US12125029B2
A method, system, and non-transitory storage medium with instructions that implement a method to receive an electronic payment; select a selected payee's address from an address array, the address array storing a plurality of addresses of different payees in a plurality of locations in the address array, each different payee being entitled to a share of the payment; and transmit the payment in its entirety to the selected payee via the selected payee's address. The payee address selection may include stepping through a linearly populated address array, stepping through a randomly populated address array, or randomly selecting the address in the address array.
US12125024B2
Methods and systems for provisioning a secure element of a digital device with financial credentials of a consumer are disclosed. In an embodiment, an external entity computer receives from one of a merchant computer or a manufacturer computer, a consumer order for a digital device that includes a secure element (SE). The external entity computer then obtains, based on the digital device information setup data of a digital device which fulfills the order, and transmits a financial account provisioning request including the setup data and the consumer account information to a token service provider (TSP) computer. The process also includes the external entity computer receiving provisioning data including a personalization script which includes financial account token credentials of the consumer from the TSP computer, and then personalizes the ordered digital device with the financial account token credentials.
US12125023B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for conducting encrypted payment transactions. In some embodiments, a payment device may send account credentials for a digital wallet to a wallet provider computer, and receive encrypted payment data from the wallet provider computer in response. The payment device may then send a request to initiate a transaction to a transaction processor computer (e.g., a merchant computer or a merchant processor computer), the request to initiate the transaction including the encrypted payment data. The transaction processor computer can then decrypt the encrypted payment data and conduct the transaction.
US12125019B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication module, at least one processor, and a memory configured to be operatively coupled to the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores instructions configured to, when executed, cause the at least one processor to identify information on a first country in which the electronic device is located through the communication module, perform payment based on a first authentication method corresponding to the identified information on the first country in response to a first payment application execution request, and change the first authentication method to a second authentication method corresponding to information on a second country in response to detection of a change from the first country to the second country through the communication module.
US12125016B2
A method including: receiving, from a sender, a group message directed toward the transfer facilitator and a recipient; identifying the sender and a payment account associated with the sender; parsing the group message to identify contact information for the recipient and instructions for a transfer request; contacting, using a private message and the parsed contact information, the recipient with instructions for receiving a payment from the sender; receiving, from the recipient, payment reception information including at least one of the recipient account or a payment method; and initiating, in accordance with the instructions for the transfer request, a fund transfer from the sender to the recipient from the identified payment account associated with the sender and the received payment reception information.
US12125015B2
A transaction card is provided for communicating with a computing device. The transaction card may comprise a computer interface device, at least one memory, at least one processor, and a card reader module. The card reader module configured to receive, from the computing device through the computer interface device, a first data packet comprising a request associated with a transaction, the first data packet being compatible with an interface protocol. The card reader module may process the first data packet to generate a second data packet compatible with the payment authentication protocol; provide the second data packet to the processor; receive, from the processor, a third data packet comprising a response to the request; process the third data packet to generate a fourth data packet based on the response, the fourth data packet compatible with the interface protocol; and transmit, to the computer interface device, the fourth data packet.
US12125010B2
A method comprises: displaying a first code snippet from a first code in a first panel; displaying an annotation related to the first code snippet in a second panel; receiving a code customization request; customizing the first code snippet in response to the request; displaying a preview of executing the code having the customized first code snippet in a preview window; inserting and running the code having the customized first code snippet in an application; and completing a transaction with the application running the first code with the customized first code snippet.
US12124994B2
System and methods for enhancing user productivity by integrating multiple services and providing a centralized output to a user is disclosed. A message notification server may receive store a set of notification rules and, as various notifications are received, the server may dynamically monitor them for processing to users. The system may automatically re-rank the notifications based on changed conditions or to present messages of greatest urgency or importance. The system may also store sender-specific sets of rules, governing how notifications are to be handled for different application servers or services.
US12124989B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a visual indicator for a package based on a delivery address for the package and a location of the delivery address along a delivery route. An optimized delivery route may be created for packages to be delivered at a given time. At the fulfillment center, a delivery system may label a package prior to loading the package on a delivery vehicle. The delivery system may determine the appropriate visual indicator (e.g., color and/or pattern) or the visual indicator may be randomly selected. The delivery system may generate a label having the visual indicator. The package may be deposited into a certain bin with other packages having a delivery address in close proximity. The delivery system may generate a user interface on a user device that indicates that the package has a certain visual indicator to facilitate sorting and identification of the package.
US12124988B2
An average weight calculation and shipment management system of edible poultry includes: a weight measurement device that is installed in a poultry house and measures in real time a weight of edible poultry by using a load cell; a weight and shipment prediction server that receives weight data measured in real time from the weight measurement device, derives an average weight of the edible poultry, and predicts a shipping date by using the derived average weight; and a monitoring unit that is provided with the average weight and the predicted shipping date derived from the weight and shipment prediction server. The weight and shipment prediction server collects a large number of the weight data and densifies the large number of collected weight data to derive an average weight of the edible poultry, and predicts the shipping date by using the derived average weight.
US12124986B2
A fine-grain analytics engine and a report/notification interface are provided. The fine-grain analytics engine is configured to be customized configured for fine-grain projections and metrics generation for operations of an enterprise. The report/notification interface provides an Application Programming Interface (API) and an interactive graphical display interface for reporting and integrating the projections and metrics generated by the fine-grain analytics engine into enterprise services and enterprise devices.
US12124982B2
An initial transaction is generated representing a forecasted demand for material needed to manufacture equipment via a supply chain. The initial transaction is added to a blockchain for access by entities in the supply chain comprising at least a subset of one or more supply entities, one or more material distribution entities, and one or more manufacturing entities. In one or more examples, the steps may be performed by an OEM blockchain node that accesses any transactions added by the various entities on the blockchain node and limits access to transactions on the blockchain by the various entities. Further, the initial transaction may be a main transaction and a transaction representing a commitment by one of the supply entities may be a sub-transaction of the main transaction, and the sub-transaction is closed in the blockchain upon the request for payment for the committed material or payment of the request.
US12124981B2
Compliance inspection system and method. The compliance inspection system includes an interface for at least communicating an inspection assignment to an inspector, wherein the inspection assignment includes an inspection location indicting where an inspection is to occur and for receiving location data related to the inspector. The compliance inspection system also includes a processor executing instructions stored on a memory to analyze the received location data related to the inspector, verify the inspector is at the inspection location based on the analysis of the received location data, and receive inspection documentation related to the inspection from the inspector.
US12124979B2
A machine-learning ecosystem includes a correlation module for building at least one prediction model based on at least one data input including at least one input parameter and at least one output parameter, the prediction model relating the output parameter to the input parameter. The correlation module performs at least one threshold check on the prediction model to assess the robustness of the prediction model. The ecosystem further includes a decision module communicatively coupled to the correlation module and receiving the prediction model from the correlation module. Based on a verification check at the decision module, a confirmation, a deferral, or a rejection of the prediction model is sent from the decision module to the correlation module.
US12124976B2
Implementations of various methods and systems of a network, GPS system, mobile computing devices, servers, forward commodity exchanges, grouping software for hubs, transparent open access pricing systems, blockchain audit and safety methods and systems, virtual hub systems, algorithm methods for no arbitrage conditions in a simple easy to use graphical user interface format for mobile or virtual computing over various mediums which are connected via a network to transact and trade transportation seats or capacity units in airline transport, subway transport, train transport, automobile transport, autonomous vehicle transport, taxi transport, space transport, virtual transport, underground transport, ship or sea transport, public transport, private transport or drone transport on a computer, mobile computer device, virtual reality computer device or mixed reality computing device.
US12124968B2
A system for automated information support processing is disclosed. The system may receive a natural language information support request from a plain text input channel. The system may determine a first user intent based on the information support request. The system may compare the first user intent with a set of support rules. The system may determine a dispositioned outcome based on the set of support rules and the user intent. The system may return the dispositioned outcome.
US12124965B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for optimizing a result for a combinatorial optimization problem. The method includes one or more processors receiving a black-box model. The method further includes one or more processors learning a multilinear polynomial surrogate model employing an exponential weight update rule. The method further includes one or more processors optimizing the learnt multilinear polynomial surrogate model. The method further includes one or more processors applying the black-box model to the optimized solution found by the multilinear polynomial surrogate model. In an additional aspect, the method of learning an optimized multilinear polynomial surrogate model employing an exponential weight update rule further includes one or more processors calculating utilizing data from the black-box model, an update of the coefficients of the multilinear polynomial surrogate model.
US12124964B2
Disclosed is a method for updating a node model that resists discrimination propagation in federated learning. The method includes: obtaining a node model corresponding to a data node; calculating a mean value of the distribution of class features and a quantity ratio corresponding to training data of the data node, calculating a distribution weighted aggregation model based on the node model, the mean value of the distribution of class features and the quantity ratio; calculating a regularization term corresponding to the data node based on the node model and the distribution weighted aggregation model; calculating a variance of the distribution of the class features corresponding to the data node, calculating a class balanced complementary term by using a cross-domain feature generator; and updating the node model based on the distribution weighted aggregation model, the regularization term, and the class balanced complementary term.
US12124960B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a learning apparatus and a learning method capable of appropriately learning pieces of data that belong to the same category and are acquired under different conditions. In a learning apparatus according a first aspect of the present invention, first data and second data are respectively input to a first input layer and a second input layer that are independent of each other, and feature quantities are calculated. Thus, the feature quantity calculation in one of the first and second input layers is not affected by the feature quantity calculation in the other input layer. In addition to feature extraction performed in the input layers, each of a first intermediate feature quantity calculation process and a second intermediate feature quantity calculation process is performed at least once in an intermediate layer that is shared by the first and second input layers. Thus, the feature quantities calculated from the first data and the second data in the respective input layers can be reflected in the intermediate feature quantity calculation in the intermediate layer. Consequently, pieces of data that belong to the same category and are acquired under different conditions can be appropriately learned.
US12124959B2
The present disclosure relates to a method comprising providing a set of one or more records, each record of the set of records having a set of one or more attributes. Values of the set of attributes of the set of records may be input to a trained data representation learning model for receiving, as an output of the trained data representation model, a set of feature vectors representing the set of records respectively. The set of feature vectors may be stored.
US12124958B2
A computer-implemented method for enforcing an idempotent-constrained characteristic during training of a neural network may be provided. The method comprises training of a neural network by minimizing a loss function, wherein the loss function comprises an additional term imposing an idempotence-based regularization to the neural network during the training.
US12124957B2
Provided are an apparatus and method of compressing an artificial neural network. According to the method and the apparatus, an optimal compression rate and an optimal operation accuracy are determined by compressing an artificial neural network, determining a task accuracy of a compressed artificial neural network, and automatically calculating a compression rate and a compression ratio based on the determined task accuracy. The method includes obtaining an initial value of a task accuracy for a task processed by the artificial neural network, compressing the artificial neural network by adjusting weights of connections among layers of the artificial neural network included in information regarding the connections, determining a compression rate for the compressed artificial neural network based on the initial value of the task accuracy and a task accuracy of the compressed artificial neural network, and re-compressing the compressed artificial neural network according to the compression rate.
US12124953B2
A live model of a deep learning algorithm may be used to generate predictions of features of interest in an instance of training data. If the predictions correspond to actual features of interest, the predictions may be converted to qualitative labels, the instance may be designated as being acceptably labeled, and the live model may be trained on all instances of training data designated as acceptably labeled to update the live model. If the predictions do not correspond, a repetitive process of applying qualitative labels to features of interest in the instance of training data, quantitatively training on the qualitatively labeled instance of training data and all instances of training data designated as acceptably labeled, and generating predictions of features of interest until the predictions correspond to the actual features of interest.
US12124952B2
A method is described, for processing images of persons or objects to generate an identity preservative feature descriptor learnt for each person or object. The method includes obtaining an image of a person or object, extracting at least one spatial attribute of the person or object from the obtained image, and extracting at least one appearance feature of the person or object from the image by using a mapping function to translate image pixels into appearance attributes represented by at least one numerical feature. The method also includes combining the at least one spatial attribute and the at least one appearance feature to generate the unique feature descriptor representing the person or the object, to assign the unique feature descriptor to the image to enable feature descriptors representing the same person or object to be compared to feature descriptors representing different people or objects given a predefined mathematical pseudo-distance metric according to a least a distance from each other.
US12124950B2
An optimization method comprises determining jump ratios of embedding layer parameters of a trained quantization model in a predetermined time range. The quantization model comprises a neural network model obtained after quantization processing on the embedding layer parameters. The method also comprises determining a jump curve in the predetermined time range according to the jump ratios, and fitting the jump curve to obtain a corresponding time scaling parameter. The method also comprises optimizing an initial algorithm of the quantization model based on the time scaling parameter to obtain an optimized target optimization algorithm, and training the quantization model based on the target optimization algorithm.
US12124947B2
Provided are systems for determining adversarial examples that include at least one processor to determine a first additional input from a plurality of additional inputs based on a proximity of the first additional input to an initial input, determine a second additional input from the plurality of additional inputs based on a proximity of the second additional input to the first additional input, generate a first vector embedding, a second vector embedding and a third vector embedding based on the second additional input, generate a first relational embedding, a second relational embedding, and a third relational embedding based on the third vector embedding and the first vector embedding, concatenate the first relational embedding, the second relational embedding, and the third relational embedding to provide a concatenated version, and determine whether the first input is an adversarial example based on the concatenated version. Methods and computer program products are also provided.
US12124940B2
The application provides an operation method and device. Quantized data is looked up to realize an operation, which simplifies the structure and reduces the computation energy consumption of the data, meanwhile, a plurality of operations are realized.
US12124939B1
Some embodiments provide a method for generating neural network program instructions for a neural network inference circuit to execute a neural network. The neural network inference circuit includes a particular amount of available memory. The method receives a specification of the neural network including multiple layers. The method determines (i) a required amount of weight memory for the neural network and (ii) required amounts of activation memory for each of a set of layers of the neural network. When the required amount of weight memory and the required amount of activation memory for at least one layer is greater than the particular amount of available memory, the method generates the program instructions for the neural network inference circuit to execute a first set of the layers of the neural network multiple times for different blocks of input data and execute a second set of the layers in a single pass.
US12124937B2
An apparatus, method and computer program is described including initialising trainable parameters of a receiver of a transmission system, wherein the receiver includes a demodulation module for demodulating received symbols, a quantization module for generating quantized versions of the demodulated symbols and a decoder for generating a decoded output derived from the quantized versions of the demodulated symbols, wherein the demodulation module has at least some trainable weights and the quantization module has at least some trainable weights; receiving a first training sequence of messages at the receiver; obtaining or generating a loss function; and updating at least some of the trainable parameters of receiver based on the loss function, wherein updating at least some of the trainable parameters of receiver includes updating at least some of the trainable weights of the demodulation module and updating at least some of the trainable weights of the quantization module.
US12124935B2
A computer-implemented method, performed in a neural processing system comprising control processor circuitry and arithmetic logic circuitry, of performing a convolution between an input feature map (IFM) and convolutional filter data, resulting in an output feature map (OFM). The method includes, obtaining in the control processor circuitry, dimensional characteristic parameters relating to dimensions of input work batch data arrays and positional characteristic parameters relating to positions of feature map content within the input work batches. The method also includes, in the arithmetic logic circuitry, performing convolutions between the input work batches, generated from the IFM based on the dimensional characteristic parameters and the positional characteristic parameters, and work batch filter data arrays corresponding to the filter to produce a plurality of output work batch data arrays. The plurality of output work batches are combined to generate an OFM.
US12124928B2
Disclosed are a machine model update method and apparatus, a medium, and a device. The method includes: obtaining first hard example samples of a machine model and attribute information of the first hard example samples; determining category-based data distribution information of the first hard example samples according to the attribute information of the first hard example samples; determining second hard example samples of the machine model in current machine learning according to learning requirement information of the machine model for categories of the first hard example samples and the data distribution information; performing, according to learning operation information corresponding to the machine model, a learning operation on the machine model by using the second hard example samples; and updating the machine model based on a learning result of the machine model. The present disclosure helps efficiently implement a machine learning lifecycle, and reduce the cost of machine learning lifecycle.
US12124920B2
Provided herein are new devices for indicating the status of events, such as the number of relevant events that are remaining and/or that have already occurred up to the present moment and to related devices, systems, and methods. In some aspects, the event-related indicator devices of the invention are used within larger dispensing devices or systems, e.g., to provide the status of administration of a substance contained therein (e.g., a drug). In an exemplary embodiment, the indicator devices find particular utility within medicament dispensers, such as metered dose inhalers, to provide a visual indication of the status of doses having been or remaining to be administered.
US12124913B2
Portable RFID device (300), usable in an access and/or presence control system, comprising a radio frequency transmitter module (305) connected to an accelerometer (315) that is configured to detect movements of the portable RFID device (300), wherein the portable RFID device (300) is configured to be powered by a battery (325), wherein the accelerometer (315) is configured to send to the radio frequency transmitter module (305) a value of detected acceleration of the portable RFID device (300), and the radio frequency transmitter module (305) is configured to recognize when said value of detected acceleration is higher than a minimum threshold and, in this case, to activate for a transmission period a transmission of a radio frequency signal including an identification code.
US12124911B2
An RFID antenna device (10) for emitting and/or receiving circularly polarised electromagnetic radiation, comprising a radiator unit (12) which has a radiator network (14) with multiple at least partially curved radiator portions (16) and an auxiliary antenna (20) which is galvanically isolated from the radiator network (14) and is inductively or capacitively coupled to the radiator network (14), a supply network unit (22) having a power division portion (26) with a device port and having at least one delay portion (28) which is electrically conductively connected to the power division portion (26) and is electrically conductively connected to the radiator portions (16), wherein the auxiliary antenna (20) is centrally located between the radiator portions (16). Further, an RFID sensor device comprising such an RFID antenna device (10).
US12124910B2
A method for detecting receivers includes a step of detecting a receiver, in which step a general controller detects an adjustable receiver when a general antenna receives a secondary wave emitted by the adjustable receiver, followed by a reconfiguration step in which the general controller commands a controller of the detected adjustable receiver to switch to an interaction mode in which the impedance of the adjustable receiver is alternated between a first configuration impedance and a second configuration impedance in order to detect other receivers. The reconfiguration step is of a duration that is an order of magnitude higher than the duration of each alternation of the first and second configuration impedances.
US12124904B2
A wireless sensor device includes a flexible substrate, a cover layer on the flexible substrate, a device layer between the flexible substrate and the cover layer, and a printed circuit board connecting components of the device layer including an electrostatic discharge protected port for connecting an external sensor probe to the wireless sensor device. The device layer includes a processor, a memory, a battery, a first wireless communication system, and one or more onboard sensors; and a printed circuit board connecting components of the device layer comprising an electrostatic discharge protected port for connecting an external sensor probe to the wireless sensor device. The external probe allows for the wireless sensor device to perform sensor readings in environments that are too extreme or hostile to the wireless sensor device, while the wireless sensor device is safely isolated from the extreme or hostile environment.
US12124899B2
A printing apparatus management server manages a plurality of printing apparatuses, obtains, in response to a request from a voice device management server, information of a predetermined printing apparatus registered, from the plurality of printing apparatuses, as a printing apparatus to be used in the printing apparatus management server, transmits, to the voice device management server, the obtained information of the predetermined printing apparatus, obtains remaining amount information transmitted from the predetermined printing apparatus, and transmits the obtained remaining amount information to the consumable item management server. Voice notification to a user is performed, via a voice device configured to communicate with the voice device management server, based on the obtained remaining amount information, and processing for placing an order for the consumable item is performed based on a voice instruction from the user accepted by the voice device.
US12124895B2
This application sets forth techniques for browsing and accessing files stored by a storage solution. The technique includes the steps of (1) prior to receiving a command to open a file, operating in a user space and engaging a first pathway by (a) instantiating, by an application, a preview application; (b) constructing a file path associated with the file stored in the volume; (c) providing the file path to the preview application; (d) generating, by the preview application, preview data of the file; and (e) receiving, by the preview application, a request to open the file; and (2) in response to receiving the request to open the file, engaging a second pathway to retrieve the file from the volume by: (a) generating, by the preview application, a system call to open the file; and (b) transmitting the system call to a kernel process executing within a kernel space.
US12124894B2
Computer-readable media, methods, and systems are disclosed for copying tenant data within a cloud-based microservice architecture including a Kubernetes cluster. Copy tasks are generated for a plurality of microservices and progress of the copy tasks is monitored by updating one or more statuses associated with the copy tasks. One or more job files may be generated for each microservice including executable code for copying the tenant data within the microservice or within a data store associated with the respective microservice.
US12124881B2
This disclosure is directed to intelligent synchronization of computing users, and associated timing data, based on parameters or data received from computing systems connected via wireless, satellite, wire-based, optical-fiber based, etc., computing networks.
US12124877B2
A client-side system can include a service proxy that can receive a request to perform a computing operation from a web application that is executable in a web browser of the client-side system. The service proxy can determine if the computing operation is executable by a local execution module that is external to the web browser and local to the client-side system. The local execution module may be different from the web application and may be configured to execute one or more computing operations using computing resources local to the client-side system. If the computing operation is executable by a local execution module, the service proxy can transmit a communication to the local execution module for causing the local execution module to execute the computing operation.
US12124860B2
A method for driving in-system programming is provided. The method includes receiving a set of driving codes; setting an in-system-programming flag according to the set of driving codes; executing a system reset after the in-system-programming flag is set; detecting whether there is an in-system-programming flag after the system reset is finished; and executing an in-system-programming procedure when an in-system-programming flag is detected.
US12124856B2
During a computing system boot sequence, reference firmware provided by a computing system component supplies Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) code that generates ACPI tables and definition blocks to a bootloader. During a boot sequence, the reference firmware receives an indication from the bootloader which components the reference firmware is to initialize. As part of component initialization performed by the reference firmware, the reference firmware populates hand-off data structures (e.g., hand-off blocks (HOBs)) with ACPI code (AML code) that, when executed by the bootloader, generates and populates ACPI tables (e.g., DSDT and SSDT tables) and definition blocks with information pertinent to the initialization and runtime management of computing system components. Component initialization and runtime configuration workarounds can be implemented in the bootloader incorporating reference firmware updates provided by the component vendor.
US12124855B2
The present disclosure relates to a training method for a parameter configuration model, a parameter configuration method, and a parameter configuration device. The training method includes: obtaining a training sample set of a data processing device, wherein the training sample set includes operation parameters and benefit parameters in one-to-one correspondence with the operation parameters, the operation parameter includes at least one of a global operation parameter or a local operation parameter associated with position distribution, the benefit parameter is configured to reflect a ratio of power consumption to computing power of the data processing device; training the parameter configuration model based on the training sample set, wherein the operation parameter is configured as an input of the parameter configuration model, and the benefit parameter is configured as an output of the parameter configuration model; and in a case that a training accuracy of the parameter configuration model is greater than or equal to a first preset accuracy, ending the training and obtaining a trained parameter configuration model.
US12124850B2
Our machine architecture and machine procedures use robustness, unpredictably and variability to hinder malware infection. In some embodiments, our machine instruction opcodes are randomized. The computing behavior of our machine is structurally stable (invariant) to small changes made to its machine instructions. Our invention expands the engineering method of stability to a cryptographically stable machine that is resistant to malware sabotage by an adversary. Our procedures use quantum randomness to build unpredictable stable instructions. Our machine procedures can execute just before running a program so that the computing task can be performed with a different representation of its instructions during each run. A process of hiding a key or data inside of random noise is described that protects the privacy of the machine instruction opcodes and operands. In some embodiments, quantum randomness generates random noise, using photonic emission with a light emitting diode.
US12124842B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for launching multiple software virtual appliances inside a single virtual environment. In one aspect, a method includes detecting a base image on which a plurality of virtual appliances are based, wherein each of the plurality of virtual appliances is configured to be launched in a separate virtual environment. The method includes preparing a virtual environment that is compatible with the base image. For each respective virtual appliance in the plurality of virtual appliances, the method includes calculating a differential between the base image and the respective virtual appliance, and including the differential in a patch file. The method includes applying the patch file to the base image to form a final appliance, and launching the final appliance in the virtual environment.
US12124841B2
A system and method for performing live firmware and configuration update. A method includes maintaining live operation of network nodes during an update, each of the network nodes including a disk that is divided into a plurality of partitions, a currently running application file is located in a first partition of the network node; and downloading an update file in a common partition of the disk of the network node to be updated. A method may include extracting the update file from the common partition to a second partition of the disc of the network nodes to be updated; and switching the live operation of the network nodes to operate from the currently running application file in the first partition to the update file in the second partition.
US12124838B2
Automatically updating agents from backup and restore applications is described. A system enables selection of application hosts which meet update requirements, then downloads an update for instances of an application agent corresponding to selected application hosts. The system puts selected application hosts in maintenance mode, which prevents selected application hosts from beginning execution of any operations, until updating selected application hosts is completed. The system initiates update sessions which install update in instances of application agent corresponding to selected application hosts. If update sessions did not fail to install update in any of instances of application agent in cluster of application hosts, then the system stores the updated instances of the application agents in a non-volatile storage.
US12124837B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to implement a delta data collection technique for collecting machine characteristics data from client machines. In embodiments, the collected data is used by a machine assessment service to maintain a virtual representation of the client machine for assessments. To initialize the collection process, the client uploads an initial copy of the data in full. Subsequently, the client determines periodic deltas between a current baseline of the data and a last reported baseline, and the deltas are uploaded as patches. The machine assessment service then applies these patches to update the virtual representation of the client machine. In embodiments, to facilitate the generation or uploading of the patches, the client may generate the baselines in a different encoding format as used by the data. For example, baselines in the new encoding format may be more easily compared and manipulated during the patch generation process.
US12124833B2
Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for managing offline identity upgrades are described. A memory system may receive a command to update a device identifier for a device identifier composition engine (DICE) associated with the memory system. The memory system may generate an updated device identifier, at a first software layer of a set of software layers of the DICE, based on receiving the command. The memory system may decrypt a device specific key (DSK) stored at a read-only memory device of the memory system based on the received command, and sign the updated device identifier using the DSK based on decrypting the DSK. The memory system may execute one or more operations associated with the first software layer of the set of software layers of the DICE based on the signed updated device identifier.
US12124824B2
In some embodiments, a method receives a definition that associates a compiler with a content type. The definition defines blocks that can be included in the content type. The method receives an input to create the content type on a platform. A compiler is selected from a plurality of compilers based on the compiler being associated with the content type in the definition. Compilers use different technologies to generate content, and the platform allows the plurality of compilers to be used. The method receives a model for creating content for the content type and processes the model using the compiler to create output for blocks in the model. The output for the blocks is rendered to display the content on a user interface.
US12124818B1
Methods and systems define an operational methodology for a relationship-based programming tool and use the operational methodology to operate the relationship-based programming tool.
US12124810B2
A text adjustment method includes: obtaining a to-be-processed text; determining whether to adjust the to-be-processed text according to the to-be-processed text and a context text of the to-be-processed text; in response to determining to adjust the to-be-processed text, determining adjustment character information and adjustment position information of the to-be-processed text according to the context text; and determining an adjusted to-be-processed text according to the adjustment character information and the adjustment position information.
US12124803B2
A method of generating an image for use in a conversation taking place in a messaging application is disclosed. Conversation input text is received from a user of a portable device that includes a display. Model input text is generated from the conversation input text, which is processed with a text-to-image model to generate an image based on the model input text. The generated image is displayed on the portable device, and user input is received to transmit the image to a remote recipient.
US12124800B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for a computerized framework that provides a document structure parsing system for requirement engineering documents, where the logical structure of the text is not available, and is to be rebuilt based on the raw textual content. The framework approaches the build of the logical structure according to two phases. The first phase involves creating a list of list of text snippets from the raw text, where sequence labeling is adopted to re-segment and merge initially segmented text snippets. The second phase involves the framework executing computerized techniques including embedding adaptation approach, a hierarchy structure rebuilt algorithm, and a requirement text selection strategy to rebuild the hierarchy structure.
US12124799B2
A system and method for advanced document redaction are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system comprises a parser that analyzes documents to identify structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from a document. A candidates generator generates a list of words for redaction from the structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. A replacement engine replaces one or more words from the list of words with one or more of a replacement word, random characters, and random numbers.
US12124792B2
A method, system and computer program product for workflow style governance includes creating a document and specifying a document style of the document—either a linear workflow style or a branched workflow style. Thereafter, in response to a subsequent request to load the document, the specified document style for the document may be retrieved and, on condition that the specified document style is a linear workflow style, a specified version of the document is retrieved into a document editor for editing as a new version of the document. But otherwise, on condition that the specified document style is a branched workflow style, different components of the document are retrieved as a composition of components, each of an independent version, and a selected one of the components of the composition of the components making up the document is then loaded into a component editor for editing as a new version.
US12124787B2
Disclosed are a system and method for automatically and systematically generating device-based design rules and corresponding device-based design rule checking (DRC) codes. In the system and method, design rules associated with specific devices are generated based on at least one table of related data (e.g., maturity status information, restriction status information, etc.) for different devices. Based on the design rules and on unique definitions for the specific devices, design rule checking (DRC) codes associated with the specific devices are generated. By using this approach, comprehensive and accurate device-based design rules and corresponding device-based DRC codes can be quickly generated to ensure acceptable product reliability and yield. Furthermore, processes used to generate the device-based DRC codes can be iteratively repeated (e.g., when the information used for generating the unique definitions of devices and/or generating the design rules changes) to update the device-based DRC codes and, thereby ensure DRC accuracy.
US12124766B2
Examples described herein involve networking in a media playback system. In one aspect, an access point may prevent two or more grouped playback devices from being steered to different networks. In another aspect, an access point may operate as a sleep proxy for a playback device. In a third aspect, an example system may include a fixture configured to receive a bulb. Example bulbs include sound bulbs with one or more audio transducers and access point bulbs, among other examples.
US12124764B2
Provided is a main terminal capable of entering the same virtual space as a sub terminal present in a visually-recognizable position in real space. The main terminal comprises: a sub-terminal detector acquiring a terminal identifier from each of the sub terminals; a sub-terminal selector selecting one of the sub terminals according to operator operation; a sub-terminal communicator acquiring, from the selected sub terminal, a server address of a virtual space server to which the selected sub terminal is logged in; and a server accessor logging in to the virtual space server with the acquired server address, and enters a same virtual space as the sub terminal. The server accessor preferably accesses a virtual space server located on an external network via a wide-area communication, a locally-placed virtual space server via a narrow-area communication, or a virtual space server installed in the sub terminal via a narrow-area communication.
US12124762B2
A first or second computer viewing a virtual canvas may be a host computer for a live source object requiring authorization between a host and a non-host computer by creating a live source window for the live source object requiring authorization (ARLSW) within the virtual canvas on the host computer, sending metadata information for the ARLSW to the non-host computer so that the ARLSW is at the same location on the virtual canvas for the first and second computers, and streaming the live source object requiring authorization to the ARLSW from the host computer to the non-host computer. When the host computer for the ARLSW leaves the virtual canvas and no other non-host computer for ARLSW in the canvas is known to have authorization to view the ARLSW, a placeholder screen is displayed in the ARLSW on the virtual canvas.
US12124741B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to memory module interfaces. A memory module, which may include volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, or both, may be configured to communicate with a host device via one interface and to communicate with another memory module using a different interface. Memory modules may thus be added or removed from a system without impacting a PCB-based bus to the host, and memory modules may communicate with one another without accessing a bus to the host. The host interface may be configured according to one protocol or standard, and other interfaces between memory modules may be configured according to other protocols or standards.
