US12116152B2
A self-propelled wrapping machine movable on a supporting plane to wrap a load with a film, comprises a self-propelled carriage and an upright fixed to said carriage and slidably supporting an unwinding unit provided with a reel of film; an anchoring element provided with a locking system selectively operable in a closed position or in an open position respectively to tighten or to release an initial flap of the film unwound from the reel; a first gripping unit adapted to position and release the anchoring element with the initial flap of film tightened by the locking system arranged on the supporting plane adjacent to the load in an initial step of the wrapping cycle, and adapted to grasp and lift the anchoring element and activate in an open position the locking system so as to release the initial flap of film after at least one turn travelled by the self-propelled wrapping machine around the load wrapping the load with the film.
US12116149B2
A telescopic mast is disclosed including coaxial segments that can be controlled from a stowed position to a deployed position, a set of guide systems disposed between the adjacent segments, a set of systems for synchronising the segments during deployment and a system for driving the segments from the stowed position to the deployed position. Each segment includes the same determined number of angle sections secured together and extending over the entire length of the segment, the number of angle sections being at least three, each segment having a cross-section forming a polygon whose angle sections occupy the vertices of the polygon, each angle having a flat central portion bordered by two side wings, the angle sections of two adjacent segments facing one another. Each guide system is disposed between two adjacent segments being fastened on one of the angle sections of one of the two adjacent segments.
US12116146B2
A system for thermal management ground service equipment and a method of use is disclosed. The system may include ground service equipment, wherein the ground service equipment may be configured to manage a temperature of a power source of an electric aircraft. The ground service equipment may include a coolant source, wherein the coolant source may include a reservoir containing a coolant. The ground service equipment may include a coolant heating system, wherein the coolant heating system may be configured to increase thermal energy of the coolant. The coolant heating system may include an electric resistance heating element. The system may include a controller communicatively connected to the ground service equipment, wherein the controller may be configured to receive an optimal temperature of the coolant and control the electric resistance heating element of the coolant heating system to increase the thermal energy of the coolant to the optimal temperature.
US12116143B2
Vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (VTOLs) of the type used for the point-to-point delivery and transport of payloads (e.g., packages, equipment, etc.) and personnel, are significantly stabilized at least during takeoff and landing with present aspects significantly ameliorating or significantly eliminating destabilizing effects, including ground effect, during VTOL takeoff and/or landing.
US12116139B2
A craft includes a hull, a wing, a hydrofoil, and a control system. The wing is configured to generate upwards aero lift as air flows past the wing to facilitate wing-borne flight of the craft. The hydrofoil is configured to generate upwards hydrofoil lift during a first mode of operation as water flows past the hydrofoil to facilitate hydrofoil-borne movement of the craft through the water. While the craft is hydrofoil-borne, the control system is configured to determine the upwards aero lift generated by the wing. The control system is further configured to control the hydrofoil to generate downwards hydrofoil lift to counteract the upwards aero lift generated by the wing that maintains the hydrofoil at least partially submerged in the water while the determined upwards aero lift is below a threshold lift.
US12116138B2
Provided are embodiments for deicing an aircraft propeller having a plurality of blades of an aircraft. An example method includes performing a first heating, by a first plurality of heating elements connected to a first portion of each of the plurality of blades, for a first period of time, the first portion of each of the plurality of blades of the propeller defining a first deicing zone. The method further includes, subsequent to expiration of the first period of time, performing a second heating, by a second plurality of heating elements connected to a second portion of each of the plurality of blades, for a second period of time, the second portion of each of the plurality of blades of the propeller defining a second deicing zone.
US12116132B2
An aircraft passenger reading light, which is operable in at least two predetermined configurations, comprises: a light source; an optical element; and an actuation mechanism, which is configured to modify a distance between the light source and the optical element. The distance (D) between the light source and the optical element differs in the at least two predetermined configurations and a spatial extension of the illumination, which results from the light output of the light source and the optical element, differs in the at least two predetermined configurations.
US12116129B2
There is provided a flight vehicle including: a wing unit; a battery that is arranged in the wing unit; an air intake unit that is formed at a position corresponding to the battery on a front side of the wing unit; a heat sink unit that is arranged for the battery and cools the battery by air which flows in from the air intake unit and that includes a ventilation unit having a shape widening from the front side toward a rear side; and an exhaust unit that is formed at a position corresponding to the battery on the rear side of the wing unit and that exhausts air which flows out from the heat sink unit.
US12116121B2
An airfoil system is provided that includes an airfoil and an electric device. The airfoil includes a first exterior surface, a second exterior surface, a first airfoil segment and a second airfoil segment attached to the first airfoil segment. The airfoil extends widthwise between the first exterior surface and the second exterior surface. The first airfoil segment forms the first exterior surface. The second airfoil segment forms the second exterior surface. The electric device is embedded within the airfoil between the first airfoil segment and the second airfoil segment.
US12116118B2
A rotor blade assembly includes a rotor blade having inboard and outboard regions, a blade body, and an internal spar, the blade body defining leading and trailing edges. A trailing edge assembly extends from and is connected to the trailing edge, and has a trailing edge flap and an actuator configured to deploy the trailing edge flap between first and second positions. In one of the first and second positions, an upper surface of the trailing edge flap conforms in profile to an upper surface of the rotor blade, and in the other, the trailing edge flap is inclined relative to the blade. During hovering flight, at least one trailing edge flap segment is deflected to enhance hover performance. During forward flight, at least one trailing edge flap segment is either not deflected for reduced effect on forward flight or is deflected for additional thrust.
US12116116B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example arresting hook system for an aircraft includes a linkage assembly defining a trapeze deployment assembly of the arresting hook system, a pivot assembly to pivotally couple a hook shank to a primary pivot joint of an aft body, a vertical actuator coupled to a forward body and a frame of the aircraft to move the arresting hook system between a stowed position and an intermediate position, and a vertical damper actuator (VDA) including a cylinder and a piston. The cylinder pivotally coupled to the frame of the aircraft via a VDA pivot joint, the VDA to rotate relative to the frame of the aircraft, the piston having an end operatively coupled to the pivot assembly, the VDA to move the arresting hook system between the intermediate position and a deployed position.
US12116115B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example pivot assembly for use with an arresting hook includes a coupler having a first opening defining a first axis and a second opening defining a second axis, the first opening transverse relative to the second opening. A linkage arm has a body and an arm. The body includes a third opening defining a third axis. The first opening of the coupler is to receive the body of the linkage arm such that the second opening of the coupler coaxially aligns with the third opening of linkage arm. A pin extends through the second opening and the third opening to couple the coupler and the linkage arm.
US12116114B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes propellers, motors configured to drive the propellers, respectively, a main body including a control device configured to control the motors, and a wireless device configured to perform at least one of transmission or reception of a signal, a package container for containing a package, and at least one float. In a case where the UAV is placed on water, buoyancy of the float and the package container prevents a surface of the water from reaching at least a height of the wireless device. The buoyancy of the package container increases with the volume of the package container.
US12116106B2
A blade, for a rotor of an aircraft, comprising a hollow cylindrical sleeve, a stop fastened to the cylindrical sleeve, a profiled portion, and an anchoring device, a blade body and a hollow torsion box secured to the profiled portion. The anchoring device and the blade body are positioned inside the cylindrical sleeve. The anchoring device surrounds the stop in order to form a stop for the profiled portion parallel to a longitudinal axis of the blade. The hollow torsion box is secured to the profiled portion, and comprises a bearing zone in contact with an inner wall of the cylindrical sleeve, taking up the bending loads on the blade.
US12116105B2
A fabric barrier for an aircraft compartmental barrier includes a fabric barrier portion and a flexible crosspiece, wherein at least part of one edge of the fabric barrier portion terminates at the flexible crosspiece, wherein the flexible crosspiece is adapted to fit into and be retained within a partially covered groove, wherein the partially covered groove includes a pair of opposing flange portions covering a groove whereby a central longitudinal portion of the groove remains uncovered, wherein the flexible crosspiece is adapted to be released from the partially covered groove by passing between the pair of opposing flange portions during a decompression event. A decompression system for an aircraft compartmental barrier includes said fabric barrier, and a method for isolating two internal volumes within an aircraft using said decompression system.
US12116094B1
An exemplary inventive molding device includes two mold components characterized by matching rounded-star shapes. Each mold component includes eight congruent rounded-tip projections and eight congruent apertured sections separated from each other by the projections and describing a ring shape. The projections correspond to the equiangular points of a star. Each section has a medial hole and is interposed between and connects two projections. The mold components are joined so that their respective projections and holes are even with each other and fasteners are installed through the holes. Appropriate introduction and curing of a castable material inside the joined mold components produces a flexible device suitable for use as part of a biomimicking soft robot.
US12116091B2
A boat hull washing apparatus includes a left structure and a right structure, one or more brushes arranged to wash a hull of a boat positioned between the structures. The apparatus is provided with a boat positioning assembly that includes a left and a right boat pushing device. The left and right boat pushing devices are attached to left/right structures respectively. The left boat pushing device is arranged to bias a boat, located between the left and right structures, away from the left structure, and the right device functions similar away from the right structure. In this way, the pushing devices are arranged to hold the boat in a lateral position. Using this arrangement of the left and right pushing devices to bias the boat away from the left and right structures, respectively, a single force generating unit is connected to both pushing devices.
US12116089B1
Various implementations include a clamping storage device. The device includes a clamping assembly having a proximal stop, a gas spring, and a distal stop. The proximal stop extends along a proximal stop longitudinal axis. The gas spring has a gas spring longitudinal axis, first end, and a second end. The first end of the gas spring is coupled to the proximal stop. The distal stop is coupled to the second end of the gas spring and extends along a distal stop longitudinal axis. The proximal stop longitudinal axis and the distal stop longitudinal axis are both locatable in an assembly plane that incudes the gas spring longitudinal axis. The gas spring is biased toward an extended position and urgable toward a retracted state. The gas spring is movable toward the extended position in an unlocked state and is prevented from being moved toward the extended position in a locked state.
US12116076B1
An arrangement for supporting a child behind a stroller, includes an axle attachment member adapted to be secured to an axle of the stroller; and a standing board adapted to be secured to the axle attachment member or the axle of the stroller, and including an elongated planar board, at least one wheel secured to a rear section of the planar board, first and second spaced apart attachment openings in an upper surface of the planar board, a seat assembly, handle or plug releasably securable in either attachment opening, transversely aligned wing openings in opposite side surfaces of the planar board, and wings selectively and releasably securable in the wing openings so as to extend transversely out from the planar board, and a stroller attachment member at a front end of the planar board for removable securement to either the stroller or axle attachment member.
US12116073B1
A saddle having a laser projection direction-indicating device is provided. The laser projection direction-indicating device has a module housing mounted to a saddle body. A left laser element is disposed in a left laser projection port of the module housing; a right laser element is disposed in a right laser projection port of the module housing. A control unit is connected with the left laser element and the right laser element. A direction signal generation unit is connected with the control unit and generates a left turn signal or a right turn signal to the control unit. The laser projection direction-indicating device responds to the left turn signal or the right turn signal generated by the direction signal generation unit to have the control unit drive the left laser element or the right laser element to generate a laser projection pattern.
US12116072B2
A parking system for a personal mobility includes at least one parking stand configured to be mounted on the personal mobility and to automatically unfold or fold, a boarding sensor configured to be mounted on the personal mobility and to detect whether the personal mobility is boarded or deboarded, and a controller configured to determine whether the personal mobility is boarded or deboarded based on the detection of the boarding sensor and to control operation of the parking stand so that the parking stand unfolds when the personal mobility is deboarded and the parking stand folds when the personal mobility is boarded.
US12116071B2
The present invention relates to a saddle for vehicles, such as bicycles, motorcycles and the like, including a seat component defining a support surface for a user as well as a fork component.
US12116070B2
An electronic lock includes a casing, a locking component, an actuating component, a pushing component, a contacting component and an electric motor. The locking component can be switched between a lock position and an unlock position, and has a first inclined portion. The actuating component has a second inclined portion slidably abutting against the first inclined portion. The pushing component is connected to the actuating component and protrudes from the casing. The pushing component is pressed by an external force to move the locking component from the unlock position to the lock position via a relative movement between the first inclined portion and the second inclined portion. The contacting component movably contacts against the actuating component to constrain the locking component in the lock position. The electric motor is connected to the contacting component, and can separate the contacting component from the actuating component by a control command.
US12116063B2
A steer-by-wire steering system for a vehicle, including: an operating member operable by a driver; a steering device including an electric motor and configured to steer a wheel by a force generated by the electric motor; a controller configured to control the steering device, wherein the controller enables the wheel to be steered in accordance with an operation of the operating member while imposing limitation on a supply current to the electric motor, and wherein the limitation imposed on the supply current is made smaller when a running speed of the vehicle is lower than a set speed and a steering motion of the wheel is a motion in a direction to decrease a steering amount than i) when the running speed of the vehicle is not lower than the set speed and ii) when the steering motion of the wheel is a motion in a direction to increase the steering amount.
US12116048B2
A handwheel actuator for a steer by wire system may include a feedback actuator and a column for operably coupling a handwheel to the handwheel actuator. The column includes a column shaft extending from a first end of the column to a second end of the column. The feedback actuator is operably coupled to the second end of the column and provides tactile feedback to an operator responsive to movement of the handwheel. The feedback actuator includes a torsion bar coaxial with the column shaft. The column shaft is supported relative to a housing of the column by a first column shaft bearing disposed proximate to the first end of the column and a second column shaft bearing disposed proximate to the second end of the column. The torsion bar extends into the column shaft past the second column shaft bearing and is operably coupled to the column shaft via a removable fastener disposed at a portion of the torsion bar that extends past the second column shaft bearing.
US12116047B1
A body defines a wheel arch, a wheel assembly is located in the wheel arch, and a panel is located adjacent to the wheel arch and inboard relative to the wheel assembly. An actuator is configured to move the panel between an extended position and a retracted position, wherein the panel is adjacent to the wheel assembly in the extended position and the panel is spaced from the wheel assembly in the retracted position. The actuator is configured to move the panel between the extended position and the retracted position in response to a control signal that is generated based on a sensed condition.
US12116031B2
Disclosed is a folding and man-riding structure of a foldable cart steering system. The folding and man-riding structure includes a foldable frame, a connection device is fixedly connected to a lower end of one side of the foldable frame, the connection device includes a frame supporting seat, steering wheels are connected to a bottom of the frame, the steering wheels are connected to a steering structure by means of wheel steering swing arms, the steering structure is foldable, the steering structure is further connected to a steering rod assembly, and the steering rod assembly is configured to control movement of the steering structure. By using the above design, the steering structure composed of a plurality of steering arms is arranged between two steering wheels, and the steering structure controls steering of the steering wheels.
US12116027B2
A railway termination shunt enclosure including one or more receptacles, each of the one or more receptacles being configured to receive a termination shunt. The enclosure also includes at least one mounting surface and a connector assembly rotatably attaching the one or more receptacles to one or more of the at least one mounting surface.
US12116024B2
A railroad car moving vehicle comprises a chassis, the chassis including at least two ground wheels and at least two track wheels; a platform moveably mounted on the chassis; a platform lifting apparatus configured to move the platform between a raised position and a lowered position relative to the chassis, the platform lifting apparatus including a platform lifting cylinder operatively coupled between the chassis and the platform; and at least one locking leg, the locking leg positionable between an extended position and a stowed position, the locking leg preventing lowering of the platform when in the extended position.
US12116020B2
A vehicle is capable of disabling autonomous driving by identifying whether an intervention of a user has occurred during autonomous driving. The vehicle includes a steering wheel, a first sensor device configured to detect a steering torque of the steering wheel, a steering angle of the steering wheel, and a steering angular velocity of the steering wheel, and a second sensor device configured to detect a touch of a user applied to the steering wheel. When the vehicle travels in an emergency control state in which a deceleration/acceleration speed of the vehicle is greater than a predetermined first value during autonomous driving, if the touch of the user on the steering wheel is detected through the second sensor device, the emergency control state is disabled under certain conditions, and if the steering torque is greater than or equal to a predetermined torque value, autonomous driving is disabled.
US12116017B1
An imitation learning-based machine-learned (ML) model to augment or replace the prediction and/or planner components of an autonomous vehicle may be trained using a two stage and multi-discipline approach. A first stage of training may include training the ML component to output a predicted action associated with a target vehicle and modifying the ML component to reduce a difference between the predicted action and the observed action taken by the target vehicle. A second stage may use reinforcement learning to further tun the ML component. The resultant model may be used on its own, with enough training data, or to rank or weight candidate trajectories generated by a planning component of the vehicle. The ML component may provide embeddings of environment features to first transformer(s) that output to a long short-term memory that outputs to second transformer(s) to determine the predicted action.
US12116015B2
Techniques for improving the performance of an autonomous vehicle (AV) by automatically annotating objects surrounding the AV are described herein. A system can obtain sensor data from a sensor coupled to the AV and generate an initial object trajectory for an object using the sensor data. Additionally, the system can determine a fixed value for the object size of the object based on the initial object trajectory. Moreover, the system can generate an updated initial object trajectory, wherein the object size corresponds to the fixed value. Furthermore, the system can determine, based on the sensor data and the updated initial object trajectory, a refined object trajectory. Subsequently, the system can generate a multi-dimensional label for the object based on the refined object trajectory. A motion plan for controlling the AV can be generated based on the multi-dimensional label.
US12116013B2
A system for a distributed in-vehicle real-time sensor data processing can be adapted to receive a request for sensor data from vehicles. The system may be further adapted to generate an application for collection of the sensor data. The application may have sensor requirements for performing the collection of sensor data. The system may be further adapted to identify a set of vehicles for distribution of the application based on available sensors in each vehicle corresponding to the sensor requirements. The system may be further adapted to transmit the application to the set of vehicles and receive sensor data results from respective instances of the application executing on the set of vehicles. The system may be further adapted to transmit a command to remove the respective instances of the application from the set of vehicles.
US12116002B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a communication device that communicates with an external apparatus outside the information processing apparatus; a memory that includes a protected region and an unprotected region; a processor that operates in a first mode and a second mode, the first mode being a mode in which access to the protected region and access to the unprotected region are allowed, the second mode being a mode in which access to the protected region is prohibited and access to the unprotected region is allowed; a first device controller that controls the communication device by the processor operating in the first mode; a virtual machine manager that causes one or more virtual machines to operate by the processor operating in the second mode; and a second device controller that controls the communication device by the processor operating in the second mode.
US12115994B2
The present disclosure provides system and methods for a vehicle infotainment system (VIS) to monitor physiological parameters of occupants of a vehicle. The VIS also monitors vehicle operating parameters. The VIS is able to detect when an occupant is experiencing a physiological condition and correlates the physiological condition to one or more vehicle operating parameters. In response to detecting a physiological condition and to determining the correlation, the VIS causes an action to occur in order to mitigate the physiological condition and/or to seek assistance for the physiological condition.
US12115993B2
A vehicle control system employing acoustic and impact sensors for sensing acoustics and vibrations at a vehicle to detect environmental conditions and provide appropriate vehicle control and driver warnings according to the environmental conditions. The acoustics may include sounds generated by objects in the external environment surrounding the vehicle or sounds generated by impacts on the vehicle. The vibrations may include vibrations of the vehicle generated by the sounds generated by objects in the external environment surrounding the vehicle or vibrations of the vehicle generated by the impacts on the vehicle.
US12115992B2
A utility vehicle includes a stack sensor for detecting whether a stack has occurred in a vehicle, and a controller. When a differential device is in an open state, the controller determines the presence or absence of a stack based on a detection result by the stack sensor. When it is determined that a stack has occurred, the controller activates the brake device to reduce a rotation speed of a stack wheel, which is a wheel idling due to the stack.
US12115987B2
A travel control device includes: a risk level calculation unit configured to acquire a speed in a traveling direction of a vehicle, a speed of the vehicle in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the traveling direction, and an azimuth angular velocity of the vehicle and calculate a rollover risk level based on a lateral load transfer ratio (LTR) of the vehicle; a deceleration calculation unit configured to calculate deceleration indicating an extent to which to lower the speed in the traveling direction when an absolute value of the rollover risk level exceeds a threshold value; and a control unit configured to control a driving system of the vehicle using a value obtained by lowering a target speed of the vehicle on the basis of the deceleration as a new target speed.
US12115985B2
In a regular mode of automated driving operation a vehicle is guided to a target position by a main control device and in an emergency mode the vehicle is guided along an intended emergency trajectory into a safe stopping position by an auxiliary control device. The intended emergency trajectory is continuously determined by the main control device in the regular mode and is stored in the auxiliary control device, with a lane course of a lane lying ahead of the vehicle. In the emergency mode, the stored intended emergency operation trajectory is corrected based on the stored lane course and a lane course of the lane of the vehicle continuously determined in the emergency mode. The correction is only undertaken if the continuously determined lane course has previously been evaluated as plausible, the plausibility being checked based on a determined deviation between the stored lane course and the continuously determined lane course.
US12115979B2
A method for controlling a motor vehicle (10) traveling on a road (12) in a current lane (14) is presented. The road (12) has at least one further lane (16) which is adjacent to the current lane (14) of the motor vehicle (10). The method comprises the following steps: A driving maneuver graph is generated and/or received, which contains information about at least two different driving maneuvers for the motor vehicle (10). One of the at least two possible driving maneuvers is selected by means of a machine learning module (36) which applies a machine learning method to the driving maneuver graph. A control device (30) for a system (26) for the control of a motor vehicle (10) is also proposed.
US12115977B2
A vehicular control system includes a plurality of sensors disposed at a vehicle and an electronic control unit (ECU). The vehicular control system, responsive to processing at the ECU of sensor data captured by one of the plurality of sensors, detects an object in the path of the vehicle. The object may be one selected from the group consisting of (i) a pothole, (ii) road debris, and (iii) a speed bump. The ECU, responsive to detecting the object in the path of the vehicle, provides an output to another ECU. The other ECU, responsive to receiving the output, controls two or more of (i) braking of the vehicle, (ii) steering of the vehicle, and (iii) suspension of the vehicle.
US12115976B2
A driving assistance device that provides assistance to a vehicle including a sensor, collecting peripheral information, includes a detection unit that detects an obstacle and a parking area at a vehicle periphery; a road width calculation unit that calculates an area between first and second boundary lines as a road width; a route calculation unit that calculates a movement route through the area and the parking area to a target position; and a movement control unit that moves the vehicle along the movement route; where when a second obstacle is detected on the inside of the first and second boundary lines and on the second boundary line side with respect to the vehicle, and the second obstacle is continuously detected when the vehicle reaches a predetermined timing, an area between a third boundary line extending in the predetermined direction and the first boundary line is detected as new road width.
US12115975B2
A parking support system of a vehicle, comprises: a detection unit configured to detect information of a periphery of the vehicle; a control unit configured to control, based on the information detected by the detection unit, a parking space entry operation of the vehicle to a parking space and a parking space exit operation of the vehicle from the parking space; and a stationary state control unit configured to maintain a stationary state of the vehicle after one of the parking space entry operation and the parking space exit operation has been completed. The stationary state control unit maintains the stationary state by first maintenance control when the parking space entry operation has been completed and maintains the stationary state by second maintenance control, which is different from the first maintenance control when the parking space exit operation has been completed.
US12115968B1
A vehicle control method for a vehicle provided with an engine, a generator, and a drive motor. The engine is used to drive the generator to generate electrical power. The electrical power from the generator in turn is used to drive the drive motor. A filter is provided to collects particulate matter in exhaust gas from the engine. A fuel cut-off prohibition of the engine is performed based on a temperature of the filter. A regeneration amount by the drive motor is suppressed according to when a fuel cut-off prohibition condition of the engine is satisfied.
US12115966B2
A method for operating a drive device for a motor vehicle, the drive device having a first drive unit designed as an internal combustion engine and a second drive unit designed as an electrical machine, which together at least temporarily provide a drive torque of the drive device on an drive shaft, the drive torque being set to a requested default torque. It In a first operating mode, before changing a speed of the drive shaft for the first drive unit, a torque characteristic is selected from multiple torque characteristics. In the first operating mode, while the speed is being changed, the first drive unit is operated according to the selected torque characteristic for providing at least one part of the specified torque, and a differential torque between the specified torque and the torque provided by the first drive unit boil is provided by the second drive unit.
US12115959B2
A vehicle includes wheels, brakes, and a controller. The wheels are configured to propel the vehicle. The brakes are configured to generate a braking torque at the wheels. The controller is programed to, in response to (i) a commanded braking torque and (ii) a relative jounce between two of the wheels exceeding a threshold, operate the brakes to increase the braking torque to less than the commanded braking torque. The controller is further programed to, in response to (i) the commanded braking torque and (ii) a droop of at least one of the wheels exceeding a threshold, operate the brakes to increase the braking torque to less than the commanded braking torque.
US12115954B2
A brake fluid pressure supply unit includes a fluid pressure generation device in which a piston that slides in a cylinder is driven by an electric motor to generate fluid pressure in a fluid pressure chamber formed in the cylinder; and a housing in which a fluid path connected to the fluid pressure chamber is formed. The electric motor and the cylinder are both attached to the housing. The electric motor is positioned more on upper side of the brake fluid pressure supply unit than the cylinder in a vertical direction. Thus, even if fluid leaks from the cylinder, the fluid having leaked can be prevented from entering inside of the electric motor. Thus, the operation of the electric motor is not impaired, whereby the reliability of the brake fluid pressure supply unit can be improved.
US12115951B2
A liquid ejection device for a vehicle washing system includes a reservoir volume, a first supply line coupled upstream to the reservoir for supplying a first liquid with a first supply rate and a second supply line coupled upstream to the reservoir for supplying a second liquid with a second supply rate. The device further comprises a removal line coupled downstream to the reservoir with a blocking device for blocking liquid flow through the removal line, and a detection unit for detecting liquid volume in the reservoir and a mixing ratio of the liquids introduced into the reservoir; and a removal device for ejecting the liquid found in the reservoir through an ejection element coupled to the removal line. In addition, the device comprises a control unit which is coupled to the detection unit and the removal device and is set up to start an ejection process by the removal device upon reaching a predetermined liquid volume and a predetermined mixing ratio.
US12115948B2
A sensor assembly includes a sensor including a cylindrical sensor window defining an axis, a cover fixed relative to the sensor, and a duct mounted to the sensor and extending through the axis. The cover is positioned to expose a circumferential portion of the sensor window. The circumferential portion extends circumferentially relative to the axis from a first end adjacent to the cover to a second end adjacent to the cover. The circumferential portion includes a midpoint circumferentially between the first end and the second end. The duct includes an inlet and an outlet. The outlet extends circumferentially from the first end of the circumferential portion to the second end of the circumferential portion. The duct includes a deflector positioned to direct airflow from the inlet to the outlet at the first end and second end of the circumferential portion before the airflow reaches the midpoint of the circumferential portion.
US12115944B2
An off-road vehicle and vehicle roof accessory assembly are disclosed. The vehicle includes a frame; a motor connected to the frame; a plurality of ground engaging members operatively connected to the frame, at least one ground engaging member of the plurality of ground engaging members being operatively connected to the motor; a roll cage connected to the frame, the roll cage defining at least in part a cockpit area; two seats connected to the frame, the two seats being disposed side by side in the cockpit area; a cargo box connected to the frame rearward of the two seats; and the vehicle roof accessory structure, including an accessory support structure selectively connected to the cargo box, the accessory support structure being adapted for selectively receiving at least one rooftop accessory for extending over and selectively connecting to the roll cage and the support structure.
US12115943B2
A quick-release clamp for a vehicular mount or rack having a rigid stationary first jaw with a clamping surface, and a rigid second jaw opposite with a clamping surface oriented to face the first jaw clamping surface. The second jaw is movable between an open and a closed position relative to the first jaw, where the closed position is capable of retaining one or more objects to be clamped transversely between said jaws. A lever, attached to a variable tensioning system operates to open and close the jaws when sufficient force is applied to overcome the tension of the tensioning system.
US12115942B2
The present invention relates to the field of vehicular roof top platforms that can be used to carry cargo as well as to enable individuals to stand thereupon. More specifically, the disclosed device relates to vehicular roof top platforms which are assembled from modular components enabling a great degree of control in regard to configuring the fore/aft size and width of such carriers. Furthermore, the present invention discloses roof top cargo platform which enable such platforms to be mounted parallel to the overall horizontal planar surface of a vehicle's roof despite such roofs presenting varying fore/aft as well as inboard/outboard curvature at the peripheral portions thereof.
US12115941B2
A center console for vehicles includes a first row storage unit having a first cover and a movable storage unit that is movable along a guide structure between forward and rearward positions. The movable storage unit includes an upper opening and a second cover. The first and second covers can both be in open positions while the movable storage unit is in the forward position at least partially inside the first row storage unit to provide access to an interior space of the movable storage unit.
US12115940B2
A vehicle step apparatus comprises a first extending and retracting device comprising a first mounting bracket, a first step bracket, and a first arm assembly configured to drive the first step bracket to move between a first extended position and a first retracted position; a second extending and retracting device comprising a second mounting bracket, a second step bracket, and a second arm assembly configured to drive the second step bracket to move between a second extended position and a second retracted position; a step mounted on the first and second step bracket; a first permanent magnet direct current motor mounted on the first mounting bracket and coupled with the first arm assembly to drive the first arm assembly; and a second permanent magnet direct current motor mounted on the second mounting bracket and coupled with the second arm assembly to drive the second arm assembly.
US12115934B2
Disclosed are a vehicle access system and method with at least two sets of a receiver and a transmitter, each set configured to receive a type of wireless communication signal from a corresponding transmitter of a user device, and the type of wireless communication signal received by a set is different from that received by at least another set; a signal module communicating with each set, each signal module configured to process the wireless communication signals received from the set to determine an initial location of the user device relative to the vehicle; a localization module communicating with the signal modules and configured to determine a final location of the user device relative to the vehicle, based on the initial locations determined by the signal modules; and a controller configured to lock or unlock a door of the vehicle based on the determined final location of the user device.
US12115933B2
An authentication control includes a connection authentication and an operation authentication for an authentication target device using a mobile terminal and a communication device that receives a signal from the mobile terminal toward the authentication target device. Information received by a reception unit in the mobile terminal and information detected by a state sensor for detecting a state of the mobile terminal are acquired. A connection response signal is transmitted from a transmission unit in the mobile terminal when the state of the mobile terminal satisfies a permission condition. A state determination for determining the state of the mobile terminal is performed after the reception unit receives the connection request signal.
US12115918B2
A vehicular vision system includes a plurality of vehicle cameras disposed at a vehicle, a trailer camera disposed at a trailer, and a video display screen disposed at the vehicle and viewable by a driver of the vehicle. When the trailer is hitched to the vehicle, the trailer camera captures image data and provides captured image data to an electronic control unit (ECU). The plurality of vehicle cameras capture image data and provide captured image data to the ECU. An auxiliary camera is detachably attached at an exterior side portion of the trailer. With the auxiliary camera detachably attached at the exterior side portion of the trailer and during a reversing maneuver of the vehicle with the trailer hitched to the vehicle, and responsive to a user input, video images derived from the image data captured by the auxiliary camera are displayed for viewing by the driver of the vehicle.
