US12125547B2
A TPM with programmable fuses in an SOC includes an on-die RAM storing a blown-fuse count and a TPM state read from off-die NV memory. During initialization, if the blown-fuse count is greater than a TPM state fuse count, a TPM state PIN-attempt-failure count is incremented, thereby thwarting a replay attack. If a PIN satisfies a PIN failure policy, and if a TPM state previously-passed-PIN indicator is set to true, a fuse is blown and the blown-fuse count incremented depending on the PIN being incorrect, but if the TPM state previously-passed-PIN indicator is set to false, a fuse is blown and the blown-fuse count incremented independent of whether the PIN is correct or incorrect. The TPM state fuse count is set equal to the blown-fuse count. If a counter cleared before processing the PIN remains cleared during the next initialization, a fuse voltage cut is detected and a penalty imposed.
US12125544B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes: a memory cell array including three or more planes; a first clock generator generating a first clock signal having a first period; a second clock generator generating a second clock signal having a second period that varies with the temperature; a plurality of clock switching controllers outputting one of the first and second clock signals as a reference clock signal; a control logic including a plurality of bitline shutoff generators, which output a plurality of bitline shutoff signals based on the reference clock signal; and a plurality of page buffers connecting bitlines of the planes and data latch nodes in accordance with the bitline shutoff signals.
US12125536B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic device. A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells coupled to a plurality of word lines, a voltage generator generating program-related voltages to be applied to the plurality of word lines, an address decoder transferring the program-related voltages to the plurality of word lines, and an operation controller controlling the voltage generator and the address decoder to apply a program voltage to a selected word line among the plurality of word lines, a second pass voltage to adjacent word lines neighboring the selected word line, a first pass voltage to remaining word lines except for the selected word line and the adjacent word lines, and to apply a ground voltage to the selected word line and the first pass voltage to the adjacent word lines during a first period.
US12125526B2
A memory is provided that includes bitcell VDD boosting to increase a read margin. In some implementations, the positive boost for the bitcell VDD may be provided by a capacitor that is also used for negative boosting of a write driver.
US12125518B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus of calibrating memory interface, wherein said method and apparatus is able to periodically re-adjust the placement of the receive enable signal in order to have said receive enable signal to be in an optimum position in relation to the DQS signal from an external memory device to achieve maximum timing margin regardless of voltage or temperature drift and/or process aging to the integrated circuit.
US12125516B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a temperature detecting circuit and a temperature raising circuit. The temperature detecting circuit detects a temperature to generate temperature detection information. The temperature raising circuit generates heat through a toggling operation based on the temperature detection information.
US12125507B2
A sorbent breather filter for an electronic device such as a hard disk drive (HDD) is configured with a first chamber for housing a first sorbent and environmentally coupled with an external environment via at least a first orifice and a second orifice, a corresponding replaceable first sorbent such as zeolite or silica gel beads in the first chamber, a second chamber adjacent to the first chamber for housing a second sorbent, and a corresponding second sorbent such as carbon beads in the second chamber. The first orifice is a through-hole such that the first sorbent can be loaded into the first chamber therethrough, and the second orifice is a slitted or grated hole such that the first sorbent cannot move from the first chamber to the external environment through the second orifice while loading sorbent into the first chamber through an HDD first cover breather hole.
US12125501B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for face-aware speaker diarization. In an example embodiment, an audio-only speaker diarization technique is applied to generate an audio-only speaker diarization of a video, an audio-visual speaker diarization technique is applied to generate a face-aware speaker diarization of the video, and the audio-only speaker diarization is refined using the face-aware speaker diarization to generate a hybrid speaker diarization that links detected faces to detected voices. In some embodiments, to accommodate videos with small faces that appear pixelated, a cropped image of any given face is extracted from each frame of the video, and the size of the cropped image is used to select a corresponding active speaker detection model to predict an active speaker score for the face in the cropped image.
US12125490B2
Techniques for a digital assistant to receive intent input from a secondary user are provided. A digital assistant receives a query intent from a primary user, wherein the primary user is authorized to provide query intents. It is determined, based on the query intent, that intent input will be provided by a secondary user, wherein the secondary user is not authorized to provide query intents. Intent input provided by the secondary user is received. The digital assistant processes the query intent using the intent input. The results of the query intent are provided to the primary user.
US12125481B2
A reranking device include a hypothesis input unit configured to receive input of N-best hypotheses associated with scores of a speech recognition accuracy; a hypothesis selection unit configured to select two hypotheses to be determined from among the input N-best hypotheses. Further, there is a determination unit configured to determine which accuracy of two hypotheses is higher by using: a plurality of first auxiliary model to M-th auxiliary model represented by such a neural network as to be capable of converting, when the selected two hypotheses are given, the two hypotheses into hidden state vectors, and determining which of the two hypotheses is higher based on the hidden state vectors of the two hypotheses; and a main model represented by such a neural network as to be capable of determining which of the two hypotheses is higher based on the hidden state vectors of the two hypotheses.
US12125475B2
There is provided an information processing device including an analysis unit configured to analyze a character string indicating contents of utterance obtained as a result of speech recognition, and a display control unit configured to display the character string indicating the contents of the utterance and an analysis result on a display screen.
US12125473B2
Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a speech recognition method, apparatus, and device, and a storage medium. The method in the embodiments of this disclosure includes: adjusting a probability of a relationship between at least one pair of elements in a language recognition model according to a probability of the relationship between the at least one pair of elements in a textual segment; inputting a to-be-recognized speech into a speech recognition model including the language recognition model; and determining, according to the adjusted probability of relationship between the at least tone pair of elements in the language recognition model, a sequence of elements corresponding to the to-be-recognized speech as a speech recognition result.
US12125470B2
A speech output method carried out by a speech output system that includes a first terminal, a server, and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal carries out: a first label assignment step of assigning label data to character strings that are included in content, the label data representing attributes of speakers in a case where the character strings are to be read aloud by using synthetic speech; and a transmission step of transmitting the label data to the server, the server carries out a saving step of saving the label data transmitted from the first terminal, in a database, in association with content identification information that identifies the content, and the second terminal carries out: an acquisition step of acquiring label data that corresponds to the content identification information regarding the content, from the server.
US12125467B2
An active noise reduction system includes a reference signal generator configured to generate a reference signal, a canceling sound generator configured to generate a canceling sound, an error detector configured to detect an error between a noise and the canceling sound and generate an error signal corresponding to the error, and a controller configured to control the canceling sound generator based on the reference signal and the error signal, wherein the controller is configured to update an estimation value of acoustic characteristics in an internal space of a mobile body based on the reference signal and the error signal, estimate a head position of an occupant in the internal space based on the updated estimation value of the acoustic characteristics, and update a control filter based on the estimated head position of the occupant, the control filter being a filter for controlling the canceling sound generator.
US12125458B2
A display terminal adjustment method is provided, this method includes: obtaining image data of an image to be displayed and screen data of the display terminal; obtaining a first adjustment ratio and a second adjustment ratio according to an image size in the image data and a screen size in the screen data; adjusting the image to be displayed to obtain a first target image according to the first adjustment ratio, and adjusting the image to be displayed to obtain a second target image according to the second adjustment ratio; and adjusting the display terminal to be in a target display mode according to the first target image and the second target image, according to this method, a size of a blank area of the display terminal is reduced, and an utilization rate of the screen of the display terminal is improved.
US12125448B2
A circuit device includes a storage unit configured to store a plurality of lookup tables, and a luminance information calculation circuit configured to calculate luminance information indicating a luminance of light reaching a target pixel of a display panel from a backlight. The first lookup table is associated with a first light source element provided at a first position, and indicates a first attenuation rate distribution of the first light source element. The second lookup table is associated with a second light source element provided at a second position, and indicates a second attenuation rate distribution of the second light source element. The luminance information calculation circuit obtains a first attenuation rate of light reaching the target pixel from the first light source element based on the first lookup table, obtains a second attenuation rate of light reaching the target pixel from the second light source element based on the second lookup table, and calculates the luminance information based on the first attenuation rate and the second attenuation rate.
US12125447B2
A display driver includes a display panel, a backlight array, and backlight control circuitry. The backlight array includes a plurality of light sources and is configured to illuminate the display panel. The backlight control circuitry is configured to determine first base luminance for a first light source of the plurality of light sources based at least in part on pixel data for a first set of pixels associated with the first light source. The backlight control circuitry is further configured to determine first compensated luminance for the first light source by modifying the first base luminance based at least in part on a position of the first light source in the backlight array. The backlight control circuitry is further configured to control light emission of the first light source based at least in part on the first compensated luminance.
US12125446B2
A method for operating a display comprising a plurality of emission diodes. For each emission diode, an output brightness of the emission diode is monitored over a range of compliance voltages. Based on the monitored output brightness of the emission diode, an inflection voltage is determined. At the inflection voltage, increasing a commanded compliance voltage does not yield an above-threshold increase in output brightness. Further, decreasing the commanded compliance voltage from the inflection voltage yields an above-threshold decrease in output brightness. In response to receiving a request for the emission diode to operate at a peak output brightness, an applied compliance voltage is commanded that is within a threshold voltage of the inflection voltage.
US12125442B2
A driving controller of a display device includes: an accumulation unit, which outputs accumulation data, which is obtained by accumulating a deterioration state, and a deterioration stress value based on an input image signal and a deterioration prediction temperature value; a temperature prediction unit that calculates the deterioration prediction temperature value based on the accumulation data, a color acceleration coefficient, a color current contribution ratio, and a temperature signal; and a compensation unit that outputs an output image signal based on the input image signal and the deterioration stress value.
US12125437B2
Provided is a display substrate, which includes: a base substrate disposed with a first display region and a second display region, multiple second-region light emitting elements located in the second display region, and multiple second-type pixel circuits located in the first display region. The first display region is located at at least one side of the second display region. The multiple second-type pixel circuits include multiple pixel circuits of a first structure and multiple pixel circuits of a second structure. At least one pixel circuit of the multiple pixel circuits of the first structure is connected with at least one second-region light emitting element of the multiple second-region light emitting elements through a first group of conductive lines.
US12125431B2
A local active matrix display panel, circuits and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, a local active matrix display panel includes an array of pixel driver chip, a thin film transistor layer in electrical contact with the array of pixel driver chips, and an array of light emitting diodes electrically connected with the thin film transistor layer.
US12125429B2
Disclosed is a display device and a method for controlling a device. The display device includes a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) modules arranged in a matrix, a plurality of driver integrated circuits (ICs) configured to drive the plurality of LED modules, and a controller connected to a plurality of first line driver ICs arranged on a first line, among the plurality of driver ICs, and configured to provide a signal for controlling the plurality of driver ICs through the plurality of first line driver ICs arranged on the first line. Each of the plurality of driver ICs is connected to at least one adjacent driver IC. The signal for controlling each of the plurality of driver ICs comprises, for each LED module corresponding to each of the plurality of driver ICs, a channel signal for controlling each channel of the LED module, and a scan signal for controlling each scan line of the LED module.
US12125425B2
A pixel may include a light emitting element; a data write transistor that writes a data voltage; a driving transistor that applies a driving current to the light emitting element based on the data voltage; a hold capacitor including a first electrode to which a first power supply voltage is applied, and a second electrode electrically connected to a first node; a storage capacitor including a first electrode electrically connected to the first node, and a second electrode electrically connected to a control electrode of the driving transistor; at least one polysilicon thin film transistor; and at least one oxide thin film transistor. The at least one oxide thin film transistor may be disposed between the at least one polysilicon thin film transistor and the hold capacitor, or between the at least one polysilicon thin film transistor and the storage capacitor.
US12125416B2
An adhesive label for a multi-part container having a threaded member and a container body includes a first, sheet-like label portion adapted to be attached to the threaded member of the container, and a second label portion adjacent the first label portion and adapted to be attached to the container body of the container. The second label portion has a comb-like structure with strip-shaped fixing elements such that the adhesive label couples the threaded member to the container body relative to a condition applied to the container and opposes movement of the threaded member relative to the container body.
US12125407B2
Systems and methods are described in which a light beam generated by a handheld device is used to point toward a selected object or location within a printed page containing visual content. The object(s) and/or location being pointed at may be determined using a device camera pointed in the same direction as the beam coupled with computer vision methods to determine locations of camera-acquired images within a database of page-content templates. The database may include interactive sequences and/or scenarios associated with page objects and locations, which may augment the visual content of a printed book to include audible elements, additional visual components, and/or haptic stimulation enacted by the handheld device. The device may also generate a beam image reflection on a viewable surface that is in focus at a predetermined distance to encourage a user to position the handheld device at the predetermined distance from the viewable surface.
US12125401B2
Systems and methods for providing an interactive demonstration of an ultrasound user interface are generally described herein. The method may include, at a multi-use display device: receiving a demonstration ultrasound dataset from a server; displaying, on the ultrasound user interface, ultrasound data from the demonstration ultrasound dataset; receiving input, on the ultrasound user interface, to interact with the ultrasound data from the ultrasound dataset; and in response to the received input, updating the ultrasound user interface so that the ultrasound user interface corresponds to the received input, the updated ultrasound user interface appearing substantially similar to an appearance of the ultrasound user interface that is displayed if the received input is received during display of a live ultrasound image feed.
US12125398B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus for obtaining at least one of text data or voice data as input data including multiple communications; obtaining first time data associated with the input data; analyzing the input data using a psycholinguistic model; obtaining user data comprising physiological data; obtaining second time data associated with the user data; correlating a particular trait with the user data based on the time data to determine a correlation between the particular trait and the user data; and providing an actionable output based on the correlation. Analyzing the input data includes determining a frequency of occurrence of one or more predetermined words in each communication of the multiple communications; determining a trait score, based on the determined frequency, for each communication of the multiple communications; and identifying a particular trait based at least on the trait score satisfying a predetermined threshold.
US12125396B2
An Unmanned Aerial System configured to receive a request from a user and fulfill that request using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The Unmanned Aerial System selects a distribution center that is within range of the user, and deploys a suitable Unmanned Aerial Vehicle to fulfill the request from that distribution center. The Unmanned Aerial System is configured to provide real-time information about the flight route to the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle during its flight, and the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is configured to dynamically update its mission based on information received from the Unmanned Aerial System.
US12125395B2
A movable object includes a plurality of actuation devices configured to move the movable object, a processor configured to control the actuation devices and the movements of the movable object, and at least one sensor. The sensor has a coordinate system not substantially in alignment with a coordinate system of the movable object. The sensor senses the state of the movable object and the processor controls the propulsion devices and the movements of the movable object based on the sensed state.
US12125394B2
A system for collecting information regarding a flight restriction region includes one or more processors and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to individually or collectively receive an input specifying a location of the flight restriction region from a user via a user input device, obtain information associated with the flight restriction region from one or more external data sources based on the location, and determine a space of the flight restriction region based on the information associated with the flight restriction region.
US12125389B1
A propulsion control system for a marine vessel includes a propulsion system comprising at least one propulsion device configured to propel the marine vessel, a proximity sensor system configured to generate proximity measurements describing proximity of objects surrounding the marine vessel, and a control system. The control system is configured to receive the proximity measurements, generate a most important object (MIO) dataset based on the proximity measurements, wherein the MIO dataset defines a closest proximity measurement in each of a plurality of directions with respect to the marine vessel, calculate a velocity limit dataset based on the MIO dataset, wherein the velocity limit dataset defines a velocity limit in each of the plurality of directions, and control the propulsion system based on the velocity limit dataset.
US12125386B2
Road stud, road stud system, method for controlling road stud, and control program preliminary class
A road stud includes a terminal storage unit, a light emission unit, a moving body detection unit, a radio communication unit, and a terminal control unit. The terminal storage unit stores preset unique fixed position information. The light emission unit emits a preset light to the surroundings. The moving body detection unit generates a detection signal indicating that a nearby moving body has been detected. The radio communication unit receives, based on fixed position information, an instruction signal for an operation of the light emission unit from a predetermined control system and transmits a detection signal to the control system. The terminal control unit controls a light emission unit based on the instruction signal.
US12125382B2
A method for identifying potential hazard zones in road traffic by vehicles connected to a central computer unit involves recording an incident indicative of a potential hazard zone and transmitting it to the central computer unit with its geolocation. The transmitted incident is listed as a hotspot in a digital map if there are a large number of similar incidents with the same geolocation. Contextual information is added to the transmitted incident. The hotspot is analyzed for the identification of a potential hazard zone, a current hotspot is compared with confirmed hotspots, the hotspots are visualized on a platform, with a geolocation of a hotspot-confirmed traffic critical incident being transmitted to an authority to be checked and/or as a warning message to a vehicle currently near such an analyzed hotspot.
US12125380B2
A method and apparatus for level of service assessment at signalized intersections is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a method for estimating an average delay per vehicle at a signalized intersection with a traffic signal, including sampling vehicle arrival rates at the signalized intersection, sampling vehicle departure rates at the signalized intersection, analyzing generated shock waves at the traffic signal, wherein the traffic signal shock wave is a change in vehicle density due to changes in the traffic signal, and estimating the average delay per vehicle based on the vehicle arrival rates, the vehicle departure rates, and the traffic shock waves at the signalized intersection.
US12125376B2
In an information processing device, a first acquisition part receives information regarding a first actual location of a vehicle on a road transmitted from the moving body. A second acquisition part receives an image transmitted from a camera. A memory stores information regarding a correspondence relationship between an image location on the image and a second actual location on a road corresponding to the image location. An identification part specifies a moving body image location on the image based on the first actual location and the information regarding the correspondence relationship. A display control part instructs a display device to display the image and information indicating the moving body image location together.
US12125374B2
Provided is an information processing device including a control unit that determines a moving method of a first user, outputs a first instruction to present a first notification for prompting the first user to perform a safety action, when both a first condition and a second condition are satisfied, and avoids outputting the first instruction when at least one of the first condition and the second condition is not satisfied. The first condition is a condition that the first user is not on a passenger vehicle.
US12125373B2
A system comprises: electronic apparatuses; a management apparatus comprising a connection positional relation database for managing connection positional relations of the ports of the electronic apparatus; and an information communication terminal. The management apparatus acquires disconnection target port information from the information communication terminal and thereby reads information related to the disconnection target port from the connection positional relation database to transmit to the electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus transmits a visible light signal to outside based on the information related to the disconnection target port. The information communication terminal displays the information related to the disconnection target port based on the visible light signal.
US12125370B2
There is described a method for synchronizing a viewer-effect signal of a media content with a media signal of the media content. The method generally has: capturing an audio portion of the media signal from a surrounding environment using a microphone; obtaining a fingerprint from the captured audio portion of the media signal; from reference fingerprints associated with reference time positions of at least a reference media content, identifying a time position of the media content corresponding to the obtained fingerprint; obtaining the viewer-effect signal associated with the identified time position of the media content; and outputting the viewer-effect signal synchronized with the media signal using the identified time position of the media content for producing an effect to a viewer in synchronization with the media signal of the media content.
US12125367B2
Among other things, systems and methods include a first sensor configured to detect operation of the sink; a second sensor configured to detect personal characteristics of a person operating the sink.
US12125366B2
A system for physical-distancing detection in a specified area includes a locator locating a positioning quadrangle plane in a specified area; an image-capturing device obliquely capturing an image of the specified area to generate a captured image of the specified area; and a coordinate converter defining a coordinate conversion function according to raw coordinates of selected points of the positioning quadrangle plane in the captured image of the specified area and reference coordinates of the selected points of the positioning quadrangle plane in an overlooked image of the specified area. The image-capturing device converts raw coordinates of the captured image of the specified area into converted coordinates of the overlooked image of the specified area by way of the coordinate conversion function, determines a physical-distancing condition between two persons according to the converted coordinates, and automatically takes an action corresponding to the physical-distancing condition.
US12125365B2
A method for monitoring a potential hazard at an unoccupied transport unit and issuing a notification in response to detecting the potential hazard is provided. The method includes monitoring for the potential hazard at the unoccupied transport unit. The method also includes determining whether there is someone is in close proximity to the unoccupied transport unit upon determining the potential hazard. Also, the method includes providing a local notification of the potential hazard when it is determined that there is someone is in close proximity to the unoccupied transport unit and not providing the local notification of the potential hazard when it is determined that there is no one in close proximity to the unoccupied transport unit.
US12125359B2
A mount for a device configured to monitor the movements or other activities of patient. Aspects include a monitoring unit and base, where the base may further include a pad with one or more pins extending into the base. The pad may be positioned inside a garment worn by a patient, the pins passing through the garment and electrically connecting to circuits in the fabric of the garment (e.g. a sock worn by the patient). The circuits may include sensors which are response to changes in pressure caused by patient movement. Output from the sensors may be carried by the circuits in the garment to the pins in the pad, and from there through the garment and into the base and the monitoring unit for processing and reporting to caregivers as needed.
US12125354B2
A device directed to providing for a means for a security or alarm system to detect a measured deviation in the ambient decibel level in the monitored area indicating that vehicles or equipment are being cranked and started at a time when they should not be. The measurement of a predetermined variance in the decibel level can invoke notifications, sirens and the video taping of the area in order to deter the theft. This invention may be an option added to any existing security system as an article of intermediate manufacture. In addition to decibel level detector feature, each vehicle's running engine sound can be loaded into the security system which, similar to a voice recognition system, allows the security system to identify which vehicle is being started.
US12125352B2
Described are a system, method, and computer program product for real-time automated teller machine (ATM) fraud detection and prevention. The method includes receiving transaction data of a plurality of transactions in real-time during processing at a transaction service provider system. The method further includes storing the transaction data in a distributed cache and receiving a transaction request for a user transaction at an ATM using a payment device. The method further includes modifying a profile of ATM activity stored in the distributed cache and comparing at least one metric of the profile to at least one predetermined ATM activity threshold. The method further includes activating a fraud prevention operation before the user transaction is completed at the ATM, including declining the user transaction, disabling a transaction account, communicating an alert to an issuer, or any combination thereof.
US12125350B2
Various systems and methods for providing an enhanced return to player (RTP) mode is provided. During play of a base game, certain tracking elements are collected over a number of plays. After a predetermined quantity of elements are collected, play of the enhanced RTP mode begins. For the play of the enhanced RTP mode, a wager is required. A quantity of plays of the enhanced RTP mode is provided that matches the quantity of tracking elements accumulated to trigger the mode.
US12125348B2
Systems and methods employing a ticket voucher handling device, such as an electronic gaming machine or a ticket voucher redemption kiosk, that issues and/or redeems ticket vouchers associated with different ticket voucher systems corresponding to different activities.
US12125346B2
Gaming systems and methods that offer side bets in a multi-hand game.
US12125335B2
A computing system can receive a request for the service from a client device of a user. In response to receiving the request, the system can generate a unique identifier for the request to facilitate a rendezvous between the user and a service provider.
US12125333B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to dispensing and jammed item release techniques. A dispensing system comprises an arrangement of passages; a first device operable to move in a lateral direction along the arrangement of passages; a second device operable to move in a vertical direction along the arrangement of passages; a third device operable to extend or retract into a passage; and a cover operable to move toward and away from the arrangement of passages.
US12125329B2
Aspects of the invention are directed towards systems and methods for changing the premises in a building such as hotel or the like. A user sends to a request from a user device to a server for switching a first premises with the second premises. An access card is able to access the first premises. Based on the request, the server determines the second premises and generates access credentials for the second premises. The access credentials are transmitted to a first access terminal associated with the first premises and the access card is encoded with the access credentials to access the second premises and permitting entry inside the second premises.
US12125325B2
A vehicular apparatus includes a drawer, an input device, functional devices and a maintainer. The drawer executes drawing on a display device. The input device receives a signal indicating an operation for stopping a vehicle. The maintainer maintains the drawer at an operating state to execute drawing required during stopping of the vehicle in response to that the input device receives the signal indicating the operation for stopping the vehicle, and lifts the operating state of the drawer based on a condition that a predetermined ending condition is satisfied.
US12125315B2
An estimation device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: at least one memory storing a set of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the set of instructions to: generate a plurality of extraction regions by adding a perturbation to an extraction region of a partial image determined based on positions of feature points extracted from a face image; estimate a plurality of directions of at least one of a face and a line of sight and a reliability of each of the plurality of directions based on a plurality of partial images in the plurality of extraction regions of the face image; and calculate an integrated direction obtained by integrating the plurality of directions based on the estimated reliability.
US12125306B2
A method of performing person re-identification includes: obtaining a person feature vector according to an extracted image containing a person; obtaining state information of the person according to a state of the person in the extracted image; comparing the person feature vector with a plurality of registered person feature vectors in a database; when the person feature vector successfully matches a first registered person feature vector of the plurality of registered person feature vectors, identifying the person as a first identity corresponding to the first registered person feature vector; and selectively utilizing the person feature vector to update one of the first registered person feature vector and at least one second registered person feature vector that correspond to the first identity according to the state information.
US12125304B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for reducing fraud in computer networks, the method including receiving, from each of a plurality of user devices, a request to block an ad displayed within a web browser installed on the user device, the request comprising image data and a forwarding URL associated with the ad; storing crowdsourced ad blocking data based on the received requests to block ads; receiving a request for a list of blocked ads; generating a list of blocked ads based on analyzing the crowdsourced ad blocking data, wherein analyzing the crowdsourced ad blocking data comprises identifying ads blocked by at least a threshold number of users; and sending the list of blocked ads to a first user device, the first user device comprising a browser extension configured to prevent ads within the list of blocked ads from being rendered in a browser.
US12125298B2
Methods, computer systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing object detection. The system obtains a respective range image corresponding to each point cloud in a set of point clouds captured by one or more sensors. The system processes each range image using a segmentation neural network to generate range image features and a segmentation output. The system generates a feature representation of the set of point clouds from only the feature representations of the foreground points. The system processes the feature representation of the set of point clouds using a prediction neural network to generate a prediction characterizing the set of point clouds.
US12125292B2
A server includes: an interface that acquires a vehicle-mounted camera image from a vehicle traveling toward a target specified by a user; and a control unit that detects the target based on the vehicle-mounted camera image, generates recognition information that makes the target recognizable as an image or visually recognizable based on a detection result of the target, and outputs the recognition information to the vehicle.
