing by the database accelerator. In one embodiment, the database accelerator contains individual hardware processing units (PUs) that can process data in parallel or concurrently. In order to process the data concurrently, the data block includes individual PU data blocks that are each intended for a respective PU in the database accelerator.
US12105714B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for restarting a query using a token. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer from a requesting device, a query; determining, using a data storage system, a current result responsive to the query; generating, using the current result, a restart token that represents operations performed to determine a plurality of results responsive to the query including the current result responsive to the query and that can be used to determine a new result responsive to the query that was not included in the plurality of results responsive to the query; and providing, to the requesting device, a message that includes a) first data for the restart token that represents operations performed to determine the plurality of results responsive to the query and b) second data for the current result responsive to the query.
US12105712B2
The problem of distinct value estimation has many applications, but is particularly important in the field of database technology where such information is utilized by query planners to generate and optimize query plans. Introduced is a novel technique for estimating the number of distinct values in a given dataset without scanning all of the values in the dataset. In an example embodiment, the introduced technique includes gathering multiple intermediate probabilistic estimates based on varying samples of the dataset, 2) plotting the multiple intermediate probabilistic estimates against indications of sample size, 3) fitting a function to the plotted data points, and 4) determining an overall distinct value estimate by extrapolating the objective function to an estimated or known total number of values in the dataset.
US12105703B1
System and method for interacting with a plurality of data sources are provided. A request may be parsed and an identification parameter identifying a data set may be determined. A field included in the request may be designated as a distribution key. At least one data source may be selected based on a value associated with the distribution key. At least a portion of the request may be sent to a selected data source. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12105702B2
A method for storing shard data and data formats for storing shard data are proposed. Shard data entries are generated and stored, wherein each shard data entry comprises a definition of one or more semantic objects covered by the shard data entry. Shard metadata is generated and stored, wherein the metadata comprises references to the shard data entries and, for each of the shard data entries, data representative of a bounding box indicative of an area in a geographical area that is covered by the shard data entry.
US12105695B2
An encoding method for a key Trie includes generating a plurality of meta data by applying encoding to a portion of non-leaf nodes of the key Trie, and storing an encoding result of the key Trie into a storage device, wherein the encoding result includes the plurality of meta data corresponding to the portion of non-leaf nodes, respectively.
US12105689B2
A method comprises storing a plurality of accounts; and generating a hierarchical data structure from the plurality of accounts by: identifying a first set of accounts and a second set of accounts responsive to the first set of accounts and the second set of accounts satisfying a first set of rules; linking the first set of accounts to a first entity profile and the second set of accounts to a second entity profile; and responsive to the first plurality of profile attribute-value pairs and the second plurality of profile attribute-value pairs of the second entity profile satisfying a second set of rules, linking the first entity profile and the second entity profile to a household entity profile by inserting a household identifier into a household attribute-value pair of each account of the first set of accounts and the second set of accounts.
US12105674B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods and non-transitory program storage devices for identifying demographic information in an input data file even in the face of known errors that would otherwise prevent the method from operating. When a fault condition is detected, a fault handler may attempt to fix the faulty data, remove the faulty data from the input data file being processed, or provide the faulty data at a user interface so a human user can intervene. The method and storage devices may continue processing the data regardless of whether human input has been received because the system can bypass or remove the data, thereby keeping the method fault tolerant.
US12105670B1
A processing system manages an ordered set of hierarchical data structures representing snapshots that define the state of a filesystem at different points in time. The data structures include nodes that store strong references, which can be utilized to read or write data, or weak references that can be only utilized to read data. In order to create a new snapshot, a root node is created for a new data structure representing the new snapshot by copying the root node of the data structure representing an active view of the filesystem. Any strong references stored in the copy of the root node are then changed to weak references. Snapshotting operations can then be performed with respect to the new snapshot utilizing the weak references stored in the root node of the new data structure.
US12105663B2
The circuit device includes an HS driver as a transmission circuit in an HS mode of USB, an amplitude detection circuit configured to detect a signal amplitude of a USB signal, an amplitude setting circuit configured to set an amplitude setting value of the signal amplitude of the USB signal, and a judgment circuit. The amplitude setting circuit varies the signal amplitude with the amplitude setting value in a detection period, and the judgment circuit determines the amplitude setting value to be used by the amplitude setting circuit when performing HS communication based on a detection result by the amplitude detection circuit in the detection period.
US12105656B2
A flexibly configured multi-computing-node server mainboard structure and a method. A processing unit connects to PCIE devices via I2C concurrently. The processing unit analyzes whether the acquired data of the PCIE devices are abnormal. The processing unit connects to a baseboard management controller via I2C, when the data are normal, the processing unit polls to transmit analyzed data to the baseboard management controller via I2C. When the data are abnormal, the processing unit pauses polling and transmitting information, and preferentially transmits abnormality information to the baseboard management controller. The processing unit is provided with an internal clock assembly and an external clock assembly, the external clock assembly is connected to a PCH, the internal clock assembly and the external clock module are connected to a data selector, and an output of the data selector is electrically connected to the PCIE devices.
US12105653B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein to enable data aggregation and pattern adaptation in hardware acceleration subsystems. In some examples, a hardware acceleration subsystem includes a first scheduler, a first hardware accelerator coupled to the first scheduler to process at least a first data element and a second data element, and a first load store engine coupled to the first hardware accelerator, the first load store engine configured to communicate with the first scheduler at a superblock level by sending a done signal to the first scheduler in response to determining that a block count is equal to a first BPR value and aggregate the first data element and the second data element based on the first BPR value to generate a first aggregated data element.
US12105646B2
A system includes a memory implementing one or more virtual queues and a processor coupled to the memory. In response to issuing one or more requests for data, a processor maps one or more of the requests for data to a return queue structure. The processor then allocates one or more virtual queues to the return queue structure based on the mapped requests. In response to allocating the virtual queues to the return queue, the processor writes the data indicated in the mapped requests to the allotted virtual queues and enables the return queue for arbitration. When the return queue is enabled for arbitration, the processor reads out the data written to the allocated virtual queues, processes the read out data, and provides the processed data to a processing pipeline.
US12105643B2
Some examples described relate to securing a memory device of a computing system. For instance, a method may comprise comparing a command for the memory device to each command in a list of commands. The command is accepted when the command matches an authorized command in the list of commands. The accepted command is issued to the memory device.
US12105637B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to active data placement. An input/output (I/O stream of data operations is monitored. One or more data units corresponding to each data operation is identified. Based on the identified one or more data units a data structure comprising a list of data unit records is updated, a determination is made whether to transfer one or more data units in the list of data unit records from a slow media class storage to a fast media class storage, a determination is made whether to transfer one or more data units in the fast media class storage to the slow media class storage, and the one or more data units in the list of data unit records is transferred between the fast media class storage and the slow media class storage based on the determinations.
US12105634B2
A processing system includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB). The TLB includes a plurality of TLB entries that are configured to store requested page size indications. The TLB is configured to be indexed via the requested page size indications such that a plurality of TLB requests that each indicate a same virtual address, but different respective requested page sizes are allocated respective TLB entries. As a result, in response to a TLB request that indicates a requested page size and has a virtual address that corresponds to multiple TLB entries, only a single TLB entry is identified as a TLB hit.
US12105624B2
A method for accelerating reading of a storage medium, a read acceleration hardware module, and a memory are provided. The method includes: receiving logical block address (LBA) information issued from a front end (FE) of a memory; performing a table lookup operation based on a table lookup algorithm fixed in hardware to acquire valid physical media address (PMA) information corresponding to the LBA information; and converting the valid PMA information to Nand physical address (NPA) information based on an address translation algorithm fixed in the hardware, and reading corresponding data from a storage medium of the memory according to the NPA information.
US12105621B2
A memory device may detect a memory operation that updates a level two volatile (L2V) entry stored in an L2V table. Each L2V entry in the L2V table may indicate a mapping between a respective logical block address (LBA) and a respective user data physical address in non-volatile memory. The memory operation may cause a mapping between an LBA indicated in the L2V entry and a user data physical address indicated in the L2V entry to become invalid. The memory device may store, in a volatile memory log, an indication of an LBA region that includes the LBA. The memory device may detect that an L2 transfer condition, associated with the volatile memory log, is satisfied. The memory device may copy, from volatile memory to non-volatile memory, every L2V entry that indicates an LBA included in the LBA region based on detecting that the L2 transfer condition is satisfied.
US12105611B2
An activity tracking system has a plurality of activity tracking devices, each with a processor unit to receive an input signal associated with the activity, and a memory unit to keep record of at least one log associated with the activity via the processor unit. Herein, the activity tracking device comprises at least one input unit configured to be detachably attached onto the device body, and at least one input terminal associated with the processor unit within the device body to enable the input signal to be transmitted to the processor unit; and the input unit comprises at least one input means for the user to interact with the tracking device to generate an input signal, an inlet connector that is detachably attached to the input terminal to enable the input signal to be transmitted to the processor unit, and an identifier circuit for detecting the type of input unit.
US12105606B2
A subscriber identification module (SIM) card detection failure recovery method for an electronic device includes that the electronic device identifies a card recovery scenario, where card recovery includes whether to power on a SIM card. A configurable timer is started based on the card recovery scenario. The electronic device periodically obtains, based on a time set by the timer, power-on information for powering on the SIM card. The electronic device determines a power-on condition of the SIM card based on the power-on information. If the power-on condition is met, the electronic device powers on the SIM card.
US12105603B2
A distributed transaction control system includes redundant coordinator apparatuses, wherein determination part replaces input votes to votes of preparation failure when input votes from the participant apparatus time out, makes a determination of commit when all input votes are votes of preparation success, makes a determination of rollback when the input votes include at least one vote of preparation failure, and inputs a content of the determination into the distributed consensus processing part, the distributed consensus processing part decides on one of the contents of the determination that are inputs from the determination parts, by distributed consensus, and settlement part notifies an output of the distributed consensus processing part to the participant apparatuses as a settlement result.
US12105598B2
A data protection scheduling system provides a flexible or rolling data protection window that analyzes various criteria to determine an optimal or near optimal time for performing data protection or secondary copy operations. While prior systems may have scheduled backups at an exact time (e.g., 2:00 a.m.), the system described herein dynamically determines when to perform the backups and other data protection storage operations, such as based on network load, CPU load, expected duration of the storage operation, rate of change of user activities, frequency of use of affected computer systems, trends, and so on.
US12105593B2
The example computing device includes a universal serial bus (USB) port to provide a data connection and power to a connected device. The example computing device also includes a controller to control a power state of the USB port during a reboot process of the computing device. The example computing device further includes a basic input/output system (BIOS) to send a port reboot setting to the controller. The port reboot setting defines a power-off time period that the USB port is to be powered off during the reboot process.
US12105589B2
Methods, systems, and devices for parity-based error management are described. A processing system that performs a computational operation on a set of operands may perform a computational operation, (e.g., the same computational operation) on parity bits for the operands. The processing system may then use the parity bits that result from the computational operation on the parity bits to detect, and discretionarily correct, one or more errors in the output that results from the computational operation on the operands.
US12105582B2
A system is provided for code base sharing during computing application failure using a distributed register network. In particular, the system may comprise a plurality of computing application systems that are associated with one another and stored on a distributed register. In this regard, the distributed register may share a code base as well as processing logs for each application. The system may use a deep learning based machine learning process for identifying the dependencies, input data sources for each application, and expected data outputs. Accordingly, if an application experiences a failure, the payload of the failed application may be read and/or processed by another application to maintain the workflow. Furthermore, the system may use AI/ML processes to analyze the code base and/or system logs associated with application failures and generate recommendations for remediating failures.
US12105578B2
The power management method performed by the power management apparatus includes switching an operation mode of the power management apparatus from a standby mode to a normal mode when a voltage of the power management apparatus operating in the standby mode increases from a first upper limit value to a second upper limit value, switching the operation mode of the power management apparatus to a minimum operation mode when the voltage of the power management apparatus decreases to a first lower limit value while operating in the normal mode, switching the operation mode of the power management apparatus to a sleep mode when the voltage of the power management apparatus decreases to a second lower limit value while operating in the minimum operation mode, and switching the operation mode of the power management apparatus to the standby mode while operating in the sleep mode.
US12105573B2
Battery management systems and methods for using the same to obtain battery shock and/or rollover data. An exemplary battery management system of the present disclosure comprises an accelerometer configured to obtain acceleration data, a microcontroller operably connected to the accelerometer and configured to receive the acceleration data from the accelerometer, and a data storage medium in communication with the microcontroller, the data storage medium configured to store the acceleration data therein, wherein when the battery management system is in communication with a battery, the accelerometer can obtain the acceleration data relating to the battery, and the microcontroller can operate to disconnect the battery from a load connected thereto should the acceleration data meet or exceed a threshold limit.
US12105570B2
Systems and methods for battery management in heterogenous computing platforms. In a non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System may include a heterogeneous computing platform having a plurality of devices and a memory coupled to the platform, where the memory includes a plurality of sets of firmware instructions, each of the sets of firmware instructions, upon execution by a respective device among the plurality of devices, enables the respective device to provide a corresponding firmware service, and at least one of the plurality of devices operates as an orchestrator configured to: receive context or telemetry data from at least a subset of the plurality of devices; and execute or instruct one or more selected devices among the plurality of devices to execute one or more Artificial Intelligence models usable to manage a charging or discharging operation of a battery based, at least in part, upon the context or telemetry data.
US12105563B2
The present disclosure provides a control method applied to an electronic device. The electronic device includes a first human-machine interaction area and a second human-machine interaction area, the first human-machine interaction area and the second human-machine interaction area being movable relative to each other. The method includes obtaining attitude information of the electronic device in response to determining that the electronic device is connected to an external display device; determining a corresponding preset strategy based on the attitude information, the preset strategy including one of disabling a first function of the first human-machine interaction area, disabling a second function of the second human-machine interaction area, and combining the first human-machine interaction area and the second human-machine interaction area; determining a target interaction area based on the preset strategy, and identifying the target interaction area as an input control area; and receiving an input operation through the input control area.
US12105562B2
A portable electronic device including a main display having a locking recess at a side edge and at least one external display detachable relative to the side edge of the main display is provided. The external display includes a body, and at least one latch pivoted to the body. The latch is pivoted to the body to be swiveled out of or into the body. An opening of the locking recess faces obliquely upward and faces away from a direction of gravity when the main display is standing, the at least one latch swiveled out of the body faces obliquely downward and faces forward the direction of gravity to be inserted into the locking recess, and the at least one external display is hung on at the side edge of the main display by a weight of the at least one external display.
US12105561B2
A rollable display device is provided. The rollable display device includes a flexible display panel, a storage mechanism, and an actuating mechanism. The storage mechanism includes a rotary component. The rotary component includes a rotary member and a rotating shaft member rotatably connected to the rotary member. The aforesaid rollable display device allows the flexible display panel to realize bidirectional stretching under movement of the actuating mechanism, thereby increasing a rolled-up radius of the flexible display panel.
US12105559B2
A foldable device may include a foldable layer and a hinge mechanism. The hinge mechanism may include a hinge cover fixedly coupled to a hinge base. A plurality of rotation pivots may be rotatably coupled to the hinge base and the hinge cover. A housing of a computing device may be coupled to the rotation pivots, such that, as the rotation pivots rotate into the hinge base and hinge cover, the computing device is unfolded, and as the rotation pivots rotate out of the hinge base and hinge cover, the computing device is folded. Rotation of the rotation pivots into and out of the hinge base and hinge cover may be restricted by one or more stopping mechanisms, so as to maintain a foldable display of the computing device within allowable bending limits.
US12105558B2
The invention discloses an AI head-mounted computer, which comprises a main body part and a display connected on the main body part through a first connecting arm and a second connecting arm, the main body part, the first connecting arm and the second connecting arm are sequentially and rotationally matched, the rotating planes of the main body part, the first connecting arm and the second connecting arm are the same plane, and the display is connected with the second connecting arm through a connecting assembly. One end of the connecting assembly is in rotating fit with the second connecting arm, so that the displayer can rotate on the plane perpendicular to the plane where the second connecting arm rotates, the other end of the connecting assembly is in rotating fit with the displayer, so that the displayer can rotate automatically, and a wiring channel is formed in the connecting assembly.
US12105555B2
An electronic apparatus includes a support bracket, a display assembly rotatably connected to the support bracket, a camera assembly separately arranged at an outside of the display assembly and located at the plane formed by the rotation of the display assembly, and a follower connected to the camera assembly and the support bracket. During rotation of the display assembly, the follower is configured to follow the rotation of the display assembly to synchronously drive the camera assembly to translate relative to the display assembly along an outer edge of the display assembly in a designated linear direction, so that a distance between the camera assembly and the outer edge of the display assembly is kept at a designated distance.
US12105550B2
Disclosed examples include interrupt handling circuitry and methods for managing interrupts of a fast clock domain circuit operated according to a first clock signal by a slow clock domain circuit operated according to a second clock signal in which an interrupt generator circuit generates an interrupt input signal synchronized to the second clock signal, and an interrupt clear circuit selectively resets the interrupt generator circuit in response to an acknowledgment signal from the first circuit asynchronously with respect to the second clock signal.
US12105545B2
An internal power generation circuit comprises: a first internal power generation circuit, configured to generate a first power signal based on an external power signal, and including an NMOS transistor, voltage of the first power signal being lower than voltage of the external power signal by threshold voltage of one NMOS transistor, wherein the circuit further includes: a booster unit performing boosting on the first power signal, voltage of a boosted signal being higher than the voltage of the first power signal by at least the threshold voltage of one NMOS transistor; a self-starting feedback circuit configured to generate an output voltage signal based on the boosted signal and the external power signal, wherein before the output voltage signal reaches a target voltage, the output voltage signal follows the external power signal, and after the output voltage signal reaches the target voltage, the output voltage signal holds the target voltage.
US12105540B2
A dispensing device, including a housing, a first connection to connect to a water source, a second connection to connect to a gas source, a formula reservoir, a mixing zone, a deposition zone, a circulation zone configured to circulate the water and the gas from the deposition area to the mixing zone, a valve connected to the deposition zone, configured to release the gas and water into the formula reservoir, a first temperature sensor to sense a first temperature when water and the gas enter the mixing zone, a second temperature sensor to sense a second temperature when water and gas enter the deposition zone, and, when a predetermined temperature is reached, direct the valve to open, and an opening coupled to the formula reservoir configured to deposit a mixture of one or more formulas, gas, and water.
US12105539B2
A control system for one or more ablutionary devices includes a valve having one or more valve members, one or more supply inlets, and an output for supplying output water to one or more ablutionary devices downstream of the valve. The control system may include one or more temperature sensors arranged to communicate one or more temperature signals indicative of one or more upstream water supplies to a controller when the ablutionary devices are not in use. The controller may then generate an indicator signal based on a comparison of the one or more temperature signals to one or more thresholds. In response to an indicator signal being generated, the control system may activate the valve to prevent or reduce the likelihood of damage due to severe environmental conditions.
US12105536B2
An autonomous, mobile robotic device (AMR) is configured with one or more UVC radiation sources, and operates to traverse a path while disinfecting an interior space. Each UVC radiation source is connected to the AMR by an articulating arm that is controlled to orient each source towards a feature or surface that is selected for disinfection during the time that the AMR is moving through the space. The location of each feature selected for disinfection can be mapped, and this map information, a current AMR location and pose can be used to generate signals that are used to control the articulating arm to orient each UVC lamp towards a feature that is selected for disinfection.
US12105535B1
Provided is a channel monitoring method, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining scan data collected by a vehicle body collection component of an automated guided vehicle (AGV) in an area around a vehicle body; obtaining video data collected by a camera in a video collection area, where the camera is one of a plurality of cameras and is used to collect video of at least a partial area of the channel to be monitored of the plurality of channels to be monitored; in a case of determining an existence of a target object based on the scan data collected by the vehicle body collection component and/or the video data collected by the camera, obtaining a target channel where the target object is located; and generating target warning information for the target channel where the target object is located.
US12105532B2
A method of providing trajectory planning for the driverless transfer of a vehicle within a closed area is proposed. In the method, an external data processing system performs trajectory planning for travelling a predetermined route from a starting point to a destination point within the closed area without a driver. Trajectory planning is based on data transmitted from components of a vehicle-external infrastructure to the external data processing system, including object data and at least one exact pose of the vehicle at predetermined points in time. The planned trajectory is then transmitted to the vehicle for execution.
US12105530B2
An information processing apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with a first unmanned aircraft having a first camera to be used for detecting an obstacle and a second unmanned aircraft having a second camera to be used for detecting an obstacle with higher detection accuracy than the first camera, and a controller configured to, in a case in which a predetermined event relating to the first unmanned aircraft has occurred, detect, using the second unmanned aircraft, an obstacle at a target point on a flight path along which the first unmanned aircraft travels to a destination, and control the first unmanned aircraft to navigate around the detected obstacle using information regarding the detected obstacle.
US12105523B2
The present disclosure provides a work vehicle that allows detecting an error in an installation position of an antenna more flexibly than a conventional device. The work vehicle includes a control device 150. The control device 150 has a detection function F106, a calculation function F104, a calculation function F105, a calculation function F107, and an estimation function F110. The detection function F106 detects steady traveling based on a velocity, an acceleration, and an angular velocity of a vehicle. The calculation function F104 calculates a first vehicle direction based on installation information of a first antenna and a second antenna with respect to the vehicle. The calculation function F105 calculates a second vehicle direction based on a time change of position information of the first antenna when the steady traveling is detected. The calculation function F107 calculates a direction correction parameter for correcting the first vehicle direction based on the second vehicle direction. The estimation function F110 estimates a location and a posture of the vehicle based on the direction correction parameter and the first vehicle direction.
US12105517B2
A planar-beam, light detection and ranging (PLADAR) system can include a laser scanner that emits a planar-beam, and a detector array that detects reflected light from the planar beam.
US12105504B2
First data associated with a first process performed for a first layer of a substrate is identified. The first layer is to be further processed according to a second process. The first data is provided as input to a machine learning model that is trained to predict metrology measurement values for layers of substrates at the manufacturing system. An amount of drift of a first set of metrology measurement values for the first layer following completion of the first process and/or the second process from target values is determined. Modifications to a recipe for the second process is determined in view of the determined amount of drift and second data associated with a second substrate layer that was previously processed at the manufacturing system. The second process is updated based on the determined one or more modifications.
US12105503B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure may provide an Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensor attached to the surface of industrial equipment to acquire data, the IoT sensor including: a first substrate; a first connector electrically connected to the first substrate and attached to the surface of the first substrate to transfer a measurement signal of the sensor; a cable formed of a flexible conductive wire and having one end connected to the first connector; a second connector connected to the other end of the cable and configured to receive the measurement signal of the sensor; and a communication module attached to a second substrate connected to the second connector.
US12105496B2
A production system includes a control device that controls one or more industrial devices, and a host control device that communicably connects to the control device and controls the control device. The host control device includes a register memory allocated for control of the control device and including a command area, and transmission circuitry that transmits multiple command data sets stored in the command area of the control device to the control device, and the control device includes a communication memory in which the multiple command data sets received from the host control device are stored, and processing circuitry that executes a process instructed by the host control device based on the multiple command data sets stored in the communication memory.
US12105495B2
An objective of the present invention is to simplify generation of a program for carrying out data collection performed by a PLC and reduce the burden on an operator. The invention comprises: a device information library (111) which stores program templates corresponding to various process relating to data collection and, for each target device from which data is to be collected, device parameters corresponding to said target device; and a program generation unit (117) which generates a data collection program using program templates and device parameters corresponding to an accepted target device.
US12105489B2
A rotating equipment system with in-line drive-sense circuit (DSC) electric power signal processing includes rotating equipment, in-line drive-sense circuits (DSCs), and one or more processing modules. The in-line DSCs receive input electrical power signals and generate motor drive signals for the rotating equipment. An in-line DSC receives an input electrical power signal, processes it to generate and output a motor drive signal to the rotating equipment via a single line and simultaneously senses the motor drive signal via the single line. Based on the sensing of the motor drive signal via the single line, the in-line DSC provides a digital signal to the one or more processing modules that receive and process the digital signal to determine information regarding one or more operational conditions of the rotating equipment, and based thereon, selectively facilitate one or more adaptation operations on the motor drive signal via the in-line DSC.
US12105484B2
A building automation system (BAS) includes building equipment located within a building and a BAS network configured to facilitate communications between the building equipment. The building equipment operate to affect a variable state or condition within the building. The BAS includes a BAS-BIM integrator configured to receive BAS points from the BAS network and to integrate the BAS points with a building information model (BIM). The BIM includes a plurality of BIM objects representing the building equipment. The BAS includes an integrated BAS-BIM viewer configured to use the BIM with the integrated BAS points to generate a user interface. The user interface includes a graphical representation of the BIM objects and the BAS points integrated therewith.
US12105480B2
An electronic watch includes a housing, a display positioned at least partially within the housing, a cover covering at least part of the display, and a crown having a portion positioned along a side of the housing. The crown may include an inner member that is rotationally constrained relative to the housing and an outer member that is rotationally free relative to the inner member. The device may further include a rotation sensor configured to sense a rotation of the outer member relative to the inner member.
US12105474B2
A balance wheel-hairspring oscillator (10) has a balance wheel shaft (18) intended to be pivotably mounted on a frame of a timepiece. A balance wheel (12) is secured to the balance wheel shaft (18). A hairspring (14) has an inner end (14a) secured to the balance wheel shaft and an outer end (14b) intended to be connected to a connecting member (16) to the frame. A transmission member (20, 22) is arranged to interact with an escapement. The balance wheel (12) and the hairspring (16) are arranged on either side of the transmission member.
US12105468B2
An image forming apparatus includes a driving unit configured to apply a driving force to a photosensitive drum, in which the driving unit includes a first driving frame hold a shaft joint side of a driving gear, a second driving frame hold a side opposite to the shaft joint side of the driving gear and be located coaxially with the first through-hole, a first driving frame wall portion extend in an axial direction of the driving gear toward the second driving frame, and a second driving frame wall portion extend in the axial direction toward the first driving frame, and an elastic member is compressed and held in a gap between the first driving frame wall portion and the second driving frame wall portion.
US12105465B1
A sheet processing apparatus is configured to sandwich one or more sheet media in a two-ply sheet in which two sheets are overlaid and bonded together at a portion of the two-ply sheet. The sheet processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to control insertion processing to insert the one or more sheet media into the two-ply sheet based on a length of the two-ply sheet in a conveyance direction, a length of one of the one or more sheet media in the conveyance direction, and a number of the one or more sheet media.
US12105463B2
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer body that rotates and transfers a transferred image to a target transfer body at a transfer position, plural image holding members that rotate together with the transfer body at different positions along a rotation direction of the transfer body while outer peripheral surfaces of the image holding members come into contact with the transfer body, the image holding members on which a charge erasing operation is sequentially performed after images held on the outer peripheral surfaces sequentially transferred to the transfer body, and in which the charge erasing operation on all the image holding members has been ended, and then rotations of all the image holding members are stopped, a first charge erasing unit that erases charges of an outer peripheral surface of at least one image holding member other than a most downstream image holding member disposed on a most downstream side of the rotation direction with respect to the transfer position, among the plural image holding members, and a second charge erasing unit that erases charges of an outer peripheral surface of the most downstream image holding member and has a charge erasing time shorter than a charge erasing time of the first charge erasing unit.
US12105446B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photoconductor, a charging section that charges a surface of the photoconductor, an electrostatic charge image forming section that forms an electrostatic charge image on the charged surface of the photoconductor, a developing section that accommodates a developer containing a toner and develops the electrostatic charge image formed on the surface of the photoconductor by using the developer to form a toner image, a transfer section that includes an endless belt and transfers the toner image to a recording medium; and a cleaning section that includes a cleaning blade that comes into contact with a surface of the endless belt and performs cleaning of the surface of the endless belt with the cleaning blade, in which a dynamic friction coefficient μ between the endless belt and the cleaning blade is 0.10 or more and 0.25 or less, and the endless belt has an outer peripheral surface on which an uncharged toner is scattered by a wind force of wind pressure of 23 kPa or smaller at a temperature of 22° C. and relative humidity of 55%.
US12105434B2
An assembly, for example in a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus, comprises an optical element and a joint arrangement for mechanically bearing the optical element. The joint arrangement comprises at least one connecting element secured on the optical element. The mass of the connecting element is distributed over its length so that the moment of inertia of the connecting element is increased in comparison with a connecting element of identical mass and length in which the mass is distributed uniformly over the length.
US12105429B2
The disclosure relates to an optical system, for example a lithography system, comprising an aperture stop having an aperture with an edge for delimiting a beam path of the optical system on its outer circumference. The optical system also includes a heat stop arranged upstream of the aperture stop for partially shading the aperture stop. The edge of the aperture stop is excluded from the shading.