US12115912B2
A vehicular vision system includes a camera module configured to be disposed at a vehicle. An image processor processes multiple frames of image data captured by the imager of the camera module. With the camera module disposed at the vehicle, the heating device is activated to heat a lens of the camera module responsive to determination of lens occlusion at the lens. Responsive at least in part to determination of lens occlusion at the lens, and via processing of frames of captured image data while the heating device is activated, the vehicular vision system determines a change in degree of lens occlusion occurring between capture of a previous frame of captured image data and capture of a current frame of captured image data. The heating device is deactivated responsive to determination that the change in degree of lens occlusion is less than a threshold amount.
US12115903B2
A brake system includes a stroke detector configured to detect a stroke of a brake pedal and to output a signal; a first controller configured to generate ON/OFF signals for a brake lamp based on the signal from the stroke detector; and a second controller including a switch configured to receive the ON/OFF signals and control ON/OFF of the brake lamp, in which the first controller and the switch are directly connected to each other.
US12115897B2
A hoist valve assembly for a work machine cylinder includes a main control valve, a counterbalance valve and a counterbalance shutoff valve. A main control valve raise position connects a head end of the cylinder with a pressurized fluid source and a rod end of the cylinder to a low pressure reservoir to extend the cylinder. The counterbalance valve is between the rod end and the main control valve, is biased to a closed position and has an open position connecting the rod end to the low pressure reservoir. Rod end and head end pressure signals apply force to the counterbalance valve toward the open position. The counterbalance shutoff valve is positioned between the head end and the counterbalance valve, and has a normal position to apply the head end pressure signal to the counterbalance valve and a shutoff position that blocks the head end pressure signal from the counterbalance valve.
US12115889B2
A vehicle entry-and-exit assistance device easily moves a board between a housed position and a using position. Embodiments include a board at an outer side of a seat adjacent to a door opening, the board rotatable between a horizontal posture and an orthogonal posture; a board support portion rotatable between a seat side-position and a flipped-up position; and a linking mechanism. The board pivots around an axis orthogonal to the vehicle width direction, and the support portion pivots around an axis extending in the vehicle width direction. The linking mechanism rotates the board to a vehicle-width-direction inner side with respect to the support portion to take the orthogonal posture when the support portion is rotated to the flipped-up position, and rotates the board to a vehicle-width-direction outer side with respect to the support portion to take the horizontal posture when the support portion is rotated to the seat side-position.
US12115885B2
The present disclosure relates to a capacitive touch-type power seat switch using a receptacle, mounted on a seat of a vehicle and configured to control a position of the seat and a function thereof, the power seat switch comprising: a knob configured to be moved upwards, downwards, leftwards, and rightwards by operation of a user; an operation transmission unit configured to transmit an operation direction of the knob when the knob is moved upwards, downwards, leftwards, and rightwards, and to implement a function of the power seat switch in response to an operation signal according to the transmitted operation direction; a receptacle installed in a PCB provided in the operation transmission unit; a sensor electrode electrically connected to the receptacle and configured to detect variation in capacitance; and a sensor circuit part electrically connected to the sensor electrode.
US12115882B2
Methods and systems are provided for utilizing a parking brake in conjunction with negative torque from an electric motor during vehicle braking. In one example, a method may include applying the parking brake in conjunction with negative torque from the electric motor, until the vehicle speed reduces to a speed threshold, and then releasing the parking brake.
US12115870B2
A battery charger capable of receiving AC power and delivering both AC and DC power to an electric power storage battery in accordance to different embodiments disclosed herein using a rectifier circuit supplying the DC load and absorbing power as a five-level active rectifier with low harmonics on the AC input. In one aspect, the battery charger may have a bidirectional rectifier/inverter converter providing power conversion between a DC source and AC enabling the user to not only charge an electrical vehicle (“EV”) but also convert the energy charged in the EV/battery or solar panel to AC for use.
US12115868B2
A battery enclosure for a personal watercraft is provided. Different configurations of the battery enclosure are disclosed, as well as different arrangements of the battery enclosure within the personal watercraft and with respect to other features of the personal watercraft. According to one embodiment, a personal watercraft includes a deck and a hull defining an interior volume. An electric motor is housed within the interior volume, the electric motor being operable to rotate a drive shaft. A battery pack having a battery enclosure housing one or more batteries is also positioned within the interior volume. A portion of at least one battery of the one or more batteries is positioned vertically above the drive shaft.
US12115863B2
An electrified vehicle includes: a vehicle body including a panel body on which a projection is provided; a high voltage cable disposed at a position facing the projection; a member attached to the panel body and including a protector portion configured to cover the projection; and a resin connector for low voltage, the resin connector being attached to the protector portion and placed between the protector portion and the high voltage cable. As an example, the panel body may be a dash panel, and the projection may be a stud bolt.
US12115860B2
The invention provides in some aspects a transport system comprising a guideway having a plurality of regions in which one or more vehicles are propelled, where each such vehicle includes a magnet. Disposed along each region are a plurality of propulsion coils, each comprising one or more turns that are disposed about a common axis, such that the respective common axes of the plurality of coils in that region are (i) substantially aligned with one another, and (ii) orthogonal to a direction in which the vehicles are to be propelled in that region. The plurality of coils of at least one such region are disposed on opposing sides of the magnets of vehicles being propelled along that region so as to exert a propulsive force of substance on those magnets. In at least one other region, the plurality of coils disposed on only a single side of the magnets of vehicles being propelled in that region exert a propulsive force of substance thereon-regardless of whether the plurality of coils in that region are disposed on a single or multiple (e.g., opposing sides) of those magnets.
US12115852B2
Methods and systems for an electric drive axle of a vehicle are provided. A gear train in an electric drive axle system includes, in one example, an input shaft configured to rotationally couple to an electric motor-generator and including a first gear and an intermediate shaft including a second gear rotationally coupled to the first gear and a third gear and a fourth gear each configured to rotationally couple to a separate gear on an output shaft. In this example, the second gear, the third gear, and the fourth gear have different sizes, the third gear includes an axial extension having at outer surface, and an interior surface of the second gear circumferentially surrounds at least a portion of the outer surface of the axial extension.
US12115847B2
A battery housing assembly for an electric vehicle includes a battery housing, at least one mounting structure, and a strike bar. The battery housing is configured to house battery components. The mounting structure is secured to the battery housing and is configured to mount the battery housing to a vehicle frame. The mounting structure includes a recess. The strike bar is disposed within the recess and is secured to the mounting structure. The strike bar extends beyond an exterior profile of the battery housing and includes an upper end portion that tapers inwardly within the recess. The strike bar is configured to detach from the mounting structure in a downward direction during a vehicle impact event.
US12115845B2
A battery compartment for a traction battery, having a lower housing part with housing side walls and a housing bottom; a housing cover; and a crash frame with a closed hollow profile form along the housing side walls. In order to enable a low weight and outstanding crash behavior, it is proposed that the crash frame be provided in the lower housing part and have crash profiles, wherein the housing side walls and the crash profiles respectively form a profile section in the closed hollow profile form of the crash frame.
US12115839B2
A thermal management system for a vehicle includes: a cooling apparatus including a radiator, a first water pump, and a first valve that are connected by a coolant line and recirculating a coolant in the coolant line so as to cool at least one electrical component provided on the coolant line, a first connection line selectively connected to the coolant line through the first valve, a second connection line selectively connected to the first connection line through the second valve, and a heater provided on the second connection line, wherein the first connection line is provided with a condenser included in an air conditioner device, and the heater is provided inside an HVAC module included in the air conditioner device.
US12115838B2
The invention concerns a method for managing a thermal management device (1) for a motor vehicle, comprising the following steps: —increasing the speed of rotation of the compressor (3) to its maximum speed, —determining a modified setpoint temperature (T15-sp3) of the third element (300) greater than the first setpoint temperature (T15-sp1), so that the temperature of the second element (200) at the outlet of the first evaporator (11) tends towards its setpoint temperature (T11-sp), —adjusting the opening diameter of the second expansion device (13) so that the temperature of the third element (300) at the outlet of the second evaporator (15) reaches a modified setpoint temperature (T15-sp3), until the temperature of the second element (200) at the outlet of the first evaporator (11) reaches the setpoint temperature (T11-sp). The invention further relates to the thermal management device (1) for implementing said management method.
US12115837B2
A system includes a compressor outlet temperature module, a refrigerant quality module, and a correction factor module. The compressor outlet temperature module is configured to estimate a temperature at an outlet of a compressor in a thermal system of an electric vehicle. The refrigerant quality module is configured to estimate a quality of refrigerant at an inlet of the compressor based on an enthalpy at the compressor inlet and an inlet enthalpy correction factor. The refrigerant quality is a ratio of vapor refrigerant mass to total refrigerant mass. The correction factor module is configured to determine the inlet enthalpy correction factor based on the estimated compressor outlet temperature and a temperature measured at the compressor outlet.
US12115831B2
Rear lower control arm (5) for a motor vehicle including a top part (5t) and a bottom part (5b) defining together a hollow volume (5h), the top and bottom parts (5t, 5b) each including respectively a top and bottom first hole (17t, 17b) and a top and bottom second hole (19t, 19b), wherein the top and bottom parts (5t, 5b) are joined together by securing together at least part of said top and bottom horizontal surface outer peripheries (5tho, 5bho), at least part of the top and bottom first hole side walls outer peripheries (17tso, 17bso), at least part of said top and bottom second hole side walls outer peripheries (19tso, 19bso).
US12115830B2
This shock absorber is disposed between a vehicle body and an axle. The shock absorber includes a bottomed cylindrical cylinder, a spring seat, and a mold release rib. The spring seat is formed integrally with the cylinder. The spring seat protrudes in a radial direction of the cylinder from the cylinder to support a suspension spring. The mold release rib is formed integrally with the cylinder and the spring seat. The mold release rib connects an outer circumferential portion of the spring seat and the cylinder. The mold release rib has a face part provided at an outer end portion of the cylinder in the radial direction.
US12115825B2
A work vehicle includes a vehicle body, running gear to cause the vehicle body to travel, a height adjuster to change a height of a center of gravity of the vehicle body, and a controller configured or programmed to, in accordance with at least one of a turning radius and an angular velocity of the vehicle body during a turn, control the height adjuster to maintain or lower the height of the center of gravity.
US12115816B2
A main module adapted to be attached to a wheel of a vehicle is disclosed, comprising a centre bolt, an expander and a locking mechanism. The main module is configured to be fitted with a blocking means configured to cover nuts or bolts of the wheel. The centre bolt is adapted to be connected to the main module by means of a threading such that the axial position of the centre bolt, as seen along the axis of rotation of the wheel, can be adjusted by rotating the centre bolt relative the main module, and such that the expander expands in a radial direction of the wheel as the axial position of the centre bolt is adjusted. The expander is thereby allowed to engage with the wheel to secure the module to said wheel.
US12115813B2
An apertured article, insertion article and associated systems. The apertured article having an aperture, which has an aperture periphery, the aperture periphery having an aperture inner periphery and spaced aperture protrusions that extend radially outwardly from the aperture inner periphery to an aperture outer periphery. The aperture outer periphery is defined by distal edges of the spaced aperture protrusions. The aperture inner periphery is positioned along the circumference of an inner aperture reference circle, the inner aperture reference circle inscribing the aperture periphery, and the aperture outer periphery is positioned along the circumference of an outer aperture reference circle. As viewed along a radial line whose origin is at the center of the inner aperture reference circle, the aperture inner periphery can be positioned along 0.4 to 0.6 of the entire circumference of the inner aperture reference circle. The insertion article can be configured for insertion in the apertured article.
US12115812B2
A process includes printing a pattern on an upper surface of a substrate and curing to form a pattern layer; carrying out digital inkjet printing on an area where a convex pattern is required on the pattern layer by using a first UV varnish to obtain a first UV varnish layer, and before the first UV varnish layer is cured, in a crack area with a predetermined sharp boundary on the pattern layer, digital inkjet printing is performed on an edge of the first UV varnish layer with an ink to obtain an ink layer, the ink layer is in contact with the first UV varnish layer, then the first UV varnish layer is subjected to curing, the first UV varnish and ink being transparent or translucent; and removing the ink to obtain a 3D texture decorative panel with sharp edges.
US12115805B2
The present invention relates to the field of magnetic assemblies and processes for producing optical effect layers (OEL) comprising magnetically oriented non-spherical magnetic or magnetizable pigment particles on a substrate. In particular, the present invention relates magnetic assemblies and processes for producing said OELs as anti-counterfeit means on security documents or security articles or for decorative purposes.
US12115804B2
An intermediate transfer medium having a first transfer layer releasably provided on a support, a thermal transfer sheet in which a first colorant layer, a second transfer layer, and a second colorant layer are provided on one surface of a substrate so as being frame sequentially, and the second transfer layer is releasably provided from the substrate, and a transfer receiving article. The first colorant layer is used to form a first image on the first transfer layer of the intermediate transfer medium. The second transfer layer is transferred onto the first transfer layer on which the first image is formed, and then, the second colorant layer is used to form a second image on the second transfer layer. The first transfer layer is transferred together with the second transfer layer transferred on the first transfer layer onto the transfer receiving article to obtain a print having a stereoscopic image.
US12115803B2
We disclose specialized direct thermal recording media that are both phenol-free and water-dispersible. The thermally responsive layer of such media includes a leuco dye and an acidic developer. To avoid image fade and image formation problems associated with certain demanding environmental storage conditions, the developer is not only phenol-free but also a derivative of N,N′-diphenylurea. The thermal recording medium also includes a base coat between the substrate and the thermally responsive layer, the base coat containing a non-water-soluble binder, and a top coat carried by the substrate such that the thermally responsive layer is between the top coat and the substrate.
US12115799B2
A printing apparatus comprising a printing head including a plurality of nozzles, a correction value setting unit configured to set a correction value, a printing data generation unit configured to correct image data and a printing control unit configured to cause to print a first region and a second region on, based on the image data after correction, wherein the printing control unit causes to print one of the first raster lines with a predetermined number of the nozzles and to print one second raster line with a number, greater than the predetermined number, of the nozzles, and the correction value setting unit sets the correction value applied to the second raster line and the correction value applied to some of the first raster lines, in accordance with a printing condition that changes a concentration difference of the second raster line from the first raster lines.
US12115798B2
A printing method for printing a first image and a second image while changing a relative position and a relative attitude of a print head relative to a printing object, includes a first printing step of printing a first print image obtained by forming an unprinted region in the first image, a detecting step of detecting the unprinted region, an adjusting step of adjusting the print head such that the second image adjoins the first image, and a second printing step of printing a second print image including the second image and a partial image.
US12115796B2
A member mountable to a mounting portion provided with an ink receiving tube and a plurality of electrical connecting portions, the member includes a first portion including an outwardly facing surface and provided with an inserting portion into which the ink receiving tube is capable of being inserted; a second portion opposite from the first portion; and a third portion connecting the first portion and the second portion with each other and provided with a plurality of pad electrodes electrically connectable with the electrical connecting portions. The member is mountable to the mounting portion by being inserted into the mounting portion in an inserting direction with the first portion at a leading side. The pad electrodes are electrically connectable with the electrical connecting portions by being moved in a direction different from the inserting direction.
US12115786B2
Provided is a liquid droplet generation method capable of generating liquid droplets having a diameter of 100 μm or more. The liquid droplet generation method for generating liquid droplets from a liquid layer 20 by using a plurality of transducers 18, the method including irradiating the liquid layer 20 with a plurality of ultrasonic waves from the plurality of transducers 18 to scatter primary liquid droplets 21A and 21B from the liquid layer 20, and causing the primary liquid droplets 21A and 21B being scattered to aggregate and grow into a secondary liquid droplet 22A.
US12115778B2
A roll sheet, in which a continuous sheet is wound in a roll form, is caused to rotate in a forward direction to supply the sheet to a printing unit. First and second sensors are arranged at positions facing an outer circumferential surface of the roll sheet and deviated in an axis line direction of the roll sheet. Outputs of the first and second sensors are changed in accordance with a distance to a sheet of the roll sheet. A rotation direction of the roll sheet is switched from a forward direction to a reverse direction on the basis of the outputs of the first and second sensors while the roll sheet is being rotated in the reverse direction.
US12115777B2
A printing system includes a driving belt configured to drive media through the printing system relative to one or more print heads and a vacuum conveyor system. The vacuum conveyor system includes a vacuum chamber cover having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, as well as a plurality of slots through the cover that form openings from the first surface to the second surface. A seal, disposed within and extending along at least a portion of a length of a respective slot, is drivable to open or close the respective slot. A vacuum chamber below the second surface of the vacuum chamber cover is configured to apply a vacuum to the media through the plurality of slots. The applied vacuum constrains the media on the driving belt by flattening it against the driving belt.
US12115774B2
A drying device includes a conveyer configured to convey a contacted member by contact with the contacted member, and a heater configured to heat the contacted member. The conveyer includes a surface layer that comes into contact with the contacted member. The surface layer includes a support layer having a surface having multiple recessed portions, and a fluororesin adhering to the recessed portions. The support layer contains alunite sulfate.
US12115768B2
Prepregs, cores and composite articles are described that comprise lighter weight materials and/or lower amounts of adhesive than commonly used. In some instances, one or more components of the articles may comprise a repellent material or repellent treatment to reduce the overall absorption rate of adhesive into the components of the article.
US12115763B2
The invention relates to a sheetlike composite comprising, as mutually superposed layers in a direction from an outer face of the sheetlike composite to an inner face of the sheetlike composite, a) a carrier layer, and b) a barrier layer; wherein the sheetlike composite additionally includes a polymer layer P comprising a first polymer; wherein the polymer layer P has an L value in the L*a*b* colour space within a range from 30 to 56. The invention further relates to methods of producing a sheetlike composite, a container precursor and a closed container and to the aforementioned method products; to a container precursor and a closed container each including at least one sheetlike region of the sheetlike composite; to uses of the sheetlike composite for production of a food or drink product container and in a microwave oven; and to uses of compositions for production of a sheetlike composite for a food or drink product container.
US12115757B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions, laminates, films and/or composites made from polymers, such as thermoplastic polyurethane (“TPU”). The films have one or more optical layers made from materials that allow the transmission of visible light and reflect or absorb UV light. A composite having an infrared (“IR”) cutoff layer, and a polymer layer desirably having an ultraviolet (“UV”) absorber is disposed between layers of glass or artificial glass, combined with polycarbonate (“PC”) or polyethylene terephalate (“PET”) layers.
US12115756B2
A multilayer film with electrically switchable optical properties, includes arranged areally in the following order a first carrier film, a first electrically conductive layer, an active layer, a second electrically conductive layer, and a second carrier film. The multilayer film has within its area at least one first cutout and the at least one first cutout protrudes in the form of a through-hole through all layers of the multilayer film, the first cutout is filled with an electrically conductive filler compound, which electrically conductingly contacts the first electrically conductive layer within the first cutout, and a first busbar electrically conductingly contacts the electrically conducting filler compound.
US12115754B2
Provided is a production method for a layered product in which a metal film can be formed on the surface of a polyarylene sulfide (PAS) molded article with a high adhesive force by a simple step. Further, provided are: a polyarylene sulfide resin composition and a molded article that can be used in the layered product in which a metal film can be formed on the surface of the PAS molded article with a high adhesive force by a simpler step; and production methods therefor. More specifically, provided are: a polyarylene sulfide resin composition obtained by blending a polyarylene sulfide resin, a thermoplastic elastomer and/or a hydrolyzable thermoplastic resin, a carbonate, and a polyolefin-based wax; a molded article which is obtained by melt-molding the polyarylene sulfide resin composition and in which the surface is roughened; a layered product having a metal plating layer; and production methods therefor.
US12115752B2
A device for expanding and dispensing expandable slit sheet paper includes a pair of support members for a roll of expandable slit sheet paper. The roll of expandable slit sheet paper has an interior core member and a roll of expandable slit sheet paper wound on said interior core member. The interior core member has an axial length that is greater than the width of said slit sheet paper that is wound on said interior core member and has end regions that extend beyond the roll of expandable slit sheet paper. Pressure means is provided for pressing a first end region against its core support member and applying a frictional rotation resistance to the core member end region. The roll of expandable slit sheet paper is mounted on the device by positioning one end region under the pressure means and in a support relationship with its core support member while the roll of expandable slit sheet paper is inclined with respect to the device. The other end region is then moved into its supported position with its core support member. An adjustable downward pressure is exerted on the paper core end region and causing the paper core end region to be pressed against its support member as the paper is pulled. The downward pressure creates the friction required to enable the unexpanded slit sheet to be unwind and fed while simultaneously expanding.
US12115745B2
Disclosed is a festooner and a method for buffering a strip, the festooner having a first set of buffer rollers and a second set of buffer rollers, wherein the first set of buffer rollers and the second set of buffer rollers define a meandering first buffer path between them, wherein the festooner further includes a first endless drive element for driving the first set of buffer rollers and the second set of buffer rollers. The festooner further includes a third set of buffer rollers and a fourth set of buffer rollers coaxial to the first set of buffer rollers and the second set of buffer rollers, respectively, defining a meandering second buffer path between them. The festooner further includes a second endless drive element for driving the third set of buffer rollers and the fourth set of buffer rollers.
US12115733B2
According to examples, a three-dimensional (3D) fabrication system may include a controller that may control an agent delivery system to deposit a fusing agent onto a fusing area of a layer of particles of build material. The controller may also control the agent delivery system to deposit an energy absorbing agent onto an unfused thermal support area of the layer of particles, the unfused thermal support area being located adjacent to the fusing area. The controller may further control an energy supply system to supply energy, in which supply of the energy is to cause the particles on which the fusing agent has been deposited to melt and a temperature of the particles in the unfused thermal support area to be raised to a level that is below a melting point temperature of the particles.
US12115729B2
An infrared lamp assembly for an apparatus for the formation of three-dimensional objects by consolidation of particulate material, the assembly comprising: an elongate infrared lamp extending along a lamp axis, an elongate shield extending parallel to and along one side of the axis of the lamp, and a support structure holding at least one of the ends of the lamp and of the shield, wherein the elongate shield at least partially bounds the space to one side of the lamp, and wherein the assembly provides a lower opening below the lamp and an upper opening above the lamp, such that, in use, radiation generated by the lamp is able to radiate through the openings and away from the lamp in directions not bounded by the shield.
US12115728B2
An object can be made one section at a time, that is layerwise, using an apparatus for making an object using a stereolithographic method. In a step of the stereolithographic method, a layer of a material used for making the object may be solidified in the shape of a section of the object. Disclosed herein is an apparatus (100) for making a stereolithographic object (122). Also disclosed herein is a method for making a stereolithographic object (122).
US12115724B2
A three-dimensional object printing system includes: a printing table for a plurality of three-dimensional objects to be placed on, the printing table having a plurality of detection reference marks; detecting means for detecting positions and orientations of the three-dimensional objects placed on the printing table and the detection reference marks; printing data generating means generating printing data corresponding to the three-dimensional objects based on the positions and orientations of the three-dimensional objects detected by the detecting means, the printing data generating means obtaining reference coordinates of the detection reference marks based on part of the detection reference marks; and printing means for executing printing on the three-dimensional objects using the printing data generated by the printing data generating means.
US12115717B2
Apparatus (100) for use in space, the apparatus (100) comprising: a feedstock storage module (108) for storing a feedstock; a heating module (110) coupled to the feedstock storage module (108) and configured to heat the feedstock; an extrusion nozzle (112) coupled to the heating module (110) and configured to extrude heated feedstock from the apparatus (110); and one or more thrusters (118) configured to provide a propulsive force to the apparatus (100).
US12115705B2
A soundproof material includes rubber sponge having a specific gravity of 0.2 or less, which is formed by extrusion molding and a subsequent crosslinking and foaming of a rubber composition using a microwave heating device. The rubber composition includes at least raw material rubber, a crosslinking agent, a foaming agent, and carbon black. The soundproof material has a rectangular cross-sectional outer shape, has at least two hollow parts inside formed by a lateral partition wall extending in a left-right lateral direction and at least two hollow parts formed by a vertical partition wall extending in a vertical direction. The method includes adding carbon nanotubes to the rubber composition.
US12115702B2
An apparatus and a method for manufacturing a reactor capable of both absorbing a dimensional variation of a core and preventing deformation due to a resin pressure during molding are provided. An apparatus for manufacturing a reactor is provided with a core. The apparatus includes a mold including a cavity for housing the core. The mold includes a plurality of pins protruding into the cavity. When the core is disposed in the cavity, at least one of the plurality of pins is not fixed, and each of the pins functions as a positioning pin. When a molded article is molded, the pin is fixed, and each pin functions as a core support pin for supporting the core against a resin pressure during molding.
US12115695B2
Disclosed herein is a portable wood log splitter comprising a power unit and a work tool. The power unit comprises an engine and a gear box while the work tool comprises a drive shaft having a spreading mechanism and a splitting threaded cone. In some embodiments, the work tool is releasable from an output shaft of the gear box. The drive shaft of the work tool is hollow and provided with a thread on the outer circumference to drive the spreading mechanism. A nut with a toothed disc resides on the thread and able to shift in the axial direction of the drive shaft rotation axis due to rotation of the drive shaft. In operation, the splitting threaded cone is driven by force of the power unit to initially fracture a log, then using the spreading mechanism, the portions of the split log are fully separated under power.
US12115693B2
A method where a propeller is set into locomotion relative to a medium at least partially surrounding the propeller. An actuator induces a rotation of the propeller relative to the medium and about a rotational axis of the propeller, and the propeller converts its rotational movement into locomotion relative to the medium. The aspect ratio of at least one cross-section of the propeller is three or more. Also a helical or modifiedly helical propeller for converting rotational movement of the propeller into locomotion of the propeller relative to a medium at least partially surrounding the propeller, where the aspect ratio of at least one cross section of the propeller is three or more. And a method of producing a propeller, including the step of providing a plate extending along the helical axis, where the aspect ratio of at least one cross section of the plate is three or more.
US12115688B2
A trimmer head for pen-shaped eyebrow trimmer, including a cylindrical trimmer head body, the trimmer head body is provided with a blade, the trimmer head and handle can form an eyebrow trimmer with a pen-shaped structure. The blade is a curved arc-shaped structure, and blade edge at the upper end is arc-shaped; by placing the upper end of blade on upper end face of trimmer head body, the trimmer head can move perpendicular to the skin or inclined at a certain angle with the direction perpendicular to the skin when shaving, combined with the inclined setting of the blade relative to axis L of the trimmer head body to form an inclined cutting angle to ensure sharpness of cutting. To improve the flexibility and controllability of eyebrow trimming, the blade with arc-shaped structure can effectively control the shaving of concave and convex parts, as to accurately trim and shape eyebrows.
US12115682B2
A fully autonomous delivery station, including a management unit for receiving orders for goods, and a housing including one or more storage devices containing goods to be delivered, a moving collector moving between the one or more storage devices for collecting the goods, and kiosk used by a user of the delivery station for receiving the goods outside the housing.
US12115680B2
Computerized engineering tool and methodology to develop neural skills for computerized autonomous systems, such as a robotics system (50), are provided. A disclosed computerized engineering tool (10) may involve an integrated arrangement of respective modular functionalities arranged in a closed loop, such as may include a physics engine (14), a neural data editor (16), an experiment editor (18), a neural skills editor (20), and a machine learning environment (22). Disclosed embodiments are conducive to cost-effectively simplifying development efforts involving neural skills, such as by reducing the time involved to develop the neural skills involved in any given robotics system and by reducing the level of expertise involved to develop neural skills.
US12115678B2
According to one embodiment, a control system controls a robot. The control system includes a first system and a second system. The first system transmits a first command and supplementary data. The first command is represented using a specification different from a control command specification used by a controller of the robot. The supplementary data corresponds to the first command. The second system generates a second command based on the first command, attaches the supplementary data to the second command, and transmits the second command to the controller. The second command corresponds to the control command specification.
US12115677B2
Robotic picking devices and methods for performing a picking operation. The methods described herein may involve determining that a picking device is unable to grasp an item and then performing, using a perturbation mechanism, a perturbation operation to perturb the item so that the picking device is more likely to grasp the item by executing a subsequent grasp attempt.
US12115673B2
A robot obstacle avoidance method, a robot controller using the same, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining an influence value of an obstacle on a motion range of a joint of the robot according to a position of the obstacle in a workspace of the robot; establishing a state transition relationship of the robot by taking a joint velocity of the robot as a control target and a joint angular velocity of the robot as a control input quantity; and avoiding the robot from colliding with the obstacle during a movement process of the robot by performing a model predictive control on the robot according to the state transition relationship and the influence value. In the present disclosure, the influence of the obstacle on the motion range of the joint of the robot is fully considered.
US12115662B2
A robot includes a robot arm having a plurality of motor-driven joints and a plurality of links, each of which interconnect two adjacent joints. At least one of the links has a supporting structural component configured to transmit forces and/or torques from an adjacent joint to the other adjacent joint. The structural component is provided with at least one covering that at least partially covers the structural component and at least one contact sensor. The at least one contact sensor is configured as a switching strip arranged between the structural component and the covering. Movable mounting of the covering on the structural component, which mounting is spring-preloaded into the basic position of the covering, is adjusted by an inherent elasticity of the switching strip.
US12115656B1
Modular robotic arms include modular sections with a joint and arm segment. In some examples, the modular sections may connect to each other using common tooling flanges, such as a standard robotic interface for an end effector. In the same or different examples, a robotic arm controller is located in a base or other section for the robotic arm. In the same or different examples, a robotic arm joint includes a differential gear with two motors. Coordinated control of the two differential joint motors facilitates both hinge and rotary motion for the joint.
US12115651B2
A control device for an industrial robot includes a plurality of types of safety devices capable of connecting with the control device and connected with a power source in series, and the safety device is configured to be capable of being manually switched between electric cutoff of a wiring path and resumption from the cutoff. The control device further includes detection circuits connected with respective output side terminals of the plurality of the types of the safety devices, and each of the detection circuits detects whether the output side terminal is in a first state that power is supplied from the power source or in a second state that power supply from the power source is stopped, and the control device further includes a control part configured to perform notification based on an output of the detection circuit.
US12115639B2
A drilling tool configured to operate in two drilling modes, respectively with and without hammer action, said tool comprising a front end equipped with a rotating part for mounting a drill bit by way of an SDS-type push-fitting, characterized in that said rotating part comprises a mechanism for the removable attachment to a first longitudinal end of a tubular extension, this tubular extension being configured to extend along and around a drill bit mounted in the rotating part and comprising a second longitudinal end configured to bear at least one screw-driving element, such that the tool can be used for a screw-driving operation even when it is equipped with the drill bit.
US12115635B2
A control method for a percussive hand-held power tool (1) includes the steps: detecting a switching state of an operating button (12), detecting a temperature T using a temperature sensor (22), activating an electropneumatic striking mechanism (5) in response to an actuation of the operating button (12), an exciter (13) of the electropneumatic striking mechanism (5) being moved forward and backward along a working axis (3) at a repetition rate R, whereby a striker (14) coupled to the exciter (13) via a pneumatic chamber (16) is also moved. If the temperature T is greater than a limiting temperature Tc, the repetition rate R is continuously increased from idle up to a setpoint value (21). A duration until reaching the setpoint value (21) is less than 10 cycles. If the temperature T is less than the limiting temperature Tc, a duration until reaching the setpoint value (21) is greater than 200 cycles.
US12115630B2
A power tool including a motor and an impact mechanism. The impact mechanism is coupled to the motor and includes a hammer driven by the motor, and an anvil positioned at a nose of the power tool, and configured to receive an impact from the hammer. The power tool also includes a sensor assembly positioned at the nose of the power tool, and an electronic processor. The sensor assembly includes an output position sensor configured to generate an output signal indicative of a position of the hammer or the anvil. The electronic processor is coupled to the output position sensor and to the motor, and is configured to operate the motor based on the output signal from the output position sensor.