US12125291B2
An image processing apparatus includes a photographing device, an image processor and a fault diagnostic device. The photographing device outputs image data. The image processor includes an electronic circuit having recognition algorithms respectively for image recognition of a predetermined recognition target included in the image data. The fault diagnostic device determines that a fault occurs in the image processor, based on a condition that a first recognition result of recognizing test image data including a characteristic pattern also included in the recognition target in case of the image processor receiving the test image data is different from an expected value as a second recognition result of recognizing the test image data in case of one of the recognition algorithms receiving the test image data.
US12125281B2
A computer implemented method for determining a distance of an object comprises the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: determining an image containing the object; determining a class of the object based on the image; determining a coarse estimation of the distance based on a distance sensor; and determining the distance of the object based on the coarse estimation and based on the class of the object.
US12125267B2
The present disclosures provides systems and methods for generating composite based data for use in machine learning systems, such as for use in training a machine learning system on the composite based data to identify an object of interest. In an aspect, a method of generating composite based data for use in training machine learning systems comprises: receiving a plurality of images, each of the plurality of images having a corresponding label; generating a composite image comprising the plurality of images, each of the plurality of images occupying a region of the composite image; generating a response map for the composite image, the response map having a plurality of response entries, each response entry encoded with a desired label corresponding to a fragment of the composite image, and generating composite data comprising the desired label of a response entry and image data corresponding to the fragment of the composite image.
US12125266B1
An anchor-free object detection method based on ultraviolet image includes: obtaining a ground-truth label of object detection, two label boxes corresponding to the two labels; obtaining a masked label based on the two labels and the two label boxes in the train set, and performing a same enhancement processing on the train set and the masked label; constructing an anchor-free object detection model including an encoding part, a decoding part and a detection head part including three detection heads, namely two anchor-free detection heads and one anchor-free dual-head detection head, and the dual-head of the anchor-free box dual-head detection head is an anchor-free detection head and an auxiliary detection head, respectively; training the model based on the enhanced train set and the enhanced masked label; and inputting the ultraviolet image data to be detected into the final anchor-free object detection model, to obtain an object detection result.
US12125262B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle based system, method, and computer program product, for inspection and monitoring construction progress of outdoor power facilities. The method can receive a construction plan and schedule identifying milestones for installation at an outdoor construction site of at least one externally placed piece of equipment specified in the construction plan. A machine learning artificial intelligence processing system identifies, from a set of observed aerial images of the outdoor construction site captured by an unmanned aerial vehicle, at least one externally placed piece of equipment in the outdoor construction site. The identified piece of equipment in the construction site is compared to an expected piece of equipment specified in the construction plan. The difference between identified and expected piece of equipment is reported and the construction schedule can be updated based on the difference. An alert is provided if the difference exceeds a threshold.
US12125260B2
A discrete attribute value dataset is obtained that is associated with a plurality of probe spots each assigned a different probe spot barcode. The dataset comprises spatial projections, each comprising images of a biological sample. Each image includes a corresponding plurality of discrete attribute values for the probe spots. Each such value is associated with a probe spot in the plurality of probes spots based on the probe spot barcodes. The dataset is clustered using the discrete attribute values, or dimension reduction components thereof, for a plurality of loci at each respective probe spot across the images of the projections thereby assigning each probe spot to a cluster in a plurality of clusters. Morphological patterns are identified from the spatial arrangement of the probe spots in the various clusters.
US12125252B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: obtaining third point cloud data that is a combination of first point cloud data and second point cloud data, and includes geometry information of each of three-dimensional points included in the third point cloud data, and identification information indicating which of the first point cloud data and the second point cloud data each of the three-dimensional points belongs to; and generating encoded data by encoding the third point cloud data obtained. In the generating, identification information of each of the three-dimensional points is encoded as attribute information.
US12125251B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: determining a total number of layers; when the total number of the layers is greater than 1, selecting, from pieces of attribute information of three-dimensional points, attribute information of a three-dimensional point based on a sampling period according to a data order of the pieces of attribute information of the three-dimensional points, and classifying the pieces of attribute information of the three-dimensional points into layers by assigning a first layer to pieces of attribute information of three-dimensional points selected and a second layer to pieces of attribute information of three-dimensional points non-selected; encoding the pieces of attribute information of the three-dimensional points for each of the layers; and generating a bitstream including the pieces of attribute information encoded, layer-number information, and sampling period information. When the total number of the layers is 1, a bitstream not including the sampling period information is generated.
US12125250B2
Processing circuitry decodes a texture map in 2D from a bitstream carrying a 3D mesh frame. The 3D mesh frame represents a surface of an object with polygons and is partitioned into patches. The texture map includes transformed patches with transformed UV coordinates that are transformed from original UV coordinates of the patches according to remap transform parameters. The processing circuitry decodes the remap transform parameters associated with the patches and generates a recovered texture map from the texture map according to the remap transform parameters. At least a first recovered pixel in the recovered texture map is assigned with a texture value at a first transformed position in the texture map, the first transformed position in the texture map is determined according to a pixel position of the first recovered pixel and first remap transform parameters associated with a first patch that the first recovered pixel belongs to.
US12125240B2
Described is a method of calibrating a camera. The method comprises defining an area observed in a field of view (FOV) of the camera as a region of interest (ROI). The method includes selecting a plurality of physical reference points in said ROI and obtaining for each reference point physical position coordinates. The method also includes obtaining from said camera FOV or camera image data pixel locations for each point of reference and pairing each pixel location with the physical position coordinates of its respective reference point. Then, a relationship is derived from the paired pixel locations and physical position coordinates to enable a selected or identified pixel location in the camera FOV or camera image data to be transformed to physical position coordinates for a corresponding physical location in said ROI.
US12125239B2
There is provided a system for detecting an object crossing a plane at high resolution from long range, the system including a first transmitter projecting a light plane using a light comprising a light plane wavelength, the light plane defining a boundary, wherein the light plane wavelength is not visible to the human eye, a first receiver for detecting a reflection of light when an object crosses the light plane defining the boundary, the receiver configured to detect light in a range of the electromagnetic spectrum including the light plane wavelength, wherein the receiver includes an image sensor comprising a plurality of sensor pixels, and an image processing computer configured to receive an input from the receiver including a recorded frame captured by the receiver, wherein the image processing computer processes the recorded frame for review to identify a frame showing an object crossing the boundary.
US12125236B2
A manufacturing system is disclosed herein. The manufacturing system includes one or more stations, a monitoring platform, and a control module. Each station of the one or more stations is configured to perform at least one step in a multi-step manufacturing process for a component. The monitoring platform is configured to monitor progression of the component throughout the multi-step manufacturing process. The control module is configured to dynamically adjust processing parameters of each step of the multi-step manufacturing process to achieve a desired final quality metric for the component.
US12125221B2
A method for detecting a three-dimensional object in a two-dimensional image includes: inputting the two-dimensional image into an object detection model, and obtaining a resulting detection depth dataset; obtaining, based on the detection depth dataset, coordinate sets of a number of points-of-interest each associated with a to-be-detected object in a 3D camera centered coordinate system; and converting the coordinate sets of the number of points-of-interest in the 3D camera centered coordinate system into a number of coordinate sets in a 3D global coordinate system. Embodiments of this disclosure may be utilized in the field of self-driving cars with roadside traffic cameras.
US12125218B2
An embodiment object tracking method includes receiving a first image at time t from a camera, deriving a homography matrix based on the first image and a second image at time t−1, correcting a position of a first object detected from the second image using the homography matrix, detecting a second object matched with the first object from the first image, and tracking a change in position of the second object based on the corrected position of the first object.
US12125211B2
Methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs, for processing images through multiple neural networks that are trained to detect a pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. In one aspect, a method includes actions of obtaining a first image that depicts a first volume of voxels, performing coarse segmentation of the first image using a first neural network trained (i) to process images having the first volume of voxels and (ii) to produce first output data, determining a region of interest of the first image based on the coarse segmentation, performing multi-stage fine segmentation on a plurality of other images that are each based on the region of interest of the first image to generate output data for each stage of the multi-stage fine segmentation, and determining based on the first output data and the output data of each stage of the multi-stage fine segmentation, whether the first image depicts a tumor.
US12125207B2
This disclosure relates to an image segmentation method and apparatus and image three-dimensional reconstruction method and apparatus, and to the field of computer technology. The segmentation method includes: dividing pixels in an image to be segmented among different pixel sets, according to color gamut ranges to which pixel values of the pixels belong; determining matching between pixels in each pixel set according to pixel values; and performing image segmentation on the image to be segmented according to the matching.
US12125203B2
The invention relates to a method for determining information for distinguishing between tissue fluid cells and tissue cells in a high-resolution image of a tissue area. In the method, images stored temporarily with a low resolution and a high image rate before the high-resolution image is recorded are accessed and the information for distinguishing between tissue fluid cells and tissue cells is obtained from the temporarily stored images with the low resolution and the high image rate.
US12125202B2
In a method for promoting timely collection of cells being cultured in a vessel, image of the vessel and contents is obtained. A cell counting result, a sum of areas of unoccupied background regions, and a sum of area of cell-occupied regions are obtained based on the image. A specified cell collection range is obtained based on expected culturing time. A collection promoting instruction is generated when the cell counting result is in the specified cell collection range or when the sum of areas of unoccupied background regions is less than the specified cell collection area threshold value. A system applying the method is also provided.
US12125201B2
The present invention relates to a system for obtaining useful data for analysis of body morphometry and associated method determining body morphometry, in newborns or non-newborns, from 3D models in an automatic, non-invasive, rapid and low-cost manner. Furthermore, the system and the method obtain the measurement and 3D modelling of the patient, newborn or non-newborn, in a conscious state, as movement has no influence thereon.
US12125199B2
Disclosed is a method for predicting disease based on a medical image performed by a computing device. The method includes: generating a feature vector related to predictive values of brain disease for each of 2D medical images included in a 3D medical image, using a pre-trained first model; estimating importance indicating prediction accuracy for each of the 2D medical images based on the feature vector, using a pre-trained second model; and selecting at least one model input image suitable for prediction of the brain disease from among the 2D medical images based on the importance.
US12125196B2
A computer program causes a computer to execute processing for acquiring examination point information regarding an examination point included in an examination target portion using an endoscope, acquiring an endoscopic image captured by the endoscope, determining whether the endoscope has reached the examination point on the basis of image analysis of the acquired endoscopic image, and outputting a notification in a case where the endoscope has reached the examination point.
US12125193B2
A method of detecting defects revealed in images of finished products includes importing flawless images into an autoencoder for model training and obtaining reconstructed images from them. The reconstructed images are compared with the flawless images to obtain groups of test errors. An error threshold is selected from the groups of the test errors according to preset rules. In practice, obtaining an image to be tested, and a reconstructed image to be tested, and an error to be tested; determining detection of the image to be tested according to the error and the error threshold; and importing the image into a classifier for defect classification if the image is found to reveal a defect. An electronic device and a non-volatile storage medium for performing the above-described method, are also disclosed.
US12125192B2
An article detection method applied to an article detection device is provided. The method includes controlling at least one lighting device to emit a light beam towards a carrier. Once at least one camera is controlled to capture at least one image of the carrier; and a placement situation of articles in the carrier is detected based on the captured image using an article detection model.
US12125189B2
A method of detecting product defects obtains an image of a product and sets a region of interest (ROI) of the image. A first contour of a first target object is detected in the region of interest. The image is detected according to the first contour to obtain a corrected image. A position difference between the first contour and a second target object in the region of interest is obtained. A second contour of the second target object is detected in the corrected image according to the position difference. A first image area corresponding to the first contour and a second image area corresponding to the second contour are segmented and input into an autoencoder. According to outputs of the autoencoder, whether the product is defective is determined. A detection result of the product is output. The method can detect defects on products quickly and accurately.
US12125184B2
Systems and methods for detecting and monitoring areas of water damage or water management problems in a property are described. Monitoring devices can be deployed at different locations of a property to obtain sensor data and image data regarding the environmental conditions in potentially problematic areas of the property. An image obtained by the monitoring devices can be processed and compared with reference images or other image data that is filtered in a different manner that the image to identify portions of the image in which water damage or water management problems exist.
US12125173B2
The present disclosure discloses a video denoising method and device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The video denoising method includes: dividing each video frame in an input video frame sequence into sub-image blocks, and calculating a block variance of each of the sub-image blocks; calculating an average variance of the sub-image blocks in a current video frame according to the calculated block variances, determining a noise level of the current video frame according to the average variance, selecting a denoise strength and a noise characteristic curve that match the noise level; and denoising the current video frame according to the denoise strength and the noise characteristic curve.
US12125167B2
An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a captured image; a superimposition unit that generates a superimposition image in which images are superimposed on unused areas of the captured image; and a determination unit that determines a state of the captured image on the basis of characteristics of areas on which the images are superimposed in the superimposition image transmitted from the superimposition unit.
US12125164B1
Disclosed is a graphics system and associated methods for dynamic backfilling a point cloud to conceal gaps that appear when zooming into the point cloud. The dynamically backfilling fills a gap with dynamically generated points that continue a texture, contour, pattern, shape, coloring, and/or other commonality of an original set of points from the point cloud that form a single continuous surface with that gap. The system defines a model based on images of an object or scene. The model represents the object or scene at different zoom depths with different dynamically generated points. The system determines that a requested render position exposes a gap in the original set of points. The system fills the gap by using the model to generate points at positions over the gap that continue a shape, form, or structure of a single continuous surface formed by the original set of points.
US12125163B1
Disclosed herein is a system that allows for the real-time build out of a virtual environment. The system and methods receive, via a web browser, a user selection of a three-dimensional (3D) model in a virtual environment. The user selection is made during an active user session of the user. Based on receiving the user selection, an editor is launched from within the web browser. The editor is used to modify properties of the 3D model in real-time during the active user session. One or more user inputs are received indicating the properties of the 3D model to be modified. Based on the one or more user inputs, the properties of the 3D model are modified in real-time. The 3D model is rendered to reflect the properties within the virtual environment during the active user session.
US12125159B2
A device receives an image including image data of a scale model of a vehicle, and processes the image data, with a model, to identify a make, a model, and a year represented by the scale model. The device determines augmented reality (AR) vehicle information based on the make, the model, and the year represented by the scale model of the vehicle, and provides the AR vehicle information to enable a user device to associate the AR vehicle information with the image of the scale model of the vehicle. The device receives an input associated with the AR vehicle information, and determines updated AR vehicle information based on the input associated with the AR vehicle information. The device provides the updated AR vehicle information to enable the user device to associate the updated augmented reality vehicle information with the image of the scale model of the vehicle.
US12125158B2
In one implementation, a method of displaying overlapping objects is performed at a device including an optical see-through display, one or more processors, and a non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining a request to display a first object in front of a second object. The method includes modifying a transparency of the first object in a region corresponding to an overlap between the first object and the second object. The method includes displaying the first object in front of the second object while maintaining visibility of the second object through the overlap between the first object and the second object based on the modified transparency.
US12125155B2
An example electronic device includes a display; at least one sensor; at least one camera; and a processor operably connected to the display, the at least one sensor, and the at least one camera, wherein the processor executes an augmented reality (AR) application, obtains image data of surroundings of the electronic device by using the at least one camera, generates a 3D space coordinate system on the basis of the obtained image data, obtains a first input of selecting a 3D object, obtains a second input of selecting a first point on the display, maps the first point to a first coordinate of the 3D space coordinate system, generates a 3D path connecting the first coordinate of the 3D space coordinate system to a second coordinate of the 3D space coordinate system, on the basis of movement of the electronic device detected by the at least one sensor and movement of the second input on the display, and arranges the 3D object on a plurality of coordinates on the 3D path.
US12125142B2
The method includes: obtaining point cloud information collected by a depth camera, laser information collected by a lidar, and motion information of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV); generating a raster map based on the laser information, and obtaining pose information of the UAV based on the motion information; obtaining a map model through fusing the point cloud information, the raster map, and the pose information by a Bayesian fusion method; and correcting a latest map model by feature matching based on a previous map model.
US12125139B2
Computer vision systems and methods for generating building models using three-dimensional sensing and augmented reality (AR) techniques are provided. Image frames including images of a structure to be modeled are captured by a camera of a mobile device such as a smart phone, as well as three-dimensional data corresponding to the image frames. An object of interest, such as a structural feature of the building, is detected using both the image frames and the three-dimensional data. An AR icon is determined based upon the type of object detected, and is displayed on the mobile device superimposed on the image frames. The user can manipulate the AR icon to better fit or match the object of interest in the image frames, and can capture the object of interest using a capture icon displayed on the display of the mobile device.
US12125131B2
A method of generating a 3D video, a method of training a neural network model, an electronic device, and a storage medium, which relate to a field of image processing, and in particular to technical fields of computer vision, augmented/virtual reality and deep learning. The method includes: determining, based on an input speech feature, a principal component analysis (PCA) coefficient by using a first network, wherein the PCA coefficient is used to generate the 3D video; correcting the PCA coefficient by using a second network; generating a lip movement information based on the corrected PCA coefficient and a PCA parameter for a neural network model, wherein the neural network model includes the first network and the second network; and applying the lip movement information to a pre-constructed 3D basic avatar model to obtain a 3D video with a lip movement effect.
US12125126B1
In particular embodiments, a computing system may receive an image comprising one or more virtual elements associated with a virtual environment and one or more real-world elements associated with a real-world environment. The system may determine a first metric and a second metric indicative of a measure of clutter in the virtual environment and the real-world environment, respectively. The system may determine gaze features associated with a user based on a user activity and predict, using a machine learning model, a reaction time of the user based on the gaze features. The system may determine a third metric indicative of the measure of clutter in the image based on predicted reaction time. The system may compute an overall clutter metric based on the first, second, and third metrics. The system may perform one or more actions to manage the clutter in the image based on the overall clutter metric.
US12125123B2
In some implementations, a method includes: determining a complexity value for first image data associated with of a physical environment that corresponds to a first time period; determining an estimated composite setup time based on the complexity value for the first image data and virtual content for compositing with the first image data; in accordance with a determination that the estimated composite setup time exceeds the threshold time: forgoing rendering the virtual content from the perspective that corresponds to the camera pose of the device relative to the physical environment during the first time period; and compositing a previous render of the virtual content for a previous time period with the first image data to generate the graphical environment for the first time period.
US12125121B2
An apparatus to facilitate tessellation redistribution for reducing latencies in processors is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor to provide parallel interconnected geometry fixed-function units with separate front end and back ends, the front ends to perform patch culling and transmission and the back ends to perform patch reception from the front end and patch tessellation; provide a tessellation redistribution central engine to redistribute patches among the back ends using a redistribution bus; receive, by the tessellation redistribution central engine from the front ends in parallel, patch transmissions marked for distribution, the tessellation redistribution engine to process the patch transmissions in order; and in response to receiving a synchronization barrier packet from one of the front ends, broadcast, by the tessellation redistribution central engine, the synchronization barrier packet to the back ends to cause one of the back ends to process tessellation work locally.
US12125118B2
Systems and methods for providing autonomous chauffeur services. In particular, systems and methods are provided to integrate users' calendars with a ridehail application to provide personal chauffeur-type services. Integrating a ridehail service application with a user's calendar and online schedule enables the ridehail service to act as a personal around-the-clock chauffeur, with an autonomous vehicle appearing when needed and taking the user to their destination with no additional input.
US12125105B2
A computer implemented method and associated hardware provides optimization of a delivery or settlement process for a group of portfolios. Data records, identified in a portfolio data structure, are indicative of obligations between participants. A graph data structure is generated and includes vertex data records representing the participants and edge data records representing the obligations between participants. The graph structure is analyzed for at least one circular path. A first edge washing out at least a portion of the circular path is identified. An update message is generated in response to the first edge.
US12125104B2
A self-governed data exchange system is disclosed to price data elements and aggregate data on a self-governed data exchange. Combining data from a variety of IoT domains will lower storage and administration costs for data generators as well as standardize the ability to query and monetize the data. Also, data will be more readily available to third parties allowing for higher overall revenue back to the data providers.
US12125092B2
Methods and systems for a product quality inspection system. In one aspect, a method of conveying a quality of a furnishing with an e-commerce system is disclosed. The method includes presenting with the e-commerce system a listing for a furnishing, receiving an audio playback request, and presenting in response to the audio playback request an audio recording of an interaction with the furnishing. Where the audio recording is indicative of a material composition of the furnishing.
US12125089B1
A computer system and method for transacting business over the Internet relating to vehicle purchasing. A first computer data base is provided having information regarding vehicles for sale wherein each vehicle has associated vehicle data parameters and a second computer data base is provided having information regarding a user wherein each user has associated user data parameters. A vehicle purchase server is provided that includes application software including a routine permitting the selection of specific vehicle data parameters from the first data base contingent upon user data parameters contained in the second data base based upon inquiries from a user regarding a vehicle description. Vehicle matching results including one or more vehicles recommended for the user are presented via a GUI accessible by the user.
US12125085B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for determining one or more referrals associated with an electronic marketplace. Search results of a search to a user device responsive to receiving the search from the user device for a product(s) or service(s) associated with an electronic marketplace platform may be transmitted. A selection, from the user device, of a product(s) or service(s) associated with the search results may be received. A service fee(s) for a transaction(s) associated with the selected product(s) or service(s) may be determined. A referral fee(s), based on the service fee(s), responsive to determining that one or more entities referred the product(s) or service(s) associated with the transaction(s) may be determined. A level(s) assigned to each of the one or more entities and a predetermined referral fee percentage(s), based on the service fee(s), for the level(s) assigned to each of the one or more entities may be determined.
US12125074B2
A system and method for automatically detecting, classifying, and processing objects captured in an image. The system receives an image from the image source and detects one or more objects in the image. The system then performs a high-level classification of each of the one or more objects in the image and extracts each of the one or more objects from the image. The system then performs a specific classification of each of the one or more objects and determines a price of each of the one or more objects. Finally, the system generates a pricing report comprising a price of each of the one or more objects.
US12125066B2
Methods, systems, and media for dynamically detecting mobile environment information are provided. In some implementations, a method for detecting mobile environment information for advertisement requests, the method comprising: receiving a request for advertising content from an advertisement tag; applying one or more JavaScript objects to return a URL of an advertisement web view, wherein the advertisement website is generated by an advertisement software development kit to contain an advertisement responsive to the request; extracting keywords from the URL of the advertisement web view; determining whether the advertisement tag is running within a mobile application based on a comparison of the extracted keywords with known mobile application information; in response to determining that the advertisement tag is running within the mobile application, determining the advertisement software development kit from a plurality of advertisement software development kits that the advertisement tag is running in by: applying a plurality of JavaScript objects that are made available by the advertisement software development kit to return properties of the advertisement software development kit; and comparing the returned properties with a database of known software development kit information; and transmitting an indication that associates the advertisement software development kit used within a mobile application environment with the advertisement tag.
US12125054B2
A system and method of acquiring and verifying information is provided. The system comprises a processor, and a memory comprising a sequence of instructions which when executed by the processor configure the processor to perform the method. The method comprises acquiring data from a data source associated with an author of the data, normalizing the acquired data, determining, by the processor, an identity of the author of the data, classifying the normalized data based on the identity and acquired metadata, and storing in a memory the normalized data. Normalizing the acquired data comprises parsing the acquired data for meaningful information, extracting metadata from the acquired data, and mapping the parsed information to internal data structures.
US12125044B2
There is disclosed a method of providing rider service for an autonomous vehicle (AV) system, including operating an AV to provide a trip to a passenger; associating the passenger with a unique passenger identifier (UPID); receiving passenger metadata for the passenger according to the UPID; and responding to a rider service instance, comprising customizing the response according to the UPID and the passenger metadata.
US12125036B2
An example transaction card may include a sensor to measure movement of the transaction card and one or more processors to monitor the movement of the transaction card via the sensor during a tracking period; determine measurements of a gait of a user during the tracking period from the movement of the transaction card during the tracking period; compare the measurements of the gait of the user during the tracking period and a gait signature associated with the transaction card; and/or perform an action associated with the transaction card based on a result of comparing the measurements of the gait of the user during the tracking period and the gait signature.
US12125034B2
A system and method implemented in an e-commerce system to facilitate transactions between a customer and a vendor is disclosed. The method includes generating the requested at least one QR code and token, wherein the at least one QR code and token includes at least an email field, transmitting the at least one QR code and token, receiving a response email, wherein the response email includes the token, decoding, the token, performing a validation, and processing the transaction, on a condition that the validation(s) are approved.
US12125031B2
Systems, methods, and machine-executable data structures for the processing of data for the secure creation, administration, manipulation, processing, and storage of electronic data useful in the processing of electronic payment transactions and other secure data processes. Aspects of such systems include trusted platforms by which networked communication devices and merchant systems may be registered as trusted entities. Information associated with particular payment means, such as accounts or payment tokens, can be stored on device(s) secure data sets known as virtual or electronic wallets, or in the form of secure payment tokens. Common application programming interfaces executed by devices may facilitate push and pull processes between electronic wallets and other secure data stores. Users may thereby initiate and complete electronic transactions directly from within applications on trusted devices.
US12125028B2
In some embodiments, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) parameters may be used to bind access tokens to authorize web-browser-initiated network operations. In some embodiments, a user input at a data exchange gateway associated with a first website to perform a first network operation (e.g., a request to access resources associated with the first website) may be detected. In response to the detected user input, an access token may be generated based on user specific information associated with the user, where the access token is associated with one or more network operation parameters. In response to a use of the access token for authorizing the first network operation and successful authorization of the first network operation, the access token may be configured to be bound to a first URL identifier parameter associated with the first website.
US12125021B2
A card having an antenna, one or processors, and memory having stored thereon a first application and a second application configured to receive an input of the card and determine a request associated with the input. The card is further configured to activate, responsive to determining that the request is consistent with a contactless EuroPay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) data standard, the first application. The first application is configured to communicate, via near field communication (NFC), data to the communicating device via the antenna based on the EMV data standard for payment purposes. The card is further configured to activate, responsive to determining that the request is consistent with a near field communication data exchange format (NDEF) standard, the second application. The second application is configured to communicate, via NFC, data to the communicating device via the antenna based on the NDEF standard for verification/identification purposes.