US12105427B2
The invention relates to a method for correcting a telecentricity error of an imaging device for semiconductor lithography having an illumination unit, an imaging optical unit, and a filter for correcting the telecentricity error, having the following method steps: determining the telecentricity error of the imaging device, designing a filter for correcting the telecentricity error, arranging the filter in the pupil plane of the illumination unit, determining the telecentricity error again, and repeating the method steps one to four until the telecentricity error falls below a specified telecentricity error. The invention furthermore relates to an imaging device for semiconductor lithography, which is configured for carrying out the method.
US12105425B2
An exposure method includes reading data representing a relationship between a first parameter relating to an energy ratio between energy of first pulsed laser light having a first wavelength and energy of second pulsed laser light having a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength and a second parameter relating to a sidewall angle of a resist film that is the angle of a sidewall produced when the resist film is exposed to the first pulsed laser light and the second pulsed laser light, and determining a target value of the first parameter based on the data and a target value of the second parameter; and exposing the resist film to the first pulsed laser light and the second pulsed laser light by controlling a narrowed-line gas laser apparatus to output the first pulsed laser light and the second pulsed laser light based on the target value of the first parameter.
US12105424B2
Examples described herein provide a system, a software application, and a method of a lithography process to write multiple tones in a single pass. A system includes a stage and a lithography system. The lithography system includes image projection systems, a controller, and memory. The controller is coupled to the memory, which stores instruction code. Execution of the instruction code by the controller causes the controller to control the stage and the image projection systems to iteratively expose a photoresist supported by the stage and to move the stage relative to the image projection systems a step distance between sequential pairs of the exposures. Each exposure includes using write beam(s) projected from the image projection systems. Each exposure is at a respective one of different dosage amounts. An accumulation of the different dosage amounts is a full tone dosage amount for the photoresist.
US12105423B2
A substrate processing system including a processing chamber, a substrate holder configured to hold and rotate a substrate about an axis perpendicular to a working surface of the substrate; an electron emitter adapted to emit a first electron beam directed at a first surface of a peripheral region of the substrate, the first electron beam having a first beam energy and a first beam current sufficient to vaporize material from the first surface of the peripheral region of the substrate; an airflow system configured to direct a flow of gas across the working surface of the substrate; and an exhaust system configured to collect the gas comprising the material vaporized from the peripheral region.
US12105420B2
The present invention provides a coating-type composition for forming an organic film containing: a polymer having a structure shown by the following general formula (1) as a partial structure; and an organic solvent, where in the formula (1), ring structures Ar1 and Ar2 represent a benzene ring or a naphthalene ring optionally having a substituent, and W1 represents an aryl group having 6 to 30 carbon atoms and optionally having a substituent. This provides a coating-type composition for forming an organic film that can form an organic film having high pattern-curving resistance and high dry-etching resistance, the composition being excellent in solvent solubility and having a low generation of defects.
US12105411B2
Provided is a substrate with a thin film for manufacturing a reflective mask that at least does not adversely affect performance of the reflective mask even when a thin film of a substrate with the thin film such as a reflective mask blank comprises impurities. A substrate with a thin film comprises: a substrate; and at least one thin film formed on a main surface of the substrate. The thin film comprises a matrix material constituting the thin film and a small-amount material other than the matrix material. When secondary ion intensity emitted from the thin film is measured by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS), a ratio (I2/I1) of secondary ion intensity (I2) of at least one of the small-amount material in the thin film to secondary ion intensity (I1) of the matrix material is more than 0 and 0.300 or less.
US12105409B2
A shutter unit includes a base plate on which an opening is formed, at least one blade member, a driving member configured to be rotatably supported by the base plate and to drive, in imaging, the blade member from a standby position to a traveling completion position by using a biasing force of a biasing member, a braking member configured to cause the driving member to decelerate by coming into contact with the driving member, and a charging member configured to cause the driving member to operate to the standby position after causing the driving member to operate from the traveling completion position to a set position against the biasing force of the biasing member, and cause the braking member to operate from the traveling completion position to the standby position while causing the driving member to operate from the set position to the standby position.
US12105406B2
A heat dissipation module adapted to dissipate the heat of a wavelength conversion device located inside a closed housing is provided. The heat dissipation module includes a first heat exchange element, a first cooling element, a second heat exchange element and a first heat conductive structure. The first heat exchange element is disposed inside the closed housing. The first cooling element has a cold side and a hot side opposite each other. The first cooling element is disposed inside the closed housing, and the cold side is located between the hot side and the first heat exchange element. The second heat exchange element is disposed outside the closed housing. One end of the first heat conductive structure is connected to the hot side of the first cooling element, and the other end of the first heat conductive structure is connected to the second heat exchange element.
US12105392B2
A display device includes a first pixel electrode, a first switching element, a first wiring, a second pixel electrode, a second switching element, a second wiring, a third wiring, a fourth wiring, a first insulating film, a second insulating film, and an alignment film, in which the first wiring includes a first lead-out portion disposed outside the display region and located on a lower layer side of the first insulating film, the second wiring includes a second lead-out portion disposed adjacent to the first lead-out portion outside the display region and located on a lower layer side of the second insulating film, the third wiring is located on the lower layer side of the first insulating film, and the fourth wiring is located on the lower layer side of the second insulating film on the upper layer side of the first insulating film.
US12105389B1
A display panel including: a plurality of pixels arranged in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction; a plurality of pixel electrodes; a common electrode; a first, second, third, and fourth gate lines extending in the lateral direction; and a first and second data lines, and a common line extending in the longitudinal direction, in which the plurality of pixels include a first pixel having a first pixel electrode and a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel in the lateral direction and having a second pixel electrode, the third gate line is arranged to overlap the first and the second pixel electrodes, the common line is arranged between the first and the second pixel electrodes, and the display panel further includes a first switching element connected to the first pixel electrode, the common line, and the third gate line, and a second switching element connected to the second pixel electrode, the common line, and the third gate line.
US12105382B2
An optical device includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a first conductive layer disposed on the first substrate, wherein the first conductive layer includes a first surface and a third side surface connecting to the first surface; a second conductive layer disposed on the second substrate; a sealant disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer and having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer and locating at the first side of the sealant; and a barrier layer disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer and locating at the second side of the sealant, wherein at least part of the first surface and the third side surface are not covered by the barrier layer.
US12105381B2
The present application discloses a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The display panel has a display area and a non-display area arranged around the display area. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a first seal, and a second seal disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first seal is doped with conductors. In the present application, the first seal doped with the conductors is provided, and signal traces in the first substrate and a common electrode in the second substrate are conducted by the conductors.
US12105379B2
A display device includes a touch panel, an optical adhesive layer, and a front light module that includes a light source and a light guide plate (LGP) including multiple microstructures recessed into the LGP from a first surface of the LGP to form voids. The optical adhesive layer is adhered between the touch panel and a first surface of the LGP. A surface of the optical adhesive layer facing the LGP is in contact with the first surface of the LGP in multiple first regions, and a surface of the optical adhesive layer facing the LGP and the plurality of microstructures being overlapped in multiple second regions. A maximum vertical distance between each void and the first surface is a first depth. A vertical distance between the first regions and the second regions is 0 to 0.7 times the first depth.
US12105376B2
An optical sheet 43 is built into a liquid crystal display apparatus in which a plurality of light sources 42 are dispersed on a back surface side of a display screen. One surface of the optical sheet 43 has an uneven surface. In a predetermined region R on the one surface of the optical sheet 43, a luminance enhancer 25 that improves the total light transmittance of the predetermined region R is provided so as to at least partially fill recesses 22a of the uneven surface.
US12105372B2
A color filter substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The color filter substrate includes: a base substrate; a color conversion layer on the base substrate; a covering layer on a side of the color conversion layer away from the base substrate; and a polarizing layer on a side of the covering layer away from the base substrate. The polarizing layer includes a wire grid polarizer. The covering layer includes a first covering sub-layer and a second covering sub-layer, the first covering sub-layer is located on the side of the color conversion layer away from the base substrate, the second covering sub-layer is located on a side of the first covering sub-layer away from the base substrate, and a material of the first covering sub-layer is different from a material of the second covering sub-layer.
US12105370B2
A display assembly with condensation control includes an electronic display and airflow pathway located within the housing. At least one sensor is located along said airflow pathway. A controller in electronic communication determines a local dewpoint and an internal temperature for the display assembly based, at least in part, on data received from the at least one sensor, calculates a dewpoint spread between the dewpoint temperature and the internal temperature, and initiates modified operations where said dewpoint spread is less than a predetermined threshold.
US12105366B2
A display module preparation method, a display module, and an electronic device are provided. The display module preparation method includes: preparing a first substrate; preparing a second substrate; bonding the first substrate and the second substrate; removing a partial structure of one side of the first substrate away from the second substrate, so that a surface of one side of the first substrate away from the second substrate is a plane; and removing a partial structure of one side of the second substrate away from the first substrate, so that a surface of one side of the second substrate away from the first substrate is a plane.
US12105365B1
A light reflecting device includes two substrates and a liquid crystal layer. The two substrates are parallel to each other and respectively electrically connected to a voltage source to generate an electric field therebetween. Each of the two substrates has an inner surface having a horizontal orientation. The liquid crystal layer is formed by liquid crystal materials filled between the two substrates. The liquid crystal materials include liquid crystal molecules and ions of salt species. The liquid crystal molecules are at least formed by negative liquid crystals and chiral molecules. The liquid crystal layer is respectively switched to a diffuse reflection state and a specular reflection state by applying the electrical field generated by the voltage source in a first frequency and a second frequency. The second frequency is higher than the first frequency.
US12105364B1
The disclosure is directed to devices for training the human brain to overcome the effects of amblyopia. Some examples include a divider placed between the left eye and the right eye of a user or wearer. Such examples reduce the portion of a user's field of vision of each eye that overlaps, which in turn reduces the degree to which the brain can rely on input from the dominant eye to compensate for poor vision in the weak eye. Some examples include an obstruction element that covers a portion of the field of vision of the dominant eye. Such devices convert binocular fields of view into bi-monocular fields of view. Such devices help a user to overcome the effects of amblyopia by training the brain to better utilize and integrate visual information from the weak eye.
US12105363B2
An optical apparatus includes means for determining an optical depth at which a user is looking, an active optical element per eye, controlling means for controlling an active material in the active optical element to generate one or more optical powers, and a processor. The processor is configured to process data, collected by the means for determining, to determine the optical depth at which the user is looking; detect when the optical depth at which the user is looking is greater than a predefined optical depth; and when it is detected that the optical depth is greater than the predefined optical depth, generate a drive signal to drive the controlling means to control the active material in a portion of the active optical element to produce a predefined optical power thereat, wherein the predefined optical power is a negative optical power.
US12105362B2
An apparatus to treat refractive error of an eye comprises an optic comprising an optical zone and a peripheral defocus optical structure to form images of a plurality of stimuli anterior or posterior to a peripheral portion of a retina of the eye. In some embodiments, the peripheral defocus optical structure located outside the optical zone. In some embodiments, the peripheral defocus optical structure comprises optical power to focus light to a different depth of the eye than the optical zone. In some embodiments, the optic comprises one or more of a lens, an optically transparent substrate, a beam splitter, a prism, or an optically transmissive support.
US12105360B2
A contact lens constructed to limit the water transmissibility of at least one area of the lens while maintaining at least a minimum oxygen transmissibility. The water transmissibility maximum and oxygen permeability minimum are achieved by a predetermined lens thickness of a single lens material or by the use of two or more material layers.
US12105351B2
A reflective marker including first and second reflectors, each having a first and second reflective outer surfaces spaced apart by a peripheral rim. The first reflector further including a central region including a first open portion extending through the first reflector peripheral rim and a raised rib defining a blind hole extending from the first open portion for receiving a support post. The second reflector further including a central region including a second open portion extending through the second reflector peripheral rim and a raised rib defining a through bore extending from the second open portion for receiving the support post. The first open portion of the first reflector central region is sized to receive the raised rib of the second reflector central region and the second open portion of the second reflector central region is sized to receive the raised rib of the first reflector central region.
US12105349B2
An optical driving mechanism is provided, including a holder, a fixed portion, a first elastic element, and a first adhesive element. The holder is configured to connect an optical element, and moves relative to the fixed portion. The holder is movably connected to the fixed portion via the first elastic element, and the first elastic element is connected to the holder or the fixed portion via the first adhesive element.
US12105348B2
The present embodiment relates to a lens driving device comprising: a housing; a bobbin; a first coil; a magnet; a base; a first substrate; a second substrate; and a conductive member, wherein the first substrate comprises a first groove and a first terminal which is adjacent to the first groove, the second substrate comprises a second terminal, the conductive member connects the first terminal of the first substrate to the second terminal of the second substrate, a body unit of the first substrate comprises a first side surface, a second side surface, a third side surface, and a fourth side surface, an extension portion of the first substrate is formed at the third side surface and the fourth side surface, the first terminal of the first substrate comprises four terminals, two of which are adjacent to the first side surface and the other two of which are adjacent to the second side surface.
US12105346B2
A lens barrel (10) comprises a holding frame (51); a guide pole (53); a focusing lens unit (52) that is slidably guided by the guide pole (53) and moves in an axial direction; an actuator that moves the focusing lens unit (52) in the axial direction relative to the holding frame (51); and leaf springs (55) that support the guide pole (53) so as to allow movement in the axial direction relative to the holding frame (51), at an amplitude smaller than the stroke of the focusing lens unit (52).
US12105340B1
A cable-jetting installation sleeve can be used to advance a fiber-optic cable through a conduit. The cable-jetting installation sleeve can include a housing and an expandable section. The expandable section can include an opening which can be expanded to receive or remove an end of the cable and contracted to engage the cable with the expandable section. A parachute can be positioned on one end of the cable-jetting installation sleeve. The parachute can be pushed by compressed air in the conduit to advance the cable-jetting installation sleeve through the conduit.
US12105339B2
A wiring module includes: a bottom plate; a module having two surfaces facing each other; a plurality of optical fibers, each of which is connected to the module via at least one of the surfaces of the module; and a plurality of reels which are sequentially stacked on an upper surface of the bottom plate, each of the plurality of reels accommodating a bundle of one corresponding optical fiber among the plurality of optical fibers. The module is disposed in a space formed inside the plurality of reels which are stacked.
US12105334B2
The invention relates to an optical fiber signal direct guided optical module which comprises a connector, a control circuit board and a plastic optical fiber. The control circuit board is connected to the connector and is provided with a functional optical module. The plastic optical fiber is provided with an optical fiber end face corresponding to the functional optical module. The distance L between the end face of the optical fiber and the top face of the functional optical module is in range Of 50 μm to 150 μm. Optical signals emitted by the end face of the optical fiber can be directly received by the functional optical module, and optical signals emitted by the functional optical module can also directly penetrate through the end face of the optical fiber to be received by the plastic optical fiber.
US12105327B2
Techniques are provided for implementing and using a travelling wave resonator, comprising planar optical waveguide including at least two stacked cores, to diminish Kerr effect in the travelling wave resonator. The travelling wave resonator may be used in a resonator optical gyroscope.
US12105325B2
A method and mode conversion waveguide system for converting a mode of a light is provided. The light is sent through a single mode waveguide, wherein the light has a first mode while traveling through single mode waveguide. The light is sent from the single mode waveguide into a multimode interference region having connected to the single mode waveguide. The light is reflected with a cavity within the multimode interference region in a manner that causes the light to propagate away from the single mode waveguide. The light is output from multimode interference region, wherein the light has a second mode.
US12105309B2
Provided are a polarizing plate for antireflection containing a polarizer, and a protective layer formed on at least one surface of the polarizer, wherein the polarizing plate has a single transmittance of 44.6% or more and a degree of polarization of 98% or more, and a shrinkage rate in stretching direction of the polarizing plate is 0.5% or less after standing at 85° C. for 240 hours, and a display device including the polarizing plate. The polarizing plate is resistant to curling, prevents bending of a panel occurring after adherence of the panel, and reduces dispersion of reflection color depending on the position, while exhibiting high transmittance. Further, the polarizing plate can be made thinner, and prevent the polarizer from being cut off during a preparation process.
US12105301B2
A method for manufacturing a multi-stage compound eye lens includes the steps of manufacturing a micropillar array using a photoetching method, then sputtering ZnO on the surface of the micropillar array, jet printing an ultraviolet curing adhesive onto gaps in the micropillar array using a micro jet printing machine, and controlling the morphology of microlens using the number of droplet dropping instances to obtain a microlens array; further respectively dissolving hexamethyl tetramine and zinc nitrate in deionized water, then pouring the hexamethyl tetramine solution into the zinc nitrate solution to obtain a mixed solution, placing the microlens array into the mixed solution, and placing is in a water bath kettle for a water bath, and finally, removing the microlens array from the mixed solution, rinsing it with deionized water, and drying same to obtain the multi-stage compound eye lens.
US12105296B2
A method of adjusting a vehicle display device includes: performing a first inspection, calculating a first correction value, and writing the first correction value into a non-volatile memory of the vehicle display device; and performing a second inspection, calculating a second correction value, and writing the second correction value into the non-volatile memory of the vehicle display device, each of the first correction value and the second correction value is a value with which an image display area is corrected so that a tilt of an axis of the image is reduced, and in the second inspection, the display device displays an image to the image display area that has been corrected with the first correction value.
US12105293B2
A head-up display includes: display panels, and a light guide configured to direct light from the display panels such that projection positions of images from display regions of the display panels join on the projection target. At least one of time division control and multiple display control is applied to the display panels. The time division control is operation control of the display panels such that the display panels project images at different timings. The multiple display control is operation control of the display panels in which partial regions are set in each display region such that the number of the partial regions corresponds to the number of the display panels, an image is output in one of the partial regions in the display region of each display panel such that the positions of the images projected by the display panels on the projection target differ from one another.
US12105288B2
Augmented reality glasses include a left eye lens part and a right eye lens part, each of the left eye lens part and the right eye lens part having a display area configured to display an augmented reality image, and a tracking area surrounding the display area, the tracking area including a plurality of light emission parts configured to emit light having a wavelength in an infrared band, and a frame including a left eye lens support area, a right eye lens support area, and a nose bridge connecting the left lens support area and the right lens support area, the left eye lens support area supporting the left eye lens part, and the right eye lens support area supporting the right eye lens part.
US12105283B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing operations comprising: receiving a request to access a conversation interface; in response to receiving the request, retrieving a plurality of virtual conversation objects associated with the conversation interface; displaying a first virtual conversation object of the plurality of virtual conversation objects at a first location in three-dimensional space; determining that a second virtual conversation object of the plurality of virtual conversation objects is associated with an earlier timestamp than the first virtual conversation object; and in response to determining that the second virtual conversation object is associated with the earlier timestamp than the first virtual conversation object, displaying the second virtual conversation object at a second location in three-dimensional space that is closer to a user of an eyewear device than the first location.
US12105276B2
A connector device for an endoscope that can stably operate an endoscope is provided. A connector device (10) includes a hollow exterior case (20), a shield case (22) accommodated in the exterior case (20), and a power reception unit (24) to which power is supplied from a power feed unit (216) of a processor device (200) in a contactless manner. The exterior case (20) has a side wall part (32D) that faces the power feed unit (216). The shield case (22) has an inner case wall part (23) that is disposed to face and be spaced apart from the side wall part (32D). The power reception unit (24) is disposed on the inner case wall part (23).
US12105274B2
The present invention is a lightweight lens cell assembly forming a nightvision eyepiece. The lens cell has an integral focusing mechanism and at least one lens element manufactured from a polymer. Because the lens cell is manufactured from a material thermally matched to the polymer and the lens element is integrally connected to the lens cell or connected to the lens cell by an interference fit, the assembly provides significant benefits to both weight and error reduction.
US12105273B2
A microscope comprises a housing having a receiving portion for receiving at least one biological sample, an optics module comprising several objectives and an illumination system for illuminating at least one biological sample and/or an acquiring system for acquiring light coming from at least one biological sample, wherein the optics module is arranged in an inner space of the housing. The microscope is characterized in that the microscope comprises a replacement system for replacing an objective by one of the other objectives wherein the replacement system is configured to replace the objective by means of moving the optics module relative to the housing and/or by means of moving the housing relative to the optics module.
US12105268B2
Zoom digital cameras comprising a Wide sub-camera and a folded fixed Tele sub-camera. The folded Tele sub-camera may be auto-focused by moving either its lens or a reflecting element inserted in an optical path between its lens and a respective image sensor. The folded Tele sub-camera is configured to have a low profile to enable its integration within a portable electronic device.
US12105265B2
The present disclosure relates to a field of optical lens, and provides a camera optical lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence, a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, a third lens having negative refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having negative refractive power, a sixth lens having positive refractive power and a seventh lens having positive refractive power; where the camera optical lens satisfies conditions of: −50.10≤f2/f≤−22.90; 9.20≤d2/d4≤30.00; and −11.10≤R5/f≤−9.55.
US12105251B2
The disclosure generally pertains to a metalens portion comprising a plurality of holes in a first substrate, wherein at least two holes of the plurality of holes differ in size, and wherein a refractive index of the metalens portion is defined by at least one of shape of the holes and an arrangement pattern of the holes, thereby providing a metalens.
US12105249B2
Described herein are methods and systems for real-time swiftwater risk category distributed mapping. A mobile computing device generates a request for swiftwater risk information, the request including a location. A server computing device receives the request for swiftwater risk information from the mobile computing device. The server computing device models hydrologic conditions for a plurality of segments of one or more bodies of water at or near the location. The server computing device classifies each segment of the bodies of water according to a level of potential risk of hazards associated with the hydrologic conditions. The server computing device generates a visual representation of the bodies of water that includes a classification indicator for one or more of the plurality of segments for display on the mobile computing device, and transmits the visual representation to the mobile computing device.
US12105234B1
In some examples, a sensor node is mounted to a post and includes a microphone that is coupled to the post. The sensor node records, at a first time, first audio data, using the microphone, filters the first audio data to create first filtered audio, records, at a second time that occurs after the first time, second audio data using the microphone, filters the second audio data to create second filtered audio, and determines a difference in decibels between a first volume of the first filtered audio and a second volume of the second filtered audio. If the sensor node determines that the difference in decibels is greater than a predetermined threshold, then the sensor node sends a notification of activity that includes the difference in decibels.
US12105227B2
A method for determining a roll angle (α) of an optoelectronic sensor of a motor vehicle, wherein the optoelectronic sensor comprises at least one transmitter device, at least one receiver unit and at least one evaluation unit is disclosed. The method involves emitting light beams into surroundings of the vehicle by the transmitter device, receiving light beams reflected at an object by the receiver unit, wherein the received light beams are represented by the evaluation unit as scan points in a sensor image of the surroundings of the motor vehicle, wherein the roll angle (α) is determined by the evaluation unit between at least one scan axis and at least one reference axis, wherein the scan axis is formed by at least one scan point of a ground structure and a reference point of the reference axis of the optoelectronic sensor.
US12105224B2
Disclosed is a single pass light detection and ranging (LiDAR) laser method, including building a coarse histogram, detecting a first peak of laser pulses in the coarse histogram, determining whether the first peak height is greater than a first threshold and a location of the first peak is less than or equal to a second threshold, when determining that the first peak height is greater than the first threshold and the location of the first peak is less than or equal to the second threshold, building a fine histogram, and detecting a peak of laser pulses in the fine histogram, and when determining that the first peak height is less than or equal to the first threshold and the location of the first peak is greater than the second threshold, continuing the building of the coarse histogram, and detecting a second peak of the laser pulses in the coarse histogram.
US12105223B2
An optoelectronic sensor for the detection of objects in a monitored zone is provided that has a light transmitter for transmitting a light beam, a light receiver for generating a received signal from the light beam remitted by the objects in the monitored zone, a control and evaluation unit for the detection of information on the objects with reference to the received signal, a base unit, a scanning unit movable with respect to the base unit for the periodic scanning of the monitored zone, and a drive having a hollow shaft for moving the scanning unit, wherein the scanning unit comprises a first data transmission unit and the base unit comprises a second data transmission unit to exchange data wirelessly between the base unit and the scanning unit through the hollow shaft, The first data transmission unit and the second data transmission unit are configured as microwave units for the data exchange by means of microwave signals.
US12105218B2
An ultra-wideband (UWB) system includes an enclosure, and an ultra-wideband (UWB) transmitter array within the enclosure, the UWB transmitter array having a transmitter component that transmits electromagnetic waves toward a region-of-interest (ROI), the UWB array having a receiver component that receives reflected electromagnetic waves from objects in the ROI and generates object data. The system further includes a radar absorbing material positioned to receive electromagnetic waves transmitted from the transmitter component that are not directed toward the ROI, and a pattern recognition device having a processor configured to process the electromagnetic waves reflected from the ROI and to determine whether an object-of-interest (OOI) pattern is recognized within the object data.
US12105217B2
The present application provides a method, device and system for determining a relative angle between intelligent devices, and intelligent devices. The method is applicable to a first intelligent device. The first intelligent device includes a first sound detection module and a second sound detection module. The relative angle between intelligent devices can be determined quickly, simply, conveniently and accurately.
US12105213B2
A system and method for determining a position or a movable device is disclosed. The present system utilizes a movable device equipped with a locator device that has an antenna array such that it may determine the angle of arrival of a plurality of incoming beacon signals. In certain embodiments, the movable device is also able to measure its distance travelled. By knowing its distance moved and the angle of arrival from each beacon, the locator device is able to calculate its position as well as the position of each beacon. This procedure may be executed at regular intervals so that the movable device accurately determines its position.
US12105205B2
The disclosed technology provides solutions for measuring sensor realism (or fidelity) and in particular, provides methods for quantitatively determining how various sensor modeling parameters contribute to an associated fidelity metric. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for receiving a first set of sensor data, determining a first fidelity score for the first set of sensor data, and processing the first set of sensor data using a perturbation algorithm to generate a second set of sensor data. In some aspects, the process can further include steps for determining a second fidelity score for the second set of sensor data. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US12105199B2
A system and method for measuring an image distance of power transmission lines with an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The system includes: a UAV, a master console, and a plurality of cameras. The cameras are configured to collect 2D image data of a power transmission line corridor. The UAV includes a vehicle body, a lidar device, a rotor assembly, a power unit, a flight control processor, a state detection device, and a wireless communication module. The lidar device is configured to collect 3D point cloud data of the power transmission lines. The master console is configured to receive the 2D image data and the 3D point cloud data, and establish a mapping relationship between the 2D image data and the 3D point cloud data; recognize a target object, determine 3D point coordinates of the target object, and calculate a distance from the target object to the power transmission lines.
US12105193B2
Antenna allocation is configured by way of a methodically random TDMA pattern that can allow the decrease in the pulse repetition rate without the reduction in the maximum resolved cross-range associated with conventional uniform TDMA. Embodiments disclosed herein offer opportunity for development of high-resolution mmWave radar systems for walk-through search and reduces the interference from surrounding objects. Other applications include synthetic-aperture radar (SAR), and other radar Range-Velocity-DOA imaging systems in automotive applications and robotics.
US12105190B2
A monitoring system for a combine harvester having a header for harvesting a crop and a residue spreading system for spreading a crop residue. The monitoring system includes a sensing system configured to provide one or more measurement waves that intersect a flow of crop residue discharged by the spreading system and receive a plurality of response waves reflected from the crop residue. The system further includes a processing unit configured to receive a response signal of the sensing system; process the response signal; and determine, based on the response signal, a density and velocity distribution of the crop residue across a two-dimensional measurement area. The response signal is representative of the plurality of response waves reflected from the crop residue. The measurement area is at an end of a trajectory of the crop residue towards a deposit area.
US12105169B2
The present disclosure is directed to a computational procedure for accelerated, calibrationless magnetic resonance image (CI-MRI) reconstruction that is fast, memory efficient, and scales to high dimensional imaging. The computational procedure, High-dimensional fast ConvolUtional framework (HICU), provides fast, memory-efficient recovery of unsampled k-space points.
US12105163B2
A magnetic sensor includes an insulating layer, a coil element disposed on the insulating layer, and a first insulating film. The insulating layer includes a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface. The coil element includes a first side surface and a second side surface. The first side surface includes a first portion and a second portion, the second portion being disposed at a position farther from a top surface of a substrate than a position where the first portion is disposed. The first portion is inclined so as to intersect with the first and second inclined surfaces, and is also inclined so as to be closer to the second side surface at positions closer to the top surface of the substrate. The first insulating film covers the first portion.