US12115629B2
An electronic torque wrench (10) comprises a body with an axial extension along a longitudinal axis (11), a front end provided with a coupling (14) intended to engage the wrench on a joint to be tightened by manual rotation around a rotation axis (15) which is transverse to the longitudinal axis (11), and a handle (13) along the body for operating the wrench. A sensor (16) is intended to detect a torque applied with the wrench to the coupling (14) and comprises two flex sensor elements (16a and 16b) which are arranged spaced apart along the longitudinal axis (11). An electronic control circuit (17) is connected to the sensor (16) for receiving signals from it and is intended to implement a method which comprises the steps: calculating, depending on flexing values detected by the two sensor elements (16a and 16b), the point P along the longitudinal axis (11) which is used for applying the manual force of rotation of the wrench about the rotation axis (15); comparing the position of the point P with admissible predefined positions along the longitudinal axis (11); and emitting an error signal if the position of the point P does not correspond to these admissible positions.
US12115623B2
An assembly method is provided during which a first component is arranged with a second component. The first component is secured to the second component using a fastener assembly. The fastener assembly includes a fastener element and a washer. The fastener element includes a wrenching feature. The washer has a full-hoop annular body with a cylindrical outer surface. The securing includes: mating a socket device with the fastener element and the washer, the socket device engaging the wrenching feature and the cylindrical outer surface; and rotating the fastener element about an axis using the socket device to tighten the fastener assembly and clamp the washer axially between the first component and the fastener element. The socket device centers the washer to the fastener element during the rotating.
US12115617B2
A belt sander includes a frame, a drive roller, an idler roller rotatably attached to a pivot arm, a first linear actuator configured for pivoting the pivot arm, a nose roller and a continuous abrasive belt wrapped around the drive roller, the idler roller and the nose roller. A drive motor rotates the drive roller, and an air cylinder attached to the frame and a nose roller spindle exerts a first force against the frame and a second force equal to and opposite the first force against the nose roller spindle. A first sensor senses a position of a belt edge, and a first controller receives a belt edge position signal from the first sensor and sends a command signal responsive to the position signal to the first linear actuator for expanding or contracting so as to pivot the pivot arm about a pivot point.
US12115616B2
The present specification relates to a hand held power tool comprising a housing, the housing comprising a back handle portion at a back end thereof. And a front handle portion at a front end thereof, wherein a motor is arranged in the back handle portion and coupled to an outgoing axle extending through the front handle portion. Wherein the front handle portion comprises an inner tubular structure and an outer tubular gripping sleeve. The outer tubular gripping sleeve is circumferentially supported by at least two vibration absorbing resilient elements arranged around the inner tubular structure, such that a circumferential gap is formed between the inner tubular structure and the outer tubular gripping sleeve.
US12115612B2
A method of providing cueing signals to a user of a tool. Engagement sensors are positioned, for obtaining engagement data regarding the user's engagement with the tool. The engagement data is compared to a preselected acceptable range of engagement data. If the engagement data is outside the preselected acceptable range of engagement data, then an alert signal is transmitted to an alert device. Upon receipt of the alert signal, the alert device generates a cueing alert signal to indicate that the engagement data is outside the preselected acceptable range.
US12115604B2
Systems and methods for clearing a short during a GMAW-P welding process are disclosed. A welding-type power supply may include a power conversion circuitry configured to convert input power to welding-type power, and a controller configured to control the power conversion circuitry based on a plurality of operating parameters. In examples, if the controller senses an occurrence of a short circuit during the welding cycle (e.g., during the background state), the voltage-controlled process can adjust an output current to increase in order to achieve one or more short state target voltage values. Once the short has cleared (as evidenced by a spike in voltage) and/or a desired short state target voltage value is achieved, the controller can again adjust the output current to decrease until the voltage has returned to a background voltage level.
US12115587B2
A cutting insert may include an upper surface, a lower surface, a front lateral surface and a rear lateral surface. The upper surface may include a first upper cutting edge and an upper constraining surface. The lower surface may include a lower constraining surface. The lower constraining surface may include a lower groove. The lower groove may include a first region, a second region and a third region. The first region may be located on a side opposite to the upper constraining surface. A wedge angle of the first region may be a first angle, a wedge angle of the second region may be a second angle, and a wedge angle of the third region may be a third angle. The first angle may be smaller than each of the second angle and the third angle.
US12115585B2
The present application relates to fiber cloth having functional composite particles and a preparation method therefor. The preparation method comprises: placing a solid metal block consisting of functional metal particles into a crucible using an evaporation and condensation process, and heating and evaporating the same into a vacuum physical vapor deposition (PVD) process furnace for condensation; depositing PVD ceramic layers on the outer surfaces of the functional metal particles under the condensed state using a PVD process to form the functional composite particles; and screening the functional composite particles by means of a particle filter and accelerating the particles to bombard the fiber cloth, thereby implanting the functional composite particles into the fiber cloth to form the fiber cloth having the functional composite particles. The functional composite particles in the present application can reduce contact between the internal functional metal particles and external oxygen, slowly release ionic metal ions of the functional metal particles, and prolong the action time of the functional metal particles. According to the present application, by implanting the functional composite particles into the fiber cloth, the fiber cloth with a long lasting antibacterial effect can be obtained.
US12115583B2
Systems and methods for adhesive-based part retention features in additively manufactured structures
Systems and methods for adhesive-based part retention features in additively manufactured structures are disclosed. A structure includes a first AM part configured to connect to a second part via a primary connection applied to an interface between the first AM part and the second part. The structure includes at least one retention element including a secondary connection. The secondary connection includes a first adhesive configured to secure the first AM part and the second part. The secondary connection may be located to provide a connection between the first AM part and the second part.
US12115579B2
Provided is a method for producing a metal solid, the method being capable of easily producing a metal solid. A method for producing a metal solid, the method comprising covering at least a portion of the periphery of a metal powder with a high-melting-point material having a melting point higher than the melting point of the metal powder; and irradiating the metal powder, at least a portion of the periphery of which is covered with the high-melting-point material, with microwaves to heat the metal powder, thereby sintering or melt-solidifying the metal powder.
US12115577B2
A method for producing a helix includes a step of providing a permanent mold with mold halves which are joined together on a mold parting line. The method additionally has a step of joining together the mold halves of the permanent mold such that the permanent mold has a cavity, which defines the shape of the helix or the shape of a bent-up helix, when the permanent mold is joined together, wherein the helix or the bent-up helix has a flattened profiled winding cross-section which has two opposite flat sides, an outer side and an inner side opposite the outer side, and the mold parting line runs at least partly along the outer side and/or the inner side and/or edges of the profiled winding cross-section.
US12115575B2
The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing method of an aluminum forging wheel, the manufacturing method being able to homogenize a material, optimize flow ability, prevent picking inside a wheel, and densify the internal structure of an aluminum forging wheel. The manufacturing method of an aluminum forging wheel includes: a billet preparation step S1 of preparing an aluminum billet to manufacture an aluminum forging wheel; a first forming step S2 of manufacturing a primary forming product by performing hot forging on the billet prepared in the billet preparation step S1; a second forming step S3 of manufacturing an aluminum forging wheel that is a secondary forming product by performing hot forging on the primary forming product manufactured in the first forming step S2; and a second machining step S5 of preheating the aluminum forging wheel manufactured in the first forming step S3 and performing F/F.
US12115571B2
A method for manufacturing a press-formed product includes a blanking step of blanking from a sheet-shaped material into a shape in which an excess material portion is added to the contour outline of a developed shape of the press-formed product, a first pressing step of folding the excess material portion to form straight sides into an intermediate formed product with a bent flange portion, a second pressing step of performing press forming including bulging in which the bulging portion is provided on the intermediate formed product, and a trimming step of trimming the excess material portion. A blank material includes excess material portion to be folded to form straight sides circumscribed around or spaced apart from a contour outline of a developed shape of the press-formed product, and an intermediate formed product includes excess material portion including a bent flange portion folded to form straight sides.
US12115570B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for producing a rod-shaped element. In order to provide a method with which it is possible to produce a rod-shaped element which overcomes at least one of the disadvantages of the rod-shaped elements known from the state of the art, it is proposed according to the invention that the method has the steps of providing a tube made of a metal, wherein the tube has a longitudinal direction, providing at least one strand with a plurality of threads, wherein at least one of the threads has carbon fibres, introducing the at least one strand into the tube, with the result that the at least one strand extends in the longitudinal direction in the tube, and cold forming the tube, together with the at least one strand, using a forming tool, with the result that an outside diameter of the tube before the cold forming is larger than the outside diameter of the tube after the cold forming.
US12115569B2
A method for the automatic calibration of vertical rolls of a vertical rolling stand, each of which is supported in a vertical roll unit which is adjustable with respect to a predetermined center line of a plurality of components arranged in a rolling train, including the steps of a) moving the vertical roll units into a calibration position transverse to the center line against at least one stationary stop of the vertical rolling stand, which has a certain known position with respect to the center line, b) calculating a calibrated initial distance Akal between an outer edge of a vertical roll facing a rolled stock or the center line and the center line in the calibration position, and c) adjusting the vertical roll units to a defined operating position.
US12115555B2
A phased ultrasonic transducer and method for transmitting sound or ultrasound through a gaseous medium into a solid spectrum with ultrasound beam steering and focusing.
US12115554B2
The present disclosure relates to a slot die coating apparatus for coating an electrode active material slurry onto an electrode collector, the slot die coating apparatus including: a coating roller; at least two or more dies; a discharge opening through which the electrode active material slurry is discharged in an opposite direction on which gravity acts; and an air vent installed in the die.
US12115550B2
A dual-valve automatic calibration system comprises a primary positioner, a first secondary positioner and a second secondary positioner: the first secondary positioner and the second secondary positioner are connected with a first fluid coating unit and a second fluid coating unit, respectively; the primary positioner comprises a primary X-axis positioner and a primary Y-axis positioner; both the first secondary positioner and the second secondary positioner are connected with the primary X-axis positioner. In contrast to the prior art that a secondary positioner is installed on a primary Z-axis positioner, a dual-valve automatic calibration system contributes to promotion of positioning precision on the Z-axis and reduction of a burden imposed on the Z-axis.
US12115548B2
Provided is an atomization nozzle including: a nozzle body member having a gas ejection path and a gas ejection port; a liquid nozzle member having a liquid ejection path and a liquid ejection port, a tip portion of the liquid nozzle member being inserted through the gas ejection path; a pattern adjustment groove that produces a swirling flow in the gas ejection path; and a spraying pattern adjustment member having a communication flow path and a blocking portion, where a spraying pattern can be changed by switching between a first position in which the pattern adjustment groove and a gas supply flow path are in communication via the communication flow path and a second position in which the pattern adjustment groove is covered by the blocking portion. Also provided are an atomization device, a spraying device, and a spraying method.
US12115539B2
A wide-size-fraction flotation system and process includes feeding coal slime to be floated into a stirrer, adding water to the floating coal slime in the stirrer, stirring, then feeding same into a grading cyclone through a first feeding pump for pre-grading; after grading of the coal slime in the grading cyclone, feeding overflow in the grading cyclone into a flotation column through a second feeding pump for flotation, discharging flotation tailings through an underflow port of the flotation column, collecting flotation concentrates through an overflow port of the flotation column and feeding same into a bubble generator through a fourth feeding pump, and the flotation concentrates passing through the bubble generator and being fed from the bottom of a hydraulic flotation machine; and feeding underflow in the grading cyclone into the hydraulic flotation machine through a third feeding pump, for flotation and recovery.
US12115537B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include separating devices and systems and methods of use. Embodiments of the present disclosure include separation devices including magnetic arrays and sheet-flow separation chambers. In an embodiment, the separating device enables the generation of multiple, and in some configurations, intersecting, high gradient magnetic field lines, resulting in strong separation forces, which permit for scale up to large areas and/or volumes (e.g., extracorporeal blood filtration system).
US12115535B1
A method for reducing the turbidity of as-mined sand comprising adding water to the as-mined sand to increase its moisture content to between about 5% and about 40% by weight, mixing the sand and water, piling the wet sand on the ground, allowing the sand to rest for a predetermined period of between about 12 hours and about 3 days, then harvesting less than all of the sand from the pile as reduced turbidity sand.
US12115530B2
A fluid processing device comprises multiple separate fluid channels and multiple processing stations configured to perform identical and simultaneous process steps on multiple fluid samples in the fluid channels. An embodiment of the fluid processing device is contained in a compact, low-cost, sealed consumable in which each processing station includes at least a reagent input well and a process chamber associated with each fluid channel. A reagent pack is associated with at least one processing station and includes at least one reagent chamber associated with each reagent input well. A barb actuator rod is associated with the processing station and includes a barb associated with each reagent chamber. Each barb actuator rod is movable between a first position in which each barb punctures the reagent chamber(s) associated with the barb and a second position in which each barb of the barb actuator rod does not contact the associated reagent chamber(s).
US12115527B2
The present invention relates to a pipette device with a pipette channel which extends along a channel axis defining an axial direction and which passes through a channel component arrangement which, at a coupling longitudinal end, has a coupling configuration for the releasable coupling of a pipette tip. The coupling configuration has a locking component with a radially outwardly facing engagement surface arrangement, which is movable between a locking position more radially remote from the channel axis and an unlocking position lying radially closer to the channel axis. The coupling configuration has a sealing component separate from the locking component, and that the actuator drive has a switchable magnetic field source and a reaction component which is movable by the locally changing magnetic field thereof and which is connected to the locking actuator in such a way as to transmit movement.
US12115521B2
Methods and corresponding catalysts are provided for conversion of an aromatics feed containing C8+ aromatics, particularly C9+ aromatics, to form a converted product mixture comprising, e.g., benzene and/or xylenes. The aromatic feed can be converted in the presence of a catalyst that includes a mixture of a first zeolite having an MEL framework, such as ZSM-11, and a second zeolite having a MOR framework, such as mordenite, particularly a mordenite synthesized using TEA or MTEA as a structure directing agent. The weight ratio of the first zeolite to the second zeolite in the catalyst can be from 0.3 to 1.2, or from 0.3 to 1.1, or from 0.3 to 1.0. The catalyst can further include one or more metals supported on the catalyst, such as a combination of metals.
US12115516B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing carboxymethyl cellulose particles, cellulose inducer particles manufactured by the method, and an absorbent article comprising same. The method comprises: (1) a step of obtaining alkalized cellulose by reacting a cellulose raw material with an alkalizer; (2) a step of obtaining carboxymethyl cellulose by reacting the alkalized cellulose with a carboxy methylating agent; (3) a primary cross-linking step of obtaining a slurry-phase carboxymethyl cellulose cross-linked body by reacting the carboxymethyl cellulose with a core cross-linker; (4) a step of washing and dehydrating after filtering the slurry-phase carboxymethyl cellulose cross-linked body; (5) a secondary cross-linking step of obtaining carboxymethyl cellulose having a core-shell structure by reacting the carboxymethyl cellulose cross-linked body having undergone Step (4) with a surface cross-linker; and (6) a step of obtaining carboxymethyl cellulose particles having a core-shell structure by drying and pulverizing the carboxymethyl cellulose having a core-shell structure.
US12115515B2
A preparation method for a nanopore starch-based adsorbent. The method mainly comprises: constructing a large number of lamellar crystals on surfaces of starch granules, and inducing the formation of a nano-scale pore channel structure by means of the lamellar crystals. A large number of control tests have proved that the flaky crystals have direct influence on the formation of the nano-scale pore channel structure. The construction of a pore channel structure in a starch matrix material greatly increases the specific surface area, and improves the adsorption properties. In addition, the method is beneficial to the introduction of functional particles (magnetic particles), and avoids the problem of pore channel blockage due to first forming pores and then introducing functional particles.
US12115510B2
High surface area coatings are applied to solid substrates to increase the surface area available for solid-phase synthesis of polymers. The high surface area coatings use three-dimensional space to provide more area for functional groups to bind polymers than an untreated solid substrate. The polymers may be oligonucleotides, polypeptides, or another type of polymer. The solid substrate is a rigid supportive layer made from a material such as glass, a silicon material, a metal material, and plastic. The coating may be thin films, hydrogels, microparticles. The coating may be made from a metal oxide, a high-κ dielectric, a low-κ dielectric, an etched metal, a carbon material, or an organic polymer. The functional groups may be hydroxyl groups, amine groups, thiolate groups, alkenes, n-alkenes, alkalines, N-Hydroxysuccinimide (NHS)-activated esters, polyaniline, aminosilane groups, silanized oxides, oligothiophenes, and diazonium compounds. Techniques for applying coatings to solid substrates and attaching functional groups are also disclosed.
US12115498B2
A method of capturing a target species from a gas comprises the steps of: contacting a gas containing a target species with a first absorbent solution comprising a capture species; dissolving the target species in the first absorbent solution to form a target anion; electrochemically separating the target anion from the first absorbent solution by contacting the first absorbent solution with one or more ion-exchange membranes, and transferring the target anion through an ion-exchange membrane into a second absorbent solution; and releasing at least some of the target species from the second absorbent solution. The one or more ion-exchange membranes are not permeable to the capture species, so the capture species does not pass through the one or more ion-exchange membranes. An apparatus for capturing a target species from a gas is also provided.
US12115494B2
A fuel tank inerting system is disclosed, comprising a fuel tank and an electrochemical cell comprising a cathode and an anode separated by a separator comprising an anion transfer medium. A cathode fluid flow path is in operative fluid communication with a catalyst at the cathode between a cathode fluid flow path inlet and a cathode fluid flow path outlet. An anode fluid flow path is in operative fluid communication with a catalyst at the anode, and includes an anode fluid flow path outlet. An electrical connected to a power source is arranged to provide a voltage difference between the anode and the cathode. An air source is in operative fluid communication with either or both of the cathode flow path inlet and the anode flow path inlet. An inert gas flow path is in operative fluid communication with the cathode flow path outlet and the fuel tank.
US12115493B2
Disclosed is an apparatus and method for mixing transmission and separation of hydrogen gas and natural gas recovered based on pressure energy. The method includes: (1) hydrogen compressed natural gas is introduced into the pressure energy recovery system; (2) the low-pressure hydrogen compressed natural gas is introduced into the separation system; (3) the low-hydrogen natural gas and the high concentration hydrogen gas are introduced into a first natural gas buffer tank and a first hydrogen gas buffer tank respectively; (4) the low-hydrogen natural gas and the high concentration hydrogen gas are introduced into the pressure boosting system; (5) the low-hydrogen natural gas and the high concentration hydrogen gas are respectively introduced into a natural gas user end. The method of the present invention is low in energy consumption, so as to realize pressure energy recovery, and energy consumption of hydrogen gas separation is greatly reduced.
US12115492B2
The present disclosure relates to processes for desulfurizing hydrocarbon feedstocks. The processes may include introducing a feedstock comprising hydrogen sulfide to an absorber comprising a metal chelate to form a reduced metal chelate. The processes may further include introducing the reduced metal chelate to a photobioreactor comprising a phototrophic bacterium. The present disclosure also relates to apparatuses for desulfurizing hydrocarbon feedstock. An apparatus may include and absorber and a photobioreactor fluidly connected to the absorber. The photobioreactor may be an anaerobic vessel with a light source.
US12115491B1
Systems and methods for an atmospheric carbon dioxide removal system that includes a plurality of carbon capture containers, a plurality of fans, an air diverter, and a velocity stack. Each of the carbon capture containers has an outwardly facing side and an inwardly facing side with the inwardly facing side facing an enclosed space. The fans are disposed adjacent to the carbon capture containers. The fans are arranged to move air through the carbon capture containers in a first direction from the outwardly facing side into the enclosed space. The air diverter is disposed within the enclosed space and receives the air flowing in the first direction and redirects the air to flow in a second direction that is angled upwardly from the first direction. The velocity stack is disposed on top of the enclosed space and is configured to accelerate the flow of the air in the second direction.
US12115489B2
An exhaust gas treatment method by which mercury contained in exhaust gas can be separated and removed efficiently and inexpensively. The method includes cooling an exhaust gas containing mercury in metal vapor phase by spraying water or other methods to condense mercury in the exhaust gas from metal vapor phase into metal liquid and thus to separate and remove mercury from the exhaust gas. When the exhaust gas is cooled by spraying water, the sprayed water is collected and separated into separated water and a solid containing mercury that has condensed to metal liquid, and mercury is recovered from the solid. The metal mercury particles that have condensed to metal liquid are dispersed in cooling water. The metal mercury particles can thus be easily separated and recovered by using a suitable separation device.
US12115487B1
A filter assembly adaptable to various air moving systems, including HVAC units and portable fans, comprises a lower frame with a flexible mesh that, along with the frame's perimeter, encloses a volume containing particulate filter media. This media filters air while producing an audible noise indicating system operation. The upper frame, attachable to the lower frame, includes a mesh bottom and houses scenting materials to enhance air quality with fragrances, designed to prevent these materials from escaping during use. Both frames feature mechanical fasteners for easy mutual attachment and maintenance. The upper frame's mesh side is partially removable for management of scenting materials. This filter assembly offers both functional air filtration and optional air scenting, providing a versatile and user-friendly solution for improving indoor air environments.
US12115483B2
A ventilation component (1a) includes a supporting portion (10), a gas-permeable membrane (20), and a sealing member (30). The supporting portion (10) has a ventilation path (12) and an annular surface (14). When the ventilation component (1a) is attached to a housing (2), the ventilation path (12) extends in a direction perpendicular to an opening plane of an opening (2a), and extends through the supporting portion (10). The annular surface (14) faces an outer surface (2e) of the housing (2), and surrounds the ventilation path (12) in plan view. The gas-permeable membrane (20) closes the ventilation path (12) in a ventilatable manner. The gas-permeable membrane (20) allows a gas to pass therethrough in a thickness direction of the gas-permeable membrane (20). The sealing member (30) is sandwiched between the outer surface (2e) of the housing (2) and the annular surface (14) to seal a gap between the outer surface (2e) of the housing (2) and the annular surface (14). The sealing member (30) includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a pressure-sensitive adhesive, an adhesive, and a cured product of an adhesive.
US12115482B2
An air treatment system for an agricultural vehicle includes an air filtration apparatus having an air filter housing for receiving an air filter cartridge and downstream air processing apparatus fluidly connected with the air filter housing by a duct. The system can receive first and second type air filter cartridges having corresponding first and second outlet sealing configurations. The duct has inner and outer conduits that define an inner flow path and an outer flow path. A filter sealing arrangement of the duct can engage with either type of filter cartridge. This enables two different types of filter cartridge, which may be configured to provide different levels of filtration, to be selectively mounted to the system in the same housing. Air flow may be restricted to the inner flow path when one type of air filter cartridge is fitted.
US12115477B2
A security system for a fluid filtration device and, more particularly, a security system that is adapted to pair a filter with a fluid filtration device, log an effectiveness of each individually serialized filter, prevent re-usage of a filter in more than one filtration device and prevent usage of a filter for greater than its preprogrammed lifespan.
US12115471B2
A method is directed to separating contaminants from mammalian cells in an aqueous multiphase system, and includes loading a container with a liquid having a top liquid phase and a bottom liquid phase. A cover medium is inserted in the container with a mixture of cultured mammalian cells and contaminants. The container is incubated and centrifuged for respective periods of time. In response to the centrifuging, the cells are separated from the contaminants in accordance with the respective density of the cells, the contaminants, and each liquid phase, resulting in the cells being located at a liquid-to-liquid interface between the top liquid phase and the bottom liquid phase and the contaminants being located at the bottom of the container.
US12115470B2
A fuel oxygen reduction unit is provided for reducing an oxygen content of a flow of liquid fuel to an engine. The fuel oxygen reduction unit includes: a stripping gas supply line for providing a flow of stripping gas; a contactor defining a liquid fuel inlet, a stripping gas inlet and a fuel/gas mixture outlet, the stripping gas supply line in airflow communication with the stripping gas inlet; a means for modulating the flow of stripping gas through the stripping gas supply line; and a controller operable with the means for modulating the flow of stripping gas through the stripping gas supply line to modulate the flow of stripping gas through the stripping gas supply line in response to an engine operability parameter.
US12115469B2
A vacuum deaerator is provided with a refining device with which it is possible to suppress the occurrence of situations involving interrupted discharging and continuously discharge a material being treated that is highly viscous, etc. The vacuum deaerator introduces a liquid material being treated into a vessel having a vacuum therein to perform deaeration and then discharged the material being treated out of the vessel. A rotating rotor with refining device arranged in the vessel and a rotating discharge vane provided separately from the rotating rotor for the purpose of discharging the material being treated in the vessel out of the vessel are installed.
US12115459B1
A multiplayer or multi group of players board game where a plurality of players individually or in groups play against one another. The game may include, but is not limited to a surface tray 10 having a plurality of cavity areas 11 and the number of cavity areas 11 may be greater than the number non-cavity areas 12 and the non-cavity areas may include a raised section in between a plurality of cavity areas 11. The cavities on the surface tray 10 may be in a shape of uniform or non-uniform polygons or inverted half spherical cavities with the plurality of cavity areas arranged in a matrix form or a non-matrix form depending on the shape of the polygon. The surface tray 10 may be seated inside a frame 15 having at least four peripheral walls and a bottom side/base to hold the surface tray in place.
US12115449B2
A playset comprises a plurality of hotspots positioned within a plurality of scenes. A switching mechanism is configured to selectively couple to the each of the plurality of hotspots and is communicatively coupled with a controller. The controller is configured to establish communication with a first object using a first hotspot and determine an object type of the first object and a location of the first object within the playset. The location of the first object corresponds to a scene that contains the first hotspot. The controller is further configured to select an interactive media based on the object type and the location of the first object, select a first media file based on the selected interactive media, and instruct the first media file to be output on an output device.
US12115448B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for controlling a cursor control, and a related device. The method includes: obtaining an actual offset value of a target stick in an stick coordinate system from a game controller, the game controller being used for controlling a target cursor control in a target device; determining an adjusted offset value of the target stick in the stick coordinate system at a first moment according to the actual offset value; determining a first position of the target cursor control in a target device coordinate system at the first moment according to the adjusted offset value at the first moment; and transmitting the first position to the target device to control the target cursor control to move from a second position in the target device coordinate system at a second moment to the first position, a movement speed of the target cursor control from the second position to the first position being positively correlated with the adjusted offset value at the first moment.
US12115439B2
The present disclosure relates to an information processing method in a game, which is applied to a mobile terminal for displaying a human-computer interaction interface in a touch screen and includes: obtaining an input fingerprint of a touch medium by means of the touch screen, and calculating similarity between the input fingerprint and a target fingerprint, wherein a mapping relationship exists between target fingerprints and a optional virtual object (S110); in response to detecting that the similarity is greater than a threshold value, obtaining action information of the touch medium on the touch screen, and determining a target virtual object according to the action information (S120); and controlling the optional virtual object corresponding to the target fingerprint to attack the target virtual object (S130).
US12115435B2
An article of apparel includes a padding system that dynamically changes configuration in response to an impending impact. The padding system may change from a state that has a high flexibility and offers low protection from impact to a state that has a low flexibility and offers increase protection from impact. The system may use a filament to constrict a plurality of padding elements together in order to increase the overall stiffness of the pad. The filament may be tightened and loosened by a spool. The spool may receive a signal regarding the impending impact from a sensor that is a part of the article of apparel, or a sensor that is separate from it.
US12115421B2
A cast cup can include a forward portion of a golf club head, including a hosel, forward portions of a crown, sole, heel, and toe, and a face portion or an opening to receive a face insert. A rear ring can be formed separately from the cast cup and coupled to heel and toe portions of the cast cup to form a rigid club head body, such that the club head body defines a hollow interior region, a crown opening, a sole opening, and/or face opening. The cast cup and rear ring can be made of different materials, including various metals, composites, and polymers. Composite crown, sole, and/or face inserts can be coupled to the crown, sole, and/or face openings. Weights can be coupled to the cast cup and to the rear ring. The face can have a complex variable thickness geometry.
US12115410B2
A convertible side plank and balance exercise device includes a platform and a base extending rearwardly from the platform. The convertible exercise device has a circular or oval front perimeter that extends around the platform. The base has a domed rear surface. A front side of the device includes left and right footwells for receiving a left shoe and a right shoe when the device is in a side plank exercise configuration. The device further includes removable left and right footwell inserts that are removably insertable into the footwells to provide a flat front surface on the front side of the device in a balance exercise configuration. The base includes an air chamber with an inflation and deflation valve and a distensible rear panel comprising the domed rear surface, the rear panel collapsing for storage and shipping when the air chamber is deflated.
US12115403B2
A pump panel training device is provided and includes a plurality of simulated gages operable to imitate gages upon a fire truck pump panel, a plurality of simulated controls operable to imitate controls upon the fire truck pump panel, and a simulated water hose operable to imitate one of water temperature changes, water temperature pressure, and water hose vibration for the fire truck pump panel.
US12115400B2
Fire protection sprinkler assemblies and methods of use in corrosive environments. The sprinkler assemblies include a corrosion resistant sprinkler frame made of a gradient material. The gradient material includes a polymeric layer interlocked about a corrosion-prone core in order to protect the frame structure from a corrosive environment. The interlock between the core and the protective polymer layers are defined by ionic bonding between the core and the outer polymer layer.
US12115398B2
A method implemented on an aircraft for controlling a fire suppression system comprises receiving, by a computing system of the aircraft, an indication that the fire suppression system of the aircraft should transition to an active state. The computing system determines whether the aircraft is on a surface. Responsive to determining that the aircraft is on the surface, the computing system controls the fire suppression system to remain or transition to an inactive state.
US12115397B1
The present invention relates to a deployable fire suppressive device designed for efficiently extinguishing fires, particularly suitable for campfires and kitchen stove fires. This innovative device features an extendable handle, transitioning from three feet in a collapsed state to six feet when extended, ensuring user safety from heat and flames. The core component is a fire-resistant fabric, arranged in a tubular formation, supported by a collapsible spring steel frame reminiscent of an oversized “Slinky.” This design enables quick deployment and effective coverage of the fire, robbing it of oxygen to extinguish it swiftly. The tubular fabric can be adapted to various shapes, including a square configuration, enhancing its versatility across different fire scenarios. The device is designed for user-friendly operation, easy storage, and reusability, making it a practical solution for quick fire suppression. Its safety-focused design and simple oxygen deprivation mechanism offer a significant advancement in the field of fire safety equipment.
US12115393B2
The present invention relates the field of ultrasound and neurostimulation. The inventors have shown that using ultrasound neurostimulation with specific parameters provides similar or better effects that fluoxetine administration in depression. Such assessment was made in unpredictable chronic mild stress model in mouse. The proposed use also provides with positive effects in other cases, such as modulating emotion or attenuating anxiety-related behaviours (stress notably).
US12115391B2
A radiography and radiotherapy apparatus comprises a body unit, a gantry configured to rotate relative to the body unit, a treatment table on which an object is placed and configured to slide into holes formed in the body unit and the gantry and move in a vertical direction, a gantry driving part configured to rotate the gantry, a radiation irradiation part mounted on the gantry and configured to irradiate radiation toward the object, an image detector mounted to face the radiation irradiation part in the gantry and configured to detect the radiation irradiated from the radiation irradiation part, and a beam stopper provided at a lower end of the image detector and configured to block the radiation.