US12125014B1
A merchant payment system designed for a high-traffic merchant. In an embodiment, the merchant payment system comprises a casing, a mobile computing device, a charging regulator, a payment receiver, and a docking station configured to charge the mobile computing device and payment receiver. The outer casing is configured to house the mobile computing device, a charging regulator, and payment receiver. Additionally, the docking station is configured to charge various mobile computing devices (e.g., a tablet or a mobile phone) housed within the casing. Moreover, the docking station is configured to supply a predetermined voltage and current to the charging regulator which in-turn supplies a first predetermined voltage and current to the payment receiver and a second predetermined voltage and current to the mobile computing device.
US12125008B1
A system for managing a financial account in a low cash mode. The system may include a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include providing an interface; providing a notification to a user when a balance in the first account is deemed to be in low cash mode; presenting, when the first account balance is deemed to be in low cash mode, an option for a transfer request; receiving, a selection of the option for the transfer request to connect the first account with a second account; transferring funds from the second account to the first account; notifying the user that funds have been transferred from the second account to the first account; and further notifying the user that the balance in the first account is greater than the threshold value.
US12125007B2
A blockchain payment involves a transfer of funds from an account of a user to a collateral account of a service provider. The service provider receives a payment intent from the user including a payment index, a random payment ID, and an address of the collateral account. The service provider replaces the address by a commitment and provides the modified payment intent to a majority of statekeepers of a blockchain, receives payment approvals from the statekeepers, each payment approval including the modified payment intent signed with a private key of a respective statekeeper, evaluates the received payment approvals, aggregates successfully evaluated payment approvals, and transmits the aggregation result to the user. The service provider receives a final transaction created by the user after having verified the aggregation result, verifies that the user correctly constructed the final transaction, and accepts the payment in case of successful verification of the final transaction.
US12125002B2
Systems and methods for determining a reparability of a vehicle are provided. In some embodiments, vehicle data is obtained, and a list of variables is generated from the obtained data. A machine learning algorithm may then be trained to generate a reparability metric by: (i) generating correlation metrics between the variables and costs to repair the vehicle, (ii) removing variables with correlation metrics below a threshold, and (iii) training the machine learning algorithm based upon unremoved variables.
US12125001B2
A server includes a processor configured to: acquire schedule information on each of a plurality of users; set a charging priority at a time of charging each of a plurality of moving objects based on the schedule information on each of the plurality of users, each of the plurality of moving objects being preliminarily associated with each of the plurality of users, and including a rechargeable secondary battery; and charge each of the plurality of moving objects based on the charging priority.
US12125000B2
A method to automatically classify emails may include generating multiple entity data objects using entities identified in receiver and sender fields of emails and categorizing the multiple entity data objects into a first set of data objects and a second set of data objects. The method may also include extracting all tokens from each email and searching the extracted tokens for tokens associated with the data objects of the first set of data objects. The method may further include identifying the emails that include the extracted tokens that are associated with the data objects of the first set of data objects, identifying a particular data object of the first set of data objects to which an identified email corresponds, and automatically classifying the identified email in the first category in response to identifying the particular data object of the first set of data objects to which an identified email corresponds.
US12124999B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system for managing an automatic evaluation model for an interview video, and a computer-readable medium. A method for managing an evaluation model, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is performed in a server system having one or more processors and one or more memories, provides automatic evaluation results for an interview video of a subject to be evaluated, and comprises: a video evaluation result training step of training an evaluation model for providing automatic evaluation results for an interview video in the server system, according to video evaluation results of evaluators for the video of the interview conducted by the subject to be evaluated during an online interview; and a recruitment evaluation result training step of training the evaluation model for providing automatic evaluation results for the interview video in the server system, according to recruitment evaluation results for an actual recruitment interview of a company applied by the corresponding subject to be evaluated, wherein the evaluation model includes one or more artificial neural network models.
US12124997B2
Systems and methods to facilitate nesting of portfolios within a collaboration environment are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment; obtain hierarchical information for work unit records, project records, and/or portfolio records; update the environment state information based on the role information; specify nested portfolio hierarchical information specific to the portfolio records and specifying individual portfolio records as being subordinate to other individual ones of the portfolio records; effectuate presentation of portfolio pages for the portfolio records within a user interface of the collaboration environment; and/or perform other operations.
US12124987B2
A method and system for determining the time of delivery of an order is performed by a service system. The system receives the order from a customer device, and maps the customer telephone number to a routing telephone number. The system then sends the order with the routing telephone number to a provider, such as a restaurant. The provider prepares the order. A deliveryman calls the routing telephone number when he delivers the order to the customer. The system sets the reception time of the call as the time of delivery of the order. The system then forwards the call to the customer.
US12124984B2
An apparatus for identifying an excessive carbon emission value is disclosed. The apparatus may include at least a processor, and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive a plurality of activity datum from at least a sensor, calculate a plurality of action carbon emission values, wherein calculating the plurality of action carbon emission values includes associating each of the plurality of activity datum to an action carbon emission value of the plurality of action carbon emission values and classifying each of the plurality of activity datum to an activity category of a plurality of activity categories. The memory further contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to identify an excessive carbon emission value from the plurality of action carbon emission values. A method for identifying an excessive carbon emission value is also disclosed.
US12124975B2
A vehicle management device includes one or more processors configured to: manage a plurality of vehicles to be provided for users in a car sharing service; manage, as a plurality of first vehicles, a part of the vehicles to be allocated to an on-demand use in which the users use the car sharing service without reservation; manage, as a plurality of second vehicles, a part of the vehicles to be allocated to a reservation use in which the users use the car sharing service with the reservation; and change at least one of the second vehicles to the first vehicles when the number of the first vehicles is less than a first predetermined number.
US12124971B2
A method and system for service management of a complex network including: computing, at a computer, a weather impact score for geographic areas within a coverage area of a satellite; predicting, based on the weather impact score for each of the geographic areas, a degradation of at least one of the satellite links serving a respective geographic area; and sending a notification about the degradation. The method may include calculating, with a computer, a peak Quality of Service (QoS) for each of the satellite links; aggregating, for a duration, transmission errors to calculate an actual QoS for each of the satellite links; and displaying a drill-down dashboard comprising a color-code for each of the satellite links, wherein the color-code corresponds to a severity of a respective discrepancy between a respective peak QoS and a respective actual QoS of a respective satellite link.
US12124969B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for determining whether to process a host request by training a machine learning module. A machine learning module receives input information related to at least one of running tasks, mail queue messages related to host request processing, I/O request processing, and a host request received from a host system and produces output for the host request indicating whether to process the host request. A determination is made of output produced from the machine learning module based on the input information for a received host request. A determination is made of an expected output based on a measured system resource usage and an optimum system resource usage. The machine learning module is retrained with the input information, the output produced from the machine learning module, and the expected output and provided to determine whether to process a received host request.
US12124963B2
Disclosed is a disentangled personalized federated learning method via consensus representation extraction and diversity propagation provided by embodiments of the present application. The method includes: receiving, by a current node, local consensus representation extraction models and unique representation extraction models corresponding to other nodes, respectively; extracting, by the current node, the representations of the data of the current node by using the unique representation extraction models of other nodes respectively, and calculating first mutual information between different sets of representation distributions, determining similarity of the data distributions between the nodes based on the size of the first mutual information, and determining aggregation weights corresponding to the other nodes based on the first mutual information; the current node obtains the global consensus representation aggregation model corresponding to the current node.
US12124954B1
A method of processing information is provided. The method involves receiving a message; processing the message with a trained artificial neural network based processor, having at least one set of outputs which represent information in a non-arbitrary organization of actions based on an architecture of the artificial neural network based processor and the training; representing as a noise vector at least one data pattern in the message which is incompletely represented in the non-arbitrary organization of actions; and analyzing the noise vector distinctly from the trained artificial neural network.
US12124946B2
A neuromorphic synapse array includes a plurality of synaptic array cells being connected by circuitry such that the synaptic array cells are assigned to rows and columns of an array, the synaptic array cells respectively having a single polarity synapse weight, the rows respectively connected to respective input ends of the synaptic array cells, the columns respectively connected to respective output ends of the synaptic array cells, the synaptic array cells aligned in a column of the array being defined as operation column arrays and an array of current mirrors, each current mirror exhibiting a mirror ratio of N:1, wherein N is a number of columns of the synaptic array cells, respectively connected to the respective rows such that weights corresponding to all of the current mirrors are set to average weights of all of the synaptic array cells that are updated during a learning phase.
US12124936B2
An example fused convolutional layer, comprising, a comparator capable of reception of a first zero point and a multiply-accumulation result, a first multiplexer coupled to the comparator, wherein the first multiplexer receives a plurality of power-of-two exponent values, a shift normalizer, coupled to the first multiplexer, wherein the shift normalizer is capable of receiving the multiply-accumulation result and the plurality of power-of-two exponent values, wherein the shift normalizer limits a quantization of the multiply-accumulation result to a power-of-two scale and a second multiplexer coupled to an output of the shift normalizer, the first multiplexer and receives a second zero point and outputs an activation.
US12124927B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to methods and systems for classifying a surface type. One example provides a system comprising a wearable device comprising at least one force sensor, and a computing device having a processor and associated memory storing instructions executable by the processor. The instructions are executable by the processor to, during a training phase, receive training data including a plurality of training data pairs. Each training data pair includes force sensor training data received from the at least one force sensor, or from a simulation or observation, and a label indicating at least one of a plurality of defined surface types. An AI model is trained to predict a classified surface type based on run-time force sensor data. The run-time force sensor data is input into the trained AI model to thereby cause the AI model to output a predicted classification of a run-time surface type.
US12124921B2
A device that is configured to obtain an image of a document and to convert the image into a binary bit string. The device is further configured to iteratively select portions of the binary bit string, to determine a binary bit value for a selected portion of the binary bit string, and to identify a quantum logic gate from an encoding map based on the binary bit value. The encoding map is configured to map binary bit values to quantum logic gates. The device is further configured to add an identifier for the identified quantum logic gate to a set of encoding instructions. The encoding instructions contain commands for applying quantum logic gate operations to qubits. The device is further configured to send the set of encoding instructions to a quantum computing network device that is configured to generate qubits and to transmit qubits.
US12124919B2
The present disclosures relates to decoding machine readable indicia (e.g., a 1D or 2D barcode) in imagery, and related image processing technology. One claim recites a method of locating a barcode within imagery, comprising: converting the imagery to greyscale imagery; evaluating a plurality of blocks within the greyscale imagery, each of the plurality of blocks comprising n×m pixels, where both n and m are positive integers; for each block of the plurality of blocks, determining a value representing pixel diversity within the block; masking the greyscale imagery based on values of the plurality of blocks, in which blocks with a value below a predetermined value of pixel diversity are masked out or excluded; searching the masked, greyscale imagery to determine whether is includes a barcode represented therein. Of course, other claims and combinations are provided too.
US12124918B2
Information is recorded in quick response codes. A hologram is made from quick response codes and provides three dimensions of information in a two-dimensional hologram. The holograms are used for recording large amounts of information in two dimensions. Multiple quick response codes containing copious information are created using different light wave frequencies in different quick response encoders. The multiple quick response codes are combined in a two-dimensional hologram that is used on labeling. The hologram is read by a hologram reader. Each quick response frequency layer is separated from the hologram. The quick response code is extracted from each layer. A quick response reader provides the information that has been recorded.
US12124917B2
A system to capture images of an open container moving on a conveyor. The system includes a conveyor, an open container, and an image-capturing device located above the open container. A barcode reader is configured to read a barcode located on an external face of the container. A display device is configured to display or store at least one captured image and the barcode of the container. A processing unit, including a database, is configured to associate time information with the captured image data. The system triggers an image capture when the open container is proximal to the image-capturing device during the movement of the conveyor.
US12124914B2
A casino system in a casino using a gaming chip to which an RFID tag storing identification information is attached, comprising a registration device for registering the identification information of the gaming chip to be used in the casino, and a database for storing a list of the identification information registered by the registration device. The list includes status information that indicates whether or not the gaming chip is usable, and the registration device makes the status information usable for the gaming chip that has already been registered.
US12124907B2
A user instrument for engaging in a transaction includes a graphically encoded icon having a static portion, and an intrinsic portion comprising an area of stimuli-responsive material defining a first machine-readable indicia. At least a portion of the stimuli-responsive material transforms from a first state to a second state in response to a trigger. The transformation from the first state to the second state of the portion of the stimuli-response material results in a second machine-readable indicia. The transformation of the stimuli-responsive material from the first state to the second state is semi-irreversible. The second machine-readable indicia comprises information to permit or deny the user to engage in a second transaction via the user instrument.
US12124901B2
The present invention relates to a device for locally associating electronic data to a solid body, such as a steel beam, in particular of data related to the solid body. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a system for marking and identifying solid bodies, such as steel beams.
US12124900B2
A barcode-reading device can send barcode images to a remote server for decoding. A decoder on the remote server can process the images and attempt to decode any barcodes in the images. Once the decoder on the remote server has successfully decoded a barcode, the remote server can send the decoded data back to the barcode-reading device and/or to a host computing device that is communicatively coupled to the barcode-reading device. If the barcode-reading device receives the decoded data, the barcode-reading device can forward the decoded data to the host computing device. In some embodiments, a barcode-reading device can send all captured images to the remote server. Alternatively, a barcode-reading device can send only some captured images to the remote server. In some embodiments, a barcode-reading device can be configured to perform one or more preliminary processing operations on an image before sending the image to the remote server.
US12124898B2
An image forming apparatus includes a unit configured to determine a first region, which is within a range from where a distance from a first edge of an image is a first value to a second value, and a second region, which is within a range from where a distance from the first edge is the second value to a third value; and a decision unit configured to, for each of a plurality of first pixels included in the first region and a plurality of second pixels included in the second region, decide an amount of reduction from an exposure amount, wherein the decision unit makes the amount of reduction of each of the plurality of first pixels greater than the amount of reduction of each of the plurality of second pixels.
US12124897B2
An image forming apparatus comprises a communicator that receives a print command of image data from a user terminal via a network; an image former that forms an image on the basis of the image data; and one or more controllers that control the communicator and the image former, wherein when a time-out period set in advance has elapsed without receiving a transmission completion notification of a print command from the user terminal after receiving the print command from the user terminal, the one or more controllers determine whether image data related to the print command is complete or not in accordance with a determination procedure set in advance, and when the one or more controllers determine that the image data is complete, the one or more controllers cause the image former to form an image based on the image data, while when the one or more controllers determine that the image data is not complete, the one or more controllers withhold execution of the print command.
US12124890B2
Embodiments may facilitate event processing for an ABAP platform. A business object data store may include a RAP model, including a behavior definition, for a business object. A framework may automatically transform the behavior definition of the RAP model into a producer event via an event binding and a cloud event standardized format. Information about the producer event may then be passed to an ABAP application associated with a pre-configured destination at an enterprise business technology platform. In some embodiments, a standalone API enterprise hub data store may contain an event specification. An ABAP development tenant of a business technology platform may automatically parse the event specification and translate the parsed information into high-level programming language structures that reflect an event type at runtime. An event consumption model may then be generated based on the event type.
US12124888B2
Example implementations relate to a role-based autoscaling approach for scaling of nodes of a stateful application in a large scale virtual data processing (LSVDP) environment. Information is received regarding a role performed by the nodes of a virtual cluster of an LSVDP environment on which a stateful application is or will be deployed. Role-based autoscaling policies are maintained defining conditions under which the roles are to be scaled. A policy for a first role upon which a second role is dependent specifies a condition for scaling out the first role by a first step and a second step by which the second role is to be scaled out in tandem. When load information for the first role meets the condition, nodes in the virtual cluster that perform the first role are increased by the first step and nodes that perform the second role are increased by the second step.
US12124884B2
Examples described herein relate to a management node and a method for managing deployment of a workload. The management node may obtain values of resource labels related to platform characteristics of a plurality of worker nodes. Further, the management node may determine values of one or more custom resource labels for each of the plurality of worker nodes, wherein a value of each custom resource label of the one or more custom resource labels is determined based on values of a respective set of resource labels of the resource labels. Furthermore, the management node may receive a workload deployment request including a workload description of a workload. Moreover, the management node may deploy the workload on a worker node of the plurality of worker nodes based on the workload description and the values of the one or more custom resource labels.
US12124879B2
Provided is a control method of a deep neural network (DNN) accelerator for optimized data processing. The control method includes, based on a dataflow and a hardware mapping value of neural network data allocated to a first-level memory, calculating a plurality of offsets representing start components of a plurality of data tiles of the neural network data, based on receiving an update request for the neural network data from a second-level memory, identifying a data type of an update data tile corresponding to the received update request among the plurality of data tiles, identifying one or more components of the update data tile, based on the data type of the update data tile and an offset of the update data tile among the calculated plurality of offsets, and updating neural network data of the identified one or more components between the first-level memory and the second-level memory.
US12124870B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for implementing tasks on managed nodes. A specified task to be performed by an Ansible module on one or more managed nodes of two or more managed nodes is received. The one or more managed nodes are determined based on an attribute value of a hostDecision attribute of the Ansible module. The attribute value may be primaryNode, allNodes, or Dynamic, where: primary Node requires the one or more managed nodes to be a primary node, allNodes requires the one or more managed nodes to be the two or more managed nodes, and Dynamic requires the one or more managed nodes to be determined dynamically based on runtime information. The Ansible module is sent to the one or more managed nodes to perform the task on the one or more managed nodes.
US12124861B1
In some examples, there may be provided systems, devices, and methods for using data from disparate databases to determine characteristics of a set of users within an organizational unit and generate customized user interface elements for display within a user interface.
US12124851B2
Disclosed are a graph instruction processing method and apparatus, which relates to the field of computer technologies One example method includes: detecting whether a first graph instruction has a conditional instruction element; and when the first graph instruction has the conditional instruction element, determining that the first graph instruction is a conditional execution instruction, and processing the first graph instruction when both data flow information and control flow information of the first graph instruction are in a ready state; or when the first graph instruction does not have a conditional instruction element, determining that the first graph instruction is a non-conditional execution instruction, and processing the first graph instruction when data flow information of the first graph instruction is in a ready state.
US12124846B2
Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for fused multiple add. In some embodiments, a decoder decodes a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, and fields for a first, second, and third packed data source operand, wherein packed data elements of the first and second packed data source operand are of a first, different size than a second size of packed data elements of the third packed data operand. Execution circuitry then executes the decoded single instruction to perform, for each packed data element position of the destination operand, a multiplication of a M N-sized packed data elements from the first and second packed data sources that correspond to a packed data element position of the third packed data source, add of results from these multiplications to a full-sized packed data element of a packed data element position of the third packed data source, and storage of the addition result in a packed data element position destination corresponding to the packed data element position of the third packed data source, wherein M is equal to the full-sized packed data element divided by N.
US12124844B2
Described herein are embodiments for managing comments in a program code file. A system may select program code and compile it to an intermediary code. The system may compare the intermediary code to a library of intermediary code snippets associated with comments. Based on the comparison, a system may recognize the code to be obsolete. In some embodiments, a system may generate one or more recommendations to update a code. Based on received feedback regarding a recommendation, a system may accordingly update a code.
US12124839B2
A method includes inputting a decompressing compressed image in a computing device. The method also includes applying one or more delta images by a processor to reduce a transfer time for the inputted and decompressed patch image. The method also includes performing one or more calls to a system of memory caches for reads and writes of the decompressed patch image and additional input and output due to a shortage of space in an internal random-access memory (RAM). The method also includes locating arbitrary storage to redirect the decompressed patch image and the additional input and output. The method also includes redirecting the inputted decompressed patch image and the additional input and output to the arbitrary storage.
US12124834B2
A processing server includes a storage device that stores program revision data for identifying a revision of a program and the program of the revision, and runtime revision data for identifying a revision of runtime data input and output to and from the program and the runtime data of the revision, a generating unit that, after receiving a revision of a program that is a target of execution, secures an execution area in the storage device and generates execution target data for executing the program of the revision that is the target of execution in the secured execution area, and an executing unit that executes the execution target data using the runtime data that is the target of execution in the execution area.
US12124832B2
Devices and methods to update semiconductor components are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a device updates semiconductor components independent of a semiconductor component operational state.
US12124830B2
A method for configuring a mobile Point-of-Sales (mPOS) application for executing a transaction includes: installing an application frontend of the mPOS application on a terminal device connected to a communication network; installing an application backend of the mPOS application on an edge cloud server of the communication network; configuring the application frontend to act, upon launch, as an I/O interface and to communicate with the application backend via a secure connection provided by the communication network; and splitting I/O drivers comprised by computer program code of the mPOS application into a low-level driver executed on the terminal device as part of the I/O interface and a high-level driver executed in the application backend at the edge cloud server.
US12124827B1
A method includes determining that an amount of data external to an inference engine to be transmitted for local storage/processing by a first processing tile exceeds an available space at a first OCM of the first processing tile; receiving a first portion of the data at the first processing tile; transmitting the first portion of the data to a second OCM of a second processing tile for temporary local storage (the second processing tile is within the inference engine); receiving and storing a second portion of the data at the first OCM; processing the second portion of the data at the first processing tile by at least a first processing element; receiving and storing the first portion of the data at the first OCM of the first processing tile from the second processing tile prior to the first portion of data is needed by the first processing tile.
US12124822B2
Techniques for computer software code analysis are disclosed. One or more data flows are generated, based on analyzing software code using static analysis. A data object is identified in the software code using the one or more data flows, the data object relating to a structured dataset. A correspondence between a code expression in the software code and a characteristic of the structured dataset is identified, based on analyzing one or more reads from and one or more writes to the data object using the one or more data flows. The code expression for the structured dataset is analyzed, based on the correspondence, including at least one of: (i) generating a software code recommendation engine based on the code expression and the structured dataset, or (ii) generating one or more lambda expressions for application to the structured dataset, based on the code expression.
US12124817B1
A profile for a tool implementing a unified modeling language (UML) is described. The profile extends the UML to include decision management functionality. The profile includes stereotypes and customizations which generate question elements, decision elements, alternative elements, and the like. The association between the elements permits a design engineer to review previous decisions and the rationale behind the decisions. In particular, the one of alternative elements is associated with decision element by selected alternative relationship.
US12124816B2
A carry-lookahead adder is provided. A first mask unit performs first mask operation on first input data with the first mask value to obtain first masked data. A second mask unit performs second mask operation on second input data with the second mask value to obtain second masked data. A first XOR gate receives the first and second mask values to provide a variable value. A half adder receives the first and second masked data to generate a propagation value and an intermediate generation value. A third mask unit performs third mask operation on the propagation value with the third mask value to obtain the third masked data. A carry-lookahead generator provides the carry output and the carry value according to carry input, the generation value, and the propagation value. The second XOR gate receives the third masked data and the carry value to provide the sum output.
US12124815B2
A digital signal processor includes K first electronic circuits. The first inputs receive K groups of G successive coefficients of a polynomial. The polynomial are of degree N with N+1 coefficients, where K is a sub-multiple of N+1 greater than or equal to two and G is equal to (N+1)/K. The first electronic circuits are configured to simultaneously implement K respective Horner methods and deliver K output results. A second electronic circuit includes a first input configured to successively receive the output results of the first electronic circuits starting with the output result of the first electronic circuit having processed the highest rank coefficient of the coefficients. A second input is configured to receive a variable X and the second electronic circuit is configured to implement a Horner method and deliver a value of the polynomial for the variable X on the output of the second electronic circuit.
US12124797B2
An information processing device (10) acquires a plurality of ledger sheets having the same layout, compares the contents of each column at the same position each of the acquired plurality ledger sheets having the same layout, discriminates the type of each column according to the comparison result, and stores the information on the type of each column in a storage unit (14). Moreover, the information processing device (10) acquires position information of a processing target ledger sheet, compares information on the type of a column and the content of each column using information on a registered style with respect to the acquired ledger sheet, discriminates the type of each column of the processing target ledger sheet according to the comparison result, and specifies style candidates of the processing target ledger sheet on the basis of the discrimination result.
US12124796B2
A collaborative content management system (CMS) is disclosed herein for generating templates for received documents. The disclosed CMS recognizes that a document selected by a user for processing was previously processed by the CMS and that a user has previously added particular overlaid fillable fields to the document. When the determination is made, the system generates a recommendation to create a template of the document with the previously added overlaid fillable fields. In some embodiments, the CMS makes the recommendation to generate a template when the user creates, in a received document, identical overlaid fillable fields or field types to those created in the previously processed document.
US12124786B2
A modeling method of shape-approximating a shape measurement target provided in a structure having a stack structure by a boundary line, and a standard deviation is provided as a tolerance for a measurement value of the shape measurement target, and a calculation boundary line is arranged to converge within the tolerance, and thereby, a shape of the shape measurement target is expressed.
US12124785B2
A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit (IC) includes forming a first active region in a first cell. The method includes forming a plurality of second active regions in a second cell, wherein the second cell abuts the first cell. The method includes forming a third active region in a third cell, wherein the second cell is between the first cell and the third cell, and a height of the second cell is different from a height of the first cell or the third cell. The method includes forming a plurality of gate structures extending across each of the first active region, the plurality of second active regions, and the third active region. The method includes removing a first portion of a first gate structure at an interface between the first cell and the second cell between the first active region and the plurality of second active regions.
US12124781B2
A method of compiling a verification system including a logic system design and a test bench for verifying the logic system design includes: receiving a description of the verification system, parsing the description of the verification system using a first parser and a second parser to generate a first intermediate representation (IR) and a second IR, respectively; analyzing the first and second IRs to generate exchange information; optimizing at least one of the first IR or the second IR based on the exchange information; and generating a first implementable code and a second implementable code respectively based on the first and second IRs after the optimization, wherein the first and second IRs are related by a connection point, and the exchange information is associated with the connection point.
US12124780B2
A method includes generating a plurality of input vectors based on input signals to an electric circuit, selecting a subset of the plurality of input vectors, and determining a plurality of datapoints based on the selected subset of the plurality of input vectors. Each datapoint of the plurality of datapoints indicates a power consumption of the electric circuit corresponding to an input vector of the selected subset of the input vectors. The method also includes generating, by a processor, a plurality of vector sequences based on the selected subset of the plurality of input vectors. Each vector sequence of the plurality of vector sequences includes a portion of the selected subset of the plurality of input vectors arranged chronologically. The method further includes training a machine learning model based on a first subset of the plurality of vector sequences and a corresponding first subset of the plurality of datapoints.