US12105149B2
Power tool devices described herein include a housing, a power source interface, a field effect transistor within the housing connected between the power source interface and a load of the power tool device, and an electronic processor coupled to the field effect transistor. The electronic processor is configured to control the field effect transistor to drive the load and measure a voltage at a terminal of the field effect transistor. The electronic processor is also configured to determine the current flowing through the field effect transistor based on the voltage without using a shunt resistor.
US12105136B2
The multilayer test sample includes a stack with a bottom layer, a top layer, and a tunnel layer sandwiched between the bottom and top layers. The multilayer test sample has terminals below the stack for measuring on the stack. The terminals have unknown positions or distance between them. A model and a measurement strategy is defined so that material parameters of the stack may be determined.
US12105127B2
Disclosed are a detection circuit and apparatus based on equipotential shielding. A first connection end of a row control circuit, configured to be connected to a row lead of an array piezoresistive sensor; a control end of the row control circuit, connected to a main control chip for outputting a control signal; a second connection end of the row control circuit, connected to a first power supply terminal; and a row pull-up resistor, with an end connected to the row lead and another end connected to a second power supply terminal. Herein, each row lead corresponds to one row pull-up resistor; each column lead of the array piezoresistive sensor is connected to an input end of an inverse adder; an output end of the inverse adder is connected to a first connection end of the column control circuit.
US12105125B2
Digital anti-jam apparatus includes a CPU; N spectrum analysis and band rejection (SABR) modules, each receiving a digital quadrature signal input, outputting a spectral data output, and outputting a quadrature output with interference band rejected; the CPU first places the SABR modules into a spectral analysis (SA) mode, and upon detection of interference, places the SABR modules into a band rejection (BR) mode while the interference continues; N N-to-1 multiplexers, whose quadrature outputs are connected to corresponding SABR modules, wherein the CPU controls whether to connect an input of each multiplexer either to the quadrature signal input or to the quadrature band-reject output of any other SABR module; a (N+1)-to-1 multiplexer, connected to the quadrature signal input or to the quadrature output of any SABR module; and a frequency conversion module, that receives output of the (N+1)-to-1 multiplexer and shifts a spectrum of the digital quadrature signal input.
US12105113B2
The invention relates to a fibre-optic accelerometer for determining acceleration along an axis, comprising an optical fibre with a fibre end face and an acoustic membrane with a membrane frame, a deflection mass and connection bridges, the acoustic membrane being designed to reflect, at least in part, a primary radiation from the fibre end face, and the connection bridges connecting the membrane frame and the deflection mass at least at two different axial positions.
US12105105B2
Systems and methods applicable, for instance, to pipette robots. A pipette robot can perform one or more operations regarding deck calibration, one or more operations regarding pipette tip/probe calibration, one or more operations regarding pipette tip pick up, and/or one or more operations regarding tip ejection.
US12105091B2
This disclosure relates to the field of research and clinical usage of extracellular vesicles. More in particular, this disclosure relates to usages of recombinant extracellular vesicles comprising a) a self-assembling protein that directs its own release through vesicles as a luminal membrane-bound protein and b) a heterologous marker. Indeed, the disclosure provides recombinant extracellular vesicles that can be used as a biological reference material in methods to quantify extracellular vesicles in a sample, and/or, that can be used to calibrate a device for sample extracellular vesicles analysis, and/or, that can be used to evaluate the isolation process of extracellular vesicles. This disclosure thus relates to improving the accuracy of an extracellular vesicle-based diagnosis.
US12105090B2
The invention relates to methods of assessing a patient's risk of developing Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).
US12105089B2
The present invention provides for a human cell atlas of the colon from healthy and diseased subjects. The atlas was obtained by single sequencing of about 117,000 cells. The present invention discloses novel markers for cell types. Moreover, genes associated with disease are identified in the colon and colon specific cell types. The invention provides for diagnostic assays based on gene markers and cell composition, as well as target cell types that express genes associated with disease. Finally, disclosed are novel cell types and methods of quantitating, detecting and isolating the cell types.
US12105088B2
This document provides methods and materials involved in identifying and treating autoimmune GFAP (glial fibrillary acidic protein) astrocytopathy, a novel meningoencephalomyelitis, in humans as well as methods and materials for identifying and offering early treatment for patients having autoimmune GFAP astrocytopathy whose autoantibody profile predicts a high likelihood of having underlying cancer (e.g., adenocarcinoma or teratoma).
US12105087B2
The invention includes an ex-situ biosensors that impedimetrically detect one or more target biomarkers of brain injury or disease in a bodily fluid sample derived from a patient. The biosensors include a multi-array of vertically aligned platinum wires having immobilized thereon antibody and/or aptamer that specifically and selectively bind to the one or more target biomarkers. An electrochemical impedance signal is generated, and a change in electrochemical impedance is indicative of the presence of the one or more target biomarker(s) in the bodily fluid sample. The biosensors are point-of-care, on-demand devices useful in a medical and domestic environment.
US12105078B2
A method can include receiving, by a demulsifier analysis framework, tensiometer data for an oil and water field sample that includes an added candidate demulsifier, where the tensiometer data include rheology data with respect to frequency and where the demulsifier analysis framework includes a model derived at least in part on bottle test data for demulsifiers in oil and water emulsions; determining a performance characteristic for the candidate demulsifier with respect to the oil and water field sample using the tensiometer data as input to the model of the demulsifier analysis framework without performing a bottle test on the oil and water field sample; and outputting, by the demulsifier analysis framework, the performance characteristic for the candidate demulsifier with respect to breaking an emulsion of the oil and water field sample.
US12105075B2
A total nitrogen intelligent detection system based on multi-objective optimized fuzzy neural network belongs to both the field of environment engineer and control engineer. The total nitrogen in wastewater treatment process is an important index to measure the quality of effluent. However, it is extremely difficult to detect the total nitrogen concentration due to the long detection time and the low prediction accuracy in the wastewater treatment process. To solve the problem, multi-objective optimized fuzzy neural network with global optimization capability may be established to optimize the structure and parameters to solve the problem of the poor generalization ability of fuzzy neural network. The experimental results show that total nitrogen intelligent detection system can automatically collect the variables information of wastewater treatment process and predict total nitrogen concentration. Meanwhile, in this system, the detection method can improve the prediction accuracy, as well as ensure the total nitrogen concentration be obtained in real-time and low-cost.
US12105074B2
The present disclosure provides methods of preparing breast milk for analysis analyzing breast milk, determining reference ranges for analytes in breast milk and testing breast milk for a panel of analytes. Aspects of the present disclosure provide dietary and lifestyle recommendations for the lactating mother-based on measured concentration of analytes. Retesting is disclosed to measure the influence of maternal diet on breast milk composition.
US12105072B2
According to one embodiment, a chemical sensor includes a sensor element. The sensor element includes a sensitive film and a treatment material. Physical properties of the sensitive film vary as bonding of a target substance to the sensitive film. The sensor element is configured to detect the variation in the physical properties. The treatment material is configured to carry out a treatment onto the target substance before the target substance bonds to the sensitive film.
US12105069B2
A liquid sending failure detector acquires periodically a liquid sending pressure of a liquid sending mechanism consecutively sends liquid using at least one plunger pump that sends liquid by reciprocally driving a plunger such that a fluctuation is read in one driving period of the liquid sending mechanism, and detect a liquid sending failure of the liquid sending mechanism using an acquired liquid sending pressure. The liquid sending failure detector executes a pulsation detection step of obtaining a fluctuation range of the liquid sending pressure in a certain driving period of the liquid sending mechanism and detecting pulsation on a condition that a count of consecutive periods in which the fluctuation range exceeds a predetermined reference value exceeds a predetermined reference count, and a liquid sending failure detection step of detecting a liquid sending failure of the liquid sending mechanism when the pulsation is detected in the pulsation detection step.
US12105065B2
A mobile phase temperature control device for a supercritical fluid apparatus is used in a supercritical fluid apparatus including a separation column, and includes a cartridge heater, a flow path portion and a first temperature sensor. The cartridge heater has a rod shape. The flow path portion is wound around the cartridge heater, and a mobile phase is guided to the separation column of the supercritical fluid apparatus by the flow path portion. The mobile phase is put in a supercritical state at least in the separation column. The first temperature sensor is attached to the flow path portion, and the temperature of the flow path portion is detected by the first temperature sensor.
US12105062B2
A system and method for utilizing a carbide-derived carbon (CDC) fiber in solid-phase micro extraction. Optically pumping the carbide-derived carbon (CDC) fiber, as compared to using thermal desorption, enhances performance of the system. CDC provides for a broad based sorbent that is insensitive to high humidity. Optical pumping may be done axially or radially on a modified gas chromatography needle. In some cases, staged, or pulsed, optical pumping is used to drive off solvent or other lower boiling compounds first and then the desorption of the remaining analytes is cleaner and the instrumentation is less likely to be overloaded.
US12105061B2
In one implementation, a footfall detection assembly comprising a sensor underlayment unit and a data analysis device is provided. The sensor underlayment unit comprises a sensor having a unique sensor identifier and a plurality of zones, wherein the sensor is configured to measure zone capacitance in of the plurality of zones, and a processing unit operably connected to the sensor. The processing unit is configured to receive the measured zone capacitance values from the sensor upon the occurrence of a change in measured zone capacitance of the sensor and generate and transmit a data packet comprising at least the unique sensor identifier and measured zone capacitance values upon occurrence of a change in capacitance of at least one of the plurality of zones of the sensor. The data analysis device is configured to receive the data packet, compare the measured zone capacitance values of the data packet to previously-measured zone capacitance values associated with the sensor underlayment into and generate a result therefrom.
US12105060B2
An exciter device is configured to apply both a vibrational force and an impact force to a device-under-test. A first end of a piston is couplable to the device-under-test and a second end of the piston is aligned with a position of an impact hammer tip. The impact hammer tip and an electromagnet are both coupled to a moveable housing that is positioned around the piston. The exciter device applies a vibrational force to the device-under-test when an alternating magnetic field is applied by the electromagnet to the permanent magnet causing a linear reciprocating movement of the moveable housing relative to the piston. The exciter device applies an impact force to the device-under-test when a magnet field is applied by the electromagnet to the permanent magnet causing a linear movement of the moveable housing that is sufficient to cause the impact hammer to contact the second end of the piston.
US12105057B2
A device is configured to operate a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The device is further configured to determine that the speed of a combustion air inducer has exceeded a speed threshold value. The device is further configured to receive an audio signal from a microphone while operating the HVAC system, to identify an audio signature for the combustion air inducer from an audio signature library, and to determine the audio signature for the combustion air inducer is present within the audio signal. The device is further configured to determine a fault type based on the determination that the audio signature for the combustion air inducer is present within the audio signal.
US12105048B2
A battery-powered analyte sensing system includes a printed battery and an analyte sensor. The printed battery includes an anode composed of a non-toxic biocompatible metal, a first carbon-based current collector in electrical contact with the anode, a three-dimensional hierarchical mesoporous carbon-based cathode, a second carbon-based current collector, and an electrolyte layer disposed between the anode and the cathode, the electrolyte layer configured to activate the printed battery when the electrolyte is released into one or both the anode and the cathode. The analyte sensor includes a sensing material and a reactive chemistry additive in the sensing material.
US12105046B2
A gas sensor which includes a solid electrolyte layer including positive charge carriers to which detection-target gas coordinates, an electrode arranged on part of a plane of the solid electrolyte layer, and a unit configured to accelerate movements of the positive charge carriers.
US12105044B1
The present application provides a quality detection method for a microelectrostatic device with a built-in power supply, belonging to the field of air purification technology, the method includes electrically connecting an external power supply to the built-in power supply of the microelectrostatic device to form a live circuit; connecting a detection element in series with an ammeter, wherein the detection element is in contact with a surface of the microelectrostatic device and moves along the surface of the microelectrostatic device; detecting a reading of the ammeter in real-time, wherein dielectric material is not broken when the reading of the ammeter is zero.
US12105037B2
A method of detecting spins in a sample, includes exciting the spins of the sample by means of a radio-frequency or microwave electromagnetic pulse for flipping the spins, and detecting a noise signal produced by the return of the spins to equilibrium by means of a device for counting radio-frequency or microwave photons.
US12105036B2
A system and a method for monitoring a beam in an inspection system are provided. The system includes an image sensor configured to collect a sequence of images of a beam spot of a beam formed on a surface, each image of the sequence of images having been collected at a different exposure time of the image sensor, and a controller configured to combine the sequence of images to obtain a beam profile of the beam.
US12105033B2
In a nondestructive inspection of a defect of a welded portion of a pipe or a pipe member, work efficiency of a radiation transmission test is improved by reducing a burden on a worker, and an inspection accuracy is improved. Imaging data is acquired by transmitting radiation through a welded portion of the pipe to be inspected. Processing of associating determination data indicating a result of determining a defect of the welded portion of the pipe to be inspected based on a distribution of a transmission intensity of the radiation obtained from the imaging data with image data showing the distribution of the transmission intensity of the radiation is performed. As a result, through use of the imaging data, image data and determination data associated with the image data can be obtained, and the burden on the worker can be reduced.
US12105029B2
An inspection apparatus may include: a structured-light source configured to sequentially radiate a plurality of structured lights having one phase range; a lens configured to adjust, for each of the plurality of structured lights, optical paths of light beams corresponding to phases of the phase range such that a light beam corresponding to one phase of the phase range arrives at each point of a partial region on an object; an image sensor configured to capture a plurality of reflected lights generated by the structured lights being reflected from the partial region; and a processor configured to acquire a light quantity value of the reflected lights; and derive an angle of the surface by deriving phase values of the reflected lights based on the light quantity value for the reflected lights.
US12105027B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes: loading a substrate on a stage of an apparatus for inspecting the substrate; extracting a first light having a first wavelength from a light by using a light source; acquiring first position information on at least one focal point, formed on the substrate, based on the first wavelength by using a controller, the at least one focal point being a pre-calculated at least one focal point; adjusting a position of at least one from among an objective lens and at least one microsphere in a vertical direction by using the first position information in the controller; condensing the first light, which has passed through the at least one microsphere, on the at least one focal point formed on the substrate; and inspecting the substrate by using the first light condensed on the at least one focal point.
US12105012B2
In various aspects, a method of detecting surface irregularities on or in an internal surface of a cylinder for use in a piston-cylinder assembly is disclosed. The method can include (A) fixing a position of and an orientation of a first one of the cylinder and a piston; (B) configuring a positioner and a dynamometer to move a dynamometer and a second one of the cylinder and the piston along a common longitudinal axis, the dynamometer being mechanically coupled to the second one; (C) moving the second one relative to the first one along the common longitudinal axis between a first position and a second position, the piston being located inside the cylinder at the first position and at the second position; and (D) measuring, by the dynamometer, a frictional force between the piston and the cylinder during the movement.
US12105008B2
The present disclosure relates to a fluid system for a sample processor and a sample processor including the fluid system. The fluid system includes a sample line, a processing fluid line, a vacuum line, and an air pump. The sample line communicates a sample container with a sample port of a flow cell unit. The processing fluid line communicates a sheath fluid container with a processing fluid port of the flow cell unit. The vacuum line is in communication with the flow cell unit. The air pump includes a first output port and a second output port. Pressurized gas is generated at the first output port, and the first output port is in communication with the sample container and the sheath fluid container. A vacuum is generated at the second output port, and the second output port is in communication with a vacuum port of the flow cell unit through the vacuum line.
US12105005B1
An apparatus for evaluating a dried crystal error in a CO2 drying experiment comprises a heating jacket, a visual container, a weighing device, a transparent cover, a control apparatus, a vacuum pump, a damping table and a heating apparatus, and can accurately dry and weigh a rock sample subjected to a carbon dioxide drying effect experiment in the visual container, so that the crystal error caused by evaporation of a solution in the rock sample in the process is calculated. This apparatus provided by the present invention has high precision and simple operation, can well evaluate the crystal error caused by the saline solution retaining in the rock sample when the rock sample is directly dried in the carbon dioxide drying effect experiment, and can correct the results of the carbon dioxide drying effect experiment compared with the prior art, thereby obtaining accurate experiment results.
US12105004B2
An air flow sensor for use with an air filter comprises a tubular housing with a flap that is opened by air pressure, the extent of opening increasing as the surrounding air filter becomes clogged. A terminal on the flap contacts different measurement terminals on the housing, closing individual circuits connected to an indicator, whereby a display shows when the filter is clear and when it is clogged.
US12104999B2
A method for quantifying viscoelasticity of a medium includes: obtaining a position-time graph of vibration propagation after the medium is subjected to a vibration excitation, determining an angle with maximum signal energy in the position-time graph by using angle projection, where the angle with the maximum signal energy corresponds to a slope of the position-time graph and the slope of the position-time graph is the propagation velocity of the vibration in the medium. Since the propagation velocity of the vibration in the medium is related to the viscoelasticity of the medium, a viscoelasticity parameter of the medium can be quantitatively calculated after the slope of the position-time graph is obtained. The method does not need to select a feature point from the position-time graph to calculate the slope of the position-time graph, and can efficiently and accurately quantifies viscoelasticity of the medium.
US12104989B1
Provided herein is a sampling device and sample storage device suitable for a single molecule is provided in this application, and includes a sample collector, where the sample collector is used for collecting a single-molecule sample from a target solvent, and the sample collector includes a first sample collector and a second sample collector, where the first sample collector is used for collecting a first sample, the second sample collector is used for collecting a second sample, and the relative molecular mass of the first sample is different from that of the second sample.
US12104985B2
A modular acoustic system for use to perform acoustic testing on an object across an entire audible spectrum with enhanced efficiency and acoustic capabilities is provided. The acoustic system includes an acoustic device having a housing to store a horn assembly with a plurality of transducers, an amplification and power distribution device with an amplifier electrically coupled to the horn assembly of the acoustic device, and a controller operably connected to the amplification and power distribution device. The controller is designed to transmit a plurality of noise signals over a network to the amplifier of the amplification and power distribution device to enable the plurality of transducers of the acoustic device to generate a plurality of acoustic waves across the entire audible spectrum.
US12104980B2
A vehicle is received in a stationary controlled area of a controlled testing environment. Simulation inputs corresponding to a simulated scene are generated and transmitted to the vehicle. The vehicle applies torque in response. A vehicle control mechanism of the controlled testing environment, such as a chassis dynamometer, a motorized treadmill, or a lift, keeps the vehicle within the stationary controlled area during the test despite the torque applied by the vehicle. A path of the vehicle within the simulated scene is determined based on the applied torque, based upon which the vehicle's navigation system is calibrated.
US12104977B1
A coupling device between a test box and a companion test box for back-to-back planetary testing to solve the problem of axial displacement and motion in the connecting structure of the existing back-to-back planetary test bench, which comprises a first output flange, a second output flange, a first transition coupling gear connected to the first output flange, a second transition coupling gear connected to the second output flange, a ring-shaped toothed flange with internal teeth coupled to the first and the second transition coupling gears, an axial limiting unit installed on the left and right sides of the toothed flange and extends towards the axis of the transmission shaft formed by two semicircular shaped grooved sleeve bodies, a radial limiting ring and screw rods, and an axial compensation groove formed on an inner sidewall of the axial limiting unit.
US12104975B2
A portable optic metrology thermal chamber module including a housing defining a thermal chamber, with a thermally isolated environment arranged for holding an optic device under test, the housing having an optic stimulus entry aperture configured for entry of a stimulus beam, from a metrology system stimulus source through the entry aperture onto an entry pupil of the device to an image analyzer, and a module mount coupling to modularly mount the portable optic metrology thermal chamber module to a support of a metrology system of the metrology system stimulus source so as to removably couple the portable optic metrology thermal chamber module as a unit to the support in a predetermined position relative to the metrology system stimulus source, and the housing is sized and shaped so that the portable optic metrology thermal chamber module is portable as a unit for moving to and removing from the predetermined position.
US12104974B2
Provided is a freehub torque and speed sensing device, including a freehub, a dynamic assembly and a static assembly. The freehub includes a freehub body (2) and a freehub fixing housing (1) sleeved on an outer side of the freehub body (2). A load connection portion (204) is disposed at one end of the freehub body (2). A torque sensing deformation unit (203) is disposed at the freehub body (2) adjacent to the load connection portion (204) and includes at least one sensor. The dynamic assembly rotates with the freehub body (2). The static assembly is fixedly connected to an external fixing structure body and includes a primary control unit. The dynamic assembly includes a secondary control unit electrically connected to the sensor. A torque signal is transmitted between the primary control unit and the secondary control unit in a wireless manner, and the primary control unit supplies power to the secondary control unit in the wireless manner. In this manner, the whole vehicle assembly is more convenient and safer, and the signal stability is high.
US12104970B2
A pressure sensing device is provided. In the pressure sensing device, the rigid structure includes rigid blocks arranged at intervals, and strain amplification zones are formed between every two adjacent rigid blocks. The force sensors include first sensors and second sensors. The first sensors are arranged on the two installation surfaces of the strain amplification zones and capable of following the deformation of the measured object, the second sensors are arranged on the two installation surfaces of the rigid blocks and located close to corresponding first sensors. At least four force sensors are connected to form a bridge circuit, and the bridge circuit is electrically connected to a signal processing circuit, so as to detect deformation of the rigid structure and obtain a force acted on the measured object. An output signal of each of the second sensors serves as a temperature compensation signal of the corresponding first sensors.
US12104958B2
Devices and methods of the present technology utilize wavelength-dependent transmittance of 2D materials to identify the wavelength of an electromagnetic radiation. A wide range of 2D materials can be used, making possible the use of the technology over a large portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, from gamma rays to the far infrared. When combined with appropriate algorithms and artificial intelligence, the technology can identify the wavelength of one or more monochromatic sources, or can identify color through the use of a training set. When applied in an array format, the technology can provide color imaging or spectral imaging using different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
US12104953B2
A spectrometer includes: a diffraction means that diffracts light being measured which has entered via an entrance unit; a main sensor that receives the light being measured which has been diffracted by the diffraction means; at least one auxiliary sensor disposed in an optical path of a luminous flux that does not reach the main sensor among luminous fluxes that have entered via the entrance unit, the auxiliary sensor receiving the luminous flux; and a correction means that corrects an output value of the main sensor on the basis of an output value of the auxiliary sensor.
US12104952B1
A calibration arrangement to calibrate a light intensity reading includes a first light emitter to emit light, a first light receiver to receive the emitted light and generate an output signal and a controller to provide a first control signal to the first light emitter to emit a first light pulse during a first period of time, measure a first output signal, provide a second control signal to the first light emitter to emit a second light pulse during a second period of time, measure a second output signal, calculate a second difference between the first output signal and the second output signal and use the calculated second difference to calibrate the light intensity reading.
US12104933B2
An optical sensor includes a tube-shaped base formed from a metal, an optical fiber member received inside the base, and a sensor head formed from monocrystalline alumina and bonded to the base to be optically connected with the optical fiber member. The sensor head is provided with a first cavity including a first reflection surface configured to reflect a part of light introduced through the optical fiber member and a second reflection surface provided facing the first reflection surface and configured to reflect a part of the light reflected by the first reflection surface. A first interference light produced by an interference between the light reflected by the first reflection surface and the light reflected by the second reflection surface is output from the first cavity.
US12104931B2
A position sensor for determining the position of a conductive target using a transmit coil and a plurality of receive coils. The receive coils may each include two strands and a strand may be obtained from a conversion of a substantially sinusoidal primitive function. The position sensor may realize a reduction of harmonics in signals from the receive coils.
US12104929B2
A compact crown for an electronic device such as an electronic watch, including a set of wipers capable of determining a rotation angle, rotation direction, or rotation speed, is disclosed. The set of wipers is in contact with at least one resistance member at different angular positions around a rotation axis. The crown may have a group of ground taps disposed along the resistance member and a measured signal may vary based on the position of each wiper as it contacts the at least one resistance member. A compact crown may also include capacitive members and capacitive sensors in order to similarly determine rotation angle, rotation direction, or rotation speed.
US12104922B2
A method for synchronizing neighboring tiles in an electronic map is described. The method includes grouping neighboring tiles of the electronic map into a plurality of tile groups. The method also includes selecting a first tile group and a second tile group that border one another on at least a first tile in the first tile group and a second tile in the second tile group. The method further includes independently optimizing the first tile group and the second tile group if a feature crosses between the first tile group and the second tile group. The method also includes shifting a border of the first tile group and a border of the second tile group to join the first tile and the second tile in the second tile group or the first tile group.
US12104920B2
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for synchronizing map updates for a navigating autonomous vehicle. A management service on a managing node can receive an update to a portion of a first map, where a limited visibility map, which is a subset of the first map, can be determined based on a geographical area around an autonomous vehicle navigating a route. The limited visibility map can be synchronized among all the nodes while the autonomous vehicle is using the limited visibility map by the management service delivering, to a plurality of downstream nodes, the update to the limited visibility map when the update does not modify a portion of the limited visibility map, and by bypassing, to the plurality of downstream nodes, the update to the limited visibility map when the update modifies a portion of the limited visibility map.
US12104919B2
A method for predicting a weather condition at a particular location in a road network extending over at least one weather area divided into a plurality of weather cells, the method including steps of obtaining, from a weather forecast provider, a first data item relating to a general weather forecast for the weather area, and receiving, from a first vehicle travelling in a first weather cell, a second data item relating to an alteration of a weather condition detected by at least one sensor of the vehicle. The prediction method is remarkable in that it further includes steps of predicting a probability of a weather condition for at least one target weather cell by applying a prediction model associated with the target cell to at least the first data item and the second data item, and of transmitting the predicted weather condition to at least one second vehicle.
US12104917B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include a navigation system and computer-implemented methods for proactively re-routing vehicles based on an analysis of input component data obtained from the navigation-enabled devices. The navigation system scores the input component data to obtain a measure of frustration (e.g., a feeling of being upset or annoyed) of the user of the navigation-enabled device. The navigation system may provide a detour suggestion for display on the navigation-enabled device to persuade the user of the device to direct their vehicle to depart from its current location or route in an effort to remove the vehicle from traffic, and thereby reduce the frustration level of the user. The detour suggestion may include an alternative route to the original destination, or an alternative destination.
US12104915B2
A method for generating navigation routes for a vehicle includes: receiving an origin position, in a road network, of the vehicle; receiving a destination position, in the road network; receiving a user preference from a user interface device, the user preference indicating a tradeoff value having one of a plurality of values between travel time and energy efficiency; computing a time value for each of a plurality of road segments of the road network using a time consumption model; computing an energy consumption for each of the plurality of road segments of the road network using an energy consumption model; identifying a weighted route from the origin position to the destination position based on the time value and the energy consumption for the road segments and based on the user preference; and supplying the identified weighted route to a navigation system of the vehicle.
US12104911B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for painting driving markings invisible in visible light spectrum, comprising generating driving assistance markings expressing driving information relating to one or more road segments, computing instructions for painting the driving assistance markings on one or more elements of the road segment(s) using one or more paint material(s) characterized by: (1) reflecting light in a visible light spectral range deviating less than a first value from the visible light spectral range reflected by a surface of the element(s) and (2) reflecting light in an infrared spectral range deviating more than a second value from the infrared spectral range reflected by the surface of the element(s), and outputting the painting instructions for applying the one or more paint materials on the element(s) according to the instructions such that the driving assistance markings are visible in the infrared spectrum and significantly invisible in the visible spectrum.
US12104907B2
A compact celestial tracker includes a platform, a rotation stage that rotatably coupled to the platform to rotate a plane of the platform about a rotation axis and that supports the platform on a substrate, an off-axis parabolic mirror mounted to one side of the platform and having a focal plane directed at an acute angle that is between the rotation axis and the plane of the platform to reflect and focus the beam at a point above another side of the platform, and a detector coupled to the other side of the platform to receive and detect the reflected and focused beam.
US12104898B1
A triangular ruler includes a triangular ruler body; a right-angle edge of the triangle ruler body is provided with an extended ruler, and the outer side of the extended ruler is provided with the angle scale line, the interior of the triangle ruler body and the extended ruler are both provided with matching rotating holes, and the adjustment part is provided at the connection between the triangle ruler body and the extended ruler. When measuring long distances, by rotating the extended ruler until coincides with the right-angle edge of triangle ruler body, the extended ruler and the triangle ruler body are combined for long-distance measurement.
US12104897B2
An interferometric optical system for measuring a test object, including: i) a reference object comprising a partially reflective reference surface; ii) a light source module configured to direct first and second input beams through the reference surface to the test object at an angle to one another; iii) a detector positioned to detect light reflected from the reference surface and one or more surfaces of the test object; and iv) an aperture positioned to selectively block light from reaching the detector, wherein the angle between the first and second input beams causes the aperture to block light from the first input beam reflected by the reference surface and pass light from second input beam reflected by the reference surface, wherein the two input beams have a mutual coherence length smaller than twice an optical distance between the reference surface and the test object.