US12115390B2
A control driving method for a radiotherapy device is disclosed. The radiotherapy device includes a collimator and a plurality of radioactive sources, wherein the radioactive sources are disposed within a preset angle range in a longitude direction, the longitude direction being a circular direction perpendicular to a central axis of the radiotherapy device, and the radioactive sources are configured to emit beams that intersect at a common focus after being collimated by a collimator. The method comprises: obtaining at least one protection angle range and driving the radiotherapy device such that no beam from the plurality of the radioactive sources within the at least one protection angle range is emitted.
US12115387B2
A method of optimizing a radiotherapy treatment plan for delivering charged particles to a patient by pencil beam scanning, involves optimizing the treatment plan using an optimization problem that is designed to allow spots to differ in at least one of shape and orientation, and optionally also in size. This enables the optimization spots so as to cover the target in the best possible way and with a sharp penumbra along the outer edges of the target. The invention also relates to a computer program product and a computer system for use in such planning and a treatment delivery system for delivering such a plan.
US12115360B2
Drug delivery devices are described that provide hybrid forms with gripping and stability functionalities, such as a grip portion on a skin contact surface. In some versions, the drug delivery devices can include a cep having a release liner such that removal of the cap exposes the grip portion. In some versions, the drug delivery devices include a retractable needle guard having the grip portion extending therearound.
US12115358B2
A drug delivery device includes a dose counting mechanism and an end-of-content or remaining-dose indication. For example, a dose expelling mechanism is coupled to a reciprocating element configured to undergo a predefined motion during each dose expelling action to allow a dose to be expelled. The predefined motion includes displacement in a first axial direction from a first position to a second position followed by displacement in a second axial direction from the second position to the first position, with a counter element being movable in the first axial direction. First and second unidirectional ratchet mechanisms prevent motion in the first axial direction and allow motion in the second axial direction of the reciprocating element relative to the counter element, and vice versa, respectively.
US12115357B2
Systems and methods for integrating a continuous glucose sensor, including a receiver, a medicament delivery device, and optionally a single point glucose monitor are provided. Manual integrations provide for a physical association between the devices wherein a user (for example, patient or doctor) manually selects the amount, type, and/or time of delivery. Semi-automated integration of the devices includes integrations wherein an operable connection between the integrated components aids the user (for example, patient or doctor) in selecting, inputting, calculating, or validating the amount, type, or time of medicament delivery of glucose values, for example, by transmitting data to another component and thereby reducing the amount of user input required. Automated integration between the devices includes integrations wherein an operable connection between the integrated components provides for full control of the system without required user interaction.
US12115353B2
An apparatus for injectate delivery includes a cartridge, a linear actuator, a rotary motor mechanically coupled the actuator, and a controller coupled to the motor. The controller controls a linear motion of the actuator by controlling an electrical input supplied to the motor in a first interval during which the motor is stationary with the linear actuator engaged with the cartridge to displace an injectate in the cartridge, a second interval following the first interval during which the controller accelerates the motor from stationary to a first speed selected to create a jet of the injectate from the cartridge with a velocity sufficient to pierce human tissue to a subcutaneous depth, a third interval during which the controller maintains the motor at or above the first speed, and a fourth interval during which the controller decelerates the motor to a second speed to deliver the injectate at the subcutaneous depth.
US12115351B2
The exemplary embodiments may provide a secure framework for devices in a drug delivery system to wirelessly communicate. The secure framework may use encrypted keys to carry credentials and to specify the rights of the devices presenting the credentials. The devices in the drug delivery system present the keys at the time that they wish to wirelessly communicate with other devices in the drug delivery system. The devices receiving such keys, decrypt the keys and verify if the credentials are valid. If the credentials are valid, a wireless communication session between devices may be established.
US12115350B2
A medical apparatus includes an operation reception unit, a position acquisition unit that can acquire position information of a detection target based on a position of the detection target on the operation reception unit at an acquisition time that occurs in a predetermined cycle, the detection target being in contact with or proximate to the operation reception unit, and a control unit that determines an operation position of the detection target on the operation reception unit at a last acquisition time before a latest acquisition time, on the basis of the position information acquired at the latest acquisition time.
US12115348B2
An apparatus is provided which includes a plurality of conduits and a plurality of valves in fluidic communication with the plurality of conduits. The plurality of conduits is configured to receive liquid from at least one liquid reservoir configured to be implanted on or within a recipient. Each conduit of the plurality of conduits has a corresponding flow resistance to the liquid. The plurality of valves is configured to controllably allow flow of the liquid through a selected set of the conduits to be administered internally to the recipient with a selected flow rate.
US12115338B2
Certain embodiments provide multi-medicament infusion systems for preventing the cross-channeling of medicaments. The system may include one or more of an infusion pump, medicament cartridges, cartridge connectors, a multi-channel fluid conduit, and an infusion set. The infusion pump can have an inductively chargeable battery assembly that can be charged by an inductive charging pad.
US12115327B2
Sensor devices and methods of operating for use with catheter-based treatments of microcardial microvascular obstruction by infusion of fluids having protective agents into vasculature are provided herein. Such catheter devices can include a first lumen configured for advancement over a guidewire and for passage of fluid having protective agents after removal of the guidewire and a second lumen for inflation of an angioplasty balloon and can further include a temperature and/or pressure sensor mounted on the catheter body. Such catheter devices can further include use of a distal occlusive membrane between the angioplasty balloon and distal end to facilitate infusion into microvasculature. The occlusive membrane can be deployed by relative movement of concentric channels, thereby reducing the need for additional lumen while optimizing the size of the catheter device and lumens.
US12115325B2
The present disclosure is directed to a device. The device may include a distal shaft defining a central lumen and an orienting element comprising at least one inflatable member. Wherein a first portion of the orienting element extending from the shaft in a first direction and a second portion of the orienting element extending from the shaft in a second direction. Further, wherein the second direction is substantially opposite the first direction.
US12115324B2
The present disclosure relates to guidewire devices having shapeable tips and effective torquability. A guidewire device includes a core having a proximal section and a tapered distal section. A tube structure is coupled to the core such that the tapered distal section of the core extends into and distally beyond the tube structure. The portion of the core extending distally beyond the tube forms a shapeable tip. A polymer covering encompasses the tip. The tip is configured to reduce the tendency of resilient forces from the tube structure to disrupt a customized shape of the tip.
US12115323B2
A guide wire includes a first core shaft, a second core shaft, a first tubular member, and a second tubular member. The first tubular member is disposed to cover (i) a contact portion where the first core shaft and the second core shaft are arranged opposite to each other so that their central axes coincide, and (ii) a part of each of the first core shaft and the second core shaft, the part being adjacent to the contact portion. The second tubular member, having a tubular shape, covers at least the first tubular member and is fixed to both the first core shaft and the second core shaft.
US12115321B2
The present disclosure is directed to a device that can be in the form of a sleeve that has a first upper portion and a second lower portion. The first upper portion can include exit ports to allow various catheters, such as peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC) lines, to extend through openings therein. The second lower portion is inverted upwardly over the first portion and can have a securement flap on an outer surface to tighten around the patient's arm and around the PICC line to ensure that the PICC line and the sleeve remain stationary relative to the patient's arm.
US12115317B2
This invention relates to connectors to be provided into fluid communication or engagement either directly with, or via a component to be associated with, a terminal end of a breathing conduit. In at least one embodiment, the connector comprises a body having a first end and a second end, and an internal lumen for the passage of gas between the ends. The first end engageable with a terminal end of a conduit or a component to be associated therewith. The second end engageable with another connector. An internal surface of the body at the second end comprises internal connection features for connection with another connector to be received internally therein. An external surface of the body comprises one or more external alignment feature(s) for aligning the connector or another connection into an aligned orientation for connection therebetween.
US12115316B2
A patient interface system for delivery of a supply of air at positive pressure to the entrance of a patient's airways for treatment of sleep disordered breathing includes an air delivery tube connected to a flexible portion of a plenum; a vent structure having sufficient rigidity to support its own weight under gravity and/or not to block or fold under tube movement or tube drag; and a patient interface structure. The patient interface structure includes a seal forming structure arranged on a top portion of the plenum; and a seal positioning and stabilizing structure connected to a flexible portion of the plenum. The seal-forming structure is substantially decoupled from a tube drag force.
US12115312B2
A securement device for a protruding oral or nasal device includes a continuous strip extending along a longitudinal axis between a first end and a second end. The continuous strip has a first anchor portion at the first end, a second anchor portion at the second end, a first bridge portion, a second bridge portion, and an adhesive for affixing the strip to a patient. The first bridge portion is disposed between the first anchor portion and the second bridge portion, the second bridge portion is disposed between the first bridge portion and the second anchor portion, the second bridge portion extends at an angle relative to the longitudinal axis. The first anchor portion and the second anchor portion are offset from one another relative to the longitudinal axis.
US12115310B2
A respiratory assistance device including a respiratory interface device configured to be worn by a user and deliver a gas, a gas temperature measurement unit configured to measure a gas temperature that is a temperature of the gas, a warming unit configured to warm the gas, and a temperature change unit configured to change the gas temperature by controlling the warming unit. The respiratory assistance device can administer comfortable respiratory assistance even during sleep.
US12115308B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for monitoring the disconnection of a patient interface system during the ventilation, in which values which are indicative for the time curve of the respiratory gas flow are established and subjected to data evaluation, and wherein an alarm is triggered on the basis of the data evaluation if at least one value which is indicative for the time curve of the respiratory gas flow deviates from a specific limit value for a specific period of time.
US12115303B1
An electronic vaporizer is provided. The electronic vaporizer includes a cartridge that facilitates provision of a vaporized solution to an individual. The cartridge includes a housing that includes an interior, wherein the housing is one of a polymer housing or a ceramic housing. The cartridge also includes a heating element located in the interior of the housing, wherein the heating element is configured to vaporize a solution for oral provision to the individual. The vaporizer may also include a power harvesting device operative to acquire energy from the environment for use with powering the heating element.
US12115302B2
A portable system for subatmospheric pressure therapy in connection with healing a surgical wound, includes a wound dressing dimensioned for positioning relative to a wound bed of a subject, a portable subatmospheric pressure mechanism dimensioned to be carried or worn by the subject and a container for collecting exudates from the wound bed removed under the subatmospheric pressure supplied by the subatmospheric pressure mechanism. The portable subatmospheric pressure mechanism includes a housing, a subatmospheric pressure source disposed within the housing and in fluid communication with the wound dressing to supply subatmospheric pressure to the wound dressing and a power source mounted to or within the housing for supplying power to actuate the subatmospheric pressure source.
US12115297B2
A method for damaging viruses in a human tissue comprised generating a series of ultra-short pulse laser (USPL) pulses by a USPL generator, radiating the USPL pulses by a USPL applicator and exposing the human tissue to a defined number of generated USPL pulses wherein an energy absorbing enhancing substance is disposed between the human tissue and the USPL applicator.
US12115291B2
An electric heating fragrance diffuser includes a hollow body and a fragrance diffusing device. A power source and an electric wire are arranged in the body. The fragrance diffusing device includes a fragrance holder, a fragrance box, and an electric heating plate. The fragrance holder is disposed in the body and provided with a first hole communicating with upper and lower edges of the fragrance holder in a vertical direction. The upper edge of the fragrance holder is recessed with a fragrance groove surrounding the first hole. The fragrance box is detachably arranged in the fragrance groove. The electric heating plate is connected to the lower edge of the fragrance holder and provided with a second hole aligned with the first hole.
US12115283B2
Disclosed are a sustained-release injection formulation containing a biodegradable polymer double microcapsule that contains a conjugate of poly-L-lactic acid (hereinafter referred to as “PLLA”) filler and hyaluronic acid (hereinafter referred to as “HA”) and is capable of controlling the release rate of PLLA, and a method of preparing the same.
US12115279B2
A composition and methods of making or use thereof include a plurality of fibers forming a shape for augmenting tendon to bone repair. The physical presence of the plurality of fibers provides initial fixation, while the use of an osteoinductive material provides long term enhancement of bone formation around the site of the tendon to bone repair.
US12115272B2
The present invention is generally related to a device and method for sanitizing a medical instrument with ozone, in particular the invention relates to a system, method and a device for sanitizing a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device. The device has an ozone compartment, an ozone operating system and one or more ozone distribution lines that distribute ozone to a continuous positive airway pressure device. The device may further include a heater adapter unit to connect heating systems in CPAP devices while distributing ozone to sanitize the CPAP device in accordance with the present invention.
US12115265B1
A sterilizing device includes a heater plate connected to a controller separately spaceable away from the heater plate. The controller regulates heating of the heater plate to a desired operating temperature. The heater plate is placed in a separate container and objects to be sterilized are placed in the container proximate to the heater plate. The heater plate is heated to a sufficient temperature for a sufficient length of time to sterilize the objects in the container.
US12115264B2
Methods and devices for sterilizing viscous peptide compositions which have shear thinning rheological properties at high concentrations.
US12115263B2
A device for killing bacteria on a surface includes an application anode plate having a silver surface adapted for contact with a first epithelial surface, a cathode plate having an electrically conductive cathodic surface layer adapted for contact of the surface layer with a second epithelial surface; and a source of direct electrical current.
US12115253B2
The present invention relates, in various embodiments, to formulations comprising hydrocortisone and silicon dioxide. In additional embodiments, the invention relates to suppositories comprising hydrocortisone and silicon dioxide. The formulations of the present invention are useful for administration to patients who have gastrointestinal diseases and disorders such as, for example, inflammatory bowel disease.
US12115250B2
This disclosure relates to metal nanoparticle compositions and methods for treating respiratory infections associated with cystic fibrosis. An amount of nonionic, ground state metal nanoparticles are administered to a patient via inhalation. The metal nanoparticles have properties that enable effective transport through the viscous mucus layer to the epithelia and surrounding tissues, killing or deactivating infecting microbes at the targeted respiratory tissue and throughout the overlying mucus layer.
US12115245B2
An anterior chamber perfusate for intraocular surgery and its use. The anterior chamber perfusate not only balances intraocular pressure, but also contains a certain amount of L-alanyl-L-glutamine (Ala-Gln).
US12115244B2
Storage stable sterile ready-to-administer formulations comprising N-acetylcysteine are presented with desirable stability characteristics. In preferred aspects, formulations comprise low quantities of one or more chelating agents, contain N-acetylcysteine at a concentration of 25 mg/mL or 50 mg/mL, and are packaged in a suitable format, such as a polymeric bag with a metalized overwrap and a non-contact oxygen scavenger.
US12115243B2
Methods of use and compositions useful for moisturizing skin, conditioning skin, reducing lines and wrinkles, evening skin tone, lightening skin tone, increasing skin radiance, elasticity, skin barrier function, and/or skin firmness, reducing photodamage, reducing sagging skin, increasing anti-oxidant capacity in skin, MMP-1, MMP-3, MMP-9, pro-inflammatory cytokines (e.g., lipoxygenase, IL-6, 11-8, TNF-α, or VEGF), and/or elastase expression in skin, and/or increasing collagen expression in skin, elastin expression in skin, laminin expression in skin, and/or fibronectin expression in skin are disclosed herein. The composition includes a combination of one or more of Rosmarinus officianalis leaf extract, Caulerpa lentillifera extract, Morus alba fruit extract, and Porphyridium cruentum extract.
US12115234B2
A method for preparing a cosmetic component is provided which includes applying a layer of a dry cosmetic ingredient between a pair of fibrous sheets obtained by electrospinning one or more polymeric materials at least one of which is capable of cold flow under pressure. Sufficient pressure is then applied to the layers of fibrous sheets to cause cold flow of at least some of the polymeric material such that at least parts of the fibrous sheets bond with each other and entrap the cosmetic ingredient in position between them and prevent it from migrating between the sheets during further processing or handling.
US12115233B2
Imaging and radiotherapeutics agents targeting fibroblast-activation protein-α (FAP-α) and their use in imaging and treating FAP-α related diseases and disorders are disclosed.
US12115232B2
The invention relates to medicine, particularly to agents for magnetic resonance diagnostics for oncological diseases. Developed for this purpose are a diagnostic preparation and a diagnostic method based on using said diagnostic preparation, in which a deuterated derivative of 3-O-methylglucose or a mixture of at least two different deuterated derivatives of 3-O-methylglucose is used as said preparation. The method according to the invention includes conducting magnetic resonance imaging and/or magnetic resonance spectroscopy on deuterium nuclei at a time after administration of the diagnostic preparation sufficient for the diagnostic preparation to accumulate in the tumor tissue of a subject in order to produce a magnetic resonance image and/or a magnetic resonance spectrum accordingly. The proposed method enables a highly informed diagnosis of oncological diseases.
US12115227B2
Disclosed herein are surfactant free antibody and antibody-drug-conjugate (ADC) formulations for anti-AXL antibodies and ADCs, including aqueous formulations, lyophilized formulations, and reconstituted formulations, as well as related processes and uses. The formulations are particularly suitable for an anti-AXL ADC based on an auristatin or DM1 derivative or other similarly hydrophobic drugs. Some formulations comprise histidine and mannitol.
US12115218B2
The present disclosure provides an adjuvant composition containing 0.2%-15% w/v carbomer, 0.1%-0.5% w/v lecithin, and 0.03%-0.2% w/v ginsenoside. The adjuvant composition of the present disclosure cannot only ensure the long-term clarification and/or stability of the vaccine, but also can effectively stimulate the inactivated antigens and subunit antigens therein to produce high-titer antibodies for immune protection. The inactivated vaccines or subunit vaccines prepared by the adjuvant composition of the present disclosure can be used as a diluent for freeze-dried live virus antigens and has no toxic effect on the live virus antigens.
US12115213B2
This invention describes vaccine compositions and their methods of use utilizing inactivated fbp1Δ deletion mutant fungal cells.
US12115208B2
Methods for treating a bacterial infection and for suppressing antibiotic resistance in a patient are described herein. Certain such methods generally involve administering an antibiotic and an adjuvant compound to a patient with a bacterial infection caused by Staphylococcus aureus, wherein the adjuvant compound comprises a fused tricyclic ring system with at least one halogen substituent. Compositions and kits containing such components are also described.
US12115206B2
Compositions and methods for improving gastrointestinal function and reducing the presence of gas bubbles in a gastrointestinal tract. A composition includes an effective amount of ginger root extract for reducing gas bubbles in a gastrointestinal tract and further includes propylene glycol and sodium chloride.
US12115203B1
Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for obtaining desired organic compounds from harvested biomass. Some examples include an extraction vessel and a distillery system, where the extraction vessel is configured to wash harvested biomass with a process solvent to obtain a liquid extract, and where the distillery system is configured to distill the extract to separate the process solvent from the extract and obtain a distillate from the extract. Some embodiments additionally include a speedloader configured to load harvested biomass into the extraction vessel and a discharge gantry configured to remove processed biomass from the extraction vessel. In some embodiments, the extraction vessel, distillery system, speedloader, and discharge gantry are mobile and can be deployed “in field” at a harvest location.
US12115198B2
The invention relates to direct-fed microbials for use in improving reproductive performance in animals, decreasing death loss and/or off-feed events in animals, improving milk production and/or milk quality in dairy animals, and inhibiting a disease or disorder in dairy animals selected from the group consisting of milk fever, ketosis, retained placenta, metritis, pneumonia, and displaced abomasum. More particularly, the invention relates to isolated Bacillus strains 86, 300, 101, 235, 177, and 102, and strains having all of the identifying characteristics of these strains, for uses comprising the above-mentioned uses.
US12115188B2
The invention relates to a method for the resolution of pro-tumour inflammation by means of a pharmaceutical preparation. Leukocytes are isolated from the buffy coat obtained from whole blood and a portion of the leukocytes is placed in a first pouch receiving a differentiation factor and stored in conditions that preserve cellular viability for several days, before a defined, fresh culture medium is supplied, after which said leukocyte portion is left to rest for a further several days, which results in the production of macrophages. A further portion of the leukocytes is placed in a second pouch and irradiated therein. The two pouches are then mixed and the supernatant is recovered to serve as pharmaceutical preparation. The invention also relates to the use in the treatment of cancers, either alone or in combination with other therapies, in human and veterinary medicine.
US12115187B1
Ready-to-use (RTU) Sodium Phosphates solutions for phosphorus replacement therapy are presented that include Sodium phosphate with/without sodium chloride at a fixed volume with 1.5 to 15 mmol/100 mL phosphorus, no more than 20 mEq/100 mL Sodium and less than 50 mcg/L aluminum.
US12115166B2
The present invention provides novel pharmaceutical compositions comprising -(4-Chloro-2-(morpholin-4-yl)thiazol-5-yl)-7-(1-ethylpropyl)-2,5-dimethylpyrazolo(1,5-a)pyrimidine and methods of using the same for the treatment of Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH).
US12115163B2
Provided herein is a combination product comprising a methionine adenosyltransferase II alpha (MAT2A) inhibitor and a Type II protein arginine methyltransferase (Type II PRMT) inhibitor. The combination product is useful for the treatment of a variety of cancers, including solid tumors. The combination product is useful for the treatment of any number of MAT2A-associated and/or PRMT-associated diseases.
US12115150B2
The disclosure is directed to ABC294640, as free base or as salts thereof, in preparing medicines for treating coronavirus infection or preventing diseases caused by coronavirus infection, and a medicine for preventing coronavirus infection or preventing diseases caused by coronavirus infection.
US12115148B1
A method for cytotoxically treating cancer cells includes contacting the cancer cells with a composition comprising a compound of Formula I. The compound of Formula I is contacted with the cancer cells in an amount effective to reduce the number of cancer cells by at least 50%. A method for preparing the compound of Formula I.
US12115142B2
Modified release formulations of gamma-hydroxybutyrate having improved dissolution and pharmacokinetic properties are provided, and therapeutic uses thereof.
US12115140B2
The method of treating adenoid cystic carcinoma or other cancer tumors includes the administration of an effective dosage of an inverse agonist of retinoic acid receptor (RAR) or retinoid x receptor (RXR) signaling to a patient in need thereof, alone or in combination with other cancer treatment. Non-limiting examples of an inverse agonist of retinoic acid receptor (RAR) or retinoid x receptor (RXR) signaling include 4-[(1E)-2-[5,6-Dihydro-5,5-dimethyl-8-(2-phenylethynyl)-2-naphthalenyl]ethenyl]benzoic acid (commonly referred to as “BMS493”) and 4-[2-[5,6-Dihydro-5,5-dimethyl-8-(4-methylphenyl)-2-naphthalenyl] ethynyl]benzoic acid (commonly referred to as “AGN193109”). Alternatively, prior to administration of the inverse agonist of retinoic acid receptor (RAR) or retinoid x receptor (RXR) signaling, a direct agonist of retinoic acid receptor (RAR) or retinoid x receptor (RXR) signaling may be administered to the patient. Non-limiting examples of a direct agonist of retinoic acid receptor (RAR) or retinoid x receptor (RXR) signaling include all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA), isotretinoin, alitretinoin, and bexarotene.
US12115138B2
The present invention relates to novel tetrahydrocurcumin (THCu) compositions, novel methods of manufacturing, and methods of using these compositions for therapeutic applications. The novel synthetic pathway(s) result in THCu compositions that generally lack hexahydrocurcumin (HHC), and include an improved impurity profile with reduced additional species that are generally present in hydrogenated curcumin compositions.
US12115137B2
The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a statin and a cannabinoid, and their use for the treatment of hypercholesterolemia and atherosclerosis. It has been found that compositions combining a statin and a cannabinoid are improved over existing statin formulations. The compositions of the invention for example allow for a lower effective dose of statin and a reduction of the adverse effects seen with statins taken alone. Dosing ranges and formulations suitable for oral, buccal, and sublingual administration are disclosed. Various specific cannabinoids such as cannabidiol and synthetic cannabidiols selected for their anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and anti-atherosclerotic effect are shown to be particularly advantageous.
US12115131B2
This invention provides a blister pack dosage form container, comprising an advanceable blister pack holder, comprising a series of access portals sized to accommodate pass-through of at least one dosage form contained within a multi-dosage form containing blister pack located within said holder proximally therethrough upon engagement of an appropriate depilling structure, wherein said advanceable blister pack holder optionally accommodates upright positioning of said dosage forms and said depilling structure displaces said dosage form laterally. The invention also provides a multi-dosage form container, comprising an advanceable multi-sectioned dosage form holder, comprising a series of access portals sized to accommodate pass-through of at least one dosage form contained within said multi-sectioned dosage form holder proximally therethrough upon alignment with an appropriate egress structure, optionally wherein said multi-sectioned dosage form holder accommodates upright positioning of said dosage forms such that said egress structure provides for lateral displacement of said at least one dosage form; and a lockable outer container, comprising a tamper proof casing within which the multi-sectioned dosage form holder is contained. Kits containing the blister pack dosage form container and multi-dosage form containers are also described.
US12115129B2
A bottle connector for use in a medical fluid transfer arrangement, the bottle connector having an axial direction and a radial direction and comprising a first part and a second part, the first part comprising a hollow piercing member comprising an inner gas channel and extending in the axial direction beyond the end of the first part. The second part comprises a bottle coupling member, for coupling the bottle connector to a medical bottle. The first and second parts are pre-connected and are concentrically arranged with respect to each other and the bottle connector has a transport configuration with a first, maximum length in which the piercing member is completely located within the bottle connector, and a fluid transfer configuration with a second, minimum length.
US12115127B2
Provided is a cap including: a cap body; a protective cover; and an attaching device for attaching the protective cover and a top plate of the cap body to each other. The top plate includes: a through hole; and a top plate annular portion. The protective cover includes a cover body having a lower surface arranged away from the top plate. The attaching device includes a cover attaching portion formed into an annular shape around the through hole and projecting from the lower surface of the cover body toward the top side of the top plate annular portion or from the top side of the top plate annular portion toward the lower surface of the cover body to attach the protective cover and the top plate to each other.
US12115126B2
Compression garment (1) for a limb of a person, comprising a flexible body portion (2) having a first, limbward side (3) and a second side (4) opposing the first side (3), and at least one band (6) extending from a lateral side (30) of the body portion (2) for wrapping around the limb, wherein the band (6) comprises a fastener (13) such that the end of the band (6) is removably attachable onto the compression garment (1) when wrapped around the limb, whereby the body portion (2) further comprises at least one guiding element (10) providing a channel (9) for receiving the band (6) and guiding the band (6) back over itself when the band (6) spans over the first side (3) to provide an opening (8) for receiving the limb.
US12115124B2
A bathtub device for bubble bath physiotherapy, wherein the bathtub body is mounted on the bathtub body support. The exhaust system of the bathtub device is mounted in a space between the bathtub body and the bathtub body support. A fan is configured for delivering gas. The air suction inlet ends of the air suction pipe are configured to be in communication with the upper open side of the bathtub body, and the air suction outlet end is connected to the air inlet side interface device of the fan. The exhaust inlet end of the exhaust pipe is connected to the air outlet side interface device of the fan. The present invention further provides a bubble bath physiotherapy system comprising the bathtub device. By using the bathtub device, a safer bubble bath can be achieved.
US12115112B2
A device for supporting a wheelchair includes a frame and a support system. The first end of the frame is attached to an axle of the wheelchair. The second end of the frame is attached to a wheel for allowing translation of the device over a surface. The support system is coupled to the frame and may be positioned to catch a back of the wheelchair upon reclining of the wheelchair during a wheelie. The position of the support system with respect to the frame is adjustable in order to catch the wheelchair at varying angles of reclining. As the user of a wheelchair develops skill in performing a wheelie, the position of the support system may be moved further away from the wheelchair.
US12115110B2
A propulsion system for a manual wheelchair includes a mounting clamp and a propulsion drive unit having a drive wheel assembly and a support suspension. The support suspension is configured to provide linear movement of the drive wheel and drive hub assembly relative to the manual wheelchair. The support suspension includes a linear bearing and slide member assembly having at least one linear bearing and a slide member for accommodating the linear movement of the drive wheel assembly and further includes a resilient suspension member that provides a tractive effort force to the drive wheel. The drive wheel assembly is supported on a carriage that is attached to one of the at least one linear bearing or the slide member and a mounting block is attached to the other. The mounting block has a clamp interface with a locating tab that engages a corresponding mounting slot in the mounting clamp.
US12115106B1
The aerosol box for protection during aerosol-generating procedures is an enclosure for a patient's head and neck. The aerosol box includes a floor formed from at least one flexible sheet. The aerosol box further includes a top defining a central viewing window and a body sealed to the top and the floor. The body is configured as the frustum of a right, regular polygonal enclosure having a plurality of wall panels made of flexible resilient material and may be at least partially transparent. The wall panels are sealed to the top and floor, and one of the wall panels defines a patient entryway for introducing the patient's head and neck into the sealed enclosure. The wall panels include sleeve-and-glove assemblies extending into the enclosure for use by a primary health care worker and a plurality of assistants. The aerosol box is made of material impermeable to contaminants borne by aerosols.
US12115101B2
A temperature management system is configured to control a temperature of a patient's body using a heat exchange device. The temperature management system is configured to deliver temperature management treatment or therapy to a patient. A user interface of the system is configured to display operational data and patient data on the user interface in a configuration that allows a user to determine or review one or more periods of the performed temperature management treatment.
US12115087B2
A sensor assembly for a prosthetic or orthotic device (POD) may include a housing and a support. The housing may be attached with the POD. The support may be moveably connected with the housing such that the support may move relative to the housing. The support may form an enclosure with the housing. Within the enclosure, the sensor assembly may include one or more sensors and a circuit board. The one or more sensors may include one or more of an inertial measurement unit, an electromyography sensor, or a distance sensor such as a magnetic sensor and a magnet. The circuit board may be attached with the support and in electrical communication with the plurality of sensors. Movement of the support may cause the sensors to move which may be detected for control of the POD. The sensor assembly may be attached to an arm or other prosthetic socket for detection of natural limb movements.
US12115082B2
The present invention relates to an intervertebral fusion device (10) comprising a superior component (20), an inferior component (40), and a core component (80) inserted there between. The intervertebral fusion device further comprises first and second retention mechanisms which resist ejection of the core component from between the superior and inferior components. Each of the first and second retention mechanisms comprises first and second portions. One of the first and second portions is unitary with one of the superior and inferior components. The other of the first and second portions is unitary with the core component. The first and second portions each comprise an inter-engaging formation which are urged in an opposite direction. The first inter-engaging formation is urged to inter-engage with the second inter-engaging formation upon insertion of the core component between the superior and inferior components.
US12115065B2
A prosthetic heart valve assembly includes a self-expandable stent having a flared upper portion, a lower portion, and an intermediate portion extending from the upper portion to the lower portion. The stent includes upwardly bent hooks extending from an outer surface of the stent, which are adapted to engage native leaflet tissue. The stent further includes an elongate anchoring member extending from the lower portion of the stent, which is adapted to be secured to a ventricle wall via a prong portion. When deployed within the native heart valve, the flared upper portion contacts a supra-annular surface of the native heart valve for preventing downward migration of the prosthetic heart valve assembly toward the ventricle and the upwardly bent hooks and the elongate anchoring member prevent upward migration of the prosthetic heart valve assembly toward an atrium.
US12115064B2
Prosthetic heart valves described herein can be deployed using a transcatheter delivery system and technique to interface and anchor in cooperation with the anatomical structures of a native heart valve. Some embodiments of prosthetic valves described herein include an anchor portion that couples to the anatomy near a native valve, and a valve portion that is mateable with the anchor portion. In some such embodiments, the anchor portion and/or the deployment system includes one or more prosthetic elements that temporarily augment or replace the sealing function of the native valve leaflets.