US12124739B2
A memory device includes an interface to communicate with a host, an array of memory cells, and a controller. The controller is configured to access the array of memory cells in response to commands from the host. The controller is further configured to enter an idle time in response to no commands from the host with queue empty, receive a first command from the host, and exit the idle time in response receiving a second command from the host. The controller is further configured to for a plurality of idle times, generate a history indicating a length of each idle time. The controller is further configured to predict the length of a subsequent idle time based on the history.
US12124738B2
Methods, systems, and devices for address verification at a memory system are described. A memory system may determine an address identifier based on a received read command and maintain the determined address identifier in a protected state to validate a subsequent read operation. For example, the memory system may store the determined address identifier in a first memory array, separate from a second memory array that is read from in response to the read command. The memory system may also extract an address identifier from memory cells being read in response to the read command, which may include decoding or other interpreting operations performed on information read from the memory cells. The address identifier extracted from the memory cells may be compared with the address identifier determined from the read command and maintained in the protected state, which may support a determination of how to respond to the read command.
US12124733B2
A memory system according to the present technology may include a plurality of memory devices including a plurality of blocks configured of memory cells and a memory controller configured to control the plurality of memory devices corresponding to a plurality of zones by configuring the plurality of zones with the plurality of blocks included in each of the plurality of memory devices, wherein the memory controller is further configured to: receive a write request from a host, determine a target zone indicated by the write request among the plurality of zones, and determine a logical address of the target zone on which a write operation is to be started based on a write pointer and an offset corresponding to the target zone.
US12124732B2
An information processing apparatus includes a main CPU storage area and a sub-CPU storage area. The information processing apparatus further includes an FPGA capable of processing access to the main CPU storage area by a main CPU and access to the sub-CPU storage area by a second CPU in parallel. The FPGA has an FPGA control unit that performs processing. The FPGA control unit is configured to read prescribed data from an SPI device to the main CPU storage area and the sub-CPU storage area, update the prescribed data of the sub-CPU storage area when receiving an updating request from the sub-CPU, and read the prescribed data of the main CPU storage area to the main CPU when receiving a reading request from the main CPU.
US12124728B2
A method of clearing of registers and logic designs with AND and OR logics to propagate the zero values provided to write enable signal buses upon the execution of clear instruction of more than one registers, allowing more than one architecturally visible registers to be cleared with one signal instruction regardless of the values of data buses.
US12124710B2
A method of writing data to a protected region in response to a request from a host includes receiving a first write request including a first host message authentication code and a first random number from the host, verifying the first write request based on a write count, the first random number, and the first host message authentication code, updating the write count based on a result of verifying the first write request, generating a first device message authentication code based on the updated write count and the first random number, and providing the host with a first response including the first device message authentication code and a result of the verifying of the first write request.
US12124709B2
The present application discloses a computing system and an associated method. The computing system includes a first host, a second host, a first memory extension device and a second memory extension device. The first host includes a first memory, and the second host includes a second memory. The first host has a plurality of first memory addresses corresponding to a plurality of memory spaces of the first memory, and a plurality of second memory addresses corresponding to a plurality of memory spaces of the second memory. The first memory extension device is coupled to the first host. The second memory extension device is coupled to the second host and the first memory extension device. The first host accesses the plurality of memory spaces of the second memory through the first memory extension device and the second memory extension device.
US12124704B2
A storage device includes a memory die and a controller. The controller identifies a dirty block that was subject to an interrupted I/O operation and performs a coarse inspection of the dirty block. Each iteration of the coarse inspection includes: requesting first bytes of a current page of the dirty block; receiving contents of the first bytes from the at least one memory die; and evaluating a state of the current page based on the contents of the first bytes. The controller also determines an initial last good page based on the coarse inspection and performs a fine inspection of at least one page based on a second number of bytes greater than the first number of bytes. The fine inspection validates the initial last good page and identifies the initial last good page as an actual last good page of the dirty block.
US12124702B2
A semiconductor memory device including: first and second memory cells storing multi-bit data; a first word line coupled to the first memory cell; and a second word line connected to the second memory cell and adjacent to the first word line; wherein a period in which a first word line voltage for reading data stored in the first memory cell is applied includes: a first period in which a first voltage level is applied to read first bit data from the multi-bit data stored in the first memory cell; a second period having a second voltage level lower than the first voltage level; and a third period in which a third voltage level higher than the second voltage level is applied to read second bit data from the multi-bit data stored in the first memory cell, wherein in the second period, the second word line is in a floating state.
US12124700B2
Data may be loaded in a computing device from a non-volatile storage medium using files having a nested structure. An outer file metadata portion may be read from an outer file on the storage medium into RAM. The outer file may include the outer file metadata portion and an outer file data portion. The outer file data portion may then be read from the outer file on the storage medium into the RAM based on the outer file metadata portion. The outer file data portion may be an inner file. The inner file may include an inner file metadata portion and an inner file data portion. Then, the inner file metadata portion may be read from the inner file in the RAM. The inner file data portion may be read from the inner file in the RAM based on the inner file metadata portion.
US12124691B2
An electronic device displays a compass user interface with a direction indicator and a bearing indicator. The direction indicator provides an indication of a respective compass direction, wherein the appearance of the direction indicator is determined based on the orientation of the electronic device relative to the respective compass direction. The bearing indicator provides an indication of an offset from the respective compass direction. While displaying the bearing indicator, the electronic device detects rotation of the rotatable input mechanism and, in response, changes the displayed position of the bearing indicator from a first position to a second position by an amount that is determined in accordance with a magnitude of the rotation of the rotatable input mechanism.
US12124690B2
An electronic device includes a storage unit storing adjustment information whereby the amount of change in a predetermined direction, when an adjustment portion was moved to adjust a setting for a predetermined system by the user performing a touch operation, has been associated with an amount of adjustment for adjusting the setting for the predetermined system. A control unit determines whether or not the user's touch operation has passed through a region in a predetermined amount of time, and calculates the amount of change in the predetermined direction based on the touch operation when it has been determined that the touch operation has passed through the region within the predetermined amount of time, determines the amount of adjustment corresponding to the calculated amount of change based on the adjustment information, and issues an instruction to the predetermined system to set a setting value based on the determined amount of adjustment.
US12124687B1
Embodiments are disclosed for a data analysis tool for facilitating iterative and exploratory analysis of large sets of data. In some embodiments a data analysis tool includes a graphical user interface through which an interactive set of field identifiers is displayed. Each of the listed field identifiers may reference fields associated with a set of events returned in response to a search query, the set of events including machine data produced by components within an information technology (IT) environment that reflects activity in the IT environment. In response to user selections of field identifiers included in the displayed set, a data analysis tool may cause display of manipulable visualizations based on values included in fields referenced by the selected field identifiers.
US12124686B2
An information processing method includes determining a type of a selected character, among a plurality of characters included in a displayed mathematical expression, that is selection-operated by a user; identifying, based on the determined type of the selected character, an associated character, among the plurality of characters, that is associated with the character that is selection-operated; and setting, a range including the selected character and the associated character among the plurality of characters as a selection range of the character selected by the user.
US12124682B2
An electronic device may display a first lap time representation, and may move the first lap time representation in accordance with a first amount of elapsed time. While moving the first lap time representation, the electronic device may detect a lap input. In response to the lap input, the electronic device may cease movement of the first lap time representation, display a second lap time representation, and move the second lap time representation in accordance with a second amount of elapsed time. A relative positioning of the first lap time representation and the second lap time representation may correspond to a difference between a first lap time and a second lap time. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update the timescales of lap time representation(s) in accordance with a rotational input. In some embodiments, the electronic device may update a timer duration setting in accordance with a rotational input.
US12124681B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide: a mobile terminal allowing a user to conveniently determine execution screens of at least two applications to be displayed in a multitasking manner and layouts therefor; and a method for controlling same. Provided according to an aspect of the present invention is a mobile terminal comprising: a body; a display coupled to the body such that a display region viewed from the front of the body can vary depending on switching between an extended display mode and a retracted display mode; and a control unit for performing control such that, in response to switching from the retracted display mode to the extended display mode, multiple layout indicators for multiple application execution screens are displayed or multiple application icons are displayed.
US12124679B2
A user device for displaying a graphical user interface comprising a floating interactive box using machine learning for quick-reference to resources for a web-based portal or dedicated application on the user device, initiates display of a graphical user interface comprising a floating interactive box comprising an interaction between the user and at least one entity associate, enables, over the floating interactive box, access to the at least one resource; receives confirmation from the user that the interaction is resolved and transmits the confirmation to the back-end server system; and upon resolution of the interaction, ends display of the floating interactive box, wherein presenting access to the at least one resource resulting in resolution of the interaction and ending display of the floating interactive box quickly frees computing resources for other tasks.
US12124676B2
An icon displaying method and an electronic device are provided. The method is performed by the electronic device. The electronic device includes a device body and a stylus detachably connected to the device body. The method includes: obtaining a first working state of the stylus, where the first working state includes at least one of remaining power, a font color, or a font size of the stylus; and displaying an icon corresponding to the stylus based on the first working state.
US12124664B2
A touch sensor of multi-driving scheme includes a touch panel including input lines and output lines, the touch panel causes a change in mutual capacitance in response to touch. Processing circuitry generates transmission signals to the input lines as a result of an encoding operation on a first matrix having an inverse matrix, each of the transmission signals has a first polarity or a second polarity opposite in phase to the first polarity; outputs the transmission signals in an unbalanced period when the sum of phases of the transmission signals is greater than 0; receives receiving signals through the output lines; and decodes the receiving signals based on the first matrix, the receiving signals generated by the change in the mutual capacitance in response to the touch.
US12124660B1
A touch apparatus includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a third conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a power supply electrode and a plurality of first conductive patterns. The second conductive layer includes a common electrode and a plurality of second conductive patterns. The first conductive patterns and the second conductive patterns are electrically connected to form a plurality of first conductive elements. At least one portion of the first conductive elements is first touch electrodes. The third conductive layer includes a plurality of bonding pads and a plurality of second touch electrodes. In a top view of the touch apparatus, the first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes are staggered.
US12124658B2
A retrofit interface apparatus interfaces with a target device to provide the target device with touchless user input. The apparatus comprises: a touchless sensing system comprising one or more sensors responsive to touchless input made by a human user and for generating one or more corresponding sensor input signals; a controller connected to receive the one or more sensor input signals from the touchless sensing system and configured to generate, based on the one or more sensor input signals, a corresponding control signal; and the controller connectable to the target device to bypass a touch-based input of the target device and to provide the control signal as an input to an existing control system of the target device to thereby cause the control system of the target device to operate the target device based on the control signal.
US12124653B1
Apparatuses and methods of capacitance-to-digital code conversion are described. One apparatus includes a bridge circuit and a modulator front-end circuit. The bridge circuit includes a first terminal to couple to a reference cell and a second terminal to couple to a sensor cell. The modulator front-end circuit includes a comparator coupled to the bridge circuit, a first modulation capacitor coupled to a first input of the comparator, and a second modulation capacitor coupled to a second input of the comparator. The modulator front-end circuit provides a digital bitstream. A duty cycle of the digital bitstream is representative of a ratio between a capacitance of the sensor cell and a reference capacitance of the reference cell.
US12124630B2
An information processing device obtains audio data, obtains, as teacher vibration data, information regarding vibration data used to vibrate a vibrating device, the vibration data being produced on a basis of the audio data, performs machine learning using the audio data and the teacher vibration data as input, and generates learned model data used to convert an audio waveform into a vibration waveform.
US12124629B2
A system includes a wearable device including a camera. The system further includes at least one processor that can identify objects from video data generated by the camera and monitor how an individual wearing the wearable device manipulates the objects according to predetermined micro-activities of interest to infer an action by the individual.
US12124628B2
A system for displaying information indicative of driving conditions, to a driver, using a smart ring are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a smart ring with a ring band having a plurality of surfaces including an inner surface, an outer surface, a first side surface, and a second side surface. The system further includes a processor, configured to obtain data from a communication module within the ring band, or from one or more sensors disposed within the ring band. The obtained data are representative of information indicative of one or more driving conditions to be displayed to the driver. The smart ring also includes a projector module display disposed on at least one of the plurality of surfaces, and configured to present information indicative of the one or more driving conditions.
US12124623B1
Various embodiments set forth computer vision systems. In some embodiments, one or more activation maps are generated based on eye gaze data and used to control operation of one or more sensors. Each activation map indicates a highest density for acquiring sensor data in a region corresponding to an eye gaze direction and lower densities for acquiring sensor data in other regions. After the sensor data is acquired, a processing pipeline sub-samples (or bins) and processes regions of the acquired sensor data at different ratios based on the eye gaze direction. The sub-sampled (or binned) data for each region is processed independently, and results of the processing are combined to generate processed data, such as an image that can be displayed to a user.
US12124621B2
Systems and methods are provided for authenticating an account via a hands-free gesture, such as a tap, pattern of taps, or other physical gesture not requiring a user to hold a computing device. A user can initiate a transaction to purchase an item by interacting with a first computing device (e.g., electronic kiosk, point-of-sale terminal, automated checkout device, etc.). The first computing device can receive a request from the user to purchase the item. In response, the first computing device can broadcast an authentication request. The user can perform the hands-free gesture for detection by a second computing device (e.g., the user's mobile device). The second computing device can transmit information associated with the hands-free gesture in response to the authentication request. The first computing device can authenticate the user based on the information associated with the hands-free gesture.
US12124617B2
Examples described herein relate to a security management system to secure a container ecosystem. In some examples, the security management system may protect one or more entities such as container management applications, container images, containers, and/or executable applications within the containers. The security management system may make use of digital cryptography to generate digital signatures corresponding to one or more of these entities and verify them during the execution so that any compromised entities can be blocked from execution and the container ecosystem may be safeguarded from any malicious network attacks.
US12124609B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a privacy manager are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving, from a client device, an indication of a first setting of the client device. The actions further include receiving, from the client device, an indication of a type of data that the client device is prepared to transmit. The actions further include, based on the first setting and the type of data, generating an instruction to adjust the first setting or a second setting of the client device. The actions further include, before the client device transmits the data, providing, for output to the client device, the instruction to adjust the first setting or the second setting of the client device.
US12124604B2
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may assist a consumer in deleting personal information held by a data broker. Entities holding the consumer's personal information may be discovered and automated actions for purging or deleting the consumer's personal information may be determined. The methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may assist the consumer in updating privacy settings associated with accounts at various entities.
US12124601B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for orchestrating application use while preventing unauthorized data sharing. For instance, an orchestration management system may provide orchestration logic to a computing platform system hosting a virtual environment configured to run an application on behalf of a data owner computing device. Once the orchestration logic is loaded thereon, a public key to and a location of the virtual environment may be provided to an application owner's computing device. The orchestration logic may enable the application owner's computing device to access the virtual environment at the location to load the application into the virtual environment utilizing a first key combination including the public key and a matching private key. At least the private key may then be disabled by the orchestration logic to prevent subsequent access to the virtual environment by the application owner to guarantee no unauthorized data sharing.
US12124598B2
One or more embodiments of the invention may improve the operation of one or more computing devices in a cluster environment. More specifically, by mapping backups of shared volumes to a cluster client instead of individual data nodes, one or more embodiments of the invention avoid duplicative backups and/or restorations of the same shared assets by the each of the data nodes. Further, if a failure occurs to the particular node the backup may have originated from, in accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention, because the method is agnostic with regards to the individual nodes the backup may have originated from, any remaining data node can discover the backup and perform a restoration or incremental backup. This will provide better protection for the clustered nodes while requiring minimal user/administrator input.
US12124594B2
This disclosure relates to, among other things, electronic device security systems and methods. Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide for protection of cryptographic keys and/or associated operations using both an operating system security service and a software-based whitebox cryptographic security service executing on a device. Leveraging operating system security services and software-based whitebox cryptographic security services may provide enhanced security when compared to using either service alone to protect cryptographic keys and associated operations. In additional embodiments, server-side cryptographic security solutions may be further used to enhance device security implementations.
US12124588B2
A method for securing a storage system, the method may include detecting, by cybersecurity engine, a suspected file that is stored in the storage system; autonomously searching for one of more files that fulfill one or more similarity criteria in relation to the suspected file; wherein the one or more similar files are stored in a storage system; finding, by the similarity engine, the one or more similar files using a similarity data structure that associates a group of files stored in the storage system with (a) inter-file similarity scores and (b) block hash values shared between files; and responding to the finding, wherein the responding comprises sending the one of more similar files to the cybersecurity engine.
US12124584B2
A code repository stores source code. An insider threat detection system stores instructions for detecting code defects and criteria indicating predetermined types of code defects that, when present, are associated with intentional obfuscation of one or more functions of the source code. The insider threat detection system receives an entry of source code and detects, using the model, a set of code defects in the entry of source code. A defect type is determined for each code defect, thereby determining a set of defect types included in the entry of source code. If it is determined that each of the predetermined types of code defects indicated by the criteria is included in the determined set of defect types, the entry of source code is determined to include an insider threat.
US12124577B2
The detection and alerting on malicious queries that are directed towards a data store. The detection is done by using syntax metrics of the query. This can be done without evaluating (or at least without retaining) the unmasked query. In order to detect a potentially malicious query, syntax metric(s) of that query are accessed. The syntax metric(s) are then fed into a model that is configured to predict maliciousness of the query based on the one or more syntax metrics. The output of the model then represents a prediction of maliciousness of the query. Based on the output of the model representing the predicted maliciousness, a computing entity associated with the data store is then alerted.
US12124572B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which is stored machine-readable instructions that may cause the processor to identify a container image group of a plurality of container image groups to which a subject container image corresponds, in which each of the plurality of container image groups is assigned a respective behavioral profile. The processor may also determine whether activities in the subject container image comply with corresponding activities identified in the behavioral profile of the identified container image group. Based on a determination that at least one activity in the subject container image fails to comply with a corresponding at least one activity identified in the behavioral profile of the identified container image group, the processor may determine that the subject container image includes an anomalous activity and output an alert indicating that the subject container image includes an anomalous activity.
US12124568B2
Malware prevention and remediation is provided by monitoring actions performed by processes and maintaining indications of which processes are trusted; selectively presenting canary files to these processes, which includes presenting the canary files to processes not indicated as being trusted and hiding the canary files from processes indicated as being trusted, and where the monitoring includes monitoring for access of canary files with change privileges; scoring each of the processes based on the actions performed, including any access of canary files with change privileges, which scoring produces a malice score for each process; and automatically terminating any process for which its malice score indicates at least a threshold level of malice in the execution of the process.
US12124564B2
A secure, modular multi-tenant machine learning platform is configured to: receive untrusted code supplied by a first tenant; perform a security scan of the untrusted code to determine whether the untrusted code satisfies a set of one or more security requirements; responsive to determining that the untrusted code satisfies the security requirement(s): deploy the untrusted code to a runtime execution environment; deploy a machine learning model associated with the first tenant to the runtime execution environment, the untrusted code being configured to perform one or more functions using the machine learning model; receive a set of untrusted code supplied by a second tenant; perform a security scan of the untrusted code to determine whether the untrusted code satisfies the security requirement(s); and responsive to determining that the untrusted code does not satisfy the security requirement(s): refraining from deploying the untrusted code to a runtime execution environment.
US12124562B2
A method includes configuring one or more permissions for a first page of memory including a first section of a plurality of sections of an executable program code to enable execution of the first section. The method also includes configuring one or more permissions for a second page of the memory including a second section of the executable program code to disable execution of the second section. The method also includes identifying one or more annotations in the executable program code, wherein the one or more annotations indicate one or more allowed transitions and one or more disallowed transitions between the plurality of sections. The method also includes changing, in view of the one or more annotations, the one or more permissions of the second page to enable execution of the second section of the executable program code.
US12124560B2
A system and a method provided for managing and protecting master passwords from technicians/employees requiring access to at least one of the security systems such as an access control, a CCTV/surveillance system, burglar alarm and fire alarm system on a network with no internet access. The method involves creating a ciphered version of a master password i.e., a ciphered password on a password management server, transmitting the ciphered password to a Smartphone application installed on a user's device after authenticating the user. Further, securely transferring the ciphered password to an Intelligent USB Drive via Bluetooth®, by authenticating the USB Drive with the user's device. The USB drive is then connected to the security system via a USB port or GUI interface to access the security system.
US12124558B2
Upgrading of a verifiable credential by a user interfacing with an upgrade control of a visualization of the verifiable credential. The upgradable verifiable credential includes an authorization claim specifying an authorization scope, and an enhancement claim specifying a condition for enhancing the specified authorization scope. A visualization of the upgradable verifiable credential is then display with the upgrade control to a user of a holder computing system that is the holder of the verifiable credential. Accordingly, if the user interacts with the upgrade control, the condition for upgrading the verifiable credential may be accomplished. The issuer of the authorization claim may then be notified of this. The issuer may then provide an ungraded verifiable credential that includes an authorization claim that includes more or a different authorization scope than the prior verifiable credential.
US12124552B2
A method executed by a computing entity includes obtaining, in accordance with a securely passing process, control over a secure first token representing a first pending transaction associated with a transaction item. The method further includes obtaining a selection of a first subset of instant assets of a set of candidate instant assets that may be utilized to subsequently provide conversion of the selected contingent asset to complete the first pending transaction. The method further includes generating an updated secure first token in accordance with the securely passing process to represent the selection of the first subset of instant assets of the set of candidate instant assets to subsequently provide the conversion of the selected contingent asset to complete the first pending transaction.
US12124548B2
An authentication system for authenticating an identification of a subject is provided. The authentication system includes a photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensor, a storage device, and a processor. The PPG sensor is configured to sense pulses of a blood vessel of the subject to generate a sensed PPG signal of the subject. The storage device stores an authentication model. The processor is configured to load the authentication model from the storage device and input the sensed PPG signal and a reference PPG signal into the authentication model to generate a result value which indicates whether the identification of the subject passes an authentication test.
US12124546B2
A homomorphic encryption scheme, such as Paillier encryption in combination with a bit packing process allows biometric matching at a terminal without exposing a biometric template stored at a user's device. Because such encryption schemes are data intensive, the bit packing process allows reductions in data being sent and processed so that the biometric matching process can be accomplished in near real time. The high speed of this optimized process allows the technique to be applied to many real world processes such as access control and transaction processing.
US12124533B2
Embodiments are generally directed to methods and apparatuses of spatially sparse convolution module for visual rendering and synthesis. An embodiment of a method for image processing, comprising: receiving an input image by a convolution layer of a neural network to generate a plurality of feature maps; performing spatially sparse convolution on the plurality of feature maps to generate spatially sparse feature maps; and upsampling the spatially sparse feature maps to generate an output image.
US12124531B2
A processing device including a plurality of clusters of processor cores and a method for use in the processing device is disclosed. Each processor core in a cluster of processor cores is in communication with the other processor cores in the cluster and at least one processor core of each cluster is in communication with at least a processor core of a different cluster of processor cores. Each processor core is configured to store a product of a portion of a first matrix and a first portion of a second matrix in the memory, and store a product of the portion of the first matrix and a second portion of the second matrix in the memory, where the second portion of the second matrix is received from a processor core in the cluster of processor cores.
US12124525B2
A page processing method is provided. The page processing method includes: when a preset trigger instruction for a currently running application is detected, displaying a historical browsing view of the application, where the historical browsing view is established based on page browsing information, and the page browsing information includes one or more browsing pages browsed by a user; and returning, in response to a selection operation performed by the user in the historical browsing view, to a target browsing page corresponding to the selection operation, where the target browsing page is any of the browsing pages. In this way, a page returning operation is simplified, and the user can easily and quickly return to the browsing page specified by the user, which improves user experience.
US12124496B2
A method for determining an academic impact, including: pre-processing a citing paper to obtain pre-processed data; determining a category of an impact, on the citing paper, of each reference paper and ranking of contribution, to the citing paper, of each reference paper, according to the pre-processed data; determining a local influential factor, on the citing paper, of each reference paper, according to the category of the impact and the ranking of the contribution of each reference paper; and determining a global influential factor of each reference paper according to a global influential factor of the citing paper and the local influential factor.
US12124492B2
A user interface (UI) for visualizing search data provides techniques for grouping and organizing aggregate data that shows the categories of topics included in search queries from a large number of individual users. Raw search queries are categorized into one of a number of topical categories. The search queries are assigned to a geographic location based on geolocations of computing devices generating the search queries. The UI presents a map that shows the number of search queries per topical category for each geographic location displayed in the current UI view. As a result of this UI design, a user can easily understand the interaction between geographic location and frequency of search query topics. Trends in the geographic distribution of searches and in the categories of topics searched are also easily understood from this UI design by changing the time range of the search queries displayed.
US12124488B1
Selective locating of missing chat messages for an edge device is provided. The process includes sending a locate chat message request from a user's edge device to at least one other edge device of at least one other participant in a chat with the user via an end-to-end encryption messaging system. The locate chat message request identifies at least one search parameter for at least one missing chat message of the chat on the edge device. The process further includes, based on sending the locate chat message request, receiving at the edge device from the at least one other edge device, the at least one missing chat message of the chat identified via the at least one search parameter.
US12124486B2
Systems and methods for providing an artificial intelligence-based solution in a dynamic environment that requires models with varying degrees of nuance and specialization. One such dynamic environment relates to generating dynamic human-like conversational responses based on complex data. In particular, systems and methods recite generating dynamic human-like conversational responses using a modular architecture featuring layered data models with gated neural networks. The modular architecture compartmentalizes the various components and functions of an application. That is, the architecture may support multiple layers, each featuring models performing specific functions and/or having been trained on using specific data and/or algorithms.
US12124479B2
A method of synchronizing a plurality of end points is disclosed. A spoke is connected to a hub. The connecting of the spoke to the hub includes performing inbound synchronization of all of a set of data items or a subset of the set of data items with a replica. One or more additional spokes are connected to the hub. The connecting of the one or more additional spokes to the hub includes performing inbound synchronization of all of an additional set of data items or a subset of the additional set of data items with an additional replica. A subset of a set of data items stored in the replica or the additional replica is selected for outbound synchronization with any of a plurality of spokes except a spoke from which the subset of data items originated.
US12124459B2
One embodiment comprises a data processing system for populating selections in an evaluation operator interface. The system may record voice sessions of phone calls, transcribe the voice sessions and store transactions including the voice sessions and transcripts. The system receives a request from a client computer for an evaluation to evaluate a transaction that was assigned an automated score according to the automated scoring template based on a transcript of the transaction having matched a lexicon. The system generates the evaluation. Generating the evaluation comprises setting an answer control for a question in the evaluation to a preselected answer based on a defined correspondence between the automated score and the preselected answer, the preselected answer selected from a defined set of acceptable answers to the question. The system may generate page code for the answer control that sets the answer control to the preselected answer.
US12124455B2
Systems and methods for managing concurrent access to a shared resource in a distributed computing environment are provided. A reference counter counts is incremented for every use of an object subtype in a session and decremented for every release of an object subtype in a session. A session counter is incremented upon the first instance of fetching an object type into a session cache and decremented upon having no instances of the object type in use in the session. When both the reference counter and the session counter are zero, the object type may be removed from the cache.
US12124437B2
A system described herein may identify a plurality of records recorded to a blockchain, and may identify a particular record of the plurality of records that includes a particular indicator that the particular record is associated with a particular event. The particular indicator may indicate a type of off-chain event. The system may perform, based on identifying the particular record that is associated with the particular event, one or more off-chain actions associated with the particular event. The performed off-chain event may be the indicated type, out of a plurality of possible types of events to perform. The system may record, to the blockchain, an indication that the one or more off-chain actions associated with the particular event have been performed. The event may include an identifier, which the system may also record to the indication that the one or more off-chain actions have been performed.
US12124434B2
A computer-implemented method for transmitting and/or submitting digital content such as feedback for an entity to a blockchain is disclosed. This may be, for example, the Bitcoin blockchain. The method, which is implemented at a first node, includes: submitting, to the blockchain, a first transaction for committing a first quantity of tokens to transfer to a second node associated with the entity, the first transaction having a first output; generating a first content for submission to the blockchain; and submitting, to the blockchain, a second transaction that returns a second quantity of the committed first quantity of tokens to an address associated with the first node, the second transaction having the first output of the first transaction as an input, wherein the first content is used to unlock the first output of the first transaction.
US12124424B1
A method is provided. The method is executed by a dependency identification engine implemented as a computer program within a computing environment. The method includes generating a data structure that represents a recorded process by the dependency identification engine from data. The method includes identifying activities of the data structure, determining connectivity between the activities, and determining, based on the connectivity, eligible activity pairs from the activates by the dependency identification engine. The method includes extending, based on the data, the data structure with annotations that represent long-term dependencies between the activities and generating a visualization of the data structure with the annotations by the dependency identification engine.
US12124420B2
A computer memory compression method involves analyzing computer memory content with respect to occurrence of duplicate memory objects as well as value redundancy of data values in unique memory objects. The computer memory content is encoded by eliminating the duplicate memory objects and compressing each remaining unique memory object by exploiting data value locality of the data values thereof. Metadata is provided to represent the memory objects of the encoded computer memory content. The metadata reflects eliminated duplicate memory objects, remaining unique memory objects as well as a type of compression used for compressing each remaining unique memory object. A memory object in the encoded computer memory content is located using the metadata.
US12124417B2
A method for implementing a storage system is described. The method includes accepting a filepath from a user that specifies a file. The method includes forming a primary key for a representation of the file. The method includes applying the primary key to a database cloud service to obtain a representation of the file. The representation of the file includes an inode for the file's meta data. The method includes using the inode for the file's meta data to obtain the file's meta data from a high performance object cloud storage service. The file's meta data points to information within the high performance object cloud storage service for accessing the file's stripes. The method includes accessing the information within the high performance object cloud storage service to obtain an object ID for a stripe within the file. The method includes using the object ID to access the stripe from a low performance object cloud storage service.
US12124414B2
A method includes receiving, at a container registry, a container image including a set of files, determining that at least one file of the set of files is a duplicate of a previously stored container image file at the container registry. The method further includes storing the container image at the container registry with the at least one file of the plurality of files that is a duplicate of the previously stored container image file removed from the container image.
US12124409B1
The retrieval of files can be facilitated in real-time in the general context of backup and recovery. A processor can receive a request to retrieve a particular volume of data from an object storage database. A virtual volume can be presented to an emulator for creation of a virtual machine representing the particular volume of data. A request can be received to access a particular file from the particular volume of data at a specific point in time. In response to the request to access the file, the data stream can be paused, the particular file can be fetched, and the particular file can be transmitted to the emulator.
US12124399B2
A USB controller includes: a USB interface that receives an isochronous timestamp packet (ITP) from a host device that includes a current time value from the host device and a delay value associated with each hub through which the ITP passed; controller hardware that initiates a counter, sends a link delay measurement (LDM) link management packet (LMP) request to a nearest upstream hub, stores a first timestamp that corresponds to when the LDM LMP request was sent, receives an LDM LMP response from the nearest upstream hub, and stores a second timestamp that corresponds to when the LDM LMP response was received; and controller software that calculates a link delay between the USB controller and the nearest upstream hub based on the first and second timestamps and delay information included in the LDM LMP response, and adjusts the counter value based on the calculated link delay.
US12124392B2
Multiple device stacks are interconnected in a ring topology. The inter-device stack communication may utilize a handshake protocol. This ring topology may include the host so that the host may initialize and load the device stacks with data and/or commands (e.g., software, algorithms, etc.). The inter-device stack interconnections may also be configured to include/remove the host and/or to implement varying numbers of separate ring topologies. By configuring the system with more than one ring topology, and assigning different problems to different rings, multiple, possibly unrelated, machine learning tasks may be performed in parallel by the device stack system.