US12104895B2
Described is a method for aligning a vehicle service system (1) relative to a vehicle (2) positioned in a service area (8), where the vehicle service system (1) comprises: a calibration structure (3) for calibrating an ADAS sensor of an advanced driver assistance system of the vehicle (2); an apparatus (4) for measuring the alignment of the vehicle (2) and on which an apparatus camera (41) is mounted; wherein the method comprises the following steps: applying a front wheel target (51) and a rear wheel target (52) on a front wheel and on a rear wheel of the vehicle (2); capturing an image through the apparatus camera (41), wherein the image represents the front wheel target (51) and the rear wheel target (52); processing the image to derive information useful for positioning the calibration structure (3) relative to the vehicle (2); placing a positioning device (7) at an operating position, spaced from the calibration structure (3), in front of the apparatus (4) and alongside the first side of the vehicle (2).
US12104893B2
A three-dimensional measurement device measures the three-dimensional shape of an object or information indicating a shape thereof based on event data. A stripe pattern is projected from the projection unit to the object. The object is optically imaged by an imaging unit and an image based on event data is acquired. The event data, which are outputted from the image sensor, include two-dimensional point data that specifies the positions of pixels corresponding to the pixels that had luminance changes responsively to the stripe pattern projected. Based on the event data, an image of the object is obtained. The image sensor outputs positive luminance change event data when brightening luminance changes and negative luminance change event data when darkening luminance changes. The measurement unit obtains luminance information based on a time difference between output of event data of positive luminance changes and output of event data of negative luminance changes.
US12104888B2
A double single beveled broadhead. The double single beveled broadhead includes a first pair of blades. The first pair of blades are in a single plane, are opposite one another, forming a wedge shape and are both single beveled. The double single beveled broadhead also includes a second pair of blades. The second pair of blades are in a single plane, the plane of the second pair of blades is offset relative to plane of the first pair of blades by 90 degrees and are both single beveled. The double single beveled broadhead further includes an attachment, where the attachment allows the double single beveled broadhead to be attached to an arrow shaft.
US12104879B2
A fabric garment to be worn by a human having a waistband in the garment, the fabric garment having a holster internal to the fabric of the fabric garment adjacent at least one hip side of the fabric garment: a) the fabric garment having a body centered forward position; b) the waistband in the garment having asymmetrical distances from the body centered forward position to a left hip position and a right hip position on the waistband; c) a longer distance of the asymmetrical distances on a hip having the holster internal to the fabric of the fabric garment; the holster having an opening therein into which an object can be received and supported.
US12104875B2
An arrow gun is provided having a controllable retention force on the arrow. By setting the retention force on the arrow, increased energy from motive compressed gas can be imparted to the arrow. The arrow gun also includes a damping coupling for reducing vibration of an unsupported length of the barrel.
US12104867B2
Provided are a trigger assembly, firearm, and various methods and components. An example assembly includes a lower trigger body comprising a trigger lever; a disconnector rotatable relative to the lower trigger body; a trigger tower rotatable relative to the lower trigger body and the disconnector, the trigger tower defining a trigger tower hook; and a hammer defining a hammer sear hook configured to engage the trigger tower hook to hold the hammer in a cocked position. In response to application of a force to the trigger lever, the lower trigger body may rotate and cause the trigger tower to rotate to release the trigger tower hook from the hammer sear hook.
US12104863B2
A brazed plate heat exchanger (100) for exchanging heat between at least two fluids comprises several elongate heat exchanger plates (110) provided with a pressed pattern comprising depressions and elevations adapted to keep the plates on a distance from one another by contact points between the elevations and depressions of neighboring plates under formation of interplate flow channels for media to exchange heat. At least four port openings are placed in corner regions of the elongate heat exchanger plates and have selective fluid communication with the interplate flow channels such that the fluids to exchange heat will flow between port openings parallel to long sides of the elongate heat exchanger plates. A circumferential seal sealing off the interplate flow channels from communication with the surroundings is provided, and the heat exchanger plates are joined by brazing. The circumferential seal results partly from contact between skirts of neighboring plates contacting one another, said skirts extending at least partly along two sides of each heat exchanger plates, and partly from contact between flat areas extending along two other sides of the heat exchanger plates.
US12104862B2
A heat exchanger includes: a fin group including plate-shaped fins; heat transfer tubes penetrating the plate-shaped fins; and a support plate at an end of the fin group. The heat transfer tubes penetrate the support plate. The heat exchanger is configured to cause a heat medium flowing through the heat transfer tubes to exchange heat with air. End portions of the heat transfer tubes form protrusions protruding from the support plate. The protrusions include: a first protrusion connected to one of the protrusions adjacent to the first protrusion; and a second protrusion connected to a flow path pipe different from one of the protrusions adjacent to the second protrusion. A distance from a tip end of the second protrusion to the support plate is shorter than a distance from a tip end of the first protrusion to the support plate.
US12104860B2
Disclosed herein is a once-through heat exchanger that includes a tube stack including a plurality of tubes, a plurality of heads connected to the tubes and configured to accommodate heated steam, and a manifold connected to the heads via a first link pipe and a second link pipe and configured to accommodate heated steam. The heads are spaced in a direction crossing a longitudinal direction thereof, and the first link pipe and the second link pipe include a first inclined link part or a second inclined link part, respectively, extending at an angle to each other.
US12104854B2
The present disclosure generally provides an oscillating heat pipe, wherein the oscillating heat pipe comprises a 3-phase working fluid that includes at least one liquid phase portion, at least one vapor phase portion, and at least one solid phase portion, wherein in addition to a phase change between liquid and vapor, there is also a phase change from solid to liquid during a heat transfer process involving the oscillating heat pipe.
US12104853B2
A heat exchanger apparatus includes at least one metal sheet with a corrugated surface, fabric covering at least a part of one surface of the at least one metal sheet to promote evaporation, and a wetting agent in the fabric to promote wetting of the fabric, the wetting agent also acting as an anti-microbial agent.
US12104850B2
A process for recovering at least one fluid (e.g. xenon gas and/or krypton gas, etc.) from a feed gas can include utilization of a compression system, primary heat exchanger unit, a pre-purification unit (PPU), and other units to separate and recover at least one desired fluid. In some embodiments, fluid flows output from a first heat exchanger or separation system of the plant can be split so that a portion of a stream is output for downstream processing to purify xenon (Xe) and/or krypton (Kr) product flow(s) while another portion of the stream is recycled to a compression system or the PPU to undergo further purification and heat exchange so that the product output for downstream processing has a higher concentration of Xe or Kr. Some embodiments can be configured to provide an improved recovery of Xe and/or Kr as well as an improvement in operational efficiency.
US12104847B1
A shipping protector for bottles and the like has a coolant receiving bay defined therein, adapted to allow placement of cooling elements therein when the protector is in a shipping carton. The bay is open to the top and bottom such that the cooling element can be inserted therein in a separate operation from the packing of the bottles or the like.
US12104842B2
Disclosed is a refrigerator having a centrifugal fan with a volute, which includes a cabinet, an evaporator, a centrifugal fan, and an air supply duct. A cooling chamber located at a lower part and at least one storage compartment located above the cooling chamber are defined in the cabinet; the evaporator is disposed in the cooling chamber and is configured to cool airflow entering the cooling chamber to form cooled airflow; the centrifugal fan includes a volute and an impeller disposed in the volute; and the air supply duct is detachably connected with the volute, communicates with a volute air outlet, and is configured to deliver the cooled airflow into the at least one storage compartment. In the refrigerator of the present invention, the cooling chamber is located at a lower part of the cabinet, so that the cooling chamber occupies a lower space in the cabinet; the storage compartment is located above the cooling chamber, a compressor chamber may be defined behind the cooling chamber, and the storage compartment no longer needs to make room for the compressor chamber, thus guaranteeing the storage volume of the storage compartment. In addition, the air supply duct and the centrifugal fan adopt a split design, which implements modularization, is convenient for disassembly, assembly and transportation, and improves the yield rate.
US12104833B2
An air conditioner includes first and second refrigerant circulation systems each including an indoor unit including an indoor heat exchanger and an indoor throttle device, an outdoor unit including a compressor and an outdoor heat exchanger, an exhaust pipe arranged at an exhaust port of the compressor, an intake pipe arranged at an intake port of the compressor, a liquid-side piping connecting the exhaust pipe, the outdoor heat exchanger, the indoor throttle device, and the indoor heat exchanger in sequence, and a gas-side piping connecting the indoor heat exchanger and the intake pipe. The air conditioner further includes a heat circulation device configured to convey heat energy or cold energy of at least one of the indoor heat exchanger of the first refrigerant circulation system or the indoor heat exchanger of the second refrigerant circulation system into a room.
US12104820B2
A plug assembly for use in a process for manufacturing an insulated register box has a body having a bottom and at least one side wall extending upwardly from the bottom, a rotatable element at the bottom of the body, and an actuator connected to the rotatable element and positioned above the rotatable element. The rotatable element is adapted to seal an end of a duct in an interior of the box of the insulated register box. The rotatable element is movable between an installation position and a sealing position. The actuator is cooperative with the rotatable element so as to move the rotatable element between the installation position and the sealing position.
US12104813B2
A method of monitoring a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system to detect installation location of at least one indoor air quality (IAQ) monitor. The method includes monitoring, by a controller, operation of the HVAC system, determining, by the controller, whether power exists at a duct terminal of the at least one IAQ monitor and responsive to a determination that the power exists at the duct terminal of the at least one IAQ monitor, configuring, the at least one IAQ monitor as being installed within a ductwork.
US12104812B2
One implementation of the present disclosure is a controller for a variable refrigerant flow system. The controller includes processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processors, cause the processors to perform operations including identifying zones within a structure, generating zone groupings defining zone groups and specifying which of the zones are grouped together to form each of the zone groups, generating metric of success values corresponding to the zone groupings and indicating a control feasibility of a corresponding zone grouping, selecting a zone grouping based on the metric of success values, and using the selected zone grouping to operate equipment of the variable refrigerant flow system to provide heating or cooling to the zones.
US12104811B2
An air conditioner includes an outdoor unit, a plurality of indoor units, a plurality of detecting units, an operating device that receives an instruction on use of all prediction results obtained for all of a plurality of spaces, a determining circuitry, and a deciding circuitry. The detecting circuitries each detect a state relating to temperature of an associated space. A prediction result obtained for each of the spaces is a predicted temperature of the space associated with one of the detecting circuitries a predetermined time after a detection result is obtained by the one of the detecting circuitries, which is predicted on the basis of the detection result. When all the prediction results are determined not to be the same, the deciding circuitry determines how air conditioning is to be performed on the basis of part or the whole of all the prediction results in accordance with an instruction received by the operating device.
US12104808B2
An environmental building sensor, the environmental building sensor including a sensing device configured to measure an environmental condition of a building, an output connection between one or more circuits of the environmental building sensor and an external device, the output connection connected to an input impedance of the external device, and one or more circuits. The one or more circuits are configured to detect a feedback voltage, the feedback voltage based on the input impedance, determine, based on the feedback voltage, whether the external device is configured to receive an analog current input or an analog voltage input from the environmental building sensor, and generate the analog current input or the analog voltage input based on the environmental condition measured by the sensing device and provide the analog current input or the analog voltage input to the external device via the output connection.
US12104805B2
A heat exchange device and a refrigerant circulation system are disclosed. The heat exchange device includes a housing, defining a first air inlet and a first air outlet; wherein the first air inlet and the first air outlet are spaced apart along a first direction; and a first heat exchange component, arranged in the housing and comprising a plurality of heat exchange fins spaced apart along a second direction; wherein the first heat exchange component is arranged opposite to the first air inlet along a third direction; the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction, and the third direction is perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction.
US12104804B2
A ventilation wall system has an air intake end for air entering and an air exhaust end for air exhausting. The ventilation wall system includes a heat exchanger module, a fan module, an electric control module, and an air filter module. The heat exchanger module is configured to exchange heat for air entering the heat exchanger module. The fan module is configured to convey air on one side of the fan module to the other side of the fan module. The electric control module is electrically connected to the fan module and the heat exchanger module. The air filter module is configured to filter air entering the air intake end. When the fan module is disposed on a side that is of the heat exchanger module and that is close to the air exhaust end, air after heat exchange performed by the heat exchanger module is sent out.
US12104794B2
A combustor assembly for gas turbine engine, combustor assembly including: combustor wall including interior surface and combustor wall opening, wherein interior surface partially defines combustion chamber, wherein combustor wall opening extends between combustion chamber and its exterior; sealing element disposed partially within combustor wall opening and includes air inlet, air outlet and air passageway, wherein air outlet exits into combustion chamber and delivers flow of air received from exterior of combustion chamber via air inlet and air passageway to combustion chamber; and fuel nozzle coupled to sealing element and configured to deliver fuel into combustion chamber, wherein combustor wall further includes first bearing surface and sealing element further includes second bearing surface, wherein first bearing surface is concave and forms part of first spherical surface such that first and second bearing surfaces are configured to move relative to each other about central point of first spherical surface.
US12104792B2
A lighter having a main fuel containment housing body and a forward hinged lid with a closed position and an open position, the open position providing access to the flame generator assembly. The flame generator assembly providing a wind shield with a flame outlet that, when the lighter is in an operation orientation, is directed upwardly and in a direction generally perpendicular to the major dimension of the lighter in the closed position. The windshield having dimples with apertures extending outwardly for reducing wind while providing oxygen. The lighter may have a forward sleeve with a closeable lid, the sleeve extending around the four sides of the housing and slidable on the fuel containment housing. An actuation portion effects a transition from the closed position to an operational position, opening the lid and sliding the sleeve downwardly exposing the flame generation system out of an opening in the sleeve.
US12104791B2
A fire starter includes a casing made from a first material a first material having a first time associated therewith that defines a length of time that the casing burns after being ignited. A second material disposed in the casing has a second time associated therewith that defines a length of time that the second material burns after being ignited. An igniter, disposed in the casing and adjacent to the second material, generates a first thermal event to ignite the second material wherein the second material combusts to define a second thermal event that ignites the first material. An actuator is coupled to the igniter and is positioned outside of the casing for activating the igniter to generate the first thermal event.
US12104787B2
A grate bar has a grate bar head, two side walls, a running surface behind the head and between the side walls and an underside disposed below the surface and between the side walls. A recess in one side wall forms an air slot between the surface and underside and is arranged only on one side wall, not in its opposite side wall. In a grate bar arrangement including multiple grate bars, each including a running surface and a grate bar head, in which an upper grate bar with grate bar head is moveably arranged relative to a lower grate bar so that the head may slide over front and rear grate bar running surface areas, the running surface has air slots in the front and rear areas and the head is displaceable relative to these slots so that the opening cross section of all slots remains constant.
US12104777B2
An illumination system has a controller stack that includes multiple power conversion and LED driver assemblies and a pole-mounted backplane that provides power and communication connections. The pole-mounted backplane further acts as a heat-sink and efficiently transmits excess heat to the pole on which the controller stack is mounted. The controller stack and its components include weathertight housings and connectors for outdoor applications, and it includes a master, which monitors the system operation and can switch to a backup LED driver based upon its monitoring of system operation.
US12104776B2
A lighting device (e.g., a controllable light-emitting diode illumination device) may have a light-generation module that may be assembled and calibrated prior to the light-generation module being installed in a finished good. The light-generation module may include an emitter module having at least one emitter mounted to a substrate and configured to emit light. The light-generation module may include a first printed circuit board on which the emitter module may be mounted and a second printed circuit board on which those circuits that are essential for powering the emitter module may be mounted. The light-generation module may include a heat sink located between the first printed circuit board and the second printed circuit board. The emitter module may be thermally-coupled to the heat sink through the substrate and the first printed circuit board.
US12104775B2
A lighting system, including but not limited to security lighting systems, includes a light fixture having a housing and a light source supported on the housing. The light fixture may include an adjuster that is adjustable to control both an output level of the light source and an external light level at which the light source is activated. Additionally or alternatively, the light source may be a first light source, and the light fixture may include a second light source and a motion sensor housed within an installation cavity of the housing and behind an optic of the light fixture. The first light source may be supported on the housing outside of the installation cavity.
US12104773B2
Apparatus and methods for deployment of fixtures. The apparatus may include a system for controlling deployed fixtures. The system may receive user commands different devices in different formats. The fixtures may be independently addressable. The fixtures may be magnetically supported by a fixture support. A brace may join two or more fixture supports without reducing space available to support fixtures. The brace may join a fixture support to a fixture support accessory. An accessory may include a variable-angle junction. The fixture may include articulating joints for controlling the direction of a beam. The fixture may include a lens having an electrically controllable beam spread angle. The fixture may be stowable in the fixture support. The fixture may be slidable along a cord to adjust a height of the fixture. The fixture may include an extendable ring. The system may coordinate motions of the fixtures to follow a target. The fixture may include an elongated board. The elongated board may include a non-polar power socket.
US12104772B1
A headlamp apparatus is described that is suitable for use by health care providers. The apparatus is directed to a headlamp that provides the ability for a user to block contaminants from entering into an internal portion or cavity of the headlamp while also providing the user the ability to sanitize the internal components of the headlamp without disassembly. The apparatus is further directed to a headlamp having an actuatable iris and associated lens whereby continuous enlarging of a diameter of an aperture of the iris continuously, linearly actuates the lens away from the iris and continuously reducing the diameter of the aperture of the iris continuously, linearly actuates the lens towards the iris.
US12104771B2
Apparatus and methods for lighting are provided. The apparatus may include a lighting assembly. The lighting assembly may include a radius. The lighting assembly may include a light-emitting diode (“LED”) light source. The LED light source may include an LED. The apparatus may include a heat sink. The heat sink may be configured to retain the lighting assembly. The lighting assembly may be configured to emit light from an aperture. The aperture may be included in a structure. The aperture may include a radius. The lighting assembly may be configured to tilt relative to the structure. The lighting assembly may be tilted by insertion of an item through the aperture. The difference between the lighting assembly radius and the aperture radius may be between 0.075 inches and 0.25 inches.
US12104769B1
A floodlight, comprising a lamp board, a lens, a radiator and a frame; wherein the lamp board has a light emitting side and a backlight side, and at least one mounting hole is provided on the lamp board; the lens is arranged on the light emitting side, and the lens has a near light side portion close to the lamp board, and at least one first connector is provided on the near light side portion corresponding to a position where the at least one mounting hole is provided; the radiator is arranged on the backlight side, and at least one second connector are arranged on the radiator corresponding to the position where the at least one mounting hole is provided; and one of the first connectors and the at least one second connector can pass through the at least one mounting hole and be detachably connected with the other.
US12104766B2
A lighting system includes an LED downlight mountable to a ceiling, a driver, and an insulation displacement connector (IDC). Light from the downlight can be faced downward to project light or upward to reflect light off of the ceiling. The driver has an input with a first voltage and an output with a second voltage, the second voltage being lower than the first and being provided through a wire system extending from the LED driver. The IDC connects the downlight to the wire system. The lighting system can be changed from a first to a second configuration by at least one of adding an additional downlight using a corresponding IDC or removing an existing downlight using a corresponding IDC. The second configuration does not significantly affect a desired output range of light from any downlight or any LED circuit of any downlight that remains or preexists from the first configuration.
US12104763B2
Disclosed is an inner lens provided in a lamp, the inner lens including a light transmission part through which at least a portion of a light beam output from a light source passes and is then output, a light distribution formation part that outputs, to an outside of the lamp, a light beam, which forms a light distribution pattern, within a transmission light beam that is the light beam output from the light transmission part, and an image formation part that outputs, to the outside, a light beam, which forms an image pattern, among the transmission light beam.
US12104756B2
A detachable light including an outer inclined portion, an inner inclined portion disposed inside the outer inclined portion, a cradle disposed between the outer inclined portion and the inner inclined portion, a frame connected to the outer inclined portion, a battery surrounded by the outer inclined portion and the inner inclined portion, and at least one auxiliary light disposed adjacent to the frame, in which the detachable light is capable of being attached to or detached from a vehicle.
US12104745B2
Methods, devices, and systems are described for a mounting flange and bracket for a space habitat. The bracket system couples a bladder of a space habitat to a cylindrical core. The bracket system includes a soft goods layer configured to cover the bladder of the space habitat. The bracket system includes a mounting flange configured to couple at an end of the cylindrical core. The mounting flange includes a lip extending around the mounting flange. The bracket system includes a bracket configured to connect the soft goods layer to the mounting flange. The bracket has a first end and a second end. The first end includes a pin configured to couple to the soft goods layer. The second end includes a protrusion configured to latch to the lip of the mounting flange. In some variations, a cap is configured to be coupled to the outer side of the mounting flange.
US12104743B1
A fan with double easy-installing buckles, includes a fan, a fan shell, an installation base, a base shell, and a middle partition plate. One end of the fan is sleeved with the double buckle, and the end of the double buckle away from the fan is sleeved with the supporting bracket; the top of the fan shell is provided with the fan top inner cavity, and the top inner cavity of the fan top is equipped with the sliding track and the positioning groove; the bottom surface of the installation base is thread connected to the fixing bottom plate. Firstly, the present invention can effectively avoid the situation to align the buckle with the hole during installation for traditional fan, making the overall installation process more time-saving and labor-saving.
US12104739B1
A thread protector assembly has an outer sleeve and a cap having a portion positioned interior of the outer sleeve. The portion of the cap is adapted to engage with a threaded surface of a tubular. The cap has an end exposed outwardly of the outer surface. The outer sleeve is freely rotatable or swivelable relative to the cap. The outer sleeve is in snap-fit relationship with said cap. The outer sleeve has an upset at one end thereof that overlies the outer diameter of the shoulder of the tubular.
US12104738B2
A completion system includes a pipeline fitting; a plug body sized for the fitting; a set of blades adapted for securing the plug body within the fitting, the blades having a retracted position and an extended position; a circumferential groove adapted to receive the set blades when in the extended position; and a control bar adapted for use with the plug body. The completion system of this disclosure further includes a sensor and the set of blades is adapted to trigger the sensor when the blades are a properly fully extended to a locking position in the circumferential groove, indicating the plug body is in a properly locked position, and to not trigger the sensor when the blades are not fully extended into the circumferential groove to their proper depth. In some embodiments, the sensor indicates a closed electrical circuit. In other embodiments, the sensor indicates a magnetic flux.
US12104735B2
The invention relates to a coupling device for simultaneously coupling and decoupling a number of coupling pairs, which coupling device includes:—a number of coupling pairs, each having a first coupling part and a second coupling part; —a first mounting frame on which the first coupling parts of the number of coupling pairs are arranged; —a second mounting frame arranged parallel to the first mounting frame, wherein the second coupling parts of the number of coupling pairs are arranged to the second mounting frame, and wherein the second mounting frame is movable towards to and away from the first mounting frame between a connected position, in which each first coupling part is connected with the corresponding second coupling part, and a disconnected position; —guiding mechanism arranged to the first mounting frame and the second mounting frame for guiding the movement between the connected and disconnected position; —at least one rack and pinion drive arranged between the first and second mounting frame, wherein the pinion is arranged on a shaft rotatable arranged in the first mounting frame and wherein the rack extends from the second mounting frame in the direction of movement of said second mounting frame into the first mounting frame along the pinion; wherein the shaft extends with at least one end out of the first mounting frame and wherein an operating lever is arranged on the shaft.
US12104729B2
A quick connector comprising a connector body having a collar defining an opening, a verification indicia fixed to the collar, and a sliding locker including a base, and a lock arm. The base can include an armature integrally and immovably joined with it, having a wing extending along and spaced from an outer surface of the collar. The lock arm and wing are all simultaneously moveable in unison when the locker transitions from an unlocked mode, where the base protrudes from the transverse opening and supports the wing to obstruct the verification indicia, thereby inhibiting reading and/or scanning of the verification indicia, to a locked mode, where the base is inserted farther into the opening and supports the wing to allow reading and/or scanning of the first verification indicia to confirm proper installation of the quick connector. A related method of use is provided.
US12104728B1
A pivotable hose connector having a connector, an attachment assembly and a clamping nut. The connector housing has a crimp sleeve portion having a threaded outer surface and a lower housing cavity. The attachment assembly has a hose insertion member and a tubular coupling assembly. The hose insertion member has a hose barb and a central bore, and is positioned within the connector housing so that the crimp sleeve portion surrounds the hose barb. The body end is positioned within the lower housing cavity. The tubular coupling assembly is in rotative sealed engagement relative to each of the connector housing and the hose insertion member, and includes a tubular extension having an internal bore portion in fluid communication with the central bore. The clamping nut is threadedly engageable with the outer surface, and includes a bore extending therethrough that corresponds to the central bore.
US12104724B2
A connection assembly between two portions of a line including an inner conduit for transporting a cryogenic fluid, the assembly including two flanges which are respectively arranged at the ends of the line portions and which are configured to be held in contact with one another by virtue of a fixing arrangement. The contact zone between the two flanges includes at least two grooves for positioning seals and at least one conduit opening out, for the one part, between the two seals and, for the other part, into an expansion chamber for the cryogenic fluid. The expansion chamber is arranged in one, or in the vicinity of one, of the first connection flange and the second connection flange. The expansion chamber includes a detector for detecting the presence of the cryogenic fluid in the expansion chamber or a recess configured for the installation of such a detector.
US12104723B2
A profile clamp with a clamp band and an annular ring element with a ring body is provided. The clamp band has two clamping heads which are connected to one another via a clamping element. The ring element includes at least one first latching tab, which is arranged projecting from the ring body in the axial direction of the profile clamp and projecting out of the profile clamp at least in some sections. The first latching tab has a first latching portion and a free-swinging portion extending opposite thereto. The first latching portion is designed to exert a force, and the first latching portion has a first contact edge that is designed to create a point contact or a line contact with a flange of the pipe end.
US12104711B2
A valve device has a valve housing (10, 54, 94, 166) and fluid ports in the valve housing (connected to or separated from one another in a fluid-conveying manner by a valve piston (22) displaceable along its longitudinal axis (24) in its various travel positions. A latching device (26, 28) latches the valve piston (22) in at least one of its travel positions. Individual latching parts (30, 38, 170) of the latching device, when it is actuated by an external force, take latching positions spatially different from one another with respect to the longitudinal axis (24) of the valve piston (22). The individual latching parts (30, 38, 170) of the latching device (26, 28) take positions differing from one another both in the axial direction and in the radial direction in the individual latching positions.
US12104703B2
A fluid management system includes a housing with a first port, a second port, and a third port, and a valve body moveable within the housing between a first position and a second position. The valve body is configured to seal the third port and permit fluid flow between the first and second ports in the first position, and to seal the first port and permit fluid flow between the second and third ports in the second position. The system further includes an actuator coupled to the valve body. The actuator includes a shape memory alloy material. A biasing element is coupled to the valve body to bias the valve body toward one of the first or second positions. The actuator is configured to move the valve body to one of the first or second positions against a biasing force of the biasing element in response to heating the actuator.
US12104697B2
The application concerns a compression sealing gasket including an annular main body made of an elastomer material and having a main axis A, the main body including an annular radially outer face and an annular radially inner face parallel and coaxial to each other, wherein the gasket includes an insert mounted on the inner face. The application also concerns a sealing system having the sealing gasket.
US12104691B2
A method for determining a state of a transmission for a vehicle includes providing an input for a first generative model depending on a route information, a vehicle speed, a probabilistic variable, and an output of a second physical model, and determining an output of the first model characterizing the state of the transmission in response to the input for the first model. The first model includes a first layer trained to map input to an intermediate state and a second layer trained to map the intermediate state to the state of the transmission depending on the output of the second model. The method includes providing an input for the second physical model depending on at least one vehicle state and/or the route information, and determining an output of the second model in response to the input for the second model. The output of the second model characterizes limit(s) for the intermediate state.
US12104680B2
A drive transmission device disclosed. The device has an input gear configured to rotate by a driving force from a driving source; a swing gear configured to rotate by a driving force from the input gear, the swing gear being located at a first position when the input gear is rotated in a forward direction and located at a second position that is different from the first position when the input gear is rotated in a backward direction that is a direction opposite to the forward direction; an output gear configured to separate from the swing gear when the swing gear is located at the first position, and that is in contact with the swing gear to be rotated by rotation of the swing gear when the swing gear is located at the second position; and a shaft portion configured to support the swing gear such that the swing gear is movable between the first position and the second position. The swing gear has a guide hole into which the shaft portion is inserted.