US12115063B2
Described embodiments are directed toward centrally-opening leaflet prosthetic valve devices having a leaflet frame coaxially disposed within a body frame, as well as methods of making the valve devices.
US12115054B2
An absorptive or incontinence and menstrual underwear or garment including a crotch area hosting a stitching, a first layer, a second layer, a third layer, a fourth layer, a fifth layer, a sixth layer, and a seventh layer, wherein the first layer is innermost, wherein the seventh layer is outermost, wherein the second layer extends between the first layer and the third layer, wherein the fourth layer extends between the third layer and the fifth layer, wherein the sixth layer extends between the fifth layer and the seventh layer, wherein the stitching extends through the first layer, the sixth layer, and the seventh layer, wherein the stitching avoids extending through the second layer, the third layer, the fourth layer, and the fifth layer, wherein the second layer is bonded or adhered to the third layer.
US12115035B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of braces cleaning, and specifically discloses a disposable cleaning box for invisible braces. The disposable cleaning box for invisible braces includes a box body and a cover film. The box body is configured to place the braces. The box body is filled with a cleaning fluid. An adhesive plate is connected around an outer edge of an opening of the box body. The cover film covers the opening of the box body. The cover film is connected to a top surface of the adhesive plate. The present disclosure has an effect of improving the convenience for cleaning the braces.
US12115032B2
The present disclosure relates to a dental cutting zirconia blank having high relative density for preparing a dental restoration. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a dental cutting zirconia blank which consists of a zirconia ceramics used for the cutting with the CAD/CAM system in the dental field, a semi-sinter zirconia blank (pre-sintered body) of which has high relative density, and which can provide a prosthesis device having high aesthetics after sintering. There is provided a dental cutting zirconia blank wherein the dental cutting zirconia blank has at least one layer consisting of zirconia powder containing 4 to 15 mol % of yttria or erbium oxide as a stabilizer, a relationship among pre-sintering density, final-sintering density and relative density satisfies the following relation: 54≤Relative density (%)={(Pre-sintering density)/(Perfect-sintering density)}×100≤70.
US12115024B2
A method for ultrasound power Doppler image reconstruction includes obtaining sparse sequences of compound frames of ultrasound data; inputting the sparse sequences into a convolutional neural network; and generating as output from the convolutional neural network a reconstructed time series of power Doppler images corresponding to the sparse sequences. The convolutional neural network is trained using a custom loss function to learn a reconstruction function using ground truth images from high-quality in vivo images.
US12115020B2
Provided are a two-dimensional array ultrasonic probe and an addition circuit that switch an addition unit of a reception signal according to a reception channel of a main unit while preventing an increase in a chip area. The addition circuit includes, between addition output terminals that output an addition signal and transducer channels, wirings provided for each transducer channel row including the transducer channels arranged in a vertical direction on a subarray basis and coupled to the transducer channels of the corresponding transducer channel row, output switches provided for each of the wirings and coupled to the corresponding transducer channel row wiring, and an inter-output switch that couples wirings corresponding to transducer channel rows adjacent in the horizontal direction via the output switches.
US12115012B2
An X-ray imaging system using multiple pulsed X-ray sources in motion to perform high efficient and ultrafast 3D radiography is presented. There are multiple pulsed X-ray sources mounted on a structure in motion to form an array of sources. The multiple X-ray sources move simultaneously relative to an object on a pre-defined arc track at a constant speed as a group. Each individual X-ray source can also move rapidly around its static position in a small distance. When an X-ray source has a speed that is equal to group speed but with opposite moving direction, the X-ray source and X-ray flat panel detector are activated through an external exposure control unit so that source stay momentarily standstill. It results in much reduced source travel distance for each X-ray source. 3D scan can cover much wider sweep angle in much shorter time and image analysis can also be done in real-time.
US12115007B2
Devices, systems, and methods for visually depicting a vessel and evaluating treatment options are disclosed. The methods can include obtaining proximal pressure measurements from a proximal pressure sensing component positioned within a vessel of a patient; obtaining distal pressure measurements from multiple pressure sensing components positioned within the vessel of the patient, wherein the multiple pressure sensing components are positioned distal of the proximal pressure sensing component and are spaced along a length of the vessel; and outputting a screen display having a visual representation of the proximal and distal pressure measurements.
US12115003B2
A portable medical device having improved ECG trace display and reporting. Embodiments implement features to ameliorate artifacts created by virtue of attempting to eliminate compression artifacts due to mechanical compression devices. Other embodiments additionally implement features to seek to detect the occurrence of ROSC while chest compressions are ongoing.
US12114980B1
The present disclosure relates to devices and processes that produce superior photoplethysmography (PPG) signals. In various embodiments, the present devices and processes leverage load backing, conformal contact, and strain isolation mechanisms to produce higher quality and amplitude PPG signals, and provide more repeatable results than previous devices and processes. In at least one embodiment, the devices discussed herein include a rigid support structure and elastic spacer for supporting a PPG sensor and various adhesive layers.
US12114978B2
Systems, devices and methods for draining and analyzing bodily fluids and assessing health are described and generally comprise a drainage tube in fluid communication with at least one opening near or at a distal end of a catheter, a pump in fluid communication with the drainage tube and configured to apply a negative pressure to the drainage tube, and a valve configured for unidirectional flow and in fluid communication with the drainage tube. A controller is configured to actuate the pump to apply the negative pressure for clearing an airlock and to monitor a urine output from the patient over a first predetermined period of time above a urine output threshold and over a second predetermined period of time below the urine output threshold. The controller may determine a risk of acute kidney injury if the urine output below the urine output threshold exceeds the second predetermined period of time.
US12114974B2
A wearable health monitoring device can include a physiological parameter measurement sensor or module configured to be in contact with a wearer's skin when the device is worn by the wearer on the wrist. The physiological parameter measurement sensor can noninvasively and optionally continuously measure one or more physiological parameters, for example, the oxygen saturation, of the wearer. The sensor can include a convex curvature to improve pressure, and therefore optical coupling, between the wearer's skin and the physiological parameter measurement sensor while balancing the pressure and the wearer's comfort. The sensor can include a light barrier between emitters and detectors and other light barriers to improve signal strength and reduce noise.
US12114960B2
A 3D scanner system for detecting and/or visualizing cariogenic regions in teeth based on fluorescence emitted from the teeth, the 3D scanner system including one or more data processing units configured for mapping a representation of fluorescence emitted from the teeth onto the corresponding portion of a digital 3D representation of the teeth to provide a combined digital 3D representation.
US12114954B2
A surgical system is provided comprising: an input device; a first actuator and a second actuator; a controller for controlling the first actuator and the second actuator, the controller configured to apply a first scale factor to a first commanded output and a second commanded output for the first actuator the second actuator, respectively, when the first commanded output would fall outside a first predetermined working range of the first actuator, wherein the first scale factor adjusts the first commanded output to be within the first predetermined working range.
US12114949B2
Systems, methods, and tangibly-implemented software instructions for supporting a teleoperated surgical system (TSS). A surgical input that includes monitored events of the TSS, is received. A current stage of the surgical procedure is autonomously determined based on the surgical input. A call for surgeon assistance may be detected, in response to which context-relevant assistance may be provided to a surgeon console of the TSS, the context-relevant assistance being stage-synchronized with the surgical procedure.
US12114948B2
A system includes a manually manipulatable component configured to generate signals when movements of the component are detected and a control module. The control module is configured to determine that there is uncontrolled movement of the component by determining that a distance of a movement of the component relative to a previous position of the component is greater than a threshold distance or determining that a first mechanical degree of freedom (DOF) of the component has moved and a second mechanical DOF of the component has not moved, and command the system to switch from an operating mode to a safe mode in response to determining that there is uncontrolled movement of the component. The previous position is associated with when a last definitive movement of the component was detected. The first mechanical DOF is affected by gravity and the second mechanical DOF is not affected by gravity.
US12114940B2
A tool driver for use in robotic surgery includes a base configured to couple to a distal end of a robotic arm, and a tool carriage slidingly engaged with the base and configured to receive a surgical tool. In one variation, the tool carriage may include a plurality of linear axis drives configured to actuate one or more articulated movements of the surgical tool. In another variation, the tool carriage may include a plurality of rotary axis drives configured to actuate one or more articulated movements of the surgical tool. Various sensors, such as a capacitive load cell for measuring axial load, a position sensor for measuring linear position of the guide based on the rotational positions of gears in a gear transmission, and/or a capacitive torque sensor based on differential capacitance, may be included in the tool driver.
US12114938B2
The present invention provides a medical robot which is hygienic and capable of precisely transferring a catheter, a driving device mounted on the medical robot, and a roller module mounted on the driving device. The roller module includes: a driving unit; and a roller unit rotated about the vertical axis by the driving unit, wherein the roller unit includes at least one roller and at least one shaft independently coupled to the at least one roller of the roller unit and rotated by the driving unit, wherein at least one groove is formed on the at least one roller of the roller unit and at least a part of the at least one shaft of the roller unit is disposed on the at least one groove.
US12114919B2
A system for ablation is described herein including an inner electrode assembly with an inner elongate shaft and a distal electrode, an outer electrode assembly having an outer elongate shaft and a proximal electrode, wherein the outer electrode assembly defines a central passage configured to slidably receive the inner electrode assembly, wherein the distal electrode or the proximal electrode is axially moveable with respect to the other, and an energy source configured to be electrically connected to the distal electrode and the proximal electrode and configured to deliver a pulsed electric field (PEF). One of the distal electrode and proximal electrode is part of a first expandable electrode array comprising two or more electrode elements moveable between an unexpanded position and an expanded position.
US12114918B2
A system includes an expandable distal end of a catheter and a processor. The expandable distal end has multiple electrodes that are configured to be placed in contact with a tissue in an organ and to apply ablative power to tissue. The processor is configured to, during application of the ablative power, determine whether a physical contact between the electrodes and tissue meets a predefined contact quality, and, if the physical contact of an electrode among the electrodes with the tissue does not meet the predefined contact quality, re-use the electrode for electrophysiological (EP) sensing.
US12114902B2
An instrument is configured for use with a receiving part defining a recess for receiving a rod to connect the rod to a bone anchoring element. The instrument includes a tube having a first end and a second end, and defining a coaxial internal channel that opens towards the first and second ends, and at least one protruding portion monolithically formed with the tube that is engageable with the recess of the receiving part to prevent rotational movement of the tube relative to the receiving part. The first end of the tube forms a closed ring. The at least one protruding portion has a first region that extends radially outwardly from an outer surface of the tube at the first end and a second region that extends axially away from the first end in a direction opposite the second end.
US12114899B2
A spinal implant includes a post with a receiver having a first mating surface and a stop. A connector defines an implant cavity. The connector includes a base having a second mating surface being positionable with the first mating surface to attach the connector with the receiver. The base defines a transverse passageway. A securing element is disposable in the passageway and engageable with the stop. In some embodiments, systems, surgical instruments, implants and methods are disclosed.
US12114894B1
The foot-exfoliating device may be adapted for a user to exfoliate a user's foot while the user is in a shower. The foot-exfoliating device may be mounted in a bottom corner of the shower where a floor meets a wall. The foot-exfoliating device may be adapted to exfoliate the user's foot when the user's foot is placed on a curved top surface with a heel of the user's foot pressed into a heel well and when a sole of the user's foot is dragged along a plurality of foot scrubbers that may be accessible on the curved top surface. The foot-exfoliating device may comprise a scrubber body and a mounting base. The scrubber body may be operable to exfoliate. The mounting base may couple the scrubber body to the shower.
US12114892B2
The present disclosure provides devices and methods for insufflating abdomens of subjects under direct visualization. Such devices and methods, in some implementations, include features for cleaning the devices, and certain implementations of the methods permit procedures wherein it is not necessary to use a typical obturator to place a cannula, resulting in safer procedures.
US12114886B2
A medical device for grinding substance inside a body lumen includes a rotatable tubular drive shaft, a treatment member connected to the drive shaft, and a tubular member possessing an axially extending lumen that extends throughout the tubular member. The tubular member is mounted on the treatment member and surrounds a portion of the treatment member so that the treatment member is rotatable relative to the tubular member. The treatment member includes a shearing portion, and the tubular member includes a protrusion that projects toward the lumen of the tubular member. The protrusion is located axially in front of the shearing portion and interacts with the shearing portion during relative rotation between the treatment member and the tubular member to shear debris resulting from the grinding of the substance.
US12114872B2
An alignment guide includes a base, a swing arm for coupling to the base such that the swing arm is movable relative to the base, and a locking device for selectively fixing a position of the swing arm relative to the base. The base defines at least one first hole sized and configured to receive a first fixation element and defines at least one second hole sized and configured to receive a second fixation element. The swing arm extends from a first end to a second end. The second end of the swing arm including a coupling mechanism for coupling another guide to the second end of the swing arm. Methods also are disclosed.
US12114865B2
A clip for gripping tissue can having a first arm with a first claw at a distal end of the first arm, and second arm, with a second claw at a distal end of the second arm, in which the first arm and second arm are configured to move in a direction toward each other to close the clip. The clips include one or more anchors on the arms of the clip which protrude in a direction other than the direction that the first arm and second arm are configured to move toward each other to close the clip. Such anchors can more readily attach to tissue of a patient upon contact than clips without an anchor.
US12114858B2
An apparatus for anastomosis of tubular structures includes two annular bodies. Each annular body has a first side, a second side, a central axis extending between the first and second sides, an inner wall defining a passageway that is open to the first and second sides for passing a tubular structure therethrough, and a plurality of spikes each extending from a base connected to the second side of the annular body to a pointed free end configured to pierce the tubular structure. The spikes are angled relative to the central axis such that for each of the spikes, the free end is positioned farther from the central axis in a radial direction than the base is to the central axis.
US12114849B2
An apparatus and method are provided for a syndesmosis treatment construct configured to be placed into a cinched configuration that presses a first bone against a second bone. The syndesmosis treatment construct comprises a proximal fixator to contact the first bone and a distal fixator to contact the second bone. A first suture and a second suture are parallelly looped through the distal fixator. A free splice slidably rides on proximal ends and distal ends of both of the first and second sutures. The distal ends are looped through the proximal fixator and bound within a stitch splice. The proximal ends are passed outside of the stitch splice and through the proximal fixator. The free splices compress and seize the proximal ends during pulling of the proximal ends by a practitioner so as to maintain the cinched configuration.
US12114843B2
A mixing and spraying assembly for a tissue sealant includes a mixing assembly, a spray tip assembly, and a malleable section having a proximal end connected with the mixing assembly and a distal end connected with the spray tip assembly for enabling the spray tip assembly to be angulated relative to the mixing assembly. The malleable section includes a flexible shaft having a length, a malleable wire conduit that extends along the length of the flexible shaft, and a malleable wire disposed in the malleable wire conduit. The malleable wire is longer than the flexible shaft and has a proximal end that is connected to the mixing assembly and a distal end that is connected to the spray tip assembly. First and second fluids are mixed within the mixing assembly to form a tissue sealant that is delivered through the malleable section for being expressed from the spray tip assembly.
US12114841B2
A biopsy device includes a body, a needle, a cutter, a tissue sample holder, and a gate assembly. The needle extends distally from the body. The cutter is longitudinally translatable relative to the needle and defines a cutter lumen. The tissue sample holder is coupled proximally relative to the body. The cutter lumen of the cutter defines at least a portion of a fluid conduit extending between the cutter and the tissue sample holder. The gate assembly is configured to selectively arrest movement of a tissue sample holder within the fluid conduit between the cutter and the tissue sample holder.
US12114839B2
A medical device includes a handle, a shaft extending from the handle, and an articulation member integral with or attached to a distal end of the shaft. The articulation member includes a first portion coupled to a second portion, the second portion is receivable in a slot defined by the first portion, and the handle is coupled to each of the first portion and the second portion and to articulate the first portion independently of articulating the second portion.
US12114838B2
Certain aspects relate to manually and robotically controllable medical instruments. A manually and robotically controllable medical instrument can include an elongated shaft articulable by pull wires. The elongated shaft can be connected to an instrument handle that attaches to an instrument drive mechanism. The instrument handle can include a pulley assembly on which the pull wires can be mounted. Rotation of the pulley assembly can actuate the pull wires to cause articulation of the elongated shaft. The medical instrument also includes a manual drive input connected to the pulley assembly such that manual actuation of the manual drive input causes rotation of the first pulley assembly and a robotic drive input configured to engage with a robotic drive output of the instrument drive mechanism such that rotation of the first robotic drive output causes rotation of the pulley assembly.
US12114837B2
A medical device includes a handle including a first slot, a first control device movable within the first slot in a proximal direction and a distal direction, and a sheath extending from the handle and having a longitudinal axis, the sheath defining a first lumen extending from the handle to a distal end of the sheath. A first tube extends within the first lumen, the first tube is connected to the first control device and moves between a first position, where a distalmost end of the first tube is flush with or proximal of a distalmost end of the sheath, and a second position, where the distalmost end of the first tube is positioned distal of the distalmost end of the sheath. The first slot extends parallel to the longitudinal direction of the sheath.
US12114836B2
An endoscope used for insertion into a patient's body is disclosed herein. The endoscope can comprise an outer sleeve defining a longitudinal axis. The outer sleeve can comprise a first deflecting segment and a second deflecting segment at a distal portion of the outer sleeve and one or more slots at the distal portion. The endoscope can further comprise an inner sleeve positioned within the outer sleeve and comprising a working channel. The inner sleeve can comprise one or more extending elements at a distal portion of the inner sleeve, the one or more extending elements being coupled to the first deflecting segment of the outer sleeve. The endoscope can further comprise a tool advanceable through the working channel, wherein advancement of the tool transitions the distal portion of the outer sleeve between a straight profile and a deflected profile.
US12114833B2
The present disclosure relates to a medical image processing system including a light source that irradiates an observation target with light; an image capturing control unit that controls capturing of an image of the observation target irradiated with the light and an endoscope including a scope having a tubular shape and made from a rigid or flexible material, a camera head including an imaging element that captures an image, and an optical element insertion unit provided between the scope and the camera head. Further, the optical element insertion unit includes two or more optical elements having the effect of extending the depth of field, and at least one of the optical elements is movable.
US12114831B2
An endoscope or other endoscopic instrument is provided with multiple image sensors incorporated into the distal tip, each capturing a portion of the image provided from an optical imaging system. The output from the multiple sensors is combined and manipulated into a single image of a resolution higher than is possible with only one of the sensors. The resulting image, or a portion thereof, can then be displayed to the user. A digital panning feature is also provided where the region of interest displayed from the combined field of view including data from the multiple image sensors is changed.
US12114826B2
A household appliance includes a cabinet defining a chamber, a door assembly mounted to the cabinet to selectively restrict access to the chamber, the door assembly includes a front panel defining a handle cavity. The door assembly also includes a pocket handle received in the handle cavity, the pocket handle having a flange with a plurality of tab passages. A plurality of bend tabs are positioned around the handle cavity and received in a first position through the plurality of tab passages. The bend tabs are deformable into a second position where they engage the flange to secure the pocket handle to the front panel.
US12114818B2
A retractable wall mounted storage system comprising at least one lever and a method for conveying rotational energy in a retractable manner. A plurality of storage compartments, which are in a predetermined retractable configuration. The retractable storage system is capable of opening and closing vertically, whereby simultaneously revealing stored items within. Optionally, depending upon user preference, the retractable storage system is equipped with a plurality of changeable front theme panels that provide an unparalleled option for personalization.
US12114814B2
A wipe dispenser and related methods are disclosed herein. In one form, a wall mounted wipe dispensing system is disclosed comprising a wall mount support bracket, a dispensing bag of wipes having a rigid collar from which to suspend the dispensing bag from the wall mount support bracket, and wherein the wall mount support bracket and dispensing bag have first mating structures for mating the dispensing bag to the wall mount support bracket. In other forms, a wall mounted support bracket is disclosed and/or replaceable wipe packaging is disclosed. In still other forms methods related to these are also disclosed.
US12114813B2
The present disclosure is in one aspect to a dispenser for rolled sheet materials. The dispenser includes a feed roller that is rotatably mounted to a housing of the dispenser housing, and that is configured to feed a predetermined amount of sheet material from the supply of sheet material through a discharge provided along the housing of the dispenser. The dispenser also has a feed roller drive assembly with a drive motor, and a belt transmission assembly. The belt transmission assembly has a drive belt coupled to the drive motor and to the feed roller such that rotation of the feed roller is driven by operation of the drive motor.
US12114807B2
An outdoor cooking station with a main body extending to define an upper portion and a lower portion, the lower portion configured to receive an insulated insert. The upper portion including heating elements supported by frame components of the cooking station and one or more heat shields suspended below the heating elements acting as a barrier to substantially prevent heat from reaching the lower portion of the main body. The lower portion of the main body defining a first storage space and a second storage space, the second storage space positioned below the first storage space, the second storage space exhibiting a drawer structure. The insulated insert is sized and configured to be removably positioned within the second storage space, the insulated insert defining a cubical type external structure to define a hollow space therein, the hollow space accessible through a lid member of the insulated insert.
US12114795B2
There is provided a glove donning device that includes (a) a hollow tube having an annular opening, (b) a vacuum head configured to acquire a glove having an opening, (c) a pair of hooks, (d) a first transporter configured to move the vacuum head and the glove towards the pair of hooks so that the pair of hooks is inserted into the opening of the glove, (e) a hook actuator configured to move the pair of hooks apart after the pair of hooks is inserted in the opening of the glove, and (f) a second transporter configured to (i) move the pair of hooks and the glove towards the hollow tube, and (ii) move the pair of hooks to position the glove opening over the annular opening of the hollow tube.
US12114786B2
A support surface including a cutout on a bottom surface of the support surface. The cutout, which can include a plurality of cutouts, provides a controlled structural collapse of the support surface by varying a stiffness in a cross-section. That is, the area in which the cutouts are positioned collapses more easily than the surrounding area of the support structure, thus making the area with the cutouts perceived as being softer. The cutouts can reduce the peak pressures on the portion of the user's body (for example, the user's ischial tuberosities) that is positioned over the cutouts. The support surface can also include a low-friction interface extending across a top surface of the support surface.
US12114785B2
A disposable seat blanket assembly includes a blanket that has a top layer which is comprised of a deformable material and a bottom layer which is comprised of a fluid impermeable material. The bottom layer is positionable on a seat in a public transportation vehicle thereby facilitating a user to sit on the top layer. In this way the bottom layer protects the user from germs on the seat. The blanket has a plurality of fold lines integrated into the blanket thereby facilitating the blanket to be folded for disposal when the user is finished sitting on the blanket. A pouch is provided and the pouch is comprised of a fluid impermeable material. The blanket is insertable into the pouch when the blanket is folded for disposal.
US12114777B2
A foldable electric bed includes a base mount having a pivot portion, and a swivel mount pivotally connected with the pivot portion by a first shaft, such that the swivel mount is swivelable relative to the base mount between first and second positions due to the limit of first and second contact portions of the base mount. An actuator has a first end pivotally connected with the swivel mount by a second shaft, and a second end pivotally connected with a moveable frame such that the moveable frame is drivenable by the actuator to swivel relative to the base mount. When the swivel mount is swiveled from the first position to the second position, a position of the second shaft is lifted.
US12114770B2
A table stand includes a first pivoting stabilizer, a second pivoting stabilizer, a first height adjustable pole connected to the first pivoting stabilizer, a second height adjustable pole connected to the second pivoting stabilizer, a folding transmission mechanism separately connected to the first height adjustable pole and the second height adjustable pole, and a support crossbar connected to the folding transmission mechanism. The first pivoting stabilizer and the second pivoting stabilizer are movably connected to two ends of the support crossbar. Each of the first pivoting stabilizer and the second pivoting stabilizer includes a first blocking edge, a second blocking edge, and a first shaft sequentially passing through the first blocking edge and the second blocking edge. The support crossbar is disposed between the first blocking edge and the second blocking edge.
US12114769B1
The convertible table with integrated storage comprises a tabletop, a base, a plurality of folding legs, and a plurality of pivoting legs. The convertible table with integrated storage may be a multi-function conversion table with internal storage. The base may be coupled to the underside of the tabletop. The convertible table with integrated storage may be operable as a toddler play table with the base resting on the floor, a child's play table with the base elevated above the floor by the plurality of pivoting legs, and an adult table with the base elevated above the floor by the plurality of folding legs. The base may comprise a storage area that may be accessible via an access aperture in the tabletop.
US12114767B2
A cleaning brush for cleaning containers of complex design, wherein the cleaning brush can reach hard-to-reach areas of the container. The cleaning brush includes a twisted wire and a cleaning head coupled to the twisted wire. Portions of the twisted wire and the cleaning head have bristles. The cleaning head can flex sidewards relative to the twisted wire.
US12114760B2
The invention discloses a two-way adjustable shock-absorbing backpack, comprising a backpack main body and back pads arranged on one side of the backpack main body, wherein the back pads are provided two, and the two are symmetrically arranged on the backpack main body, a back pad pocket with a top opening is formed between the back pad and the backpack main body, a support fabric bag is sewn into the back pad pocket, and a support rod is inserted into the inside of the support fabric bag, one side of the backpack main body above the support fabric bag is provided with a fixed fabric belt, in the invention, by adjusting the length of the secondary braces on the upper adjustment button, the shock-absorption adjustment of the top of the backpack is realized, by adjusting the lower adjustment button, the shock-absorbing stroke adjustment of the elastic band is realized.
US12114755B2
A wiper configured to be fitted on a container containing a product, to be applied by an applicator, the wiper including a cylindrical body extending along a longitudinal axis, a part of which forms the actual wiping member, the body having, along the longitudinal axis, a rim configured to rest on an edge of the container delimiting an opening therein, a coupler configured to couple the wiper to the container, and a portion that is elastically deformable along the longitudinal axis and is provided between the rim and the coupler, the elastically deformable portion is in the form of an openwork portion of the body.
US12114743B2
There is disclosed a compact wallet, comprising at least two rigid plates at least one having a channel into which an encircling elastic band is interposed to bias the at least two rigid plates inwardly and securely hold the card-like contents while providing elastic volume therebetween while allowing freedom for the dynamic extension and contraction of the band over the entire running length of the wallet. The wallet includes an auxiliary feature removably attached within the interior at least one of the at least two rigid plates interposed using a tang inserted into a recess formed inside the plate, the tang having a hook, the hook extending at an angle to the tang, the hook engaging an undercut of the recess to prevent inadvertent dislodgement of the auxiliary feature from the recess.
US12114732B2
A shoe tying device that includes a female member having a first female member end, a second female member end, at least one female engagement section, and two cut-out portions. The shoe tying device further includes a male member having a male member top face, a first male member end, and a second male member end. One of the male and female members includes two pillars that project from the member top face, and at least one engagement member that extends from one of the members. The at least one female engagement section and the at least one male engagement section selectively engageable with each other creating an opening from the alignment of the cut-out portions of the of the female member and the cut-out portions of the male member.
US12114730B2
Improved soles for shoes, in particular sports shoes, are described. A sole for a shoe, in particular a sports shoe, is provided that includes a midsole with randomly arranged particles of an expanded material. The sole further includes an element having a higher deformation stiffness in at least one direction than the expanded material. The material of the midsole at least partially surrounds the element.
US12114726B2
A dual-layered midsole for footwear includes an internal midsole layer and an external midsole layer, which are coupled to and separated by a Strobel board. The internal midsole layer may compress and expand with the movement of a wearer of an article of footwear including the dual-layered midsole, while the external midsole may provide stability and cushion for the wearer. Materials selected for the internal and external midsole layers may provide tuned viscoelastic properties to different areas of the midsole as a function of midsole layer thickness at each sole area.
US12114724B2
A sole structure and shoes having the sole structure are provided which enable smooth cutting maneuvers or the like and stabilize a stacking state in the sole structure. An outsole has an elastic structure arranged between a base plate and a lower midsole portion in a thickness direction of a sole structure. The elastic structure includes a plurality of elastically deformable first columnar portions and at least one coupling portion for coupling the first columnar portions adjacent to each other. The elastic structure is configured such that the coupling portion couples second end portions of the first columnar portions adjacent to each other, and that the second end portions are connected, together with the coupling portion, to the lower midsole portion.
US12114699B2
A glass atomizer includes a member for e-liquid injection and vapor discharge. The member for e-liquid injection and vapor discharge includes an outer glass tube and an inner glass tube disposed in the outer glass tube. The inner glass tube includes a top end. The top end includes a disk edge; the top end is integrated with the inner wall of the outer glass tube. The disk edge includes an e-liquid injection hole. The e-liquid injection hole communicates with a space between the outer glass tube and the inner glass tube.
US12114698B2
A cartridge for use with an aerosol-generating system has a housing defining a liquid containing volume. The housing includes a sidewall extending from a mouthpiece end to a power supply end. The housing includes a transparent region forming at least a portion of the sidewall. The housing includes a light source fixed to the sidewall. The light source is configured to transmit light into the liquid containing volume. The light source may be fixed to an inner surface of the sidewall, fixed to an outer surface of the sidewall, or form a portion or the sidewall.
US12114689B2
A gel comprising (i) water in an amount of from 1 to 20 wt. % based on the gel; (ii) nicotine; and (iii) a water soluble acid. The is further provided a crystalline powder comprising (i) water in an amount of less than 15% wt. % based on the crystalline powder; (ii) nicotine; (iii) a water soluble acid; (iv) one or more flavors; and (v) an encapsulating material. Processes for forming the gel and the crystalline powder include dehydrating a nicotine solution to provide the gel and crystalline powder, and processes for rehydrating the gel and the crystalline powder include contacting the gel and the crystalline powder with water.
US12114683B2
Provided is a gelling composition capable of keeping a gel state in a food even when the food heated at 75° C. is cooled to around 45° C. at which the food can be eaten in a warm state. Specifically provided is a gelling composition comprising methyl cellulose, a 2.0% by weight aqueous solution of which has a storage modulus G′ (75° C.) at 75° C. of 3,000 to 5,500 Pa, the 2.0% by weight aqueous solution of which has a return temperature storage modulus G′ (75 to 45° C.) of 2,000 to 3,600 Pa when the temperature of the aqueous solution is returned from 75° C. to 45° C., and a 2.0% by weight aqueous solution of which has a viscosity at 20° C. of 3,000 to 10,000 mPa·s; a low temperature gelling agent; and a solvent. A food comprising the gelling composition is also provided.
US12114678B2
A fitting for extruding a frozen food product is provided. The fitting is adapted to produce multiple parallel streams of flowable frozen food that resembles pasta. The fitting includes a body with an open end at a first end of the body and a partially closed second end of the body opposite the first side of the body, the partially closed second end comprising a plurality of holes that extend therethrough. An inner surface of the body includes a cylindrical portion and an arcuate portion, the arcuate portion disposed proximate to the open end and the cylindrical portion disposed between the arcuate portion and the partially closed end, wherein an inner diameter along the arcuate portion is smaller than an inner diameter along the cylindrical portion.
US12114677B2
The invention relates to a chocolate confection having improved flavor attributes. The chocolate confection comprises a white confectionery ingredient, a cocoa extract, and a food acid.
US12114676B2
A white chocolate comprising nonendogenous amounts of isovaleric acid and/or 2-methylbutyric acid is provided. It has now been surprisingly discovered that small amounts of isovaleric acid, i.e., less than 400 ppb, and/or nonendogenous amounts of 2-methyl butyric acid can provide enhanced organoleptic properties to white chocolate, for an extended period of time, thereby enhancing the shelf life of the white chocolate. Methods of providing the white chocolate and providing a white chocolate having an enhanced shelf life are also provided.