US12124775B2
A system and method for generating computerized floor plans is provided. The system comprises a mobile computing device, such as a smart cellular telephone, a tablet computer, etc. having an internal digital gyroscope and camera, and an interior modeling software engine interacts with the gyroscope and camera to allow a user to quickly and conveniently take measurements of interior building features, and to create computerized floor plans of such features from any location within a space, without requiring the user to stay in a single location while taking the measurements. The system presents the user with a graphical user interface that allows a user to quickly and conveniently delineate wall corner features using a reticle displayed within the user interface. As corners are identified, the system processes the corner information and information from the gyroscope to calculate wall features and creates a floor plan of the space with high accuracy.
US12124771B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for generation of cellular lattice kernels optimized by multiple objectives for highly specific targeted properties of geometry and topology rather than state of the art methods that rely on a predefined kernel library. Using a characterization of virtual kernel features, bulk material properties can be predicted using approximations from the virtual kernel rather than having to rely solely on experimental finite element simulations of lattice structures.
US12124767B2
An audio player device includes a sound capturing unit, an audio speaker unit, a storage unit and a processing unit. The storage unit stores multiple environmental volume ranges, and multiple volume setting values respectively corresponding to the environmental volume ranges. The processing unit obtains an environmental volume based on environmental sound received by the sound capturing unit, and selects a volume setting value that corresponds to an environmental volume range which covers the environmental volume to be an automatically-determined volume setting value. Then, the processing unit controls an output volume of the audio speaker unit according to the automatically-determined volume setting value.
US12124755B2
A display control device includes: processing circuitry that sets a display content projected by a projector in such a manner that a first display object is displayed in a first display area; and that receives a signal detected by a detection sensor from the detection sensor and determines whether or not the first display object is selected by a user. The processing circuitry sets another display content projected by the projector in such a manner that a second display object corresponding to the first display object is displayed in a second display area different from the first display area in a case where it is determined that the first display object is selected, and determines whether or not the second display object is selected, and settles the determination that the first display object is selected in a case where the processing circuitry determines that the second display object is selected.
US12124754B2
Movement data characterizing the movement of a vehicle in which electronic smartglasses are used, are sent by a portable apparatus from a data output to the electronic smartglasses for reducing simulator-sickness-induced impairments. The electronic smartglasses display data taking into account the movement data.
US12124752B2
A data processing method is for managing first and second image processing devices using a server. In the method, the server receives a request to replace the first image processing device, acquires from the first image processing device data, and stores the acquired data as data originally stored in the first image processing device. The data originally stored in the first image processing device includes settings information. In the method, the server communicates with the second image processing device which is a replacement device. In a case that a prescribed condition is satisfied, the server sends the data originally stored in the first image processing device to the second image processing device. For satisfying the prescribed condition, satisfying a condition that a prescribed function of the first image processing device has been deactivated on the basis of the request received by the server is necessary.
US12124751B2
An information processing apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory storing a computer-readable program executable by the processor, the at least one processor and the at least one memory are operatively coupled to function as an acquisition unit that acquires image data by an application for causing a printer corresponding to a printer driver to execute printing, and a setting unit that, if an instruction to execute double-sided printing of the image data is accepted by the application, decides a binding setting of a document to print the image data based on information of the image data acquired by the acquisition unit, and set the decided binding setting for the printer driver.
US12124750B2
An image processing apparatus includes a touch panel display configured to display an execution button provided to perform processing using a function of the image processing apparatus and realized in the form of a software key, and detect a user operation onto the execution button. The image processing apparatus includes an adjustment unit configured to adjust, in an instruction portion of a user, a time since the execution button is touched until the execution button is released therefrom according to a user operation.
US12124748B2
A terminal device (e.g., a smartphone) may use a private key to generate a first configuration object used for establishing a first wireless connection between the terminal device and an access point. The terminal device may also use the private key to generate a second configuration object used for establishing a second wireless connection between a communication device (e.g., a printer) and the access point. The terminal device may then transmit specific data (e.g., print data) to the communication device via the access point.
US12124742B2
Systems and methods for supporting dynamic disk growth within a virtual storage appliance are provided. According to one embodiment, a portion of a logical size of respective hyperscale disks provided by a hyperscaler are provisioned for use by a virtual storage system as backing for respective file system disks. To accommodate growth, block numbers for the file system disks are pre-allocated within a sparse space of a contiguous sequence of block numbers corresponding to a number of blocks represented by the logical size. Metadata is maintained for the file system disks regarding a range of the pre-allocated block numbers that are available for use. Responsive to a triggering condition, the provisioned portion of a hyperscale disk is increased and subsequently, responsive to detecting a change in a size of the hyperscale disk by the virtual storage system, a size of the corresponding file system disk is updated within the metadata.
US12124727B2
A system and method for automatic deletion in a persistent storage device. In some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, by a persistent storage device, a first read command, for a first logical block of data; determining that a total number of read operations, for the first logical block of data, equals or exceeds a first threshold value; and in response to determining that the total number of read operations, for the first logical block of data, equals or exceeds the first threshold value, arranging for deletion of the first logical block of data from the persistent storage device.
US12124724B2
Embodiments of this application provide a memory migration method, an apparatus, and a computing device. The method includes: creating a processing thread, a sending thread, and a traversal thread for a memory region; where the traversal thread iteratively executes a traversal operation, where the traversal operation includes traversing a dirty bitmap of the memory region and assigning a dirty page address to a corresponding processing thread; the processing thread iteratively executes a processing operation, where the processing operation includes reading dirty page data based on the assigned dirty page address, and adding round number flag information to the dirty page data to generate a to-be-migrated dirty page; and the sending thread iteratively executes a transmission operation, where the transmission operation includes sending the to-be-migrated dirty page to a destination end, and the destination end restores respective dirty page data to destination memories based on iteration round numbers in different to-be-migrated dirty pages. The embodiments of this application improve memory migration efficiency.
US12124722B2
Techniques are provided for dynamic over-provisioning of storage devices. One method comprises obtaining a partitioning of a storage device associated into a first partition and an over-provisioning partition based on an over-provisioning ratio of the storage device, wherein portions of the over-provisioning partition are reallocated as portions of the first partition to replace portions of the first partition; storing user data associated with write operations in the first partition; monitoring a size of the over-provisioning partition; and dynamically adjusting the size of the over-provisioning partition in response to the size of the over-provisioning partition reaching a threshold. The dynamically adjusting the size of the over-provisioning partition may comprise reducing a size of the first partition. The reducing the size of the first partition may comprise the operating system reducing a size of the first partition and reallocating the reduced size of the first partition to the over-provisioning partition.
US12124720B2
A System on Chip (SoC) includes a first core coupled to an interconnect; a second core coupled to the interconnect; a memory coupled to the interconnect and including a plurality of evenly sized partitions; and storage circuitry configured to store memory configuration information. The memory configuration information defines a memory configuration and is configured to indicate a series of swappable segments for each core of the SoC by indicating, for each core, a first number of partitions of the memory assigned to each of a first swappable segment and a second swappable segment for the core, the first swappable segment designated as an active segment and the second swappable segment designated as a first backup segment, and an enable indicator to indicate whether or not to assign the first number of partitions to a third swappable segment designated as a second backup segment.
US12124714B2
A data storage system includes a tuner that obtains data samples for data storage operations of workloads and calculates feature measures for a set of features of the data storage operations over aggregation intervals of an operating period. It further (1) applies a cluster analysis to the feature measures to define a set of clusters, and assigns the feature measures to the clusters, and (2) applies a classification analysis to the feature measures labelled by their clusters to identify dominating features of each cluster, and generates workload profiles for the clusters based on the dominating features, and then automatically adjusts configurable processing mechanisms (e.g., caching or tiering) based on the workload profiles and performance or efficiency goals.
US12124711B2
Apparatus, methods, and software for protecting a plurality of memory locations are disclosed. Logical addresses are translated into physical addresses in dependence on one of a first translation function and a second translation function. A transitional logical address and an associated transitional value are locally held in circuitry which applies the translation functions. A remapping of first to second translation function usage is performed by determining a new transitional physical address by applying the second translation function to the transitional logical address; determining a new transitional logical address by applying an inverse of the first translation function to the new transitional physical address; retrieving a new transitional value using the new transitional physical address; storing the old transitional value to the memory location indicated by the new transitional physical address; and locally storing the new transitional value. This remapping can be interleaved with normal memory accesses.
US12124707B2
A memory controller of a memory system classifies input and output commands issued by a host into a group of read commands and a group of write commands, and manages the group of read commands and the group of write commands using first and second queues, respectively. The controller continuously processes a first group of commands among the group of read commands and the group of write commands until a first time period has elapsed from a start of the continuous processing of the first group of commands. In response to the first time period having elapsed, the controller switches a process target from the first group of commands to a second group of commands that is different from the first group of commands and selected among the group of read commands and the group of write commands.
US12124699B2
A new type of instruction and a control register for the new type of instruction are provided to handle data that may be misaligned in memory. A first part of data (which may be misaligned in memory) is loaded into a first set of registers by loading a first atom containing the first part of data into registers. The pack instruction is executed by an execution unit to place part of data (whose length and starting position are indicated by second and third values in a control register) from one set of registers into an identified location (identified by a first value in the control register) in another set of registers.
US12124697B2
The present invention provides an information input device, in which information is inputted by easy operations, even if a display unit size is limited. An information input device of the present invention has: a display unit displaying a plurality of figures; a detecting unit arranged in front of the display unit or behind the display unit, and detecting whether a physical contact from an outside exists or not and a contacted position at which the physical contact exists; and a control unit deciding a figure displayed on the display unit and a position at which the figure is displayed, and inputting information based on a signal from the detecting unit, and when the detecting unit detects the physical contact exists, the control unit determines a first figure displayed at a nearest position to the contacted position in the plurality of figures based on the contacted position and decides a second figure displayed at a position surrounding the contacted position based on a kind of the first figure.
US12124694B2
An electronic device with display can execute a messaging application. The messaging application can display a conversation view of a message thread with a common header that can include subject information and names of participants in the threads.
US12124689B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an improved group-based communication apparatus that is configured to efficiently manage group-based communication interfaces associated with one or more group-based communication workspaces. The group-based communication apparatus is configured to create and assign labels in association with one or more of a plurality of group-based communication channels that are associated with two or more groups or organizations. The labels corresponding to the communication channels associated with the two or more groups or organizations may be displayed to a sidebar label focus interface component of a sidebar pane of the group-based communication interfaces. The labels may be combined with other data of the groups or organizations, such as group-based communication workspaces, to assemble one or more work graph data structures.
US12124680B2
Provided is a display apparatus for displaying an operation menu associated with a data processing performed on handwritten data, wherein the operation menu includes information related to the data processing according to a display position of the operation menu.
US12124674B2
A computer system detects whether the user satisfies attention criteria with respect to a first user interface object displayed in a first view of a three-dimensional environment. In response to detecting that the user does not satisfy the attention criteria with respect to the first user interface object, the computer system displays the first user interface object with a modified appearance. The computer system detects a first movement of a viewpoint of the user relative to a physical environment and detects that the user satisfies the attention criteria with respect to the first user interface object. In response, the computer system displays the first user interface object in a second view of the three-dimensional environment, including displaying the first user interface object with an appearance that emphasizes the first user interface object more than when the first user interface object was displayed with the modified appearance.
US12124673B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface of a content application in a three-dimensional environment with or without virtual lighting effects applied to the three-dimensional environment depending on whether the user interface is in a mode that does not include virtual lighting or a mode that includes virtual lighting. In some embodiments, an electronic device updates display of interactive user interface elements in response to detecting a respective pose of a respective portion of a user of the electronic device.
US12124670B2
An information sharing system includes a plurality of terminal devices and an information sharing device communicable with the terminal devices. Each of the terminal devices includes a display unit which displays content in a display region, and a processor which performs display control over the display unit. The information sharing device includes a classification processing unit which classifies a plurality of users of the terminal devices into groups in reference to a result of evaluation of pieces of stroke data each indicating the content handwritten by a user of a corresponding one of the terminal devices. The information sharing device includes a display instruction section which instructs each of terminal devices corresponding to two or more constituent members belonging to one of the groups classified by the classification processing unit, among the terminal devices, to display a status information column indicating states of the two or more constituent members.
US12124669B1
A visualization can include a set of swim lanes, each swim lane representing information about an event type. An event type can be specified, e.g., as those events having certain keywords and/or having specified value(s) for specified field(s). The swim lane can plot when (within a time range) events of the associated event type occurred. Specifically, each such event can be assigned to a bucket having a bucket time matching the event time. A swim lane can extend along a timeline axis in the visualization, and the buckets can be positioned at a point along the axis that represents the bucket time. Thus, the visualization may indicate whether events were clustered at a point in time. Because the visualization can include a plurality of swim lanes, the visualization can further indicate how timing of events of a first type compare to timing of events of a second type.
US12124666B2
Discussed is a touch display device including a substrate, a plurality of subpixels on the substrate, each subpixel including an emission area having a plurality of vertices, an encapsulation layer on the plurality of subpixels, and a plurality of touch electrodes on the encapsulation layer. The plurality of touch electrodes have mesh structure to surround the emission area. At least one of the touch electrodes includes a first electrode portion extending in a first direction, a second electrode portion extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a third electrode portion at an intersection of the first and second electrode portions. A width of the third electrode portion increases from the first electrode portion to a center portion of the third electrode.
US12124662B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate having an active area and a non-active area adjacent to the active area defined thereon; a first touch line in the non-active area and a second touch line on the first touch line; and a front member on the first and second touch lines, the front member being in at least a part of the non-active area, and including a transmissive part and a blocking part, wherein the first touch line is in an area overlapping the transmissive part, and the first touch lines includes at least two patterns.
US12124655B2
A touch sensor includes a touch structure including a touch interface and an inner interface arranged opposite to the touch interface; a capacitive ultrasonic transmitter arranged inside an enclosed interior volume and configured to transmit an ultrasonic transmit wave towards the touch structure; a capacitive ultrasonic receiver arranged inside the enclosed interior volume and configured to receive at least one ultrasonic reflected wave produced from the ultrasonic transmit wave via internal reflection; a coupling medium that fills an area between the inner interface and the capacitive ultrasonic receiver, wherein an external force applied to the touch interface is configured to impart an internal pressure onto the capacitive ultrasonic receiver through the coupling medium; and a sensor circuit configured to convert the at least one ultrasonic reflected wave into a measurement signal and detect the external force based on the measurement signal.
US12124652B2
The application discloses a touch display panel and a drive method therefor. Touch display panel includes a drive electrode, an induction electrode, a detection electrode and an operational amplifier, wherein the induction electrode is electrically connected with a first input terminal of the operational amplifier, and the detection electrode is electrically connected with a second input terminal of the operational amplifier, and wherein the operational amplifier is configured to perform a difference operation between a signal received by the second input terminal and a signal received by the first input terminal.
US12124649B2
A playback device detects, with one or more onboard sensors, that the playback device is in motion. The playback device activates a command bypass mode. The command bypass mode causes the playback device to not execute commands applied to a touch-sensitive user interface integrated into the playback device. The playback device then detects, with the one or more onboard sensors, that the playback device is stationary. After detecting that it is stationary, the playback device deactivates the command bypass mode.
US12124647B2
A signal transmission method is provided, which may be implemented by a position indicator. The signal transmission method includes a step of dividing first information, which is represented in a digital signal of a first defined number of bits, into a plurality of information parts respectively represented in digital signals of a second defined number of bits smaller than the first defined number of bits. The signal transmission method includes a step of transmitting, from the position indicator to a position detecting device, the information parts, and distinguishing information usable for distinguishing the information parts from each other, wherein each of the information parts is transmitted with second information different from the first information.
US12124643B2
An apparatus and method for providing a structure and function to a pen-type handheld writing, reading or pointing device to enable usage of the device to perform operations similar to a computer mouse for a computing device. The structure includes an optical sensor, a portion of the optical sensor surface that can perform operations of a clickable button, and a structure to support a connection to the computing device.
US12124640B2
A pen apparatus with a pressure sensitive tip mechanism that internally generates pressure, tilt, and/or barrel rotation through the use of a multi-axis measurement scheme with simultaneous transmit, receive, and sensing driver capability operable in conjunction with a receiving system or in a relative stand-alone manner. Signaling schemes are provided for operating the pen apparatus to achieve improved function. Systems and methods are provided for operating a pen, and for operating a pen with a touch sensor system. Drive/receive circuitry and methods of driving and receiving sensor electrode signals are provided that allow digital I/O pins to be used to interface with touch sensor electrodes. This circuitry may be operated in modes to sense various combinations of signals coupled within a pen, or from outside of a pen.
US12124639B2
An adaptive grip for a digital stylus includes a body having an internal volume and a keying feature in the internal volume to rotationally key the digital stylus to the body. The adaptive grip further includes a distal opening to allow an inking tip of the digital stylus to protrude from the internal volume and a retention feature to retain the digital stylus in the internal volume in a longitudinal direction.
US12124634B2
An information processing apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit accepts a user operation during reproduction of content having a predetermined time length and variably controls processing to be executed for the user operation in accordance with a reproduction position of the content when the user operation is performed. The information processing apparatus executes processing suitable for an intention of a user in processing related to the content.
US12124633B2
A mobile device, such as a smart phone, is provided with a camera. Digital content displayed on display screen of the mobile device may be manipulated in response to natural movements of the mobile device by a user. Motion of the mobile device is detected relative to a nearby textured surface by analyzing images of the textured surface. The displayed digital content is manipulated in response to the detected motion of the mobile device.
US12124632B2
A haptic system can include a user device including one or more haptic actuators and one or more sensors. The haptic system can be configured to perform operations including controlling the haptic actuator(s) to produce a haptic output based on a haptic output profile associated with a desired action of a user of the haptic system; detecting, using the one or more sensors, one or more user response characteristics in response to the haptic output; determining, based at least in part on the one or more user response characteristics, data describing a user action of the user performed after the haptic actuator(s) produces the haptic output; comparing the data describing the user action with data indicative of the desired action to generate an effectiveness metric; and determining a subsequent haptic output profile for a subsequent haptic output based at least in part on the effectiveness metric.
US12124631B2
A multifunctional haptic actuator having actuation modes, including an actuation arrangement and at least one moveable energy storage. The actuation arrangement provides and facilitates movement of the energy storage along and around actuation axes. The energy storage supplies electric charge to drive the actuation arrangement, and stores electric charge generated by the actuation arrangement. A first functional actuation mode includes generating mechanical vibrations by supplying electric charge from the energy storage to the actuation arrangement, the electric charge generating movement of the energy storage. A second functional actuation mode includes generating electric charge by mechanical vibrations of the energy storage, the vibrations generating electric charge in the actuation arrangement, the electric charge being stored in the energy storage.
US12124625B1
A computer system records eye tracking data and identifies movements in the eye tracking data to determine gaze and pupil dynamics. Eye tracking data is correlated with a current task and predetermined vigilance requirements. The system determines if the user is exhibiting an appropriate level of vigilance based on the task or is becoming fixated. When fixation is detected, the system may engage in remedial action. A task flow diagram represents the operator tasks. Interactions between the user and the instrumentation are used to estimate the probability distribution of the task the user is currently conducting. The system correlates eye tracking data and physiological data such as electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRs) to determine neuroactivity. Monitoring neuroactivity reduces the probability of a false positive for fixation.
US12124614B2
Apparatus configured to obtain a hash of a file to be transmitted to a second apparatus and an indication of a file creator of the file; retrieve an identifier associated with the file creator; store the hash of the file, associated with the identifier of the file creator, in an immutable ledger; obtain the hash of the file from the second apparatus; verify that the hash of the file is stored in the immutable ledger; retrieve, from the immutable ledger, one or more assertions associated with the file; retrieve, from the immutable ledger, the associated identifier of the file creator using the hash of the file; and transmit, to the second apparatus: a confirmation that the file is from the file creator; and at least one of the one or more assertions associated with the file.
US12124611B2
At least one aspect is directed to determining an estimate of an intersection of user identifiers in a first set of user identifiers and a second set of user identifiers. The first and second sets of user identifiers can be populated with user identifiers that have interacted with the same content item or content item campaign. Estimates of intersections of the first and the second sets can be determined based on a binomial vector approach, a vector of counts approach, or a hybrid approach. The binomial vector approach generates vectors based on k hashes of each user identifier in the first set and summing the vectors to generate a first vector. The intersection can be determined based on a dot product of the first vector and a second vector similarly generated from the second set of user identifiers.
US12124610B2
Systems and methods for anonymizing data are provided herein. A network node can receive privacy constraints from a data owner and utility requirements from at least one data processor. An anonymization mechanism can be selected for each data attribute in a data set, based on its specified privacy constraint and/or utility requirement, from the available anonymization mechanism(s) appropriate for its associated attribute type.
US12124606B2
A method for securely rendering sensitive data is disclosed. A method for securely rendering sensitive data may include receiving account identifier data associated with at least one account identifier. The account identifier data may be converted into at least one non-textual visual element. The at least one non-textual visual element may be communicated to at least one receiver. The at least one receiver may render the at least one non-textual visual element. A system and computer program product are also disclosed.
US12124605B2
A management apparatus is operated by one operating entity. The management apparatus includes: a storage unit that stores a policy information, which is associated with data provided by a data provider to another operating entity that is different from the one operating entity, and which defines a provision permission policy of the data provider for the data; an acquisition unit that refers to a log information in which a first hash value of one policy information is recorded and that obtains a policy information corresponding to the one policy information from the storage unit, the one policy information being associated with one data provided to a data user from the another operating entity; and a comparison unit that calculates a second hash value of the obtained policy information and that compares it with the first hash value.
US12124599B2
A method includes storing a test database of tests and corresponding test rules, storing a user information database, storing a profile database, and storing a threshold database including thresholds corresponding to test scores and similarity scores. The method includes, in response to receiving interaction parameters of an interaction performed by a user, identifying a set of tests based on the interaction parameters. The method includes, for each of the set of tests: calculating a score using user data of the user, corresponding test rules, and the interaction parameters; adjusting the score based on the user's profile; obtaining a threshold corresponding to the identified test; and, in response to the score exceeding the threshold, categorizing the interaction within a first category. The method also includes generating and transmitting an alert in response to the interaction being categorized within the first category.
US12124592B1
Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture for AI-driven cybersecurity enclaves, such as a computerized environment that executes one or more specially-trained AI models to govern communications between users and AI service providers.
US12124585B1
There may be provided a method for model-based risk assessment of a computerized network, the method may include obtaining a model of the computerized network, the model comprises risk assessments building blocks that represent (a) risk related dependencies between members of sets of assets of the computerized network, and (b) probabilities of occurrence of the risk related dependencies; and simulating, for at least some of the assets of the computerized network, and based on at least a portion of the model, one or more attacks to provide one or more model-based risk assessment results.
US12124581B2
A system on chip includes a memory, a main processor that runs an operating system, and first Intellectual Properties (IPs) that perform respective processing operations. The main processor operates to copy target firmware to the memory using a firmware loader, using a hypervisor, block access of the main processor and the first IPs to the target firmware before verification of the target firmware, and using the hypervisor, grant access to the target firmware by a target IP among the first IPs that corresponds to the target firmware after the verification of the target firmware.
US12124578B2
A system and method for identifying a compromised controller using an intentional error are provided. The method, performed by an electronic device in a controller area network (CAN), for identifying a compromised electronic control unit (ECU) that transmits an attack message on a CAN bus in a periodic transmission cycle. The method includes, in response to detecting the attack message, transitioning a first ECU among a plurality of ECUs connected to the CAN bus to a bus-off state intentionally, and determining whether the first ECU is the compromised ECU based at least in part on a time, which is predicted from recovery parameters related to the first ECU, for when the first ECU resumes transmission of a CAN message and a time when the attack message is redetected on the CAN bus.
US12124575B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device having a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including capturing images generated by a fiducial invoked on a user device; determining a context of the fiducial; detect an anomaly in the images based on the context; and responsive to detecting the anomaly, providing a notification of the anomaly. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12124569B2
Provided is a command inspection method, including: inspecting a plurality of to-be-inspected commands based on a plurality of first features of known obfuscated commands and a plurality of second features of normal service commands, to determine a plurality of target commands, each of the target commands being a command having one or more of the first features but none of the second features; obtaining running state text of the plurality of target commands; obtaining suspicious degree information of the plurality of target commands based on the plurality of target commands and the corresponding running state text, the suspicious degree information being used for indicating a possibility that a command is an obfuscated command; and determining, when suspicious degree information of any target command satisfies a target condition, the target command as an obfuscated command.
US12124559B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for peer-based anomalous rights detection. In various examples, a rights vector may be determined for a first individual, the rights vector representing rights held by the first individual. A nearest neighbor algorithm may be used to determine a set of individuals having similar rights to the first individual. In various examples, a category label associated with the first individual may be determined. In some examples, a number of individuals of the set of individuals having the category label may be determined. In some examples, a determination may be made that the rights held by the first individual are anomalous based at least in part on the number. In some cases, alert data indicating that the rights held by the first individual are anomalous may be generated.
US12124556B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for enhancing standard authentication systems to include risk-based decisions. Risk-based decisions can be selectively implemented within existing authentication systems to strategically modify and supplement security if an unacceptable risk is detected. Embodiments capture information pertaining to a user and user device. Information is stored to create a profile for the user and user device. A comparison between the stored information and live data can be performed within authentication systems to optimize security. If the results of the comparison demonstrate the presence of an acceptable risk, then the need for subsequent authentication can be reduced or eliminated, which improves a user experience.
US12124555B2
An electronic device is provided that includes a processor, and a data storage device having executable instructions accessible by the processor. Responsive to execution of the instructions, the processor obtains context data, and provides a login prompt. The processor may also vary input device input configured to enter values into the login prompt based on the context data, rearrange keys of a touchscreen keyboard on a display, the displayed input configured to enter the values into the login prompt based on the context data, or vary the location of a touchscreen keyboard based on the context data.