US12104679B2
A ball screw drive, in particular for a parking brake, comprises a threaded spindle, a spindle nut, and rolling bodies, namely balls, which are arranged in a thread turn between the threaded spindle and the spindle nut. Spring elements are arranged in the thread turn between nut-side stops. There is at least one setting of the threaded spindle and the spindle nut in which the balls and the spring elements are arranged in the thread turn with backlash.
US12104676B2
An arborist device and method of using the same are provided. The device can include a unitary structure having a head and a body that together define an internal open space; the structure extending longitudinally from a first end on the head to a second end opposite the first end, the second end defining an annular opening that provides access to the internal open space; and an annular groove defined by a depression on an external surface of the unitary structure, wherein the groove demarcates the head from the body; and wherein the head includes an opening at the first end, the opening extending into a channel that extends toward the groove, on a front side of the unitary structure.
US12104673B2
The invention relates, inter alia, to an inflatable shock-absorbing cellular structure (1) which consists of two sealed sheets (10, 11) welded together along weld lines (100) that define inflatable cells (2), said inflatable cells (2) being arranged according to at least one two-dimensional matrix (MA) of n rows (L1-L6) and m columns (C1-C6) of cells (2), n and m being the same or different integers, each greater than or equal to 2, a peripheral cell (2) of the matrix (MA) being connected to an inflation nozzle (4). Said structure is characterised in particular in that: —the cells (2) are not contiguous; —the cells (2) of the row and/or column to which the peripheral cell (2) connected to the inflation nozzle (4) belongs communicate with one another through a channel (3) forming a constriction, while each remaining cell (2) of the matrix (MA) is also connected to at least one of the neighbouring cells (2) of the same row and/or the same column through a communication channel (3) forming a constriction.
US12104669B2
A mechanical backstop is provided which comprises a housing, an input impact gear, a frictional plate, a floating impact gear, and an output impact gear. The floating impact gear is movably mounted between the input impact gear and the output impact gear to achieve transmission. The frictional plate is fixed relative to the housing and disposed at a side of the floating impact gear close to the input impact gear. When the input impact gear transmits a torque to the floating impact gear, the floating impact gear floats toward the output impact gear to separate from the frictional plate and transmit the torque to the output impact gear. When the floating impact gear transmits a torque reversely, the floating impact gear floats toward the input impact gear to abut against the frictional plate and achieve reverse locking.
US12104667B2
Brake system having multiple pressure pistons for an electric wheel drive unit, and wheel drive unit
A brake system for an electric wheel drive unit has a housing that can be attached securely to the vehicle frame. The housing has a flange region and a shaft-like wheel carrier region secured to the flange region. A first brake component is connected to the housing and includes a first support part attached directly on a radial outer side of the wheel carrier region and a first brake disc element rotationally fixed to the first support part. A second brake component is rotatably mounted relative to the housing and has a second support part and a second brake disc element rotationally fixed to the second support part. A hydraulic actuation device is provided with one or more pressure pistons arranged. A sliding element is provided for moveably coupling the pressure pistons with one of the brake disc elements.
US12104662B1
A coupling has a housing and a returning unit and a turbo fan coaxially disposed within the housing. The housing has a first shell and a second shell coaxially connected to the first shell. The first shell has multiple driving ribs therein. Each driving rib has a guiding plate, a driving plate connected to the guiding plate, and an included angle defined between the driving plate and the guiding plate of the driving rib. The second shell has multiple divergent ribs therein. Fluid introduced into the housing is guided to the multiple driving ribs of the first shell via the divergent ribs of the second shell. The fluid pushes the driving plate of each driving rib and facilitates the housing to spin and drive a driven device. Therefore, the coupling of the present invention can save energy consumption for driving a driven device.
US12104659B2
An electro-magnetic coil assembly mounted to a clutch assembly, the electromagnetic coil assembly including a coil mounted within an annular coil housing and a flexible armature plate. The coil assembly adapted to generate an electromagnetic field between the coil and the armature plate for attracting the armature plate to the coil assembly. The flexible armature plate includes an annular plate with an outer edge and an inner edge, the outer edge defining an outer periphery, the inner edge defining an inner periphery. Tangs spaced about the inner periphery extending radially inward from the inner edge. Inner notches spaced about the inner periphery of the annular plate and extending radially outward to a point at least halfway in the radial direction between the inner edge and the outer edge. Outer notches spaced about the outer periphery between and extending radially inward.
US12104656B2
The present invention aims at providing a cam clutch that realizes a reduction in production cost, improves productivity and assemblability, and increases the degree of design freedom. The cam clutch includes: an inner race and an outer race that are coaxial and rotatable relative to each other; a plurality of cams circumferentially arranged between the inner race and the outer race; and positioning members that keep each two adjacent cams at fixed positions relative to each other. The positioning members are configured to link each two adjacent cams such as to be tiltable independently of each other.
US12104652B2
In a propeller shaft, a crowning portion of a male spline portion is provided in a predetermined range including a front end portion in an axial direction, and a tooth tip surface is shaped in such a manner that a tooth thickness thereof gradually increases from the front end portion toward an intermediate portion of the male spline portion in the axial direction.
US12104642B2
A flexible fastener captivator includes a flange comprising an orifice configured to enable a fastener to pass through and an adhesive, and a flexible cap coupled with the flange and configured to provide operational access to a fastener encapsulated within the cap, where the cap includes a retaining structure configured to hold a separate fastener within the cap. The retaining structure may be configured as a plurality of flexible ledges extending from an inner surface of the cap and having a planar surface configured to support a head of a separate fastener, such as a standard off-the-shelf screw or bolt. Such a captivator can be dimensioned commensurate with the fastener type and size for which its use is intended, and/or captivator strips may be constructed in Rack Units of length.
US12104640B2
Washers for indicating imbalanced loading and methods of making the same are disclosed herein. An example washer includes an outer conical wall having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, and an inner conical wall concentric with the outer conical wall. The inner conical wall is spaced apart from the outer conical wall. The inner conical wall has a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The inner conical wall defines a central bore through the washer. The washer also includes an end wall between the second ends of the outer conical wall and the inner conical wall, such that a cavity is formed between the outer conical wall, the inner conical wall, and the end wall. An opening to the cavity is formed between the first ends. A viscoelastic material is disposed in the cavity that can protrude from the opening.
US12104639B2
A fastener assembly having a novel capture feature, or features, integrated within a unique and a newly defined portion of the fastener which protrudes from the working surface is provided. The fastener assembly comprises a bolt and a circular clip. The bolt comprises a threaded shank having a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis orthogonal to the longitudinal axis; a head section continuous with the shank, the head section comprising a head; a washer portion; and a groove integrally formed between the head and the washer portion. The circular clip is configured to be received within the groove of the head section.
US12104628B2
A small frangible device for repairing stripped or damaged holes for reinsertion of a screw or nail while reusing and maintaining the original properties of the fastener and capable of immediate use with minimal preparation. The device is characterized as having a generally elongated rounded exterior surface with a relatively narrow end and an opposite thicker end forming a tapering conical shape with a hollow interior and a textured outer surface further characterized by a plurality of non-contiguous, mis-aligned, raised, semi-spherical bumps.
US12104624B2
A device and a system for controlling the turning of an object includes a shaft enclosing a first space, and a sleeve forming a second space between the shaft and the sleeve. Movement of the sleeve is transmitted to movement of the object. The device further comprises a housing comprising means for rotating the shaft and at least one inlet for a lubricant, and a lubricant collector. The shaft has a first through hole extending from the first space to the second space, and the sleeve has at least a second through hole for providing the second space in fluid communication with the lubricant collector. The housing is in fluid communication with the second space, and the first space is pressurizeable for causing the lubricant in the second space to be displaced through the second through hole and collected in the lubricant collector.
US12104623B2
The invention relates to hydraulic cylinder devices and can be used in vehicle transmissions. A three-position pneumatic or hydraulic cylinder consists of a housing having end caps, two pistons, a rod, and supply channels for a working fluid, each piston being configured for limited movement along the rod as a result of a central protuberance, which separates the pistons, and peripheral protuberances on the rod, and being configured for limited movement inside the housing. The central protuberance is configured in the form of a bushing, and an annular protuberance is configured on the inside surface of the housing. Said bushing and said protuberance form a hermetic moveable coupling of the shaft/opening type. Separate channels are provided for supplying working fluid to the chambers formed by each piston and the corresponding end of the housing, and a shared channel is provided for supplying working fluid to the chambers formed by each piston and the central protuberance and bushing; or, separate channels are provided for supplying working fluid to the chambers formed by each piston and the central protuberance and bushing, and a shared channel is provided for supplying working fluid to the chambers formed by each piston and the corresponding end of the housing.
US12104622B2
A pressure exchanger includes a rotor configured to receive first fluid, receive second fluid, and exchange pressure between the first fluid and the second fluid. The pressure exchanger further includes a first component forming a low-pressure port, wherein the first fluid is routed between the rotor and the low-pressure port via a low-pressure passageway. The pressure exchanger further includes a second component forming a fluid passageway between the low-pressure passageway and a centerbore of the pressure exchanger.
US12104621B2
A non-clogging pump (100, 200, 300) includes: a pump casing (3); an impeller (4, 204) including a main plate portion (41), a vane portion (43), and a central protruding portion (42); and a rotating shaft (1), in which an end portion (431) on an inner peripheral side of the vane portion (43) is connected to an outer periphery of the central protruding portion (42) when viewed from the suction port (33a) side, and the impeller (4, 204) is provided with a groove portion (45) extending from an inner peripheral side to an outer peripheral side of the impeller (4, 204), between the central protruding portion (42) and the vane portion (43), when viewed from the suction port (33a) side.
US12104612B1
A system for maintaining a prime of a pump includes a suction line, a discharge line, a pump line, a bypass line, and a pressure tank connected to the bypass line. The pump line includes a pump, an inlet in communication with the suction line, and a discharge in communication with the discharge line. The pump is operable to propel fluid from the suction line to the discharge line through the pump line. The bypass line extends from the suction line to the discharge line. The bypass line includes a control valve operable to selectively permit fluid to flow through the bypass line from the discharge line to the suction line.
US12104598B2
Provided is a sliding component capable of stably reducing the frictional resistance of a sliding surface entailing eccentric rotation. A sliding component has a sliding surface relatively sliding with eccentric rotation, in which the sliding surface includes a land and a plurality of dynamic pressure generation mechanisms arranged in a circumferential direction, the dynamic pressure generation mechanism includes a shallow groove portion and a deep groove portion, and the shallow groove portion surrounds a circumference of the deep groove portion and communicates with the deep groove portion.
US12104594B2
A compressor includes a compression mechanism, a driveshaft, and a motor. The compression mechanism is configured to compress a fluid to a discharge pressure. The motor is configured to rotate the driveshaft. The driveshaft is engaged with the compression mechanism and is fixed to rotate with at least a portion of the compression mechanism. The driveshaft includes a longitudinal aperture configured to receive the fluid at a suction pressure, and includes a flange that receives at least a portion of the compression mechanism. The flange and the compression mechanism define a fluid passage therebetween. The fluid at suction pressure is received within the fluid passage from the longitudinal aperture in the driveshaft.
US12104583B2
A system can include a reservoir configured to hold working material, a decontamination module configured to remove contaminants from the working material, a flow control mechanism configured to regulate working material flow between the reservoir and the decontamination module, and a manifold fluidly connecting the reservoir to the decontamination module.
US12104576B2
A method of parameterizing a controller of a first wind energy installation wherein the controller sets a manipulated variable of the wind energy installation as a function of an input variable. An artificial intelligence determines at least one value of a parameter of the controller for at least one state/degree of being iced up of the wind energy installation based on a power curve, load, and/or downstream flow of the wind energy installation predicted with a mathematical model of the wind energy installation for at least one state/degree of being iced up, and/or determines at least one value of a parameter of the controller for at least one state/degree of being iced up of the wind energy installation, based on at least one determined state/degree of being iced up and a power, load, and/or downstream flow of the wind energy installation and/or at least one second wind energy installation.
US12104575B2
A method of controlling a wind turbine, wherein a minimum required hydraulic pressure represents a hydraulic pressure of at least one accumulator of the wind turbine which is required to pitch at least one blade of the wind turbine which is associated with the accumulator into a stop position of the wind turbine, and wherein a pitch angle represents a pitch angle of a normal of the at least one blade of the wind turbine relative to an incoming wind direction. The method includes (a) determining a minimum requirement function of the minimum required hydraulic pressure dependent on the pitch angle, (b) detecting a current hydraulic pressure in the at least one accumulator at a current pitch angle of the at least one blade, and (c) controlling the wind turbine such that the current hydraulic pressure is above the minimum required hydraulic pressure at the current pitch angle.
US12104569B2
A hydraulic pump motor includes: a cylinder block; a plurality of cylinder bores; a port block and a valve plate, the valve plate being provided with a high pressure port and a low pressure port, the port block being provided with a discharge oil passage and a suction oil passage, a piston disposed in each cylinder bore, and oil flowing through the discharge oil passage and the suction oil passage. Further, the valve plate is provided with a reproduction port at a bottom dead center side position, the port block is internally provided with a reproduction oil passage, and the reproduction oil passage passes through a first region on a side of the high pressure port of the virtual plane and passes through a second region on a side of the low pressure port of the virtual plane in the port block.
US12104565B2
Provided is an igniter capable of reducing occurrence of malfunction due to noise. An igniter (100) includes a switch element (111) having a first end, a temperature sensor (112) including at least one diode and having a cathode end (112B), a switch element control device (12) configured to control the switch element, and a switch element electrode (Pe) connected to the first end of the switch element and to the cathode end, and the switch element control device has a ground electrode (Pgnd) electrically isolated from the cathode end.
US12104560B1
A novel in-cylinder fuel injector has been created for internal combustion engines using gaseous fuels such as hydrogen and low-carbon alternatives. This injector enhances the reliability and fuel efficiency of both spark-ignited and compression-ignition engines. The injector's innovative design encompasses a poppet-style valve for fuel injection and a fuel supply valve to govern fuel flow. Furthermore, it incorporates a distinct lubrication system that caters to the valve, seat, and sliding surface. Additionally, the injector includes valve actuators and a control system, effectively managing fuel injector actuation, injection timing, quantity, and valve actuation sequence. Notably, the design also integrates a lubrication system with a control valve.
US12104551B1
A piston in a piston and cylinder liner assembly for an internal combustion engine includes a piston crown, and a plurality of piston rings seated within a plurality of ring grooves in a crown outer surface. The plurality of piston rings includes a baffle ring seated within an uppermost ring groove. A plurality of pressure balancing passages extend through the piston crown each from a first opening formed in an uppermost land to a second opening formed in a second land. The baffle ring may be a non-loaded ring structured to prevent oil droplets from entering a cylinder and causing abnormal combustion. In an embodiment, a shielding wall projects axially from an annular rim of the piston to prevent entry of oil not deflected by the baffle ring.
US12104550B1
A rotary internal combustion engine is provided that includes a housing and a rotor. The housing includes first and second side housings and a center housing. The center housing is disposed between and attached to the first and second side housings. The rotor is disposed within a rotor chamber and is engaged with a rotor shaft that extends between the first and second side housings. The rotor has a peripheral side wall that extends between a pair of end face surfaces. At least one of the first side housing or the second side housing includes a side plate having a seal surface, an interior surface, and a core disposed between the seal surface and the interior surface. The core comprises a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) material. The seal surface of the side plate engages in a sealing arrangement with a respective rotor end face surface.
US12104546B2
Operating a gaseous fuel engine system includes conveying hydrogen fuel and hydrocarbon fuel into a cylinder in a gaseous fuel engine for combustion. Operating a gaseous fuel engine system further includes receiving an increased engine power output request, boosting a power output of the gaseous fuel engine by varying a ratio of the hydrogen fuel and the hydrocarbon fuel combusted in the cylinder, and varying an in-cylinder combustion parameter based on the varying a ratio. Perturbation to a performance profile of the gaseous fuel engine is thereby limited. Related apparatus and control logic is also disclosed.
US12104538B2
An electric power generation controller for use in an aircraft to control an electric power generating apparatus including a manual transmission which changes speed of rotational power of an aircraft engine, transmits the rotational power to an electric power generator, and includes a plurality of gear stages. The electric power generation controller includes: a rotational frequency receiving section configured to receive an input rotational frequency or an output rotational frequency of the manual transmission as a monitoring rotational frequency; and a manual transmission control section configured to, when the monitoring rotational frequency exceeds a first threshold, output a shift-down signal to perform shift-down from an upper stage to a lower stage, and when the monitoring rotational frequency falls below a second threshold, output a shift-up signal to perform shift-up from the lower stage to the upper stage, the first threshold being set to a value larger than the second threshold.
US12104533B2
Methods and apparatus for gas turbine frame flow path hardware cooling are disclosed. An example engine fan case includes an outer band and an inner band, the outer band and the inner band connected using a double-walled vane, the vane including openings to pass cooling air flow from the outer band to an airfoil of the fairing, and an end segment seal, the seal formed on an edge of the fairing using an auxetic material.
US12104523B2
A high density mobile power unit may include an elongated unibody frame having a frame cavity, a front end, a rear end, an elongated roof panel, a front panel, a rear panel, an elongated floor assembly having an upper side and a lower side, an elongated first side panel, and an elongated second side panel. An enclosure may be formed by the elongated roof panel, the front panel, the rear panel, the elongated floor assembly, the elongated first side panel, and the elongated second side panel. An under carriage structural lattice arrangement may be coupled to the lower side of the floor assembly from the midpoint and extending towards the front end. The under carriage structural lattice arrangement may include a first elongated lattice and a second elongated lattice, and the first elongated lattice and second elongated lattice may be substantially parallel to each other.
US12104520B2
A cylinder head assembly for an internal combustion engine includes a cast cylinder head, a turbocharger housing integrally cast with the cylinder head, and a water jacket cast into the integrally cast turbocharger housing and configured to receive a flow of coolant for cooling the integrally cast turbocharger housing. The assembly can also include a wastegate housing integrally cast with the cylinder head and the turbocharger housing, and a water jacket cast into the integrally cast wastegate housing. The water jacket is configured to receive a flow of coolant for cooling the integrally cast turbocharger housing and the integrally cast wastegate housing.
US12104513B2
An exhaust gas treatment system comprising a first and a second structure being in fluid communication and defining a flow path of the exhaust gases, the second structure being supported by the first structure, the first structure comprising a first catalytic converter downstream a mixing chamber, the first catalytic converter having a fluid connection to an outlet of exhaust gases, the second structure including a filter unit housing removably connected to the first structure and to an inlet module by a filter unit housing fixing, the second structure defining a longitudinal axis, the filter unit housing including a filter unit, and the inlet module including a second catalytic converter and having a fluid connection to an inlet of exhaust gases, the filter unit housing and/or the inlet module being configured to allow its removal from the exhaust gas treatment system.
US12104512B2
A muffler for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes a muffler housing with a peripheral wall which extends longitudinally in the direction of a housing longitudinal axis. At least one base wall is surrounded by the peripheral wall or/and retained on the peripheral wall and delimits a chamber in the muffler housing. At least one base wall opening is surrounded by an opening edge region which is bent at an essentially plane base wall region of the base wall essentially in the direction of the housing longitudinal axis. The at least one base wall opening receives an exhaust pipe with a press fit in at least one base wall.
US12104501B2
Cantilevered airfoils and methods of forming the same are disclosed herein. An example airfoil disclosed herein includes an airfoil including an airfoil body including a first face and a second face, a first recessed portion formed in the first face and internal temperature-regulating features and a first insert disposed within the first recessed portion, the first insert causing the airfoil body to assume a first predefined curvature profile at a first temperature, the first insert causing the airfoil body to assume a second predefined curvature profile at a second temperature.
US12104496B2
A gas turbine engine component includes a component wall that has an exterior core gaspath side and an opposed interior side. The component wall is formed of a ceramic matrix composite that includes a plurality of fiber plies disposed in a ceramic matrix. The component wall includes a corner that connects first and second wall sections. The fiber plies extend continuously through the first wall section, the corner, and the second wall section. The fiber plies are in a stacked contiguous arrangement in the first and second wall sections and at least some of the fiber plies separate from one another in the corner to define one or more void pockets there between.
US12104488B2
A construction machine is provided, such as a drilling rig having a mast along which a tool is movably mounted. The tool is suspended on a cable actuated by a cable winch for raising and lowering the tool, the cable winch being driven by an electric motor as a winch drive in a drive mode. The electric motor is designed to also operate in a recuperation mode in which the electric motor generates electrical energy when the tool is lowered and outputs the electrical energy to an energy store. A controller is designed to actuate the electric motor depending on a specifiable target value such that the cable is tensioned both in the drive mode and in the recuperation mode of the electric motor.
US12104464B2
Cleanout tools and related methods of operation. At least some of the example embodiments are cleanout tools including a tool body that defines an internal annular channel, a joiner coupled to the tool body, a sleeve telescoped within the joiner and tool body, and a ball disposed within the annular channel. The ball held within the annular channel by the sleeve, and the ball configured to move along the annular channel under force of fluid pumped into the cleanout tool. The ball creates a pulsing of fluid streams exiting the tool body. Moreover, in some example systems the fluid streams created by the tool body intersect the inside diameter of a casing at non-perpendicular angles.
US12104461B2
The present description relates to processes and systems for asynchronous frac-to-frac operations for recovering hydro-carbons. The processes can include the use of injection-only and production-only valves that include a housing and at least one sleeve as well as flow restriction components, check valves, or other features. The flow restriction component can be a tortuous path provided in the sleeve. The check valves can be integrated into the sleeve or into the housing of the valve. Various different types of valve assemblies can be used and integrated with flow restriction components and/or check valves.
US12104457B2
A linear electromechanical actuator with a failsafe design may be used with a downhole flow control system. In one example, a subsurface safety valve for controlling flow of production fluids includes a valve closure element moveable between an open position and a closed position in response to a linear movement of an actuating member. A biasing member biases the valve closure element to the closed position. A power section with an electrically-powered motor drives a rotation. A drive section coupled to the power section converts the rotation of the motor to the linear movement of the actuating member to at least open the subsurface safety valve. A clutch selectively decouples the power section from the drive section in response to a power loss.
US12104450B2
A safety plug for use in a bore hole comprising a bore wall. The safety plug comprises a body having a leading end and a trailing end, and at least one flared portion. An anchoring element extends at least partially around an associated flared portion. Axially displacement of anchoring element relative to its associated flared portion causes the anchoring element to bear against the flared portion and transitions the anchoring element between an unexpanded condition and an expanded condition. A nose, comprising conical elements, extends longitudinally from the leading end of body. The nose is longitudinally compressible.
US12104442B2
A downhole tool includes an outer, intermediate and inner tubular bodies. The intermediate tubular body has vanes and female splines. The inner tubular body in the intermediate tubular body includes a load nut and male splines that rotationally couple with the female splines to allow relative axial movement between the inner tubular body and the intermediate tubular body. The male and female splines can rotate inside the outer tubular body for an angle determined by movement of the vanes between longitudinal ribs in the outer tubular body. The inner tubular body has an extended position. When weight is applied on the drill bit (WOB), the inner tubular body has a retracted position where it is pushed inward to compress springs. This causes the inner tubular body and the intermediate tubular body to rotate for a selected angle relative to the outer tubular body.
US12104438B2
A pet door having a casing and a door assembly contained within the casing, the door assembly having a plurality of rotatably interlocking segments such that the door assembly is rigid in a direction along an axis of rotation of the interlocking segments and flexible along a second axis perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the interlocking segments, and a plurality of end caps for preventing horizontal sliding of individual interlocking segments, the end caps having a first surface which engages the end of the interlocking segments and a recess surface spaced away from the end of the interlocking segment to allow free rotation of the interlocking segment not engaging the first surface of the end cap. The pet door further includes a magnet positioned in the end caps which are aligned with a corresponding magnet positioned along the sides of the casing member to individually position the interlocking segments in the casing.
US12104432B2
An astragal for a fenestration system includes at least first and second slots running along opposite sides of the astragal, each slot is configured to receive a stile of a panel of the fenestration system. The slots may be in different planes or in a common plane, and may be different depths or the same depth. In some embodiments, additional slots are provided in the astragal, on one or both sides of the astragal, and the astragal may be used in various placements and configurations within multi-panel door or window systems. A snap clip may be included within one or more of the slots to engage a stile when received in the slot and secure the panel to the astragal. Covers may fill slots that are not utilized in a particular panel configuration.
US12104426B2
Methods and systems are provided for an automated door system for a vehicle. In one example, the automated door system may include a set of manual actuating devices and a set of hands-free actuating devices for automatically unlocking and opening the doors of a commercial vehicle used for transporting cargo. The manual and hands-free actuating devices may be used in response to the operating state of the vehicle.
US12104424B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a logic intelligent control system of train door based on intelligent control unit. The system comprises: a first intelligent control unit located in a selected vehicle of a train, a second intelligent control unit located in each of the other remaining vehicles of the train, and a door controller located in each vehicle. The first intelligent control unit is configured to output corresponding door control instructions through the corresponding door control instruction output port after acquiring door control operation information; the door control instruction input ports corresponding to the first intelligent control unit and the second intelligent control units are configured to drive corresponding door controller control ports to control the door controllers of a corresponding vehicle to execute the door control instruction after receiving the door control instructions.
US12104423B2
In one aspect, a garage door opener system includes a battery configured to be charged by a power source, a controller coupled to the battery, the controller configured to operate a motor that is powered only by the battery, at least one sensor coupled to the motor and the controller, the at least one sensor generating sensor data, and a battery monitoring system coupled to the battery, the controller, and the least one sensor, the battery monitoring system configured to monitor a power consumption of the battery and a state of the battery, and to update an operation configuration of the controller based on historical power consumption of the battery, the state of the battery, and the sensor data.
US12104420B2
An embodiment vehicle hinge driving apparatus includes an actuator, a housing connected to the actuator, an output shaft rotatably mounted in the housing, and a transmission mechanism including a plurality of gear sets configured to transmit a torque from the actuator to the output shaft, wherein the plurality of gear sets includes a proximal gear set close to the actuator, a first distal gear set operatively connected to the proximal gear set, and a second distal gear set operatively connected to the first distal gear set, wherein the second distal gear set is detachably mounted and configured to respond to a required output torque, and wherein the output shaft is connected to the first distal gear set or the second distal gear set.
US12104406B2
The object of the invention is to provide an electronic padlock (1), by means of which the chance of erroneous opening of the electronic padlock is reduced. The electronic padlock according to the invention comprises a body (2) and a shackle (3). The body has latch parts (4), a cam piece (5) and an electronic actuator (6). The electronic actuator (6) comprises a pivot shaft (7), which is arranged to turn the cam piece (5) to release the latch parts (4) from a locking state, and also to turn the cam piece (5) to hold the latch parts in the locking state. In the locking state, the latch parts (4) prevent the shackle (2) from being moved to open the electronic padlock (1). Between the electronic actuator (6) and cam piece (5) there is a blocking mechanism (8). The blocking mechanism connects the pivot shaft (7) of the electronic actuator (6) functionally to the cam piece (5) to turn it with the electronic actuator (6) and prevent any other turning of the cam piece (5) in relation to the body (2).
US12104402B1
Disclosed is a strike assembly comprising a strike plate, a back plate and a thermal bar. The thermal bar can be situated between the strike plate and the back plate. The thermal bar can have a resistivity greater than the resistivity of the strike plate. Also disclosed is a strike assembly comprising a strike plate and a thermal bar. The strike plate can define a circular hole and can comprise a protruding sleeve extending from the strike plate. The strike plate can define an elongated slot. The thermal bar can define a first elongated slot and a second elongated slot. The circular hole of the strike plate can be axially in-line with the first elongated slot of the thermal bar. The protruding sleeve of the strike plate can be situated in the second elongated slot of the thermal bar.
US12104400B2
A cleaning robot for swimming pools includes a charging assembly, a floating assembly, a power assembly and a cleaning assembly. The charging assembly includes a charging mount provided with a first charging induction portion and a first magnet set. The floating assembly includes a floating body, and a second charging induction portion and a second magnet set are disposed on a lateral portion of the floating body. The floating assembly is attracted with the first magnet set of the charging assembly through the second magnet set, and the first charging induction portion and the second charging induction portion are arranged to charge the power assembly after being turned on. The floating assembly and the cleaning assembly are provided with a first and a second travel module for driving the floating assembly and the cleaning assembly respectively. The floating assembly is connected to the cleaning assembly through a power supply cable.
US12104399B2
A device for covering a surface includes (a) a covering, each longitudinal edge of which is provided with a projecting element; (b) a rotatably mounted drum suitable for rolling up or unrolling the covering, and movable in translation on rails placed on either side of the surface; (c) a system for continuously locking/unlocking the projecting element in the rails during the translation of the drum. The projecting element includes a multitude of discreet elements distributed along each longitudinal edge separated from one another by an average distance (d).