US12114675B2
Methods of making a powdered milk product as described. The methods may include providing an aqueous milk-sourced mixture, and evaporating water from the aqueous milk-sourced mixture to produce an evaporated milk-sourced mixture having a total solids concentration of 35 wt. % or more. The evaporated milk-sourced mixture may be dried to form the powdered milk product, which may have less than 6 wt. % water. Systems for making the milk powdered product are also described. The systems may include an evaporator to evaporate water from a supply of a milk-sourced mixture to form an evaporated milk-sourced mixture. They may also include a dryer to dry the evaporated milk-sourced mixture and atomize it into the powdered milk product.
US12114669B2
A bung driller is provided for cutting free the anal opening and rectum end of an animal carcass by cutting around the anal opening and rectum end. The bung driller includes a longitudinal, drilling tube with an open cutting end, a mandrel centralized inside the drilling tube, and a bung holder located inside of the drilling tube and surrounding the mandrel. Contamination of skin surface and meat surface by fecal matter is a problem when cutting free the anal opening and rectum end of a carcass. The bung holder located inside of the drilling tube provides a holding force to the skin surface around the anal opening and makes a volume wherein fecal matter escaping from the intestine is caught.
US12114663B2
Provided are compositions and methods for use in deterring insects, such as aphids, from damaging plants. A method is provided and involves applying to one or more plants: i) bacteria that produce pyoverdine that emits fluorescent light that is detected by the insects and causes the insects to avoid the plant(s), wherein the bacteria are applied such that that there are more than 105 bacterial cells per 3 cm2 of plant surface, ii) a composition that contains at least 0.00005 mg of isolated pyoverdine that emits fluorescent light that is detected by the insects and causes the insects to avoid the plant(s), and combinations thereof. Also provided is a system for use in plant pest control in a confined space, including in structures such as greenhouses and hydroponic growing containers. The system includes one or more light sources that only emit light having a wavelength of 450-525 nm.
US12114662B2
The present disclosure provides a process for preventing, and alleviating citrus greening infection of citrus plants including identifying the causative agent, providing consortia comprising Trichoderma spp. and Pseudomonas spp. in definite ratios effective in targeting the causative agent Phytophthora spp. and thereby preventing or alleviating the citrus greening disease in an effective manner. The present disclosure also provides consortia comprising standardized cultures of Trichoderma spp. in varying ratios and Pseudomonas spp. in varying ratios effective in preventing and controlling the causative agent Phytophthora spp. at different ages of citrus plants and stages of infection. The present disclosure further provides formulations comprising the antagonist microbial consortia and tailor made kits comprising one or more formulations of the present disclosure for managing citrus greening disease.
US12114656B2
Methods and systems for temperature-controlled, on-site generation of peracids, namely peroxycarboxylic acids and peroxycarboxylic acid forming compositions are disclosed. In particular, methods for using an adjustable biocide formulator or generator system overcome the limitations of temperature on the kinetics of the peracid generation and/or peracid decomposition inside an adjustable biocide formulator or generator system. The methods include the controlling of the temperature of at least one raw starting material, namely water, to improve upon methods of on-site generation of peracids. The methods allow for the generation of user-selected chemistry without regard to the ambient temperatures of the raw starting materials and/or the biocide formulator or generator system.
US12114651B2
An insect trap device and methods of using the device are described herein. In some embodiments, an insect trap includes a light source, a removable enclosure with at least one opening, an adhesive surface at least partially within the enclosure, and optics to redirect light from the light source onto an adhesive trapping surface. The light source may include at least one light emitting diode (LED). The optics may be attached to the removable enclosure, and may be located at least partially within the enclosure. The optics may include optical enhancers such as a reflector, a lens and/or a diffuser. The insect trap may further include an insect attractant that emits sound or scent.
US12114643B2
An animal harness and compatible animal clothing are disclosed. The harness has a special construction which allows a part of it to be separated and connected to animal clothing with compatible fasteners. The fasteners which connect the harness to the clothing are fastened to inner layers of the clothing, effectively providing the aesthetic benefits of clothing with the functional benefits of a harness. There are straps of strong material integrated with the animal clothing, so that connection of the part of the animal harness to the animal clothing forms an integrated harness within the animal clothing.
US12114641B2
The disclosure relates to a spray applicator system for accurately and precisely dosing liquid formulations, including vaccines and probiotic formulations, to caged avian animals. In particular, the disclosure relates to spray applicators, having improved acceptance by the avian animals, relative to more disruptive prior spray applicators. The disclosed automated caged spray applicator system is designed to attach to and function with automated poultry feeding systems, routinely used in poultry house settings.
US12114640B2
The invention includes an electronic animal tag of two pieces, one incorporating the UHF, and preferably RFID, electronic identification portion, the other incorporating means that will press the UHF portion against the ear of an animal and keep it pressed there throughout its lifetime.
US12114635B2
A soybean cultivar designated 19320106 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 19320106, to the plants of soybean cultivar 19320106, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 19320106, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 19320106. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 19320106. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 19320106, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 19320106 with another soybean cultivar.
US12114634B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PGWF25 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PGWF25, cells from soybean variety 5PGWF25, plants of soybean 5PGWF25, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PGWF25. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PGWF25 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PGWF25, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PGWF25, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PGWF25. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PGWF25 are further provided.
US12114620B1
A system and method for using indoor vertical farming for cultivating tubers. The method and system include a wheeled framework with tiered platforms, the platforms forming multiple growing spaces for growing portions of a tuber crop and soil where the growing spaces are provided with irrigation and illumination. Each growing space has a paneled wheeled planter tray which rests on a platform and each portion of the tuber crop and soil can be extracted from each paneled wheeled planter tray by a lifting action to fall into a mesh covered container, used to separate the soil from the tuber crop.
US12114606B2
A system includes an open sieve and an auger tip. The open sieve includes an outer frame and a set of crossbars, the outer frame and the set of crossbars defining a plurality of openings. The auger tip includes a tubular portion and a flange. The tubular portion has a first end, a second end, and defines an interior cavity. The flange is coupled to the first end. The flange is configured to be coupled to an auger housing such that a shaft coupled to an auger within the auger housing can be disposed within the interior cavity of the tubular portion and within a bearing rotatably mounted to the second end of the auger tip. The tubular portion defines an opening in a sidewall of the tubular portion such that flower material that has been conveyed to the interior cavity by the auger can fall through the opening.
US12114603B1
A heavy duty brush cutter includes a chassis, an engine, left and right cutting decks with rotating mower blades, transmissions, and a gear box. The cutter features telescoping drive shafts, hydraulic actuators for deck adjustment, a forward frame with axles for wheels or tracks, and steering arms for directional control. Additional configurations may include a telescoping tree limb cutter with a rotatable boom, counter-weights for balance, wheels or tracks on various axles, and a central rotating blade. The system is designed for robust vegetation management with various attachments for enhanced functionality.
US12114588B2
An operation monitoring system and monitoring method are provided, the operation monitoring system is used for monitoring at least one agricultural machine, so as to control an operating range of the agricultural machine, the operation monitoring system includes a storage device and a processor, the processor recognizes at least one operating area and at least one non-operating area of an operation environment, and generates at least one boundary between the operating area and the non-operating area, the processor further generates least one electronic fence at the at least one boundary, the processor further acquires the position of the electronic fence and monitors a position of the agricultural machine, so as to monitor whether the agricultural machine is operating in the operating area on a side of the electronic fence, thereby controlling the operating range of the agricultural machine.
US12114586B2
A tractor with at least one lifting mechanism that has an upper link and lower links and actuators associated therewith, at least one attachment adapted to the lifting mechanism, and a driver assistance system is disclosed. The driver assistance system optimizes the operation of the tractor and has a computing unit, a memory unit and at least one input interface. The computing unit processes information generated by machine-internal sensor systems, external information, and information that may be saved in the memory unit. The tractor and/or the at least one attachment include a control device for controlling and regulating the tractor and the attachment. The driver assistance system comprises an automatic lifting mechanism that is configured to function based on characteristics, and to optimize adjustment of at least one work parameter of the tractor depending on selectable regulation strategies and/or optimization target variables saved in the memory unit.
US12120964B2
There is a superconducting article that includes a superconducting film comprising a substrate, one or more buffer layers, and a high temperature superconducting (HTS) layer. The superconducting layer may be comprised of the chemical composition REBa2Cu3O7−x, where RE is one or more rare earth elements, for example: Y, La, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu. The superconductor layer is produced using Photo-Assisted Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (PAMOCVD) and contains non-superconducting nanoparticles. The nanoparticles are substantially provided in the a-b plane and naturally oriented. The non-superconducting nanoparticles provide flux pinning centers that improve the critical current properties of the superconducting film.
US12120962B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a MRAM region and a logic region; forming a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) on the MRAM region; forming a top electrode on the MTJ; and then performing a flowable chemical vapor deposition (FCVD) process to form a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer around the top electrode and the MTJ.
US12120952B2
Using a compound represented by a general formula (A)m-L-(D)n, a light-emitting device having a high emission efficiency can be provided. L is an (m+n)-valent aromatic linking group; A is a group having a positive Hammett's σp value; D is a group having a negative Hammett's σp value; m is an integer of 1 or more; n is an integer of 2 or more. Two of plural D's differ in point of the substituent condition at specific aromatic rings.
US12120943B2
A display device includes a supporting substrate including a polymeric material, base substrate disposed on an upper surface of the supporting substrate, a pixel array disposed in a display area of the base substrate, a transfer wiring disposed in a bending area of the base substrate and electrically connected to the pixel array, and an organic filling portion disposed under the transfer wiring in the bending area. The base substrate includes an organic film including a polymeric material, and an inorganic barrier film overlapping the organic film and extending outwardly from an edge of the organic film. The organic filling portion contacts the organic film of the base substrate.
US12120940B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display panel and a mobile terminal. The display panel includes an edge display area located on a periphery of a central display area. A substrate, a light-emitting function layer located on the substrate, and an optical adjustment member disposed on the light-emitting function layer are disposed in the edge display area. A refractive index of a side of the optical adjustment member that is close to the light-emitting function layer is less than a refractive index of a side of the optical adjustment member that is away from the light-emitting function layer.
US12120939B2
A cover plate and a display device is provided. The cover plate includes a first cover plate layer and a second cover plate layer. The first cover plate layer is located on a light entry side of the cover plate. The second cover plate layer is located on a light exit side of the cover plate and attached to a first surface of the first cover plate layer. A plurality of protrusions are disposed on the first surface of the first cover plate layer. A refractive index of the first cover plate layer is less than a refractive index of the second cover plate layer.
US12120920B2
A display device includes a substrate in which a plurality of sub-pixels are defined, each of the plurality of sub-pixels including an emission area and a circuit area; a driving transistor disposed in the circuit area and including a first gate electrode and a first source electrode disposed on the same layer; a storage capacitor disposed in the circuit area and including a first capacitor electrode electrically connected to the first gate electrode and disposed below the first gate electrode; an insulating layer planarizing upper portions of the driving transistor and the storage capacitor; and a light emitting element disposed on the insulating layer.
US12120912B2
The present disclosure relates a display panel. The display device includes a plurality of first pixels disposed in a first area, a plurality of second pixels disposed in a second area surrounded by the first area, and a plurality of third pixels disposed in a third area between the first area and the second area.
US12120908B2
A display apparatus having a light-emitting device and a bank insulating layer, the light-emitting device disposed on an emission area defined by the bank insulating layer, and a first capping layer, an insulation pattern and a second capping layer sequentially stacked on the bank insulating layer, and the insulation pattern has a refractive index greater than that of the first capping layer and the second capping layer, thereby minimizing unintended area in emitting light.
US12120901B2
Provided is a light-emitting element to highly efficiently emit light in different colors. The light-emitting element includes: a cathode; an anode; a light-emitting layer formed between the cathode and the anode, and including a plurality of light-emitting regions respectively emitting light of different wavelengths; and an electron-transport layer formed between the cathode and the light-emitting layer, and including a plurality of regions each corresponding to one of the light-emitting regions. The electron-transport layer includes a Zn1-XMgXO film (where X is 0≤X<1). Of the plurality of regions included in the electron-transport layer, a region, corresponding to one of the light-emitting regions that emits light of a shorter wavelength, is higher in composition ratio X of Mg and/or less in thickness of the Zn1-XMgXO film.
US12120892B2
The application relates to organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites of formula (I): [(A)1−2.48p−b(B)3.48p+b](1+2p−y)/1+p)(Pb)1−p−m(M)m(X1)3−y−q(X2)q(I), and perovskite photovoltaic cells comprising the same.
US12120891B2
A photoelectric conversion element includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer that are laminated in this order. The first layer is formed of a plurality of particles including an inorganic semiconductor as a main component, an aggregate of the particles, or a thin film including an inorganic semiconductor as a main component. The second layer is provided on a surface of each of the particles or the aggregate and is formed of a plurality of particles including a perovskite structure as a main component, an aggregate of the particles, or a thin film including a perovskite structure as a main component. The third layer is formed of a plurality of particles including an organic metal complex as a main component, an aggregate of the particles, or a thin film including an organic metal complex as a main component.
US12120885B2
A ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) memory device includes a bottom electrode located over a substrate, a top electrode overlying the bottom electrode, and a ferroelectric tunnel junction memory element located between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The ferroelectric tunnel junction memory element includes at least one ferroelectric material layer and at least one tunneling dielectric layer.
US12120884B2
A method of manufacturing a memory cell includes the following steps. A channel material is formed to contact a source line and a bit line. A ferroelectric (FE) material is formed to contact the channel material. A word line is formed to contact the FE material. The FE material is disposed between the channel material and the word line. The word line includes a bulk layer. The bulk layer includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The second metal layer is sandwiched between the first metal layer and the FE material.
US12120878B2
An integrated circuit memory includes a first memory block and an adjacent second memory block. The first memory block comprises a first memory pillar around which a first memory cell is formed. The second memory block comprises a second memory pillar around which a second memory cell is formed. An isolation or slit area between the first and second memory blocks electrically isolates the first and second memory blocks. In an example, the slit area comprising a slit pillar around which no memory cells are formed. The slit pillar is a dummy pillar, and insulator material electrically isolates the slit pillar from a Word Line (WL) through which it passes. The isolation layer electrically can also isolate a (WL) of the first memory block from a corresponding WL of the second memory block. In an example, the slit pillar and the memory pillars have at least in part similar structures.
US12120875B2
A storage unit, a method of manufacturing the storage unit, and a three-dimensional memory. The storage unit includes: a first conductivity-type substrate; a channel layer stacked on the first conductivity-type substrate in a first direction; a second conductivity-type conduction layer including a first part and a second part that are connected, the first part being located between the first conductivity-type substrate and the channel layer, and the second part being formed in a via hole passing through the channel layer; a channel passage layer penetrating the channel layer and the first part in a negative direction of the first direction, and extending into an interior of the first conductivity-type substrate; and an insulating layer located in the channel layer and surrounding a periphery of the channel passage layer. The first conductivity-type substrate and the second conductivity-type conduction layer provide carriers required for reading and erasing operations, respectively.
US12120867B2
The present application provides a manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure, and relates to the technical field of semiconductors. The manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate; and forming multiple spaced first isolation sidewall structures on the substrate, where first opening regions are formed between adjacent first isolation sidewall structures, and each of the first opening regions is used to expose at least two columns of active regions.
US12120864B2
A memory device includes pages containing memory cells arranged in an array on a substrate. In each memory cell, a voltage applied to a first gate conductor layer, second gate conductor layer, third gate conductor layer, first impurity layer, and second impurity layer is controlled to form a hole group by impact ionization inside a channel semiconductor layer, and a page write operation of holding the hole group and a page erase operation of removing the hole group are performed. The first impurity layer is connected to a source line, the second impurity layer to a bit line, the first gate conductor layer to a first plate line, the second gate conductor layer to a second plate line, and the third gate conductor layer to a word line. A page erase operation is performed without inputting a positive or negative bias pulse to the bit line and the source line.
US12120860B2
The present disclosure is directed to achieve greater space efficiency. A wiring module (A) includes a first transmission line (20), and a noise shielding member (40) that has a sheet shape and is arranged along the first transmission line (20). The noise shielding member (40) has a thickness of 100 μm to 600 μm. Since the noise shielding member (40) has a sheet shape, and thus the space for arranging the noise shielding member (40) can be made smaller, it is possible to achieve greater space efficiency. Since the noise shielding member (40) has a thickness of 100 μm to 600 μm, it is possible to obtain a high noise shielding effect.
US12120850B2
Provided is a mode control method that includes obtaining a PWM signal; obtaining a duty cycle of the PWM signal; obtaining a target rotational speed of an electric pump based on the duty cycle of the PWM signal; in response to determining that the target rotational speed of the electric pump is equal to 0 and the target rotational speed of the electric pump remains equal to 0 for the set duration, entering the sleep mode by the microcontroller; and in response to determining that the target rotational speed of the electric pump is not equal to 0 or the target rotational speed of the electric pump does not remain equal to 0 for the set duration, entering the working mode by the microcontroller. Further provided are a mode control system, an electronic device and a storage medium.
US12120844B2
An environmental control unit (ECU) such as a heat pump includes a housing having a divider panel. The divider panel is surrounded by a sidewall and segregates an interior space of the housing into an air-handling portion and a condensing portion. The ECU includes a blower disposed in the air-handling portion, a heat exchanger disposed in the air-handling portion, a compressor disposed in the condensing portion and a fluid circuit including a refrigerant line that connects the heat exchanger to the compressor. In addition, the ECU includes an electronics box that is mounted on the divider panel and houses a control board, the electronics box being provided with two independent modes of cooling. The first mode includes convective cooling via air flow generated by the blower, and the second mode includes conductive cooling via a cooling plate that is cooled by the refrigerant line.
US12120840B2
An information handling system may include a backplane configured to couple at a first side thereof to a plurality of physical storage resources, an air mover configured to provide cooling to the information handling system, and a shelf coupled to the backplane at a second, opposite side thereof, wherein the shelf is disposed between the first side of the backplane and the air mover. The shelf may include an acoustically absorbent material.
US12120835B2
Discussed is a display apparatus capable of reducing a non-active area recognized by a user by applying a curvature portion to the entire portions of an edge area of a display panel. The display apparatus can include a display panel configured to display an image, and a cover member on the display panel and configured to protect the display panel, wherein the display panel and the cover member each includes a first curvature portion in which a side surface area is bent, and a second curvature portion in which a corner area is bent, and wherein a thickness of the corner area of the cover member is different than a thickness of the side surface area of the cover member.
US12120834B2
A locking assembly for a fuse box of a vehicle includes a base and a cover configured to be removably connected to the base. The base includes a projection extending outwardly from the base. An opening is disposed in the projection. The cover includes a locking member configured to be received by the opening in the projection when the cover is connected to the base. The cover is configured to rotate about a pivot axis of the locking member to disengage the locking member from the opening in the projection to remove the cover from the base.
US12120805B2
A high-frequency heating apparatus includes heating chamber (1), generator (2), radiator (3), and controller (30). Heating chamber (1) has a wall surface including metal, and accommodates object (4) to be heated. Generator (2) generates high-frequency power at any frequency in a band of 2.4 GHz to 2.5 GHz. Radiator (3) includes loop antenna (3) including a plurality of loop portions (3A, 3B), and radiates the high-frequency power generated by generator (2) to heating chamber (1). Controller (30) controls a frequency of the high-frequency power generated by generator (2). According to this aspect, a heating target can be uniformly heated or partially heated without a waveguide for transmitting high-frequency power.
US12120797B2
In one aspect, a device is adapted to transmitting power to, or receive power from, a remote device over first and second communication lines (DALI+, DALI−) and to communicate with the remote device over the first and second communication lines. A first driver implements a first communications protocol which comprises coupling the first and second communication lines together to encode a first signal level and isolating the first and second communication lines from each other to encode a second signal level. This may be a DALI protocol. A second driver implements a second communications protocol which comprises modulating the first communication line with a signal having a low modulation depth. The second communications protocol means there is always a voltage difference between the two communication lines to enable continuous power harvesting. A second aspect relates to efficient power transfer by disabling a current limiter function, when possible.
US12120796B2
A method for controlling lighting in an interior of an aircraft, a lighting control system, and computer program product. The method includes: determining a departure time adjusted for an offset from GMT at a departure location and an arrival time adjusted for an offset from GMT at an arrival location as epoch times; generating a flight time with GMT offsets based on subtracting the departure time from the arrival time; determining an FMS flight time representing the expected time that the aircraft will be in flight between the departure location and the arrival location; generating a simulation ratio modifier based on dividing the FMS flight time by the flight time with GMT offsets; applying the simulation ratio modifier to periods of a day to generate scaled durations for periods of the day in a lighting program; and applying the program to control the cabin lighting on the aircraft.
US12120795B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, apparatuses and methods for synchronous communication and control of LED lights and sensors in an LED light array containing two or more LED lights. Through the use of a master clock within a gateway and/or a master controller that is in communication with LED lights in an array that is in a facility, such as in a greenhouse, hot house, poultry egg production facility, a hospital, dairy production or other lighting facilities, the gateway and/or master controller is capable of synchronizing the emission of light or photons from an LED light array by generating a master signal that contains commands and time from a master clock within the signal that is transmitted to each of the LED lights within an array.
US12120793B2
An intelligent emergency power supply system including a power line, a signal communication module, an emergency power module and at least one luminaire, the luminaire is powered by the emergency power module in a state when the live line and the null line are not regularly powered, and the luminaire is capable of extracting the digital signals loaded on the live line and/or the null line and adjusting its own working mode according to control commands corresponding to the digital signals.
US12120789B2
If there is an interruption of power to an electrical load while the electrical load is operating at low end, the electrical load may not turn back on when power is restored. This undesired operation may be avoided by detecting the application of power to the electrical load, and automatically increasing the magnitude of a control signal being applied to the electrical load by a sufficient amount for a short period of time after power has been applied. This way, the electrical load may be turned back on to low end, instead of erroneously operating in an electronic off condition.
US12120777B2
An aerosol delivery device is provided that comprises a control body and an aerosol source member. The aerosol delivery device includes a resonant transformer comprising a resonant transmitter and a resonant receiver. The aerosol source member includes an inhalable substance medium at least a portion of which is positioned proximate the resonant transmitter. The resonant transmitter is configured to generate an oscillating magnetic field and induce an alternating voltage in the resonant receiver when exposed to the oscillating magnetic field, such that the alternating voltage causes the resonant receiver to generate heat and thereby vaporize components of the inhalable substance medium to produce an aerosol. In some implementations, the resonant receiver comprises part of the control body. In other implementations, the resonant receiver comprises part of the aerosol source member.
US12120772B2
A network access card switching method is performed by an electronic device on which a first network access card and a second network access card are installed. The first network access card is a default network access card of the electronic device. The network access card switching method includes determining that a user enables an intelligent network access card switching function, activating, by the electronic device, the first network access card, transmitting the data service using the first network access card, monitoring a network state of the first network access card in real time, and when determining that the network state of the first network access card meets a first preset condition, disconnecting the data service transmitted using the first network access card, activating the second network access card, and transmitting the data service by using the second network access card.
US12120770B2
A communication apparatus includes a first transmission unit configured to transmit a first signal for a search in a predetermined first range, a second transmission unit configured to transmit a second signal for a search in a second range narrower than the predetermined first range, a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with an external apparatus, a control unit configured to, upon receipt of a first response to the first signal transmitted by the first transmission unit, control the second transmission unit to transmit the second signal for the search in the second range narrower than the predetermined first range, based on a direction of the first response, and an informing unit configured to, upon receipt of a second response to the second signal transmitted by the second transmission unit, inform a user of a direction of the external apparatus.
US12120760B2
One example discloses a multi-link device (MLD) within a wireless local area network (WLAN), including: a controller configured to generate a management frame having a set of multi-link information elements (ML IEs); wherein the MLD is configured to be coupled to a set of PHY-layer links; and wherein the controller is configured to perform a multi-link setup with a second MLD using the set of ML IEs over the PHY-layer links.
US12120758B2
A method and device are disclosed for a remote User Equipment (UE) to support UE-to-Network relay communication. In one embodiment, the method includes the remote UE connecting with a relay UE. The method also includes the remote UE connecting with a first network node via the relay UE. The method further includes the remote UE receiving a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) message from the first network node via the relay UE, wherein the first RRC message includes a Cell Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI) of the remote UE used for constructing authentication information.
US12120755B2
Provided is an aerosol generating device for heating a cigarette to generate aerosol, the aerosol generating device includes an inner wall configured to form an accommodating space for accommodating at least a portion of the cigarette; a coil provided outside the inner wall, surrounding at least a portion of the accommodating space, and configured to generate an induced magnetic field; a heating body provided in the accommodating space and comprising a ferromagnetic substance that generates heat by the induced magnetic field; and a supporting portion configured to support the heating body and integrally molded with the heating body, wherein the inner wall supports the supporting portion and is integrally molded with the supporting portion.
US12120751B2
A random access method and a related apparatus are provided in implementations of the present disclosure and are applicable to a user equipment (UE). The method includes the following. A first bandwidth part (BWP) is selected from multiple BWPs, where the multiple BWPs are configured by a network device. A first physical random access channel (PRACH) resource corresponding to a first synchronization signal block (SSB) is determined. A random access preamble is transmitted on the first BWP based on the first PRACH resource.
US12120747B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may monitor multiple synchronization signal resources, each synchronization signal resource associated with a beam of a set of beams and may determine that multiple candidate beams of the set of beams satisfy a channel quality threshold. The UE may transmit an indication that the multiple candidate beams satisfy the channel quality threshold. For example, the UE may transmit a single random access message on a physical random access channel (PRACH) resource associated with multiple candidate beams, or may transmit multiple random access messages, each one on a different PRACH resource associated with a different candidate beam. The UE may receive an indication of one of the candidate beams from the base station and may establish a connection with the base station using the indicated candidate beam.
US12120742B2
Methods, systems, and devices for channel access and listen-before-talk approaches for new radio operation in unlicensed bands and/or licensed bands. A gNB and a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may operate in unlicensed spectrum. The gNB may perform listen-before-talk operation, and when successful, may send a downlink control channel with a slot format indication (SFI) to the WTRU. There may also be a handshaking procedure with an exchange of a request to transmit (RTT) and a request to receive (RTR). Prior to receiving the downlink channel, the WTRU may monitor search spaces at a first level, and once the downlink channel is received the WTRU may monitor search spaces at a second level. At the end of transmission, the WTRU may revert back to monitoring search spaces at the first level. In one example, the first level may be a mini-slot level and the second level may be a slot level.
US12120734B2
A method for access to a communication network, implemented by a terminal. The method includes: receiving system information broadcast by the network, the system information including an identification of at least one time-frequency resource capable of carrying a piece of information relative to a unique terminal identifier; transmitting to the network an access request, the access request carrying a first piece of information representative of a unique identifier of the terminal, transmitted on one of the time-frequency resources identified on the basis of the system information, called specific resource; and authorizing access to the network in the case of reception of a response to the access request carrying a second piece of information representative of the unique identifier of the terminal.
US12120732B2
This disclosure provides a random access method and apparatus, and user equipment, and belongs to the field of wireless communications technologies. The random access method is applied to user equipment and includes: in a case that a time domain resource for a random access message conflicts with a time domain resource indicated by a network-side message, performing any one of the following: transmitting the random access message on the time domain resource for the random access message; canceling transmission of the random access message; delaying transmission of the random access message; and ignoring the network-side message.
US12120730B2
Features, methods, and functions for beam failure recovery and scheduling requests are provided, including methods for triggering, canceling, and transmitting beam recovery requests. The scheduling request may be designed to accommodate new criteria for transmission on a grant-free uplink shared channel (UL-SCH) and for putting the schedule request on hold.
US12120728B2
A system and method for optimizing power consumption of energy harvesting nodes in a wireless sensor network. In one embodiment, a system includes a network coordinator. The network coordinator includes a wireless transceiver and a controller. The wireless transceiver is configured to provide access to the wireless sensor network. The controller is configured to determine whether a wireless device that is wirelessly communicating with the network coordinator is powered via energy harvesting. The controller is also configured to schedule, based on a determination that the wireless device is powered via energy harvesting, the wireless device to communicate via the wireless sensor network using a priority timeslot of a superframe of the wireless sensor network. The priority timeslot is a timeslot occurring in an initial portion of the superframe.
US12120725B2
A communications system, method and apparatus, the apparatus configured for determining configuration information of a default data radio bearer (DRB) of a first link, the first link being a direct wireless communications link between a first terminal device and another terminal device, and the first terminal device being a transmit end of a first vehicle-to-everything (V2X) data packet, and sending the configuration information of the default DRB of the first link to the first terminal device, where the configuration information of the default DRB of the first link has first indication information, and the first indication information indicating that the configuration information is the configuration information of the default DRB of the first link.
US12120716B1
A protocol for initiating communications between STAR devices in a network includes communicating via a communication device having a transmit signal path and a receive signal path where the transmit signal path and receive signal path are operable to transmit and receive simultaneously at the same frequency over an interference-suppressed band. A communication sub-band and an initiation sub-band are generated within the interference-suppressed band. The initiation sub-band has a lower bandwidth than the communication sub-band. Signals may be transmitted and received signals over the initiation sub-band the communication sub-band.
US12120715B2
There is provided a method of transmitting and receiving user equipment management information and electronic device for performing the same. The electronic device includes a communication interface including a plurality of phase array antennas, a storage configured to store user equipment (UE) management information including information about at least one frequency band covered by each of the phase array antennas, and a controller configured to control to transmit the UE management information to a base station.
US12120713B2
The disclosure provides a method, performed by a base station, of transmitting or receiving data, the method including: determining whether to respectively allocate a plurality of transport blocks to different resource regions, based on channel information; determining, based on a result of the determining, a resource region to which the plurality of transport blocks are allocated and a modulation and coding scheme of the plurality of transport blocks; and transmitting, to a terminal, first downlink control information including an indicator of a transmission mode which indicates whether the plurality of transport blocks are allocated to different resource regions and resource allocation information of a resource region to which the plurality of transport blocks are allocated.
US12120710B2
An apparatus and a method for transmitting or receiving a physical sidelink broadcast channel (PSBCH) are provided. The method for transmitting a PSBCH of a first user equipment includes transmitting, to one or more second user equipments, a PSBCH carrying information, and the information carried in the PSBCH is used to determine a periodicity and a number of slots. This can reduce a payload size of the information carried in the PSBCH.
US12120699B2
Base station-side and user equipment-side apparatuses and methods, and wireless communication system
Base station-side and user equipment-side apparatuses and methods, and a wireless communication system, for use in wireless communication. The base station-side apparatus for use in wireless communication includes: a setting unit, configured to set different priority levels for using uplink transmission resources on unauthorized band with respect to a plurality of user equipment; and a generating unit, configured to generate an uplink scheduling authorization for using one same uplink transmission resource on the unauthorized band with respect to each user equipment, wherein each uplink scheduling authorization includes information about a priority level of the corresponding user equipment.
US12120689B2
Methods and devices for a UE to multiplex uplink control information (UCI). The UE establishes a connection with a base station. The UE determines whether to multiplex first UCI by first identifying whether intra-priority timing overlap exists between the timing resources of the first UCI and a PUSCH with the same priority. Subsequently, the UE identifies whether inter-priority timing overlap exists between the timing resources of the first UCI and a second PUCCH with a different priority from the first PUCCH. Finally, the UE identifies whether the timing resources of the first UCI overlap with a second PUSCH with a different priority than the first PUCCH. The UE multiplexes the first UCI based on the determination whether to multiplex the first UCI, and transmits the multiplexed first UCI to the base station.