US12124545B2
A geo-locations software management utility provides a method and system for passive authentication of an individual's geo-location via a communication network and for user authenticating images and video and social media content. Specifically a communication network based non-fungible token creation platform with integrated creator biometric authentication is disclosed.
US12124543B2
A permission configuration method includes: receiving a first input performed by a user on a first object and a second object, where the first object is an object that indicates a first application on a first interface, and the second object is an object that indicates a second application or a tartlet function on a second interface; and displaying, on the first interface in response to the first input, a target permission set used to configure a permission for the first application, where the target permission set is an intersection set between a first permission set and a second permission set, the first permission set is a permission set of the first application, and the second permission set is a permission set of the second application or the target function; and the first interface is different from the second interface.
US12124541B2
Certain aspects of the technology disclosed involve providing a virtual machine instance with license management data to identify and differentiate various virtual machine instances. A virtual appliance may generate license management data in response to a triggering event of a virtual machine. The triggering event may include any of a migration, clone, snapshot, or request via a representational state transfer endpoint. The virtual machine may provide the license management data to a license server and a licensed application configured to run on the virtual machine. The license management data may be used in resource management systems, such as a license management system, to defeat licensing exploits in a cloud computing environment.
US12124534B2
Method for generating a plurality of sets of training image data for training machine learning model
A method for generating a plurality of sets of training image data for training a machine learning model includes: (a) acquiring object image data representing an object image; (b) dividing the object image into T number of partial object images by dividing a region of the object image into T number of partial regions corresponding to respective ones of T number of partial color ranges; (c) generating a plurality of sets of color-modified object image data representing respective ones of a plurality of color-modified object images by performing an adjustment process on the object image data, the adjustment process including a color modification process to modify colors of at least one of the T number of partial object images; and (d) generating the plurality of sets of training image data using one or more sets of background image data and the plurality of sets of color-modified object image data.
US12124532B2
Long-term photovoltaic system degradation can be predicted through a simple, low-cost solution. The approach requires the configuration specification for a photovoltaic system, as well as measured photovoltaic production data and solar irradiance, such as measured by a reliable third party source using satellite imagery. Note the configuration specification can be derived. This information is used to simulate photovoltaic power production by the photovoltaic system, which is then evaluated against the measured photovoltaic production data. The simulated production is adjusted to infer degradation that can be projected over time to forecast long-term photovoltaic system degradation.
US12124526B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for dynamic rerouting of uniform resource identifiers having different syntaxes. A method includes a server receiving from a computing device a request that includes an initial uniform resource identifier (URI) that includes a product identifier. The request can be generated by the user scanning a product tag. Based on the identifier, the server finds two or more routing policy entries associated with the product. Each policy entry can include a regular expression that specifies syntax for parsing the initial URI and at least one variable. The server eliminates any routing policy having a context specification that does not match the request's context information and any routing policy entries having a regular expression that does not match the initial URI. The server composes a target URI based on a remaining routing policy entry and redirects the computing device to the target URI.
US12124519B2
Techniques for implementing Quality Assurance of the process of coding medical documents are disclosed. An audit of a coding process for a medical document is initiated by selecting and setting audit parameters. Using the selected parameters, a sample batch of coded documents is obtained from a universe of coded documents. The sample batch of coded documents is presented to auditor(s), and the auditor(s) provide corrections, which are recorded, and a score for each correction is calculated. A sample score, based on the corrections, is calculated in a manner that tracks to subjective auditor assessments of the process quality as being acceptable, marginally acceptable, or unacceptable, and which sample score accounts for the individual auditor subjectivity and an error.
US12124518B1
Techniques described herein provide for automated detection of near-duplicate documents. In one example, a system can cluster documents into a set of clusters based on character frequencies associated with the documents. For a given cluster, the system can generate first similarity scores associated with every pair of documents in the cluster. The system can then select a filtered group of documents associated with first similarity scores that meet or exceed a first predefined similarity threshold. Next, the system can convert the filtered group of documents into matrix representations. The system can generate second similarity scores for every pair of matrix representations. The system can then identify documents, from among the filtered group of documents, associated with second similarity scores that meet or exceed a second predefined similarity threshold. The identified documents can be duplicate or near-duplicate text documents.
US12124516B1
A system to create new automation routines includes a processor to: Over time, store a group of actions taken by a group of agents within applications. From the stored group of actions, identify a repeating pattern of actions in a subset of the applications, and construct a binary vector, each position within the binary vector storing a 1 for an occurrence of any action within any application of the subset, and a 0 otherwise. From the binary vector and the repeating pattern, extract a sentence including at least one action within at least one application. Based on the repeating pattern, an application type, or a business goal, create a constraint. If the sentence meets the constraint, accept the sentence and add it to a pool of accepted sentences. From the pool of accepted sentences, identify a pattern of occurrences of the accepted sentence, and create a new automation routine.
US12124512B2
The present invention relates to a method for processing a knowledge graph in a data processing apparatus, comprising the steps of: (a) creating a knowledge graph including a taxonomy graph for a classification system of information objects and an entity graph for a relationship between specific information object instances; (b) updating the knowledge graph by reflecting the information objects extracted from a database in the knowledge graph; and (c) inferring the relevance of a random information object by using the updated knowledge graph.
US12124507B2
A method includes retrieving a text from a database. The text corresponds to audio from a media content item that is provided by a media providing service, and the text includes a plurality of segments. The method also includes assigning a score for each segment in the text by applying the text to a trained computational model. The score corresponds to a predicted relevance of the respective segment to a narrative of the media content item. The method further includes identifying a non-narrative segment within the text using the assigned scores.
US12124502B2
A method and apparatus for preparing an image on a cloud platform, and a device and a storage medium are provided. The method may include: receiving an image request for a target object, and obtaining a first storage backend of the target object according to the image request; obtaining a second storage backend of a Glance service in the cloud platform, and comparing the second storage backend with the first storage backend; and obtaining an image for the target object on the second storage backend in a cloning manner when the first storage backend is the same as the second storage backend. According to the method, when the first storage backend is the same as the second storage backend, the image for the target object is obtained on the second storage backend in the cloning manner, so that the downloading and uploading processes are omitted.
US12124494B2
Systems are disclosed including, for example, one or more processors configured to execute the instructions and perform operations including accessing, from a first source, a first dataset; extracting a plurality of data points from the first dataset having a first data point, determining a first degree of interest for the first data point with respect to a center of interest on a first data layer of a plurality of data layers, determining a second degree of interest for the first data point on a second data layer of the plurality of data layers, and aggregating the first degree of interest for the first data point and the second degree of interest for the first data point to determine a first aggregated degree of interest.
US12124489B2
Disclosed herein is system and method for examining relevancy of documents. The system, based on request from the user extracts documents from one or more data sources. The system then obtains from the user, user intention information and user queries. The system then analyses each document with respect to user intention information in order to determine a relevancy level of each document. The relevancy level is indicated in the form of a ranking score. The system ranks and displays the documents to the user in the order of their scores. The system also highlights important excerpts from the documents and provides one or more responses to the one or more user queries submitted by the user for each and every document. Based on the received responses, user provides feedback for further training the system, thereby achieving better accuracy.
US12124487B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for search platforms for unstructured interaction summaries. An application executing on a processor may receive a query comprising a term. The application may generate, based on an embedding vector and the term, an expanded query comprising a plurality of additional terms. The application may generate, based on a term frequency inverse document frequency model, a vector for the expanded query and generate an entity vector for the query. The application may generate a combined vector for the query based on the entity vector and the vector for the expanded query. The application may compute, based on the combined vector for the query and a feature matrix of a corpus, a respective cosine similarity score for a plurality of results in the corpus. The application may return one or more of the plurality of results as responsive to the query based on the similarity scores.
US12124485B2
Methods and apparatuses are described for disambiguating unrecognized abbreviations in search queries using machine learning. A server computing device detects unrecognized abbreviations in an initial search query received from a user of a client computing device. The server generates candidate words for each of the unrecognized abbreviations in the initial search query. For each of the abbreviations, the server executes a trained disambiguation machine learning model using the candidate words as input to generate, for each candidate word, a probability that the candidate word is intended by the user to be an expansion of the unrecognized abbreviation. The server selects one of the candidate words as a replacement word for the unrecognized abbreviation. The server generates a new search query by replacing each of the unrecognized abbreviations in the initial search query with the corresponding replacement word and retrieves search results by executing a search using the new search query.
US12124483B2
Method includes obtaining sample records from dataset associated with user and including records associated with identifiers customers of user; executing first clustering using sample records, to obtain first set of clusters for first identifiers associated with sample records, first clustering using features associated with first identifiers; providing visualization of first set of clusters; determining whether user input for optimizing first set of clusters provided in visualization is received; when user input for optimizing first set of clusters is not received, determining first information related to first set of clusters as final result information; when user input for optimizing first set of clusters is received: executing second clustering using sample records, to obtain second set of clusters for first identifiers, second clustering using features associated with first identifiers, and determining second information related to second set of clusters as final result information; and clustering entire dataset using final result information.
US12124470B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable storage media that may be used to receive, by a publishing platform, one or more first data events associated with first content of a first content provider and one or more second data events associated with second content of a second content provider, generate, by the publishing platform, multiplexed data by multiplexing the one or more first data vents and the one or more second data events, and communicate, by the publishing platform, the multiplexed data to a de-multiplexer of an analytics system, wherein the de-multiplexer de-multiplexes the multiplexed data into the one or more first data events and the one or more second data events, communicates the one or more first data events to a first endpoint associated with the first content provider, and communicates the one or more second data events to a second endpoint associated with the second content provider.
US12124469B1
Systems and methods are provided for performing at least one operation using data in a preferred data layout, while preserving the ability to access the data in an original data layout. The preferred data layout may be independent of the original data layout. The preferred data layout may be selected based on at least one of a characteristic of the data, a characteristic of the computing environment or computing device(s) implementing the computing environment, a characteristic of the at least one operation, or historical performance data. The data may be rearranged or permuted into the preferred layout. A mapping may be determined between the preferred layout and the original layout. During performance of the at least one operation using the data in the preferred layout, another operation may use the mapping to access the data in the original layout.
US12124467B2
Various systems and methods are described herein for an improved spreadsheet application that allows a user to generate, manipulate, and replicate data visualizations (e.g., sparklines, graphs, charts, etc.) using functions without importing data into cells of the application. For example, data is stored in one or more remote or local data stores accessible to the improved spreadsheet application. A user enters a function into a cell of the improved spreadsheet application. The improved spreadsheet application generates a query using the function, the query identifying a portion of a dataset to retrieve from the data store(s). The improved spreadsheet application then transmits the query to the data store(s) and retrieves the requested data. A renderer of the improved spreadsheet application then renders a sparkline using the retrieved data. The improved spreadsheet application displays the rendered sparkline in the cell in which the function was entered, or at another designated location.
US12124466B2
An information providing device includes: a storage that stores: provided information; potential queries expected to be input from a user terminal and each associated with properties; and a correspondence among the properties; and a control unit that is connected to the storage and that: based on the correspondence among the properties, collates each of the properties with the provided information, instead of a query or a potential query that are input from the user terminal, rates the provided information with respect to each of the potential queries to obtain a rating result, and upon receiving the query from the user terminal, includes, to the provided information, the rating result with respect to at least one of the potential queries corresponding to the received query, and outputs, to the user terminal, the provided information including the rating result.
US12124464B2
Systems and methods for analyzing data stored using a data model. The system can receive a user selection of a first object type indicating to perform filtering operations on a first set of data objects, generate a list of object types linked to the first object type based on an ontology, receives a user selection of a second object type, generate a list of properties of the second object type based on an ontology, receive a user selection of a first property from the list of properties, perform a data query determining values associated with the first property, receive a user selection of a first value, and displays information of a subset of data objects being a portion of the first set of data objects that are linked to data objects in the second set of data objects that have a first property value of the first value.
US12124461B2
In accordance with an embodiment, an analytic applications environment enables data analytics within the context of an organization's enterprise software application or data environment, or a software-as-a-service or other type of cloud environment; and supports the development of computer-executable software analytic applications. A data pipeline or process, such as, for example, an extract, transform, load process, can operate in accordance with an analytic applications schema adapted to address particular analytics use cases or best practices, to receive data from a customer's (tenant's) enterprise software application or data environment, for loading into a data warehouse instance. Each customer (tenant) can additionally be associated with a customer tenancy and a customer schema. The data pipeline or process populates their data warehouse instance and database tables with data as received from their enterprise software application or data environment, as defined by a combination of the analytic applications schema, and their customer schema.
US12124451B2
A computer-implemented method that includes: receiving, at a middleware server, an input stream of query requests each requesting an electronic information service provided by an external database of an external trusted party, wherein the query requests are issued by internal enterprise applications; determining, by the middleware server, a first service validity period for a query request from the input stream, wherein the first service validity period is pre-determined; determining, by the middleware server, a gap between a current date for the query request and a corresponding past date when the query request was last successfully answered by the external database; and in response to determining that the gap is smaller than the first service validity period, fetching a corresponding query result from a staging table on the middleware server, wherein the corresponding query result was received when the query request was last successfully answered by the external database.
US12124450B2
Disclosed herein is a method for determining whether to apply a lazy materialization technique to a query run. A data processing service receives a request to perform a query identifying a filter column and a non-filter column in a columnar database. The data processing service accesses a first task of contiguous rows in the filter column from a cloud-based object storage. The data processing service applies a filter defined by the query to the first task. The data processing service generates filter results for the first task that may include a percentage of the first task discarded and a run-time. The data processing service determines, based on the filter results for the first task, a likelihood value that indicates a likelihood of gaining a performance benefit by applying the lazy materialization technique to a second task of the query.
US12124449B2
A database system is operable to determine a query for execution. The database system can execute a left join operation for the query based on receiving a plurality of left input rows, and forwarding all of the plurality of left input rows are forwarded. It is determined whether any right input rows match with each given left input row based on a hash map. When one right input row is identified as matching with the given left input row, a value of right input row is copied and emitted in conjunction with the given left input row. When no right input rows are identified as matching with the given left input row, a null value is emitted in conjunction with the given left input row.
US12124447B2
The present disclosure provides a data prefetching method, a data prefetching apparatus, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. The data prefetching method includes: acquiring a query prefix inputted by a user; analyzing the query prefix in accordance with a pre-trained linguistic model to acquire a perplexity of the query prefix; judging whether the perplexity is smaller than a predetermined threshold; and transmitting a prefetching request in accordance with the query prefix when the perplexity is smaller than the predetermined threshold.
US12124445B2
Systems and methods for data reporting using a data aggregator and a data retrieval tool such as a file intelligence service. The data aggregator stores two sets of data reporting tables and designates a first one of the sets of tables as an active set and the second one of the sets as a non-active set. The active set of tables stores data corresponding to a most recently successfully completed search. The non-active set stores data retrieved by the data retrieval tool from disparate data sources according to current search. The data in the active set of tables is immediately available for use in requested reports. When the data aggregator completes the current search, it designates the non-active set of tables as the active set so that the data therein becomes available for use in requested reports.
US12124442B2
Artificial Intelligence-based (AI-based) modeling can be used to predict “Critical Times” when “bottlenecks” in a processing of data would occur. Moreover, for each one of the predicted Critical Times, it can be determined which one of multiple Computing Resources would cause the bottleneck, so that more precise measures can be taken and taken before a Critical Time, in an effort to prevent bottlenecks from happening in computing systems, especially more complex database systems with more demeaning service needs and requirements.
US12124441B1
An example method of utilizing shared search queries for defining multiple key performance indicators (KPIs) comprises: receiving input specifying one or more service definitions, each service definition of the one or more service definitions specifying an entity definition for an entity providing a service of one or more services executing in an information technology (IT) environment, wherein the IT environment is monitored by the service monitoring system, wherein the service monitoring system uses first machine data of a first entity specified by a first service definition of the one or more service definitions to monitor a first KPI for a first service of the one or more services, and wherein the service monitoring system uses second machine data of a second entity specified by a second service definition of the one or more service definitions to monitor a second KPI for a second service of the one or more services; determining that the first machine data and the second machine data include common machine data; defining, based on the first machine data and the second machine data including common machine data, a shared base search query for the first KPI and the second KPI; executing the shared based search query to generated shared base search query results for the first KPI and the second KPI; and generating, using results from executing the shared base search query, a first value for the first KPI and a second value for the second KPI.
US12124436B1
Augmenting decision-making via interactive what-if analysis including receiving, by a query execution engine, a state specification of a graphical user interface that includes a selection of driver importance variables that correlate to a target variable, generating, by the query execution engine, a database query using the received state specification, wherein the database query is composed to retrieve a query result from a cloud-based data warehouse, based on the query result, calculating, by the query execution engine, an importance value of each selected driver importance variable relative to the target variable, and presenting the calculated importance value in a driver importance view of the graphical user interface.
US12124430B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for implementing a vehicle shadow service that includes a vehicle and/or vehicle shadow update mechanism. A vehicle shadow management sub-system of the vehicle shadow service includes or interfaces with an interface configured to receive vehicle state change requests. Received requests are stored in an update queue for a vehicle shadow and a validation processor determines whether the received state change requests are valid before sending a given state change request to a vehicle corresponding to the vehicle shadow. In some embodiments, state change requests may be invalidated due to being rendered moot by subsequently received requests, changes in state of the vehicle, expiration, etc. The corresponding vehicle shadow is then updated when a data stream from the vehicle indicates that the requested state change has in fact been implemented at the vehicle.
US12124413B2
Systems and methods for reducing read application in a virtual storage system are provided. According to one embodiment, heuristic data may be tracked and utilized in real-time by a file system of the virtual storage system at the level of granularity of a volume, thereby allowing a fast path flag to be enabled/disabled at a volume level during various phases of operation of a workload. The heuristic data for a given volume may be indicative of a correlation between (i) data blocks stored on the given volume being located within a compressible zone of a zoned checksum scheme and (ii) the respective data blocks containing compressed data and a corresponding checksum. Based on the heuristic data, read requests may be selectively directed to the read path (e.g., a fast path or a slow path) expected to mitigate read amplification when data compression is enabled for a zoned checksum scheme.
US12124407B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to receive a request to perform merging in a snapshot mapping structure comprising objects representing a given storage volume and its snapshots. The objects are organized in a tree structure representing data dependencies between the given storage volume and its snapshots. The processing device is also configured to analyze the snapshot mapping structure to identify ones of the objects that are candidates for deletion and to determine merge groups. A given one of the merge groups includes (i) at least a subset of the objects identified as candidates for deletion and (ii) a given object that is a child object of at least one of the subset of the objects identified as candidates for deletion. The processing device is further configured to perform merging in the snapshot mapping structure by merging data items in the given merge group to one of its objects.
US12124402B2
A computing device and a computing system for digital currency are disclosed. The computing system comprises: computing devices (comprising first and second computing devices) each comprising two ports; and a signal transmission path connecting the computing devices in series. Each computing device is connected to the signal transmission path via the two ports. The first computing device is configured to receive, from the signal transmission path through one of the two ports, a signal specific to an address of the first computing device to a local storage device thereof. The second computing device is configured to receive, from the signal transmission path through one of the two ports, a signal to a local storage device thereof, and forward the signal, which is not specific to an address of the second computing device, or an adjusted version of the signal to the signal transmission path through one of the ports.
US12124400B2
A data communication apparatus coupled to a serial bus has a protocol controller that configures a first plurality of subordinate devices with device identifiers unique within the first plurality of subordinate devices and configures a second plurality of subordinate devices with device identifiers unique within the second plurality of subordinate devices. A sequence start condition transmitted over the serial bus indicates either a first communication mode in which a clock signal is provided to the serial bus or a second communication mode in which no clock signal is provided. A device identifier associated with the first plurality of subordinate devices is used to transmit a first datagram over the serial bus in the first communication mode, and a device identifier associated with the second plurality of subordinate devices is used to transmit a second datagram over the serial bus in the second communication mode.
US12124394B2
A system for storing data includes a rack, one or more data storage modules coupled to the rack, and one or more data control modules coupled to the rack. The data storage modules may include a chassis, two or more backplanes coupled to the chassis, and one or more mass storage devices (for example, hard disk drives) coupled to the backplanes. The data control modules may access the mass storage devices in the data storage modules.
US12124393B2
An example system includes: a device coupled to a data line, the device configured to: send a first command on the data line, the first command including a first address; after sending the first command, read a first value on the data line, the first value including data from a first target device and a second target device; responsive to reading the first value, send a second command including the first address and data representing the first value on the data line; send a third command on the data line, the third command including the first address; after sending the third command, read a second value on the data line, the second value including data from the first target device and the second target device; responsive to reading the second value, send a fourth command on the data line, the fourth command including the first address.
US12124389B2
An IO task processing method includes: S1, receiving a plurality of IO tasks issued by a host and executing them separately in sequence, and making statistics of a first mean value of time consumed in processing a single IO when executed separately in sequence; S2, continuing to receive a plurality of IO tasks issued by the host, merging the IO tasks for execution, and determining an optimal IO merging time according to the first mean value of the time consumed in processing a single IO when executed separately in sequence; and S3, according to the optimal IO merging time, continuing to execute remaining IO tasks issued by the host.
US12124375B1
A second virtual address may be received, where the second virtual address is different from a first virtual address. A second hash value may be computed based on the second virtual address. A first comparison result may be determined by comparing the second hash value with a first hash value, where the first hash value is computed based on the first virtual address. The first comparison result may be used to select a selected structure from either a first structure or a second structure. The selected structure may be used to determine predicted aliasing bits which are used to determine an index corresponding to the second virtual address.
US12124370B2
According to one embodiment, a storage system includes a controller. The controller receives, from a host, a write command including a block address indicating a first block in a plurality of blocks, and a page address indicating a first page of the first block. The controller writes data designated by the write command to the first page of the first block. The controller notifies the host 2 of a page address indicating a latest readable page which is included in pages of the first block, the pages containing data which was written by the host before the designated data was written to the first page, the latest readable page having become readable by writing the designated data to the first page.
US12124348B2
Apparatus and methods for automatically testing mobile devices are disclosed according to various embodiments. In one example, a disclosed apparatus includes: a robot having a retention device into which the mobile device to be tested is positioned; a test computer having a processor and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing test software for testing the mobile device; and a user monitor electrically connected to the test computer and configured for providing a result of the testing of the mobile device. The mobile device is wirelessly connected to the test computer and has a test application installed thereon corresponding to the test software. The robot is configured for performing interaction and manipulation of the mobile device in cooperation with the test application and the test software during the testing.
US12124341B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing backup recoverable ranges in a database system. One method includes an operation for determining if a backup chain is within a recoverable range. The recoverable range defines a time interval in which data from a database system is recoverable to a point in time within the time interval. The method further includes an operation for preserving the backup chain when the backup chain is within the recoverable range. When the backup chain is not within the recoverable range, the method includes operations for checking a retention policy for the backup chain, determining whether to preserve or expire the backup chain based on the retention policy, and preserving the backup chain based on the determination on the retention policy.
US12124333B2
Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for memory error correction are described. A memory device operates in cycles associated with refresh operations and in cycles associated with refresh with error correction (ECC) operations independently. For example, the memory device includes an ECC patrol block having an error correction counter which indicates a row on which to perform an error correction procedure. Additionally, the memory device may include a refresh counter which indicates a row on which to perform a refresh operation. In response to receiving a command of a first type, the memory device modifies the error correction counter and maintains the refresh counter. Alternatively, in response to receiving a command of a second type, the memory device modifies the refresh counter and maintains the error correction counter.
US12124330B2
A memory system having a memory block and a memory controller in communication with the memory block. The memory controller is configured to: read and decode codewords from the memory block, determine a fail bit count (FBC), a strong correct (SC) rate indicating a percentage of failed bits correctable through log likelihood ratios (LLRs), and a number of spare bytes in the codewords decoded from the memory, predict a soft decoding error based on a fixed FBC, a fixed SC rate, and the number of spare bytes, and determine soft errors in the codewords read from the memory block based on the predicted soft decoding error.
US12124326B2
Systems and methods are described herein for logging system events within an electronic machine using an event log structured as a collection of tree-like cause and effect graphs. An event to be logged may be received. A new event node may be created within the event log for the received event. One or more existing event nodes within the event log may be identified as having possibly caused the received event. One or more causal links may be created within the event log between the new event node and the one or more identified existing event nodes. The new event node may be stored as an unattached root node in response to not identifying an existing event node that may have caused the received event.
US12124324B1
A method for identifying and indicating resource access faults associated with a webpage. The method includes receiving a machine-readable file that includes a plurality of instructions defining at least content and structure of a webpage. The method further comprises causing a browser to load the webpage based at least in part on the machine-readable file; determining resource utilization associated with the load of the webpage; identifying one or more resource access faults associated with the machine-readable file based at least in part on the determined resource utilization and a resource access instruction policy; for each of the one or more resource access faults, identifying an instruction of the plurality of instructions that corresponds to the particular resource access fault; and causing display of the one or more instructions.
US12124322B2
Techniques for access operation status signaling for memory systems are described. In some examples, a memory system may respond to access commands from a host system by performing access operations such as read or write operations. In accordance with examples as disclosed herein, a system may be configured to support access operation status signaling between a host system and a memory system, which may improve the ability of the system to adapt to various access scenarios, including when access operation completion is delayed. For example, when a memory system is performing an error recovery or media management operation, the memory system may indicate that the error recovery or media management operation is being performed or is otherwise ongoing. Such status signaling may indicate that the memory system is actively performing operations, which may be used to inhibit a reset or reinitialization by a host system.
US12124315B2
Aspects relate to a stepped clocking frequency mode for integrated circuit components. An apparatus includes a processor core configured to perform operations at a received clocking frequency and a clock controller. The clock controller is configured to clock the processor core with a default frequency in response to the processor core operating in a default mode of operation, and, responsive to a parameter value associated with the processor core exceeding a first threshold, to enter a stepped clocking frequency mode, that includes alternating between clocking the processor core at a first frequency for a first time interval, and clocking the processor core at a second frequency different than the first frequency for a second time interval.