US12104394B2
Disclosed herein is a post repair kit comprising a stake defined by a body, proximal end, and a tapered anchor end. The post repair kit comprises a hammer mechanism comprising a power portion and a reciprocating ram structure, the power portion forcibly driving the reciprocating ram structure in a reciprocating motion. The reciprocating ram structure comprises a rod structure having a proximal end coupled with the power portion. The reciprocating ram structure further comprises an offset member connected to a distal end of the rod structure. The offset member has a first hole and a second hole. The distal end of the rod structure is connected to the first hole, wherein the offset member and the rod structure are connected perpendicular to each other. The reciprocating ram structure further comprises an interchangeable adaptor end tool detachably connected to the offset member using a fastening mechanism at the second hole.
US12104393B2
Methods, systems, and panels for retrofitting an existing exterior of a building. In one example, the method may include: (a) obtaining data about an exterior geometry of the existing exterior; (b) using the obtained data, defining a custom retrofit panel system for the exterior geometry; and (c) constructing the custom retrofit panel system including a plurality of panels, in which constructing a panel includes: (i) forming a panel frame by additive manufacturing, the panel frame defining interstitial spaces; (ii) at least partially filling the interstitial spaces with at least one filler; and (iii) in which the constructed panel includes a building facing surface configured to mate with the exterior geometry of the existing exterior.
US12104392B2
The present invention relates to a post hole cover comprising a cover portion adapted to substantially overlie a post hole and one or more ground-engaging members extending from the cover portion, wherein the cover portion includes one or more installation portions adapted to facilitate installation of the post hole cover over the post hole.
US12104391B2
A weighted tarpaulin device for covering an article without moving due to wind or other environmental forces includes a tarpaulin with a plurality of pockets dispersed across a face of the tarpaulin. Each pocket is configured for holding a sandbag of a plurality of sandbags. The plurality of sandbags weigh the tarpaulin down when contained in the plurality of pockets.
US12104382B1
This invention, in embodiments, relates to a roofing drip edge device that includes a drip edge comprising (i) an upper drip edge that is configured to be installed along an edge of a roofing surface, and (ii) a lower drip edge that is approximately at a right angle to the upper drip edge, a flashing strip member that is secured to the upper drip edge of the drip edge, such that a portion of the flashing strip member overhangs a first side edge of the drip edge, and a connecting member that is secured to the drip edge, such that a portion of the connecting member overhangs a second side edge of the drip edge. This invention, in embodiments, further relates to a method of installing a roofing drip edge device.
US12104367B2
An upper retractable controller for a bidet filter, includes a controller main body from which a capsule type bidet filter is detachable through an upper portion, a water supply part configured inside the controller main body and supplying raw water to the bidet filter, an operation part configured in the controller main body and controlling the water supply part, an opening and closing cover part coupled to the upper portion of the controller main body and sealing the bidet filter, and a filter detachable frame provided in the controller main body and on which the bidet filter is detachably seated to support an inflow of water and a supply of purified cleaning water to a nozzle assembly of a bidet.
US12104365B2
The invention discloses a water-replenishing pipe dredging device, comprising a push-pull unit and a water replenishing unit. The push-pull unit comprises a main body pipe, a pulling part, and a suction part. The water replenishing unit comprises a water replenishing pipe, an upper cover group, and a lower cover group. When the pulling part is operated to pump water upward, the pulling part is pulled to a fixed position, and the remaining water will be injected into an extra space formed by upward movement of the pulling part in the main body pipe until a water level of the main body pipe is flush with that of the water replenishing pipe, so that the impact force of water in the main body pipe can be conveniently applied, can be completely transmitted to a blocked end, and can effectively clear blockages in a drainage pipeline.
US12104364B2
A drain pipe structure configured for a basin, comprising a drain pipe body for water drainage, at least one connecting seat, and at least one mounting seat. The at least one connecting seat is configured to be connected to the drain pipe body to be fixed relative to an axial direction of the drain pipe body and at least one of rotation direction about an axis of the drain pipe body. The at least one connecting seat comprises a first connecting member, and the at least one mounting seat comprises a second connecting member. The first connecting member is configured to be operatively coupled to the second connecting member to enable the at least one mounting seat to operatively move along the axial direction of the drain pipe body to be fixed to a predetermined position of the at least one connecting seat along the axial direction.
US12104353B2
An excavator includes a lower traveling body; an upper turning body turnably mounted to the lower traveling body; an actuator configured to change an orientation of the upper turning body; and a control apparatus configured to perform front-face control to operate the actuator such that the upper turning body is caused to front-face a target surface, based on information regarding the target surface and information regarding the orientation of the upper turning body, wherein the control apparatus performs the front-face control such that the upper turning body maintains a state of front-facing the target surface.
US12104352B2
A compaction management system includes a position calculation unit that, when a bucket is pressed against a compaction target ground, calculates a position of the bucket, a rolling compaction force calculation unit that, when the bucket is pressed against the compaction target ground, calculates a rolling compaction force applied to the compaction target ground using the attitude of the machine body, the attitude of the attachment, a pressure of a cylinder, and dimensions of the attachment, a rolling compaction record creation unit that creates a rolling compaction record in which the position calculated by the position calculation unit is associated with the rolling compaction force calculated by the rolling compaction force calculation unit, and a storage control unit that causes a storage device to store the rolling compaction record created by the rolling compaction record creation unit.
US12104349B2
Provided is a construction machine configured such that a hydraulic actuator is driven by a hydraulic pump for a closed circuit, by which oil film breakage of the hydraulic pump for a closed circuit is prevented to improve the reliability and a high operation rate can be obtained. The construction machine includes a switching valve that is provided in a branch hydraulic line connecting one of suction/delivery ports of a closed circuit pump and a charge line to each other and is opened and closed according to a control signal from a controller. The controller is configured to, in a case where a state in which a delivery volume of the closed circuit pump is kept to zero continues for a predetermined time period or more, open the switching valve and keep the delivery volume of the closed circuit pump to a predetermined delivery volume or more, the predetermined delivery volume being greater than zero.
US12104341B2
A ground-anchored foundation for a mobile flood protection arrangement is provided, wherein the ground-anchored foundation comprises at least one bottom anchor cylinder, wherein the at least one cylinder is attached to a plate, the plate being centered to the at least one cylinder, wherein the plate comprises a mounting hole adapted for pivotally attaching a receiver part to the mobile flood protection arrangement.
US12104338B2
A combined type flexible glass net system used for protection against full-particle falling rocks on plank roads in scenic spots includes a supporting layer, an intercepting throwing layer and a flexible glass net isolating layer, wherein the supporting layer is longitudinally arranged above a protective area along a mountain, and includes a supporting steel frame and an oscillating type supporting rod; the intercepting throwing layer is supported on the supporting layer, and includes metal meshes, an along-cross-slope lower connecting rope, an along-cross-slope upper connecting rope, an along-slope connecting rope and a reinforcing rope; and the flexible glass net isolating layer includes glass plates, glass net supporting cables and a hoop type hinged piece, wherein the glass plates are connected to the glass net supporting cables through the hoop type hinged piece, and the glass net supporting cables are hung below the supporting steel frame.
US12104336B1
A building constructed with a reduced-carbon-emission portland cement concrete slab-on-ground (PCC SoG) having a nominal thickness that is less than a PCC SoG design for the ground site having a design thickness based on design guidelines set forth by the American Concrete Institute. Carbon emission savings for the reduced-carbon-emission PCC SoG and a video record of the surface of the ground site prior to construction of the reduced-carbon-emission PCC SoG are stored by a processor in a first database. The processor verifies that the building constructed with the reduced-carbon-emission PCC SoG has been completed. The processor transfers at least a portion of the carbon emission savings and the video record stored in the first database to a second database in preparation for the sale or exchange of the carbon emission savings only after the processor verifies that the building constructed with the reduced-carbon-emission PCC SoG has been completed.
US12104334B2
The present invention relates to a method of controlling operation of a vibratory roller (1) comprising a roller drum (3) and a vibratory mechanism (2) having at least two amplitude settings. The method comprises operating the vibratory mechanism (2) in one of said at least two amplitude settings; maintaining a predefined phase angle by controlling the vibration frequency of the vibratory mechanism (2); monitoring a bouncing indication value (BIV), said bouncing indication value being calculated based on an acceleration signal indicative of the vertical acceleration of the roller drum (3); and turning off the vibratory mechanism (2) upon detection of a resonance meter value (BIV) that exceeds a predetermined bouncing value (BV), thereby preventing the vibratory roller from operating in a bouncing mode of operation.
US12104328B2
A turnout apparatus for an overhead monorail includes a frame, an input fixed rail docking an input rail, output fixed rails each docking an output rail, and movable rails disposed between the input fixed rail and the output fixed rails. The input fixed rail is disposed at one end of the frame. The output fixed rails include a first output fixed rail and a second output fixed rail disposed at the other end of the frame. The movable rails include a first movable rail docking the input fixed rail and the first output fixed rail, and a second movable rail docking the input fixed rail and the second output fixed rail. The first and second movable rails are fixed and rotatable about a horizontal line as an axis. Directions toward which upper rail surfaces of the first movable rail and the second movable rail face differ by 180 degrees.
US12104327B2
Paper products can comprise a first plurality of fibers that are hardwood fibers and a second plurality of fibers that include softwood fibers and surface enhanced pulp fibers (SEPF). The paper product can include one or more first fiber layers that comprise the first fibers, at least one of the first fiber layer(s) defining one of opposing upper and lower surfaces of the paper product, and one or more second fiber layers that comprise the second fibers. When a tissue, by weight, between 50% and 80% of the tissue's fibers can be the first fibers and at least 20% of the tissue's fibers can be the second fibers. The tissue's basis weight can be less than or equal to 21 gsm per ply.
US12104326B2
The invention is to provide a base paper for a raising seedling pot and a raising seedling pot produced from the base paper, wherein while the base paper maintains a sufficient strength during raising seedlings and planting in the field, it is degraded over time by soil microorganisms after transplanting in the field and is produced by using a crosslinking agent that does not contain formaldehyde, resulting in a reduced burden on the environment; the base paper for a raising seedling pot, wherein a citric acid crosslinking agent, as a crosslinking agent for cellulose, is used in order to block the hydroxy group of cellulose in paper through crosslinking; and the raising seedling pot produced by molding and processing the base paper.
US12104323B2
A seamed press felt formed from a base fabric having a CD and an MD with opposing MD ends that are joined to form a continuous belt. MD oriented yarns form uniform loops at the opposing MD ends that are interdigitated to define a pintle channel extending across the CD width. CD oriented yarns are connected to the MD oriented yarns, in a woven or non-woven construction. Loop open spaces are located within the loops at the MD ends in a seam region, with the loop open spaces being between the last CD yarn at each MD end and the pintle channel. At least one CD monofilament support yarn is located in the loop open spaces at the MD ends. The at least one CD monofilament support yarn has a diameter that is at least 1.6 times a diameter of the CD oriented yarns.
US12104322B2
The invention relates to a method and system for improving the application of a coating on a Yankee cylinder (CR) in tissue paper machines. The invention implements a moisture-controlled environment (12) in an area of the exposed Yankee cylinder between the take-off position (TO) and ahead of the transfer position (TP) of the web, i.e. before and/or after the application of a coating with Performance Enhancing Material (PEM), wherein the cooling effect on the Yankee surface is increased by increased evaporation rate of water in the coating or water additionally applied onto the coating.
US12104321B2
An oxygen bleaching method of pulp includes the steps of: adding a solution formulated by a magnesium salt and an activator to an unbleached chemical pulp, stirring to be mixed well, and bleaching by introducing oxygen. The activators are nano zero-valent metals that are conventional, low-cost, and recyclable. These activators can activate low-concentration oxygen at low-temperature in neutral aqueous solution to efficiently generate peroxide anion radicals, so as to promote the generation of hydroperoxide anions and peroxide ions, achieving high efficient delignification. The whole process does not generate waste water, the oxygen consumption is only 50-85% of the original process, the yield is increased by 1.5-2.8% compared with the original system, the pulp brightness is increased to 28-32° SR, and the magnesium salt can be recycled and reused.
US12104319B2
A method for controlling a chemical recovery boiler. The method includes measuring concentrations of sodium carbonate, sodium sulfide, and sodium sulfate from green liquor of the chemical recovery boiler, determining a target temperature for smelt, imaging at least an area of a char bed of the chemical recovery boiler, the area being close to a smelt spout, to obtain an image of the area, determining a measured temperature of the char bed using the image of the area. The method further includes determining that the measured temperature of the char bed is less than the target temperature for smelt, and controlling the chemical recovery boiler such that the temperature of the char bed increases. A chemical recovery boiler for the same.
US12104312B2
A bracket for a clothesline assembly, a clothesline assembly, and a method of fabricating a bracket for a clothesline assembly. The bracket comprises a first arm; and a second arm connected to the first arm at a vertex point such that the first and second arms extend from the vertex point to first and second mounting points of the first and second arms, respectively; wherein each of the first and second arms are configured to be mounted to a support structure at the first and second mounting points, respectively; wherein the first arm is configured to have a plurality of end terminals of respective strand sections connected thereto along a length of the first arm; and wherein the first arm is curved such that a convex surface of the first arm faces away from the second arm and such that the vertex point, the first mounting point and the second mounting point define a triangle in which an internal angle between a side of the triangle defined by the vertex point and the first mounting point, and a base of the triangle defined by the first and second mounting points is less than 90 degrees.
US12104305B2
A capacitive proximity control device (28) for a domestic washing machine (10) or other domestic electrical appliance is proposed. In some embodiments, the proximity control device comprises two planar sensor electrodes (34, 36) arranged on a door (20) of the washing machine at a spatial distance from one another. An electronic assembly is connected to the two sensor electrodes, which electronic assembly is adapted to generate, in association with each of the two sensor electrodes, an electrical sensor signal which is representative of a change in a capacitance associated with the sensor electrode in question. By mutual correlation of the two sensor signals, the electronic assembly is able to determine a proximity operation of the control device. A shielding electrode can be arranged in the spatial region between the two sensor electrodes.
US12104304B2
A method of operating a laundry treatment apparatus includes receiving a tangle-free selection signal corresponding to a tangle-free option distinct from a default option, adjusting one or more parameters of an agitation cycle according to the tangle-free option in response to receiving the tangle-free selection signal, and initiating a washing operation incorporating the one or more adjusted parameters.
US12104297B1
Described herein is a fabric having a warp knit construction comprising a first yarn forming a plurality of stitches, the first yarn being a hard yarn and having a first denier ranging from about 20 to about 150, a second yarn in-laid through the first yarn, the second yarn being an elastomeric yarn and having a second denier ranging from about 210 to about 450; and, wherein the first yarn is present in an amount ranging from about 90 wt. % to about 99 wt. % based on the total weight of the fabric, and wherein the second yarn is present in an amount ranging from about 1 wt. % to about 10 wt. % based on the total weight of the fabric.
US12104291B1
One or more embodiments of the present invention relate to a flame-retardant fabric that includes modacrylic fibers, regenerated cellulose fibers, and heat-resistant fibers. The regenerated cellulose fibers include one or more regenerated cellulose fibers selected from the group consisting of flame-retardant rayon fibers and lyocell fibers. The heat-resistant fibers include one or more heat-resistant fibers selected from the group consisting of polyoxadiazole fibers and aramid fibers. The flame-retardant fabric includes the modacrylic fibers in an amount of 20 to 76 wt %, the regenerated cellulose fibers in an amount of 11 to 48 wt %, and the heat-resistant fibers in an amount of 6 to 69 wt %. The char length, afterflame time, and afterglow time of the flame-retardant fabric measured using a flammability test in accordance with GB/T 5455-1997 are 100 mm or less, 2 seconds or less, and 4 seconds or less, respectively. Thus, provided are a flame-retardant fabric that has favorable flame retardancy and antimicrobial properties, and protective clothing made of the flame-retardant fabric.
US12104264B2
An electrochemical deposition system includes a cathode and a printhead. The printhead is spaced apart from the cathode, movable relative to the cathode, and comprises a plurality of deposition anodes. The system further comprises a capacitive sensor that includes a first electrically-conductive layer, at a known location relative to the cathode, and a second electrically-conductive layer, at a known location relative to the printhead. The system additionally includes a processor, electrically coupled with the capacitive sensor and configured to determine a distance between the cathode and the printhead in response to a capacitance of the capacitive sensor.
US12104260B2
A method for producing a semiconductor element and a chemical solution to be used in the method for producing a semiconductor element, the method including dry-etching or chemically-mechanically polishing a ruthenium-containing layer located as an uppermost layer of a substrate; and bringing a surface of the substrate into contact with a chemical solution thereby satisfactorily cleaning and removing a ruthenium residue formed on the surface of the substrate; and a chemical solution to be suitably used in the method for producing a semiconductor element.
US12104250B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for depositing an elemental metal or semimetal-containing material on a substrate by a cyclic deposition process, to an elemental metal or semimetal-containing layer, to a semiconductor structure and a device, and to deposition assemblies for depositing elemental metal or semimetal-containing material on a substrate. A method according to the current disclosure comprises providing a substrate in a reaction chamber, providing a metal or a semimetal precursor to the reaction chamber in a vapor phase, and providing a reducing agent into the reaction chamber in a vapor phase to form elemental metal or semimetal-containing material on the substrate. The reducing agent according to the method comprises a cyclohexadiene compound selected from compounds comprising a germanium-containing substituent.
US12104248B2
A gas feeding cup removably provided in a fixed gas manifold structure of an atomic layer deposition apparatus and including a cup bottom including gas feeding channels extending through the cup bottom from a cup bottom outer surface to a cup bottom inner surface on the other side of the cup bottom; and a cup wall surrounding the cup bottom and extending transverse relative to the cup bottom in a direction away from the cup bottom at the inner surface side of the cup bottom such that a gas feeding space is formed by the cup wall and the cup bottom inner surface.
US12104247B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for trapping multiple reaction by-products for a semiconductor process, in which in order to separate, with the single trapping apparatus, reaction by-product mixtures contained in unreacted gases discharged after a process of depositing multiple different thin film layers is performed in a process chamber during a semiconductor manufacturing process, a trapping region division part is provided, which divides a heat distribution region into trapping regions for respective reaction by-products while controlling a flow in a movement direction of an introduced unreacted gas, thereby trapping a reaction by-product aggregated in the form of a thin film in a relatively high-temperature region by using a first internal trapping tower in a front region, and trapping a reaction by-product aggregated in the form of powder in a relatively low-temperature region by using a second internal trapping tower in a rear region.
US12104244B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for filling a gap. An exemplary method comprises providing a substrate to a reaction chamber. The substrate comprises the gap. The method further comprises forming a convertible layer on the substrate and exposing the substrate to a conversion reactant. Accordingly, at least a part of the convertible layer is converted into a gap filling fluid. The gap filling fluid at least partially fills the gap. The methods and systems are useful, for example, in the field of integrated circuit manufacture.
US12104242B2
A chemical vapor deposition system for semiconductor wafer production is disclosed. The system includes a process cluster coupled to a first end of a transfer chamber. The process cluster is maintained at a pressure that is lower than atmospheric pressure. The process cluster is also configured to apply epitaxial layers on one or more wafers loaded onto a wafer carrier. The system also includes an automatic factory interface coupled to a second end of the transfer chamber. The automatic factory interface is maintained at atmospheric pressure. The system includes one or more wafer carrier cleaning modules coupled to the automatic factory interface and configured to clean one or more of the wafer carriers without removing the wafer carriers from the chemical vapor deposition system.
US12104241B2
Systems for depositing coatings onto surfaces of molds and other articles are generally provided. In some embodiments, a system is adapted and arranged to cause gaseous species to flow parallel to a filament array. In some embodiments, a system comprises one or more mold supports that are translatable.
US12104238B2
The invention provides a component formed of an aluminum alloy for use in a vehicle, for example an automotive vehicle component requiring high strength, light-weight, and a complex three-dimensional shape, and a method of manufacturing the component. The method begins by providing a blank formed of an aluminum alloy which is already solution heat treated and tempered, and thus has a temper designation of about T4. The method further includes heating the blank to a temperature of 150° C. to 350° C., preferably 190° C. to 225° C. The method next includes quickly transferring the blank to a hot or warm forming apparatus, and stamping the blank to form the complex three-dimensional shape. Immediately after the forming step, the component has a temper designation of about T6, but preferably not greater than T6, and thus is ready for use in the vehicle without any post heat treatment or machining.
US12104230B2
A pressed powder material according to embodiments is a pressed powder material including first magnetic metal particles having a first magnetic metal phase containing Fe and Co; and second magnetic metal particles having a second magnetic metal phase containing Fe, in which when the amounts of Co with respect to the total amounts of Fe and Co of the first and second magnetic metal particles are designated as Co1 and Co2, respectively, the ratio of Co2 to Co1 (Co2/Co1) is from 0 to 0.5, the average value of the ratio of the major axis to the minor axis is 2 or greater for the first magnetic metal particles and 1 or greater for the second magnetic metal particles, the second magnetic metal particles are present between the particles of the first magnetic metal particles, and the average value of the major axis of the second magnetic metal particles is equal to or longer than the average value of the major axis of the first magnetic metal particles.
US12104211B2
Disclosed are methods for determining the immunological status of the adaptive immune system of a subject by identifying and quantifying rearranged DNA (and/or subsequently transcribed RNA) sequences encoding T cell receptor (TCR) and/or immunoglobulin (IG) polypeptides, in a lymphoid DNA-containing sample from the subject. TCR and/or IG sequence diversity and sequence distribution permit immunocompetence and immune repertoire assessment and reflect the degree of T cell or B cell clonality and clonal expansion in the sample. Methods for stratifying patient populations on the basis of immunocompetence including likelihood of responding to immunotherapy are also described.
US12104196B2
The present invention relates to the production of modified influenza viral proteins in plants. More specifically, the present invention relates to producing and increasing influenza virus-like particle (VLP) production in plants, wherein the VLPs comprise the modified influenza viral proteins, such as modified influenza hemagglutinin (HA). The HA protein may comprising an amino acid sequence comprising at least one substitution when compared to a corresponding wildtype amino acid sequence. Further provided are nucleic acid encoding the modified HA protein. Furthermore methods of producing an influenza virus like particle (VLP) and methods of increasing yield of production of an influenza virus like particle (VLP) in a plant, portion of a plant, or a plant cell, are also provided.
US12104194B2
The present invention is directed to methods and compositions for adding tails of specific lengths to a substrate polynucleotide. The invention also contemplates methods and compositions for immobilization of tailed substrates to a solid support. The disclosure contemplates that the attenuator molecule is any biomolecule that associates with a tail sequence added to a substrate polynucleotide and controls the addition of a tail sequence to the 3′ end of the substrate polynucleotide. The sequence that is added to the substrate polynucleotide is referred to herein as a tail sequence, or simply a tail, and the process of adding a nucleotide to a substrate polynucleotide is referred to herein as tailing.
US12104186B2
Compositions comprising deimmunized lysostaphin and methods of using the same, e.g., to treat microbial infection in or on a subject, are provided.
US12104184B2
Modified PH20 hyaluronidase polypeptides, including modified polypeptides that exhibit increased stability and/or increased activity, are provided. Also provided are compositions and formulations and uses thereof.
US12104181B2
Embodiments of the instant disclosure relate to novel antiviral compositions and methods for treating viral infections. In accordance with these embodiments, antiviral compositions can include at least one mRNA encoding for a TRIM7 protein encapsulated into a lipid nanoparticle (LNP). In other embodiments, methods of making antiviral compositions are disclosed as well as methods of administering a composition having at least one mRNA encoding for a TRIM7 protein encapsulated into LNP into a subject.
US12104179B2
This disclosure provides genetically engineered organisms with genetic modifications that are useful for producing desirable alkaloids. This disclosure also provides methods of making genetically engineered organisms that can produce desirable alkaloids. The organisms described herein produce alkaloids in amounts beyond that produced from comparable wild-type organisms. In certain embodiments, the genetically engineered organisms are fungi from the Basidiomycota division.
US12104172B2
The present invention provides improved and/or shortened processes and methods for reprogramming TILs in order to prepare therapeutic populations of TILs with increased therapeutic efficacy. Such reprogrammed TILs find use in therapeutic treatment regimens.
US12104170B2
The present application discloses a method of producing dopaminergic neurons from human stem cells by adding or increasing concentration of vitamin into neuro basal media at approximately Day 20+/−3 of a protocol for differentiating pluripotent stem cells into dopaminergic neurons.
US12104158B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions of matter and assay methods used to detect one or more target nucleic acids of interest in a sample. The compositions and methods allow one to control reaction kinetics of the cascade assay by two orders of magnitude via molecular design of one of the reaction components; further, varying molecular design also allows for quantification of target nucleic acids of interest over a large range of concentrations or discriminating between extremely low copy numbers of target nucleic acids of interest.
US12104153B2
The present invention relates to oligonucleotides which alter the splicing pattern of progranulin in cells, and their use in the treatment of neurological disorders.
US12104145B2
A laundry scent additive having polyethylene glycol and perfume. The laundry scent additive enables consumers to control the amount of scent imparted to their laundry.
US12104129B2
In order to allow for thermal elongation of a liner, a pipe member, in the interior of which flows a fluid containing solids, is provided with: a tubular outer pipe; a single tubular liner provided inside the outer pipe with a gap therebetween in the radial direction, or a plurality thereof arranged serially in the direction of the pipe axis C; a refractory material filled in between the outer pipe and the liner; a first liner holding member that is provided on an end portion side of the outer pipe, and that holds the liner arranged on the end portion side in a restrained state in the pipe axis C direction and the circumferential direction around the pipe axis C; and a second liner holding member that is provided on an end portion side of the outer pipe, and that holds the liner arranged on the end portion side.
US12104117B2
A composition for treating a formation includes a surfactant including an amphiphilic block copolymer having a first block and a second block and an acid. The amphiphilic block copolymer is a reaction product of a first monomer and a second monomer via a reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerization (RAFT) in a two-step reaction using a chain transfer agent (CTA) and a radical initiator. The surfactant favors adsorption onto a surface of the formation such that a temporary barrier is formed, thereby attenuating a reaction rate between the acid and the formation.
US12104113B2
This thermally conductive silicone composition contains: (A) 100 parts by mass of a diorganopolysiloxane in which both terminals of a molecular chain are blocked with hydroxy groups; (B) 150-600 parts by mass of an organopolysiloxane with a particular structure having at least one hydrolyzable silyl group in one molecule; (C) 0.1-100 parts by mass of a crosslinking agent component; (D) 1,500-6,500 parts by mass of zinc oxide particles which have an average particle diameter of 0.1 μm to 2 μm, and in which the content ratio of a coarse powder having a particle diameter of 10 μm or more in a laser diffraction-type particle size distribution is 1 vol % or less with respect to the total amount of component (D); and (E) 0.01-30 parts by mass of an adhesion promoter, wherein the content of component (D) is 45-70 vol % with respect to the total composition. This thermally conductive silicone composition has a higher thermal conductivity than the prior art, can be compressed to a thickness of 10 μm or less, and also has high durability.
US12104111B2
A superabrasive compact and a method of making the superabrasive compact are disclosed. A superabrasive compact may comprise a diamond table and a substrate. The diamond table may be attached to the substrate. The diamond table may include bonded diamond grains defining interstitial channels. The interstitial channels may be filled with non-catalytic binder materials in some regions. The interstitial channels in some other regions may be filled with a catalytic materials from the substrate.
US12104110B2
A fire-retardant material comprising from 25 to 50 wt % base oil, from 0.5 to 2.5 wt % polymer, from 0.1 to 1.0 wt % antioxidant, and from 50 to 75 wt % flame retardant.
US12104100B2
An adhesive composition contains at least a polymer and an ionic liquid. The adhesive composition includes components such that when an ionic liquid-free adhesive layer is formed of a composition composed of the components of the adhesive composition that are other than the ionic liquid among components contained in the adhesive composition, the ionic liquid-free adhesive layer has a relative permittivity of 5 or more at a frequency of 100 Hz, after being left to stand in an environment of 22° C. and 20% RH for 3 days.
US12104088B1
A process for the production of bone gelatin includes demineralization of bone using a demineralization solution of acid, wherein the bone is washed for a demineralized time in the demineralization solution to remove soft tissue. The demineralized bone is then pulverized to produce particles of the demineralized bone in a homogenized bone tissue. Lipids are then removed from the homogenized bone tissue using a lipid removal series of washing steps which may include washing the homogenized bone tissue in a series of solutions, including a lipid removal solution and an ethanol solution. Gelatin is then removed from the lipid removed bone tissue in a gelatin extraction process, wherein lipid removed bone tissue is placed in a pepsin solution followed by an extraction solution. The gelatin from the gelatin extracted bone tissue may then be separated and the bone gelatin may then be lyophilized.