US12124387B2
Apparatuses and methods for asymmetric bi-directional signaling incorporating multi-level encoding are disclosed. An example apparatus may include first and second channels, a receiver coupled to the first and second channels, and first and second transmitters coupled to the first and second channels, respectively. The receiver may be configured to receive differential data signals to receive write data at a rate, and each of the first and second transmitters may be configured to encode a plurality of bits into a respective data signal and provide the respective data signals at the data rate.
US12124383B2
Systems and methods for improving cache efficiency and utilization are disclosed. In one embodiment, a graphics processor includes processing resources to perform graphics operations and a cache controller of a cache memory that is coupled to the processing resources. The cache controller is configured to set an initial aging policy using an aging field based on age of cache lines within the cache memory and to determine whether a hint or an instruction to indicate a level of aging has been received. In one embodiment, the cache memory configured to be partitioned into multiple cache regions, wherein the multiple cache regions include a first cache region having a cache eviction policy with a configurable level of data persistence.
US12124381B2
A processing system includes a hardware translation lookaside buffer (TLB) retry loop that retries virtual memory address to physical memory address translation requests from a software client independent of a command from the software client. In response to a retry response notification at the TLB, a controller of the TLB waits for a programmable delay period and then retries the request without involvement from the software client. After a retry results in a hit at the TLB, the controller notifies the software client of the hit. Alternatively, if a retry results in an error at the TLB, the controller notifies the software client of the error and the software client initiates error handling.
US12124380B2
A processing device receives a request specifying a logical address associated with a host-initiated operation directed at a first portion of a memory device. The processing device accesses a second L2P table comprising a mapping between logical addresses and physical addresses in a second portion of the memory device. A physical location within the second portion of the memory device is identified based on the second L2P table. The physical location corresponds to a portion of a first L2P table that specifies a physical address within the first portion of the memory device that corresponds to the logical address. The physical address is identified based on the portion of the first L2P table and the host-initiated operation is performed at the physical address.
US12124379B2
A processing system employs a method to order the elements within a memory. Ordering the elements includes receiving an accessed memory element. The accessed memory element is requested by a processor from a memory. Further, the accessed memory element is compared to stored elements within the memory to generate control signals. Gate control signals from the control signals are generated. The order of the stored elements within the memory is updated based on the gate control signals.
US12124373B2
A method and apparatus physically partitions clean and dirty cache lines into separate memory partitions, such as one or more banks, so that during low power operation, a cache memory controller reduces power consumption of the cache memory containing the clean only data. The cache memory controller controls refresh operation so that data refresh does not occur for clean data only banks or the refresh rate is reduced for clean data only banks. Partitions that store dirty data can also store clean data, however other partitions are designated for storing only clean data so that the partitions can have their refresh rate reduced or refresh stopped for periods of time. When multiple DRAM dies or packages are employed, the partition can occur on a die or package level as opposed to a bank level within a die.
US12124372B1
A method for reading a shared clock that is stored in a shared storage space of a storage system, the method may include (a) reading by a compute node a cached value of the shared clock when a time gap before a next update of the shared clock exceeds a time threshold, wherein the cached value is cached in the compute node and is valid during an allowable caching period, wherein the shared clock is shared by a group of compute nodes, wherein a default update of the shared clock has a cycle that exceeds the time threshold; and (b) reading by the compute node a read value of the shared clock when the time gap before the next update of the shared clock does not exceed the time threshold, wherein the read value of the shared clock is stored in the shared storage space.
US12124360B2
A setting method of in-memory computing simulator is presented. It involves an in-memory computing device performing various test combinations of neural network models and datasets, recording the corresponding first estimation indices. A processing device then uses these test combinations to execute a simulator with adjustable settings and records the corresponding second estimation indices. The processing device calculates a correlation sum according to the first estimation indices and second estimation indices, and performs an optimal algorithm to search an optimal parameter in a setting space to maximize the correlation sum.
US12124358B2
A system and method for CI/CT/CD, which is continuous integration/continuous testing/continuous delivery, in which testing is fully integrated to the needs of rapid code development and delivery. The system is determining test coverage of a plurality of tests, comprising a code builder for providing code, a code tester for testing the code with said plurality of tests, and a code test analyzer for analyzing results of said plurality of tests to determine coverage of said code by said plurality of tests.
US12124351B2
Methods and systems for managing distributed systems are disclosed. The distributed systems may include any number of data processing systems that may contribute to the functionality of the distributed system. To contribute to the functionality of the distributed system, each of the data processing systems may need to be configured to positively contribute to one or more functions. To manage configuration of data processing system, user input reflecting the intent of a client with respect to services may be obtained. The user input may reflect responses to multiple inquires which may elucidate the client's true with respect to use of services provided by data processing systems.
US12124346B2
In various examples, one or more components or regions of a processing unit—such as a processing core, and/or component thereof—may be tested for faults during deployment in the field. To perform testing while in deployment, the state of a component subject to test may be retrieved and/or stored during the test to maintain state integrity, the component may be clamped to communicatively isolate the component from other components of the processing unit, a test vector may be applied to the component, and the output of the component may be compared against an expected output to determine if any faults are present. The state of the component may be restored after testing, and the clamp removed, thereby returning the component to its operating state without a perceivable detriment to operation of the processing unit in deployment.
US12124345B2
A command to transfer data in a portion of a memory component to a recovery portion of a different memory component is received from a host system, wherein the portion of the memory component is associated with a portion of the memory component that has failed, and the data in the portion of the memory component is recovered and transferred to the recovery portion of the different memory component without moving or processing the data through the host system responsive to receipt of the command.
US12124338B2
An information management system can detect instances in which data is being stored in a non-standard file path and can alert the user of the client computing device, modify the storage policy to include the non-standard file path, and/or initiate a secondary copy operation to prevent data loss of the data stored in the non-standard file path. For example, a client computing device may execute a filter driver that monitors interactions with files in the file system. The filter driver can identify any non-standard file paths not subject to a storage policy that include files in which interactions occurred. For a non-standard file path, the filter driver can determine whether the frequency of interaction with files in the non-standard file path satisfies a threshold frequency. If the threshold is satisfied, then the filter driver may determine that the files should be subject to the storage policy and take appropriate action.
US12124331B2
An interface circuit includes multiple signal processing devices and a monitor and calibration module. The monitor and calibration module includes multiple monitor circuits, multiple calibration circuits, a compensation accelerator and a processor. The monitor circuits monitor at least one of an amplitude, a frequency and jitter in at least one of a reception signal and a transmission signal to correspondingly generate a monitored result and monitor at least one of power supplying voltage and ground voltage to correspondingly generate a monitored result. The compensation accelerator collects the monitored results and generates a calibration control signal corresponding to each calibration circuit according to calibration commands. The processor generates the calibration commands based on the monitored results. The calibration circuits perform a corresponding calibration operation on the corresponding signal processing device in response to the calibration control signal to adjust a characteristic value of the signal processing device.
US12124328B2
A memory controller includes a transaction scheduler circuit and a command queue. For each access request received by the memory controller, the transaction scheduler circuit is configured to allocate a new entry in a scheduler queue, store an access address corresponding to the access request as a data address into the new entry, generate an error correction code (ECC) address from the data address and store the ECC address into the new entry, and set a corresponding ECC mode field in the new entry to indicate whether the data address or ECC address of the new entry is to be exposed during arbitration. The transaction scheduler circuit, during an arbitration cycle, is configured to select a transaction from the scheduler queue using an exposed address of each valid entry, and is configured to provide the selected transaction to the command queue.
US12124327B2
An automated system is provided for facilitating resolution of an incident on a digital processing system. The automated system has a data storage unit with information on previous incidents, a user interface and a resolution facilitation server. The server receives incident information from a monitoring system, including status information for at least one operating parameter of the digital processing system. The server is configured to apply a machine learning model to determine a first recommended action using the incident information and the previous incident information, present the first recommended action to the user, and receive a recommendation response. The server is also configured to establish a recommendation score based at least in part on the recommendation response and to update the machine learning model using the incident information, the first action recommendation, and/or the first recommendation score.
US12124323B2
Embodiments herein describe integrity check techniques that are efficient and flexible by using local registers in a segment to store check values which can be used to detect errors in the local configuration data in the same segment. In addition to containing local registers storing the check values, each segment can include a mask register indicated which of the configuration registers should be checked and which can be ignored. Further, the segments can include a next segment register indicating the next segment the check engine should evaluate for errors.
US12124308B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to optimize processor performance. In at least one embodiment, a method increases an operation voltage of one or more processors, based at least in part, on one or more error rates of the one or more processors.
US12124297B2
A portable electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture and a display positioned in the aperture. The portable electronic device can include a number of components that can provide desired functionalities and levels of performance. For example, the device can include one or more couplers that interconnect various portions of the housing together. Additionally or alternatively, the portable electronic device can include one or more millimeter-wave antennas. Additionally, or alternatively, the electronic device can include one or more grounding elements or layers that reliably and electrically ground the display to the housing.
US12124291B2
In one implementation, an apparatus includes a display having a front surface and a back surface. The display includes a plurality of pixel regions that emit light from the front surface to display a displayed image and a plurality of apertures that transmit light from the front surface to the back surface. The apparatus includes a camera disposed on a side of the back surface of the display. The camera is configured to capture a captured image. The apparatus includes a processor coupled to the display and the camera. The processor is configured to receive the captured image and apply a first digital filter to a first portion of the captured image and a second digital filter, different than the first digital filter, to a second portion of the captured image to reduce image distortion caused by the display.
US12124290B2
A method for inputting and/or outputting signals having a selectable sample rate in a time-synchronized manner on a group of input and/or output channels of an electronic circuit includes: configuring each channel of the group at a standard sample period; synchronously initiating all the channels of the group at the standard sample period; detecting an entry for a modified sample period TPeriod of a first channel of the group; detecting a current counter value TCounter; configuring the first channel at the modified sample period; establishing a waiting time of TWaiting clocks in accordance with TWaiting=TPeriod−mod(TCounter, TPeriod), where mod (TCounter, TPeriod) denotes the division remainder from the current counter value TCounter and the modified sample period TPeriod; and initiating the first channel after the waiting time TWaiting.
US12124283B2
A method and controller of dynamically determining a current system curve in a heat power system, in which the heat power system comprises a regulator and sensors. The controller controls an output of the regulator to find the current system curve, collects and checks sensor values with limited accuracy to determine if properties of the sensor values indicate that a point of the current system curve has been reached. When at least two points are found the controller models the current system curve by linear interpolation between the first and second point of the current system curve.
US12124282B2
The present invention discloses an intention-driven reinforcement learning-based path planning method, including the following steps: 1: acquiring, by a data collector, a state of a monitoring network; 2: selecting a steering angle of the data collector according to positions of surrounding obstacles, sensor nodes, and the data collector; 3: selecting a speed of the data collector, a target node, and a next target node as an action of the data collector according to an ε greedy policy; 4: determining, by the data collector, the next time slot according to the selected steering angle and speed; 5: obtaining rewards and penalties according to intentions of the data collector and the sensor nodes, and updating a Q value; 6: repeating step 1 to step 5 until a termination state or a convergence condition is satisfied; and 7: selecting, by the data collector, an action in each time slot having the maximum Q value as a planning result, and generating an optimal path. The method provided in the present invention can complete the data collection path planning with a higher probability of success and performance closer to the intention.
US12124281B2
The autonomous working machine including: a magnetic field detection part for detecting a magnetic field generated by the energization to the area wire; a storage part for storing a reference value of the magnetic field detection by the magnetic field detection part; a control part for controlling a traveling route based on the reference value stored in the storage part and the magnetic field detected by the magnetic field detection means; and an input part for receiving a selection of a first reference value used in a case where the area wire is installed at a first distance from the ground or a second reference value used in a case where the area wire is installed at a second distance from the ground, wherein the control part controls a traveling route based on the first reference value or the second reference value selected by the input part.
US12124277B1
A method of controlling attitude of a marine vessel includes measuring a roll motion of the marine vessel with an attitude sensor, and then determining that the roll motion exceeds a threshold roll where no corresponding steering input is present. The method further includes determining a counteracting drive movement for at least one propulsion device based on the measured roll motion and then controlling a steering actuator to move the at least one propulsion device to effectuate the counteracting drive movement so as to counteract an environmentally-induced roll motion of the marine vessel without effectuating a net change in heading and/or translation.
US12124275B2
A drone loaded with a package takes off from a takeoff device and uses a GPS system to fly to a user house that is a delivery destination of the package as the destination. Further, when the drone approaches the user house that is the destination, the flight of the drones is switched from autonomous navigation using the GPS system to remote control performed by a landing device and an in-house control device installed in the user house. The drone lands on the landing device by remote control from the landing device and the in-house control device, separates the package, and then returns to the warehouse using the GPS system and lands on the takeoff device.
US12124271B2
A variety of methods, controllers and algorithms are described for identifying the back of a particular vehicle (e.g., a platoon partner) in a set of distance measurement scenes and/or for tracking the back of such a vehicle. The described techniques can be used in conjunction with a variety of different distance measuring technologies including radar, LIDAR, camera based distance measuring units and others. The described approaches are well suited for use in vehicle platooning and/or vehicle convoying systems including tractor-trailer truck platooning applications. In another aspect, technique are described for fusing sensor data obtained from different vehicles for use in the at least partial automatic control of a particular vehicle. The described techniques are well suited for use in conjunction with a variety of different vehicle control applications including platooning, convoying and other connected driving applications including tractor-trailer truck platooning applications.
US12124261B2
A system and a method to optimize route plans for handling critical scenarios faced in an operating environment have been described. The system or a platform resolves one or more nodes based on the inputs related to an operating environment. The system plans one or more routes based on the resolved nodes to provide generated route plans. Based on the planning, the system may analyze one or more route plans for critical scenarios, for example, avoiding a collision or minimizing congestion, damage to the robot, performance of vehicle or warehouse, etc. After the route plans are analyzed, the system optimizes one or more route plans to provide optimized route plans. The optimized route plans are distributed to one or more autonomous vehicles. The fleet of autonomous vehicles may then route progress messages and share feedback with the platform.
US12124260B2
An embodiment personal mobility includes a display, a first sensor unit configured to obtain battery state information of the personal mobility, a second sensor unit configured to obtain speed information of the personal mobility, a third sensor unit configured to obtain steering information of the personal mobility, a communicator configured to obtain navigation information, and a controller configured to display a plurality of contents including the navigation information, usage time information of the personal mobility, the battery state information, or the speed information on the display as a basic screen in a plurality of regions in response to an ignition of the personal mobility being turned on and to control to change a screen displayed on the display based on the steering information or the navigation information.
US12124244B2
A control system for a technical plant, in particular a process or manufacturing plant, includes an operator station server and an operator station client, wherein the operator station server includes a computer implemented visualization service that transmits a plant mimic diagram to the operator station client that visually presents the plant mimic diagram to an operator of the control system, where a digital process image of the technical plant is implemented on the operator station server, the operator station server additionally enables the operator to continuously monitor a runtime operator specifiable state of an operator-specifiable measuring device of the technical plant, where the operator station server additionally notifies the operator of a state change of the measuring device, independently of a visual presentation of the plant mimic diagram, and where the measuring device state is obtainable from the digital process image of the technical plant implemented on the operator station server.
US12124238B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing processing data to a numerically controlled machine tool (100), comprising: providing processing data (S301) to a data processing device (300), wherein the processing data comprises numeric control data, in particular one or more NC programs, on the basis of which a processing of a workpiece on the numerically controlled machine tool (100) can be carried out; specifying encryption specifications (S302) on the data processing device (300), which indicate specifications for encrypting the processing data and/or the execution data; specifying authentication specifications (S303) on the data processing device (300), which indicate specifications for authentication of the numerical machine tool and/or of an operator of the machine tool; specifying execution specifications (S304) on the data processing device (300), which indicate specifications for the machining of the workpiece on the numerically controlled machine tool; generating execution data (S305) on the basis of the specified execution specifications, wherein the execution data comprises the processing data; and encrypting the execution data (S306) on the basis of the encryption specifications; providing or transmitting (S307) the generated execution data to a control device (200, 300) of the numerically controlled machine tool (100).
US12124236B1
A computer system and method for the assisted setup of an instrumented computer-controlled machine tool table, which in principle manufactures only good parts, is disclosed. The invention allows a plurality of users, such as machinists, designers, administrators, and showroom operators, to access and share data related to computer-assisted setup (CAS) of an instrumented computer-controlled machine tool table in a manner that is interactive in real time and internal to the CAS infrastructure architecture.
US12124235B2
A control program for an industrial technical control system is created via a planning tool, wherein the control program includes program data that are assigned names by the planning tool, where beforehand, the planning tool checks the names of the program data of the control program via a checking routine for compatibility with the data processing device, and if the planning tool identifies an incompatibility by means of the checking routine, then it outputs a corresponding error message to the user, otherwise it outputs to the user either no message or a message indicating that no errors have been identified, and the planning tool receives an assessment of the control program from the data processing device and post-trains the checking routine based on the relevant control program and received assessment such that the checking routine gradually learns which names for the program data are compatible with the data processing device.
US12124223B2
A method for fabricating a metallic timepiece component, wherein the method includes the steps of forming, via a UV-LIGA type process combined with hot stamping, a multi-level photosensitive resin mould and electroplating a layer of at least one metal from at least two conductive layers to form a block that substantially reaches the upper surface of the photosensitive resin.
US12124220B2
A watch case includes a middle having a first opening receiving a crystal, opposite a second opening receiving a back. The back is held such that it bears against an annular bearing surface of the middle by a threaded ring cooperating, by screwing, with the middle. The back includes a first indexing element to cooperate with a second indexing element with which the middle is provided so as to immobilise the back in a single angular position such that it cannot rotate relative to the middle.
US12124211B2
A developing cartridge includes a coupling member provided adjacent to a first end of a casing. The coupling member is operatively connected to a developing roller, and the coupling member is rotatable about a rotational axis thereof. The coupling member includes (i) a cylindrical portion, (ii) a first projection at least partially positioned inside of the cylindrical portion, (iii) a second projection at least partially positioned inside of the cylindrical portion, (iv) an elastically movable projection at least partially positioned inside of the cylindrical portion, and (v) a wall extending in a direction perpendicular to the rotational axis and positioned between a second end of the casing and the first and second projections.
US12124201B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit having a plurality of members, a control unit, and a sound collecting unit. The control unit controls operations of the plurality of members in a first operation mode in which the image forming unit forms an image on a recording material. The sound collecting unit collects a sound that arises in the image forming apparatus during the first operation mode execution to generate a sound signal. When it is determined, based on the generated sound signal, that an abnormal sound has arisen, the control unit determines a source of the abnormal sound by transitioning to a second operation mode after the first operation mode has ended and causing, in the second operation mode, one or more members, from the plurality of members, that are possible sources of the abnormal sound to operate separately from the remaining plurality of members.
US12124200B2
A recording-material-transporting apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a recording material and causes the recording material to pass through an upstream location and a downstream location that is positioned downstream of the upstream location in a recording-material-transporting direction in which the recording material is transported; an upstream reader including a light receiver that receives light reflected by the recording material, the upstream reader reading an image that is formed on a portion of the recording material positioned at the upstream location and that is formed on one surface of the recording material; and a downstream reader including a light receiver that receives light reflected by the recording material, the downstream reader reading an image that is formed on a portion of the recording material positioned at the downstream location and that is formed on other surface of the recording material. The light receiver of the upstream reader is positioned downstream of the upstream location in the recording-material-transporting direction, and/or the light receiver of the downstream reader is positioned upstream of the downstream location in the recording-material-transporting direction.
US12124199B2
An image forming apparatus includes a forming unit, a storage unit, a correction unit, a measurement unit, and a changing unit. The forming unit forms an image. The storage unit stores correction data for correcting density irregularity in each of a plurality of regions obtained through division in a main scanning direction of the image formed by the forming unit. The correction unit corrects a density of the image formed by the forming unit for each of the plurality of regions based on the correction data stored in the storage unit. The measurement unit measures an image formation density by the forming unit in association with the correction by the correction unit. The changing unit changes the image formation density by the forming unit with a uniform change amount in the plurality of regions so that the image formation density measured by the measurement unit approaches a predetermined target density.
US12124198B2
An image forming method includes: forming a toner image on a sheet by using a toner including a first binder resin; and applying, to the toner image, a fixing solution capable of softening the first binder resin so as to fix the toner image to the sheet. The first binder resin is a condensate of a first alcohol component and a first carboxylic acid component. The first alcohol component contains 1,4-butanediol, and the first carboxylic acid component contains polyvalent carboxylic acid. A molar ratio of the 1,4-butanediol in the first alcohol component is not less than 30 mol %.
US12124191B2
A developing device includes a developer bearing member, a developing container which accommodates developer, a conveying screw which conveys the developer accommodated in the developing container, and an inductance sensor which includes a detecting portion which detects magnetic permeability of the developer accommodated in the developing container. The conveying screw includes a rotary shaft, a blade which is spirally formed on an outer circumference of the rotary shaft, and a rib formed to protrude outwardly from the outer circumference of the rotary shaft. The rib is disposed opposite the detection portion with respect to a conveying direction of the conveying screw and is provided with a magnet, with magnetic flux density of the magnet being in the range of 20 mT to 60 mT.
US12124183B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging member, an electrostatic image forming portion, a developing member, a transfer member, a transfer voltage source, a brush member, a brush voltage source, and a controller capable of executing a cleaning operation. The controller carries out control so that the cleaning operation includes a first operation in which a potential difference is formed between the transfer member and the photosensitive member so that toner charged to a normal charge polarity is moved from the transfer member toward the photosensitive member, and a second operation in which a potential difference is formed between the brush member and the photosensitive member so that the toner charged to the normal charge polarity is moved from the photosensitive member toward the brush member.
US12124176B2
An inspection apparatus for inspecting an object such as a pellicle for use in an EUV lithographic apparatus, the inspection apparatus including: a vacuum chamber; a load lock forming an interface between the vacuum chamber and an ambient environment; and a stage apparatus configured to receive the object from the load lock and displace the object inside the vacuum chamber, wherein the vacuum chamber comprises a first parking position and a second parking position for temporarily storing the object.
US12124172B2
The present disclosure provides an ultraviolet radiation control system and a related method for control an ultraviolet radiation in a lithographic apparatus. The ultraviolet radiation control system comprises a housing; a conversion crystal (540), disposed on or in the housing, configured to convert an ultraviolet radiation to a fluorescent radiation; a plurality of photodetectors (550) configured to detect an intensity of a scattered portion of the fluorescent radiation; and at least one diffusive surface (545), disposed on or in the conversion crystal, configured to increase the intensity of the scattered portion of the fluorescent radiation.
US12124164B2
A reflective mask blank includes a substrate, a multilayered reflection film configured to reflect EUV rays, a protection film configured to protect the multilayered reflection film, and an absorption film configured to absorb the EUV rays in this order. The protection film contains Rh as a main component. The multilayered reflection film includes an uppermost layer that is closest to the protection film in the multilayered reflection film and contains Si and N. In the uppermost layer, an element ratio (N/Si) of N to Si is greater than 0.00 and less than 1.50, and an element ratio (O/Si) of O to Si is 0.00 or greater and less than 0.44.
US12124162B2
A substrate with a film for a reflective mask blank including a substrate, a multilayer reflection film and a back surface conductive film having a composition at the side in contact with the substrate and a different composition at the side remotest from the substrate is provided. The composition at the side in contact with the substrate contains silicon and nitrogen, as main components, and the different composition at the side remotest from the substrate contains tantalum, as a main component, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of silicon, germanium and aluminum.
US12124158B2
A control unit (130) is provided for controlling a projection device (100) for directing a light beam (101) to a target (140). The projection device (100) comprises a light beam deflection unit (120) for two-dimensionally deflecting a light beam (101) in a first direction (x) with a first deflection frequency and in a second direction (y) with a second deflection frequency substantially equal to the first deflection frequency. The control unit (130) is configured to control the deflection unit (120) in such a way that a light spot (141) generated by the light beam (101) on the target (140) moves along a nearly circular path (144) changing its radius (R) over time.
US12124154B2
A two-piece extendable L-plate provides clearance between a camera and a quick-release receiver securing the camera to a support permitting a camera having cables connected to the side of the camera's body to be secured in either a landscape or a portrait orientation.
US12124152B2
Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and lens shifting capabilities. In some examples, a folded optics arrangement of the camera may include one or more lens elements and one or more light path folding elements (e.g., a prism). Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements, carrier arrangements, and/or suspension arrangements to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Furthermore, some embodiments include position sensor arrangements for position sensing with respect to AF and/or OIS movement.
US12124151B2
A camera module includes a housing having an internal space, a lens module disposed in the internal space to be slidably movable with respect to the housing, and a driving portion configured to provide a driving force to move the lens module in an optical axis direction. The driving portion includes a wire portion having a length that changes as power is applied to the wire portion, the lens module comprises a guide portion configured to guide a movement of the lens module in the optical axis direction, and the wire portion is in contact with and supported by the guide portion.
US12124142B2
The display device includes: a color display element including pixels that are arranged in a row direction and in a column direction and each include sub-pixels of different colors; and a liquid crystal display panel stacked with the color display element, the liquid crystal display panel including a TFT substrate, a counter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer, the TFT substrate including first bus lines extending in a first direction, second bus lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and display electrodes each at a position corresponding to an intersection of one of the first bus lines and one of the second bus lines, at least one of the first bus lines and at least one of the second bus lines each overlapping at least some sub-pixels of all colors among the sub-pixels of different colors of the color display element in a plan view.
US12124141B2
Provided are an array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes a display area and a frame area, where the frame area includes a wiring area; a substrate; multiple signal lines; multiple connection lines, where the multiple connection lines include a first connection line, and the first connection line is located on a side of the signal line facing away from the substrate; a first wire changing layer, which is located between the display area and the wiring area, and is located on a side of the signal line and the connection line facing away from the substrate, the first wire changing layer is electrically connected to the signal line through a first via hole and is electrically connected to the first connection line through a second via hole.
US12124135B2
A display panel and a display module are disclosed. The display panel includes first pixel electrodes and second pixel electrodes arranged in an array and alternately arranged, each of the first pixel electrodes and the second pixel electrodes includes a trunk portion and a plurality of branch portions connected to the trunk portion, the trunk portion divides each of the first pixel electrodes or the second pixel electrodes into at most two domains, and an extension direction of the branch portions in one of the domains of any one of the first pixel electrodes is different from an extension direction of the branch portions in corresponding one of the domains of adjacent one of the second pixel electrodes, thereby relieving diffraction phenomenon.
US12124133B2
An electro-optical device may include a first substrate, a second substrate, a seal member extending in a first direction and disposed between the first and second substrates in a seal region defined around a pixel area, a first conductive layer disposed between the first substrate and the seal member and extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, a second conductive layer disposed between the first substrate and the first conductive layer and extending in the second direction, a third layer disposed in the pixel area and formed of the first conductive layer, and a fourth layer disposed in the pixel area and formed of the second conductive layer. In plan view, the first conductive layer overlaps the second conductive layer in the seal region. In a cross-sectional view the first direction, the second conductive layer is larger in an outer shape than the first conductive layer.
US12124130B2
A display device includes a backlight unit including: a substrate; a Light Emitting Diode (LED) disposed on a surface of the substrate; and a refractive cover configured to surround the LED. The refractive cover includes: a first refractive surface to: be spaced apart from the LED by a preset distance, be positioned on the upper surface of the substrate, be parallel to an axis of the LED or be inclined within one angle from the axis of the LED; a second refractive surface to be a curved surface in which an angle between a tangent line and the axis of the LED increases from a region connected to another upper portion of the first refractive surface toward a direction of the axis of the LED; and a third refractive surface to be connected to an portion of the second refractive surface and be perpendicular to the axis of the LED.
US12124129B2
The disclosure provides a display apparatus and a display method thereof. The display apparatus includes: a display panel, including a plurality of pixel columns which extend in a first direction and are arranged in a second direction, wherein each of the pixel columns includes a plurality of pixel islands arranged in the first direction, each of the pixel islands includes at least four sub pixels which have the same color, and in the second direction, (odd number)th pixel columns are dislocated by a first preset distance relative to (even number)th pixel columns in the first direction; a light-transmitting pad layer, located on a light-emitting side of the display panel; and a cylindrical lens structure, located on one side of the light-transmitting pad layer face away from the display panel and including a plurality of cylindrical lenses.
US12124128B2
A light source device includes a substrate, a reflective sheet on the substrate and including a through hole, a light source on the substrate, and exposed through the through hole of the reflective sheet, the light source including a light emitting diode (LED), and a quantum dot sheet configured to convert a color of light emitted from the light source, where the substrate includes a diffuse reflection layer exposed through the through hole of the reflective sheet and configured to diffusely reflect light emitted from the light source and light reflected from the quantum dot sheet.
US12124126B2
A backlight unit A backlight unit comprises first and second glass substrates, a resin layer between the first and second glass substrates, light sources on the first and second glass substrates, first and second transistors on the first and second glass substrates and electrically connected with the light sources, and spaced apart from each other, first conductive layers on a portion of an upper surface of the first glass substrate, second conductive layers on a portion of an upper surface of the second glass substrate, and third conductive layers on the first glass substrate, the second glass substrate, and the resin layer, wherein one of the third conductive layers is electrically connected with one of the first conductive layers and one of the second conductive layers and is on a portion of an upper surface of the resin layer.
US12124115B2
An optical article that includes an ophthalmic lens that includes a substrate, a first layer comprising liquid crystals being disposed on at least part of the substrate, and a first and a second electrode made of a conductive material, and a voltage source electrically connected to the first and second electrodes and configured to control an orientation of the liquid crystals depending on the voltage applied. The ophthalmic lens further includes a second layer made of photoconductive material placed between the electrodes, and the optical article further includes a light projector configured to project a light pattern on the second layer of the ophthalmic lens, the second layer being locally conductive when illuminated by the light pattern, the light pattern corresponding to a pattern of refractive index modification to be induced by the liquid crystals of the first layer.
US12124107B2
A lens module includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having negative refractive power, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, a fifth lens having positive or negative refractive power, and a sixth lens having negative refractive power. One or more inflection points may be formed on an image-side surface of the sixth lens.
US12124102B2
A lens assembly includes a lens with a lens barrel and a lens mount assembly. The lens mount assembly includes a lens mount barrel and a protrusion. First threads on the lens barrel and second threads on the lens mount barrel are shaped to permit the lens barrel and the lens mount barrel to be screwed together. The protrusion is positioned to interfere with at least one of the first and second threads as the lens barrel and the lens mount barrel are being screwed together. This interference resists rotation of the lens barrel relative to the lens mount barrel, thereby reducing the likelihood that the lens will be inadvertently screwed or unscrewed away from a desired depth.
US12124096B2
This optical device includes at least one magnetic element including a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a spacer layer sandwiched between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, a laser diode, and a waveguide, in which the waveguide includes at least one input waveguide optically connected to the laser diode and an output waveguide connected to the input waveguide, and at least some of light propagating in at least one of the input waveguide and the output waveguide is applied to the magnetic element.
US12124092B2
A connector for a circuit board includes a connector housing having a mounting arm. The mounting arm has a first fastening element that is releasably connectable to a first connecting element on the circuit board. The connection between the first fastening element and the first connecting element can be established and/or released by deflecting the mounting arm. A securing unit is disposed on the connector housing in such a way that the securing unit is movable between a releasing position and a locking position. In the locking position, the securing unit blocks deflection of the mounting arm. In the releasing position, the securing unit enables deflection of the mounting arm.