US12124310B2
Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for avoiding cache lookup for cold cache. In an example, an apparatus comprises logic, at least partially comprising hardware logic, to collect user information for a user of a data processing device, generate a user profile for the user of the data processing device from the user information, and set a power profile a processor in the data processing device using the user profile. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US12124307B2
A media streaming device includes a power manager, a stream processor, and a voltage detector. The power manager receives a power signal from the media playback device to supply power to the stream processor. The stream processor provides media stream to the media playback device for playback. The voltage detector is electrically coupled to the stream processor and captures at least a part of the power supply current to the stream processor. The stream processor is configured to determine whether the power supply voltage remains stable. When the supply voltage remains stable, the stream processor operates in a first mode to provide media stream. When the power supply voltage is unstable, the stream processor operates in a second mode to provide media stream, and the power consumption of the stream processor in the second mode is lower than the power consumption in the first mode.
US12124305B2
Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) powered devices (PD) may be coupled to a PoE power sourcing equipment (PSE). The PDs may send to the PSE a link-layer protocol communication that comprises an alternative-power field indicating whether the sending PD has an alternative power source (e.g., a battery, a local power supply). The PSE may listen for and receive the communications and read the alternative-power fields thereof. The PSE may set respective power priorities for the PDs based at least in part on whether the PDs have respective alternative power sources, as indicated by the respective alternative-power fields of their communications. The PSE may reduce the power priority of those PDs that have alternative power sources, relative to the priority the PD would otherwise have been given.
US12124292B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a rear chassis disposed at a rear of the display panel, a support plate disposed between the display panel and the rear chassis to dissipate heat generated by the display panel and to support the display panel, a plurality of printed circuit boards disposed at a rear of the rear chassis, and a cable provided to connect the plurality of printed circuit boards and disposed between the display panel and the support plate.
US12124285B2
Systems and methods for managing power on an electric power grid including a server for communicating IP-based messages over a network with distributed power consuming devices and/or power supplying devices, the IP-based messages including information including a change in state of the power consuming device(s), a directive for a change in state of the power consuming device(s), a priority message, an alert, a status, an update, a location with respect to the electric power grid, a function, device attributes, and combinations thereof.
US12124284B2
Apparatus and methods for compensating supply sensitive circuits for supply voltage variation are provided. An electronic system includes a power supply that outputs a supply voltage having a nominal voltage level, a supply conductor for routing the supply voltage, and a group of integrated circuits (ICs) that each receive the supply voltage from the supply conductor. Each IC includes a supply sensing circuit that generates a sense signal based on a local voltage level of the supply voltage at the IC, a bias control circuit that adjusts a bias signal based on the sense signal to account for a difference between the nominal voltage level and the local voltage level of the supply voltage, and a signal processing circuit biased by the bias signal.
US12124279B2
A system for determining optimal paths without collision through a travel volume for a swarm of vehicles is disclosed. The system determines a travel path for the swarm leader vehicle using a minimal cost path derived from various measures of environmental cost for avoiding objects in traveling from leader location to target location. The system also determines, for each empty neighbor location of each follower vehicle, relational costs for follower vehicle travel relative to leader vehicle travel. The various measures of relational cost seek to maintain a prescribed positional relationship between each follower vehicle and the leader vehicle given the leader vehicle travel path. Based on various measures of environmental and relational cost, the system determines the best travel path for the each follower vehicle relative to the leader vehicle.
US12124272B2
A system for determining vehicle location information includes a receiver supported on a first vehicle for receiving a communication from a second vehicle and a signal from each of a plurality of satellites. A detector is configured to detect a positional relationship between the first vehicle and the second vehicle. A processor is configured to determine a location of the first vehicle from received satellite signals, a location of the second vehicle based on the communication received from the second vehicle, a corrected location of the first vehicle based on the location of the second vehicle and the positional relationship between the vehicles, and a corrective mapping of a plurality of sections of a field of view of the receiver. Each section has ad correction factor for correcting a subsequently determined location of the first vehicle based on satellite signals received from satellites appearing in the respective sections.
US12124270B2
Various embodiments include methods for improving navigation by a processor of a robotic device equipped with an image sensor and an optical flow sensor. The robotic device may be configured to capture or receive two image frames from the image sensor, generate a homograph computation based on the image frames, receive optical flow sensor data from an optical flow sensor, and determine a scale estimation value based on the homograph computation and the optical flow sensor data. The robotic device may determine the robotic device pose (or the pose of the image sensor) based on the scale estimation value.
US12124266B2
A service vehicle can have a service vehicle battery that can provide energy to, and/or receive energy from, a separate machine that is normally configured to operate based on energy provided by a battery of the machine. If a machine becomes unable to operate using the battery of the machine, the service vehicle can travel to the machine and use an energy transfer arm to transfer energy to the machine. In some situations, the service vehicle and the machine can travel together in a convoy formation, for instance to a maintenance station, while the service vehicle provides the machine with energy for driving operations of the machine.
US12124264B2
A work vehicle includes a vehicle body including wheels, a controller to cause the vehicle body to perform automatic travel along a travel route set in advance, a driver seat mounted on the vehicle body, a driver seat protective body provided around the driver seat, first obstacle detectors provided at side portions of the driver seat protective body, and capable of detecting an obstacle; and second obstacle detectors provided at positions differing from positions of the first obstacle detectors in a front-back direction, and capable of detecting an obstacle. At a time of start of the automatic travel, the controller is configured or programmed to put each first obstacle detector in a detection state of detecting an obstacle, and, during automatic travel after the start of the automatic travel, the controller is configured or programmed to put each first obstacle detector in a non-detection state of not detecting the obstacle.
US12124239B2
A circuit arrangement for controlling a system for a seat comfort function includes at least one actuator with at least one adjusting element and at least one SMA element, wherein the adjusting element can be moved from a first position to a second position. At least one resistance measuring device measures a resistance of the at least one SMA element. At least one driver unit activates the actuator with the at least one SMA element. A control unit controls the driver unit, the driver unit being configured for processing an output signal of the resistance measuring device. The circuit arrangement is configured so that the resistance measuring device and the driver unit are alternatingly operationally connected to the SMA element. Related methods of operation and seats are disclosed.
US12124237B2
A method for generating a quote for fabrication of a part to be fabricated includes receiving, from a customer device associated with a customer, a design request for a part to be fabricated by a fabrication process, the design request including a two-dimensional drawing file representing the part to be fabricated and descriptive information including a descriptive datum. The method includes extracting a first feature from the 2D drawing file, wherein the first feature represents a geometry of the part to be fabricated. The method includes extracting a second feature from the descriptive information, wherein the second feature represents the descriptive datum. The method includes generating, as a function of the first and second features, a quote for fabrication for the part to be fabricated, the quote for fabrication including a cost and time to fabricate the part to be fabricated and sending the quote for fabrication to the customer.
US12124229B2
Parameter manager, central device and method of adapting operational parameters in a textile machine
A textile mill system and associated method include a plurality of spinning mills each having textile machines. A computer system determines adapted machine parameters for the textile machines and processes within the spinning mills. The computer system includes a receiving and transmitting section configured to receive operational information from the spinning mills and the textile machines, and a first database configured to store the received operational information. A processing section includes an optimizer section with a neural network, wherein the neural network uses the operational information stored in the first database with processes for or derived from supervised or unsupervised machine or deep learning to determine the adapted machine parameters.
US12124228B1
A learning control system for a nano-precision motion stage comprises a closed-loop feedback section including a motion trajectory generator, a feedback controller, a motion stage, and a first Fourier transformer; and a feedforward section including a second Fourier transformer, a learning controller, an iteration backward shift operator, and a Fourier inverse transformer. An iteration experiment count j is initialized as j=1, and a j-th frequency domain feedforward signal is initialized to 0; the system is run to collect a frequency domain error signal and a frequency domain position measurement signal; a (j+1)-th frequency domain feedforward signal is updated; and an iteration experiment count j is incremented by 1. The present disclosure can effectively suppress the influence of external noise and disturbances, and improve convergence performance. Moreover, the present disclosure requires less computation, achieves simple determination of learning gains and strong robustness, and is convenient for engineering applications.
US12124210B2
A developing cartridge includes: a casing; a developing roller extending in a first direction; a boss movable with the casing; and a first lever movable relative to the casing. The first lever includes: one end portion functioning as a point of effort; another end portion functioning as a point of load; a shaft functions as a fulcrum and positioned between the one end portion and the another end portion; and a first hole into which the boss is fitted. By the one end portion receiving a driving force, the first lever is pivotally movable about the shaft. A dimension of the first hole in a second direction crossing the first direction is greater than a dimension in the second direction of the boss. In a case where the casing moves in the second direction relative to the first lever, the boss moves in the second direction within the first hole.
US12124209B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body housing and a process cartridge demountable from the main-body housing. The process cartridge includes a drum cartridge and a toner cartridge. The drum cartridge includes a photosensitive drum, a drum cleaner, an outlet with an outlet opening, an outlet shutter, and a lever. The lever is pivotable between a first position at which the lever places the outlet shutter closing the outlet opening and a second position at which the lever places the outlet shutter opening the outlet opening. When the lever is located at the first position, the process cartridge is demountable from the main-body housing. When the lever is located at the second position, the process cartridge is disabled to be demounted from the main-body housing.
US12124204B2
In a cleaning blade, a contact portion that comes into contact with a member to be cleaned is configured with a cured substance of a composition containing a polyisocyanate, a polyol, and at least one of the following (1) or (2): (1) a fluorine-containing surfactant having a hydroxyl group, and (2) a fluorine-containing polymer having a hydroxyl value of 50 KOH mg/g or more and 300 KOH mg/g or less.
US12124195B2
An image processing apparatus includes a fixing unit including a belt, and a heater configured to heat the belt and including a substrate and a heating layer that is formed on the substrate, and a controller configured to shut off the heater if no current flows through the belt.
US12124181B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an intermediate transfer belt, first, second, and third power sources, and a control unit. During print job execution, the control unit controls the third power source such that a discharge current supplied to the intermediate transfer belt is constant current controlled based on first and second power source current supply detection results. When changing from a first to a second discharge current, the control unit controls the third power source such that, after a first image forming region passes through a primary transfer portion, an intermediate transfer belt trailing edge to which the first discharge current is supplied initially passes through the primary transfer portion and such that, before a second image forming region passes through the primary transfer portion, an intermediate transfer belt leading edge to which the second discharge current is supplied initially passes through the primary transfer portion.
US12124174B2
A method, computer program and associated apparatuses for metrology. The method includes determining whether a substrate or substrate portion is subject to a process effect. The method includes: obtaining inspection data including a plurality of sets of measurement data associated with a structure on the substrate or portion thereof (for example measurement pupils); and obtaining fingerprint data describing a spatial variation of a parameter of interest. An iterative mapping of the inspection data to the fingerprint data is performed. Whether the structure is subject to a process effect is based on a degree to which the iterative mapping converges on a solution.
US12124168B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes obtaining a first image of a fluid dispense nozzle using a first camera, the fluid dispense nozzle configured to dispense fluid on a semiconductor substrate, obtaining a second image of the fluid dispense nozzle using a second camera, the second image having a higher resolution than the first image, determining a width of the fluid dispense nozzle at multiple intervals along the fluid dispense nozzle and a width of a spray pattern of a fluid being dispensed from the fluid dispense nozzle at multiple intervals along the spray pattern, fitting a first straight line to a series of data points representing a plurality of widths of the intervals along the fluid dispense nozzle and a plurality of widths of the intervals along the spray pattern, determining a first slope of the first straight line, and determining a condition of the spray pattern and the fluid dispense nozzle based on the first slope.
US12124157B1
A camera assemble and a shooting device conveniently installed on a glass curtain wall are provided. The camera assemble includes a standard frame shooting component that is configured to record real pictures in a part of an unit time in a preset time period, a jump frame shooting component that is configured to extract a number of frames, and record real pictures at a frame rate of N frames/s for a rest of the unit time, and a frame connecting component configured to coincide a frame picture at an end of the unit of time in the preset time period with a frame picture at an initial moment of a next adjacent unit time. The present disclosure is aimed to save storage space and extend data storage duration by recording real pictures at different frame rates in different situations.
US12124149B2
An electrophoretic display device, including a substrate, a first conductive layer, multiple insulating patterns, a second conductive layer, an adhesive layer, and an electrophoretic display film, is provided. The first conductive layer is disposed on the substrate, and includes multiple background patterns and multiple signal lines. Each of the signal lines is located between two adjacent background patterns. Each of the insulating patterns covers each of the signal lines and bridges to the two adjacent background patterns. The second conductive layer includes multiple conductive patterns. Each of the conductive patterns covers the each of the insulating patterns and bridges to the two adjacent background patterns. The adhesive layer is disposed on and in direct contact with the background pattern and the second conductive layer. The electrophoretic display film is disposed above the adhesive layer.
US12124145B2
According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a liquid crystal element, includes forming an alignment layer on a support, forming a cholesteric liquid crystal layer containing a plasticizer and having elasticity on the alignment layer, adhering a flexible substrate to the cholesteric liquid crystal layer via a first adhesive layer, peeling the cholesteric liquid crystal layer adhered to the flexible substrate, off from the support and the alignment layer, adhering the cholesteric liquid crystal layer to a rigid substrate via a second adhesive layer and removing the flexible substrate and the first adhesive layer.
US12124140B2
A display device is provided, which includes a first substrate, a second, a backlight module, a liquid-crystal layer and a patterned electrode. The liquid-crystal layer is doped with a left-handed chiral dopant. The patterned electrode includes a main portion with a cross shape. The patterned electrode is divided by a first center line of the main portion into a first sub-portion and a second sub-portion. The first sub-portion and the second sub-portion are adjacent and are connected to the main portion. Each of the first sub-portion and the second sub-portion includes a plurality of branch portions. A first included angle is between one of the branch portions of the second sub-portion and the first center line. A second included angle is between one of the branch portions of the first sub-portion and the first center line. The first included angle and the second included angle are not equal.
US12124134B2
An electronic device includes a first substrate, a drain, an organic layer, a pixel electrode, a second substrate, a common electrode layer and a spacer. The drain is disposed on the first substrate. The organic layer is disposed on the drain and has a contact hole. The pixel electrode is disposed on the organic layer and electrically connected to the drain via the contact hole. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The common electrode layer is disposed on the organic layer. The spacer is disposed between the organic layer and the second substrate, wherein the spacer is directly in contact with the common electrode layer and overlaps with the contact hole.
US12124125B2
The present application provides a display panel and an electronic device, the display panel includes at least two sub-boards spliced to each other, and each of the sub-boards includes a first display area and a second display area disposed at a periphery of the first display area, wherein a plurality of light-emitting devices are arranged on the first substrate or the second substrate corresponding to the second display area, and the plurality of light-emitting devices can enable the second display area to display a picture, so as to eliminate splicing gaps at splicing positions, thereby alleviating the technical problem of the splicing gaps in existing liquid crystal display splicing screens.
US12124123B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a liquid crystal display substrate and a color separation element substrate. The display substrate has a stripe structure in which different color filters are alternately arranged in a display area along a first direction and the same color filters are arranged along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the different color filters are compartmentalized by frames along the first direction and the second direction. The element substrate has color separation grooves formed along the first direction in the display area, and grooves formed along the second direction in a region thereof where the color separation grooves are formed, so as to oppose the frame of the display substrate.
US12124122B2
A display device includes a light emitter located on a first light-transmissive substrate, a second light-transmissive substrate facing the first light-transmissive substrate, a first light-shielding layer located on the first light-transmissive substrate and located away from the light emitter, a second light-shielding layer located on the second light-transmissive substrate and located away from a first portion facing the first light-shielding layer, a first light output section between the first light-shielding layer and the first portion and switchable between a transmissive state and a scattering state, and a second light output section between the second light-shielding layer and a second portion located on the first light-transmissive substrate and facing the second light-shielding layer. The second light output section is switchable between the transmissive state and the scattering state.
US12124119B2
An optical modulator includes a carrier and a waveguide disposed on the carrier. The waveguide includes a first optical coupling region, a second optical coupling region, first regions, and second regions. The first optical coupling region is doped with first dopants. The second optical coupling region abuts the first optical coupling region and is doped with second dopants. The first dopants and the second dopants are of different conductivity type. The first regions are doped with the first dopants and are arrange adjacent to the first optical coupling region. The first regions have respective increasing doping concentrations as distances of the first regions increase from the first optical coupling region. The second regions are doped with the second dopants and are arranged adjacent to the second optical coupling region. The second regions have respective increasing doping concentrations as distances of the second regions increase from the second optical coupling region.
US12124118B2
An SLM includes a modulation unit and a driving circuit. The modulation unit includes a plurality of pixels, and modulates a phase or an intensity of incident light in each pixel according to an amplitude of a drive signal changing periodically with time. The driving circuit provides the drive signal to the modulation unit. The driving circuit performs control such that a phase of the drive signal V1(t) provided to a first pixel group in the plurality of pixels and a phase of the drive signal V2(t) provided to a second pixel group in the plurality of pixels are mutually inverted.
US12124114B2
A design system of a progressive addition lens including a near portion for viewing a near distance, a distance portion for viewing a distance farther than the near distance, and an intermediate portion provided between the near portion and the distance portion and having a progressive refraction function, the design system of a progressive addition lens includes an aberration amount setting unit that sets an amount of transmission astigmatism Δβ[D] added to a progressive addition lens in such a way that when a wearer of the progressive addition lens α to which transmission astigmatism of an aberration amount Δα[D] is added is provided with the progressive addition lens β having different parameters, visual performance when the progressive addition lens β is worn approaches visual performance when the progressive addition lens α is worn.
US12124111B2
A lens ordering system includes: a computer, the computer being provided with a CPU, a storage unit, and a selection unit that is configured to be controlled by the CPU. The storage unit stores data, configured to enable determination of lens information that includes a resin material type, a pigment type, and a coating type that are used for a lens material, based on user information that includes basic information pertaining to a user, and at least one of usage information pertaining to lens usage desired by the user or psychosomatic information including psychosomatic symptoms and conditions including the eyes of the user. The selection unit determines and outputs the lens information based on the user information acquired pertaining to the user and the data stored in the storage unit.
US12124091B2
A fiber optic ferrule includes a body extending from a first end to a second opposite end, with the body including an axial passage extending between the first and second ends. The axial passage includes a first diameter portion having a diameter of at least 125 microns, and a second diameter portion having a diameter of at least 250 microns and less than a diameter of the buffer, the second diameter portion positioned between the first diameter and the second end. The axial passage further defines a tapered shape at the second end extending inward from the second end to the second diameter portion. A hub holds the ferrule. A method of assembling a terminated fiber optic cable is also provided.
US12124088B2
Disclosed are edge couplers having a high coupling efficiency and low polarization dependent loss, and methods of making the edge couplers. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device for optical coupling is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate; an optical waveguide over the substrate; and a plurality of layers over the optical waveguide. The plurality of layers includes a plurality of coupling pillars disposed at an edge of the semiconductor device. The plurality of coupling pillars form an edge coupler configured for optically coupling the optical waveguide to an optical fiber placed at the edge of the semiconductor device.
US12124087B2
A wideband photonic bump (WBB), including: a positive taper of a polymer waveguide configured to further expand a light beam from an inverse taper to match a fiber optical mode of an optical fiber; a curved mirror formed on a surface of the WBB configured to reflect a light beam from the optical fiber; and a tilted flat mirror configured to direct the reflected light beam to an external optical fiber, wherein the WBB is coupled on the surface of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC).
US12124074B1
A light guiding plate (LGP) made of transparent material. The LGP has a side surface configured to enable light to enter the LGP. A top surface of the LGP has light-scattering imperfections and is configured to reflect light in the LGP downward. A bottom surface of the LGP is concave and configured to enable light in the LGP to leave the LGP.
US12124065B2
A display device includes: a display panel and an optical member positioned on the display panel. The optical member includes: a polarization layer positioned on the display panel; a first compensation layer positioned between the display panel and the polarization layer; a second compensation layer positioned between the display panel and the first compensation layer; a third compensation layer positioned between the display panel and the second compensation layer; and a fourth compensation layer positioned between the display panel and the third compensation layer. The first compensation layer is a positive C plate and a thickness direction phase delay value of the first compensation layer is about −65 nm to about −15 nm, and the second compensation layer is a positive A plate and an in-plane phase delay value of the second compensation layer is about 75 nm to about 125 nm.
US12124058B2
A spatial image projection device includes a housing, a display unit that is accommodated in the housing and configured to output a hologram image, a half-mirror configured to project a spatial image corresponding to the hologram image inside the housing, and a first polarizing film that is disposed outside the housing and configured to block a part of light directed toward a viewer from the housing.
US12124052B2
An eyepiece for projecting an image light field to an eye of a viewer for forming an image of virtual content includes a waveguide, a light source configured to deliver a light beam to be incident on the waveguide, a controller coupled to the light source and configured to modulate an intensity of the light beam in a plurality of time slots, a dynamic input coupling grating (ICG) configured to, for each time slot, diffract a respective portion of the light beam into the waveguide at a respective total internal reflection (TIR) angle corresponding to a respective field angle, and an outcoupling diffractive optical element (DOE) configured to diffract each respective portion of the light beam out of the waveguide toward the eye at the respective field angle, thereby projecting the light field to the eye of the viewer.
US12124051B2
From an object plane to an image plane along an optical axis, a camera lens including a first lens, a diffractive optical element and a lens module is provided in various embodiments. The first lens has a positive focal power. The diffractive optical element has a positive focal power and a negative dispersion property. A surface that is of the diffractive optical element or the first lens and that faces the object plane side is a convex surface at the optical axis, a surface that is of the diffractive optical element or the first lens and that faces the image plane side is a concave surface at the optical axis. The lens module includes N lenses. At least one of a surface facing the object plane side and a surface facing the image plane side that are of each of the N lenses is an aspheric surface.
US12124050B2
A collimated image projector that receives light from an illuminating source and propagates the light along a light path towards an exit pupil, the projector comprising: a first homogeneous dielectric polarizing beam splitter (PBS) deployed along the light path and defining a first transition from a first light path segment to a second light path segment; a second homogeneous dielectric PBS deployed parallel to the first PBS along the second light path segment and defining a second transition from the second light path segment to a third light path segment; and collimating optics deployed along the light path after the second PBS so as to direct a collimated image towards the exit pupil; wherein the first and second PBSs are deployed such that either the first and second transitions are both performed via transmission, or the first and second transitions are both performed via reflection.
US12124047B2
The present invention provides an optical device for augmented reality, the optical device including: an optical means configured to transmit at least part of image light therethrough toward the pupil of an eye of a user, and to transfer image light corresponding to an image for augmented reality to at least one optical element by reflecting the image light from the inner surface thereof at least once; and the optical element disposed inside the optical means, and configured to provide the image for augmented reality to the user by transferring the image light, corresponding to the image for augmented reality transmitted through the optical means, toward the pupil of the user; wherein the optical means includes a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface and the second surface have an inclination angle with respect to each other so as not to be parallel to each other.
US12124044B2
Methods and apparatus provide for: generating virtual space images by specifying from among a plurality of viewpoint positions and a plurality of directions of line of sight in the virtual space; and displaying the virtual space images on a head-mounted display, where the generating includes changing from a currently selected viewpoint position among the plurality of viewpoint positions to a newly selected viewpoint position among the plurality of viewpoint positions, which is selected in accordance with operation by a user, when generating the virtual space images in response to changing to the newly selected viewpoint position, the display control section specifies a new direction of line of sight among the plurality of directions of line of sight, and at least some of the plurality of viewpoint positions are separated from each other.
US12124043B2
A head-mounted device may include optical assemblies for presenting images to a user. Actuators may be used to adjust the spacing between the optical assemblies to accommodate different interpupillary distances. Upon detection of a power-down event or drop event, the device may be placed into an impact-safe mode. During the safe mode, the optical assemblies may be moved to predetermined impact-safe positions, brakes such as optical guide rail brakes may be adjusted, cushioning springs may be deployed, clutches may be adjusted, and/or other safety mechanisms may be activated to help protect the optical assemblies or other sensitive components from damage.
US12124040B2
An augmented reality head mounted display system an eyepiece having a transparent emissive display. The eyepiece and transparent emissive display are positioned in an optical path of a user's eye in order to transmit light into the user's eye to form images. Due to the transparent nature of the display, the user can see an outside environment through the transparent emissive display. The transmissive emissive display comprising a plurality of emitters configured to emit light into the eye of the user.
US12124037B2
An optical system for directing image illumination injected at a coupling-in region towards a user for viewing includes a light-guide optical element (LOE) (12) with a pair of parallel major external surfaces (24). A first region (16) of the LOE contains a first set of partially-reflecting surfaces (17) oriented to redirect image illumination propagating within the LOE towards a second region of the LOE (18), which contains a second set of partially-reflecting surfaces (19) oriented to couple out the image illumination towards the user. The first set of partially-reflecting surfaces (17) extend across at least 95 percent of a thickness of the LOE, while the second set of partially-reflecting surfaces (19) are contained within a subsection of the thickness spanning less than 95 percent of the thickness, so that the second set of partially-reflecting surfaces (19) are excluded from one or both surface layers of the second region (18).
US12124034B2
Head-mounted devices can be formed as a modular system that provides a variety of different components and functions to achieve the results that are desired by a user. The modular configurations allow a user to easily customize a head-mounted device with one or more arm modules to provide features that integrate with other operations of the frame module of the head-mounted device. The arm modules can be easily exchanged with each other to provide different components and functions at different times. Accordingly, a frame module of a head-mounted device need not include permanent components that provide every function that will later be desired by the user. Instead, the head-mounted device can have expanded and customizable capabilities by the use of one or more arm modules.
US12124033B2
A holographic waveguide includes a light guide unit configured to guide lights; a first holographic optical element disposed on one surface or the other surface of the light guide unit and configured to diffract an input light; a second holographic optical element disposed on any one of the one surface and the other surface, and configured to receive a light diffracted by the first holographic optical element and to direct a part of the received light to the other one of the one surface and the other surface; a third holographic optical element disposed on a surface, and configured to receive diffracted lights by the second holographic optical element and to guide the lights; and a fourth holographic optical element configured to receive a diffracted light by the third holographic optical element, and to allow the light to be output from the light guide unit.