US12104082B2
Various embodiments provide ice mitigating surface coatings and methods for applying ice mitigating surface coatings. Various embodiment ice mitigating surface coatings may be formed by hydrolysis of one or more substituted n-alkyldimethylalkoxysilanes terminated with functionalities having the following characteristics with respect to water: 1) non-polar interactions; 2) hydrogen bonding through donor and acceptor interactions; or 3) hydrogen bonding through acceptor interactions only. The substituted n-alkyldimethylalkoxysilanes of the various embodiments may include methyl terminated species, hydroxyl terminated species, ethylene glycol terminated species, and methoxyethylene glycol terminated species. Various embodiment ice mitigating surface coatings may be applied to metal surfaces, such as aluminum surfaces. Various embodiment substituted n-alkyldimethylalkoxysilanes may have an aliphatic chain that is saturated and liner or branched or that is partially unsaturated and liner or branched.
US12104076B2
A coated substrate that may exhibit anti-scaling properties includes a substrate comprising a metal or alloy, an intermediary layer formed on the substrate, and a non-crosslinked omniphobic coating formed on the intermediary layer. A method of forming an anti-scaling coating on a substrate includes forming an intermediary layer on a substrate comprising a metal or alloy, and forming a non-crosslinked omniphobic coating on the intermediary layer.
US12104065B2
The invention provides a preparing method for branched vegetable oil-based photosensitive resin and UV curing glass ink. The UV curing ink includes A component and B component. A branched vegetable oil-based photosensitive resin is used as the ink binder in the ink, this resin has the inherent flexibility of vegetable oil molecular segments, and at the same time has the high activity and increased cross-linking density of multifunctional polyurethane acrylate photosensitive resin, especially the introduction of a large number of urethane bonds, is beneficial to improving the toughness, hardness and adhesion of the ink, giving the ink excellent acid and alkali resistance, and improving the application of renewable resources in the field of ink. By introducing adhesion promoters and heat-curing components, the ink and glass substrate are connected as a whole, further improving the adhesion of the ink on the substrate.
US12104058B2
Thermoplastic compositions are described that exhibit heat stability in addition to flexibility. Methods for forming the thermoplastic compositions are also described. The compositions include a polyarylene sulfide, an impact modifier and a heat stabilizer. The composition includes the impact modifier in a relatively large amount in combination with the heat stabilizer to provide long term heat stability to the composition and products formed therefrom such as coated wires and cables.
US12104051B2
The present invention provides a chlorinated polyvinyl chloride resin that has resistance to thermal decomposition, provides excellent continuous productivity in molding, and imparts both processability and unevenness-preventing properties to a molded article. The present invention relates to a chlorinated polyvinyl chloride resin, containing three components including a A150 component, a B150 component, and a C150 component, and having a percentage of the C150 component (C150 component/(A150 component+B150 component+C150 component)) of less than 8.0%, the three components being identified by measuring the chlorinated polyvinyl chloride resin by a solid echo method using pulse NMR at 150° C. to give a free induction decay curve of 1H spin-spin relaxation, and subjecting the free induction decay curve to waveform separation into three curves derived from the A150 component, the B150 component, and the C150 component in order of shorter relaxation time using the least square method.
US12104050B2
The present disclosure provides for a bicomponent fiber that includes a first region formed of a condensation polymer and a second region formed from a polyethylene blend. The polyethylene blend includes (i) an ethylene-based polymer having a density of 0.920 g/cm3 to 0.970 g/cm3 and a melt index, I2, as determined by ASTM D1238 at 190° C. and 2.16 kg of 0.5 to 150 g/10 minutes; (ii) a maleic anhydride-grafted polyethylene; and (iii) an inorganic Brønsted-Lowry acid having an acid strength pKa value at 25° C. of 1 to 6.5, wherein the polyethylene blend has a 0.03 to 0.5 weight percent of grafted maleic anhydride based on the total weight of the polyethylene blend. The first region is a core region of the bicomponent fiber and the second region is a sheath region of the bicomponent fiber, where the sheath region surrounds the core region.
US12104047B2
A curable composition includes an olefin-aromatic vinyl compound-aromatic polyene copolymer satisfying conditions (1) to (4) and an additive resin, which is at least one of a hydrocarbon-based elastomer, polyphenylene ether, olefin-aromatic vinyl compound-aromatic polyene copolymerized oligomer, and aromatic polyene-based resin. (1) The number average molecular weight of the copolymer is 5000 to 100000. (2) The aromatic vinyl compound monomer has 8 to 20 carbon atoms, and the content of the unit of the monomer is 0 to 70 mass %. (3) The aromatic polyene is selected from polyenes having 5 to 20 carbon atoms and a plurality of vinyl and/or vinylene groups in the molecule, and the content of the groups is 1.5 to 20 pieces per number average molecular weight. (4) The olefin is selected from olefins having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, and the total monomer units of the olefin, aromatic vinyl compound, and aromatic polyene is 100 mass %.
US12104046B2
A rubber composition contains 10-50 parts by mass of a thermoplastic resin in 100 parts by mass of a diene rubber containing 60 mass % or more of a styrene-butadiene rubber having a styrene content of 5-30 mass % and a vinyl content of 10-35 mass %. In a mixture containing the diene rubber and the thermoplastic resin in a mass ratio of 1:1, a difference (Tga−Tgm) between a theoretical value (Tga) of a glass transition temperature of the mixture calculated based on an average glass transition temperature (Tg1) of the diene rubber and a glass transition temperature (Tg2) of the thermoplastic resin, and a measurement value (Tgm) of a glass transition temperature of the mixture, is lower than 5° C., and a difference (Tg2−Tg1) is 50-105° C. An amount of the thermoplastic resin is 30 mass % or more in 100 mass % total of a plasticizer component contained in the rubber composition.
US12104039B2
The present invention relates to a hydrous silica for rubber reinforcing fillers having CTAB specific surface area in the range of 220 to 350 m2/g and a pore volume over the range of pore radius 1.9 to 100 nm measured by mercury press-in method in the range of 1.7 to 2.0 cm3/g, wherein a volume average particle diameter D50 in a volume particle size distribution measured by laser diffraction method for the slurry obtained by dispersing 50 ml of a hydrous silica slurry adjusted to 4 mass % with an ultrasonic homogenizer at an output of 140 W for 10 minutes is in the range of 5.0 to 12.0 μm, and a cumulative value of hydrous silica particles over the range of 4.0 to 35.0 μm in the volume particle size distribution is 80% or more. The present invention also relates to a rubber composition containing the above-mentioned hydrous silica and a rubber component containing a natural rubber. The present invention provides a hydrous silica which has equivalent or excellent reinforcing property (abrasion resistance, tensile strength) and which allows to greatly reduce the rolling resistance when it is blended into a rubber based on the natural rubber for TBRs, which is often used under a heavy load, compared with conventional hydrous silicas, and provides the rubber composition containing the hydrous silica.
US12104033B2
A plant growth system and medium employs a manmade mineral fiber-based growth medium that includes from about 40% to about 99.5% man-made mineral fiber interspersed with from about 0.5% to about 60% by weight pieces of natural or synthetic open cell foam. The foam includes from about 5 to about 50 pores per square inch. Additives in the form of nutrients, fungi, and bacteria are included. Water is supplied to plants by flood and drain watering during plant growth in the medium. EC is maintained within a range of about 0.5 mS/cm to about 2.500 mS/cm and pH is maintained within a range of about 5.6 to about 5.8.
US12104032B2
A coating composition includes a compound of Chemical Formula 1: wherein the groups are described herein.
US12104030B2
The present inventive concept relates to a chemically modified anion exchange membrane and a method of preparing the same and, more particularly, an anion exchange membrane in which sulfonic acid groups in a perfluorinated sulfonic acid electrolyte membrane are substituted with anion conductive groups such as an ammonium group, a phosphonium group, an imidazolium group, a pyridinium group and a sulfonium group, and a method of preparing an anion exchange membrane by chemically modifying sulfonic acid groups in a perfluorinated sulfonic acid electrolyte membrane.
US12104022B2
A core-shell nanocomposite is formed by co-assembly of an amphiphilic polymer and hydrophobically modified magnetic nanoparticles, with its core being a hydrophobically modified magnetic nanomaterial and its shell being the amphiphilic polymer, wherein hydrophilic segments in the amphiphilic polymer are located at an outermost layer of the shell. The above composite can be used as additives in the crystallization of conglomerates and obtain optically pure crystals of both enantiomers in a single process. The key thereof is that the composite is used to enrich molecules with the same configuration while inhibit the crystallization of the other enantiomer in a supersaturated solution of conglomerates, such that a non-magnetic crystal and a magnetic crystal (which are enantiomers of each other) are generated in a unit operation. Optically pure crystals of both enantiomers with over 90 ee % can be obtained by one-time crystallization, and the total yield can be as high as 40%.
US12104020B2
There is provided silicone based materials with enhanced tackiness upon cure. These may be used for cured self-adhering silicone-based products such as pressure sensitive adhesives, self-adhering materials and/or self-sealing materials, made from condensation curable silicone-based compositions, the compositions therefor and to applications for which said self-adhesive products may be used. In one particular application the cured silicone based material may be utilised as a self-sealing layer in an inflatable article such as a pneumatic tire.
US12104014B2
Disclosed is a polycarbonate resin composition containing (a) an aromatic polycarbonate, (b) a polyester, and (c) a polymer having an epoxy group. The following requirements are satisfied. (1) A content of the (a) aromatic polycarbonate is 75% by mass or more based on a mass of the polycarbonate resin composition. (2) A mass ratio of a content of the (c) polymer having an epoxy group with respect to a content of the (b) polyester is 0.8 or more. (3) A content of a sum of the (b) polyester and the (c) polymer having an epoxy group is 25 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of the (a) aromatic polycarbonate.
US12104010B2
A polymer composition for use in an electric circuit protection device is provided. The polymer composition comprises a polymer matrix that includes a thermotropic liquid crystalline polymer. The polymer composition exhibits an in-plane thermal conductivity of about 3.5 W/m-K or more as determined in accordance with ASTM E1461-13 and a melt viscosity of from about 1 to about 100 Pa-s as determined in accordance with ISO Test No. 11443:2014 at a temperature 15° C. higher than the melting temperature.
US12104008B2
Polyether- or polyester-epoxide polymer (PEEP) compositions are disclosed. The compositions comprise reaction products of a polyepoxide compound and a polyol composition. The polyol composition has a melting point within the range of 20° C. to 100° C. and a hydroxyl number less than 35 mg KOH/g. The PEEP composition is a solid-solid phase-change material. As measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at a heating/cooling rate of 10° C./minute, the PEEP composition has a transition temperature within the range of −10° C. to 70° C., a latent heat at the transition temperature within the range of 30 to 200 J/g, and little or no detectable hysteresis or supercooling upon thermal cycling over at least five heating/cooling cycles that encompass the transition temperature. The PEEP compositions should enable formulators to manage thermal energy changes in many practical applications, including automotive, marine or aircraft parts, building materials, appliance insulation, electronics, textiles, garments, and paints or coatings.
US12104004B2
The present invention provides a chlorinated polyvinyl chloride that enables excellent continuous productivity in molding and that enables a molded article to have both processability and unevenness-preventing properties. Provided is a chlorinated polyvinyl chloride having an endothermic peak start temperature (L) and an endothermic peak end temperature (H) that satisfy the following expression (1) in endothermic peak measurement using a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC): 41° C.≤H−L≤98° C. (1).
US12103995B2
A method of controlling long chain branching in an ethylene-based polymer includes polymerizing ethylene with one or more optional monomers to form an ethylene-based polymer, and controlling a degree of long chain branching (LCB) in the ethylene-based polymer. The degree of LCB ranges from 0.1 per 1000 carbon atoms in the polymer backbone to 10 per 1000 carbon atoms in the polymer backbone, as measured by 13CNMR. The degree of LCB is controlled by adding one or more branched vinyl ester to the polymerizing step in an amount ranging from 0.01 mol % to 5.0 mol %, relative to total monomer content. A polymer composition contains the ethylene-based polymer. An article includes the polymer composition containing the ethylene-based polymer.
US12103993B2
Pressure-responsive particles include pressure-responsive base particles and silica particles, in which the pressure-responsive base particles contain a styrene-based resin that contains styrene and other vinyl monomers as polymerization components and a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin that contains at least two kinds of (meth)acrylic acid esters as polymerization components and in which a ratio of a mass of the (meth)acrylic acid esters to a total mass of polymerization components is 90% by mass or more, the pressure-responsive particles have at least two glass transition temperatures, a difference between a lowest glass transition temperature and a highest glass transition temperature is 30° C. or higher, and a ratio of a surface coating rate Cs2 by the silica particles after application of the following first stress to a surface coating rate Cs1 by the silica particles before application of stress satisfies a relationship of 0.4≤Cs2/Cs1≤0.8.
US12103987B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a catalyst component for olefin polymerization, the method including step (3): granulating, by a spray drying, an aqueous slurry of an ion-exchangeable second layered silicate (B) that satisfies that an average particle diameter is 0.03 μm to 0.4 μm, and a Rosin-Rammler distribution constant n determined from a particle size distribution is 1.5 or more; and step (4): bringing the obtained first layered silicate granulated particles (C) into contact with acid to obtain chemically treated ion-exchangeable second layered silicate granulated particles (D).
US12103986B2
The present application relates to a polypropylene with high melt flow index and a method for producing the same, and meltblown fiber fabrics. A reacting mixture is firstly provided, and a polymerization process is performed to the reacting mixture in a slurry reaction system to obtain the polypropylene. The reacting mixture includes propylene monomers, Ziegler-Natta catalysts, organoaluminum compounds and electron donor. The polypropylene has high melt flow index and adjustable melting point and molecular weight distribution, such that it is used to produce the meltblown fiber fabrics.
US12103984B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US12103982B2
The present invention generally relates to novel bispecific antigen binding molecules for T cell activation and re-direction to specific target cells comprising a common light chain. In addition, the present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding such bispecific antigen binding molecules, and vectors and host cells comprising such polynucleotides. The invention further relates to methods for producing the bispecific antigen binding molecules of the invention, and to methods of using these bispecific antigen binding molecules in the treatment of disease.
US12103981B2
Increasingly, human subjects are taking biotin as a medical therapy or nutritional supplement. This practice causes difficulty in analysis of biological samples, such as blood samples, using biotin conjugate reagents since free biotin results in interference. Inventive antibodies, and antigen binding fragments thereof, which specifically bind to biotin of a biotin conjugate and which have a higher affinity for biotin of a biotin conjugate than for free biotin, are provided along with methods of their use.
US12103974B2
The present disclosure provides antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that bind to human OX40 (ACT35, CD134, or TNFRSF4), a pharmaceutical composition comprising said antibody, and use of the antibody or the composition for treating a disease, such as cancer. In particular, the anti-OX40 antibody of the present invention does not interfere with the binding of OX40-ligand to its receptor.
US12103971B2
Specific binding molecules, including T cell receptors (TCRs), which bind the HLA-A*02 restricted peptide SLYNTVATL (SEQ ID NO: 1) derived from the HIV Gag gene product, p17 are presented. TCRs of the present invention comprise non-natural mutations within the alpha and/or beta variable domains relative to a native TCR. The specific binding molecules of the invention have improved stability and/or yield and yet unexpectedly retain the advantageous properties of the specific binding molecules from which they are derived. Such specific binding molecules are particularly useful in the development of soluble immunotherapeutic reagents for the treatment of HIV infected individuals.
US12103968B2
The present invention relates to the fields of immunology and autoimmunity. More specifically, the present invention provides methods and compositions directed to the generation and use of antibodies to the pancreatic zinc transporter, ZnT8. The present invention also provides an isolated antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that specifically binds ZnT8 comprising a VH comprising one of the amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NOS:2, 12, 22, 32, 42 and 52. In alternative embodiments an isolated antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that specifically binds ZnT8 comprises a VL comprising one of the amino acid sequences as set forth in SEQ ID NOS:7, 17, 27, 37, 47 and 57.
US12103963B2
The invention provides anti-ETEC adhesin protein antibodies and methods of using the same.
US12103959B2
In certain aspects, the disclosure provides multispecific binders (e.g., ActRIIA:TβRII heteromultimers comprising an ActRIIA polypeptide and a TβRII polypeptide). The disclosure further provides that such multispecific binders (e.g., ActRIIA:TβRII heteromultimer) may be used to treat various disorders or conditions.
US12103956B2
Chimeric transmembrane proteins comprising one or more suicide modules and methods of making and using these constructs are disclosed. The chimeric transmembrane proteins comprise one or more suicide module and a transmembrane domain. Engineered cells comprising such chimeric transmembrane proteins and methods of using such engineered cells are also disclosed.
US12103952B2
The invention relates to expressing proteins in the axons of mammalian neurons. The invention provides nucleic acids that can be used to express a selected polypeptide in neuronal axons, viruses that can be used deliver nucleic acids of the invention into neuronal axons, as well as methods for doing so. Thus, the invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising viruses of the invention, as well as their use in methods of treating injured axons or conditions associated with aberrant axon growth or function.
US12103950B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods related to genetically engineered plants. In particular, the present disclosure provides novel compositions for transgenic cannabis plants that overexpress a R2R3-MYB transcription factor gene and methods related to the genetic regulation of the development of a glandular trichome in plants.
US12103941B2
A platinum complex having a structure of Formula (I) particularly of Formula (A) such as Formula (III) or Formula (IIIa). A pharmaceutical composition includes the platinum complex of the present invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. A method of treating a target tissue includes administering to a patient in need thereof a platinum complex of the present invention and administering to the target tissue radiation in an amount and of a frequency effective to activate the compound. The platinum complex of the present invention can be used in preparation of a medicament for treating the target tissue by sonodynamic therapy, photodynamic therapy, chemotherapy and/or a combination thereof.
US12103940B2
A gold(III) complex of formula (I) or formula (II) wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen, an optionally substituted alkyl, an optionally substituted cycloalkyl, an optionally substituted arylalkyl, or an optionally substituted aryl; R3 and R4 are each independently a hydrogen, an optionally substituted alkyl, an optionally substituted cycloalkyl, an optionally substituted arylalkyl, an optionally substituted aryl, an optionally substituted heterocyclyl, an optionally substituted alkoxy, a hydroxyl, a halo, a nitro, a cyano, a N-monosubstituted amino group, or a N,N-disubstituted amino group; and X is Cl, Br, or I. A pharmaceutical composition containing the gold(III) complex of formula (I) or (II), and a method of treating cancer are included.
US12103936B2
The present invention discloses a crystal form of a hepatitis B surface antigen inhibitor and a preparation method therefor, and also comprises the use of the crystal form in preparing the hepatitis B surface antigen inhibitor.
US12103934B2
The present specification provides a heterocyclic compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, an organic light emitting device comprising the same, a composition for an organic material layer of an organic light emitting device, and a method for manufacturing an organic light emitting device.
US12103932B2
The present invention relates to novel fused imidazo pyrazole derivatives of formula (I), and formula (II), and methods for preparation thereof, in the presence of a chitosan-Al2O3 nanocomposite film. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of the invention as active ingredients as well as the use of compounds of the invention for antimicrobial action.
US12103929B2
Disclosed are tricyclic compounds as bromodomain and extra-terminal (BET) inhibitors which are shown as formula I, their synthesis and their use for treating diseases. More particularly, disclosed are fused heterocyclic derivatives useful as inhibitors of BET, methods for producing such compounds and methods for treating diseases and conditions wherein inhibition of one or more BET bromodomains provides a benefit.
US12103916B2
Compounds and compositions having antifungal activity, and methods of using the antifungal compounds and compositions, are described for use in treating fungal infections.
US12103913B2
The present disclosure relates to spirobiindane derivatives and a process for preparation of the same. Spirobiindane derivatives are used as intermediates for many commercially important compounds such as chiral polymers. The present disclosure provides a simple and economical process for the preparation of spirobiindane derivatives of Formula (I) with high yield and having high purity.
US12103908B2
Disclosed herein is a process for preparing a sulfurized non-overbased calcium phenate detergent having a reduced content of un-sulfurized alkyl-substituted phenol and its salt. The process steps involve adding an organic solvent to the detergent, wherein the organic solvent has a boiling point of equal or above the boiling point of the un-sulfurized alkyl-substituted phenol. Distilling the organic solvent from the detergent to reduce the content of the un-sulfurized alkyl-substituted phenol.
US12103900B2
The present invention relates to an environment-friendly process for selective acylation of aminophenol. In particular, the present invention relates to an environment-friendly process for selective acylation of para-aminophenol to obtain N-acetyl-para-aminophenol (APAP).
US12103899B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for non-oxidative direct conversion of methane. Specifically, in the method, a methane/hydrogen gas is introduced into an Inconel 600 reactor at a superficial velocity of 100 to 200 cm·min−1 and a catalyst is not externally introduced into the reactor. Under the conditions, a non-oxidative direct methane conversion reaction is performed in the Inconel 600 reactor. The method maximizes the reaction rate, minimizes coke formation, and increases the yields of C2 hydrocarbon compounds and aromatic compounds.
US12103894B2
A polymer masonry unit is disclosed that can include a polymer added to a quarry byproduct to manufacture a quality brick unit. The present disclosure solves the technological problem of providing a structurally sound brick or concrete alternative without the need for kiln firing, using traditionally unusable waste material. By combining quarry byproduct and a polymer, a polymer masonry unit can be fabricated having compressive strength and architectural utility. In one exemplary embodiment, fiber elements can be added to the byproduct and polymer mixture to increase structural stability. The present disclosure improves the performance of the system itself by providing a basic block or brick unit using an environmentally responsible manufacturing process that reduces cost and waste. The manufacturing process includes a polymer/base material that can be poured into molds that cures over a predetermined period, without the need for kiln firing.
US12103888B2
A method for forming a via in a glass article includes forming one or more cavities within a glass substrate by exposing the glass substrate to an etchant, the glass substrate including a glass cladding layer and a glass central core layer, where the glass cladding layer has an etch rate in the etchant that is different than an etch rate of the glass central core layer, and where the one or more cavities extend through the glass central core layer terminating at the glass cladding layer, depositing a metallic material within the one or more cavities, and removing the glass cladding layer.
US12103885B2
A cover element for an electronic device that includes a glass element having a thickness from 20 μm to 125 μm, a first primary surface, a second primary surface, a compressive stress region extending from the first primary surface to a first depth, and a polymeric layer disposed over the first primary surface. Further, the glass element has a stress profile such that it has a bend strength of about 1850 MPa or more at a 10% failure probability, wherein the cover element is made by a multi-step method that employs a redraw thinning step and at least two chemical etching steps.
US12103881B2
A novel class of compounds is described here. The disclosed novel compounds have one hydrophilic group and two identical hydrophilic ionic groups. The two hydrophilic groups of the disclosed compounds contain or end with a cationic or anionic charged group. The disclosed novel compounds herein can be used as surfactants in an article, product, or composition, or for some other purposes. A method to synthesize the disclosed novel compounds is also described.
US12103877B2
An overgrowth of worms can reduce the effluent quality of a membrane aerated biofilm reactor. A method of controlling the growth of worms in a membrane aerated biofilm includes discontinuing all oxygen sources to a tank containing the biofilm and fluid flows flow into the tank. The tank is maintained in this idle condition for a period of time sufficient to kill at least some of the worms living in the biofilm. The method may be applied periodically to inhibit the formation of an excessive population of worms or retroactively to reduce an already excessive population of worms.
US12103876B2
A method of and a system for processing a slurry containing organic components, such as biomass, having a water contents of at least 50%, comprises a pump and heater or heat exchanger to bring the liquid in the slurry in a supercritical state. A reactor converts at least a part of the organic components in the slurry. A separator removes gaseous products from the converted slurry. A mixer adds fluid from the converted slurry to the slurry upstream from the reactor.
US12103873B2
Various aspects of this disclosure relate to toilet systems that include compositions to inhibit wastewater from freezing in a waste tank of a toilet. A first fluid treatment composition comprises a salt that is introduced into the waste tank. A second fluid treatment composition is a solid composite that also comprises a salt and that is introduced into a urinal in fluid communication with the waste tank.
US12103867B2
A method and an attachment assembly for supporting a quartz sleeve, comprises at least one vibration resistant member, a collar attachment member and a support plate. The at least one vibration resistant member is adaptable to hold and support the quartz sleeve positioned inside an ultraviolet (UV) cylinder and thereby to prevent its vibration. The collar attachment member is configured to enclose the at least one vibration resistant member. The at least one vibration resistant member is positioned inside the collar attachment member. The support plate is configured to attach the collar attachment member containing the at least one vibration resistant member with the UV cylinder. The attachment assembly can be attached to the UV cylinder wall directly or can be attached to a mounting device inside the UV cylinder wall.
US12103862B1
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of batteries, and in particular, to a modified lithium ion negative electrode material, and preparation therefor and use thereof. The preparation method includes the following steps: dropwise adding a mixed solution of a titanium source and a lithium source into a mixed solution of an iron salt and an organic acid, adjusting the pH to 5.0-7.0, and stirring to obtain a wet gel; drying and crushing the wet gel, and then calcinating to obtain a LiFeTiO4 composite oxide; and reducing the LiFeTiO4 composite oxide to obtain the modified lithium ion negative electrode material. In the present disclosure, a spinel modified negative electrode material lithium iron titanium oxide is synthesized by using a citric acid sol-gel method, thereby not only greatly improving the charging and discharging capacity thereof, but also improving the large-current charging and discharging capability thereof.
US12103861B2
The inventive concept discloses a method for preparing a cathode active material containing a lithium manganese oxide exhibiting a reversible phase transition, and exhibiting electrochemical characteristics of the lithium manganese oxide through the reversible phase transition including (A) synthesizing a sodium manganese oxide using a manganese precursor, and (B) reacting the sodium manganese oxide with a lithium precursor to synthesize the lithium manganese oxide, or including (C) directly synthesizing the lithium manganese oxide.
US12103848B2
A method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte includes: forming an Li—P—S homogeneous solution prepared by mixing Li2S and P2S5 with each other in an organic solvent so that the Li2S/P2S5 molar ratio is from 0.7 to 1.5; forming an Li—Si—S homogeneous solution, which contains prepared containing at least elemental lithium (Li), elemental silicon (Si) and elemental sulfur (S) in an organic solvent; mixing a homogeneous mixed solution prepared by mixing the Li—P—S homogeneous solution and the Li—Si—S homogeneous solution with each other; forming a slurry prepared by mixing the homogeneous mixed solution and Li2S with each other; drying a precursor obtained by removing the organic solvent from the slurry; and a heating a sulfide solid electrolyte obtained by heating the precursor at 200-700° C.
US12103847B2
A method for monitoring ozone generation in an oxygen containing gas within a chamber in an ozone generator in which ozone is generated comprising: sensing with a sensor a parameter within the chamber with time; wherein the parameter is selected from the group consisting of sound and electromagnetic radiation and estimating an amount of ozone generated with time as a function of the parameter sensed by the sensor.
US12103840B2
Containers for use in a beverage system are provided. The containers include a container body defining an interior hollow chamber, and having an opening leading to the interior hollow chamber, and a cap covering the opening. The cap has an inlet port with an inlet valve seated therein and movable between a closed configuration for preventing passage of fluid there through, and an open configuration for allowing passage of fluid there through. The cap also has an outlet port having an outlet valve seated therein and movable between a closed configuration for preventing passage of fluid there through, and an open configuration for allowing passage of fluid there through. The cap has a collar positioned around the inlet port, the collar has an inner surface with at least a portion configured to circumferentially engage a seal having an outer diameter in a range of about 7 mm to 8 mm.
US12103836B2
A coupling structure includes an outer member attached over first and second column members, a first inner member between the first column member and the outer member, a second inner member between the second column member and the outer member, a first fixing member to fix the outer member to the first column member along with the first inner member, a second fixing member to fix the outer member to the second column member along with the second inner member, a third fixing member to fix the first inner member to the first column member, and a fourth fixing member to fix the second inner member to the second column member. The outer member and the first inner member are provided with a first positioner, and the outer member and the second inner member are provided with a second positioner.