US12124084B2
In various examples, a fiber-optic-splice enclosure may be suitable for use in various applications, environments, and use conditions. In at least some embodiments, the fiber-optic-splice enclosure includes an adjustable length, which may permit the fiber-optic-splice enclosure to be customized to fit various lengths of a spliced region. In a further aspect, the fiber-optic-splice enclosure may include a splice retainer to attenuate vibrational and other forces and reduce potential effects of those forces on the splice. Moreover, in some other aspects, the construction of the fiber-optic-splice enclosure may allow for relatively straightforward and efficient assembly. For example, a key and keyway configuration between different components of the fiber-optic-splice enclosure may permit the components to selectively slide relative to one another or be engaged to one another.
US12124081B2
Described herein are photonic communication platforms that can overcome the memory bottleneck problem, thereby enabling scaling of memory capacity and bandwidth well beyond what is possible with conventional computing systems. Some embodiments provide photonic communication platforms that involve use of photonic modules. Each photonic module includes programmable photonic circuits for placing the module in optical communication with other modules based on the needs of a particular application. The architecture developed by the inventors relies on the use of common photomask sets (or at least one common photomask) to fabricate multiple photonic modules in a single wafer. Photonic modules in multiple wafers can be linked together into a communication platform using optical or electronic means.
US12124080B2
A photonic crystal device to be used for trapping an atom and including a photonic crystal body, a slot waveguide, and an attractive force trap light laser. The photonic crystal body includes a base and a plurality of lattice elements periodically provided on the base, the slot waveguide is arranged between periodic lattice rows and includes an opening on one side face of the photonic crystal body, and the attractive force trap light laser is excited by excitation light incident from the opening and oscillates at a wavelength being longer than a wavelength of an absorption edge of the atom.
US12124078B2
A package assembly includes a package substrate including a first die that includes a photonic integrated circuit, a second die located on the first die, the second die including an electronic integrated circuit electrically connected to the photonic integrated circuit, and an interposer module on the package substrate, at least a portion of the interposer module being located on the first die and electrically connected to the photonic integrated circuit.
US12124075B2
A display device including a display panel and a light source module is provided. The light source module includes a flexible light guide and a light emitting element. The flexible light guide has a light exiting portion and a light incident portion. The flexible light guide is bent so that the display panel is located between the light exiting portion and the light incident portion. The light incident portion has a light incident surface at a terminal. A thickness of the light incident portion is gradually increased toward the light incident surface. The light emitting element is disposed to face toward the light incident surface.
US12124073B2
Fabricating a diffractive backlight employs a universal grating and selects a portion of the universal grating using a reflective island to define a grating element, a reflective diffraction grating element of the diffractive backlight including the grating element and the reflective island. A method of fabricating a diffractive backlight includes forming the universal grating, forming the reflective island, and selecting a portion of the universal grating using the reflective island to define the grating element. The method of fabricating a diffractive backlight may include forming the reflective island on a light guide surface and forming the universal grating over the reflective island. Alternatively, the method of fabricating a diffractive backlight may include forming the universal grating on the light guide surface and forming the reflective island over the universal grating.
US12124062B2
Wavelength selection filter, method of manufacturing wavelength selection filter, and display device
A wavelength selection filter includes a first high refractive index section with a thickness T1, a second high refractive index section with a thickness T2, a high refractive index layer with a refractive index n1, a projection-depression structure layer with a refractive index n2, a filling layer with a refractive index n3, a first high refractive index section with an area ratio R1, and a second high refractive index section with an area ratio R2. With n1>n2, n1>n3, and R1+R2>1, the value of T1×{n1×R1+n2×(1−R1)} is a first parameter, the value of T2×{n1×R2+n3×(1−R2)} is a second parameter, and the ratio of the second parameter to the first parameter is 0.7 or more and 1.3 or less.
US12124061B2
Provided are a method of forming a photo-alignment film having a large size that can appropriately align a liquid crystal compound can be formed and a method of forming a liquid crystal layer having a large size in which alignment defects of a liquid crystal compound can be suppressed. The method of forming a photo-alignment film includes: an exposure step of irradiating a surface of a photo-alignment film including a photo-alignment material that is formed on a support with interference light formed by intersection of two light components such that the surface of the photo-alignment film is exposed to form, on the photo-alignment film, an alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction; and a moving step of moving the support by a distance D in a direction parallel to the surface of the support and parallel to a straight line formed by optical axes of the two beams, in which the photo-alignment film is exposed by alternately repeating the exposure step and the moving step. Here, the distance D is represented by λ/{2×sin(α/2)}×N−λ/8
US12124046B2
A laser system may include a laser resonator configured to emit an input laser beam having an elliptical cross-sectional shape. The laser system also may include first reflective device configured to reflect the input laser beam to produce a first reflected laser beam. The first reflective device may include a spherical surface for reflecting the input laser beam. The laser system also may include a second reflective device configured to reflect the first reflected laser beam to produce a second reflected laser beam. The laser system also may include a coupling device configured to focus the second reflected laser beam to produce an output laser beam. The coupling device may include a spherical surface for receiving the second reflected laser beam. The laser system also may include an optic fiber configured to transmit the output laser beam for emission of the output laser beam onto a target area.
US12124042B2
A head-mounted device may have a head-mounted housing. The head-mounted housing may have rear-facing displays that display images for a user. The images are viewable from eye boxes while the head-mounted device is being worn by the user. An electrically adjustable face cushion may be provided between the head-mounted housing and the user's face. The electrically adjustable face cushion may have adjustable elements such as adjustable inflation air bags. Airflow control systems formed from electrically adjustable airflow valves, check valves, and air pumps may be used in controlling inflation of the adjustable inflation air bags in responses to changes in operating mode of the head-mounted device and/or in response to sensor data or other input. The sensor data may include strain gauge measurements of facial pressure on the air bags.
US12124038B2
To provide an image display device capable of improving display at a fovea of an eye, which is the most important part in a display range, such that display at the fovea of the eye is not darkened. There is provided an image display device including: at least one optical element unit including two optical elements facing each other, in which one optical element unit included in the at least one optical element unit includes a first optical element and a second optical element, an image is formed on the basis of image display light which transmits through the first optical element and is emitted to outside of the image display device, the first optical element has a deflection function of deflecting incident light which has a predetermined wavelength and is incident on the first optical element at a predetermined incidence angle to a side of the first optical element on which the incident light is incident, and emits first diffracted light deflected by the deflection function, the second optical element has a lens function for the first diffracted light which has a predetermined wavelength and is incident on the second optical element at a predetermined incidence angle, and a direction of the incidence angle of the incident light and a direction of a diffraction angle of the first diffracted light are different from a direction of an optical axis of the second optical element.
US12124036B2
Provided is a holographic waveguide including a waveguide element configured to guide light, and a diffractive optical element including an aberration correction hologram pattern, the diffractive optical element being provided adjacent to the waveguide element and configured to correct aberrations generated in the light traveling along the waveguide element by the waveguide element.
US12124026B2
A master clock signal for an image capture device and a light emission device is accessed. The master clock signal is divided to generate a high frequency clock signal. A frame timer is used to measure a frame time of the image capture device based on cycles of the high frequency clock signal. Based on an exposure timing signal from the image capture device, estimating an exposure start time for the image capture device; is estimated. Based on the estimated starting time, the light emission device begins emission of a positional tracking pattern at the estimated starting time and for a duration determined by the measured frame time of the image capture device.
US12124013B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially arranged from an object side to an imaging plane. An angle of view of the optical system is 82 degrees or more. A constant indicating brightness of the optical system, F-number, is less than 1.8.
US12124010B2
The disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly, which sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens with a refractive power; a second lens with a refractive power; a third lens with a refractive power; a fourth lens with a refractive power; a fifth lens with a refractive power; and a sixth lens with a refractive power. Wherein Semi-FOV is a half of a maximum field of view of the optical imaging lens assembly, and Semi-FOV satisfies Semi-FOV≥60°; A curvature radius of an object-side surface of the first lens and a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the first lens satisfy −2.5<(R1−R2)/(R1+R2)<−1.0; A curvature radius of an object-side surface of the second lens and a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the second lens satisfy 1.5
US12123997B2
The invention relates to geoelectric prospecting using transient electromagnetic techniques and can be used for detecting three-dimensional bodies in a medium. The problem addressed is that of increasing the resolution capability of electric exploration and the depth of investigation. The essence of the invention is that in a method of prospecting for three-dimensional bodies using geoelectric techniques which includes generating an alternating transverse magnetic (TM) polarized electromagnetic field, measuring an electromagnetic transient response signal of the medium under investigation and interpreting the measurements, the magnetic and electric components of the electromagnetic field are measured and interpreted according to signals received using a three-dimensional model, for which purpose the centre of three-dimensional heterogeneity above which a change in the polarity of the signal takes place is determined on the basis of the measured values of the vertical component of the magnetic field, and the boundary of multiple reservoirs in the target bodies that is near to the source is determined according to a signal of the horizontal angular magnetic component which changes polarity as it approaches the boundaries of a feature, the signals of the horizontal angular magnetic component of the electromagnetic field having the highest value above the feature, between the near-source boundary and the centre of the source, wherein the near-source boundary of the deposits of the target bodies is additionally determined according to an electric component of the electromagnetic field, the character of the signal of which changes drastically upon crossing the boundary of the feature. The transverse magnetic polarized electromagnetic field is generated using both a circular electric dipole and a vertical line.
US12123996B2
The present disclosure provides a method for experimentally determining a critical sand-carrying gas velocity of a shale gas well. The method includes: collecting well structure and production data, calculating parameter ranges of a gas flow velocity and a liquid flow velocity; carrying out a physical simulation experiment of sand carrying in the shale gas well to obtain the sand holding capacity of the wellbore under different experimental conditions, and calculating a sand holding rate; by observing a change curve of the sand holding rate of the wellbore vs. the gas flow velocity, defining a turning point, and sensitively analyzing the influence of other experimental variables on the turning point, to calculate the critical sand-carrying production of the shale gas well under different conditions. Therefore, this calculation method is simple and applicable, and provides a theoretical basis for the optimization design of water drainage and gas production process.
US12123978B2
A distance measurement method, a distance measurement sensor, and a distance measurement sensing array, for use in improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a distance measurement system and increasing the distance measurement accuracy and a distance measurement distance. The method comprises: a receiving end obtains echo radiation, the echo radiation being from a reflecting action performed by an object to be measured on radiation, and the radiation being obtained by a transmitting end by modulating a modulating signal (S202) the receiving end performs at least one adjustment on the initial phase and/or pulse width of a demodulation signal or demodulating the echo radiation until the demodulation signal satisfies a preset condition, the preset condition comprising that an overlapping portion exists between the phase of the demodulation signal and the phase of the echo radiation (S203); the receiving end determines a distance between the transmitting end and the object to be measured according to the overlapping portion and the current phase of the demodulation signal (S204).
US12123976B2
A laser scanner device can be adapted to be mounted to a vehicle, the device comprising a LiDAR module working based on a laser measuring beam and time-of-flight-measurement-principle. The LiDAR module is configured to provide a horizontal field of view of at least 60°, an instantaneous vertical field of view of at least ±2°, a scan resolution of at least one point per 0.8° in horizontal and vertical direction, and a frame rate of at least 10 Hz for scanning at least the entire horizontal and instantaneous vertical field of view with said scan resolution, wherein the LiDAR module comprises a multibeam transmitter configured for generating a plurality of measuring beams.
US12123968B2
Systems and methods for digitally synthesizing chirp signal in a low intermediate frequency (IF) band and using frequency multipliers to generate a higher frequency signal for radar applications are described. An embodiment includes a chirp signal generator that includes: a direct digital frequency synthesizer (DDFS) that is configured to receive an input sync signal and a frequency reference signal and generate several chirp signals at a first frequency that is in a low intermediate frequency (IF) band, several frequency multipliers that are configured to increase the chirp signals to higher frequencies and several bandpass filter circuits that are configured to remove nonlinearities from the chirp signals to generate a clean output signal.
US12123957B2
A GPS tracking device and system, attached to a boat or other asset, with enhanced battery life includes SaaS application to monitor the status of the GPS tracking device battery and determine the intensity of the tracking information desired as the asset and GPS tracking device is moved from the manufacturer to the consumer. The GPS tracking device is mounted within the boat or other asset on the assembly line or in the field at such location as a dealer, for example, and is carried on the boat from the manufacturer to the dealer and ultimately to the consumer.
US12123955B2
Systems and methods for selective and/or opportunistic GNSS/GPS navigation that actively mask or filter satellite signals based on identified “clear sky” or “obstructed sky” regions.
US12123954B2
A LIDAR system including a light source for emitting a light pulse along an optical axis, a deflection device to deflect in an oscillating manner the light pulse along the optical axis in first and second spatial directions so that the light pulse along the optical axis repeatedly runs through a two-dimensional scan pattern, and a control unit for activating and deactivating the light source. The oscillating deflection in the first spatial direction is achieved by repeated first partial movements and second partial movements. The oscillating deflection in the second spatial direction is achieved by repeated third partial movements and fourth partial movements. The control unit activates the light source to emit a light pulse at predefined locations of the scan pattern, and activates the light source to emit a light pulse at different pixels during the first partial movements and/or third partial movements than during the second partial movements and/or fourth partial movements.
US12123953B1
A three-dimensional depth capture system based on active light projection. The system includes a light projector, a camera, and a data processing system. The light projector can project a spatial-temporal light pattern over a two-dimensional field-of-view configured to measure three-dimensional depth of objects illuminated by the light pattern. The light pattern can be projected as a finite sequence of discrete frames. A propagating light field of each of discrete frame can have a spatial intensity pattern. The projected discrete frames can be mathematically described as a product of separated spatial and temporal functions, where the camera functions to image objects illuminated by the projector. The camera can be positioned at a finite baseline distance from the projector, following geometrical guidance of structured light triangulation depth sensing. The camera can have a time-of-flight (TOF) sensor, where the sensor is temporally synchronized with the projector.
US12123943B2
A radar device for a vehicle includes: two or more receiving channels, each of which includes a mixer. At least one or more of the receiving channels includes: a phased array antenna divided into at least two or more branches to provide sub-array antenna elements; and a first phase shifter and a variable gain amplifier as a high frequency unit disposed between each of the sub-array antenna elements and the mixer. A numerical number of the sub-array antenna elements is equal to or more than a numerical number of the high-frequency units.
US12123936B2
An apparatus is disclosed for proximity detection using multiple power levels. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes a first antenna, a second antenna, and a wireless transceiver coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna. The wireless transceiver is configured to transmit multiple transmit signals at multiple power levels via the first antenna. The wireless transceiver is also configured to receive multiple receive signals via the second antenna. At least one receive signal of the multiple receive signals includes a portion of at least one transmit signal of the multiple transmit signals that is reflected by an object. The wireless transceiver is additionally configured to adjust a transmission parameter based on the at least one receive signal. The transmission parameter varies according to a range to the object.
US12123934B2
A radar measuring device including at least: a circuit for generating a radar signal RFIN(t); an emitting antenna; an injection-locked oscillator; a first power divider comprising an input coupled to an output of the circuit for generating the radar signal RFIN(t), a first output coupled to the emitting antenna, and a second output to an input of the injection-locked oscillator which is configured to be locked over a portion of an effective band B of the radar signal RFIN(t); a receiving antenna intended to receive a reflected radar signal RFIN_REFL(t); a mixer comprising a first input coupled to the receiving antenna, a second input coupled to an output of the injection-locked oscillator, and an output coupled to an input to a signal processing circuit.
US12123930B2
The disclosure relates to an RF coil device for an MR or hybrid MR-PET imaging modality, the RF coil device having a marker arrangement comprising a plurality of electromagnetic radiation markers disposed at the outer surface of its housing, wherein the electromagnetic radiation markers are adapted to reflect or emit electromagnetic radiation within the ultraviolet, visible, infrared (IR) and/or Terahertz spectrum. The disclosure also relates to detecting the position and/or orientation and/or shape of the RF coil device using electromagnetic radiation emitted from the electromagnetic radiation markers, and determining an attenuation map for the RF coil device by transforming a predefined attenuation map using the determined position and/or orientation and/or shape of the RF coil device.
US12123929B2
The present invention provides a method for structurally designing that article of manufacture and a constructed and operational article of manufacture that will allow the inclusion of minimally coupled higher order/degree shim coils in any magnetic resonance apparatus. The novel system and methodology includes determining the shim coil terminal voltage without any prior or advance knowledge of the configuration of the electrical windings of the imaging gradient coil that is inducing that voltage.
US12123926B2
The present disclosure relates to a redundant current sensor (100), comprising, in a common chip package (20), a first integrated magnetoresistive sensor circuit (110A) and a second integrated magnetoresistive sensor circuit (110B).
US12123920B2
A method for ascertaining at least one performance characteristic for the operation of an electrical energy store is described, comprising the steps of: a) receiving operating data, in particular current and/or voltage and/or temperature measured values, of a multiplicity of electrical energy stores, wherein the multiplicity of electrical energy stores satisfy a predefined criterion, for example a predefined number of operating hours; b) ascertaining at least one ageing state variable, in particular an electrical capacitance, of the multiplicity of electrical energy stores by evaluating the operating data of the multiplicity of electrical energy stores; c) ascertaining at least one performance characteristic for the operation of an electrical energy store, in particular a maximum charging current, on the basis of the at least one ageing state variable; d) transmitting the at least one performance characteristic to a further multiplicity of electrical energy stores. Furthermore, a corresponding computer program, a corresponding machine-readable storage medium and a corresponding computer apparatus are described.
US12123919B2
A method for validating non-destructive, electromagnetic methods in atmospheric conditions of a battery cell intended to include a lithium metal layer includes selecting a lithium mimic metal layer to replace the lithium metal layer; and creating a mock-up sample including one or more layers of the battery cell. One or more layers comprise the lithium mimic metal layer. The method includes performing electromagnetic testing of the mock-up sample.
US12123914B2
A battery management apparatus and method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure estimates an internal state of a battery cell by updating a battery model, and it is aimed to provide a battery management apparatus and method, which may construct a battery model optimized for a battery cell by obtaining a parameter of the battery model through a neural network and then repeatedly updating the parameter of the battery model based on a difference between an output value of the battery model that reflects the obtained parameter and an actually measured value, and control charging of the battery based on the optimized battery model.
US12123909B2
The present disclosure describes a method that includes scanning a circuit layout and identifying layout regions of the circuit layout. The method further includes placing unit cells in a layout region of the layout regions and forming a micro pad structure at a border of a unit cell of the unit cells. The micro pad structure includes interconnect structures that are electrically connected to the unit cell.
US12123908B1
Loopback testing may be provided for one or more transmission output paths of a semiconductor Integrated Circuit (IC). One or more parametric loopback sensors are provided in the semiconductor IC, each parametric loopback sensor being configured to receive a clocked data input signal to a respective transmitter of the IC and a signal from a transmission output path from the respective transmitter of the IC, and to generate a respective sensor output based on a comparison of the clocked data input signal and the signal from the transmission output path for the respective transmitter of the IC. A programmable load circuit is also provided in the semiconductor IC, coupled to each transmission output path.
US12123906B2
An electronic device inspection apparatus of the present application comprises an inspection table for positioning and holding an electrode disposed on a semiconductor device, a contact element that is formed of a shape memory alloy in a long and thin plate shape and has a base part fixed to the inspection table and a variable part formed in a shape of a spiral at a first temperature and being developed from the spiral at a second temperature; and a measurement circuitry for measuring the semiconductor device by conducting a current to flow into the electrode via the contact element. The axis of the spiral of the variable part is parallel to the electrode face of the positioned electrode and a contact region is formed along a longitudinal direction between the variable part and the positioned electrode at the second temperature.
US12123897B2
A test contactor is disclosed. The test contactor includes two or more dielectric layers and a test probe embedded in the one or more dielectric layers. The test contactor traverses the one or more dielectric layers. The test probe to include an input signal port and an output signal port and the test probe to transmit a test signal from the input signal port to the output signal port.
US12123890B2
A method for determining flow rates and phase fractions within a throughbore is disclosed. The method includes providing a mixture of one or more fluids through a fluid flow path in a throughbore at a flow rate, reducing the flow rate, slidably moving a first and second sleeve along the throughbore to a first position of a plurality of positions, measuring a first and second differential pressure at the first position, calculating a first loss pressure ratio from the first and second differential pressure. The method further includes slidably moving the first sleeve and second sleeve to each of the others of the plurality of positions in succession after the first position, measuring a plurality of differential pressures and calculating a loss pressure ratio at each of the plurality of positions, and calculating a plurality of flow rates phase fractions of the fluids flowing through the fluid flow path.
US12123884B2
An automatic analyzer is capable of normally maintaining a device condition and exhibiting a stable performance by automatically monitoring a cleaning implementation situation using a wash rack. The automatic analyzer includes an analysis unit, a rack loading unit into which at least a sample rack that holds the sample and a wash rack that holds a cleaning liquid are loaded. A transportation mechanism transports the sample rack and the wash rack to the analysis unit. A management control unit causes the wash rack to be transported to an analysis unit, causes a cleaning operation of the analysis unit by the cleaning liquid held by the wash rack, and causes stopping of the sample analysis operation of the analysis unit to which the wash rack has been transported until a performance of the analysis unit is determined to be normal based on the cleaning operation.
US12123883B2
Disclosed herein are improved methods of processing, measuring, and detecting levels of ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) in blood samples taken from a human subject at time points within about 8 hours (or about 8 hours or less) after obtaining the sample from the subject. UCH-L1 is an early biomarker for traumatic brain injury (TBI), and there is a need for improved methods for assessing UCH-L1 in blood can aid in the diagnosis and evaluation of a human subject who has sustained or may have sustained a head injury.
US12123880B2
Provided herein are methods for determining the serotype of a virus particle and/or or determining the heterogeneity of a virus particle (e.g., an AAV particle). In other embodiments, the invention provides methods to determine the heterogeneity of AAV particles. In some aspects, the invention provides viral particles (e.g., rAAV particles) with improved stability and/or improved transduction efficiency by increasing the acetylation and/or deamidation of capsid proteins.
US12123868B2
An indicator of a first type and an indicator of a second type are attached to a unit of a chemical component in a sample to form a first multi-indicator complex. The first multi-indicator complex includes the unit of the chemical component, the indicator of the first type, and the indicator of the second type. The indicator of the first type and the indicator of the second type have different discernible characteristics. An image of the sample, including the first multi-indicator complex corresponding to the unit of the chemical component, is captured by an image sensor. Based on a first image of the sample, a count is generated of multi-indicator complexes that include an indicator of the first type and an indicator of the second type, including the first multi-indicator complex. Based on the count, a presence or a level of the chemical component in the sample is identified.
US12123863B2
Processes and systems for determining asphaltene equilibrium between two or more downhole geographic locations are provided. In some embodiments, the process can include measuring one or more fluid properties of a plurality of fluid samples at varying downhole depths to generate a one or more downhole fluid analysis measurement data points; selecting an asphaltene diameter distribution based on prior knowledge; utilizing the asphaltene diameter distribution to fit a first set of one or more equation of state curves to the one or more downhole fluid analysis measurement data points to define a first model of fitted equation of state curves and to determine one or more posterior distributions of asphaltene diameters; and determining if the varying downhole depths are in an asphaltene equilibrium by determining whether the one or more posterior distributions of asphaltene diameters is consistent with that of asphaltenes in equilibrium.
US12123862B2
A method for the handling of melt samples in a steelworks laboratory may involve processing and/or analyzing a melt sample in at least one first treatment apparatus and subsequently transporting the melt sample via at least one first transport path to at least one second treatment apparatus where the melt sample is subjected to further processing and/or analysis. As part of the transporting step, the method may involve clamping the melt sample on a sample carrier so that the sample carrier is transported together with the clamped-in melt sample between the treatment apparatuses and is positioned in the treatment apparatuses for processing and/or analysis.
US12123861B2
A method in which on a basis of sensor information of a MOX sensor captured at different operating temperatures in different freshness state determination cycles a freshness state of a food is determined. A further aspect relates to a method in which additional information relating to a food is determined. A storage container, a computer program product, and a household cooling appliance implement the above noted methods.
US12123855B2
The present invention discloses a chromatographic analysis device based on a multifunctional integrated probe, and a use method of the chromatographic analysis device. The chromatographic analysis device integrates chromatographic sampling, sample injection and separation functions into the integrated probe. Meanwhile, the present invention further discloses a method for performing microsample analysis by the chromatographic analysis device based on the multifunctional integrated probe. The present invention has the main advantages as follows: the device is high in integration level, small in dead volume, simple in structure, convenient to use and particularly suitable for microsample analysis with a small sample amount, provides a new chromatographic sample injection mode for chromatographic analysis, and provides an ideal platform for chromatographic analysis and on-site chromatographic analysis of a trace amount of samples.
US12123851B2
Provided is a load measuring device and a load measuring method, capable of preventing a measuring error caused by an initial load in a state where an elastic member is held by a pair of holding parts when a load of the elastic member at the time of stretching is measured. A pair of holding parts 5, 7 are caused to approach or space away with respect to each other relatively to an initial position at which the pair of the holding parts hold a close contact spring S, thereby making an initial load measured at the initial position zero, the pair of holding parts 5, 7 are caused to space away with respect to each other from a starting position being a position at which the initial load becomes zero, and a load at a time of stretching is caused to be measured.
US12123850B1
A system and method for testing inhomogeneities in a fluid within a conduit and exhibiting an indication of any inhomogeneities within the fluid on a light emitting element, a graphical display, or an audio disseminator in a streaming fashion. The method is performed using a portable detector, which includes a pair of electromechanical transducers, a processor, and a display that are in electrical communication. The electromechanical transducers are acoustically coupled to the conduit. The system displays a graphical representation or a second graphical representation when an inhomogeneity is detected or not, respectively. The graphical representation and the second graphical representation are displayed graphically as they are determined in a streaming fashion. The representation of each inhomogeneity comprises an indicator on a graphical display and the light emitting element. The representation of each inhomogeneity includes an audio element emitted by audio disseminator for each inhomogeneity detected.
US12123839B2
A manufacturing method is provided. During this method, a preform component for a turbine engine is provided that includes a substrate. A meter section of a cooling aperture is formed in the substrate. An external coating is applied over the substrate. At least a portion of the substrate and the external coating is scanned with an imaging system to provide scan data indicative of an internal structure of the portion of the substrate and the external coating. A diffuser section of the cooling aperture is formed in the external coating and the substrate based on the scan data.
US12123829B2
An optical device includes: a light source part configured to project illumination light toward a sensing region; a photodetector configured to receive reflected light of the illumination light reflected on the sensing region; and a condenser mirror. The condenser mirror has a through hole through which the illumination light from the light source part passes and an optical axis of the light source part and an optical axis of the condenser mirror are aligned with each other. A reflection surface of the condenser mirror has a shape obtained by cutting out a columnar body extending in a projection direction of the illumination light, with a spheroid whose rotation axis is a major axis. The photodetector is disposed in a direction toward a first focal position of the condenser mirror. The sensing region is set in a direction toward a second focal position of the condenser mirror.
US12123827B2
In a plasmonic structure, a first conductor layer, a dielectric layer, and a second conductor layer are stacked in this order. The second conductor layer includes a plurality of conductor patterns that is two-dimensionally and periodically arranged, each of the plurality of conductor patterns having a circular shape or a regular polygonal shape. A diameter D of a circle circumscribed on each of the plurality of conductor patterns satisfies 200 nm≤D≤800 nm. A thickness g of the dielectric layer and the diameter D satisfy 0.3≤g/D≤0.6.
US12123823B2
A coated structure with a monitoring system, the structure comprising a base having a base surface, a coating joined to the base surface in a base interface and extending in a thickness direction to an outer coating surface, a sensor comprising at least one electrode embedded in the coating, an I/O device configured to generate an input signal in the sensor and to read an output signal from the sensor, a data logger configured to log the output signal from the I/O device, and a computer unit configured to use the logged signal from the data logger. To provide improved information related to the condition of the structure or coating, the computer unit is configured to determine at least two separate indexes, each index related to a property of the coating or the structure.
US12123822B2
An imaging system according to an embodiment may include an ultrasonic oscillation part configured to apply ultrasonic waves to a sample, an image acquisition part configured to acquire a plurality of images of the sample deformed by the ultrasonic waves, and a computation part configured to compute a deformation rate on the basis of a change in thickness of the sample from the plurality of images, in which the computation part computes an elastic modulus of the sample on the basis of intensity of the ultrasonic waves and the deformation rate of the sample.
US12123814B1
Formulations for extraction and stabilization of G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCRs), kits and methods for their use for extracting GPCRs from biological specimens (e.g., cells and tissues), and methods for making such formulations in bulk scale are described. GPCRs extracted from cells and tissues using the described formulations remain in a functional, solubilized form over extended time periods.
US12123807B2
A fluid detection system, method, and apparatus are disclosed. A fluid detection fabric includes a top layer, a middle layer, a bottom layer, a fluid detection sensor, and a control hub. The middle layer separates the top layer and bottom layer. The top layer, middle layer, and bottom layer are configured to connect electrically using a liquid pathway when liquid is present.
US12123806B2
An air-operated pump, such as an air-operated diaphragm pump, includes a pump body, a process liquid pathway defined at least in part by the pump body, and an air pathway defined at least in part by the pump body, where the process liquid pathway and air pathway are fluidly separated from one another within the pump body. The pump further includes a leak detection and containment assembly integrated with the pump body and having a process liquid sensor configured to sense process liquid leaked from the process liquid pathway into the air pathway, and a shutoff valve communicatively coupled to the process liquid sensor and configured to close in response to the process liquid sensor sensing a process liquid leak to contain the leaked process liquid within the pump body and the assembly.
US12123804B2
A positioning tool for an endoscopic inspection means for inspecting a manifold casing of an aircraft turbine engine includes an annular wall with through holes. The annular wall is surrounded by an annular manifold having at least one gas port emerging in an annular recess delimited between the manifold and the wall. The tool further includes a centering device configured to be engaged in the port and having a distal end configured to bear against the wall, and a proximal end configured to be held securely on an opening of the port. At least one mask is configured to be engaged in the port and to be positioned and secured on the centering device. The mask comprising includes an endoscopic inspection window for inspecting a zone to be inspected inside the port and/or the recess.
US12123795B2
A crank transmission having a crankshaft for connection to at least one foot or hand crank and at least one gear wheel driven by means of the crankshaft (5) is proposed. A coupling unit is provided between the crankshaft and the gear wheel. Under load, the coupling unit has at least temporarily an angular offset between a crank-side receiving region and an output region connected to the gear wheel for receiving and outputting the torque generated via the crank.
US12123793B2
A method of manufacture of a strain gage or flexible polyimide-based resistor, the method including the steps of providing a flexible polyimide substrate, joining a conductive foil to the flexible polyimide substrate, applying a layer of photoresist to the conductive foil and thereafter, patterning the conductive foil by etching using the photoresist, wherein the method is characterized in that it includes at least one of the following steps: surface conditioning of the flexible polyimide substrate using mechanical abrasion, scrubbing of the conductive foil prior to the patterning, removal of photoresist by scrubbing following the patterning, pressurized cleaning, using deionized water, following the patterning, automated algorithmic resistance calibration and shunt trimming and forming an emulsion layer of epoxy over the conductive foil following the patterning.