US12124021B2
A method for processing microscope images in order to generate an image processing result comprises: implementing a convolutional neural network, wherein a first convolutional layer calculates an output tensor from an input tensor formed from a microscope image. The output tensor is input into one or more further layers of the convolutional neural network in order to calculate the image processing result. The first convolutional layer comprises a plurality of filter kernels. At least several of the filter kernels are respectively representable by at least one filter matrix with learning parameters and dependent filter matrices with implicit parameters, which are determined by means of the learning parameters and one or more weights to be learned, wherein the filter matrices with learning parameters of different filter kernels are different from one another and different layers of the output tensor are calculated by different filter kernels.
US12124017B2
This application provides an optical lens, a camera module, and an electronic device. The optical lens includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens that are sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side. The first lens, the third lens, and the fifth lens all have positive focal power, the second lens and the fourth lens both have negative focal power, and the sixth lens has positive focal power or negative focal power. Object side surfaces and image side surfaces of the first lens to the sixth lens include at least one anamorphic aspherical surface. When the optical lens is applied to the camera module and the electronic device, the camera module and the electronic device can implement ultra-wide-angle photographing, and can also resolve a distortion problem in ultra-wide-angle imaging to a large degree.
US12124008B2
The disclosure discloses an optical imaging lens assembly, which includes ten lenses, wherein, from an object side to an image side, the ten lenses sequentially includes a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with refractive power, a third lens with refractive power, a fourth lens with refractive power, a fifth lens with negative refractive power, a sixth lens with refractive power, a seventh lens with refractive power, an eighth lens with refractive power, a ninth lens with positive refractive power and a tenth lens with negative refractive power; and the lenses are independent of one another and have air spaces on an optical axis.
US12123994B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: generating a first time-frequency spectrum of a first seismic trace from an original seismic dataset; generating a second time-frequency spectrum of a second seismic trace from an enhanced seismic dataset, where the second seismic trace corresponds to the first seismic trace; calculating a difference between the first time-frequency spectrum and the second time-frequency spectrum to generate a noise estimate in the first seismic trace; characterizing the initial noise estimate as White Gaussian Noise (WGN); calculating, based on the characterization of the initial noise estimate, a third time-frequency spectrum of a refined noise estimate; constructing, based on the first time-frequency spectrum, the second time-frequency spectrum, and the third time-frequency spectrum, a time-frequency mask (TFM); and using the constructed TFM to generate a fourth time-frequency spectrum of an output trace that corresponds to the first and second seismic traces.
US12123993B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: generating a first time-frequency spectrum of a first seismic trace from an original seismic dataset; generating a second time-frequency spectrum of a second seismic trace from an enhanced seismic dataset, where the second seismic trace; calculating a difference between the first time-frequency spectrum and the second time-frequency spectrum to generate a noise estimate in the first seismic trace; constructing, based on (i) the noise estimate, (ii) the first time-frequency spectrum, and (iii) the second time-frequency spectrum, a time-frequency mask (TFM); and using the constructed TFM to generate a third time-frequency spectrum of an output trace that corresponds to the first and second seismic traces.
US12123990B2
Systems and methods to partially-gate PET data include acquisition of first data describing a plurality of coincidences detected during a scan of an object, each of the plurality of coincidences associated with a coincidence time and a line of response, acquisition of a motion signal associated with motion of the object during the scan, determination of lines of response which are associated with a region of the object, determination of time periods of region motion based on the motion signal, modification of the first data to remove coincidences which are associated with the determined lines of response and which are associated with a coincidence time during a time period of region motion, reconstruction of an image of the object based on the modified first data, and display of the image.
US12123983B2
Systems and methods of aligning removable sensors mounted on a vehicle based upon sensor output of such sensors are described. Sensor output is collected from a removable sensor (e.g., a digital camera), and a representation of such sensor output is generated (e.g., a digital image). The representation of the sensor output is compared against a spatial template (e.g., a digital mask overlaid on the representation) to determine whether external references in the representation align with corresponding reference indicators in the spatial template. When alignment is required, the removable sensor is aligned by one or both of the following until the external references in a representation of sensor data at an updated current location align with the corresponding reference indicators in the spatial template: (i) adjusting the position of the removable sensor on the vehicle or (ii) adjusting the representation of the sensor output to simulate such repositioning.
US12123981B2
The invention relates to a method for operating an optoelectronic detection device (12) for monitoring at least one monitoring region (14) with optical monitoring signals (34), and to an optoelectronic detection device (12). In the method, at least one first receive start signal (58a) is sent to at least one first receiver (24a), and at least one second receive start signal (58b) is sent to at least one second receiver (24b). In response to the at least one first receive start signal (58a), a receive process which is carried out with the at least one first receiver (24a) is started and at least one first trigger signal (44a) is generated with the at least one first receiver (24a). In response to the at least one second receive start signal (58b), a receive process which is carried out with the at least one second receiver (24b) is started and at least one second trigger signal (44b) is generated with the at least one second receiver (24b). From the at least one first trigger signal (44a) and the at least one second trigger signal (44b), a transmission trigger signal (64) is determined, which corresponds to the later of the at least two trigger signals (44a, 44b) at least in terms of its trigger function. In response to the transmission trigger signal (64), at least one optical monitoring signal (34) is generated with at least one optical transmitter (22).
US12123980B2
An imaging system may include a silicon photomultiplier with single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The imaging system may be a LIDAR imaging system with LIDAR processing circuitry. To reduce memory requirements in the LIDAR processing circuitry, a dynamic resolution storage scheme may be used. The LIDAR processing circuitry may include autonomous dynamic resolution circuitry that receives input from a time-to-digital converter (TDC). The autonomous dynamic resolution circuitry may include a plurality of memory banks having different resolutions. Based on the magnitude of the input from the TDC, an appropriate memory bank may be selected. In parallel, an address encoder may select a memory bin based on the input from the TDC.
US12123970B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to radar and radar processing. As may be implemented in accordance with one or more embodiments involving multi-input multi-output (MIMO) co-prime radar signals transmitted by a plurality of transmitters and reflected from at least one target, the reflected radar signals are processed by resolving ambiguities associated with a range-Doppler detection based on unique pulse repetition frequencies (PRF)s associated with respective chirp groups of the reflected radar signals. Phase compensation is applied to compensate for motion-induced phased biases and, thereafter, Doppler estimates are reconstructed to provide a dealiased version of the reflected radar signals.
US12123969B2
A generator of a frequency modulated radar signal includes a generator of a periodic signal frequency modulated over a part Tramp of a period T, corresponding to a square signal of which the frequency varies linearly in a first frequency band Bin of central frequency fin; an oscillator generating a sinusoidal signal of frequency fc>fin and included in a second frequency band Bamp>Bin and corresponding to the linear variation of the frequency of the radar signal; and means coupled to an electrical supply input of the oscillator such that they generate a voltage for supplying the oscillator at the frequency of the frequency modulated periodic signal.
US12123964B2
Systems and methods for spatial tracking using a hybrid signal are disclosed. A method for spatial tracking using a hybrid signal may include: receiving, from a peripheral unit and via an antenna array of a central unit, a signal that includes inertial measurement data from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) of the peripheral unit, and a constant tone extension (CTE); determining, based on the CTE, direction data for the peripheral unit; and determining, based on the direction data and the inertial measurement data, spatial tracking data for the peripheral unit.
US12123963B2
A location system includes transmission reception devices. A first transmission reception device is configured to operate as a stationary unit of the location system for localizing tag devices by exchanging ultra-wideband signals. The tag devices is localizable within a localizing space that extends along a high-resolution line associated with the first transmission reception device. The system also includes a movable unit and first and second tag devices that are positioned at the movable unit and are separated from each other by a tag separation distance. A control system is configured to perform an ultra-wideband signal analysis to determine the distance from a selected tag device to the first transmission reception device and to derive an orientation of the movable unit with respect to the high-resolution line from distances determined for the first tag device and the second tag device.
US12123961B2
A method for supporting positioning of a vehicle using a satellite positioning system is disclosed. The method includes generating, in real-time, a sliding window map (SWM) based on 3D point clouds from a 3D LiDAR sensor and an attitude and heading reference system (AHRS), wherein the SWM provides an environment description for detecting and correcting a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) reception; accumulating the 3D point clouds from previous frames into the SWM for enhancing a field of view (FOV) of the 3D LiDAR sensor; receiving global navigation satellite system (GNSS) measurements from satellites, by a GNSS receiver; detecting NLOS reception from the GNSS measurements using the SWM; correcting the NLOS reception by NLOS remodeling when a reflection point is not found in the SWM; and estimating a GNSS positioning by a least-squares algorithm. It is the objective to provide a method that mitigates NLOS caused by both static buildings and dynamic objects.
US12123956B2
Some embodiments of the invention relate to methods carried out by an NSS receiver and/or a processing entity capable of receiving data therefrom, for estimating parameters derived from NSS signals and detecting outliers in NSS observables. Input data comprising signals observed by the receiver is received. An estimator is operated, which uses state variables and computes the values thereof based on the input data. An outlier detection procedure comprises: computing a first statistic based on data outputted from the estimator and associated with a set of observables; identifying an observable candidate for removal; computing a second statistic based on the data outputted from the estimator from which the data associated with the identified observable is removed; and determining whether the ratio of the first to the second statistic exceeds a threshold and, if so, removing the identified observable, having the estimator recompute its state variables and performing the outlier detection procedure again.
US12123949B2
A method for determining, in an optical detection system, a distance to a target region includes obtaining first and second light pulses from a signal generator within the optical detection system and obtaining samples of the respective first and second light pulses, where the samples having a first temporal resolution. The method also includes generating a reference waveform having a second temporal resolution by combining the samples of the respective first and second light pulses, where the second temporal resolution being higher than the first temporal resolution. The method further includes obtaining a reflection of a third light pulse from the target region and determining an arrival time of the reflection of the third light pulse using the reference waveform.
US12123947B2
A method of calculating ionospheric scintillation includes calculating a motion-corrected perturbation of a GNSS radio signal received by a monitoring device deployed in an oceanic environment. The method includes calculating the σΦ using the high rate phase of the GNSS signal adjusted by removing the change in distance between the monitoring device and the GNSS satellite. The calculating the σΦ may further include passing the adjusted high rate phase through a high pass filter to remove a drift motion of the monitoring device. The method further includes calculating the S4 through calculating a tilt angle between the antenna of the monitoring device with the GNSS satellite and adjusting the antenna gain through known gain pattern of the antenna. The wave height of the oceanic environment may be calculated by detrending the antenna height to remove low frequency motion when a high rate position of the monitoring device is calculated.
US12123942B2
In a target detection apparatus, an extraction unit extracts reflection points that are located within a subjected-to-determination region and stationary as subjected-to-determination points. A connection-sequence generation unit generates a connection sequence by extracting the subjected-to-determination points that are sequentially connected to each other at intervals of less than or equal to an allowable connection distance from one of the subjected-to-determination points as a starting point. In response to a determination condition being met, a determination unit determines that the vehicle is traveling in a specific environment where accuracy of the target information is decreased. The determination condition includes a condition that a determination score set according to a number of the subjected-to-determination points belonging to the connection sequence generated by the connection-sequence generation unit exceeds a score threshold.
US12123939B2
An object tracking apparatus acquires detection information from a sensor mounted to a moving body, detects an object, and calculates a distance, a relative velocity, and an orientation thereof. For the initially detected object, the apparatus calculates aliased velocities of which aliasing from the relative velocity is assumed, and generates target candidates corresponding to the aliased velocities. For each target candidate, the apparatus estimates a current state of the target candidate from a past state thereof and observation information, and selects the target candidate estimated to be a true target from the target candidates for the same object. The apparatus calculates, as a reference velocity, an aliased velocity of the relative velocity that is equal to or greater than a velocity lower-limit value and is most negative or smallest in magnitude. The apparatus calculates the aliased velocities being the reference velocity aliased 0 to n times in a positive direction.
US12123938B2
Systems and methods for modulation and demodulation using a micro-Doppler effect are described. In an embodiment, the method includes radiating, using a picosecond pulse generator with an antenna, a train of THz pulses that form a frequency comb, where the frequency comb is reflected from an object such that the frequency several tones in the frequency comb are shifted based on the speed of the object and demodulating the reflected frequency comb to recover a THz Doppler signature of the object.
US12123922B2
A method and apparatus for detecting an internal short circuit in a battery are provided. The method includes acquiring values of one or more basic parameters of the battery, acquiring values of one or more degradation parameters used in a battery model indicating an internal state of the battery based on the values of the one or more basic parameters, determining whether the internal short circuit occurs in the battery based on a first value of a first degradation parameter and a second value of a second degradation parameter from among the one or more degradation parameters, and performing an operation in response to the internal short circuit occurring in the battery.
US12123915B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for measuring, in real time and in situ, thermodynamic data of a battery (enthalpy and entropy). The object of the invention is to provide a reliable method for measuring, in situ, online and in real time, the variation in entropy (ΔS) of a battery. To this end, the method is characterized in that it consists primarily in: (phase I) producing a prior model of the battery: (a) charging the battery; (b) and/or discharging the battery; (c) measuring actual variables; (d) modeling the electrical behavior of the battery during charging (a) and/or discharging (b) in order to estimate the electrical parameters of the battery; (e) estimating electrical parameters of the battery; (f) modeling the thermal behavior of the battery during charging (a) and/or discharging (b) in order to estimate ΔS in situ, online and in real time; (g) estimating ΔS, by using at least one of the electrical parameters estimated in step (d); (phase II) measuring ΔS of the battery during use in any application and with any state of charge by carrying out step (d) and step (f) of phase I, step (c) and step (g); (phase III) optionally storing the data measured/calculated in phase II and/or in phase I. The invention also relates to a method for determining the state of charge and the state of health of a battery on the basis of these thermodynamic data. Another subject of the invention is a device for implementing this method.
US12123911B1
A margin sensing circuit coupled to a flip flop of a critical data path includes a delay generator, a selector circuit which selects a delayed data output from the delay generator, a shadow latch corresponding to the flip flop, a comparator circuit which provides a match error indicator based on a comparison between a latched data output from the flip flop and a latched shadow output from the shadow latch, and an error latch to provide an error indicator based on the match error indicator. A correcting circuit includes a clock delay generator configured to receive a clock and provide a plurality of delayed clocks, and a clock selector circuit to select a delayed clock of the plurality of delayed clocks based on a set of clock select signals, in which each of the flip flop and the shadow latch are clocked by the selected delayed clock.
US12123910B2
An optoelectronic chip includes optical inputs having different passbands, a photonic circuit to be tested, and an optical coupling device configured to couple said inputs to the photonic circuit to be tested.
US12123879B2
The present disclosure provides a method for accurately measuring post-translational modifications in proteins such as antibodies. In particular, the method pertains to the use of heavy isotopic standards to generate a calibration curve to allow for accurate quantitation of a modified peptide. The method may be used to accurately quantify C-terminal truncation in antibodies using mass spectrometry.
US12123876B2
The present invention provides an antibody for detecting mesothelioma and an antibody having high specificity to mesothelioma and high sensitivity thereto. The present invention also provides a method of diagnosis of mesothelioma by using the antibody, a reagent containing the antibody for use in diagnosis of mesothelioma, and a kit comprising the antibody for use in diagnosis of mesothelioma. Further, the present invention provides a marker for use in diagnosis of mesothelioma. Furthermore, the present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition containing the antibody according to the present invention or an antigen-binding fragment thereof for use in treatment of mesothelioma. An antibody that binds to a glycosylated HEG1 protein obtained from mesothelioma.
US12123872B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a lateral flow assay method and strip wherein a sample is injected into a sample pad, a preconcentration kit is coupled to the sample pad to preconcentrate analytes, and a conjugate pad or a test pad is connected to the sample pad to transfer the analytes to the conjugate pad or the test pad, whereby a biomarker present at a low concentration can be detected.
US12123870B2
A fluidic testing system and method for use are presented. The fluidic testing system includes a microfluidic channel, a first chamber and second chamber. The microfluidic channel has only one port for the introduction and/or extraction of fluid through the microfluidic channel. The first chamber is disposed at a terminal end of the microfluidic channel. The second chamber is coupled to the fluidic channel and is aligned such that each opening to the second chamber is configured to be aligned substantially parallel to a gravity vector during operation.
US12123869B2
Provided herein, inter alia, are improved methods for detecting analytes, including proteins and nucleic acids. In some instances, the analytes are detected in complex matrices such as serum.
US12123857B2
A method of monitoring a state of a liquid chromatography (LC) stream of an automated analyzer is provided including automatically monitoring a system pressure of an injection assembly of the liquid chromatography stream to generate a time series of system pressures, classifying the time series in one of two or more predetermined classes indicating different states of the LC stream and triggering a response based on the classification result.
US12123856B2
A liquid chromatographic (LC) system is herein disclosed, the LC system comprising at least one fluidic stream comprising at least one HPLC column, a downstream valve connected to the at least one fluidic stream and connectable to a detector via a valve-to-detector conduit, wherein the at least one fluidic stream is connectable to the valve-to-detector conduit via the downstream valve, and where the LC system further comprises a downstream pump fluidically connected to the downstream valve and connectable to the at least one fluidic stream via the downstream valve in order to backflush and thereby clean the at least one HPLC column. A respective automated LC method is herein also disclosed.
US12123847B2
An electrolyte analyzing device with which an electrical effect does not occur has a housing to which a reference potential is applied and a flow passage which is electrically insulated from the housing. The analyzing device delivers a sample solution to a first electrode, and delivers a reference electrode solution to a second electrode. A reagent vessel placement unit which is electrically connected to the housing, has placed thereon a diluent bottle accommodating a diluent, an internal standard solution bottle accommodating the internal standard solution, and a reference electrode solution bottle accommodating the reference electrode solution. The reagent vessel placement unit includes a suction nozzle comprising an electrical conductor which is joined to the flow passage, and which can be inserted into and removed from each of the diluent, internal standard solution and reference electrode solution bottles. And, an insulator electrically insulates the suction nozzle and the housing.
US12123836B2
A detection method based on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy enhanced by a two-dimensional plasma grating includes: generating a femtosecond laser pulse by a femtosecond laser, and splitting the femtosecond laser pulse into three sub-pulses by a beam splitting unit; focusing the three sub-pulses separately by a focusing unit to allow focused sub-pulses to be overlapped at an intersection in space, wherein before reaching the intersection, the three sub-pulses form two planes; synchronizing the three sub-pulses in a time domain by adjusting optical paths of the three sub-pulses in such a way that they have the same optical length and the three sub-pulses arrive at the intersection in space simultaneously and form the two-dimensional plasma grating; and exciting a sample on a stage based on the two-dimensional plasma grating to generate a plasma cluster, and acquiring a spectrum of the sample.
US12123830B2
A method of operating an optical device, the method comprising tuning a first emission wavelength of a first output radiation of a laser device continuously within a first wavelength spectrum by modulating a drive current thereof with a first drive current modulation having a frequency of at least 100 KHz. The first wavelength spectrum comprises a first spectral feature associated with at least part of a gas absorption spectrum of at least one gas. The method comprises the steps of modulating the first output radiation of the laser device with a first output modulation, the first output modulation comprising a first plurality of binary pulses, scanning the first wavelength spectrum at a rate of at least 1 μm per second, projecting the first output radiation towards a first target area, receiving scattered radiation from the first target area, and processing the scattered radiation.
US12123820B1
The present application introduces a membrane fouling warning methodology grounded in machine learning. It utilizes a machine learning-based membrane fouling prediction model to automatically forecast and generate electrochemical information values, which characterize the extent of membrane fouling at various time points, based on influent water quality parameters. It then acquires the electrochemical information values Zt at a moment t and Z++Δt at a moment t+Δt. Subsequently, it computes and assesses the respective fouling levels using the electrochemical information values derived from the membrane fouling prediction model. Finally, it issues an early warning signal contingent upon the determined warning level. This methodology facilitates proactive understanding and management of membrane fouling, thereby sustaining the normal operation of the membrane fouling treatment system, mitigating the propensity for membrane assembly fouling, and prolonging the operational lifespan of the membrane assembly.
US12123818B1
The invention discloses a method for correcting differential pressure values of a fire extinguishing agent concentration analyzer in the engine compartment of an aircraft, the analyzer, and a readable storage media thereof. The method includes: correcting theoretical differential pressure values of the analyzer; measuring actual differential pressure values of the analyzer under different pressure; obtaining a series of corrected viscosity coefficients accordingly; obtaining a relation accordingly; setting a corrected model to replace the original model of the analyzer. It is solved for the problem that the noise influence caused by the pressure of flight environment cannot be overcome in the test of extinguishing agent concentration in aircraft engine compartment.
US12123812B2
A method of automated preparation of a sample material for a chemical or compositional analysis is disclosed that includes arranging the sample material in a receptacle, storing the sample inside the receptacle in a conditioning cabinet, and grinding the sample material by way of a ball mill apparatus. The ball mill apparatus may include an extraction container, at least one grinding element provided in the extraction container and an agitator adapted to move the at least one grinding element relative to the extraction container when the sample material is placed in the extraction container. The method may further include placing the sample material together with the receptacle in the extraction container, and grinding the receptacle together with the sample material by agitating the extraction container.
US12123810B1
Systems and methods for backlash measurement and monitoring are disclosed for an actuator having a motor end and an output end. The method may include: driving the motor end of the actuator to one endpoint; measuring, using a first sensor, a motor-end initial position value associated with the motor end; measuring, using a second sensor, an output-end initial position value associated with the output end; driving the motor end of the actuator to another endpoint; measuring a motor-end final position value using the first sensor and an output-end final position value using the second sensor; determining a backlash value based on the motor-end initial position value, output-end initial position value, motor-end final position value, and output-end final position value; generating a signal based on comparing the backlash value to a predetermined threshold; and displaying a notification indicative of an operational condition of the actuator based on the signal.
US12123805B2
A method and test stand for determining tire properties of a vehicle tire which is rotatably positioned on a rim via a wheel bearing. The interior of vehicle tire is pressurized by a fluid and the vehicle tire is applied with a wheel load. The vehicle tire is accelerated to a final speed in accordance with a pre-determinable speed ramp. The vehicle tire, in accordance with a tire speed, undergoes an oscillation excitation and reacts to the oscillation excitation with an oscillation. The method includes continuously capturing an effective tire force of the vehicle tire in the wheel bearing, due to the oscillation, and creating a data set which shows the tire force over the tire speed and tire frequency, by applying a timing signal of the speed ramp to a Fourier transformation.
US12123791B2
A haptic detection apparatus includes: a capacitance detection unit that detects capacitance of each of capacitors which changes according to an external force applied to a second electrode plate of a capacitance-type load sensor; a distributed load measurement unit that measures a distributed load indicating a distribution of load applied to each of the cylinders on the basis of a change amount of the capacitance of each capacitor which is detected by the capacitance detection unit; and a load information calculation unit that calculates a total load and a load center position of the external force applied to the second electrode plate of the load sensor on the basis of a relation between an expansion/contraction amount of each cylinder relative to the distributed load measured by the distributed load measurement unit and a pattern of the distributed load.
US12123773B2
A voltage control system has a light receiving array part receiving incident light and a light shielding array part shielding light receiving elements from incident light by a light shielding mechanism. The voltage control system also includes: a voltage application unit applying a bias voltage to an anode terminal; a multiplication state determination unit determining the multiplication state of the light shielding array part based on output signals from cathodes of the light receiving elements in the light shielding array part; and a voltage setting unit performing voltage setting for the bias voltage to be output from the voltage application unit based on the determination results from the multiplication state determination unit.
US12123767B2
A light sensor includes an optoelectronic device and a light guide element. The light guide element has a first light incident surface and a light exit surface, so as to allow an incident light to enter the light guide element from the first light incident surface and then exit to the optoelectronic device from the light exit surface; wherein at least one of the light incident surface and the light exit surface has a single curved surface.
US12123766B2
This signal processing device comprises: an acquisition unit for acquiring an acoustic signal; a measurement unit for measuring an acoustic level of the acoustic signal for every one of first frequency bands, which are a plurality of frequency bands of a preset first bandwidth; a calculation unit that, on the basis of the plurality of acoustic levels of the first frequency bands, identifies an acoustic feature quantity indicating the separation degree from normal acoustic levels of second frequency bands, which are a plurality of frequency bands of a second bandwidth that is wider than the first bandwidth; a first determination unit for determining whether the acoustic levels measured for every one of the first frequency bands are a first threshold value or greater; and a second determination unit for determining whether the acoustic feature quantity is a second threshold value or greater.
US12123760B2
A flow rate control device having a high response accuracy is provided. A flow rate control device includes a flow sensor measuring a flow rate of a fluid, and a controller adjusting the flow rate where the flow rate of the fluid to be a flow rate set value. The controller includes a control valve changing the flow rate, a drive circuit driving the control valve, a sensor response adjustment circuit adjusting a frequency response of a measured value of the flow sensor, and a first filter attenuating a predetermined frequency band of an output of the sensor response adjustment circuit. The drive circuit, the flow sensor, the sensor response adjustment circuit, and the first filter, configure a feedback loop. A deviation between the flow rate set value and an output of the first filter becomes an input to the drive circuit.
US12123757B2
A method for operating a magnetic-inductive flowmeter includes: detecting the noisy raw measurement signal having a first signal path by a signal sensor with high impedance by the pair of electrodes; passing the detected, noisy raw measurement signal on to a first signal processing device; processing the detected, noisy raw measurement signal by the signal processing device at least into a noise-removed flow measurement signal; outputting the noise-removed flow measurement signal via a working signal interface; detecting the detected, noisy raw measurement signal of the first signal path with a second signal path; and transmitting the detected, noisy raw measurement signal at least indirectly to the first signal processing device and/or a second signal processing device. The first signal processing device and/or the second signal processing device also carry out a frequency analysis of the detected, noisy raw measurement signal. A corresponding magnetic-inductive flowmeter is also disclosed.