US12120677B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a group communication method and an apparatus. A base station is provided, including: a processor, configured to determine to start scheduling PTM transmission in a first cell, where the scheduling PTM transmission is used to enable UE in the first cell to receive data on a scheduling PTM transmission resource; and a transmitter, configured to: send configuration information of the scheduling PTM transmission to the UE in the first cell, where the configuration information is used to enable the UE in the first cell to receive data according to an indication of the configuration information; and send, on the scheduling PTM transmission resource, data according to the indication of the configuration information.
US12120674B2
Dynamic scheduling can be performed by 5G new radio in the licensed or unlicensed band. A base station can poll user equipment (UE) by transmitting a downlink control information (DCI) or other downlink communication that indicates resources that a UE can use to send a scheduling request. The resources are dynamic, e.g., they can be updated and allocated to UEs based on network conditions. Other aspects are described.
US12120671B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a UE and a base station used for wireless communications. A UE receives first information, the first information is used to determine a first time-frequency resource and a first parameter group; receives a first signaling, the first signaling is used to determine a second time-frequency resource and a second parameter group; operates a first radio signal in the first time-frequency resource; and operates a second radio signal in the second time-frequency resource. A start time for transmitting the first signaling is later than a start time for transmitting the first information; the second parameter group is used to generate the second radio signal, a target parameter group is used to generate the first radio signal, and the target parameter group is the first parameter group or the second parameter group.
US12120660B2
A wireless device receives RRC messages comprising configuration parameters of multicast transmissions, wherein the configuration parameters indicate CFRs comprising a number of resource blocks within a bandwidth part of a cell, a RNTI, and a value of a maximum MIMO layer indication for transmission via the CFRs. The wireless device receives, via the CFRs and based on the RNTI, a group common DCI indicating a multicast transmission of a TB, and the multicast transmission of the TB with a number of MIMO layers equal to or less than the value.
US12120658B2
For example, a Bluetooth (BT) device may include a first BT radio; a second BT radio; and a BT controller configured to control BT activities of the first and second BT radios, the BT controller configured to process a Host Controller Interface (HCI) command from a host processor of the BT device to setup a BT activity, the BT controller configured to identify one or more scheduling requirements of the BT activity based on the HCI command, and, based on the scheduling requirements of the BT activity, to dynamically schedule the BT activity to a selected BT radio from the first and second BT radios.
US12120652B2
The present specification provides a method for transmitting a signal in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method performed by a transmission terminal comprises the steps of: generating at least one bit into a complex symbol by using a modulation scheme; mapping the complex symbol to subcarriers each having an even index or subcarriers each having an odd index among subcarriers of at least one configured resource block; performing IFFT on the subcarriers to which the complex symbol is mapped, in order to generate a time-continuous signal; performing a DC bias on the time-continuous signal; and transmitting the DC biased signal.
US12120650B2
The present disclosure relates to data transmission methods and related apparatus. In one example method, a first node sends a to-be-sent frame whose classification attribute value belongs to the first frequency block classification range to a second node by using a first frequency block. The classification attribute value of the to-be-sent frame includes at least one of a frame type, a transmission rate, quality of service, a quality of service access category, a spatial stream, sending duration, a data packet format, or a data packet bandwidth.
US12120644B2
A method performed by a user equipment is provided, which includes identifying information for a resource pool; identifying a resource allocation mode; identifying physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) information, wherein the PSFCH information includes information for a PSFCH period; and selecting, by the UE, a resource for transmission based on the information for the PSFCH period, and a time required for a PSFCH reception and decoding, in case that the resource allocation mode is resource allocation mode 2.
US12120640B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a communication device, a control component, a mobile station, a vehicle, a system, and computer programs for configuring local wireless communication between the communication device and a mobile device close to a vehicle or between mobile devices of a mobile radio system that are close to a vehicle. The communication device comprises a transceiver, which is designed for communication with a control component of the mobile radio system; a control module, which is coupled to the transceiver and is designed to control the transceiver, wherein the control module is also designed to communicate in a first frequency band in the mobile radio system in order to obtain a configuration of a second frequency band of the mobile radio system for the local wireless communication. The control module is also designed to continue to communicate the configuration for the local wireless communication in the second frequency band to at least one mobile device of the mobile radio system that is close to a vehicle.
US12120637B2
A method of operating a wireless communication device (101) includes transmitting (5001), to a first communication network (100-1), a request (4002) for one or more communication gaps (551) in a communication along a data connection (189) associated with a first identity (451) of the wireless communication device (101) and monitoring (5004), in accordance with a timing of the one or more communication gaps (551), for one or more paging signals (4004, 4005) from a second communication network (100-2), the one or more paging signals (4004, 4005) being associated with a second identity (452) of the wireless communication device (101).
US12120633B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for performing paging forwarding for remote wireless devices in a wireless communication system. A relay wireless device and a remote wireless device may establish a relay link. The relay wireless device may provide an indication of the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device to a cellular base station. The relay wireless device may receive paging information for the remote wireless device from the cellular base station. The relay wireless device may provide the paging information to the remote wireless device via the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device.
US12120625B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments herein disclose a method performed by a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method includes performing a registration procedure on a first standalone non-public network (SNPN), selecting a second SNPN based on a predetermined condition, and transmitting, to a network entity, a registration request message on the second SNPN for an initial registration, in case that the second SNPN differs from the first SNPN.
US12120623B2
Embodiments of methods for providing timing advance change detection are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device for determining a validity of a timing advance configuration of the wireless device for an idle mode transmission includes obtaining, while the wireless device is operating in a connected mode, a timing advance value for the wireless device. The method further includes transitioning from the connected mode to an idle mode, and performing a measurement on one or more serving cells of the wireless device while the wireless device is in the idle mode. The method also includes determining whether the timing advance is valid for an idle mode transmission based on the measurement. In some embodiments, the measurement may be a signal strength measurement, such as a Reference Signal Received Power measurement and/or a signal quality measurement such as, a Reference Signal Received Quality measurement.
US12120618B2
A wireless device receives message(s) comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells for communication with a base station. The message(s) comprise a first information element (IE) indicating a new extended power headroom report is configured. The first IE is configured as setup when: a secondary cell is configured with a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and a second IE indicates that a power headroom report is configured as setup. The wireless device transmits a media-access-control (MAC) packet comprising one or more power headroom reports.
US12120611B2
Examples described herein provide wake-up of a network device. Examples include receiving, by a network interface of a first network device having a first Media Access Control (MAC) address, a request to wake-up a second network device having a second MAC address that is assigned to a same subnet as the first MAC address, and in response to the request, generating, by the first network device, a first wake-up frame having a destination address of the second MAC address and configured to cause the second network device to transition from operating in the first power mode to operating in the second power mode. Examples include transmitting, by the network interface of the first network device, the first wake-up frame to the second MAC address of the second network device.
US12120610B2
A system can comprise a radio unit. The system can further comprise a power detector that is configured to determine characteristics of incident signal data traffic of the radio unit. The system can further comprise an actuator that is configured to modify an operational parameter of the radio unit, wherein modifying the operational parameter of the radio unit alters performance of the radio unit. The system can further comprise a hardware component that is configured to cause the actuator to modify the operational parameter of the radio unit based on analyzing the incident signal data traffic.
US12120605B2
A wireless communication method of a wireless communication device is disclosed, wherein the wireless communication method includes the steps of: establishing a link with a first access point, and obtaining a BSSID list of a plurality of access points of a self-organizing network from the first access point of the SON during a link process; determining at least one candidate access point from the plurality of access point according to the BSSID list; and selecting one of the at least one candidate access point to establish a link.
US12120603B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for connecting a wireless device across multiple wireless networks are disclosed. One system includes a state machine and a router. The state machine operates to maintain a network availability of each of a plurality of wireless networks for a wireless device, wherein each of the plurality of wireless networks include network characteristics. The router operates to select a one of the plurality of wireless networks based on the network availability and the network characteristics as maintained by the state machine, process data packets according to the selected available wireless network based on the network characteristics of the selected available wireless network, and route the processed data packets to the wireless device through the selected one of the plurality of wireless networks.
US12120601B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). According to an embodiment, a method and apparatus for selecting a serving network by a provisioning server in a wireless communication system comprises receiving, from a user equipment (UE), first stand-alone non-public network (SNPN) information including an identifier (ID) of at least one SNPN received by the UE and second SNPN information including an ID of an SNPN with which the UE is in onboarding process, receiving contractual relationship information related to the UE from a default credential server, and selecting a serving SNPN for the UE based on the first SNPN information, the second SNPN information, and the contractual relationship information.
US12120596B2
A method for controlling a network connection includes receiving a reset operation of a user, determining, in response to the reset operation, whether a smart household device is disconnected from a network. Creating a WI-FI hotspot based on a first WI-FI name and a first WI-FI password in response to the smart household device being disconnected from the network, where the smart household device has accessed the network based on the first WI-FI name and the first WI-FI password using a wireless access point (AP) before being disconnected from the network. Obtaining a second WI-FI name or a second WI-FI password, and sending the second WI-FI name or the second WI-FI password to the smart household device based on the WI-FI hotspot to enable the smart household device to re-access the network based on the second WI-FI name or the second WI-FI password using the wireless AP.
US12120590B2
Techniques for providing mobile device content delivery acceleration for mobile applications are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a mobile accelerator system including a plurality of point-of-presences (POPs) and a control tower system. The control tower system may be configured to control mobile data transfer acceleration between a mobile device and the content server via the plurality of POPs of the mobile accelerator system. Each mobile application executing on the mobile device may be registered, validated, and then associated with a device POP that forms a dedicated connection with an entry POP of the plurality of POPs. Mobile data transfer acceleration for each mobile application may be selectively activated or deactivated, such as based on user configurations at the application level, domain name level, and/or country level.
US12120588B2
Provided are methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for providing data including vehicle map service data. The disclosed technology can perform operations including receiving vehicle map service data from a plurality of service systems that include a plurality of client systems associated with a vehicle. The vehicle map service data can include information associated with a geographic area. A local map of the geographic area within a predetermined distance of the vehicle can be generated based on the vehicle map service data. Portions of the local map to which each client system is subscribed can be determined for each client system of the plurality of client systems. Additionally, the portions of the local map to which each client system is subscribed can be sent to a respective client system of the plurality of client systems.
US12120581B1
A method performed by an asset tracking device is disclosed to track an asset. The method comprises receiving, while operating in an extended discontinuous reception mode, a carrier messaging service message from a carrier network, transmitting a connection request to a management server to establish a connection with the management server in response to receiving the carrier messaging service message, receiving, from the management server over the connection, an instruction to use a specified backend check-in schedule until a specified condition is met, and responsive to receiving the instruction, using the specified backend check-in schedule to check in with the management server until the specified condition is met. The method further comprises reverting back to using a default backend check-in schedule to check in with the management server after the specified condition has been met.
US12120567B2
Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for redirecting a user equipment (UE) to an evolved universal terrestrial radio access (UTRA) absolute radio frequency number (EARFCN) of an evolved universal mobile telecommunications service terrestrial radio access network (EUTRAN) band with a band number greater than sixty four. For example, some embodiments are directed to an electronic device including radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to generate a channel release message and transmit, using the radio front end circuitry, the channel release message to the UE. The channel release message is configured to redirect the UE to the EARFCN of the EUTRAN band with the band number greater than sixty four.
US12120564B2
Devices, systems, and methods for Random Access Channel (RACH) configuration in Layer 1 (L1)/Layer 2 (L2) mobility. A user equipment (UE) may obtain a downlink (DL) Transmission Configuration Indicator (TCI) list from a first Transmission and Reception Point (TRP). The DL TCI list may include DL beam information, RACH Occasion (RO) information, and initial Bandwidth Part (BWP) information associated with each DL TCI of a plurality of DL TCIs related to the first TRP and multiple TRPs adjacent to the first TRP. The UE may receive a handover command from the first TRP via Downlink Control Information (DCI) in Li or Media Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) in L2. The handover command indicates a handover from the first TRP to a second TRP of the multiple TRPs for the UE, and includes a specified DL TCI related to the second TRP. The UE may determine RACH information related to the second TRP, based at least partly on the specified DL TCI related to the second TRP included in the handover command and the DL TCI list. The UE may then perform random access to the second TRP based on the RACH information related to the second TRP. The RACH information may include uplink (UL) beam information, RO information and Bandwidth Part (BWP) information for the UE to perform random access to the second TRP.
US12120562B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide a determining method and device, to resolve a problem in the related art that user equipment (UE) fails to process a UE connection failure in a dual-connectivity moving process. The method includes determining, when a first timer expires, that a dual-connectivity moving process of a terminal device fails.
US12120553B2
Systems and methods provide for controlling the derivation of QoS rules in the UE by flexibly defining the scope of packet header fields over which packet filter derivation is performed. The scope of packet header fields for derivation of QoS rules may be provided by the network to the UE upon PDU Session establishment or modification. For PDU Session of IP type, the network indicates to the UE whether the scope of RQoS includes both the Source/Destination IP address pair and the Source/Destination Port numbers, or only the former. For PDU Session of Ethernet type, the network indicates to the UE whether the scope of RQoS includes both the Source/Destination MAC address pair and the IEEE 802.1Q tag, or only the former. The UE may indicate to the network whether it supports the flexible scope of packet filters for RQoS for a PDU session.
US12120552B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for performing wireless communications including filtering packets for transmission between a user equipment (UE) and a base station. Techniques for filtering packets, at a lower layer and/or baseband processor, using higher layer information, such as a flow identifier, are disclosed. A device may generate various tables and may use the tables to filter packets efficiently.
US12120544B2
Disclosed are techniques for reducing the overhead of low layer positioning reports. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) performs at least one positioning measurement of at least one downlink positioning reference signal (DL-PRS) received from at least one transmission-reception point (TRP) during a positioning session, and reports, to a positioning entity via low layer signaling, a relative value of the at least one positioning measurement relative to an expected value of the at least one positioning measurement, wherein the relative value of the at least one positioning measurement is a difference between the expected value of the at least one positioning measurement and a measured value of the at least one positioning measurement.
US12120543B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for multiple measurement gaps (MGs) configurations with user equipment (UE) capability of supporting the multiple MGs in New Radio (NR) involved networks. Various embodiments describe how to communicate a UE capability of supporting multiple MGs between the UE and an access node (AN) so that multiple MGs may be configured to the UE effectively and efficiently. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12120542B2
Provided are a method, device and apparatus for acquiring information, and a computer storage medium. In the method for acquiring information, a first node receives a message transmitted by a second node, where the message is related to a cell group of the second node, each cell group includes one or more cells, and each cell belongs to a same wideband carrier. The first node acquires information on a cell under the second node from the message, that is, information on a cell in the each cell group. A device and an apparatus for acquiring information, and a storage medium are further provided.
US12120541B2
A method for processing communication range information and a terminal are provided. The method includes: receiving the communication range information of a service data unit from an application layer; determining target information according to the communication range information; and transmitting the target information to a base station.
US12120538B2
Failure prediction signaling and cognitive user migration may be provided. A client device may receive at least a portion of failure prediction data. The client device may then analyze the at least the portion of the failure prediction data. The client device may then roam from a first computing device to a second computing device in response to analyzing the at least the portion of the failure prediction data.
US12120536B2
One example Land Mobile Radio (LMR) base station includes a network interface and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive profile information of a plurality of fifth generation (5G)/Long Term Evolution (LTE) communication devices. The profile information of the plurality of 5G/LTE communication devices may be transmitted (i) over a background gateway communication channel to an LMR communication network that includes the LMR base station and (ii) in response to the 5G/LTE software defined network detecting a fault condition of the first 5G/LTE communication network. The electronic processor is further configured to broadcast a capture beacon based on the profile information and compliant with at least some characteristics of a 5G/LTE communication protocol. The capture beacon is configured to be received by the 5G/LTE communication device to reconfigure the 5G/LTE communication device for communication compliant with an LMR communication protocol.
US12120506B2
Devices, methods, and a computer program for releasing transportation vehicle components and a vehicle-to-vehicle communication module. The device for releasing a vehicle component of a transportation vehicle includes at least one interface for communication with further vehicle components of the transportation vehicle and a control module for controlling the at least one interface to receive messages from the further vehicle components of the transportation vehicle and to verify the identity of the further vehicle components based on the received messages and the stored identification data of the further vehicle components. The messages on which the verification of the identity of the further vehicle components is based are messages used in regular operation of the vehicle component. The control module also releases the vehicle component in response to the identity of the further transportation vehicle components being consistent with the stored identification data of the further vehicle components.
US12120499B2
An audio system and method of spatially rendering audio signals that uses modified virtual speaker panning is disclosed. The audio system may include a fixed number F of virtual speakers, and the modified virtual speaker panning may dynamically select and use a subset P of the fixed virtual speakers. The subset P of virtual speakers may be selected using a low energy speaker detection and culling method, a source geometry-based culling method, or both. One or more processing blocks in the decoder/virtualizer may be bypassed based on the energy level of the associated audio signal or the location of the sound source relative to the user/listener, respectively. In some embodiments, a virtual speaker that is designated as an active virtual speaker at a first time, may also be designated as an active virtual speaker at a second time to ensure the processing completes.
US12120490B2
Provided is a filter coefficient optimization technology that makes it possible to design a stable beamformer having a good quality by considering the relationship of a filter coefficient between adjacent frequency bins. A filter coefficient optimization apparatus includes an optimization unit that calculates an optimum value of a filter coefficient w={w1, . . . , wF} (wf is a filter coefficient of a frequency bin f) of a beamformer that emphasizes sound (target sound) from D sound source, af,d being an array manifold vector in the frequency bin f corresponding to a sound wave that comes from an angular direction θd in which a sound source d exists, the sound wave being a plane wave, the optimization unit calculating the optimum value based on an optimization problem of a cost function defined using a sum of a sum of a cost function LMV_f(wf) and a predetermined regularization term, under a predetermined constraint condition, the predetermined regularization term being defined using a difference in phase between adjacent frequency bins relevant to a response wfHaf,d of the beamformer in the frequency bin f for the angular direction θd.
US12120488B2
A Personal Sound Amplification System is provided includes a Personal Sound Amplification Device (PSAD) which includes a PSAD module body which defines a PSAD module body cavity for containing PSAD electronics, wherein the PSAD electronics include at least one PSAD microphone configured to receive a sound input and generate a microphone signal, a PSAD amplifier configured generate a processed microphone signal and a PSAD speaker configured to receive the processed microphone signal and generate a sound output; an external sound tube, wherein the external sound tube is associated with the PSAD module body; and a jewelry attachment device, wherein the jewelry attachment device is removably associated with the PSAD module body front and configured to magnetically associate with a decorative jewelry cover.
US12120477B2
Head-worn computers include a front frame mechanically adapted to secure a see-through computer display and an arm, secured to the front frame, mechanically adapted to secure the front frame to a head of a user. The arm includes an internal speaker system, enclosed by the arm, wherein the internal speaker system comprises a speaker having a first side and an opposing second side and a first cavity positioned along the first side of the speaker, the arm further comprising a vent positioned to vent the first cavity and a second cavity positioned along the second side of the speaker.
US12120474B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an activation method, an activation device, a control device, a network device and an optical network system. A new-system ONU is activated on a first OLT in an existing system, and then activation information of the new-system ONU is sent to a second OLT in a new system by the first OLT or by an activation agent ONU which has been activated on the second OLT, thereby enabling activation of the new-system ONU on the second OLT.
US12120466B1
A system includes a plurality of satellites in orbit around a celestial body in a plurality of orbital planes. Each satellite includes an imaging device having a field of view (FOV) to capture an image of a sky that includes celestial image features of resident space object (RSO), stars, and/or planets. The satellite processor is configured to receive image data from sensors in the imaging device, to increase a positional detection accuracy of the celestial image features by defocusing imaging optics of the imaging device, to capture image data in a volume of the sky as the FOV of the imaging device on each satellite moves in an orbital plane, and generate by a centralized computer at least 1,000 celestial image features using the image data transmitted from each of the satellites.
US12120465B2
The method comprising determining a set of coordinates each for two or more appearances of a target subject within a sequence of images, the set of coordinates of the two or more appearances of the target subject defining a first path; determining a set of coordinates each for two or more appearances of a related subject within a sequence of images, the related subject relating to the target subject, the set of coordinates of the two or more appearances of the related subject defining a second path; determining one or more minimum distances between the first path and the second path so as to determine at least a region of interest; determining a timestamp of a first appearance and a timestamp of a last appearance of the target subject; and determining a timestamp of a first appearance and a timestamp of a last appearance of the related subject.
US12120458B2
A process includes receiving, from a user identity, instructions for output characteristics including one or more of audio characteristics for rendering or capturing audio data or visual characteristics for rendering or capturing visual data. The process also includes determining, in response to the received instructions, output controls which effect the one or more of audio characteristics or visual characteristics, and associating the output controls with an online identity or resource. The process further includes storing the associated output controls and detecting an interaction with the online identity or resource. Moreover, the process includes accessing, in response to the detection of the interaction, the stored output controls, and enabling an effect, based on the output controls, of one or more of the audio characteristics or the visual characteristics with respect to interaction with the online identity or resource.
US12120457B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of communications. Disclosed are a conference creation method, a server end, a terminal, and a storage medium. In the present disclosure, the conference creation method is applied to a video conference terminal. The method includes: establishing a point-to-point video conference with an opposite-end device, and obtaining an identity identifier of the opposite-end device; generating a data conference creation request containing identity identifiers of two parties of the conference, wherein the two parties of the conference include the video conference terminal and the opposite-end device; and transmitting the data conference creation request to a data conference server end, so that the data conference server end creates a data conference corresponding to the point-to-point video conference according to the identity identifiers of the two parties of the conference.
US12120447B2
A unit circuit includes a photoelectric conversion element, an output transistor including an input node and configured to output a signal based on a charge from the photoelectric conversion element, a reset transistor, and a first transistor connected to the input node and configured to change a capacitance of the input node. A first control signal supplied to a gate electrode of the first transistor has at least three types of voltages.
US12120445B2
An imaging device 100 includes a pixel array PA. A first period, a third period, and a second period appear in this order in a first frame. During the first period, pixel signal readout is performed on a first row in the pixel array PA. During the second period, pixel signal readout is performed on a second row in the pixel array PA. Each of the first period and the second period is a high-sensitivity exposure period. The third period is a low-sensitivity exposure period.
US12120443B2
A semiconductor device that has low power consumption and is capable of performing a product-sum operation is provided. The semiconductor device includes first and second cells, a first circuit, and first to third wirings. Each of the first and second cells includes a capacitor, and a first terminal of each of the capacitors is electrically connected to the third wiring. Each of the first and second cells has a function of feeding a current based on a potential held at a second terminal of the capacitor, to a corresponding one of the first and second wirings. The first circuit is electrically connected to the first and second wirings and stores currents I1 and I2 flowing through the first and second wirings. When the potential of the third wiring changes and accordingly the amount of current of the first wiring changes from I1 to I3 and the amount of current of the second wiring changes from I2 to I4, the first circuit generates a current with an amount I1−I2−I3+I4. Note that the potential of the third wiring is changed by firstly inputting a reference potential to the third wiring and then inputting a potential based on internal data or a potential based on information obtained by a sensor.
US12120442B2
To reduce power consumption of a driver circuit used in a vertical drive circuit of an image processing device. In the driver circuit, a drive signal output circuit outputs a drive signal in accordance with a predetermined trigger signal. Furthermore, at a time of rising of the drive signal, a step-up switch sequentially selects a plurality of voltages in ascending order, and supplies the selected voltage to the drive signal output circuit. Moreover, at a time of falling of the drive signal, a step-down switch sequentially selects a plurality of voltages in descending order, and supplies the selected voltage to the drive signal output circuit.
US12120440B2
Disclosed is an image sensor including a first comparison circuit suitable for comparing an active pixel signal with a ramp signal to generate a first comparison signal through a first comparison output terminal, and a first compensation circuit coupled to the first comparison output terminal, and suitable for selectively applying a first compensation noise, which corresponds to a power noise generated by the first comparison circuit, to the first comparison output terminal on the basis of a first control signal.
US12120439B2
Disclosed is an image sensor including a pixel array including a plurality of unit pixel circuits arranged in a grid structure, and a plurality of switch circuits suitable for selectively coupling floating diffusion nodes included in the respective unit pixel circuits arranged in a vertical direction among the plurality of unit pixel circuits, wherein an arrangement pattern of pixels included in each of the plurality of unit pixel circuits is different from an arrangement pattern of color filters of the pixel array.
US12120435B2
Techniques and apparatuses are described for reducing a flicker effect of multiple light sources in an image captured with an imaging device. A lighting frequency associated with each of the multiple light sources is detected and prioritized relative to a flicker effect upon the image to identify at least a first-prioritized lighting frequency and a second-prioritized lighting frequency. A first exposure-time factorization set is determined for the first-prioritized lighting frequency, and a second exposure-time factorization set is determined for the second-prioritized lighting frequency. An exposure time of the imaging device is adjusted to an exposure time identified in the first exposure-time factorization set that matches, or aligns near-to-matching, an exposure time identified in the second exposure-time factorization set.
US12120431B2
A computing device includes digital imaging functionality that captures images digitally using any of a variety of different technologies. The computing device receives an indication of, or determines, a physical location of a tag within a field of view of an image capture module and associates that physical location with a region of interest in the field of view. The tag is a device that transmits and receives signals allowing one or more other devices to determine the physical location of the tag, such as an ultra-wideband tag. The computing device also includes a parameter generation system that automatically generates, based at least in part on the region of interest associated with the physical location of the tag, one or more parameters for capturing a digital image. These parameters include, for example, an exposure setting, a white balance setting, and a focus setting.
US12120426B2
An image sensor has diffractive microlenses over pixels with central structures and ring(s) of material having index of refraction different from that of background material. Disposed beneath the diffractive microlenses are photodiodes that permit determining ratios of illumination of peripheral photodiodes to illumination of central photodiodes of the pixels, and, in embodiments, circuitry for determining said ratio. In embodiments, the ratio is used to find illumination wavelengths; and in other embodiments the ratio is used to determine focus of an imaging lens providing illumination. A method determines color by passing light through a diffractive lens disposed above photodiodes of the diffractive pixel and determining color from illumination peripheral and central photodiodes. An autofocus method of determining focus includes passing light through a diffractive lens and determining focus from illumination of peripheral photodiodes and central photodiodes of the pixel. In embodiments, the central structures are disks and rings are round.
US12120415B2
In an operation by line-of-sight input, a position (designated position) designated by a gaze point is easier to view after a determination operation is performed by a user than before the determination operation is performed. An electric device includes a detection unit configured to detect a gaze point, which is based on line-of-sight of a user viewing, on a display unit, and a control unit configured to display an indicator on the display unit indicating the gaze point, wherein in a case where an operation is performed on an operation unit by the user, the control unit performs control to display a display item at the gaze point and to display the indicator and the display item in a changed display order.
US12120405B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for collecting multispectral images with a mobile device having a camera with an image sensor, such as a mobile phone. The systems and methods of the present disclosure control, support and power one or more light sources to emit single or multiple wavelengths of light onto an object. The system further supports and controls the camera within the mobile device to capture a series of images or video in the different or same light wavelengths and geometries. The resulting series of images may be used individually or collectively to detect and compare features in an object. This system may be used for the capture of multispectral images or video that could individually or collectively reveal features in the object that may not be visible in a single image.
US12120385B2
Apparatuses, methods, and program products are disclosed for displaying video inputs. One apparatus includes a display, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to receive, by use of the processor, multiple video inputs. The code is executable by the processor to determine display criteria of each video input of the multiple video inputs based on user selection. The code is executable by the processor to display, by use of the display, each video input of the multiple video inputs based on the display criteria of the respective video input.
US12120376B2
The present disclosure includes techniques for providing timing for outputting audio from two or more devices. An example method includes determining, at a first device, timing for outputting audio from a second device and a third device in an attempt to have the audio from the second and third devices play in a synchronized manner. The example method further includes communicating from the first device to the second device, using a first wireless communication technology (e.g., Wi-Fi), the timing for outputting the audio. The example method further includes communicating from the first device to the third device, using a second wireless communication technology (e.g., Bluetooth) that is different from the first wireless communication technology, the timing for outputting the audio.
US12120375B2
A controller device programming system and method directed at identifying a connected display device 30 connected to a content management device 20 via at least one connected intermediary device 40. The system and method evaluate the details included within a sink data amalgamation that includes sink identification data from both the connected display device 30 and at least one of the connected intermediary devices 40. Keywords, whitelists, and blacklists can be employed to evaluate the content of the sink data amalgamation and determine one or more priority display device matches to, in turn, improve selection of a set of function codes for control of the connected display device 30 using a controller device 50 paired with the content management device 20.
US12120363B2
A time associated with last selection of a content item at a user device may be determined. A time associated with a last user interaction with the user device may be determined. During presentation of the content item at the user device, it may be determined that a supplemental content insertion opportunity is available. A request for a supplemental content item may be sent to a server, wherein the request comprises data indicating the time associated with the last selection of the content item at the user device and data indicating the time associated with the last user interaction with the user device.
US12120348B2
Systems and techniques are described herein for processing media data using a neural network system. For instance, a process can include obtaining a latent representation of a frame of encoded image data and generating, by a plurality of decoder transformer layers of a decoder sub-network using the latent representation of the frame of encoded image data as input, a frame of decoded image data. At least one decoder transformer layer of the plurality of decoder transformer layers includes: one or more transformer blocks for generating one or more patches of features and determine self-attention locally within one or more window partitions and shifted window partitions applied over the one or more patches; and a patch un-merging engine for decreasing a respective size of each patch of the one or more patches.
US12120346B2
A method performed by a video decoder includes receiving a coded video bitstream that includes a current picture with at least one block located at a boundary of the current picture. The method includes determining whether boundary filtering is enabled for the at least one block based on a syntax element in the received coded video stream. The method further includes, based on a determination that the boundary filtering is enabled: filtering one or more boundary samples corresponding to the at least one block to generate one or more filtered samples, and decoding the at least one block based on the generated one or more filtered samples. The method further includes based on a determination that the boundary filtering is not enabled, decoding the at least one block without filtering the one or more boundary samples.
US12120344B2
High frame rate moving image data is satisfactorily transmitted. Mixing processing is performed in units of two temporally consecutive pictures in predetermined frame rate image data, and base frame rate image data is obtained. Image data of one picture in units of the two temporally consecutive pictures is extracted, and high frame rate enhanced frame image data is obtained. Prediction encoding processing of base frame rate image data is performed to the base frame rate image data, and a base stream is obtained. Prediction encoding processing with respect to the base frame rate image data is performed to the high frame rate enhanced frame image data, and an enhanced stream is obtained. A predetermined format container is transmitted including the base stream and the enhanced stream.
US12120342B2
The disclosure discloses a method for processing video signals and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the method of processing video signals based on inter prediction, comprising: configuring a merge candidate list based on a spatial neighboring block and a temporal neighboring block to a current block; adding a history-based merge candidate of the current block to the merge candidate list; obtaining a merge index indicating a merge candidate used for an inter prediction of the current block within the merge candidate list; generating a prediction sample of the current block based on motion information of the merge candidate indicated by the merge index; and updating a history-based merge candidate list based on the motion information.