US12123788B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of biometric parameter measurement, and in particular, to a temperature measurement circuit, a temperature measurement method, a temperature and light intensity measurement circuit, a temperature and light intensity measurement method, a chip, a module, and an electronic device. A temperature signal is obtained based on an output voltage of a differential amplifier circuit when a non-inverting input terminal of the differential amplifier circuit is unload, an output voltage of the differential amplifier circuit when the non-inverting input terminal of the differential amplifier circuit is connected to a calibration resistor, and the output voltage of the differential amplifier circuit when the non-inverting input terminal of the differential amplifier circuit is connected to a thermistor, which improves the accuracy of the temperature measurement.
US12123786B2
Technology is disclosed herein that the enhances the measurability of on-chip temperature in a cryogenic quantum computing environment. In an implementation, transceiver circuitry sends a probe signal through a target device. A lumped-element resonator device that is proximate to the surface of the target device interacts with the probe signal and modulates the probe signal. Processing circuitry reads the probe signal through the target device, and responsively measures the resonance frequency of the lumped-element resonator device. The processing circuitry correlates the measured resonance frequency with a temperature and responsively determines the temperature of the target device.
US12123782B2
A temperature sensor device measures a temperature related to a transport cart system and wirelessly transmits the measured temperature. In the transport cart system a transport cart obtains electric power from the power supply line in a non-contact manner. The temperature sensor device includes an E-shaped core, a sensor body, and a temperature sensing substrate. The E-shaped core obtains electric power from the power supply line in a non-contact manner. The sensor body operates by electric power supplied by the E-shaped core and measures the temperature in the vicinity of the terminal block of the transport cart system. The temperature sensing substrate operates by electric power supplied by the E-shaped core and wirelessly transmits the temperature measured by the sensor body.
US12123779B2
The present invention provides a far infrared (FIR) sensor device formed on a substrate, wherein the FIR sensor device includes: a sensor region, which is formed on the substrate, and is configured to operably sense a far infrared signal; and a sensor dielectric layer, which is formed on the sensor region, wherein a thickness of the sensor dielectric layer is determined by a sacrificial metal layer.
US12123778B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods for monitoring thermal characteristics of substrates, substrate processes and/or substrate processing module components are disclosed herein. More specifically, the present disclosure provides various embodiments of a thermal imaging sensor within various substrate processing modules (e.g., a liquid dispense module, a baking module or combined bake module, an interface block, a wafer inspection system (WIS) module, a plating dispense module or another processing module) of a substrate processing system. By positioning the thermal imaging sensor at various locations within the substrate processing system, the present disclosure enables thermal data to be remotely collected from the substrate surface, a liquid dispensed onto the substrate surface, a processing space surrounding the substrate, or a component included within a substrate processing module (e.g., a liquid dispense nozzle, a spin chuck, a spin coat cup, a cooling arm, a WIS component, a heating component, etc.).
US12123775B2
A device for detecting exposure to light includes: a photo-responsive layer including a photochromic material; a skin-mimicking cover layer covering a first side of the photo-responsive layer; and an adhesive layer configured to couple a second side of the photo-responsive layer opposite the first side to a surface.
US12123772B2
An integrated circuit includes a photodetection region configured to receive incident photons. The photodetection region is configured to produce a plurality of charge carriers in response to the incident photons. The integrated circuit includes a charge carrier storage region. The integrated circuit also includes a charge carrier segregation structure configured to selectively direct charge carriers of the plurality of charge carriers directly into the at least one charge carrier storage region based upon times at which the charge carriers are produced.
US12123770B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a light-to-frequency sensor conversion. In some implementations, a first output waveform is generated from a light signal, a frequency of the first output waveform being based on an intensity of the light signal, including integrating the light signal across multiple clock cycles. In response to receiving a notification, a hold operation is performed to stop integrating the light signal for a period of time. In response to an end of the hold operation, a second output waveform is generated that includes integrating the intensity of the light signal starting from the end of the hold operation over a count of the multiple clock cycles that start after the end of the hold operation by a delay amount. The first output waveform and the second output waveform are summed to determine the intensity of the light signal.
US12123769B2
A laser diode includes a semiconductor structure of a lower Bragg reflector layer, an active region, and an upper Bragg reflector layer. The upper Bragg reflector layer includes a lasing aperture having an optical axis oriented perpendicular to a surface of the active region. The active region includes a first material, and the lower Bragg reflector layer includes a second material, where respective lattice structures of the first and second materials are independent of one another. Related laser arrays and methods of fabrication are also discussed.
US12123763B2
A bed comprises substrate support members, each including a load bearing and a base configured to provide contact with a floor. The load bearing member is configured to move vertically relative to the base, while the base and the load bearing member are configured to fit together to maintain lateral alignment of the base and the load bearing member. A load sensor is positioned between the base and the load bearing member, the load bearing member configured to transmit a load from the substrate to the load sensor. A printed circuit board is in communication with the load sensor. A controller is in communication with the printed circuit board of each substrate support member and is configured to receive and process data output by the printed circuit boards.
US12123759B2
Ultrasonic flowmeter includes fluid flow path through which a measurement target fluid flows and a pair of ultrasonic transducers that can transmit and receive an ultrasonic signal. The ultrasonic flowmeter further includes flow rate calculator that calculates a flow velocity or flow rate of a measurement target fluid. In addition, fluid flow path includes a main flow path including a plurality of divided flow paths obtained by dividing a flow path having a rectangular cross-section by the same width, and a sub flow path including an added flow path having the same width as that of the divided flow path and having a height lower than that of the divided flow path. Furthermore, flow rate calculator calculates the flow rate of the measurement target fluid flowing through the fluid flow path from the flow velocity or flow rate of the measurement target fluid obtained based on the propagation time.
US12123756B2
An insert-type electromagnetic flow sensor is disclosed. The flow sensor comprises an insert, first and second electrodes supported on opposite sides of the insert and a drive coil housed in the insert. The drive coil is offset from a midpoint between the first and second electrodes and/or a width of the drive coil between the first and second opposite sides at least partially overlaps with respective inner portions of the first and second electrodes. The drive coil includes at least five turns.
US12123755B2
A method for operating a measuring system includes: carrying out impedance measurements with at least three property measurement electrodes on a medium in a first region of a measuring tube interior over an impedance measurement period and, at the same time, signaling the impedance measurement period by a measuring signal to a flow measurement controller; determining a property of the medium from the impedance measurements using impedance tomography; generating a magnetic field in the medium in a second region of the measuring tube interior by the flow measurement controller using a magnetic field generator; carrying out voltage measurements at a sampling rate using at least two flow measurement electrodes on the medium in the second region; taking an impedance measurement duration from the measuring signal; and discarding the voltage measurements carried out during the impedance measurements; and determining a flow rate of the medium from the remaining voltage measurements.
US12123747B2
A mounting system configured to support a component relative to a mounting surface of a vehicle includes a mounting bracket including a mounting portion configured to be coupled to the mounting surface of the vehicle. The mounting bracket defining a component receptacle configured to support the component. The mounting bracket comprises a first plastic material. The mounting system also includes a seal coupled to the mounting bracket and configured to engage the mounting surface of the vehicle to inhibit ingress of debris between the mounting portion and the mounting surface of the vehicle. The seal comprises a second plastic material, different than the first plastic material. The mounting system may be included in a window assembly where the mounting surface of the vehicle is an inner surface of a transparent pane and the component is a sensor.
US12123745B2
Provided are material testing devices and methods for measuring certain physical properties of materials, such as for example, drying, curing, film formation, friction, adhesion, print resistance, and scratch resistance. The testing device includes a platform, a stylus comprising a probe, an angle sensor, a linear position sensor, a control system with a power supply and a control center which may be programmed with testing parameters.
US12123735B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to generating and providing route options for an autonomous vehicle. For example, a user may identify a destination, and in response the vehicle's computer may provide routing options to the user. The routing options may be based on typical navigating considerations such as the total travel time, travel distance, fuel economy, etc. Each routing option may include not only an estimated total time, but also information regarding whether and which portions of the route may be maneuvered under the control of the vehicle alone (fully autonomous), a combination of the vehicle and the driver (semiautonomous), or the driver alone. The time of the longest stretch of driving associated with the autonomous mode as well as map information indicating portions of the routes associated with the type of maneuvering control may also be provided.
US12123733B2
Methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for surface detection and geolocation are provided. The disclosed technology can receive location request data associated with a request for a geographic location of a user device in an environment. Based on the location request data, images of segments of a surface of the environment can be accessed. The geographic location of the user device can be determined based on the segment signatures that match stored segment signatures respectively associated with stored geographic locations. The segment signatures can be based on the images of the segments of the surface of the environment. Map data including information associated with a geographic area can be accessed. Furthermore, indications can be generated and the indications can include information associated with the geographic location of the user device within the geographic area.
US12123731B2
In one aspect, a system and method is provided whereby map-related requests from mobile devices are used to store and aggregate routes. The routes are then used to determine optimum directions in response to subsequent requests.
US12123714B2
An eddy current sensor assembly includes an eddy current sensor and an output signal processing circuit that processes an output signal from the eddy current sensor. The output signal processing circuit includes a mixer circuit that accepts the output signal and a signal of the predetermined frequency as input, multiplies the two signals received as input, and outputs an output signal obtained by the multiplication, and a low-pass filter that accepts the output signal output by the mixer circuit as input, cuts a high-frequency signal included in the output signal received as input, and outputs at least a direct-current (DC) signal.
US12123703B2
According to an embodiment, an optical apparatus includes an illumination unit, a light-receiving unit and a processing unit. The illumination unit can illuminate an object with a plurality of pattern rays including rays with different wavelengths simultaneously. The light-receiving unit includes a pixel that can receive the rays from the object to disperse at least two of the different wavelengths included in the pattern rays. The processing unit acquires information on the object based on a result of the pixel of the light-receiving unit receiving the pattern rays with which the illumination unit illuminates the object simultaneously.
US12123701B2
A system for measuring the topography of a surface including a carriage assembly and a base assembly. The carriage assembly comprising a plurality of displacement-measuring probes coupled to a carriage support structure. The base assembly positioned adjacent to the carriage assembly and comprising at least one reference object with an opening sized to receive a test object. At least one of the carriage assembly or the base assembly is configured to translate with respect to the other in at least two directions to enable at least one of the displacement-measuring probes to measure a displacement to a reference surface of the reference object and at least another one of the displacement-measuring probes to measure a displacement to a target surface of the target object whose topography is measured.
US12123700B2
Methods and systems of measurement for blown film lines are provided. The sensing system includes a terahertz (THz) sensor positioned adjacent to a film bubble extruded from a blown film die, and a sensor support configured to guide the THz sensor around the circumference of the film bubble to measure its film thickness.
US12123695B2
The present disclosure relates to a high-stiffness arrow shaft, which has an arrowhead disposed at one side thereof and a nock disposed at the other side thereof, and a method of manufacturing the same, the high-stiffness arrow shaft including at least one sheet layer arranged in one direction while being stacked and wound around at least a part of a body of the arrow shaft, in which at least a part of the sheet layer is made of a semi-transparent or transparent material, and a plurality of carbon fiber reinforcing sheets is disposed at predetermined angles in at least one of a plurality of sheet parts.
US12123681B2
An alignment mechanism uses two adjustment plates. A first adjustment plate is pivotal about a first adjustment axis and a second adjustment plate is rotatable about a second adjustment axis. The first and second adjustment axes are perpendicular to one another. The first plate has a front portion through which the first adjustment axis passes and a rear portion having a first alignment surface and a tension spring secured to the rear portion opposite the first alignment surface. The second adjustment plate has a front portion and a rear portion having a second alignment surface and a tension spring secured between the second alignment surface and the rear portion of the first adjustment plate.
US12123668B2
An ambidextrous bolt catch for use with a firearm, including: a bolt catch; a first lever operably coupled to the bolt catch via a connecting pin, wherein movement of the bolt catch causes movement of the first lever and movement of the first lever causes movement of the bolt catch; and a second lever pivotally mounted to the first lever.
US12123655B2
Systems and methods for energy storage and energy recovery are provided. An electrical-to-electrical energy storage system includes a thermochemical energy storage device, a blower, a compressor, a turbine, and an electrical generator. The TCES device includes a vessel, a porous bed, and a heater. The porous bed is disposed within an interior volume of the vessel. The porous bed comprises a reactive material. The reactive material is configured to release oxygen upon being heated to a reduction temperature, and generate heat when exposed to oxygen. The heater is in thermal contact with the reactive material. The blower is configured to remove oxygen from the interior volume. The compressor is configured to flow oxygen into the interior volume. The turbine is configured to receive a heated, oxygen-depleted gas from the interior volume. The generator is configured to be powered by the turbine to generate electricity.
US12123648B2
The present invention relates to a desiccation apparatus, the apparatus comprising: a hollow drum mounted for revolution about a substantially longitudinal axis, the drum comprising a shell having an interior surface and an exterior surface; and a means to generate airflow through the hollow drum.
US12123645B2
An installation and method for purifying and liquefying natural gas having, arranged in series, an adsorption purification unit, a unit for separating hydrocarbons by refrigeration, and a liquefier. The installation has a gas power plant for combined production of heat and electricity by hydrocarbon combustion. The installation has at least one electrical member, with the power plant being electrically connected to at least one of the electrical members in order to supply them with electrical energy.
US12123644B2
An optimal package structure and an amount of refrigerant to insert into the package structure are determined based upon product information, consumer preference information, and weather information. The optimal package structure and the amount of refrigerant are an optimized combination that is effective to both protect the product from damage and preserve the product from spoilage. A package is constructed to contain the product according to the optimal package structure and the amount of refrigerant is inserted into the structure.
US12123638B2
A refrigerator includes a filter, a receiver, a manifold, and a cam. The filter has a handle extending therefrom. The receiver defines a cavity configured to receive the filter. The manifold is configured to engage an opposing end of the filter relative to the handle via axial rotation of the filter. The manifold is configured to pivot upward to transition the filter to an activated position. The manifold is configured to pivot downward to transition the filter to a deactivated position. The cam is configured to interfere with the handle in response to partial axial rotation of the filter to prevent the filter from pivoting upward to the activated position. The cam is configured to provide clearance for the handle in response to full axial rotation of the filter to facilitate the filter pivoting upward to the activated position.
US12123632B2
A compressor and a refrigeration device are provided. The compressor has a housing, a first cylinder, a first piston, a second cylinder and a second piston. The housing has a first air outlet port and a second air outlet port. The first cylinder has an accommodating cavity, and the first piston is eccentrically disposed in the first accommodating cavity. The second cylinder has a second accommodating cavity, and the second piston is eccentrically disposed in the second accommodating cavity.
US12123617B2
A cooling system utilizes an organic ionic salt composition for dehumidification of an airflow. The organic ionic salt composition absorbs moisture from an inlet airflow to produce an outlet airflow with a reduce moisture from that of the inlet airflow. The organic ionic salt composition may be regenerated, wherein the absorbed moisture is expelled by heating with a heating device. The heating device may be an electrochemical heating device, such as a fuel cell, an electrochemical metal hydride heating device, an electrochemical heat pump or compressor, or a condenser of a refrigerant cycle, which may utilize an electrochemical pump or compressor. The efficiency of the cooling system may be increased by utilization of the waste heat the cooling system. The organic ionic salt composition may circulate back and forth or in a loop between a conditioner, where it absorbs moisture, to a regenerator, where moisture is desorbed by heating.
US12123614B2
A ducted air conditioner includes a housing, a heat-retaining and drainage assembly, a fan assembly and an air conditioning device. The heat-retaining and drainage assembly is disposed in the housing, and includes a first heat-retaining member and a second heat-retaining member. The first heat-retaining member includes a first dividing plate. The second heat-retaining member is stacked with the first heat-retaining member, the second heat-retaining member includes a second dividing plate connected to the first heat-retaining member. An inner space of the housing is divided to a first cavity and a second cavity, an arrangement direction of the first cavity and the second cavity is perpendicular to a stacking direction of the first heat-retaining member and the second heat-retaining member. The fan assembly is disposed in the first cavity. The air conditioning device is disposed in the second cavity, and located between the first heat-retaining member and the second heat-retaining member.
US12123608B2
A device is configured to operate a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The device is further configured to determine that the amount of time to ignite a burner in a burner assembly has exceeded a time threshold value and that a flame was not detected by a flame sensor. The device is further configured to receive an audio signal from a microphone while operating the HVAC system, to identify an audio signature for the flame, and to determine whether the audio signature for the flame is present within the first audio signal. The device is further configured to determine a fault type based on the determination of whether the audio signature for the flame is present within the audio signal, to identify a component identifier for a component of the HVAC system that is associated with fault type, and to output a recommendation identifying the component identifier.
US12123606B2
A heat pump including a housing configured to be disposed outdoors; a compressor that compresses a refrigerant; a fluid refrigerant heat exchanger configured to perform heat exchange between the refrigerant and a fluid; an outdoor heat exchanger configured to perform heat exchange between the refrigerant and outdoor air; a pressure sensor configured to detect a pressure of the refrigerant flowing between the compressor and the fluid refrigerant heat exchanger; a first shut-off valve disposed in a pipe connected to a discharge of the compressor; a second shut-off valve disposed between the outdoor heat exchanger and the compressor; and a controller configured to: determine whether the refrigerant leaks, control the first shut-off valve to be closed, when the refrigerant leaks, and control the second shutoff valve to be closed, when the pressure sensed by the pressure sensor is less than a predetermined reference pressure.
US12123601B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to a domestic hot water (DHW) preheater operable to supply domestic hot water to a structure and/or to preheat a cold return of a space heating system.
US12123600B2
A heater arrangement system for a water provision system for controlling a water supply provided to a water outlet, the water outlet being arranged to provide heated water to a user, the heater arrangement system comprising: a water heating device disposed remotely from the water outlet; and a control unit communicatively coupled to the water heating device, the control unit being configured to: receive a request from a user to enable a reduced temperature water supply mode, which provides for heated water to be supplied to the water outlet at a first temperature for a fixed period of time and then provides for the temperature to be lowered to a second temperature once the fixed time has elapsed; and for a user for which the request has been received, upon detecting that the user has opened the water outlet, providing heated water at the first temperature for a first period of time, then reducing the temperature of the heated water from the first temperature to a second temperature lower than the first temperature after the first period of time has elapsed.
US12123594B1
The lighter is an ignition device. The lighter includes a housing structure, a fuel system, and an ignition circuit. The housing contains the fuel system and the ignition circuit. The fuel system provides the ignition circuit with a supply of a hydrocarbon based fuel. The ignition system provides the fuel with a source of plasma that is used to initiate a combustion reaction that converts the fuel into a flame. The ignition system continuously provides the plasma to the fuel to ensure that the flame is continuously sustained.
US12123591B2
An aircraft reading light with a color-tunable reading light output includes: a white light source for emitting white light; a colored light source for emitting colored light; and an optical element, which is arranged for directing colored light that is emitted by the colored light source onto the white light source for being diffusely reflected at the white light source. The colored light source is controllable independently from the white light source.
US12123588B1
A light-emitting fan contains: a frame, a motor, a fan blade, a slidably electrical connector, and a power connector. The frame includes a first electrical connection portion and a second electrical connection portion. The first electrical connection portion has multiple first electrodes, and the second electrical connection portion has multiple second electrodes. The frame further includes multiple retainers and multiple coupling portions. The slidably electrical connector includes a slider and multiple third electrodes. The slidably electrical connector is slid to a first position and a second position. The power connector includes a slide casing, and the slide casing has multiple fourth electrodes and a power cable configured to connect with an external power supply.
US12123587B2
A speaker assembly is disclosed. The speaker assembly includes: a speaker configured to provide sound in a first direction; a light-transmitting plate spaced apart from the speaker in the first direction and facing the speaker, the light-transmitting plate being configured to reflect the sound in a second direction that is different from the first direction; and an optical assembly disposed opposite the speaker with respect to the light-transmitting plate, the optical assembly being configured to provide light to the light-transmitting plate.
US12123579B2
An LED lamp includes a middle component and two light frames; wherein the two light frames are respectively and rotatably connected on two sides of the middle component; each light frame comprises two connecting tubes which are opposite to and spaced with each other, and at least one LED light module is connected between the two connecting tubes. The LED light module includes a heat sink and at least one LED light board installed on the heat sink; the LED light module is rotatably connected with the connecting tube. Since the light frames are rotatably connected with the middle component, the LED lamp can be folded to facilitate product packaging.
US12123577B2
A hoistable lamp having hoistable emergency power supply, also including a hoisting piece; wherein the hoistable emergency power source, the lamp shell of the hoistable lamp, and the hoisting piece are connected; the hoistable emergency power source is connected to a power-supply power cable and a dimming signal control cable, and is also connected to a power-taking power cable and a dimming signal input cable of the hoistable lamp. Assembling and disassembling of the hoistable emergency power supply are facilitated.
US12123567B2
A lighting device (1) for a motor vehicle headlamp, including an optoelectronic component (2), a cooling element (3), a circuit board (4), a stabilisation element (5) and a fastening element (6), wherein the stabilisation element (5) comprises an opening (5a) for enclosing the optoelectronic component (2), wherein at least two stabilisation arms (7) extend away from an edge of the opening (5a), which stabilisation arms (7) are equipped to act on the optoelectronic component (2), wherein the cooling element (3) contacts the optoelectronic component (2) on a side facing away from an active side of the optoelectronic component in such a manner that the same exerts a pressure on the optoelectronic component (2) acting in the direction of the active side of the optoelectronic component (2), wherein the at least two stabilisation arms (7) are designed resiliently and act on the active side of the optoelectronic component (2) in such a manner that the at least two stabilisation arms (7) counteract this pressure of the cooling element (3).
US12123560B2
The disclosure includes a convertible light device comprising a device housing, a battery pack removably coupled to the housing, and an elongate flexible light source detachably coupled to the device housing and electrically coupled to the battery pack, where the elongate flexible light source comprises a plurality of LEDs. In some embodiments, the convertible light device is configured to convert between a rope mode and a lantern mode. In the rope mode, the elongate flexible light source may be configured to extend from the device housing. In the lantern mode, the elongate flexible light source may be configured to wrap around the device housing.
US12123556B2
The fixing structure includes a first structure part and a second structure part. The first structure part is capable of sleeving over an end of the LED tube lamp and engages with the second structure part. The first structure part includes: a receiving opening capable of being inserted by the end of the LED tube lamp; a position through hole penetrating a back wall of the receiving opening, an area of the position through hole on the back wall being smaller than an area of the bottom wall of the receiving opening, the position through hole capable of engaging with a position part on the end of the LED tube lamp; at least two pins disposed on an outer surface of the back wall; and two convex walls disposed on two opposite outer surfaces of the first structure part. Each of the convex wall forms a coupling structure with the first structure part. The second structure part includes a first wall, a second wall, a third wall and a fourth wall. The third wall has a first side, second side, third side and fourth side. The first side is parallel with the third side and the second side is parallel with the fourth side. The first wall connects to the first side of the third wall and is substantially perpendicular with the third wall. The second wall connects to the third side of the third wall and is substantially parallel with the first wall. The fourth wall connects to the second side and is substantially perpendicular with the third wall.
US12123551B2
Portable natural gas distribution systems for dual fuel fleets such as hydraulic fracturing fleets are described.
US12123543B2
The inclination sensor includes a gimbal mechanism rotatably supported around a first shaft and a second shaft, a first motor, a second motor, an acceleration sensor disposed in the gimbal mechanism with an origin point of coordinate axes being coincident with a point of intersection of a shaft center of the first shaft and a shaft center of the second shaft, and a control unit that simultaneously rotates the first shaft and the second shaft to continuously rotate the acceleration sensor around the first shaft and the second shaft and applies frequency analysis to the output values from the acceleration sensor to arithmetically determine the inclination angle with respect to the horizontal direction.
US12123540B2
A detachable coupling device with automatic closure for the transport of fluid, including two fluid transport pipes extending in a longitudinal direction and each having, at one connection end, a valve mechanism, the device also including an external tube disposed around each transport pipe and, in the coupled position, the two connection ends are configured to be relatively longitudinally displaceable between a first configuration, in which the valve mechanisms are closed, and a second configuration, in which the valve mechanisms are open, the transition from the first configuration to the second configuration being realized by a relative longitudinal movement of the two valve mechanisms close to one another.
US12123534B2
A firestop collar (10) for sealing of openings, especially of line penetrations (12), that pass through walls (11) or ceilings has a frame (16) and a block (20) of optionally intumescent material disposed therein, and is characterized in that an intumescent inlay (22) is disposed between the block (20) and the frame (16).
US12123532B2
A connector is provided comprising a hollow connector body having a central aperture and a hollow tube that is rotatable within the central aperture without rotating the hollow connector body.
US12123529B2
A coupling system, in particular for tubular elements, with a socket element and a plug-in element, wherein a locking element is also provided, wherein the socket element has a tube-like receiving region for receiving the plug-in element, wherein the locking element has a securing element which is supported in the plugging-in direction against a securing mating element of the plug-in element and the locking element is supported with a locking device against a locking mating device on the socket element, and therefore the socket element and the plug-in element are secured axially indirectly via the locking element and thus via the securing element, the securing mating element and the locking device and the locking mating device.
US12123525B2
A liquid medium delivery device has: first and second rigid pipes configured to receive flowing liquid medium from a pump. The first rigid pipe has a first curved portion. The second rigid pipe has a second curved portion. The curved portions are at least partially nested. An actuator is connected to the first rigid pipe or the second rigid pipe or both the first and second rigid pipes. The actuator is operable to move either the first rigid pipe or the second rigid pipe so that either the first curved portion or the second curved portion moves along a common arc of both the first curved portion and the second curved portion. The liquid medium delivery device has an outlet through which liquid medium, for example liquid manure, can be pumped.
US12123519B2
Fluid flow control devices and related systems and methods may include a body or housing and a plug at least partially positioned in the body or housing to define a flow path. In a position of the plug, the plug and the body or housing may collectively define a fluid flow path.
US12123511B2
This invention relates to an air valve which includes a deflector positioned inside a float chamber in order to improve the flow of air through the air valve. Further, the air valve includes an upper opening leading from the float chamber and having a transverse cross-section which increases away from the float chamber in order to smooth air flow. The invention further relates to an air valve accessory whereby an air valve can be modified in order to improve air flow therethrough.
US12123507B2
A valve, a multi-functional combination valve and a CFLVV valve simultaneously achieve the functions of a refueling limit valve and a rolling-over valve in a fuel tank. The valve body includes a valve core accommodating cavity, and first and second inflow passages, a first discharge port, and a second discharge port communicating therewith are provided. The valve core accommodating cavity includes two independent vertical-sliding first valve core assemblies and second valve core assemblies for opening or closing the first discharge port and the second discharge port. The pressure maintaining part is connected to the second discharge port and contains a certain opening pressure. After the first valve core assembly closes the first discharge port, and a certain pressure value has to be reached in the valve core accommodating cavity, the pressure maintaining part will open the second discharge port, and the fluid will flow out of the second discharge port.
US12123503B2
Flow control systems and methods for controlling the flow of liquid into and out of a tubular member comprising a perforated portion that is configured to distribute a flow of liquid having a predefined fixed liquid pressure through the perforated portion to pressurize an intestine that is suspended on the tubular member is disclosed. The flow control system comprises a flow regulating valve having a slidably arranged valve structure arranged in a pressurized liquid filled water chamber and an elastic water-side diaphragm arranged in the water chamber and connected to the valve structure such that the water-side diaphragm allows the valve structure to be moved in a first direction along the longitudinal axis of the valve structure to increase the volume in the water chamber and be moved in the opposite direction to decrease the volume in the water chamber.
US12123490B2
A planet carrier for a mechanical gearbox of a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, the planet carrier being formed in a single piece and comprising two annular flasks connected by material bridges and together defining housings configured to receive planet gears, the flasks comprising orifices for mounting the planet gears which are oriented axially and which open into the housings. One of the flasks can include at least one thinning around its orifices, the at least one thinning defining a minimum thickness of material in the axial direction which is less than a minimum thickness of the other flask around each of its orifices.
US12123486B2
A chain ring for engaging a chain link of a chain, the chain ring including an inner edge fully circumscribing both an opening and an axis of rotation, an inner surface extending between the inner edge and an outer edge where a plurality of chain ring teeth emanate, and a plurality of ramps disposed about the inner surface, wherein at least one of the plurality of ramps includes a lifting surface for initiating lift of a chain without assistance from the plurality of chain ring teeth. The lifting surface extends radially along the inner surface toward the outer edge, and the at least one ramp has a first end proximate the inner edge and a second end proximate the outer edge. The second end of the at least one lifting surface terminates before reaching the bottom of a trough positioned between two or more of the plurality of chain ring teeth.
US12123482B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of aerial work platforms, in particular to a linear actuator with a contact type safety nut, and an aerial work platform. The linear actuator includes a central screw, a driving nut mechanism, and a safety nut mechanism. The central screw has a screw raceway. The safety nut mechanism includes a safety nut seat sleeved at the periphery of the central screw. Limit hole channels pointing to the central screw are arranged on the safety nut seat. An elastic buffer element is arranged in each of the limit hole channels. A safety ball is arranged between the elastic buffer element and the central screw. The contact type safety nut enables the linear actuator to always keep safety, stability, and no loss of accuracy in a conversion process that the safety nut mechanism gets involved to take effect while the driving nut mechanism fails.
US12123477B2
A line-guiding device includes links connected to one another in an articulated manner and which form a loop consisting of an upper strand, a deflection region, and a lower strand. Adjacent links can pivot relative to one another about a pivot axis. The pivot axes are located closer to a loop inner side than to a loop outer side at least in some of the links. Each link has two side flaps opposite one another. Side flaps of adjacent links form at least one running surface on the loop inner side. At least some of the links have a roller projecting from the running surface. The upper strand and the lower strand can abut over the running surface such that the upper strand and the lower strand can move by means of the rollers. The running surface in at least some of the links is interrupted by recesses.
US12123469B2
Disclosed are a brake disk and a method for manufacturing the same. In particular, the brake disk may include a friction surface formed of cast iron, and the friction surface of the brake disk is divided into a plurality of sections in a circumferential direction. Preferably, an average of the numbers per unit area of eutectic cells formed on surfaces of the sections may not be greater than 300 ea/cm2.
US12123465B2
A bushing assembly for a structure having a first aperture is provided. The bushing assembly includes a first component configured to be received by the first aperture and having a second aperture. A maximum width of the first component defines an outer diameter. The bushing assembly further includes a second component positioned outside of the first aperture and coupled to the first component, the second component having a third aperture extending through the second component. The third aperture is dimensioned so as to be equivalent to the outer diameter of the first component, and the first component and the second component are formed as discrete components of the bushing assembly.
US12123447B2
A clip assembly is provided including a clip having a support leg joined with a control arm, an actuator, and a displacement control element operable to engage the control arm and hold the support leg in a retracted mode. The actuator is movable relative to the clip and/or a carrier associated with the clip to disengage the displacement control element from the control arm and thereby deploy the associated support leg from the body to secure the clip to the panel. The clip can include a retention leg to retain the clip relative to the panel upon installation of the clip relative to the panel. A related method of use is provided.
US12123446B2
An anchor point (10) for a fastening element (30), such as a cable tie, includes a substantially flat anchor plate (12) and a resilient element (14) connected thereto, which in turn has at least two locking tongues (16, 17). The anchor plate has a substantially circular disc shape. The resilient element is preferably designed as a plastic loop in the shape of an omega and exerts its resilient action primarily in a direction perpendicular to the plane of the anchor plate. Via an opening in the anchor plate a fastening element/cable tie can be passed through the anchor plate and is deflected by the locking tongues or the resilient element so that it passes through a second opening again to the surface. By pulling on the cable tie, the locking tongues are spread apart by compression of the resilient element and are fixed in or behind the opening of a surface.