US12103826B2
The present invention relates to the field of engineering machinery, and discloses a method and an apparatus for judging the safety of an operation which may be performed by a boom and an engineering machinery, the method including: acquiring parameters for each arm in the boom, wherein the parameters comprise an inclination angle, an arm length, and mass; determining, based on the acquired parameters, a position of the full center of mass of the boom and a position of the combined center of mass from an operating arm to a terminal arm; determining a safety judging basis direction vector based on the position of the full center of mass and the position of the combined center of mass; and judging the safety of an operation which may be performed on the operating arm based on the safety judging basis direction vector. Therefore, it is realized to judge the safety of the operation which may be performed on the operating arm, and the operating arm has not been operated at the time of judging the safety, so the judgment of the safety of the operation which may be performed on the operating arm is pre-judgment, that is, the safety of the operation which is about to be performed on the operating arm is pre-judged, and the predictability is realized.
US12103820B2
A car floor for an elevator car includes a planar base part and installation feet arranged thereon. The installation feet support the car floor on the shaft floor of an elevator shaft during the elevator car installation phase. In order to orient the base part in a horizontal position, each of the installation feet is in the form of a height-adjustable installation foot. The height-adjustable installation foot has a threaded rod as part of a threaded spindle for height adjustment.
US12103818B2
A Bluetooth module in an elevator system in the field of elevator intelligent control technologies. The Bluetooth module according to the present invention is arranged substantially corresponding to a mounting hole of a first physical button/second physical button of the elevator system, such that a Bluetooth signal broadcast by the Bluetooth module can be propagated from at least part of the mounting hole to a landing zone/the interior of an elevator car. The first physical button is a physical button arranged on an elevator call panel assembly in the landing zone of the elevator system. The second physical button is a physical button arranged on an elevator call panel assembly of the elevator car of the elevator system. Embodiments can be easily implemented by transforming the existing elevator system and can achieve good coverage of Bluetooth signals in the landing zone and/or the interior of the elevator car.
US12103817B2
The measurement arrangement for measuring the rotation speed of a component of an elevator, escalator, moving walkway or moving ramp comprises an inductive sensor that is arranged stationary in respect of a rotation axis of the component and adjacent to the component or a measurement part that is attached to the component in a rotationally fixed manner, and the component or the measurement part is configured as rotationally unsymmetrical about the rotation axis so that different angular positions of the component about the rotation axis generate different output signals in the inductive sensor.
US12103814B2
A roll tape 1 is held by a tip end portion of an arm 3 connected by a pivot shaft 4 fixed to a rotating body 5, and an enlarged diameter curved surface portion 6 is provided that comes into contact with the arm 3 that pivots at a time of rotation. In an angle range in which the arm 3 is in contact with the enlarged diameter curved surface portion 6, the arm 3 is pushed in a rotation outward direction at the time of rotation such that the tape stretched from the roll tape 1 to an object 9 is wound around the object 9 while being pulled out. In an angle range in which the arm 3 is not in contact with the enlarged diameter curved surface portion 6, the tape previously pulled out from the roll tape 1 is wound around the object 9 while being wound up on the object 9. By repeating this alternately, displacement of the object from the rotation axis is suppressed, and proper winding is performed.
US12103811B2
A length-adjustable cable device for wiring an aircraft cabin includes a cable and a cable drum with a cylindrical wall which is arranged around an axis of rotation and has an outwardly facing rolling-up surface. The first end of the cable is fastened to or arranged on the cable drum in such a manner that the first connection provided at the first end can be connected to a corresponding connection of another cable device. The cable is wound up onto the rolling-up surface in such a manner that it is unwound from the rolling-up surface by rotation of the cable drum about the axis of rotation thereof when the second end is moved away from the cable drum. The cable drum is configured for fastening to a cabin component of an aircraft cabin.
US12103807B2
A folding device for placing an elastomer thin sleeve on a retainer includes a mandrel, one or more rollers, and a drive system. The mandrel is configured to translate relative to a portion of the folding device. The mandrel is adapted to releasably receive the retainer. The one or more rollers are configured to rotate relative to the mandrel. The rotation of the one or more rollers being configured to fold the sleeve onto the retainer. The drive system is configured to translate the mandrel and turn the one or more rollers.
US12103804B2
A controller controls a floating unit and a conveyor to convey a sheet to a supply destination, and performs a following control of acquiring a detection value of a detector which detects an output signal acquired due to an input to a side of a sheet stack, during floating of sheets floated by the floating unit each time a sheet is conveyed by the conveyor and lifting a stacking tray upon the acquired detection value being less than a threshold value. The controller controls the floating unit and the conveyor to perform a feeding retry upon an occurrence of empty feeding in the conveyor, and determines the threshold value such that a target position for a height position of an upper surface of the sheet stack in the following control is a position where empty feeding is more likely to occur than multiple sheet feeding in the conveyor.
US12103791B2
Assemblies and methods to extract materials from a retention collection may include a vacuum source including a series of vacuum generators configured to generate a vacuum flow to create a suction between the retention collection and a material collector for extraction of the material from the retention collection and transfer to the material collector. The suction generated by the vacuum flow will be sufficient to draw-in and convey the material in liquid, semi-solid and substantially solid states from the retention collection along a collection conduit and into the material collector for disposal. The vacuum generation assembly may include a filter and sound attenuation chamber connected to the vacuum source configured to receive and filter a vacuum exhaust fluid/air flow portion of the vacuum flow and to attenuate sound generated by the vacuum source.
US12103787B2
A method for the transfer of components from a sender substrate to a receiver substrate includes provision and/or production of the components on the sender substrate, transfer of the components of the sender substrate to the transfer substrate, and transfer of the components from the transfer substrate to the receiver substrate. The components can be transferred selectively by means of bonding means and/or debonding means.
US12103786B2
A conveyance system including a conveying vehicle configured to convey a conveying object, a sensor configured to acquire the information relating to the conveying object, and a control device configured to control the conveying vehicle is designed to identify a contact position at which the conveying vehicle comes in contact with the conveying object when conveying the conveying object based on the information relating to the conveying object, and to control the conveying vehicle according to the contact position.
US12103773B2
A system and a method are disclosed where a robot operating using a first traversal protocol traverses autonomously along a first route that is defined by markers that are detectable by the robot, wherein the robot is configured to move only based on a presence and type of each marker when the robot is configured to operate based on the first traversal protocol. The robot detects, while traversing along the route, a triggering condition corresponding to a change in operation by the robot from the first traversal protocol to a second traversal protocol. Responsive to detecting the triggering condition, the robot is configured to operate in the second traversal protocol, wherein the robot, when configured to operate based on the second traversal protocol, determines a second route autonomously without regard to a presence of any of the markers.
US12103766B1
A groundskeeping receptacle has a sidewall with an indentation dimensioned to accept and retain by snap fit a trash picker having a pair of jaws, a lower stem and an upper stem. The interior surface of the sidewall further comprises a pair of diametrically opposed vertical guides, into which a selectively removable divider slides. The exterior surface of the sidewall comprises a plurality of female accessory attachment points, to which a person can attach accessories such as pockets, having at least one corresponding male attachment points.
US12103751B2
A carrier for holding a plurality of containers includes a top retainer formed from a top container retention blank including a top attachment panel for at least partially receiving the plurality of containers, and a bottom retainer formed from a bottom container retention blank including a bottom attachment panel for being attached to the plurality of containers and having a plurality of bottom container retention tabs foldably connected to the bottom attachment panel and at least partially separable from the bottom attachment panel for being attached to a respective container of the plurality of containers, the top attachment panel is free from attachment to the bottom attachment panel.
US12103749B2
A closure device for a container having a neck including an annular flange, the closure device comprising: a cap body; a tamper evident (TE) band positioned below the annular flange when assembled in the container; a first hinge and a second hinge defined on the cap body; a leash connected to the TE band, the first hinge and the second hinge; the leash allowing for the cap body to be separated from the TE band during opening, but to remain connected thereto via the leash; a tongue protruding from the cap body between the first and second hinges; when the cap body is actuated from a closed configuration relative to the neck to a fully open position: the leash is configured to retain the cap body to the TE band; an interaction of the tongue and the neck is configured to retain the cap body in the fully open position.
US12103739B2
A system and method for implementing a cap closure for a carbonated beverage is disclosed. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes a cap liner having an outer lip and an inner portion. A cross-section of the outer lip includes an upper extension member and a lower extension member. The upper extension member and the lower extension member each defines an outer lip angle from about 35° to about 140°.
US12103734B2
According to one or more embodiments, a pharmaceutical package may include a glass container and a coating. The glass container may include a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The first surface may be an outer surface of the glass container. The coating may be positioned over at least a portion of the first surface of the glass container. The coating may include one or more polyimide compositions and one or more metal oxide compositions. The one or more polyimide compositions and the one or more metal oxide compositions may be mixed in the coating.
US12103727B2
A process for packaging a product in which a hood is fitted to a tray. The hood top is oriented at an angle relative to the machine direction in which the tray is being conveyed. The hood is engaged with the tray by initiating contact between a leading panel of the hood with the tray while the leading panel is moving before engaging the trailing panel with the tray. As the tray is conveyed in the machine direction, the tray captures a hood by the leading panel of the hood and the remainder of the hood is subsequently fitted to the tray.
US12103726B2
A high-speed automated separation apparatus includes a pair of flexible discs, a driver to rotate the flexible discs, a feeder to position a rigid body at a first location between the flexible discs, a spreader and a converger operable upon the flexible discs such that opposing portions of the flexible disc converge upon the positioned rigid body. The rotating flexible discs rotate the rigid body beyond the first location, and content from the rigid body is expelled. The rigid body and the expelled content are then available for reuse.
US12103719B2
Control of a load wrapping apparatus may be based at least in part on packaging material grading and/or factory profiles.
US12103713B1
An attitude determination and control system (ADCS) may include relatively large momentum wheels (i.e., reaction wheels) for improved momentum storage and magnetic torque rods that enable low power sun pointing and dissipate angular momentum imparted during deployment or by differential drag on the space vehicle. The momentum wheels, magnetic torque rods, or both may be algorithmically selected and driven to perform various maneuvers.
US12103712B2
A method of moving a spacecraft from an initial orbit to a final orbit includes providing a spacecraft with thrusters traveling in an initial orbit that has a first RAAN. Thrusters are activated to move the spacecraft into a transfer orbit having more eccentricity than the initial orbit. A RAAN of the transfer orbit changes over time toward a target RAAN. The spacecraft enters an aerobraking orbit wherein the spacecraft is exposed to increased atmospheric drag to reduce orbit energy and reduce an apoapsis radius. Thrusters may be activated to increase the periapsis radius of the aerobraking orbit and cause the spacecraft to move into the final orbit, the final orbit having a final RAAN different from the first RAAN.
US12103700B2
An aircraft with a fuselage that accommodates a floor panel and a fuel storage system, wherein the fuel storage system comprises a tank system with at least one main tank 5a that is arranged underneath the floor panel; a cross ventilation system with a plurality of ventilation lines for venting the tank system, wherein the plurality of ventilation lines comprises at least one crossing ventilation line 11a that is routed from a first lateral side of the tank system to an opposite second lateral side of the tank system; and wherein the at least one crossing ventilation line is routed underneath or in the floor panel from the first lateral side of the tank system to the second lateral side of the tank system.
US12103696B2
An aircraft includes a fuselage, a pylon, a wing positioned between the fuselage and the pylon, and a plurality of drive shafts located inside the wing and adapted to drive a rotor associated with the pylon.
US12103692B2
An engine support truss assembly for aircraft includes a mounting plate having a front side and a back side opposite the front side, a truss structure mechanically coupled to the front side of the mounting plate, and a backup structure mechanically coupled to the back side of the mounting plate. The truss structure includes a plurality of structural members each including precipitation-hardened stainless steel. The backup structure is configured to provide mechanical support to the truss structure.
US12103687B2
An appliance comprising a door configured to enclose a cooking or chilling space, a filter slot positioned above the door configured to accept a filter for filtering odors and particles, and a control panel for controlling the appliance positioned above the door.
US12103680B2
Disclosed is an aerial vehicle. The aerial vehicle may include a removable battery. Various embodiments of removable battery assemblies include a pull-bar battery assembly, a latch battery assembly, and a lever battery assembly. The aerial vehicle may also include a propeller locking mechanism to which propellers may be removably coupled. The propeller locking mechanism may obviate the need for tools for coupling or decoupling propellers to the aerial vehicle. Vents in the arm of the aerial vehicle may provide an air pathway, providing convective cooling for the electronics aerial vehicle.
US12103678B2
A system comprising an aerial vehicle or an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to control pitch, roll, and/or yaw via airfoils having resiliently mounted trailing edges opposed by fuselage-house deflecting actuator horns. Embodiments include one or more rudder elements which may be rotatably attached and actuated by an effector member disposed within the fuselage housing and extendible in part to engage the one or more rudder elements.
US12103662B2
A method to detect a hands off status of a user input device is disclosed. The method comprising filtering a sensed force, acting on the user input device, using a first lag filter to provide a first output, the lag filter comprising a first lag time constant. Filtering the sensed force using a second lag filter, substantially in parallel with the first filter, to provide a second output, the second lag filter comprising a second lag time constant greater than the first lag time constant. Comparing with a first threshold value, in a first comparison, a magnitude of a difference between the first output and the second output. Comparing with a second threshold value, in a second comparison, a magnitude of the second output. Designating the user device to have a hands off status based on the first comparison and the second comparison.
US12103644B2
A mooring device (100) includes a method for operation. The mooring device (100) has an attachment unit (101) including a contact surface (102) for contacting a surface of an object (201) to be attached and at least one magnet for generating a magnetic field through the contact surface (102) to the object (201), a regulator (104) for adjusting the magnetic field generated by the at least one magnet, a telescopic arm (105) pivotally attached to the attachment unit (101), a first hydraulic cylinder (106) and a second hydraulic cylinder (107) attached to the telescopic arm (105), and a monitor for monitoring linear displacements of the first hydraulic cylinder (106) and the second hydraulic cylinder (107). The regulator (104) is configured, based on the linear displacements, to adjust the magnetic field so that an attachment point on the surface of the object (201) can be changed.
US12103640B2
A method for controlling electronic shifting of a bicycle includes identifying, by a processor, a torque at a crank arm of the bicycle. The processor compares the identified torque or a parameter based on the identified torque to a predetermined band. The predetermined band has an upper limit and a lower limit. The processor determines a target cadence based on the comparison. The processor determines a cadence band based on the determined target cadence. The method also includes controlling the electronic shifting of the bicycle based on the determined cadence band. The controlling of the electronic shifting of the bicycle includes actuating a motor of a derailleur of the bicycle for the electronic shifting of the bicycle when a cadence of the bicycle is outside of the determined cadence band.
US12103633B2
A hub assembly is provided for a human-powered vehicle. The hub assembly includes a hub axle, a hub body, a cable and a cable protector. The hub axle has a first axial end and a second axial end. The hub body is rotatably mounted on the hub axle to rotate around a rotational center axis of the hub assembly. The cable has a first portion disposed inside of the hub assembly and a second portion disposed outside of the hub assembly. The cable protector is movably arranged between a first position and a second position. The second portion of the cable extends along the rotational center axis where the cable protector is in the first position. The second portion of the cable being at least partly restrained in an angled position with respect to the rotational center axis where the cable protector is in the second position.
US12103632B2
A personal mobility and a control method thereof may include a main body, a steering shaft rotatably coupled to the main body, a steering limiting device configured to limit rotation of the steering shaft, a posture sensor provided to detect a change in posture of the main body, and a controller configured to selectively generate a control signal to control an operation of the steering limiting device to limit the rotation of the steering shaft when the controller determines that the posture of the main body changes at a speed exceeding a predetermined speed.
US12103630B2
A scooter including a frame and a casing. The casing covers an outer peripheral side of the frame and is made of plastics.
US12103628B2
A camera housing device is provided in this disclose, including a base, a cover, a first electrical connection terminal, a first indicating light, and a second electrical connection terminal. A receiving space is defined on the base to receive a camera. The cover is positioned on the base and covers the receiving space. The first electrical connection terminal is positioned on the base. The first indicating light is positioned on the cover. The cover is capable of emitting a warning light according to a warning signal sent by the camera. The second electrical connection terminal is positioned on the cover and electronically coupled with the first electrical connection terminal. A camera equipment and a rear view system are also provided in this discloses.
US12103627B2
An automated bicycle lighting system comprising light modules that contain sensors and a processor which enable the color and/or flash state of the emitted light to be changed depending upon the physical orientation of the modules is provided. The sensors and processor also allow the operating state of the light modules to be adjusted depending upon whether movement of the light modules is sensed. The modules are used in combination with pedals configured to removably receive the modules and/or with an auxiliary mount that provides for mounting the modules to other components of a bicycle, such as, for example, handlebars, seat-posts, frame tubes, helmets and/or a rider's clothing.
US12103620B1
Versatile four-wheel towable utility carts, systems, devices and methods for transporting loads for agricultural applications, landscape applications, and the like. The carts can be towed by small and large vehicles, tractors, as well as by tractors, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), golf carts, and the like. The carts can have an X frame with a steerable front end where the front wheels can be steered by the tow bar. Upwardly extending posts on the frame can have C channel ends that can allow for beams, such as wooden boards to be horizontally supported. The user can add a wood deck platform across the horizontal beams to support various heavy loads.
US12103612B2
A shaft has an outer circumferential surface provided with a recessed portion in which a cooling medium is accommodated. A roller is rotatable relative to the outer circumferential surface of the shaft. A radial sliding bearing supports the roller to be rotatable relative to the outer circumferential surface of the shaft. A floating seal includes a rotating-side member that is supported by the roller and a fixed-side member that slides together with the rotating-side member. In a radial direction of the shaft, the recessed portion faces: a sliding portion between the rotating-side member and the fixed-side member in the floating seal: and the radial sliding bearing.
US12103610B2
A tensioner for adjusting a tension in an endless track of a track system is disclosed. The tensioner includes a resilient portion and a wheel connecting portion. The resilient portion is connectable to a frame of the track system, the resilient portion being oriented generally vertically. The wheel connecting portion is pivotally connectable to the frame of the track system, is connected to the resilient portion and is configured to connect to an idler wheel assembly. A track system having the tensioner is also disclosed.
US12103607B2
In a detection method for detecting an end position of a mechanism portion of a turning device, detection of a limit position of a steering angle in a direction of a torque value is started when the torque value of the mechanism portion loaded by at least one of a drive force from an actuator and steering torque to the mechanism portion exceeds a first threshold. The limit position continues to be detected by storing a peak value of the steering angle in the mechanism portion as the limit position while the torque value of the mechanism portion is between the first threshold and a second threshold. The stored limit position is regarded as the end position indicated by the torque value when the torque value of the mechanism portion exceeds the second threshold.
US12103604B2
A steering gear for a steer-by-wire steering system of a motor vehicle may include a hollow shaft motor with a stator that is fixed to a housing and a rotatably supported rotor that is arranged coaxially with respect to a longitudinal axis. A worm gear may extend through the rotatably supported rotor. The worm gear comprises a spindle nut that is arranged coaxially relative to the longitudinal axis, that is connected in terms of driving to the rotor, and that is located on a spindle that is displaceable by way of the hollow shaft motor along the longitudinal axis. The angle of inclination of the worm gear may be less than 4.5°.
US12103600B2
A wind deflection assembly includes a curtain that is movably disposed on a semi-trailer. The curtain is comprised of a plurality of hinged sections and the curtain is positionable in a collapsed position or a deployed position. The hinged sections are oriented at an angle with each other thereby facilitating each of the hinged sections to deflect wind at an angle with the sidewall of the semi-trailer. In this way the curtain inhibits the semi-trailer from being blown over due to being exposed to a straight line lateral wind. A deploying mechanism is movably disposed on the semi-trailer. The deploying mechanism is in mechanical communication with the curtain and the curtain is urged in to the deployed position when the deploying mechanism is actuated into a deploying condition. Conversely, the curtain is urged into the collapsed position when the deploying mechanism is actuated into a retracting condition.
US12103599B1
A pick-up truck bed storage box having a rectangular container with a length of a pick-up truck bed with the container including an open top, a bottom surface, a pair of side walls, a first and second end wall, at least one collapsible and telescoping leg having a first end connected to the bottom surface of the container proximal the first end wall and at least one collapsible and telescoping leg having the first end connected to the bottom surface of the container proximal the second end wall with each of the legs moveable between a container supporting condition and a stowed away condition, at least one wheel connected to the second end of each of the legs, and a pair of wheel wells located between the side walls and extending upwards into an interior of the container supporting the wheels therein in the stowed away condition.
US12103596B2
A motor vehicle includes a floor subassembly and a storage cell subassembly. The floor subassembly is an integral part of a body of the motor vehicle. In other words, the floor subassembly is part of the body shell. The storage cells of the storage cell subassembly are disposed in the floor subassembly. The storage cells are accommodated in hollow-cylinder chambers of a multi-chamber hollow cylinder structure extending in the vertical direction of the vehicle.
US12103590B2
A fastening apparatus for a vehicle including a first fastening unit fixed to a first structure, a second fastening unit fixed to a second structure, the second fastening unit being inserted into the first fastening unit, a holding unit movably installed on the first fastening unit and being configured to restrict and allow relative movement of each of the first fastening unit and the second fastening unit according to a direction of movement of the holding unit, and a moving unit installed outside the first fastening unit, the moving unit being configured to ascend and descend by a magnetic force, and to adjust the direction of the movement of the holding unit.
US12103588B2
A vehicle platform includes a first wheel, a second wheel, and a first orientation keeper to move the first wheel in a vehicle width direction and keep an orientation of the first wheel with respect to a front-rear direction of a vehicle during movement of the first wheel. The first orientation keeper includes a first center body, a first wheel arm, and a first rotation actuator. The first center body is between the first wheel and the second wheel. The first wheel arm is rotatably connected to the first center body, extends between the first center body and the first wheel, and supports the first wheel. The first rotation actuator is operable to rotate the first wheel arm relative to the first center body such that the first wheel moves toward or away from the first center body.
US12103581B2
At a sensor electrode of a steering wheel, a protruding portion protrudes from a main body portion. A first thread and a second thread each extend in the protruding portion and effect conduction between a terminal at the protruding portion and a main body portion. Therefore, even if there is no conduction between the first thread and the second thread at intersection portions between the first thread and second thread in the protruding portion, the first thread and the second thread may each effect conduction between the terminal and the main body portion, and a degradation of conduction performance of the sensor electrode may be suppressed.
US12103577B2
A pallet jack includes a base and a pair of tines extending from the base. The pair of tines including a first tine and a second tine. A load wheel supports an outer end of each of the pair of tines. Each load wheel is configured to move toward and away from the respective tine to raise the tine off a floor on which the load wheel is supported. The first tine including a support surface configured to selectively be a lowermost surface of the tine to facilitate lateral displacement of the first tine.
US12103576B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a collapsible cart configured to transition from a closed condition where it may be folded up to an open condition where it may be expanded for use, the collapsible cart including a rigid frame forming a compartment, the rigid frame having a front wall, a rear wall, a right sidewall, a left sidewall, and a bottom wall, the right sidewall and the left sidewall may be configured to fold inwardly in the closed condition. In some embodiments, the right sidewall including a first right panel rotatably coupled to a second right panel. In some embodiments, a retractable handle mechanism is disposed at, within or adjacent the back wall. The retractable handle mechanism includes a hand grip attached to a telescoping assembly. The telescoping assembly is pivotably coupled at a proximal end to the bottom of the rear wall.
US12103571B2
A door operating mechanism for operating longitudinal doors of a railroad hopper car. The mechanism includes operating members that are coupled to ends of the doors. These operating members are each actuated by a separate actuating device that is coupled to a top surface of a sill of the hopper car. Door supports have one end coupled to a door and an opposite end coupled for rotation to an actuating device. When a power cylinder coupled to the operating member is activated, the actuating devices are rotated. This rotation causes the door supports to shift in opposite directions and to open the longitudinal doors.
US12103568B2
A vehicle driving support system capable of supporting driving of a vehicle that travels on a road includes a notifier, and an acquirer. In a case where there is a first vehicle that moves between lanes, the notifier is configured to, provide notification of presence of the first vehicle to a second vehicle travelling in a target lane into which the first vehicle is to move. The acquirer is configured to acquire a size of a merging space that is to be provided by the second vehicle for merging of the first vehicle. In a case where the first vehicle is travelling under autonomous operation or assisted operation, the acquirer is configured to acquire the size of the merging space such that the size of the merging space is longer than when acquired in a case where the first vehicle is travelling under manual operation.
US12103560B2
Systems and methods for predicting actions of an actor before entering a conflicted area are disclosed. The methods may include detecting the presence of an actor in an environment of an autonomous vehicle while the autonomous vehicle and the actor are approaching the conflicted area, determining whether the autonomous vehicle has precedence over the actor for traversing the conflicted area, assigning a kinematic target to the moving object that requires the moving object to come to a stop at an yield point before entering the conflicted area if the autonomous vehicle has precedence over the actor, determining whether a plurality of forecasted trajectories for the actor need to be generated, and controlling movement of the autonomous vehicle to traverse the conflicted area accordingly.
US12103547B2
A vehicle comprises user inputs, a monitoring system for detecting and monitoring a pet within the vehicle, and a controller processing signals generated by the monitoring system and determining a location of the pet based on the monitored signals. The controller controls activation of the user input controls based on the determined location of the pet to disable an operating mode of one or more of the user inputs when the pet is detected proximate to the user inputs.
US12103545B2
According to an embodiment, provided are a method and an apparatus for monitoring an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), for detecting a failure of a UGV actuator in consideration of terrain information. Accordingly, the accuracy of detecting a failure of the UGV is improved.
US12103534B2
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for predicting creep behaviors of objects (vehicles, bicycles, pedestrians, etc.) at a location. An autonomous vehicle located at a first road segment connecting to an intersection having a stop sign can detect a first vehicle approaching the intersection from a second road segment connecting to the intersection. Using a model indicating an average creep point location specific to the second road segment connecting to the intersection, the autonomous vehicle can predict that the first vehicle will yield at the average creep point location that is specific to the second road segment.
US12103531B2
A neutral travel control apparatus includes a brake unit used to brake a vehicle, and a neutral travel controller configured to control the brake unit so that the vehicle travels within a braking performance range by determining, based on vehicle information, a limit value of braking performance of the travelling vehicle, and comparing the limit value with an actual value of the travelling vehicle corresponding to the limit value. The limit value is a reference value for determining whether a travel state including an actual weight of the vehicle and a gradient ratio of a road exceeds the braking performance of the vehicle.
US12103527B2
Provided is a weight estimation system (S) including: a change amount calculation device (2) which acquires a height of a loading platform (N) before loading a vehicle and a height of the loading platform (N) after loading the vehicle and calculates an amount of change between the heights of the loading platform (N) between before and after the loading; and a loaded weight estimation device (4) which estimates a loaded weight on the basis of a correlation between the amount of change and a loaded weight stored in advance.
US12103525B2
A lane departure avoidance device includes a control unit that executes a lane departure prevention control by at least one of automatically turning a turning wheel and issuing an alarm, when it is determined that there is a possibility that a vehicle crosses a lane border and a driver has no intention of performing a lane departure, and that suspends executing the lane departure prevention control, when it is determined that there is a possibility that the vehicle crosses the lane border and the driver intentions to perform the lane departure. The control unit continues to suspend executing the lane departure prevention control, when it is determined that there is another lane border on a side that the vehicle approaches and that a distance from the vehicle to the other lane border is a reference distance or more, in a situation where executing the lane departure prevention control is suspended.
US12103524B1
A processor of a driving control device compares a vehicle speed of a subject vehicle traveling in a first lane with a vehicle speed of an adjacent other vehicle traveling in a second lane to determine whether a relative speed of the adjacent other vehicle to the subject vehicle is equal to or less than a predetermined speed difference threshold, and relaxes a travel condition for permitting the subject vehicle to travel at a predetermined driving assistance level when the relative speed is equal to or less than the speed difference threshold.
US12103522B2
Vehicles can be operated according to an artificial intelligence model contained in an on-board processor. The AI model can analyze sensor data, such as visible or infrared images of traffic, and determine when a collision is possible, whether it has become imminent, and whether the collision is avoidable or unavoidable using sequences of accelerations, braking, and steering. The AI model can also select the most appropriate sequence of actions from a large plurality of calculated sequences to avoid the collision if avoidable, and to minimize the harm if unavoidable. The AI model can also cause a processor to actuate linkages connected to the throttle (or electric power control), brakes (or regenerative braking), and steering to implement the selected sequence of actions. Thus the collision can be avoided or mitigated by an ADAS system or a fully autonomous vehicle.
US12103518B2
A parking assist apparatus sets a target position on a traffic lane, based on vehicle surrounding information, calculates a moving route, and executes a parking assist control of moving an own vehicle along the moving route. The parking assist control includes a steering angle control, a driving force control, and a braking force control. The parking assist apparatus changes the stopping number of stopping the own vehicle, based on the vehicle surrounding information while moving the own vehicle along the moving route.