US12120341B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives a video bitstream including a current block, and determines a candidate list that includes a plurality of motion vector (MV) candidates for predicting the current block. The processing circuitry modifies the plurality of MV candidates in the candidate list according to a motion information based diversity assessment of the plurality of MV candidates. The modifying the plurality of MV candidates prioritizes a subset of MV candidates with a larger difference in motion information. The processing circuitry decodes, from the video bitstream, an index indicating a selected MV candidate from the modified candidate list, and reconstructs the current block based on the selected MV candidate.
US12120336B2
Techniques are described for efficiently embedding frame masks in a video stream. In some solutions, a computer implemented method includes operations for encoding a frame of video data comprising an array of pixels to generate an encoded video frame, and transmitting the encoded video frame to a video decoder. The array of pixels include foreground pixels and background pixels. The foreground pixels have respective first chroma component values which are bounded within a first chroma component range. Encoding the frame of video data can include converting the first chroma component values of the foreground pixels to second chroma component values by applying a mapping function. The second chroma component values are bounded within a second chroma component range. The second chroma component range is shifted or compressed from the first chroma component range.
US12120335B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for intra prediction mode coding in video decoding. The method includes receiving a coded video bitstream; constructing a list of intra modes for a block in the coded video bitstream according to a pre-defined rule based on a size of the block; dividing the list of intra modes into a plurality of intra mode sets for the block; extracting, from the coded video bitstream, a set index indicating an intra mode set from the plurality of intra mode sets; extracting, from the coded video bitstream, a mode index indicating an intra prediction mode from the intra mode set; determining the intra prediction mode for the block based on the set index and the mode index; and decoding the coded video bitstream based on the intra prediction mode.
US12120329B2
According to embodiment(s) of the present document, multilayer-based coding can be performed. The multilayer-based coding can include a sub-bitstream extraction process. Inputs of the sub-bitstream extraction process can include a value related to a target OLS index and a value related to a highest temporal identifier.
US12120328B2
A transmission device of point cloud data and method performed by the transmission device, and a reception device and a method performed by the reception device are provided. A method performed by a reception device of point cloud data comprises acquiring geometry-based point cloud compression (G-PCC) file including the point cloud data, wherein the G-PCC file includes information on a sample group in which samples in the G-PCC file are grouped based on one or more temporal levels and wherein the G-PCC file further includes information on the temporal levels, and extracting one or more samples belonging to a target temporal level from the samples in the G-PCC file based on the information on the sample group and the information on the temporal levels.
US12120321B2
The refinement of block-based predictive coding and decoding of pictures as applicable in, e.g., hybrid video codecs, using additional reconstructed samples or residuals is described. An apparatus for block-based predictive decoding of a picture is described. The apparatus includes a combiner configured to combine a residual signal a predetermined block of the picture and a reference signal for the predetermined block so as to obtain a first spectrum, the residual signal correcting a prediction error of a prediction of the predetermined block of the picture; a reducer configured to perform thresholding on the first spectrum to obtain a second spectrum so that coefficients below a threshold value are set to a predefined value; an extractor configured to obtain from the second spectrum a modified version of the residual signal; and a reconstructor block configured to decode the predetermined block of the picture from the data stream on the basis of the modified version of the residual signal.
US12120320B2
A video decoding apparatus and a method for adaptively setting a resolution are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for adaptively setting a resolution on a per-picture basis comprises the steps of: decoding maximum resolution information from a bitstream; decoding, from the bitstream, resolution information about a current picture; and setting the resolution of the current picture on the basis of the maximum resolution information or the resolution information, wherein the resolution information has a size less than or equal to that of the maximum resolution information.
US12120312B2
Techniques related to quantization parameter estimation for coding intra and scene change frames are discussed. Such techniques include generating features based on an intra or scene change frame including a proportion of smooth blocks and one or both of a measure of block variance and a prediction distortion, and applying a machine learning model to generate an estimated quantization parameter for encoding the intra or scene change frame.
US12120311B2
The present invention provides an encoder including a quantization circuit, an encoding circuit, an energy parameter calculation circuit and a quantization parameter determination circuit. The quantization circuit is configured to perform quantization operations on a plurality of CTUs in image data in sequence to generate quantized data respectively corresponding to the plurality of CTUs. The encoding circuit is configured to perform encoding operations on the quantized data of the plurality of CTUs in sequence to generate encoded data. The energy parameter calculation circuit is configured to receive the image data, and calculate a plurality of energy parameters respectively corresponding to the plurality of CTUs in the image data. The quantization parameter determination circuit is configured to determine a plurality of quantization parameters of the plurality of CTUs according to at least a portion of the plurality of energy parameters, for the quantization circuit to perform the quantization operations.
US12120302B2
A method of video processing is described. The method of video processing includes: constructing, for a conversion between a current video block of a current picture of a video and a coded representation of the video, a history-based motion vector predictor (HMVP) table according to a rule, and performing the conversion using the HMVP table, wherein the current video block is coded in the coded representation using a block vector that represents a displacement between the current video block and a region in the current picture used for predicting the current video block; wherein the rule specifies that the constructing uses block vector information of previously processed video blocks in the HMVP table.
US12120298B2
A video decoder for decoding an encoded video signal including encoded picture data and indication data of a picture of a video to reconstruct the picture of the video is provided. The video decoder includes an interface configured for receiving the encoded video signal, and a data decoder configured for reconstructing the picture of the video by decoding the encoded picture data using the indication data. The picture is partitioned into a plurality of coding areas. One or more coding areas of the plurality of coding areas include two or more coding tree units of the plurality of coding tree units, wherein each coding area of the one or more coding areas which includes two or more coding tree units exhibits a coding order for the two or more coding tree units of the coding area.
US12120291B2
An encoder includes: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, stores a first parameter into a bitstream, the first parameter indicating, as a prediction mode, one of (i) a multiple prediction mode in which a prediction image is generated by overlapping an inter prediction image of a current block and an intra prediction image of the current block and (ii) one of a plurality of prediction modes including a non-rectangular mode in which a prediction image is generated for each non-rectangular partition in the current block, and encodes the current block according to the prediction mode.
US12120286B2
Methods and devices for manipulating an image are described. The method comprises receiving image data, the image data including a first image obtained from a first camera and a second image obtained from a second camera, the first camera and the second camera being oriented in a common direction; identifying one or more boundaries of an object in the image data by analyzing the first image and the second image; and displaying a manipulated image based on the image data, wherein the manipulated image includes manipulation of at least a portion of the first image based on boundaries of the object.
US12120283B2
In a threshold matrix generation method, after periodic areas are set in a matrix space and elements existing every other one in a row direction and a column direction in each periodic area is set as target elements, performed is a step of assigning threshold values ranging from one on the most highlight side to a predetermined switching threshold value sequentially to target elements in the periodic areas. Assuming that elements to which threshold values are assigned are regarded as determined elements, in the step, under a condition that the number of determined elements is almost same in the periodic areas and each determined element is positioned in a vicinity of any one determined element in each periodic area, a target element whose distance to all determined elements is largest is specified within the periodic areas and a threshold value is assigned to the target element.
US12120282B1
A trusted media device for use with a digital camera to create trusted media files that provide assurance that the media file captures a real-world scene and is not synthetic (for example, AI-generated) media. The trusted media device includes a digital camera and provides for generation of a trusted media file after authentication of fingerprints associated with the digital camera and the trusted media device and authentication of perceptual hashes for captured images. Embodiments of the disclosure further include processes for pairing the trusted media device and viewing and editing the trusted media file.
US12120279B2
In some examples, a computing device can include a processor resource and a non-transitory memory resource storing machine-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause the processor resource to: identify a plurality of regions within a captured document, determine a quantity of vertical transitions and horizontal transitions within the plurality of regions, and select an output resolution for the plurality of regions based on the quantity of vertical transitions and horizontal transitions within the plurality of regions.
US12120269B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which provide for customer chatbots that detect a customer handoff condition and in response, transferring the customer to a communication session with a live agent. The handoff condition may comprise an inability to understand the customer, an inability to answer the customer's question, expressions of frustration or anger on the part of the customer, a customer's express request to be transferred, or the like. The live agent may receive a complete history of the conversation with the chatbot so that the customer does not have to repeat him or herself to the live agent. The chatbot chat session may be linked to a social networking account of the customer and may take place in association with a social networking profile page of the company.
US12120268B2
Techniques for benchmarking performance in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for benchmarking contact center system performance comprising cycling, by at least one computer processor configured to perform contact center operations, between a first contact-agent pairing strategy and a second contact-agent pairing strategy for pairing contacts with agents in the contact center system; determining an agent-utilization bias in the first contact-agent pairing strategy comprising a difference between a first agent utilization of the first contact-agent pairing strategy and a balanced agent utilization; and determining a relative performance of the second contact-agent pairing strategy compared to the first contact-agent pairing strategy based on the agent-utilization bias in the first contact-agent pairing strategy.
US12120267B2
Customers often call a contact center to resolve an issue only to find the contact center cannot resolve the customer's issue and instead requires a third party to perform some action. By monitoring a customer's communication with an agent, an automated process may generate a workflow to address the issue comprising at least one action to be performed by a third party. The third party is then contacted, in real-time or offline, and provided with their actions to be performed. Records are written to a blockchain describing authentications, actions to take and by whom, and the completion of such actions. The resulting success, or lack thereof, is provided as feedback to further refine the accuracy of the automatic determinations of the workflow and/or the identity of the particular third parties.
US12120265B2
A wireless telecommunications system provides location-specific call forwarding. The system can receive a request to connect a voice call to the wireless device, which can invoke a call forwarding procedure depending on a status of a subscriber associated with the wireless device. When the system determines that a current location of the wireless device is different from a default location, location-specific call forwarding information is used to forward the voice call to a terminating node associated with the location-specific forwarding information rather than a default terminating node for the default location. The terminating node can include a voicemail server that plays back a location-specific voicemail greeting to the caller.
US12120247B2
The owner sameness confirmation system determines whether or not the owners of two terminals (200A, 200B) are the same. Authentication station servers (100A, 100B) store electronic certificates issued to the terminals and identity confirmation information of the owners of the terminals in association with each other. The authentication station server (100A) transmits information obtained by encrypting the identity confirmation information of the owner of the terminal (200A) through homomorphic encryption and the electronic certificate of the partner terminal (200B) to the authentication station server (100B). The authentication station server 100B transmits response encrypted information including information obtained by encrypting the identity confirmation information of the owner of the terminal (200B) as a response. The authentication station server (100A) decrypts the response encrypted information and determines the sameness of the owners based on whether or not the decryption result matches a predetermined value.
US12120227B2
A method comprises receiving an image of an update for a software module, a rate parameter, an index parameter, and a public key, generating a 32-byte aligned string, computing a state parameter using the 32-byte aligned string, generating a modified message representative, computing a Merkle Tree root node, and in response to a determination that the Merkle Tree root node matches the public key, forwarding, to a remote device, the image of the update for a software module, the state parameter; and the modified message representative.
US12120223B2
The present disclosure provides computing systems in which respective quorums of computing nodes securely manage respective secrets associated with cryptographic ledgers according to threshold secret sharing schemes. In particular, membership in the quorums can be changed dynamically and unpredictability to improve security of the quorums against adversarial attacks in which adversaries attempt to compromise or gain control of the computing nodes. More specifically, by changing membership in the quorum dynamically and unpredictability, the ability of the adversary to control at any given time a threshold number of the current members of the quorum and gain access to the secret is dramatically reduced.
US12120213B2
A 100BASE-TX transceiver includes a receive (RX) circuit, a transmit (TX) circuit, a clock generator circuit, a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit, and a clock multiplexer circuit. The RX circuit receives an input data to generate an RX data. The TX circuit transmits a TX data according to a TX clock, to generate an output data. The clock generator circuit generates an output clock. The CDR circuit generates an RX recovered clock according to the RX data. The clock multiplexer circuit receives the output clock and the RX recovered clock, and outputs the TX clock that is selected from the output clock and the RX recovered clock.
US12120211B2
A controller includes circuitry configured to: receive global time data indicating a global time associated with an external global clock; synchronize an internal controller clock of the controller with the global clock based on the global time; set a controller time based on the synchronized controller clock; and transmit controller time data indicating the controller time to at least one local device through periodic communication.
US12120206B2
In a method for generating a physical layer (PHY) data unit for transmission via a communication channel, information bits to be included in the PHY data unit are received. A number of padding bits are added to the information bits. The number of padding bits is determined based on respective virtual values of each of one or more encoding parameters. The information bits are parsed to a number of encoders and are encoded, using the number of encoders, to generate coded bits. The coded bits are padded such that padded coded bits correspond to respective true values of each of the one or more encoding parameters. The PHY data unit is generated to include the padded coded bits.
US12120205B2
Systems and methods are described for passing event messages between components of a computing cluster. An example method includes identifying, by an event sender, a receiving component to receive a record, determining, by a processing device, whether the receiving component is a protocol aware component, and upon determining that the receiving component is the protocol aware component, sending the record to the receiving component using a first protocol. Sending the record to the receiving component using the first protocol bypasses a dispatch service of the event sender.
US12120203B2
In response to there being multiple process groups for one application service concurrently, each of the multiple process groups has an independent EBPF resource, and the EBPF resource is used to store information of an FD of each process in each of the multiple process groups. After a UDP message is received, a server is configured to determine a target process group from multiple process groups of a reuseport group according to a quadruple of the UDP message, select a target FD from the FD of each process of the target process group, and receive and transmit data by using the target FD. In this way, since each of the multiple process groups has an independent EBPF resource, the processes belong to different process groups do not preempt the same FD, which ensures that the UDP message is not distributed in disorder.
US12120202B2
Aspects of the subject technology relate to systems and methods for optimizing telemetry schemes with a constant insensible group delay. Systems and methods are provided for receiving an acquisition including compressed data and dummy data from a downhole logging system, determining a prior decompressor queue size based on the acquisition for a plurality of time intervals, determining a decompressor data size based on the acquisition for the plurality of time intervals, and determining a delay where the prior decompressor queue size is continuously greater than or equal to the decompressor data size for the plurality of time intervals.
US12120192B2
Described processes include: detecting a surge in load or value added to a network based on a threshold number (e.g., 3, 5, or another number) mints are triggered in a row at above a threshold block value target (e.g., 2×, 5×, 10×, or other multiple). In response to detecting a surge, a determination to mint may be timed, like paused, for a desired mint duration, like 24 hours. Thus, in response to detecting a surge, the next mint may be forcefully delayed until the desired minting period transpires after the last mint.
US12120185B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a method performed by a wireless device for performing Packet Data Convergence Protocol, PDCP, entity re-establishment. The wireless device is acting as a Packet Data Convergence Protocol, PDCP, receiving entity. The method comprises receiving (101) a request to perform PDCP entity re-establishment; responsive to the request, resetting (103) a header compression protocol by discarding any contexts associated with the header compression protocol, and refraining (105) from transmitting feedback associated with the header compression protocol to a PDCP transmitting entity.
US12120182B2
Systems and methods for modulating content to effect state change are described. A state control system initiates a process for modulating output objects to effect one or more changes in a state profile associated with a user device. The system queries for historical data associated with the user device; determines whether any historical data is identified for user device and in response to determining that historical data is found predicts a current state profile associated with the user device. The system further collects real-time sensor data associated with user device; filters and normalizes the sensor data; and delivers a plurality of output objects to the user device or secondary device(s) based on real-time sensor data.
US12120176B2
A control method includes: receiving transaction data that includes (i) peer information used for connecting a first peer among peers in a P2P system to another peer among the peers and (ii) a signature added to the peer information by the first peer; verifying the received transaction data using the signature included in the transaction data; and storing the transaction data into the distributed ledger when the verifying is successful.
US12120174B1
Methods and systems for managing pods and containers that provide computer implemented services are disclosed. The pods and containers may be managed to improve efficiency of resource use and reduce exposure to threats to operation of systems that host the pods and containers. To ascertain how to manage the pods and containers, the pods and containers may be monitored and analyzed. The results of the monitoring and analyzation may be used to select how to change the pods and containers over time.
US12120171B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for network communication. A computing device may store status information. The status information may be communicated using a first protocol. The status information may indicate data is available. The data may be communicated using a second protocol.
US12120166B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media are directed in various embodiments for providing multiuser sessions for coordinated electronic transactions. A technical solution is directed to coordinating the electronic transactions across a plurality of instances, where the underlying users of the instances can include at least two users. Access to sensitive information can be restricted using a trusted execution environment and access can be given in accordance with the coordinated electronic transactions.
US12120163B2
A method for managing time hops when playing back a multimedia content item received by a playback device via a communication network. The method includes obtaining a plurality of broadcast channels for the same content item, the respective broadcast times being spaced in time, wherein, during rendering of the content item via a channel, called first channel, receipt of a time hop command for a time hop in the content item brings about: a step of selecting a second broadcast channel, different from the first broadcast channel; and during a hop, a step of rendering images broadcast on broadcast channels belonging to the plurality of broadcast channels.
US12120150B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes for probabilistically identifying anomalous levels of honeypot activity. A honeypot dataset associated with a honeypot network is received and a representative usage value is determined from the honeypot dataset. The representative usage value is identified as being associated with anomalous behavior if the representative usage value deviates from an expected probability distribution. A remediation operation is initiated in the honeypot network in response to the identification of the representative usage value as being associated with the anomalous behavior by virtue of the representative usage value deviating from the expected probability distribution.
US12120137B2
A generation apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to aggregate a plurality of traffic data for every predetermined target, sample target traffic data in which a number of traffic data aggregated exceeds a threshold, and generate a feature vector representing a feature of aggregated traffic data for a target that is not sampled, and generate a feature vector representing a feature of sampled traffic data for the target sampled.
US12120135B2
An automated method for detecting anomalous activity in a private computer network comprises: collecting, over a current time period at an ingesting network device of the computer network, non-routable network packets routed to the ingesting network device from other network devices of the computer network; parsing the current collected network packets into corresponding current network flow records each including a source field and a destination field representing a non-routable network address; and for each distinct source identified in the source fields of the current network flow records: aggregating the current network flow records of that source into a current aggregated flow record; analyzing the current aggregated flow record using an anomaly detection module trained through machine learning on previous aggregated flow records of that source from previous time periods in order to detect anomalous activity in that source; and acting in response to detecting the anomalous activity in that source.
US12120125B2
Secure sharing of a document on a co-browse session is implemented by causing a JavaScript implemented document viewer to create HTML5 description of a rendered view of a document's content, and transmitting the HTML5 description of the rendered view of the document content as a DOM elements on the co-browse session. The rendered view of the document is overlayed on the web page being co-browsed, which enables the participants to the co-browse session to collaboratively view the rendered view of the document. However, since the document itself only resides in the visitor's browser, the document itself is not transmitted on the co-browse session. Media URLs can also be shared, and the participants' views of the audio/video media is synchronized by causing the video to play locally at each participant but synchronized with the visitor. Live video of the participants to the co-browse session is also implemented.
US12120123B2
One or more embodiments of the disclosure include systems and methods that generate and utilize digital visual codes. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods generate digital visual codes comprising a plurality of digital visual code points arranged in concentric circles, a plurality of anchor points, and an orientation anchor surrounding a digital media item. In addition, the disclosed systems and methods embed information in the digital visual code points regarding an account of a first user of a networking system. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods display the digital visual codes via a computing device of the first user, scan the digital visual codes via a second computing device, and provide privileges to the second computing device in relation to the account of the first user in the networking system based on the scanned digital visual code.
US12120118B1
A webview associated with a third-party system is provided in an application context associated with an entity. It is determined that a user has been authenticated by the third-party system based on data comprising a page displayed via the provided webview. In response to a determination that the user has been authenticated by the third-party system, one or more tasks to perform a function with the third-party system on behalf of the entity are automated.
US12120114B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving the accuracy of authentication questions using e-mail processing. A request for access to an account may be received from a user device. A plurality of organizations may be identified. One or more e-mail associated with the account may be identified. The e-mails may be processed to identify one or more organizations that correspond to transactions conducted by a user. A modified plurality of organizations may be generated by removing, from the plurality of organizations, the one or more organizations. An authentication question may be generated and provided to the user device. A response to the authentication question may be received, and the user device may be provided access based on the response.
US12120107B2
A method and system may allow for authenticating a computing device. A computing device may send an authentication request over a network to an authentication computing device. The authentication request may include a user name and a password. The user name may include a credential and the password may be a digitally signed version of the user name. The authentication computing device may authenticate the requesting computing device by decrypting the password and comparing the received user name to the decrypted password.
US12120106B1
An indication of a first selection of one or more authentication code elements from a first authentication code elements is received from a first user device corresponding to a first user account associated with a collaboration platform. An indication of a second selection of one or more authentication code elements from a second authentication code elements is received from a second user device corresponding to a second user account associated with the collaboration platform. A determination is made that the first selection of authentication code elements matches the second selection of authentication code elements. Responsive to determining that the first selection of authentication code elements matches the second selection of authentication code elements, a trusted relationship between the first user account and the second user account is established via the collaboration platform.
US12120105B2
Provided is a method, performed by an electronic device, of managing keys for accessing a plurality of services. The method includes transmitting, by a secure domain (SD) in a secure area of the electronic device, a certificate of the SD to a plurality of service providers (SPs); receiving, by an application installed in the electronic device, a certificate of each of the plurality of SPs from the plurality of SPs; receiving, by the application, first signed data from a first SP among the plurality of SPs; authenticating, by the application, the first signed data by using a certificate of the first SP received from the first SP and obtaining an encrypted key of the first SP from the first signed data; decrypting, by the SD, the encrypted key of the first SP by using a private key of the SD; and storing the decrypted key of the first SP in a first instance corresponding to the first SP among a plurality of instances of the SD.
US12120096B2
A steganographic communication system and method are provided. A covert packet generator can embed a stream of covert data as covert data symbols within primary I/Q symbols of a primary data stream in a covert packet. The covert packet has a data structure having a header, a payload, and a payload error detecting code. The header includes information on how to demodulate the covert packet by a receiver. The covert packet generator can also determine if a number of primary I/Q symbols is large enough to generate the header and can generate displacements in the primary I/Q symbols in a constellation diagram randomly in a plurality of transmissions to mimic channel noise. A transmitter and receiver can provide mutual authentication for covert transmissions.
US12120095B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to deploying and utilizing a dynamic data stenciling system with a smart linking engine. A computing platform may receive source data from one or more data source systems. Subsequently, the computing platform may identify a target application hosted by an enterprise application host platform as being an intended recipient of a portion of the source data. Then, the computing platform may select a dynamic data stencil from a plurality of available data stencils. Thereafter, the computing platform may overlay the portion of the source data onto the target application using the dynamic data stencil. In addition, by overlaying the portion of the source data onto the target application using the dynamic data stencil, the computing platform may cause the target application to execute one or more data processing functions using the portion of the source data received from the one or more data source systems.
US12120088B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for deploying network elements for a set of machines in a set of one or more datacenters. The datacenter set is part of one availability zone in some embodiments. The method receives intent-based API (Application Programming Interface) requests, and parses these API requests to identify a set of network elements to connect and/or perform services for the set of machines. In some embodiments, the API is a hierarchical document that can specify multiple different compute and/or network elements at different levels of compute and/or network element hierarchy. The method performs automated processes to define a virtual private cloud (VPC) to connect the set of machines to a logical network that segregates the set of machines from other machines in the datacenter set. In some embodiments, the set of machines include virtual machines and containers, the VPC is defined with a supervisor cluster namespace, and the API requests are provided as YAML files.
US12120086B2
A provider network implements service discovery and renaming. A provider network includes a domain name service (DNS) and a renaming tool. The DNS receives queries for service names and sends query logs to a data store. Each query log indicates the queried name and a network address (e.g., IP address). A user may request that the service be renamed to a new name. In response, the renaming tool adds a new entry to for the new name to the DNS. The renaming tool retrieves data from the query logs and identifies clients of the service. The renaming tool sends a notification to the identified clients that the name has changed to the new name. The renaming manger retrieves additional data from the query logs to identify how many of the clients have switched to using the new name. After enough clients have switched, the old name may be decommissioned.
US12120085B1
Systems and methods provide quality analysis related to member service representatives and interactions communicating with users over social media networks. The systems and methods can generate an interaction quality score between a member services representative and a user of a social media network by aggregating a tone score and an execution score based on the interaction data.
US12120081B2
Provided is a method performed in a terminal for processing an interest message. The method includes receiving a message from a message server after a login event for a user of the terminal occurs, wherein the login event is related to a message service provided by the message server; storing, in response to determining that the received message corresponds to an interest message of the user, the received message in a local storage of the terminal; receiving a search request for the interest message of the user; and searching and providing the interest message of the user through the local storage of the terminal in response to the search request.
US12120077B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to proxying at least one email resource from at least one email service to at least one client device, determining whether the email resources are accessible to the client devices via at least one unauthorized application on the client devices, and modifying the email resources to be inaccessible via the unauthorized applications on the client devices in response to a determination that the email resources are accessible via the unauthorized applications on the client devices.
US12120076B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosure provides a novel, computerized framework for automatically identifying and recommending socially-engaging photos to their creators for sharing. Execution of the disclosed systems and methods turns a tedious manual chore into an automated, software-driven process. The disclosed systems and methods utilizes a novel, computerized learn-to-rank (LTR) algorithm for identifying the most engaging, socially driven photos by: (a) grouping near-duplicate photos; (b) selecting a representative photo for sharing per group; and (c) ranking of the groups by their likelihood to contain a “shareable” photo.
US12120068B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond the 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, security- and safety-related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication and IoT-related technologies. The present invention provides an apparatus and a method for supporting a full duplex operation in a wireless communication system.
US12120059B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a radio node in a Radio Access Network, the method including communicating utilizing frequency resources based on allocation information received in a message, the message having an allocation information structure containing the allocation information.
US12120056B2
A method for a primary wireless transmitter is disclosed. The primary wireless transmitter is configured to participate in transmission to a wireless receiver using spatial multiplexing in coordination with one or more secondary wireless transmitters. The method comprises assigning—from a collection of available channel sounding resources—respective channel sounding resources to the primary wireless transmitter and to the one or more secondary wireless transmitters, wherein each available channel sounding resource is assigned to at most one of the wireless transmitters. Each assigned respective channel sounding resource is for transmission of a respective non-spatial-multiplexed first channel sounding signal, and the first channel sounding signals are for phase tracking of signals transmitted by the primary wireless transmitter and/or for phase tracking of signals transmitted by the one or more secondary wireless transmitters. The method also comprises transmitting, to the one or more secondary wireless transmitters, information indicative of the respective channel sounding resources assigned to the one or more secondary wireless transmitters. Methods for the secondary wireless transmitters and the wireless receiver are also disclosed, as well as corresponding apparatuses, transmitter, receiver, access point, user station, control node, and computer program product.
US12120055B2
There is disclosed a method of operating a network node (100) in a radio access network, the method comprising transmitting signaling in a transmission timing structure, the signaling comprising demodulation reference signaling (DMRS), wherein the DMRS is transmitted on symbols of the transmission timing structure based on a DMRS pattern, the DMRS pattern being based on a pattern configuration indication set. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.
US12120041B2
A network management system may allocate different amounts of bandwidth to different types of data traffic. The traffic types may be distinguished by their source device address, and whether the source device is part of, or external to, a first network. Packets may also be marked by their sender with information to identify a traffic type, and the marking may be used to determine the packet's treatment. The allocations given to the various types of traffic may be dynamically modified with changing traffic demands and conditions.
US12120026B2
In an integrated access backhaul (IAB) network, a third network node sends quality of service (QOS) mapping information to a first network node to configure an internet protocol (IP) header for a packet based on a traffic type and to transmit the packet. The third network node sends a mapping configuration to a second network node to map information in the IP header for the packet received in a first routing path from the first network node to a second routing path. The first network node receives the QoS mapping information and generates a packet associated with the traffic type and including an IP header, which is configured based on the received QoS mapping information. The first network node transmits the packet for routing to the second network node.
US12120024B2
A method for a virtual network of a mobile device includes, for the mobile device executing a user application and simultaneously connected to a first wireless network and a second wireless network, selecting a remote server from a plurality of remote servers. The method also includes establishing the virtual network between the mobile device and the selected remote server. The virtual network includes at least one tunnel between the mobile device and the selected remote server over the first wireless network and the second wireless network. The method also includes transmitting data from the user application to the selected remote server over the virtual network. The data, when received by the selected remote server, causes the selected remote server to route the data to a destination server.
US12120023B2
A bit index explicit replication (BIER) operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM) detection method includes a bit forwarding ingress router (BFIR) obtaining a detection request packet based on a first BIER OAM packet, and sending the detection request packet to at least one bit forwarding egress router BFER. The detection request packet includes a first packet and a first packet header. The first packet is a packet obtained by encapsulating the first BIER OAM packet. The first packet header includes a bit string, and the bit string indicates the at least one bit forwarding egress router BFER that is to be measured.
US12120020B2
A network device may receive RSVP path request messages from an upstream ingress network device, and may generate an RSVP path error message, with an overload error code and a timeout period, after the network device is online within the configured timeout period. The network device may provide the RSVP path error message to the ingress network devices to cause the ingress network devices to wait for expiration of the timeout period, after the network device is fully online, until resending the RSVP path request messages. The network device may receive new RSVP path request messages from the ingress network devices after expiration of the timeout period after the network device is fully online, and may establish, based on the new RSVP path request messages, label-switched paths from the ingress network devices.
US12120006B2
A service device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a new radio NB (gNB), or other network component or network management component) as a service provider or a service consumer can process or generate performance data streaming in response to a request to create a performance data stream. Information overhead related to the performance data stream can be provided that enables use of the performance data stream in and through data stream units to support performance measurement collection activities.
US12120004B2
Methods and apparatus to determine main pages from network traffic are disclosed. A disclosed example non-transitory computer readable medium includes instructions which, when executed, cause at least one processor to determine patterns of uniform resource identifiers (URIs) with corresponding main pages, parse data from network traffic, identify at least one of the main pages from the data based on the patterns, and provide the identified at least one of the main pages for crediting thereof.
US12119999B2
A routing protocol method for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks (UASNs) based on layering and source location privacy (SLP) is provided. (1) A proxy area is selected randomly by a source node. (2) A packet is delivered from the source node to the proxy area through a forwarding probability-based multipath routing algorithm, and a layer-based priority is given to candidate neighbor nodes to alleviate a long detour problem. (3) A proxy node in the proxy area is selected randomly. (4) The packet is delivered from the proxy node to a sink node through the forwarding probability-based multipath routing algorithm. (5) Steps (1) to (4) are repeated until the source node is changed or an adversary finds a position of the source node.
US12119996B2
An example system including a vehicle having a multi-zone network comprising a plurality of network zones, each one of the network zones comprising at least one zone manager; a network monitoring controller, including a network layout circuit structured to interpret a zoned architecture communication scheme and a network layout for the vehicle; a network characterization circuit structured to interpret network activity for the vehicle, and to determine a network performance event in response to the network activity; and a network reaction circuit structured to perform a network event action in response to the network performance event.
US12119995B2
A network management device according to an embodiment includes: a path selection processing unit configured to perform path selection processing of selecting a path of a physical layer between a start point and an end point of a network based on a first entity stored in a first storage device configured to store the first entity, the first entity representing an entity of an information object of the network; and an entity generation processing unit configured to perform entity generation processing of generating a second entity of a logical layer corresponding to the path of the physical layer selected by the path selection processing unit based on a specification of the information object stored in a second storage device configured to store the specification.