US12123443B2
The invention relates to a fastener (10) for the temporary assembly of structures (12, 13), comprising: a tubular body, extending between a first end and a second end comprising at least two longitudinal tabs (46); a hooking element, rotationally prevented and capable of sliding axially in the body, said fastening element comprising a tubular base and a plurality of elastic clips (62) connected to one end of said base, each clip comprising a hooking spur (74); a driving device for the fastening element; and a spreader (26) fixed relative to the body, the plurality of elastic clips being positioned around said spreader. The tubular base (60) comprises two longitudinal grooves in an outer surface; and the fastener is configured so that each tab (46) of the body is capable of sliding axially in one of said grooves.
US12123435B2
A selection system for hydraulic circuits has a cylinder selection processing unit; a database in which information pertaining to a combination of a plurality of apparatuses is registered in advance; combination selection processing units for reading information pertaining to the combination of the plurality of apparatuses in order of size from the database, and selecting an apparatus; and re-selection processing units for re-selecting an apparatus that is the next size up when a stroke time obtained by a simulation including some of the apparatuses selected by the combination selection unit exceeds an upper-limit stroke time, or when pressure after a return process is less than or equal to minimum working pressure.
US12123433B2
Methods and compositions for processing a gas produced from an oil and gas well are provided. In some embodiments, the compositions include a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation. The compositions further include one or more fluid flow paths in fluid communication with the wellbore, the one or more fluid flow paths having at least a first segment and a second segment. The compositions further include at least one heat exchanger. The compositions further include an expander coupled to a generator in fluid communication with the gas in the second segment. The gas in the first segment flows through the at least one heat exchanger wherein it is cooled to the point of forming CNG, and the gas in the second segment flows through the expander to generate electricity.
US12123432B2
An aircraft system includes, among other things, an aircraft and a gas turbine engine coupled to the aircraft. The gas turbine engine includes a propulsor section including a propulsor, a compressor section, a turbine section including a first turbine and a second turbine, and a gear reduction between the propulsor and the second turbine. The second turbine includes a number of turbine blades in each of a plurality of rows of the second turbine. The second turbine blades operating at least some of the time at a rotational speed. The number of blades and the rotational speed being such that the following formula holds true for a majority of the blade rows of the second turbine: 5500 Hz≤(number of blades×speed)/60 sec≤10000 Hz. The gas turbine engine is rated to produce 15,000 pounds of thrust or more.
US12123423B2
A single-step mechanical/electrical ceiling fan/light mounting assembly includes a below-the-ceiling junction box having a first half of a mechanical couple and a first half of an electrical couple, a cover assembly that has a ceiling fan mounting bracket, a second half of the mechanical couple that is shaped to mate with the first half of the mechanical couple, a second half of the electrical couple that electrically couples with the first half of the electrical couple as the second half of the mechanical couple mates with the first half of the mechanical couple, and a ceiling fan power connector electrically connected to the second half of the electrical couple.
US12123418B2
In a compression process in a dynamic compressor having at least one first and one second compression stages, a first gas having a first molecular weight of less than 10 g/mol is compressed, at least one second fluid having a second molecular weight greater than 50 g/mol is mixed with the first gas to form a third gas to be compressed having a molecular weight greater than 10 g/mol, the third gas is sent to the first compression stage, the third gas is cooled in a first heat exchanger downstream of the first compression stage, where it is partially condensed, the partially condensed third gas is sent to a first phase separator to form a fourth gas having a lower molecular weight than the third gas and a first condensed liquid having a higher molecular weight than the third gas, the fourth gas is sent from the first phase separator to the second compression stage, the fourth gas compressed in the second compression stage is sent to cool in a second heat exchanger where it partially condenses, and the partially condensed fourth gas is sent to a second phase separator to produce a fifth gas having a lower molecular weight than the fourth gas.
US12123408B2
An adjusting member may cause an axis line of connection end portions and an axis line of a housing side flange portion to be eccentric with respect to each other. The connection end portions and the housing side flange portions may be connected and the first attaching portion and the second attaching portion may be rotated to compress a sealing member. The position where the sealing member contacts an end face of the connection end portions may change by rotating each attaching portion and two connection targets can be directly connected.
US12123406B2
A geothermal process for generating electricity includes: heating a primary fluid by absorbing thermal energy from a geothermal energy source to elevate thermal energy and kinetic energy of the primary fluid; increasing a pressure on the primary fluid to raise a boiling point and a temperature of the primary fluid and decrease latent heat of the primary fluid; driving a mechanical device via one of: the kinetic energy of the primary fluid; and a kinetic energy of a secondary working fluid that absorbs the thermal energy of the primary fluid in a heat exchanger; and driving an electricity generator by the mechanical device to generate electricity. The pressure on the primary fluid may be increased by restricting, a flow path of the primary fluid to create a backpressure, by increasing a density of the primary fluid, or by increasing a pumping pressure of the primary fluid into the geothermal well.
US12123396B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling a wind turbine system, more particular for a controlled sliding strategy to lower loads on the yaw system by controlling mechanical brakes and motor brakes in the yaw drive actuators. When the yaw system being in the non-yawing operational state, and the mechanical brake(s) being in an engaged state, and the yaw controller determines or receives a signal indicative of a yaw moment, and if the signal indicative of a yaw moment is above a signal threshold, then the yaw controller sends a braking signal to the yaw drive actuators to enter the motors into the brake state to apply a braking torque.
US12123387B2
A cover apparatus for directing a water current to rotate a waterwheel includes a shield comprising a first side panel, a second side panel, and a perimeter panel which define a cavity to receive the waterwheel. The cover apparatus is rotatably mountable to a shaft so that the cover apparatus rotates freely around the shaft to cover selected portions of the waterwheel. Typically, the shield covers one half of the waterwheel so that the water current only flows passed an uncovered half of the waterwheel to rotate the waterwheel. Fins are mounted to the perimeter panel to facilitate rotation of the shield around the waterwheel by the water current. An electricity generation system is described and claimed which uses the waterwheel and the cover apparatus.
US12123384B1
A depletion amount of energy required to charge a user device connected to a device port of a vehicle is estimated based on a state of charge (SoC) of a device battery of the connected user device. Responsive to an expected SoC of a LV battery of the vehicle after providing the depletion amount of energy exceeding a calibrated threshold amount of energy of the LV battery, the connected user device is charged during key off. Otherwise, an engine start/stop schedule defining a time to start an engine of the vehicle and a duration of run time for the engine is utilized to generate additional energy to charge the connected user device to ensure the LV battery remains above the calibrated threshold amount of energy.
US12123380B2
An EGR pump system includes an EGR pump assembly including an electric motor assembly coupled to a transmission assembly. A roots device is coupled to the electric motor through the transmission assembly. The roots device includes a housing defining an internal volume and rotors are disposed in the internal volume and connected to the transmission assembly. An EGR locking mechanism is attached to the EGR pump assembly. The EGR locking mechanism is selectively connected to the transmission assembly locking the transmission assembly and preventing rotation of the rotors.
US12123377B2
A method for operating a fuel tank arrangement for a motor vehicle. The fuel tank arrangement has a fuel tank, a hydrocarbon filter and a pump. The fuel tank is fluidically connected via a tank shut-off valve to the hydrocarbon filter and the hydrocarbon filter is fluidically connected, on the one hand, via the pump to an external environment of the fuel tank arrangement and, on the other hand, via a purge valve to an intake tract of an internal combustion engine. A first leakage test mode is carried out when the pressure in the fuel tank is greater than a pressure threshold value, in which a shut-off valve arranged in terms of flow between the pump and the external environment is closed and the tank shut-off valve is opened.
US12123376B2
Methods and systems for diagnosing operation of an evaporative emissions system are described. The methods and systems may include increasing an amount of vacuum stored in an evaporative emissions system during discontinuously operating an engine in a boosted operating mode. Storing vacuum allows the evaporative emissions system to reach a desired vacuum level to verify absence of an evaporative emissions system breech.
US12123362B2
An aircraft has first and second fuel sources containing fuels with different characteristics, and one or more gas turbine engines powered by the fuels and each having a staged combustion system having pilot and main fuel injectors and being operable in pilot-only and pilot-and-main ranges of operation. The gas turbine engines each have a fuel delivery regulator arranged to control fuel delivery to the pilot and main fuel injectors. The method includes: obtaining a proposed mission description; obtaining nvPM impact parameters for the gas turbine engines, the impact parameters being associated with each operating condition of the proposed mission; calculating an optimised set of one or more fuel characteristics for each flight condition of the proposed flight defined in the flight description based on the nvPM impact parameters; and determining a fuel allocation based on the optimised set of one or more fuel characteristics.
US12123361B2
Systems and methods include a fuel cell stack extended around a combustion chamber that is configured to provide output products to the combustion chamber to achieve at least one of late lean injection and a desired combustor gas concentration distribution. The fuel cell stack is positioned at a downstream section of the combustion chamber along an axial direction.
US12123355B2
An embodiment of a torch igniter for a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes a combustion chamber oriented about an axis, a cap defining an axially upstream end of the combustion chamber, a tip defining the axially downstream end of the combustion chamber, an igniter wall extending from the cap to the tip and defining a radial extent of the combustion chamber, a structural wall coaxial with and surrounding the igniter wall, an outlet passage defined by the igniter wall within the tip, a glow plug housing configured to receive a glow plug and allow an innermost end of the glow plug to extend into the combustion chamber, and a cooling system. The cooling system includes an air inlet formed within an exterior of the structural wall, a cooling channel forming a flow path through the structural wall at the glow plug housing, and an air passage.
US12123351B2
A turbofan gas turbine engine comprises, in axial flow sequence, a heat exchanger module, a fan assembly, a compressor module, and a turbine module. The fan assembly comprises a plurality of fan blades defining a fan diameter (D), and the heat exchanger module comprises a plurality of heat exchanger elements. The heat exchanger module is in fluid communication with the fan assembly by an inlet duct, with the heat exchanger module having an axial length along a central axis between an upstream-most face of the heat exchanger elements and a downstream-most face of the heat exchanger elements. The axial length is in the range of 0.1*D to 5.0*D.
US12123350B2
A three-stream engine is provided. The three-stream engine includes a fan section, a core engine disposed downstream of the fan section, and a core cowl annularly encasing the core engine and at least partially defining a core duct. A fan cowl is disposed radially outward from the core cowl and annularly encasing at least a portion of the core cowl. The fan cowl at least partially defining an inlet duct and a fan duct. The fan duct and the core duct at least partially co-extending axially on opposite sides of the core cowl. A heat exchanger disposed within the fan duct. The heat exchanger provides for thermal communication between a fluid flowing through fan duct and a motive fluid flowing through the heat exchanger.
US12123344B2
An engine system includes a gas turbine engine with a first compressor, a first combustor, and first turbine. The engine system also includes a secondary power unit with a second compressor, a second combustor, a second turbine, a third compressor coupled to the second compressor, and an electric motor-generator, where the secondary power unit is coupled to the gas turbine engine and includes a heat exchanger. A controller is operable to determine an operating mode of the engine system, select an input energy source and an output type of the secondary power unit based on the operating mode, control the secondary power unit based on the input energy source and the output type as selected, detect a change in the operating mode of the engine system, and modify the input energy source and/or the output type of the secondary power unit based on the change in the operating mode.
US12123329B2
A valve assembly includes a valve body defining a bore therein, a valve stem, a spring retainer, a valve spring, and a detent mechanism. The valve stem extends through the bore in the valve body and is adjustable between an open position and a closed position. The spring retainer is spaced apart from the valve body along a longitudinal axis of the valve stem and fixed relative to the valve body. The spring retainer defines a bore through which the valve stem extends. The valve spring is captured between the valve body and the spring retainer and is configured to apply a biasing force to the valve stem that biases the valve stem toward the closed position. The detent mechanism is configured to increase the biasing force applied to the valve stem when the valve stem is in the closed position or within a predetermined distance of the closed position.
US12123326B2
A pumped heat storage apparatus has a prime mover, a power take off, first and second fluid working machines functioning as a compressor (8) and as an expander (10), a working fluid circulation pathway with high and low pressure sides, and high and low temperature heat exchangers (18A-B). The heat exchangers operate using direct contact between gaseous working fluid and solid thermal storage media, such as glass beads, which move in opposite directions, typically using an augur (44). The system is reversible between energy storage and energy recovery modes and when it reverses, the direction of movement of the working fluid and the thermal storage media reverses. The apparatus may very rapidly swap between energy storage and energy recovery while having a high capacity and energy throughout.
US12123312B2
A turbine module (2) for a turbomachine (1). The turbine module (2) includes a main channel (26) to guide a main flow (36) through the turbine module (2), a rotor blade (21) and a stator vane (22), the stator vane (22) including a stator airfoil (22) and a platform (23), with the stator airfoil (22) arranged downstream of the rotor blade (21) in the main channel (26), and a cavity (30) including an inlet (31) for injecting a part (36.2) of the main flow (36) into the cavity (30), an outlet (32) for a reinjection of the part (36.2) of the main flow (36) from the cavity (30) into the main channel (26), wherein the cavity (30) is arranged at an axial position of the stator vane (20) and is radially offset from the stator airfoil (22).
US12123305B2
A gas turbine engine rotor assembly is provided that includes a shaft, a rotor, and a seal assembly. The seal assembly is configured to seal between a first and second rotor compartments on opposite sides of the seal assembly. The seal assembly includes a seal groove and a split piston ring seal. The split piston ring seal is configured such that air in the first rotor compartment at P1 produces a radial force acting on the split piston ring seal, and air in the second rotor compartment at P2 produces a second force acting on the split piston ring seal, wherein the second force is directed radially inward and the first force is directed radially outward, and the second force is greater than the first force.
US12123296B2
A monitoring system for a drill string controlled by a drilling program may include a contactless sensor arranged to capture data at a second time. The data may be associated with a parameter at a position along a drill line associated with the drill string. The system may include a processor operatively connected to the contactless sensor. The processor may be configured to access a machine learning (ML) model that is trained using the data captured at a first time, prior to the second time, and an image analysis algorithm. The processor may be configured to identify, using the trained ML model, a condition pertaining to the drill string based on interpreting the data captured at the second time. The processor may be configured to cause an adjustment to the drilling program based on the identified condition.
US12123294B2
A method for predicting a stick-slip event includes measuring one or more surface properties using a sensor at the surface. The method also includes measuring one or more downhole properties using a downhole tool in a wellbore. The method also includes determining that the one or more surface properties and the one or more downhole properties match a distribution. The distribution occurs before two or more previously-detected stick-slip events. The method also includes determining a likelihood that a stick-slip event will occur based at least partially upon the distribution that the one or more surface properties and the one or more downhole properties match.
US12123287B2
Systems and methods for evaluating a drag reducing agent's performance in a mixture are described. The system includes a measuring instrument with an rheometer; and a sensor system positioned inside the measuring instrument including a body with an open end and an extended end, wherein the extended end is directly attached to the measuring instrument; a cover with an inner disc and an outer disc and attachable to the body, the inner disc sized to be received by the open end of the body; the body and the cover form a sealable chamber; and a rotating disc with a bar and a plate, the bar is attached to the measuring instrument and the plate is positioned inside the body and operable to measure drag reducing agent's performance of the mixture; and a data acquisition and processing system is in electronic communication with the measuring instrument, and the sensor system.
US12123286B2
A method and apparatus for a perforating gun having a movable detonator holder in a first perforating gun that is positioned inside the carrier such that the detonator is not directly positioned end to end nor side by side with the detonating cord in the loading tube. When a second perforating gun is screwed onto the first perforating gun, the entire charge tube assembly moves, closing the detonator holder further into the carrier such that the detonating holder closes in on the detonating cord until the detonator is adjacent to the detonating cord to connect the detonator to detonating cord ballistic train.
US12123281B2
An apparatus for selectably sealing an interior bore of a completion string comprises an elongate body and has connectors for connecting the body in line with a completion string. An interior wall of the apparatus forms a bore through the elongate body. A rupturable barrier member fastened to and bridging the bore is deformable so as to permit passage therepast after being ruptured. The barrier member includes at a weakened path defining a leaf extending from a hinge portion narrower than the widest portion of the leaf.
US12123277B2
A sealing assembly comprising a plurality of components including an upper sealing element and a lower sealing element, the sealing assembly configured to encircle a tubular string positioned within a casing of a wellbore. The sealing assembly is configured to be actuatable to extend sealing elements between the tubular string and an inner surface of the casing to form a fluid seal between the tubular element and the inner surface of the casing.
US12123269B2
A method for determining a screen break includes receiving a fluid stream from a screen system of a fluid system into a screen break detector, wherein the screen system comprises at least one screen, and the screen break detector comprises a sample screen. The method also includes monitoring a fluid pressure of the fluid stream flowing through the sample screen of the screen break detector and detecting a condition of the at least one screen of the screen system based on the fluid pressure and one or more pressure thresholds. The method also may include outputting a notification of the condition of the at least one screen of the screen system. A system includes a screen break detector. The screen break detector includes a sample screen configured to receive a fluid stream from a screen system of a fluid system, wherein the screen system includes at least one screen and a pressure detector configured to monitor a fluid pressure of the fluid stream flowing through the sample screen.
US12123267B2
The present invention addresses to the use of a viscous fluid in continuous pumping to contain the saline dissolution in a homogeneous way (not limited to just one type of evaporite), highlighting the results of seawater with viscosifiers, due to its simplicity, and that does not have the same impact on the logistical chain as a brine supply. The increase in fluid viscosity limits the diffusion of salt into the medium and thus better contains the dissolution of the well walls, while also promoting a laminar flow regime in the annulus of the well, variables desired to achieve the quality of the operation of cementation. The employment of viscous fluid concentrates allows “on the fly” dilutions with the in-line seawater fraction mixture. The technique can also employ solutions of pre-dispersed viscosifying additives which, when added to seawater, result in a substantial increase in the volume of drilling fluid produced, no longer limited by the unit tank capacity. This allows drilling large extensions of salt. The low salinity viscous fluid is used in drilling operations without fluid return to the drilling rig (riserless) in the presence of a predominantly saline formation, aiming at preserving the phase diameter and improve well construction conditions.
US12123266B2
A tapered bowl assembly having a tapered bowl main portion with a tapered bore and a radially outwardly extending gap in the tapered bore, a tapered bowl movable portion securable within the gap and removable from the gap, a set of slips sized and shaped for introduction intermediate the tapered bore of the tapered bowl main portion to grip and support a tubular string introduced through the tapered bore, the tapered bowl movable portion being releasable from the secured position within the gap to a released position to allow the tubular string to be released from support by the tapered bowl assembly.
US12123265B2
A directional core drilling includes an outer barrel assembly with at least one steering pad for orientating a drill bit within a hole and a drive barrel rotationally supported within the outer barrel assembly. An inner drive assembly is receivable within the outer barrel assembly and includes a torque latch assembly and an anti-rotation bearing assembly. The torque latch assembly includes latch arms configured to releasably couple a rotational drive input to the drive barrel. A core barrel is coupled to the anti-rotation bearing assembly and is rotationally fixed relative to the drive barrel.
US12123263B2
The invention is a multidirectional auger bit mounted on an auger head, and includes a base portion having a distal end that protrudes in an axial direction of the auger head, and leg portions that is continuous with the base portion. The base portion includes a flat portion that is continuous with the leg portion, first inclined portions that are inclined from the flat portion toward a distal end side in the axial direction of the auger head, left and right side surface portions that are continuous from the first inclined portion, and a second inclined portion that is inclined from the first inclined portion toward a leg portion side in the axial direction of the auger head.
US12123256B2
A rechargeable electric externally-hung venetian blind assembly includes a venetian blind main body and a controller. The top of the venetian blind main body is provided with an upper cover, and the controller is detachably installed on the surface of the upper cover and controls the lifting and lowering of the venetian blind main body. Two ends of the upper cover are provided with a sealing cover, and the sealing cover and the upper cover enclose an accommodating space. When the venetian blind main body is in a tightened state, the venetian blind main body is accommodated in the accommodating space to avoid damage during transportation. The rechargeable electric externally-hung venetian blind assembly achieves the technical effects of convenient and safe transportation and easy installation, use and maintenance.
US12123254B1
The present invention refers to a protection device for windows, doors or open spaces with release arrangement (1) which maintains a mechanism that allows the generation of an opening in windows, doors or open spaces that have protections where these can be displaced in a situation that so requires allowing the generation of an additional output that in case it is not required provides a window of normal appearance.
US12123253B2
A configurable door system includes a first and second door panel, an astragal, and a frame. The frame defines a first axis and is configured to pivotally support the door panels in a first configuration of the door system and in a second configuration of the door system. The first door panel is disposed to one side of the second door panel along the first axis within the frame in both the first and second configurations. The door system, in the first configuration, includes the astragal fixed to the first door panel and releasably attaches the first door panel to the frame, and the second door panel is releasably secured to the astragal. The door system, in the second configuration, includes the astragal fixed to the second door panel and releasably attaches the second door panel to the frame, and the first door panel is releasably secured to the astragal.
US12123243B2
The invention is an an anchor for attaching an automated window mechanism to a sliding panel of a window. The sliding panel has a border with an outer face generally perpendicular to the window. The anchor includes a base configured to be secured to the outer face. The base and mechanism mount has a first tongue-and-groove component protruding from the base away from the outer face. The anchor also includes a mechanism mount configured to be secured to the automated window mechanism, the mechanism mount having a second tongue-and-groove component protruding therefrom. The first tongue-and-groove component and the second tongue-and-groove components are shaped and aligned to permit the mechanism mount to slide relative to the base in a direction generally perpendicular to the window, and to thereafter hold the mechanism in proper alignment relative to the sliding panel of the window.
US12123237B2
A hinge is provided for hingedly connecting an enclosure door to an enclosure body. The hinge can include a set of hinge leafs, which can include a first leaf and a second leaf, a pin, and a fastener. The pin can extend from the first leaf and can be removably receivable within a pocket in the second leaf. The pin can have a groove extending inward from and around the periphery of the pin and positioned between the proximal pin end and the distal pin end. The fastener can extend into the pocket and at least partially into the groove when the hinge is in a locked configuration, inhibiting the separation of the first and second leafs, and removed from the groove when the hinge is in an unlocked configuration allowing the separation of the first and second leafs.
US12123224B1
The lock for roll off container comprises a cover that May obstruct a hook of a roll off container. The cover, in conjunction with an interlock, may be adapted to prevent a roll-off truck from attaching a winch cable to the hook of the roll off container and thereafter hauling the roll off container. The lock for roll off container may preclude expenses that may be incurred if the roll off container containing disallowed content is hauled to a landfill or other disposal facility. The cover may be adapted to be removed by an authorized driver after the contents of the roll off container are inspected for any disallowed content and approved for hauling.
US12123213B1
In accordance with one embodiment, an apparatus can be implemented that includes a frame comprising a first support member and a second support member; a first flexible sheet of fabric comprising a first end portion and a second end portion on an opposing end of the fabric from the first end portion; a coupler coupled with the first end portion and configured to couple the first end portion with the first support member of the frame; wherein the coupler is configured to decouple the first end portion from the first support member via a hands-free operation.
US12123205B2
An automated drywalling system network that including one or more automated drywalling systems that each has a robotic arm. The automated drywalling system network can also include a computational planner that generates instructions for the one or more automated drywalling systems to perform two or more drywalling tasks associated with a target wall assembly. The two or more drywalling tasks can include a hanging task that includes hanging pieces of drywall on studs of the target wall assembly; a mudding task that includes applying joint compound to pieces of drywall hung on studs of the target wall assembly; a sanding task that includes sanding joint compound applied to the pieces of drywall hung on studs of the target wall assembly; and a painting task that includes painting sanded the joint compound applied to the pieces of drywall hung on studs of the target wall assembly.
US12123201B2
A floor may include a substrate having a top side and a bottom side. A top layer may be provided on the substrate. The top layer may consist of a printed thermoplastic film and a thermoplastic transparent or translucent layer provided on the printed thermoplastic film. The top layer may be directly adhered to the substrate by heat welding the printed thermoplastic film and the top side of the substrate, in the absence of a glue layer. The substrate may be a synthetic material board including a filler. The substrate at least at two opposite edges may include coupling means provided in the synthetic material board. The thermoplastic transparent or translucent layer may be provided with a structure.
US12123188B2
A panel with one or more perforations, having a front surface, wherein the contrast Cm between the front surface and the one or more perforations is less than 0.3, a sound absorbing system including a panel and a masking layer, wherein the masking layer is air permeable, and the use of the panel or the sound absorbing system.
US12123182B2
An assembly process for assembling a basin using a molding tool operable between an open position and a closed position, the molding tool having a female molding insert, a male molding insert, and an insert jig, the female molding insert and the male molding insert cooperating to define a mold cavity when the molding tool is in the closed position, the female molding insert having an aperture, the insert jig having a sleeve and a cylinder, the cylinder repositionable within the sleeve and having an end with an end face and a pin protruding from the end face, includes applying adhesive to the pin. The assembly process also includes aligning the pin with an aperture of a basin rim insert. The assembly process also includes pressing the basin rim insert towards the end face such that the pin is received within the aperture of the basin rim insert.
US12123179B2
The present utility model provides an easily-mounted pull-out faucet, including a faucet body, a faucet support bracket connected to the faucet body and a water supply assembly including a water supply hose. A lower end of the faucet body is connected with a mounting assembly. The mounting assembly includes a water supply pipe penetrated internally and a toothed pipe externally provided with a thread tooth. A quick connection assembly is sleeved around the toothed pipe, and the quick connection assembly is mated with the toothed pipe through the thread tooth in a screwed-down manner. The quick connection assembly further includes a fixing seat and a screwing-down mechanism, a fitting hook is disposed at a lower end of the fixing seat, and the fixing seat and the screwing-down mechanism are rotationally connected through the fitting hook.
US12123173B1
A hydraulic system includes a pump to pressurize and output hydraulic fluid, an electric motor selectively driving the pump, and a controller to selectively control a target speed of the electric motor based on input from an operator control. A proportional directional control valve is in the load circuit and communicates with the pump and the controller. The proportional directional control valve controls a flow of hydraulic fluid to a hydraulic actuator associated with the load circuit such that the flow of hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic actuator is proportional to a signal provided by the controller. The signal is a function of the input from the operator control. Flow of hydraulic fluid to the hydraulic actuator through the proportional directional control valve is varied by the controller making a) variations of the target speed of the motor, and b) variations of the signal to the proportional directional control valve.
US12123166B2
A working machine includes a rear machine body on which an operator's seat is mounted, a front machine body to which a working tool is attached, a center shaft having a first axis extending in a fore-and-aft direction, a first supporting part supporting the center shaft rotatably relative to the rear machine body around the first axis, a coupling shaft having a second axis extending in a vertical direction and connected to the front machine body, and a second supporting part supporting the center shaft rotatably relative to the coupling shaft relative to the second axis. The first supporting part includes a first spherical plain bearing, and the first spherical plain bearing includes a first inner wheel including a convex curved sliding surface and provided on an outer circumferential surface of the center shaft, and a first outer wheel including a concave curved sliding surface and provided on the rear machine body.
US12123163B2
A wear element for a mounting system for a blade of a motor grader is provided. The wear element extends along a longitudinal axis. The wear element includes a first portion having a first cross-sectional area transverse to the longitudinal axis. The wear element further includes a second portion opposite of the first portion, the second portion having a second cross-sectional area having a V-shape that extends away from the first portion.
US12123158B2
A radon gas and/or moisture abatement system (or method) is located under the concrete slab of a building. The system (or method) includes a multilayered mat having a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer sandwiched between the first layer and the second layer. The first layer is non-permeable and faces the concrete slab. The third (or sandwiched) layer is an entangled net. The second layer is permeable layer. The layers are bonded together. Whereby radon gas and/or moisture are inhibited from entering the building by passing through and collecting in the multilayer product.
US12123155B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for use in monitoring product placement within a shopping facility. Some embodiments provide an apparatus configured to determine product placement conditions within a shopping facility, comprising: a transceiver configured to wirelessly receive communications; a product monitoring control circuit coupled with the transceiver; a memory coupled with the control circuit and storing computer instructions that when executed by the control circuit cause the control circuit to: obtain a composite three-dimensional (3D) scan mapping corresponding to at least a select area of the shopping facility and based on a series of 3D scan data; evaluate the 3D scan mapping to identify multiple product depth distances; and identify, from the evaluation of the 3D scan mapping, when one or more of the multiple product depth distances is greater than a predefined depth distance threshold from the reference offset distance of the product support structure.
US12123150B2
A spike puller for pulling a railroad spike of a track includes a housing, a linear displacement unit mounted at the housing, and a claw unit for gripping the railroad spike. The claw unit is displaceable in a linear manner relative to the housing in a displacement direction by using the linear displacement unit. The linear displacement unit includes a hollow tube which is guided in the housing. An electric drive unit electrically operates the linear displacement unit. A method for pulling a railroad spike of a track is also provided.
US12123148B2
A multi-ply flushable wipe includes a ply having first and second exterior layers and a middle layer disposed therebetween. Each of the exterior layers includes at least 50% by weight natural fibers. When foam-formed, the middle layer includes at least 25% by weight natural fibers. In embodiments, the middle layer may include at least 75% by weight natural fibers. The middle layer also includes synthetic fibers that have a length within the range of 1 mm and 20 mm. The wipe may have a length weight weighted average fiber length of less than 4 mm and a wet CD strength of greater than 20 N/m. Each ply of the wipe may be formed by wetlaying the first and second exterior layers and a foam formed middle layer to form a web, imprinting the web with a structured fabric, and drying the web. The plies are then attached using a binder.
US12123147B2
A rolled product may comprise an embossed pattern on a fibrous sheet, the embossed pattern comprising first and second embossed objects and, in certain cases, a logo. The first and second embossed objects may be spaced from each other in certain relationships and, in certain cases, may be spaced from the logo in certain relationships.
US12123144B2
The present disclosure provides a food contact article. According to one embodiment, the food contact article includes at least one food contact surface. This at least one food contact surface is made up of at least 50 weight percent of at least one biodegradable polymer, such as polyhydroxyalkanoates, and from about 0.1 weight percent to about 1.0 weight percent of at least one antimicrobial agent.
US12123142B2
A preparation method of tea residue fiber raw materials includes steps of (1) sun-drying tea residues, crushing the sun dried tea residues, and treating them with concentrated hydrochloric acid and a strong base in succession; (2) extracting water from the treated tea residues to obtain tea polyphenols and pulp respectively, cooking the pulp, and then pressing and dehydrating it to obtain coarse pulp; (3) sequentially grinding and sieving the pulp, and beating it; and (4) adding β-cyclodextrin, carboxymethylcellulose sodium, and reinforced starch after the beating, adjusting the pH to 7-8, diluting, adding the tea polyphenols obtained in the second step, stirring uniformly, pressing and dehydrating, and drying to obtain the tea residue fiber raw material.
US12123131B2
Disclosed is a synthetic fiber treatment agent containing a phenol amine compound and a nonionic surfactant. The phenol amine compound is at least one selected from the group consisting of a compound formed from a phenol derivative, formaldehyde, and a polyamine compound and a compound obtained by reacting a boron-containing compound with a compound formed from a phenol derivative, formaldehyde, and a polyamine compound. The phenol derivative is a phenol in which a hydrocarbon group with a number average molecular weight of not less than 100 and not more than 2000 is modified.
US12123126B2
A laundry appliance includes a compartment defined within a cabinet. A cartridge is selectively received within the compartment. The cartridge includes a self-actuating pump for dispensing a consumable from an interior of the cartridge. A mixing chamber is positioned under the self-actuating pump. The mixing chamber receives a dispensed portion of the consumable. A fluid dispenser dispenses a base fluid into the mixing chamber. The fluid dispenser is upstream of the self-actuating pump and the base fluid carries the dispensed portion to a processing chamber contained within the cabinet.
US12123123B2
A device for dosing a detergent ingredient into the drum of an automatic washing machine which can include a reservoir, a one-way valve, an inlet, and a dosing manifold.
US12123121B2
Method for manufacturing a carpet or a rug, comprising the following steps: the step (S1-S2) of providing a primary backing (1), being a woven or non-woven layer comprising filaments (2) of polyethyleneterephthalate and copolymer of polyethyleneterephthalate, the coPET having a lower melting temperature than the PET and wherein said PET is available in said primary backing (1) in a higher amount than said coPET; the step of providing a glue layer (11) consisting for 50% or more out of coPET; the step of tufting yarn at least into said primary backing (1); the step of activating said glue layer (11) at least for partially fixing said yarn (12) on said primary backing (1). The invention also concerns carpets (16) and rugs that are obtained or obtainable by means of such method.
US12123120B2
A system for braking rotational movement of at least one beam is disclosed. The system can comprise a frame and at least one beam rotatably supported on the frame. Each beam of the at least one beam can comprise at least one sheave groove on at least one longitudinal end. A rope can have a first end and a second end. Each of the first end and second end can be fixedly coupled to the frame. The rope can be received within a portion of at least one of the at least one sheave groove of each beam. A tensioning assembly can be configured to selectively cause a predetermined braking tension in the rope.
US12123115B2
Systems and methods for manufacturing a garment, include: receiving garment design input data for a garment design including data representing a first textile structural unit at a first location and data representing a second textile structural unit at a second location; generating a textile production machine instruction data set based on the garment design input data; forming a first garment using a first textile production machine to include the first textile structural unit and the second textile structural unit; creating revised garment design input data for the garment design based on the first garment based on receiving additional body map data relating to the first garment; generating revised textile production machine instruction data set based on the revised garment design input data; and forming a second garment using a textile production machine and the revised garment design input data including the changes to the garment design.
US12123114B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to a dynamic woven material that is capable of undergoing a dimensional change in response to an external stimulus. The dynamic woven material comprises a plurality of discrete woven cells, where each woven cell comprises a reactive region and a non-reactive region. The reactive region changes from a first physical state to a second physical state when the woven material is exposed to the external stimulus. The woven material may be formed with zonal stretch properties by varying the areas occupied by the reactive region and the non-reactive region in each woven cell. For example, the bigger the area occupied by the reactive region in the woven cells in a particular zone of the dynamic woven material, the higher the level of stretch in the particular zone may be. Exemplary products manufactured from the dynamic woven material include, for example, articles of footwear.
US12123104B2
A casting method includes forming a seed. The seed has a first end and a second end. The forming includes bending a seed precursor. The seed second end is placed in contact or spaced facing relation a chill plate. The first end is contacted with molten material. The molten material is cooled and solidifies so that a crystalline structure of the seed propagates into the solidifying material. The forming further includes inserting the bent seed precursor into a sleeve leaving the bent seed precursor protruding from a first end of the sleeve.
US12123102B1
A method of forming a highly textured tenorite film includes providing a substrate in a pulsed electrophoretic deposition (PEPD) reactor. Tenorite microcrystals, de-ionized water, hydrogen peroxide and sulfuric acid are mixed in the PEPD reactor. A temperature of the PEPD reactor is adjusted to 2-15° C. The highly textured tenorite film is formed on the substrate by electrophoresis having electrophoretic parameters. The electrophoretic parameters include a pulse ON time having a duration of 10 ms to 500 ms, a pulse duty cycle having a range of 0.1 to 0.23, a pulse height having a range of 0.1 to 0.8 kilovolts, and a deposition time having a range of 70 minutes to 2.5 hours.
US12123098B2
A gas permeable metal with a porosity gradient and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A second lamination layer and a third lamination layer are respectively connected to two opposite sides of a first lamination layer. A pore diameter of the first lamination layer is larger than that of the second lamination layer. Thereby while being applied to molds, a mold cavity is mounted in the second lamination layer with smaller pore diameter so that products formed have fine and smooth surfaces. The arrangement of the first lamination layer with larger pore diameter is used for effective escape of gas generated during product production process. According to production requirements for products, a pore diameter of the third lamination layer can be adjusted to be not larger than that of the first lamination layer. Thus mechanical strength and gas exhaust capacity can be balanced.
US12123095B2
This hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes: a steel sheet; a boundary layer provided on the steel sheet; and a hot-dip galvanized layer provided on the boundary layer, in which the steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in a region between a surface of the steel sheet and a depth of 25 μm from the surface of the steel sheet, an average grain size exceeds 4.0 μm, in a region between a position of 50 μm from the surface of the steel sheet and a position of 100 μm from the surface of the steel sheet, an area ratio of unrecrystallized ferrite is 50% or more, and in the hot-dip galvanized layer, a maximum value of a C concentration is 0.05 mass % or more.
US12123094B2
The present invention provides an aluminum-based plated steel plate used in hot-press forming, the steel plate comprising: a base steel plate; and a plating layer formed on the base steel plate, wherein the plating layer comprises: an alloying layer formed on the surface of the base steel plate and including one or more of Fe 3Al, FeAl(Si), Fe 2Al 5, and FeAl 3; and an aluminum layer formed on the alloying layer and having a thickness less than 10% of the thickness of the plating layer, and the plating layer has a thickness of 5-20 μm and an oxygen content of 10 weight % or less, as measured by GDS, at a depth of 0.1 μm from the surface of the plating layer.
US12123090B2
Methods and apparatus for a processing chamber are provided herein. The apparatus includes, for example, an inner volume defined in the processing chamber; a first sensor assembly coupled to a surface located in the inner volume of the processing chamber and including a first electrode configuration configured to measure an electrical characteristic associated with a film deposited within the inner volume of the processing chamber; and a second sensor assembly coupled to the surface located in the inner volume of the processing chamber in relative proximity to the first sensor assembly and including a second electrode configuration, different from the first electrode configuration, configured to measure the same electrical characteristic as the first electrode configuration.
US12123085B2
A system for deep rolling a fan blade including a shaft assembly disposed along a first axis; a hub connected to a distal end of the shaft assembly, the hub having an upper hub portion and a lower hub portion extending along a second axis, the second axis forming an angle relative to a first axis; a roller disk joined to the lower portion of the hub, the roller disk configured to contact a fan blade; a fixture supporting the fan blade; the fixture comprising a body supporting a pivot clamp attached to the body with a pivot; a support attached to the body, the support is configured to engage an airfoil portion of the fan blade; a receiver formed in the body for supporting a root of the fan blade; and a shoulder attached to the body configured to support a platform portion of the fan blade.
US12123073B2
A method of extracting purified lithium sulfate brine from sedimentary rock is disclosed. The method includes the steps of sizing sedimentary rock ore, suspending the sized ore in an aqueous solution, and separating the aqueous solution into lithium bearing slurry and low lithium gangue. The lithium bearing slurry is then treated with an acid, dissolving lithium from the sedimentary rock and forming precipitates which are subsequently removed the slurry, forming an acidic lithium sulfate filtrate solution. The pH of the acidic lithium sulfate filtrate solution is then modified to form further precipitates which are then separated. The neutralized lithium sulfate solution is then crystallized to remove magnesium and potassium, and treated with quicklime, soda ash solution, and/or oxalic acid to form additional precipitates. Finally the additional precipitates are separated from the solution, and the solution is passed through an ion exchange apparatus, forming a purified lithium sulfate brine.
US12123066B2
One aspect of the present invention relates to an ultrahigh-strength steel sheet having an excellent yield ratio, comprising, by wt %, 0.3-0.5% of C, 2.0% (excluding 0%) of Si, 3.0-6.5% of Mn, 0.02% or less of P, 0.01% or less of S, 0.01-3.0% of Al, 0.02% or less (excluding 0%) of N, and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities, and a microstructure comprises 5-30% of remaining austenite by area fraction and comprises 5% or less of secondary martensite.
US12123062B2
Disclosed herein are methods and kits for quantifying the presence of a microorganism in a sample. Specifically, disclosed are methods for quantifying a pathogen in a sample, such as a food sample, to determine if the levels of pathogen present in the sample are within an acceptable range.
US12123057B2
The present application provides an in vitro method for determining the degradation of the extracellular matrix (ECM) in a subject, the method comprising determining in an isolated sample from the subject the level of an expression product of at least one gene selected from the group consisting of collagen type V alpha 1 chain (COL5A1), transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGFB1), integrin subunit alpha 4 (ITGA4), integrin subunit beta 1 (ITGB1), matrix metallopeptidase 2 (MMP2), matrix metallopeptidase 9 (MMP9) and bone morphogenetic protein 1 (BMP1), the at least one gene being determined optionally in combination with one or both of collagen type XI alpha 1 chain (COL11A1) and collagen type V alpha 2 chain (COL5A2), wherein when the level of the expression product(s) is(are) higher than a reference value this is indicative of a degraded ECM. Methods for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer and aneurysms are also provided. Furthermore, means for determining the level of expression product of the genes in the above diagnosis or prognosis methods are also provided, as well as kits containing said means.
US12123053B2
The present disclosure provides a compound screening method comprising screening a test compound that binds a target protein of interest and another ligand protein that is not previously known to form a complex, comprising, (i) in the presence and absence of a test compound, incubating an immobilized ligand protein with a target protein of interest, comprising a nucleic acid tag, wherein the protein of interest and the nucleic acid tag differ from each other; (ii) removing unbound target protein of interest; and (iii) detecting the presence or absence of complex between the immobilized ligand protein, test compound, and the target protein of interest, wherein an increase in the amount of target protein of interest bound to the immobilized ligand protein in the presence of test compound as compared to the absence of test compound indicates the test compound binds to and enables protein-protein complex formation between the immobilized ligand protein and the target protein of interest.
US12123047B2
A method (400) for microscopic examination of a sample (1) includes applying (410) the sample (1) to a sample holder (10) having a transparent carrier material, capturing (420) a first image (210, 220) of the sample (1) applied to the sample holder (10) using a first light-microscopy method, cryofixing, freeze-substituting, and subsequently infiltrating and embedding (430) the sample (1) together with the sample holder (10) with an embedding medium (20) in an embedding mold (90, 100), curing (440) the embedding medium (20), removing the sample (1) from the embedding mold (90, 100) together with the embedding medium (20) and the sample holder (10), capturing (450) a second image (230) of the sample (1) embedded in the cured embedding medium (20) using a second light-microscopy method, wherein at least partially identical regions of the sample (1) are captured in the first and second images, and identifying (460) at least one portion of the first image (210, 220) and one portion of the second image (230) which show identical regions of the sample (1).
US12123043B2
The invention provides means and methods for producing one or more Ig-like molecules in a single host cell. Novel CH3 mutations enabling the production of monospecific and/or bispecific Ig-like molecules of interest are also provided.
US12123038B2
The present invention provides for novel protic ionic liquids (PIL) or phosphate-based ionic liquid (PBIL) useful for lignocellulosic processing described herein. The novel protic ionic liquids are capable of pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass over a wide range of pH.
US12123037B2
Disclosed is linoleic acid isomerases and their application in production of conjugated linoleic acid, which belongs to the technical fields of protein engineering and microbial engineering. The linoleic acid isomerase derived from Bifidobacterium is used to produce the conjugated linoleic acid. The recombinant E. coli containing the linoleic acid isomerase of the invention is added into a reaction system containing linoleic acid and react for 3 h to produce conjugated linoleic acids. The conversion rate of the conjugated linoleic acid of the invented method ranges from 12.1% to 42.1%, and the percentage of cis9, trans11-CLA in the conjugated linoleic acid can reach 84.3% to 89.1%. The invention provides a method for using microorganisms to produce conjugated linoleic acids with high safety and yield where cis9, trans11-CLA isomer is the major form in the conjugated linoleic acid products.
US12123036B2
The present disclosure provides various insights relating to treatment of viral infection with soluble ACE2 variants, specifically including soluble human ACE2 (hACE2) variants. For example, the present disclosure teaches that decoy activity, which may intercept virus-receptor interactions, and ACE2 enzymatic activity can provide separate contributions to therapeutic efficacy; among other things, the present disclosure provides particular therapeutic regimens (e.g., relating to treatment of particular patient populations and/or to dosing regimens, combination therapies, etc.) for certain soluble ACE2 variants. Still further, the present disclosure provides certain particular ACE2 variants and methods of making and/or using them, including in accordance with particular therapeutic regimens.
US12123034B2
The disclosure provides, e.g., compositions, systems, and methods for targeting, editing, modifying, or manipulating a host cell's genome at one or more locations in a DNA sequence in a cell, tissue, or subject.
US12123021B2
The present disclosure provides methods and compositions related to the modification of immune effector cells to increase therapeutic efficacy. In some embodiments, immune effector cells modified to reduce expression of one or more endogenous target genes, or to reduce one or more functions of an endogenous protein to enhance effector functions of the immune cells are provided. In some embodiments, immune effector cells further modified by introduction of transgenes conferring antigen specificity, such as exogenous T cell receptors (TCRs) or chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) are provided. Methods of treating a cell proliferative disorder, such as a cancer, using the modified immune effector cells described herein are also provided.
US12123017B2
The invention relates to a method and composition for the cultivation, expansion and production of extracellular vesicles, and the preservation and/or pre-treatment of cells, wherein said composition is a medium or media supplement or a solution comprising pterostilbene or the derivatives thereof, and/or a migration inhibitory factor antagonist and optionally a bivalent cation.
US12123016B1
The present disclosure provides components, compositions, methods, and systems thereof for nucleic acid editing. Particularly, the disclosure provides engineered nucleases, fusion proteins of the engineered nucleases, systems including the engineered nucleases, and methods of using thereof.
US12123012B2
Provided are methods and compositions for delivering a nucleic acid, protein, and/or ribonucleoprotein payload to a cell. Also provided are delivery molecules that include a peptide targeting ligand conjugated to a protein or nucleic acid payload (e.g., an siRNA molecule), or conjugated to a charged polymer polypeptide domain (e.g., poly-arginine such as 9R or a poly-histidine such as 6H, and the like). The targeting ligand provides for (i) targeted binding to a cell surface protein, and (ii) engagement of a long endosomal recycling pathway. As such, when the targeting ligand engages the intended cell surface protein, the delivery molecule enters the cell (e.g., via endocytosis) but is preferentially directed away from the lysosomal degradation pathway.
US12123002B2
The present invention relates to small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules against the SOD1 gene, adeno-associated viral (AAV) vectors encoding siRNA molecules and methods for treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) using the siRNA molecules and AAV vectors.
US12122997B2
Compositions for the in vivo delivery of a gene editing CRISPR/Cas9 complex was developed to eliminate integrated retroviral DNA sequences from latently infected human cells and animal disease models.
US12122984B2
Solid rinse aid compositions, methods of use, and methods of making said composition are disclosed. Rinse aid is provided by a solidification agent, a sheeting agent, a defoamer component, and a polyacrylic acid homopolymer or alkali metal salt thereof forming a solid compositions. Preferred solidification agents include aromatic sulfonates. Preferred sheeting agents include one or more alcohol ethyoxylates. Preferred defoamer components include a polymer compound including one or more ethylene oxide groups. The solid rinse aid compositions are preferably substantially free of sulfate and sulfate-containing compounds.
US12122972B1
A method for removing hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from a H2S-containing gas composition, including charging an aqueous media to a reactor under continuous agitation, dispersing particles of a composite in the aqueous media to form a composite mixture, continuously agitating the composite mixture, introducing the H2S-containing gas composition to the reactor containing the composite mixture under continuous agitation and passing the H2S-containing gas composition through the composite mixture, and adsorbing and removing H2S from the gas composition by the composite mixture to form a purified gas composition. The composite contains a CuMnAl layered triple hydroxide (LTH) and zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67) nanoparticles. The ZIF-67 nanoparticles are dispersed between layers of the CuMnAl LTH.
US12122970B2
Production chemicals and methods of selecting the production chemicals based on Hansen Solubility Parameters (HSP) are disclosed. The production chemicals selected by the methods mitigate or reduce one or more issues or problems associated with oil and gas productions and transportations. The methods measure HSP values for the production chemicals and/or crude oil and select at least one production chemical for at least one application on the crude oil based on the HSP values of the production chemicals and the crude oil.
US12122966B2
A process for converting naphtha to light olefins comprises contacting a naphtha stream with a zeolitic catalyst to produce a light paraffin stream. The light paraffin may be separated into an ethane stream and a propane stream. The ethane in the ethane stream may be converted into ethylene, and the propane in the propane in the propane stream may be converted into propylene. The light paraffin stream may also be separated into a heavy stream which may be recycled back to the contacting step.
US12122964B2
The invention relates to various nonlimiting embodiments that include methods, apparatuses or systems for processing natural gas comprising a heavies removal column processing natural gas and light oil reflux. The overhead stream goes to heavies treated natural gas storage. The heavies removal column reboiler bottoms stream product is input to a debutanizer column. The debutanizer column overhead lights are input to a flash drum where the bottoms is pumped through a heat exchanger as a light oil reflux input to the heavies removal column, while the debutanizer reboiler bottoms product is stored as stabilized condensate. Alternatively, debutanizer column overhead lights are sent to heavies treated gas storage and the bottoms stream product goes to a depentanizer column, the overhead lights are pumped through a heat exchanger as a light oil reflux input to the heavies removal column, while the depentanizer reboiler bottoms product is stabilized condensate.
US12122956B1
In a method for diverter fracturing, a water-based fracturing fluid including non-convex particles is introduced into a hydraulic fracture of a wellbore at a first location. Each non-convex particle is formed to interlock with another non-convex particle. A diverter plug is formed in the hydraulic fracture when multiple non-convex particles interlock. Flow of another water-based fracturing fluid is diverted to a second location due to the diverter plug, forming another hydraulic fracture at the second location.
US12122954B2
The disclosed technology relates to a heat transfer system and heat transfer method employing stable colloidal dispersion of a) a non-conductive, non-aqueous and non-water miscible dielectric oleaginous heat transfer fluid, b) at least one solid nanoparticle, and c) a surfactant. In particular, the technology relates to a stable colloidal dispersion with low electrical conductivity, low flammability, and low freeze point that provides excellent peak temperature reduction in a heat transfer system, such as that for cooling a battery pack or a power system of an electric vehicle.
US12122938B2
To provide an anti-rust composition having all of coatability, handleability of a film to be formed, and long-term rust resistance under severe conditions. Furthermore, it is an object to provide an anti-rust composition having all of coatability, handleability of a film to be formed, and long-term rust resistance under severe conditions, and containing a reduced amount of volatile organic solvent used. As a solution, an anti-rust composition containing a polybutene-based polymer, a wax having a melting point of 35° C. or higher, and a polyaniline-based polymer is provided.
US12122926B2
A colored dispersion for inkjet and a method for producing the same, the colored dispersion including a colorant, a dispersant, a tellurium compound, and water, in which the dispersant is an A-B block polymer; monomers constituting an A block are (meth)acrylic acid and butyl (meth)acrylate; the content of the (meth)acrylic acid in the A block is 26-42 mass %; a monomer constituting a B block includes cyclohexyl (meth)acrylate; the acid value of the dispersant is 100-159 mg KOH/g; and the mass-average molecular weight of the dispersant is 10,000-50,000. An inkjet recording ink containing the dispersion; an inkjet recording method using the ink; recording media to which the ink adheres; and an inkjet printer equipped with a container containing the ink.
US12122924B2
An inkjet ink composition includes water (A), a resin (B), and an organic solvent (C) which has a boiling point of 250° C. or lower, satisfies Expression (C1), and has a nitrogen atom, in which a content mass ratio of the organic solvent (C) to a main resin in the resin (B) is 0.01 or greater and less than 2.0. In Expression (C1), SPB represents an SP value of the main resin in the resin (B) in a unit of MPa1/2, SPC represents an SP value of the organic solvent (C) in the unit of MPa1/2, and |SPC−SPB| represents an absolute value of a difference between SPC and SPB. |SPC−SPB|≤10.0 Expression (C1)
US12122922B2
The present invention relates to a method for making a Pickering emulsion, the method comprising: exfoliating a non-silicate layered 3D material in a solvent to produce particles of a non-silicate unfunctionalised 2D material; forming a dispersion of the particles of the 2D material in a first liquid phase; adding a second liquid phase; and homogenising the dispersion of the 2D material in the first liquid phase with the second liquid phase to form a Pickering emulsion comprising the first liquid phase, the second liquid phase, and the particles of the 2D material.
US12122917B2
Described herein is a polymerized biorenewable, previously modified, or functionalized oil, comprising a polymeric distribution having about 2 to about 80 wt % oligomer content, a polydispersity index ranging from about 1.30 to about 2.20, and sulfur content ranging from 0.001 wt % to about 8 wt %. Methods of manufacturing the polymerized oil as well as its incorporation into asphalt paving, roofing, and coating applications are also described.
US12122915B2
A curable organopolysiloxane composition having rheological properties suitable for precision application and fine pattern formation by a fine droplet coating apparatus such as a jet dispenser, along with a method for forming a pattern using the same, and an electronic component using the same, is provided herein. The curable organopolysiloxane composition is hydrosilylation reaction curable and can be precisely applied by a jet dispenser, etc. The composition has a viscosity at a strain speed of 1,000 (1/s) of 2.0 Pa·s or less, while the viscosity at a strain speed of 0.1 (1/s) is a value 50.0-fold or more the viscosity at a strain speed of 1,000 (1/s). The content of silicon atom-bonded aromatic functional groups in the composition is within a range of from 1.0 to 6.0 mass %.
US12122911B2
A polyalkylene ether glycol composition including a polyalkylene ether glycol including an alkoxy group serving as a terminal group. The polyalkylene ether glycol composition has a hydroxyl value of 220 or more and 750 or less. The ratio of the number of alkoxy group terminals of the polyalkylene ether glycol included in the polyalkylene ether glycol composition to the number of hydroxyl group terminals of polyalkylene ether glycols included in the polyalkylene ether glycol composition is 0.00001 or more and 0.0040 or less. Provided is a polyalkylene ether glycol composition having excellent compatibility with low-molecular-weight polyols, having suitable reactivity when used as a raw material for polyurethanes, and capable of achieving intended physical properties.
US12122905B2
A polyolefin-polystyrene multi-block copolymer and a method of producing the same is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the polyolefin-polystyrene multi-block copolymer has a first complex viscosity of 40,000 Pa·s to 350,000 Pa·s at a temperature of 160° C. and a first frequency of 0.5 rad/s, and has a second complex viscosity of 900 Pa·s to 3,500 Pa·s at a temperature of 160° C. and a second frequency of 125 rad/s. The polyolefin-polystyrene multi-block copolymer has a structure in which polystyrene chains are attached to both ends of a polyolefin chain.
US12122903B2
The present disclosure relates to a crosslinked polyethylene pipe having excellent physical properties. The crosslinked polyethylene pipe according to the present disclosure has optimized the degree of crosslinking and storage modulus by finding out the optimum physical property range between the degree of crosslinking and the storage modulus which have a mutual trade-off relationship, whereby the crosslinked polyethylene pipe according to the present disclosure has excellent long-term durability and short-term pressure resistance, and thus can be applied to various fields requiring these physical properties.
US12122900B2
Provided is an electromagnetic wave shielding and absorbing molded article which has an excellent shielding property and absorbency of electromagnetic waves of specific frequencies. The electromagnetic wave shielding and absorbing molded article includes a thermoplastic resin composition containing a thermoplastic resin and carbon fibers. The carbon fibers have a weighted average fiber length in the molded article in a range from 0.05 to 8.0 mm, and the content ratio of the carbon fibers in the molded article is from 0.05 to 45 mass %. The electromagnetic wave shielding and absorbing molded article has a thickness from 0.01 mm to 5 mm, a shielding property of 10 dB or greater and an absorbency of 5% or greater for electromagnetic waves having any frequency in a frequency domain from 59 GHz to 100 GHz.
US12122891B2
A polymer composition for coating expanded polystyrene (EPS) is provided, the polymer composition includes a mixture of at least one of polyurea, polyurethane, silicon elastomer, and combination thereof in a predefined ratio. The polymer composition imparts desired properties such as high impact and abrasion resistance, elongation strength, and anti-static property along with flexural strength to the EPS. The present invention also provides the process for coating the polymer composition onto the EPS. The matrix coating process provides much stronger bonding due to overlap of coating of the polymer composition on the sides of the EPS and reduces the wastage of the polymer composition during the coating of the EPS. The present invention also provides the EPS coated with the polymer composition. The EPS coated with the polymer composition possesses the properties such as high impact resistance, abrasion resistance, elongation strength, flexural strength, and anti-static property.
US12122877B2
The present disclosure relates to a polymer resin composition including a polyamide resin in which an average particle size of individual crystals measured by a small-angle X-ray scattering apparatus is reduced through an alternating segment structure, and at least one selected from the group consisting of a metal salt compound and an end-capping agent compound, and a polymer film and a resin laminate using the same.
US12122876B2
Disclosed by the present invention is a method for preparing a reactive sealant resin, the method comprising: (1) under the action of an alkali catalyst, polymerizing a hydroxyl-containing initiator with an epoxy compound to obtain a polyether polyol; (2) adding an alkoxide reagent and a halogenated end-capping agent containing a double bond to the polyether polyol obtained in step (1) for reaction, so as to obtain a crude double-bonded polyether product, and refining the crude product to obtain a modified polyether product; and (3) subjecting the modified polyether and hydrogen-containing silane to silane end-capping reaction under the action of a hydrosilylation catalyst, so as to obtain the target product, i.e., a reactive sealant resin. The resin has excellent properties as well as good adhesion and paintability.
US12122874B2
Disclosed herein are catalyst systems useful for a wide range of ring opening polymerization processes. Epoxides, oxetanes, lactones and cyclic carbonates are all suitable substrates for the ring opening polymerization.
US12122873B2
Ways of preparing a partially crystalline polycarbonate powder are provided that include dissolving an amorphous polycarbonate in a polar aprotic solvent to form a first solution of solubilized polycarbonate at a first temperature. The first solution is then cooled to a second temperature, the second temperature being lower than the first temperature, where a portion of the solubilized polycarbonate precipitates from the first solution to form a second solution including the partially crystalline polycarbonate powder. Certain partially crystalline polycarbonate powders resulting from such methods are particularly useful in additive manufacturing processes, including powder bed fusion processes.
US12122872B2
Uncured aqueous composition comprising surfactant and a blend of (a) a first sulfonated polyester having a glass transition temperature not greater than 75° C. that is not sulfonated polyethylene naphthalate, (b) a second, sulfonated polyester that is a sulfonated polyethylene naphthalate, (c) melamine-formaldehyde crosslinker, and (d) an epoxy silane coupling agent; and cured composition thereof. Compositions described herein are useful, for example, for making primed film for release liners applications.
US12122870B2
A solid crosslinked polyester composition is disclosed wherein the crosslinked polyester is environmentally degradable in less than about 180 days. The crosslinked polyester is the polyesterification reaction product between one or more multi-hydroxylic alcohols, one or more hydroxy acids, and one or more multi-carboxylic acid compounds. Alternately, the crosslinked polyester is the polyesterification reaction product between one or more multi-hydroxylic alcohols, one or more hydroxy acids, one or more multi-carboxylic acid compounds, and a cyclic ester.
US12122867B2
A photocurable resin composition according to the present invention contains an anionic-group-containing photosensitive resin comprising a photosensitive urethane resin, a photopolymerization initiator and a thermal curing agent, wherein the photosensitive urethane resin is produced by reacting a raw material mixture containing (A) a polyol having at least an ester bond and also having an unsaturated bond at least in the main chain thereof, (B) a compound having at least one active-hydrogen-containing group and at least one anionic group in the molecule thereof, (C) a polyisocyanate and (D) a compound having at least one active-hydrogen-containing group and an unsaturated bond group in the molecule thereof, and the photosensitive urethane resin has an ester bond and an unsaturated bond in the main chain in the same molecule, wherein at least one of a side chain and a terminal has an anionic group and a side chain has an unsaturated bond group.
US12122861B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a polymer exhibiting reduced heat generation in a low strain region. To achieve the object, the present disclosure provides a multi-component copolymer, comprising a non-conjugated olefin unit, a conjugated diene unit, and an aromatic vinyl unit, characterized in that: a ratio [(C100-120/C0-1000)×100] of crystallinity (C100-120) derived from the non-conjugated olefin unit at 100-120° C. with respect to crystallinity (C0-100) derived from the non-conjugated olefin unit at 0-100° C., as measured by a differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), is 23% or less.
US12122852B2
Systems and methods for treatment of squamous cell carcinoma or other cancer utilizing targeting peptides are described. The targeting peptides interact with SCC cells or other cancerous cells to block or interfere with 14-3-3ε heterodimerization or CDC25A binding to 14-3-3ε. A peptide composition embodiment includes, but is not limited to, at least one of a first targeting peptide comprising a structure of Trp-Tyr-Trp-Lys-NH2 (SEQ ID NO: 1), a second targeting peptide comprising a structure of phospho-Ser178; Ac-Thr-Gln-Arg-Gln-Asn-Ser-(PO32−)-Ala-Pro-Arg-Met-Leu-Ser-Ser-Asn-NH2 (SEQ ID NO: 2), and a third targeting peptide comprising a structure of phospho-Thr507 residue; Ac-Arg-Thr-Lys-Ser-Arg-Thr(PO32−)-Trp-Ala-Gly-Glu-Lys-Ser-Lys-Arg-NH2 (SEQ ID NO: 3).
US12122847B2
The invention relates to a bispecific antibody comprising a first antigen-binding site capable of binding Factor VII(a) and a second antigen-binding site capable of binding TLT-1, pharmaceutical formulations comprising such bispecific antibodies and uses thereof.
US12122845B2
A bispecific epitope binding protein having a multimer of four single-chain chimeric polypeptides of two single-chain chimeric heavy chains and two single-chain chimeric light chains. The bispecific epitope binding protein has a first antigen binding domain that binds specifically to HER2 and a second antigen binding domain that binds specifically to 4-1BB.
US12122842B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to antigen-binding affinity reagents for an analyte-of-interest. In particular, the present disclosure provides novel binding proteins (antibodies), including derivatives and fragments thereof, that target human CD30.
US12122840B2
The present inventors provide methods for modifying the isoelectric point of an antibody while retaining its antigen-binding activity, comprising modifying the charge of at least one exposable amino acid residue on the surface of the complementarity determining region (CDR). The present invention also provides methods for purifying multispecific antibodies, comprising modifying isoelectric point, and methods for improving the plasma pharmacokinetics of antibodies, comprising modifying isoelectric point. The present invention further provides antibodies with a modified isoelectric point, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies as an active ingredient, and methods for producing the antibodies and compositions.
US12122837B2
The invention provides anti-oncostatin M receptor-β (OSMR) antigen binding proteins, e.g., antibodies and functional fragments, derivatives, muteins, and variants thereof. OSMR antigen binding proteins interfere with binding of OSM and/or IL-31 to OSMR. In some embodiments, anti-OSMR antigen binding proteins are useful tools in studying diseases and disorders associated with OSMR and are particularly useful in methods of treating diseases and disorders associated with OSMR and binding of OSM and/or IL-31 to OSMR.
US12122831B2
Chimeric antigen receptors containing CD19/CD22 or CD22/CD19 antigen binding domains are disclosed. Nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, antigen binding fragments, and pharmaceutical compositions, relating to the chimeric antigen receptors are also disclosed. Methods of treating or preventing cancer in a subject, and methods of making chimeric antigen receptor T cells are also disclosed.
US12122830B1
The present invention discloses an anti-ROR1 antibody specifically recognizing human and mouse ROR1. The monoclonal antibody can be usefully used for cancer targeting treatment including detection of various cancer expressing ROR1 through specific binding, and drug delivery to specific cancer, etc. as well as a cancer therapeutic agent, by inhibiting tumors.
US12122828B2
Provided herein are interleukin 7 (IL-7) binding proteins, pharmaceutical compositions and their use in the treatment or prevention of a disease or condition.
US12122824B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods utilizing anti-TNF antibodies having a heavy chain (HC) comprising SEQ ID NO:36 and a light chain (LC) comprising SEQ ID NO:37 for use in the safe and effective treatment of active Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA).
US12122810B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for producing recombinant proteins, as well as compositions used in and produced by such methods. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to methods for producing high secreted yields of recombinant proteins, and the compositions provided herein include recombinant host cells that comprise polynucleotide sequences encoding proteins operably linked to at least 2 distinct secretion signals.
US12122800B2
Provided herein are inhibitors of MEK kinase, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said inhibitory compounds, and methods for using said MEK kinase inhibitory compounds for the treatment of disease.
US12122795B2
Preparation of n{circumflex over ( )}n{circumflex over ( )}c{circumflex over ( )}n tetradentate platinum (ii) complex and uses thereof are provided. The complex of the present invention has a structure as shown in Formula (11). The performance of an organic electroluminescence device prepared from the complex of the present invention is better than that of a reference device. A great application value is realized on an OLED (organic light-emitting diode), and the N{circumflex over ( )}N{circumflex over ( )}C{circumflex over ( )}N tetradentate platinum (II) complex can be used as a phosphorescent doped material to manufacture an orange red light OLED device with a high luminous efficiency.
US12122789B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of 7-(4,7-diazaspiro[2.5]octan-7-yl)-2-(2,8-dimethylimidazo[1,2-b]pyridazin-6-yl)pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidin-4-one useful as pharmaceutically active compounds.
US12122785B2
Described herein are compounds of Formula (I) that are TYK2 inhibitors, methods of making such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds in the treatment of conditions, diseases, or disorders that would benefit from modulation of TYK2 activity.
US12122780B2
Disclosed are a pyrimidinyl group-containing tricyclic compound and applications thereof in preparing a cancer-treating medicament. Specifically disclosed are a compound as represented by formula (I), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of same, or an isomer thereof.
US12122771B2
The disclosure provides compounds which exhibit dopamine receptor antagonist activity and which may be useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of diseases and disorders associated with dopamine receptors. Also provided are methods for the preparation of such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the disclosed compounds, and methods for treating diseases or disorders with such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions.
US12122767B2
The present invention relates to bicyclic heterocycles, and pharmaceutical compositions of the same, that are inhibitors of the FGFR3 enzyme and are useful in the treatment of FGFR3-associated diseases such as cancer.
US12122766B2
The present invention relates to a compound of Formula 1, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or isomer thereof, a pharmaceutical composition including the same, and a use. The compound of Formula 1 according to the present invention has ketohexokinase (KHK) inhibitory activity, and is effectively used for preventing or treating metabolic disease such as diabetes, diabetic complications, obesity, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, and fatty hepatitis.
US12122758B2
The invention provides a material comprising (i) a crown ether of formula (I) and/or (ii) a crown ether of formula (II), or a salt thereof, wherein each m independently is an integer from 1 to 8, each “” designates an optionally present bond and/or structure, each X independently is —N(R1)2, —N*(R1), —N**, —N*(R1)2+Z−, or —N**(R1)+Z−, provided at least one X is —N*(R1), —N**, —N*(R1)2+Z−, or —N**(R1)+Z−, wherein each R1 independently is hydrogen or C1-6 alkyl, each Z is optionally present and independently is a counterion to balance the charge on nitrogen, and * represents a bond to a remainder of the material, a method of making the material, and a method of using the material.
US12122756B2
A biflavone compound against an I-type herpes simplex virus, and a preparation method therefor and the use thereof. The bioflavone compound is a compound of formula I, or a crystal form thereof, or a salt thereof, or a stereoisomer thereof, or a solvate thereof, or a hydrate thereof, or a prodrug thereof. The biflavone compound has a good inhibitory effect on the I-type herpes simplex virus, has a significant effect on the replication and direct inactivation of the virus, and is dose dependent. The compound is also effective in preventing and/or treating viral keratitis caused by the I-type herpes simplex virus. The compound has good water solubility and low toxicity. It can be prepared into an external preparation for resisting the I-type herpes simplex virus, such as eye drops and eye ointment, and external ointments, creams, gel agents, film agents, film-coating agents, etc.
US12122748B2
An optical data communication system may include one or more para-phenylenevinylenes, a receiver for an optical data communication system comprising para-phenylenevinylene(s), a transmitter for an optical data communication system comprising para-phenylenevinylene(s), the use of para-phenylenevinylene(s) in an optical data communication system, specific para-phenylenevinylene(s) and their preparation.
US12122735B2
Aspects of the disclosure includes methods for preparing an amorphous solid composition of a fatty acid metal salt. In practicing the subject methods according to certain embodiments, a succinylated 3-(fatty acid amido)-2-hydroxy-1-(protected hydroxy)-propane organic salt is contacted with a metal base to produce a succinylated 3-(fatty acid amido)-2-hydroxy-1-(protected hydroxy)-propane metal salt; and the succinylated 3-(fatty acid amido)-2-hydroxy-1-(protected hydroxy)-propane metal salt is precipitated in a solvent to produce an amorphous solid succinylated 3-(fatty acid amido)-2-hydroxy-1-(protected hydroxy)-propane metal salt composition. An amorphous solid succinylated 3-(fatty acid amido)-2-hydroxy-1-(protected hydroxy)-propane lithium salt is also provided.
US12122720B2
The present invention relates to a simple process for the production of geopolymer or geopolymer composite comprising additive. The process preferably comprises modification of the geopolymer or geopolymer composite. The invention further relates to a geopolymer or geopolymer composite as obtainable according to the process.
US12122719B2
A method of treating the surface of a metal casing used in a wellbore by conditioning the metal casing in a conditioning fluid to form a conditioned metal casing, contacting the conditioned metal casing with a treatment fluid to form a treated metal casing, and drying the treated metal casing. A method of increasing the bond strength between cement and a metal casing surface treated with a reactive organic compound by curing the treated metal casing with a cement slurry.
US12122715B2
The present invention provides an alkali-free glass sheet, including as a glass composition, in terms of mol %, 60% to 74% of SiO2, 6% to 20% of Al2O3, 0% to 9% of B2O3, 1% to 13% of MgO, 1% to 13% of CaO, 0% to 7% of SrO, 0% to 8% of BaO, and 0% to less than 1.0% of Y2O3+La2O3, being substantially free of an alkali metal oxide, and having a strain point of 650° C. or more.
US12122714B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a borosilicate glass composition comprising B2O3 in an amount greater than or equal to 11 mol % and less than or equal to 16 mol %; Al2O3 in an amount greater than or equal to 2 mol % and less than or equal to 5 mol %; one or more alkali metal oxides; one or more alkaline earth metal oxides; a total amount of Na2O, K2O, MgO, and CaO that is greater than or equal to 7.0 mol %°. Amounts of SiO2, B2O3, the one or more alkali metal oxides, Al2O3, and the one or more alkaline earth metal oxides, satisfy: (R2O+R′O)≥Al2O3, and 0.80<(1−[(2R2O+2R′O)/(SiO2+2Al2O3+2B2O3)])<0.93, where R2O and R′O are sums sum of the concentrations of the one or more alkali metal oxides and the one or more alkaline earth metal oxides, respectively.
US12122713B2
A glass has a density of 2.60 g/cm3 or lower, a Young's modulus of 88 GPa or more, a strain point of 650 to 720° C., a temperature T4 at which a glass viscosity reaches 104 dPa·s of 1,320° C. or lower, a glass surface devitrification temperature (Tc) of T4+20° C. or lower, and an average coefficient of thermal expansion of 30×10−7 to 43×10−7/° C. at 50 to 350° C. The glass contains, as represented by mol % based on oxides, 50 to 80% of SiO2, 8 to 20% of Al2O3, 0 to 0.5% in total of at least one kind of alkali metal oxide selected from the group consisting of Li2O, Na2O and K2O, and 0 to 1% of P2O5.
US12122705B2
A textured glass article includes: a body comprising an aluminosilicate glass comprising greater than or equal to 16 wt % Al2O3, the body having at least a first surface; a plurality of dendritic surface features extending from the first surface, each of the plurality of dendritic surface features comprising a base on the first surface and a surface feature size at the base greater than or equal to 10 μm and less than or equal to 350 μm; and a transmittance haze greater than or equal to 50%.
US12122700B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for treating water. Iron is removed biologically from humus-rich water with the solution according to the invention. In the method, the water being treated is conveyed through a filter, which filter comprises filter material. Before the water is conveyed to the filter, the pH value of the water is lowered with an acidification part that is included in the apparatus.
US12122697B2
Disclosed is a waste processing plant and method of processing waste biomass. The plant includes a waste receiving apparatus for receiving biomass waste and processing it into a liquid stream before passing it to, anaerobic hydrolysis tanks for hydrolysis, acidification and acetylation of the stream, before passing it to, a heat exchanger for raising the temperature of the stream to a pasteurization temperature, pasteurization tanks for holding the stream at the pasteurization temperature to ensure adequate pasteurization before passing it to, and anaerobic methanogenesis tanks for anaerobic digestion of a portion of the stream into biogas. Also included is a centrifugation apparatus to separate oil from the stream, wherein at least a portion of the stream which is downstream of the hydrolysis tank(s) and upstream of the methanogenesis tank(s), and which has a temperature of above 68° C., is centrifuged by the centrifugation apparatus to remove a portion of the oil.
US12122694B2
An anionic flocculant including: galactomannan; and a polysaccharide other than the galactomannan, wherein the anionic flocculant has a bulk density of 0.50 g/cm3 or more but 1.00 g/cm3 or less, the anionic flocculant has a particle diameter D50 of 250 μm or more but 850 μm or less, and the anionic flocculant has a particle diameter D10 of 150 μm or more.
US12122691B1
A method of treating contaminated water includes contacting the contaminated water including a fluoroalkyl compound with a galvanic cell to form galvanic cell-treated water including a galvanic cell-treated fluoroalkyl compound. The method also includes separating the galvanic cell-treated fluoroalkyl compound from the galvanic cell-treated water to form product water having a lower concentration of the fluoroalkyl compound than the contaminated water and to form an aqueous concentrate having a higher concentration of the galvanic cell-treated fluoroalkyl compound than the product water.
US12122689B2
An electrode for use in bio-electrochemical systems is described, including: a substantially planar electrode material; a frame comprising a non-conductive substance; and one or more first conductive substances linked or secured to the frame. Bio-electrochemical systems, racks for inserting the electrode, and methods of using the racks are also described.
US12122683B2
Disclosed by the invention is a method for preparing lithium carbonate from lithium ore, comprising the steps of: preparing lithium sulfate leachate from lithium ore concentrate, removing Fe2+ and Al3+ from the lithium sulfate leachate by adding alkali, removing Ca2+ and Mg2+ from the lithium sulfate leachate by an ion exchange method, adding a saturated solution of soda ash into the obtained concentrated solution of lithium sulfate leachate, precipitating lithium carbonate, filtering and separating the lithium carbonate precipitate, washing with hot water and drying to obtain a finished lithium carbonate product. The invention saves the production cost, and obviously improves the purity of lithium carbonate as a final product. In addition, disclosed by the invention is also a system for realizing the method for preparing lithium carbonate from lithium ore.
US12122682B2
A present disclosure describes about an improved form of purified crystalline sodium nitrite. The said form of sodium nitrite may comprise a purity level between 99% to 99.2%. The form of sodium nitrite may also comprise an amount of sodium nitrate no greater than 0.7%. The present disclosure also relates to a method of obtaining an improved form of purified crystalline sodium nitrite with minimum impurities.
US12122681B2
A process for the synthesis of ammonia from a hydrocarbon feedstock, wherein the process includes reforming the hydrocarbon feedstock to produce a make-up gas and converting said make-up gas into ammonia, the process is performed in an ammonia synthesis plant requiring an electric power for operation and also requiring a start-up power (Ps) for start-up, wherein a first electric power (P1) is internally produced in the ammonia plant, and a second electric power (P2) is imported, wherein said second electric power is equal to or greater than said start-up power (Ps).
US12122678B1
A method for delaminating a graphene layer from a metal catalyst substrate. The method includes depositing the graphene layer on the metal catalyst substrate to form a layered structure and soaking the layered structure in a water-based solution comprising water and a water-miscible organic solvent such that the water-based solution intercalates between the graphene layer and the metal catalyst substrate and oxidizes the metal catalyst substrate for delamination of the graphene layer from the metal catalyst substrate.
US12122675B2
The present invention discloses a method for efficiently dispersing carbon nanotubes. The method comprises mixing, in parts by mass, 1-30 parts of carbon nanotubes, 0.2-10 parts of functionalized carbon nanotubes and 400-1200 parts of a solvent, adjusting the pH of the resulting mixture to 5-9, and then ultrasonically dispersing the mixture to obtain a stably dispersed carbon nanotube dispersion; the functionalized carbon nanotube is one or more of a carboxylated carbon nanotube, a hydroxylated carbon nanotube, an aminated carbon nanotube, an acyl-chlorinated carbon nanotube, and a sulfonated carbon nanotube.
US12122671B2
A thermochemical labyrinth reactor is disclosed. The reactor has a reoxidation zone and a reduction zone with electric heaters. A recuperation zone connects the reduction and reoxidation zones with first and second channels, the first channel adjoining the second channel, being separated by windows allowing an exchange of thermal radiation between channels while preventing gas exchange. The reactor also includes reactor plates composed of a reactive material, and a transit system running through the three zones, with the transit system configured to shuttle the plates between the reduction zone and the reoxidation zone, moving the plates along a circuit. The reactor also has a feedstock gas emitter to introduce a feedstock gas flowing opposite the movement of the plates. A gas extractor is configured to extract a product gas resulting from the feedstock gas being split by the oxidizing reactive material. All three zones are surrounded by an insulating housing.
US12122659B2
An example method comprises receiving a control signal to open a first valve of a compressible liquid container within an airtight pressurized container, retrieving a first dispensing profile, each dispensing profile indicating at least one valve and, for each valve, a predetermined period of time for keeping a particular valve open, each of the valves controlling transport of contents a different compressible liquid container contained within the airtight pressurized container to a dispensing system, for each of the one or more valves identified in the first dispensing profile: opening the particular valve identified in the first dispensing profile for the particular predetermined period of time to transport contents over a first liquid transport conduit that is coupled to a particular releasable coupling and the particular valve, and closing the particular valve after the particular predetermined period of time to dispense an amount of contents of the particular compressible liquid container.
US12122657B2
A fluid material dispensing apparatus capable of conducting an automatic self-disinfection operation includes: guiding a disinfectant solution in the cleaning sink to flow into a fluid diverter; activate a pump to push residual cleaning solution in a material transmission pipe forward, so that the residual cleaning solution is discharged through an outlet connector; and guiding the disinfectant solution in the fluid diverter to flow into a fluid connector through the detergent transmission pipe, and then flows into the material transmission pipe through the fluid connector.
US12122651B2
A moving body includes a housing, a traction motor, a plurality of elevator motors and a battery. The traction motor allows the housing to travel along a traveling surface. The plurality of elevator motors actuates an elevator unit, the elevator unit being configured to be elevated and lowered with respect to the traveling surface. The battery supplies electric power to the traction motor and the plurality of elevator motors. In the moving body, the plurality of elevator motors, the traction motor, and the battery are distributed when viewed perpendicularly to the traveling surface. The moving body further comprises at least one driving wheel to support the housing on the traveling surface. The plurality of elevator motors, the traction motor, and the battery fall, in a direction perpendicular to the traveling surface, within a range defined by a diameter of the at least one driving wheel.
US12122645B2
A portable vacuum lifter system having a power source, drive motor, vacuum pump and reservoir contained in a readily carriable case. The system also has a vacuum pad in fluid communication with the vacuum pump via a vacuum line and a solenoid operated valve. The system is removably mountable on a small host vehicle for use in confined areas.
US12122637B2
A conveyance device includes a conveyance path having a curved portion and a pair of conveyers which are disposed in the conveyance path and convey a medium while nipping it, wherein the medium enters the pair of conveyers in a state of being at least partially curved in the curved portion, and the conveyance path guides the medium toward one of the pair of conveyers.
US12122636B2
A sheet transport device includes a pair of movable transport rollers capable of transporting a sheet while holding the sheet and capable of moving in an axial direction crossing a transportation direction; pairs of first transport rollers disposed upstream from the pair of movable transport rollers in the transportation direction while being spaced apart from each other to transport the sheet while holding the sheet; and pairs of transport guides disposed to define sheet transport spaces between the pair of movable transport rollers and the pairs of first transport rollers and between the pairs of first transport rollers. When the pair of movable transport rollers is to be moved in the axial direction, first transport rollers in at least one of the pairs of first transport rollers are separated not to hold at least part of a portion of the transported sheet located upstream from the pair of movable transport rollers.
US12122634B2
A medium feeding apparatus includes a medium mounting section forming a mounting face for mounting a medium thereon, a feeding roller configured to feed a lowermost medium among mediums mounted on the medium mounting section in a feeding direction, and a movement detection unit configured to output information related to movement of the medium in a direction along the mounting face, wherein based on detection information detected by a medium height detection unit that outputs information related to a height of the medium mounted on the mounting section from the mounting face in abnormality detection processing, when the height is less than a first threshold value, a control unit continues feeding the medium regardless of detection information detected by the movement detection unit or without obtaining detection information detected by the movement detection unit.
US12122629B2
A printing apparatus includes a stacking portion on which a print medium printed by a printing unit configured to perform printing is stacked, a discharge unit configured to convey the print medium printed by the printing unit to the stacking portion, a passage forming portion arranged above the stacking portion so as to face the stacking portion and configured to form a discharge passage of the print medium together with the stacking portion, and an outlet port located at a downstream end of the discharge passage in a conveying direction of the print medium. In the outlet port, the passage forming portion extends to the downstream side of the stacking portion in the conveying direction.
US12122625B2
A medium storage device includes: a housing frame having, at a front portion, an entrance for replenishment and recovery to which a transit cassette is connectable, an identification unit serving to identify whether a medium is a normal medium or a rejection medium, a temporary holding unit configured to temporarily accommodate a medium, a recycle cassette configured to store the medium identified as the normal medium, a conveyance path configured to convey the medium between the identification unit, the temporary holding unit, and the recycle cassette, and a control unit configured to control the conveyance path such that the medium replenished from the transit cassette is conveyed to the temporary holding unit, the medium transferred to the temporary holding unit is conveyed to the identification unit, and the medium identified as the normal medium in the identification unit is conveyed to the recycle cassette.
US12122624B2
A post-processing apparatus includes a guiding unit that faces a placement surface onto which sheets are transported and stacked as a stack of sheets and that is capable of changing a gap in a thickness direction of the stack of sheets, the guiding unit being configured to guide the sheets which are transported, and a controller that controls a size of the gap and a change pattern of the gap.
US12122616B2
A work transfer system includes a robot having a hand which holds a workpiece and a sensor which can detect external force acting on the hand, a balancer connected to the hand and can generate lifting force for lifting the hand in a vertically upward direction, a shape measuring device which conducts measuring of a shape of the workpiece, and a controller controlling the robot and the balancer based on the shape of the workpiece, and the controller adjusts a holding position of the workpiece by the hand based on the shape, and controls the lifting force so that an absolute value of the external force in the vertical direction detected by the sensor becomes equal to or smaller than a predetermined first threshold when the workpiece is held at the adjusted holding position and lifted.
US12122612B2
A removal apparatus removes tube pieces and has a receiving device with a loading edge and a receiving region for receiving the tube pieces and a loading surface connecting the loading edge to the receiving region. The loading surface is inclined a direction from the loading edge to the receiving region about an angle of inclination. A pivotable storage cassette stores a multiplicity of tube pieces and is arranged in front of the loading edge and is configured to be pivoted about a pivot angle of the storage cassette in relation to a parallel of the horizontal. A lifter is provided for lifting the tube pieces out of the storage cassette and is configured to be moved in front of the loading edge such the lifter lifts the tube pieces onto the loading edge such that the tube pieces move along the loading surface into the receiving region.
US12122609B2
An accumulator has a control system for controlling motion of a plurality of buckets on a continuous loop and logs traversing on a log transfer device. The log transfer device delivers a log from an entrance of the log transfer device to a bucket infeed on the accumulator. The bucket infeed receives a log from the log transfer device and allows a bucket to receive the log from the log transfer device. A time for the log to move from the entrance of the log transfer device to the bucket infeed is determined. Based on the time for the log to move from the entrance of the log transfer device to the bucket infeed, the control system controls the accumulator drive to move the continuous loop such that a bucket in the plurality of buckets is positioned at the bucket infeed with sufficient time to allow the bucket to receive the log from the log transfer device.
US12122605B2
A compact dedusting apparatus for cleaning particulate materials of contaminates and has a housing defining a cleaning area in which the contaminants are removed to create cleaned particulate material with a product discharge opening through which cleaned particulate material can be discharged. The dedusting apparatus includes an infeed apparatus having a vibratory feed pan powered by a vibration generator to induce vibrations therein. The dedusting apparatus also includes a Venturi chamber to remove contaminants from the particulate material by a flow of air passing upwardly through the product discharge opening. The dedusting apparatus further includes an interchangeable carryover deflector having a chamber extension member that aligns with internal structure to control the flow of particulate material into said Venturi chamber and deflects particulate material entrained in the air flow through the Venturi chamber toward the product discharge opening. The carryover deflector incorporates an observation window to view the dedusting operation.
US12122604B1
Systems and methods for order fulfilment and product handling are described. The system includes an application configured to identify products included in an order from a pharmacy to a wholesaler that can be bundled based on one or more criteria. Those products are retrieved from stock by the wholesaler and packaged together for shipment to the pharmacy. Operators at the pharmacy directly induct the bundled products into a product-handling system which accumulates and collates the products and other non-bundled products with respect to a patient order. The product-handling system may apply labels to the products and places the products associated with the patient order into a single package for shipment to the patient. The bundled products are directly inducted into the product-handling system without being placed in stock at the pharmacy.
US12122602B2
A method for managing storage of materials implemented in an electronic device to ensure that earliest-stored materials are removed from storage positions, first controls a scanning device to scan batch code and obtains batch information of the material when an inlet of the electronic device is required to receive the batch of material. A serial number of a storage position is associated with the batch information and a storage time of the batch of material in the storage position is recorded. The serial number of the storage position storing the batch of material according to the batch information is determined when a material-request is received and a transmission track is controlled to transfer the batches of material which having earliest recorded storage times one by one to the outlet, so as to release the batches of material from the storage position.
US12122592B2
A 45-foot and 53-foot container floor and a container are provided by the present disclosure, and relate to the container technology field. A container floor comprises a floor body, and the floor body comprises a first bamboo mat layer, an interlayer and a second bamboo mat layer, and the first bamboo mat layer, the interlayer and the second bamboo mat layer are sequentially pasted from a top to a bottom; a protection assembly is arranged on the floor body, the protection assembly comprises a protection shell and fastening screws, the protection shell is circumferentially wrapped on a side wall of the floor body, and the fastening screws are arranged running through the protection shell and the floor body. A container of the present disclosure comprises a container floor, and a plurality of Ω-shaped mounting parts are arranged on the container.
US12122588B2
According to an embodiment, a blade dispenser includes a body portion; and a lid portion slidable relative to the body portion to move the blade dispenser between a closed configuration and an extended configuration. The lid portion comprises a first lid portion having a first blade chamber and a second lid portion having a second blade chamber. The first lid portion and the second lid portion are coupled by a hinge portion configured to permit the first lid portion to pivot relative to the second lid portion to move the blade dispenser from the extended configuration to an open configuration. In the open configuration blades may be removed from or inserted into both the first blade chamber and the second blade chamber.
US12122584B2
The present disclosure is directed to recyclable, composite container assemblies with improved characteristics resulting from a combination of raw materials, structural design, systems, and methods for sealing a paper-based closure to a paper-based container body. The container assemblies demonstrate superior performance and seal properties, such as very low oxygen transmission rates and high resistance to bulging and/or damage due to high pressure differentials. The disclosed container assemblies, manufactured at high speeds, have been optimized by increasing the shelf-life of food products stored therein, while minimizing any non-paper materials such that the container assemblies qualify as recyclable mono-material.
US12122581B2
Disclosed herein are packagings for cutting blades, multiple packagings connected to each other, methods for using and producing such packagings, and a method for packaging cutting blades in such packagings. One such packaging comprises a substantially flat base and cover layer made of a first and a second packaging material respectively, a blade receptacle between the two layers, and a cover of the blade receptacle formed in the cover layer. The first and second packaging material are made primarily of cardboard. The packaging materials each have a first and a second rigidity in corresponding primary directions, wherein a cutting edge of a blade is disposed in the packaging parallel to at least one of the primary directions. A multiple packaging made of such individual packagings with a separation region between two individual packagings comprises a planned parting line in a layer and a hinge line in the other layer.
US12122580B2
A holding structure includes receptacles formed by peripherally formed side walls, an annular gap being formed between a side wall of a container or device and one of the peripherally formed side walls when containers or devices are received therein, the receptacles being compressed in a first direction and expanded in a second direction transversely thereto, with the result that the gap is widened to form a widened clearance for handling containers or devices which are received in the receptacles, the holding structure further including an upper side, the peripherally formed side walls including an upper edge which forms a closed, smooth curve having at least one local maximum and at least one local minimum in a direction perpendicular to the upper side of the holding structure, the at least one local minimum being situated in a region of the widened clearance that is respectively assigned.
US12122579B2
A container carrier for unitizing a plurality of containers includes a network of molded ribs forming a plurality of container receiving openings formed in a first plane and a plurality of radial tabs positioned within each container receiving opening. A plurality of raised rings are each formed over each container receiving opening and formed in a second plane. A band may be formed over each raised ring in the second plane and a rail may be positioned on an underside of the container carrier between each pair of container receiving openings.
US12122574B2
A closure arrangement for a vessel containing a pharmaceutical substance, having a stopper, a metal cap, for securing the stopper on the vessel, and an overcap made of plastic, wherein, for the purpose of identifying contents of the vessel, a wirelessly readable, electrical memory unit is connected to the closure arrangement. In order for a closure arrangement of the type in question to be improved further, in particular in respect of tamper-evident sealing the memory unit is operatively connected both to the overcap and to the stopper, and the operative connection has a lasting effect on the memory unit when the overcap is torn off.
US12122572B2
A device is provided that assists with equalizing air pressure within a container with the atmospheric air pressure as liquid is being poured from the container and includes one or more relatively short air tubes. The device is provided with the ability to simultaneously equalize pressure in the container while also providing a drip collection mechanism. The device may be configured for unidirectional pouring or multi-directional pouring.
US12122571B2
The present disclosure pertains to a laminate membrane for sealing an inner compartment in a packaging container comprising a top member and a bottom member. The top and bottom members are laminated sheet materials. The top member has a thickness, a top member first surface and a top member second surface facing the bottom member. The bottom member has a bottom member first surface facing the top member second surface and a bottom member second surface. The laminate membrane is provided with a valve for allowing gas in the inner compartment of the packaging container to exit therefrom. The valve has a valve outer edge and is arranged on the bottom member first surface. The valve is arranged within an opening in the top member such that an opening edge encircles the valve. A surface area of the opening is greater than a surface area of the valve.
US12122555B2
Described herein are collapsible containers for transportation of cargo, and methods of using them. The containers may include textured bottom surfaces to facilitate positive engagement with a conveyor. In some embodiments, the containers include secure locking mechanisms that prevent inadvertent unlocking while also permitting one-handed operation. In some embodiments, the containers include adapters to facilitate discharge of liquid cargo.
US12122551B2
A wire guide assembly is provided for the accurate labeling of different diameter elongated objects, wires, or cables within a wrapping mechanism of an elongated object label applicator. The label applicator guide permits elongated objects of different diameters to be placed within substantially the center of the wrapping mechanism to continuously facilitate proper application of a label to different sized elongated objects.
US12122545B2
A bundling device comprises a frame, and a wire bending device and a wire twisting device each mounted to the frame. The wire bending device bends a bundling wire into an open ring to partially surround an object to be bundled, and guide the bundling wire into the wire twisting device. The wire twisting device twists two opposite end segments of the bundling wire together to bundle the object.
US12122541B2
An unmanned flying device including a body; a first blade and at least a second blade; a coupling assembly for coupling the first blade and the at least second blade to the body, wherein the coupling assembly urges the collapsing of the first blade and the at least second blade towards the body; and wherein both the first blade and the at least second blade are rotatable about the body, and wherein the first blade and the at least second blade are deployable away from the body via rotation of the first and the at least second blades about the body.
US12122536B2
A device for fixing a lifting tooling on an aircraft component includes a threaded screw, a hollow body, an orientation and positioning system, and a retraction system. The threaded screw has a longitudinal axis and includes a distal end having a screw head. The threaded screw further includes a threaded proximal end and an intermediate part. The hollow body houses the threaded screw while allowing the rotation of the threaded screw along its longitudinal axis. The orientation and positioning system is configured to allow rotation of the threaded screw about axes transverse to the longitudinal axis of the threaded screw, and translation of the threaded screw parallel to its longitudinal axis. The retraction system is configured to retract the threaded proximal end of the threaded screw in the hollow body.
US12122532B2
A cargo aircraft configured to carry a portion of its payload in a cargo bay volume enclosed by a moveable nose door and supported by a structural extension of the fuselage that extends forward into the moveable nose door is disclosed. Examples include an aircraft with a continuous cargo bay extending from an aft end of a fixed portion into forward portion inside a nose door, where the portion of the cargo bay in the nose door is supported by a cantilevered support structure extending forward a length from a cargo opening into the fixed portion and such that the support structure extends into the nose door when the door is closed. The length of the support structure defines a supported cargo volume of at least about 15% of the overall volume of the fuselage forward of an aft end of the support structure.
US12122529B2
Propulsion engines and methods of accessing components within propulsor cavities of propulsion engines are disclosed. A propulsion engine includes an outer engine housing that includes a propulsor cavity located therein. The propulsor cavity is axially located between a low-pressure compressor and a fan of the propulsion engine. An electric converter is disposed within the propulsor cavity.
US12122523B2
An aircraft evacuation slide assembly may be comprised of a plurality of composite textiles. Each composite textile may comprise a fabric substrate, an inner polyurethane coating, and an outer heat reflective coating. The outer heat reflective coating may comprise nanofillers that improve polymer properties, such as mechanical, barrier, thermal, flame retardancy, and electrical properties. Moreover, the outer heat reflective coating may comprise nanofillers that enable hot air welding and radio frequency welding of the plurality composite textiles to form the aircraft evacuation slide assembly.