US12123739B2
A map generation apparatus includes: an in-vehicle detection unit configured to detect a situation around a subject vehicle in traveling; and a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: extracting one or more feature points from a detection data acquired by the in-vehicle detection unit; generating a map using the feature points extracted in the extracting while the subject vehicle is traveling; collating the feature points extracted in the extracting with the map to recognize a position of the subject vehicle on the map when the subject vehicle travels in a region corresponding to the map; and deleting, from the map, a feature point whose result of collation in the recognizing is less than a predetermined degree among the feature points included in the map.
US12123737B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer readable media, and methods for determining a transit route to a destination and generating a shortened graphical summary of the transit route to present on a computing device. For instance, in some cases, a system determines a transit route by which transit vehicles transport a user along route segments to a destination. The system further generates or configures a graphical route summary that includes segment graphics representing route segments from the transit route. To shorten the graphical route summary to fit within a graphical user interface, the system can successively perform one or both of (i) segment-level-truncation operations on individual segment graphics and (ii) summary-level-truncation operations on the graphical route summary. The system can further present a truncated graphical route summary in the graphical user interface based on one or both the segment-level-truncation operations and the summary-level-truncation operations.
US12123729B2
In some examples, a system may determine a plurality of candidate routes between a source location of a vehicle and a destination location for the vehicle. Further, the system may determine one or more respective observation zone volumes for each candidate route of the plurality of candidate routes. The system may determine a field of view (FOV) for one or more vehicle sensors onboard the vehicle. In addition, the system may select a route for the vehicle from the plurality of candidate routes based at least on comparing an overlap of the FOV with the respective observation zone volumes for the candidate routes.
US12123726B2
An approach is provided for accurate travel time prediction. The approach involves, for example, determining probe data collected within a threshold proximity of a vehicle location and a pickup location. The probe data may be collected, for example, from a location sensor of at least one probe vehicle that has previously traversed the vehicle location and the pickup location. The approach also involves processing the probe data to identify a travel time of a route taken by the at least one probe vehicle from the vehicle location to the pickup location. The approach also involves providing the travel time as an output indicating a wait time for a vehicle at the vehicle location to reach the pickup location.
US12123725B2
A method extends the Trip Based Public Transit Routing algorithm to compute personalized itineraries in a multimodal network based on custom transfer speed and maximum transfer duration. The customization is done at query time. The method modifies the pruning phase and the search phase of the Trip Based Public Transit Routing algorithm to obtain Pareto front for minimizing arrival time and number of transfers, along with one optimal solution per value in the Pareto front.
US12123722B2
A driver assistance system for an ego vehicle, and a method for a driver assistance system is provided. The system is configured to refine a coarse geolocation method based on the detection of the static features located in the vicinity of the ego vehicle. The system performs at least one measurement of the visual appearance of each of at least one static feature located in the vicinity of the ego vehicle. Using the at least one measurement, a position of the ego vehicle relative to the static feature is calculated. The real world position of the static feature is identified. The position of the ego vehicle relative to the static feature is calculated, which is, in turn, used to calculate a static feature measurement of the vehicle location. The coarse geolocation measurement and the static feature measurement are combined to form a fine geolocation position. By combining the measurements, a more accurate location of the ego vehicle can be determined.
US12123719B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for lighting adaptive navigation. In some implementations, a method includes receiving map data associated with a property; obtaining sensor data; based on the map data and the sensor data, determining a lighting scenario; and based on the lighting scenario, configuring the robotic device.
US12123718B1
One or more phase modulators in an optical gyroscope operate on two counter-propagating beams to introduce a phase shift between the beams before the beams are interferometrically combined to generate a rotation signal. A signal generator generates first and second modulation frequencies to drive the phase modulators. The first modulation frequency in isolation biases the rotation signal at an operating point sensitive to rotation, and the second modulation frequency in isolation biases the rotation signal at an operating point insensitive to rotation. One or more control integrated circuits (ICs) isolate a first portion of the rotation signal associated with the first modulation frequency and a second portion of the rotation signal associated with the second modulation frequency. The control ICs determine a difference between the first and second portions of the rotation signal to remove one or more bias instabilities from the first portion of the rotation signal.
US12123715B2
A magnet holder is used in a rotational angle sensing device and is shaped in a tubular form while the magnet holder is configured to hold a magnet opposed to a magnetic sensor and is also configured to be securely press-fitted to a rotatable body. The magnet holder includes: a magnet holding portion that is located at one side of the magnet holder in an axial direction; a press-fitting fixation portion that is located at another side of the magnet holder in the axial direction; and a connecting portion that connects between the magnet holding portion and the press-fitting fixation portion. An outer diameter of the press-fitting fixation portion is different from an outer diameter of the magnet holding portion, and a wall thickness of the press-fitting fixation portion is different from a wall thickness of the magnet holding portion.
US12123710B2
A method is provided for measuring the wall thickness of hollow glass articles in a hollow glass production system, wherein the IR radiation emitted by each hollow glass article exiting the hot end of a glass forming machine is detected at least in areas mapped by a function, the same hollow glass article, after having passed through an annealing lehr, being measured in the circumferential direction with respect to a wall thickness distribution, and the detected wall thickness distribution being mapped by a function. Using correlation methods, it is checked whether the progression of the function is contained in the function, wherein if so, measured values of the wall thickness can be associated with the measured values of the IR radiation at the hot end, so that the wall thickness distribution of the hollow glass article is already known at the hot end and implementable for monitoring purposes.
US12123708B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for analyzing a cross-sectional feature of a structural element on a semiconductor wafer to determine whether an isolated or a systemic failure to reach preselected parameters occurred.
US12123693B2
An arrow shaft weak spine detector may include a first plate, a second plate, a first shaft retainer in a second shaft retainer. The second plate is spaced from the first plate to receive an arrow shaft therebetween and is movable along a first axis toward the first plate to compress the arrow shaft. The first shaft retainer is supported by the first plate to engage a first axial end on the arrow shaft. The first shaft retainer is rotatable about a second axis coincident or parallel to the first axis. The second shaft retainer is supported by the second plate to engage a second axial end of the arrow shaft and is rotatable about the second axis.
US12123690B2
A fully automated, integrated, end-to-end synchronized and compact manufacturing system produces polymer or metal case ammunition. Manufacturing stations support case assembly, sealing (gluing/welding), final product inspection, cartridge packaging or binning, and loading. Station modularity facilitates rapid changeover to accommodate ammunition of differing calibers. Sensors and apparatus may be provided to place a manufacturing cell in a wait state until all components or materials are received in a preferred orientation for proper assembly. The system may join and use multipart cases, each including a lower portion with a head end attached thereto and at least one upper portion having a necked-down transition to the open top end. Elevator feeders, vibratory bowl feeders, and robotic pick-and-place feeders may be used to deliver components for assembly.
US12123686B2
A threat emitter system comprising a threat emitter comprising a main power supply, an external power source, a first sequencer, a driver amp, a second sequencer, a main amp, and a radio; a three-way power supply; a mixer, synthesizer, pre-amp, and cooling fans receiving electrical power from the three-way power supply; and an antenna in communication with the main amp; a user interface in communication with radio; the radio in communication with the mixer; the mixer in communication with the synthesizer; a filter in communication between the mixer and the pre-amp; the driver amp in communication with the pre-amp; the first sequencer in communication with the driver amp; the driver amp in communication with the main amp; a second sequencer in communication with the main amp; and a processor with access to a memory storing instructions executable by the processor.
US12123677B2
The invention relates to a capacity limiting assembly that provides substantially irreversible alteration of a box magazine to limit its cartridge capacity wherein the box magazine comprises a magazine housing having a vertical dimension YM, a magazine spring having at least 1 coil, and a follower. The assembly includes a limiter body and a lock plate. The limiter body has a top edge engageable with a bottom surface of the follower that is operatively associated with a top of the magazine spring extending into the cartridge reservoir and is configured to be disposed substantially within the at least one coil of the magazine spring. The limiter has a vertical dimension YL that is less than the vertical dimension YM of the magazine housing, and a limiter bottom edge that is engageable to a lock plate. The lock plate of the assembly has a top surface engageable to the bottom surface of the limiter body and bottom surface engageable to the lock plate of the magazine when the lock plate is placed against a bottom edge of the magazine housing. When a top surface of the lock plate is bonded to the limiter body, the limiter substantially irreversibly reduces the capacity of the box magazine. Also included are magazines fitted with the assembly and related methods of reducing the capacity of magazines.
US12123674B1
In some implementations, the device may include an elastic skin configured to be coupled over a front fixed portion of a frame of a firearm and a rear portion of a slide of a firearm. The elastic skin has a first low level of tension when the slide is in the first rest position and a second higher level of tension when the slide is in the second chamber position.
US12123671B2
The present disclosure provides a muzzle end adapter for performing bore sighting of a small caliber gun. The muzzle end adapter includes a plurality of hand levers. In addition, the muzzle end adapter includes a main operating shaft connected rigidly with a first hand lever. Also, the muzzle end adapter includes a cylindrical member connected at one end of the main operating shaft. Moreover, the muzzle end adapter includes a plurality of centering devices. The plurality of centering devices includes a plurality of jaws. The plurality of jaws includes a plurality of equiangular spaced jaws centered around a pivot pin. Further, the muzzle end adapter includes a disk. Furthermore, the disk includes a tapered hole connected with the muzzle end adapter.
US12123664B2
A thermal control device has a thermal control device base, a connection block attached to the thermal control device and a tubing for a heat exchange fluid attached to the connection block. The tubing has a tubing extension axis and a tubing side wall. The connection block includes a connection block receiving section, which receives a part of the tubing side wall. The connection block is configured to facilitate heat exchange between the tubing side wall and the thermal control device.
US12123661B2
The present invention relates to the field of fluid heat transfer, and discloses a heat transfer enhancement pipe as well as a cracking furnace and an atmospheric and vacuum heating furnace including the same. The heat transfer enhancement pipe (1) includes a pipe body (10) of tubular shape having an inlet (100) for entering of a fluid and an outlet (101) for said fluid to flow out; internal wall of the pipe body (10) is provided with a fin (11) protruding towards interior of the pipe body (10), wherein the fin (11) has one or more fin sections extending spirally in the axial direction of the pipe body (10), and each fin section has a first end surface facing the inlet (100) and a second end surface facing the outlet (101), at least one of the first end surface and the second end surface of at least one of the rib sections is formed as a transition surface along spirally extending direction. The heat transfer enhancement pipe can reduce thermal stress of itself, thereby increasing service life of the heat transfer enhancement pipe.
US12123654B2
A heatsink comprising a heat exchange device having a plurality of heat exchange elements each having a surface boundary with respect to a heat transfer fluid, having successive elements or regions having varying size scales. According to one embodiment, an accumulation of dust or particles on a surface of the heatsink is reduced by a removal mechanism. The mechanism can be thermal pyrolysis, vibration, blowing, etc. In the case of vibration, adverse effects on the system to be cooled may be minimized by an active or passive vibration suppression system.
US12123652B2
A liquid cooling system is provided. The liquid cooling system comprises a radiator having first and second built-in fluid tank reservoirs, a multi-fan unit, at least one heat exchanger pump, and a plurality of fluid conduits. The radiator comprises at least one first flow port and at least one second flow port for attachment of the plurality of fluid conduits thereto for actively moving a cooling fluid to and from the at least one heat exchanger pump. Heat generated from a heat generating device is transferred to cooling fluid flowing through the at least one heat exchanger pump, and then output to the radiator. The heated cooling fluid flows through the radiator having the built-in fluid tank, cooling along a plurality of heat exchanger fins, whereby the multi-fan unit expels heat therefrom. The cooling fluid flows to the heat exchanger pump to once again begin the cooling loop.
US12123646B2
A system and method for liquefaction of natural gas using two distinct refrigeration circuits having compositionally different working fluids and operating at different temperature levels is provided. The turbomachinery associated with the liquefaction system are driven by a single three-pinion or four-pinion integral gear machine with customized pairing arrangements. The system and method of natural gas liquefaction further includes the conditioning of a lower pressure natural gas containing feed stream to produce a purified, compressed natural gas stream at a pressure equal to or above the critical pressure of natural gas and substantially free of heavy hydrocarbons to be liquefied.
US12123641B2
An opening device, for a cooling device having a door assembly, includes a mounting base, which can be mounted on provided securing units for a door hinge of the cooling device, and a functional unit having an ejection element, which can be moved out in an electrically controlled manner. The mounting base has contacts and the functional unit has counter contacts. The contacts and the counter contacts contact one another when the functional unit is secured on the mounting base in order to supply the functional unit with current.
US12123635B2
An intermediate refrigerant store of a refrigerant system may include a storage container delimiting a refrigerant storage space, a first feed, and a second feed separate from the first feed. The first feed and the second feed may be fluidically connected with the refrigerant storage space for feeding of a refrigerant. At least one discharge may be fluidically connected to the refrigerant storage space and may be configured to discharge the refrigerant from the refrigerant storage space. At least one valve arrangement may be disposed in an associated feed of the first feed and the second feed via which the associated feed may be fluidically closable and openable.
US12123633B2
The present invention aims to alleviate the risk of leakage of refrigerant from a refrigerant circuit and particularly at the utilization side of the refrigerant circuit without the need to provide a dedicated bypass for refrigerant leakage prevention. A refrigerant system is configured such that, when a refrigerant leakage detection sensor detects refrigerant leakage, a controller is configured to adjust a opening degree of a bypass expansion valve independently of a pressure and/or temperature value detected by a sensor. A method of controlling a refrigerant system is also provided.
US12123631B2
A fluoropropene composition comprising Z-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, E-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, 1,1,3,3,3-pentafluoropropene, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, and optionally 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane wherein the 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene being present in an amount of 0.00001 to 1.0%. A method of producing the fluoropropene, methods for using the fluoropropene and the composition formed are also disclosed.
US12123627B2
A support device may include a body that includes a surface. The surface may be configured to physically engage with at least a first surface section of a torque tube. In addition, at least a second surface section of the torque tube may be configured to engage with a surface of an attachment structure. The body and the attachment structure may together define an aperture configured to receive the torque tube.
US12123625B2
A water heater includes a primary heat exchanger, a secondary heat exchanger disposed above the primary heat exchanger, a flow path member, and a flow restriction member. The secondary heat exchanger includes a case and heat transfer pipes arranged in the case. The case includes a wall having a gas inlet through which combustion exhaust gas discharged from the primary heat exchanger is introduced into the case. The flow path member connects the primary heat exchanger and the secondary heat exchanger and is disposed adjacent to the gas inlet and is configured to introduce the combustion exhaust gas discharged from the primary heat exchanger into the secondary heat exchanger through the gas inlet. The flow restriction member is disposed on the wall of the case to suppress upward flowing of the combustion exhaust gas that is introduced into the case through the gas inlet.
US12123621B2
In an embodiment, a blower for a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system includes a blower wheel and a housing. The blower wheel includes backward-curved blades configured to rotate in a rotational plane. The housing forms an at least hexagonal cross-section around at least a portion of the rotational plane, where the blower wheel is positioned within the housing such that there exists a first distance and a second distance. The first distance is measured radially outward from a center of the blower wheel to a first side of the at least hexagonal cross-section. The second distance is measured radially outward from the center of the blower wheel to a second side of the at least hexagonal cross-section. The second distance forms a an acute angle with the first distance. The first distance and the second distance are unequal and less than a diameter of the blower wheel.
US12123620B2
A humidification system including a water-delivery system, an air-delivery system, a control system, and at least one fog-generation system. In example forms, the system includes a water-and-air delivery bar, a fog-delivery block, and/or a tubing-and-track delivery system. In another example form, a humidification system includes a housing having a nozzle discharge body, an air inlet coupling having an air delivery conduit extending therethrough, and a water inlet coupling having a water delivery conduit extending therethrough, and further including means for providing heating and/or a consistent back-pressure and flowrate across multiple nozzles in a multi-nozzle array.
US12123618B2
A dehumidifying air handling unit for an HVACR system includes a housing, a desiccant wheel, and a cooling heat exchanger. A main airflow path extending through the housing from an air inlet to and air discharged outlet of the housing. The desiccant wheel includes a first end and a second end that are each disposed in the main airflow path and a metal organic framework desiccant that is moved between the first end and the second end. A desiccant wheel includes a metal organic framework desiccant disposed on a surface of the desiccant wheel. Rotation of the desiccant wheel moves a position of the surface between a first end and a second end of the desiccant wheel. The metal organic framework desiccant has an majority absorption-desorption operating band of 25% relative humidity or less.
US12123607B2
A device is configured to operate a Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system. The device is further configured to receive an audio signal from a microphone while operating the HVAC system and to determine that an audio signature for a combustion air inducer is not present within the audio signal. The device is further configured to determine whether an audio signature for an integrated furnace controller is present within the audio signal. The device is further configured to determine a fault type based on the determination of whether the audio signature for the integrated furnace controller is present within the audio signal, to identify a component identifier for a component of the HVAC system associated with fault type, and to output a recommendation identifying the component identifier.
US12123605B2
A system that includes a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system that includes a sensor system within the HVAC system. The refrigerant sensor system includes a refrigerant sensor that detects the presence of an amount of refrigerant in the HVAC system and a control system that receives the amount of refrigerant detected from the refrigerant sensor. The control system also determines the amount of refrigerant exceeds a threshold value. Additionally, the control system sends one or more output signals to one or more components that are configured to couple to one or more devices that are part of the HVAC system. The one or more components are configured to cause the one or more devices to adjust operations based on the state of the components. The sensor system also includes a housing that encloses the refrigerant sensor and control system.
US12123598B2
The present disclosure includes: a casing with an open top; a combustion compartment including: a combustion chamber disposed inside the casing to generate a blue flame-shaped flame by burning vegetable oil; a combustion cover enclosing the combustion chamber therein, and having an inner wall spaced apart from an outer wall of the combustion chamber by a predetermined distance to form a predetermined cavity; and an air chamber disposed below the combustion cover with a lower end of the combustion chamber being positioned above, wherein the air chamber supplies outside air toward the combustion chamber during combustion of the vegetable oil; an oil tank that supplies the vegetable oil to the combustion chamber; and a control unit that controls whether or not to drive the air chamber, the flow and supply pressure of the outside air, and whether or not to supply the vegetable oil and a supply amount of the vegetable oil.
US12123597B2
A ventilation hood is provided. The ventilation hood includes a housing provided above a heating cooker and having an air suction port on a lower surface thereof, a blowing fan provided in the housing to induce air to the air suction port, and a panel provided below the housing to form an airflow path between the lower surface of the housing and the panel, wherein the panel faces the air suction port with a gap therebetween to cover the air suction port so that air is sucked into the airflow path from a front of an upstream opening of the airflow path as the blowing fan operates.
US12123595B2
A combustor liner for a gas turbine includes a liner at least partially defining a combustion chamber. The liner includes a plurality of dilution openings therethrough, at least one dilution opening of the plurality of dilution openings defined by (a) a main dilution opening portion defining a main dilution opening perimeter, and (b) a plurality of secondary dilution opening portions arranged about the main dilution opening perimeter and extending outward from the main dilution opening portion.
US12123586B2
The present invention refers to an ultraviolet light lamp/luminaire system to make phosphorescent or fluorescent material shine in a swimming pool or in any body of water characterized in that it consists of the association of a) at least one defined submersible ultraviolet light lamp/luminaire by a sealed tubular casing defining a trailing end and a leading end; the rear end comprises a waterproof electrical power supply socket or plug and the front end comprises a lens with a waterproof seal, and internally houses a panel of a plurality of ultraviolet light emitting diodes (hereinafter UV LEDs) controlled by an electronic circuit control unit for the UV LEDs connected to the waterproof electrical power supply socket or plug and b) fluorescent or phosphorescent material which may be but is not limited to small aggregate rhinestones, tiles, mosaics, vinyl or fiberglass canvas surface, figures or other objects or accessories, arranged inside the body of water so that they shine in any environment, as long as the ultraviolet light source is on.
US12123581B2
A portable light may comprise: a light body; a light source, an electrical switch for selectively energizing the light source, the light body having an opening through which the electrical switch can be actuated. A pivot pin pivotably mounts an actuator having an actuation feature that extends towards the opening for actuating the electrical switch when pivoted towards the light body. The light body has a receptacle in which the pivot pin is removably disposed. A retainer of a resilient material resiliently retains the pivot pin in the receptacle and resiliently deforms for removal of the pivot pin therefrom; whereby the actuator is removable and replaceable on the light body by removing the pivot pin. The light body may have a seal of resilient material in the opening of the light body. A user formable actuator of a curable material may be provided.
US12123573B1
The present disclosure discloses a transparent cover, a cover assembly and a luminous device thereof. The transparent cover includes a body and a plurality of light transparent portions arranged on the body at intervals and arranged above a plurality of light-emitting elements; light emitted by the plurality of light-emitting elements can be transmitted to outside through the plurality of light transparent portions. The body and the plurality of light transparent portions can move along a preset path under preset conditions to change a transmission path that the light emitted by the plurality of light-emitting elements passes through the plurality of light transparent portions. The present disclosure can change the transmission path of the light emitted by the plurality of light-emitting elements.
US12123572B2
Solar-powered lighting devices that may be portable and/or collapsible are described. The devices may include a housing including a first wall, a second wall, and one or more side walls between the first wall and the second wall, at least one solar panel to generate solar energy, and a rechargeable battery to store the solar energy generated. The devices may include a plurality of operating modes for controlling lights within the housing, and a microprocessor for controlling the operating modes.
US12123571B2
A streetlight can allow for the installation of various network equipment through the design of a disassembling rack to meet the construction needs of a smart city. A network equipment management system provides the network leasing and the power supply leasing to enable the management of the network bandwidth, the network traffic, the network communication ports, or the network providing time, wherein the network is connected to network equipment, as well as the management of the power of the power supply, the power supply ports, or the power supply providing time, wherein the network is connected to the network equipment. Therefore, the streetlight and the network equipment management system in this application can be utilized in the construction of a smart city.
US12123568B2
A tripod light includes a frame supporting a light assembly, and a support assembly coupled to the frame and configured to support the frame on a surface. The support assembly includes a first leg, a second leg, and a third leg. The support assembly is pivotable relative to the frame about a first axis between a stowed position in which the support assembly including the first leg, the second leg and the third leg is adjacent the frame, and a deployed position in which the support assembly including the first leg, the second leg, and the third leg extends away from the frame. Each of the second leg and the third leg is configured to rotate relative to the first leg about a second axis between a collapsed position and a respective extended position of the second leg and the third leg.
US12123566B2
To reduce a sense of discomfort during sequential blinking. A lighting controller for a vehicular lamp to control lighting of the vehicular lamp, where the lighting controller is configured to control so that a light emitting region of the vehicular lamp is repeatedly lighted on and off with a first luminance and where, during the time when the light emitting region is lighted on, at a partial region of the light emitting region, one or more bright spots are set with a second luminance that is higher than the first luminance to be moved within the light emitting region, or during the time when the light emitting region is lighted on, at the partial region of the light emitting region, one or more dark spots are set with a third luminance that is lower than the first luminance to be moved within the light emitting region.
US12123561B2
An illuminated vehicle component including a substrate; a first coating on the substrate; a second coating on the substrate; and light sources of a first color arranged to project light into the substrate. At least one of the first coating, or the second coating form one or more patterns. Light from the light source is received by the first coating to produce light with a second color that is different from the first color, and received by the second coating to provide light with a third color that is different from the first color and the second color. The pattern formed by the first coating and the second coating is visible when the one or more light sources are illuminated.
US12123559B2
A modular lighting system adapted to be installed in and illuminate an environment. The lighting system includes a first light fixture including a first canopy assembly adapted to engage a desired surface in the environment, a first light-emitting diode (LED) module, and a second LED module. The first LED module has a first connector assembly configured to mechanically and electrically connect the first LED module to the first light fixture via the first canopy assembly, the second connector assembly is configured to mechanically and electrically connect the second LED module to the first LED module, and the first LED module is interchangeable with a third LED module including a third connector assembly configured to mechanically and electrically connect the third LED module to both the second LED module and the first light fixture via the first canopy assembly.
US12123555B2
A LED filament arrangement (100), comprising a plurality of LED filaments (110a, 110b), each LED filament comprising an array of a plurality of light emitting diodes (120), LEDs, arranged on an elongated carrier (70), wherein a first LED filament (110a) elongates along a respective first axis, Ai, and a second LED filament (110b) of the plurality of LED filaments elongates along a respective second axis, Bi, wherein a respective angle, θi, between Ai and Bi fulfils |θi|>10°, a frame (200) comprising a plurality of first elements (210) defining a mesh structure of the frame, wherein a first element elongates along a respective first element axis, Ci, wherein a respective first angle, αi, between Ai and Ci, and wherein a respective second angle, βi, between Bi and Ci fulfils |αi|≠|βi|, and a control unit configured to individually control the operation of the first and second LED filaments.
US12123547B2
Photography equipment, specifically a clamping and supporting apparatus for a smart mobile terminal, including an accommodating member and a mobile phone clamp assembly. The accommodating member includes an accommodating body and a connecting plate rotatably connected to the accommodating body. The mobile phone clamp assembly is disposed on the connecting plate and configured to be received in the accommodating body. The connecting plate rotates to allow the mobile phone clamp assembly to be received in the accommodating body. When the mobile phone clamp assembly is not in use, the connecting plate is rotated to allow the mobile phone clamp assembly to be received, so that space is saved and the accommodation and placement of the clamping and supporting apparatus are facilitated. The accommodating body is a handle, so that one can conveniently hold the accommodating body with one hand and open or close the connecting plate with the other hand.
US12123544B2
A post and rail assembly is provided. The assembly includes a lower element coupled to an upper element. The upper element is integrated or otherwise affixed to a surface of a room, typically a ceiling. The upper element includes a plurality of receiving components to selectively receive and retain a portion of the lower element. The lower element is secured to the upper element by coupling with said receiving elements and adjusting for a friction fit with a second surface, typically the ground. The lower element includes mounting components, the mounting components configured to receive one or more item. Multiple lower elements are utilized to support larger or heavier items. The lower elements are preferentially positioned at fixed points along the length of the upper element.
US12123535B2
An expandable pipe for restoring a damaged pipe is provided. The expandable pipe includes a liner formed of thermoplastic polyurethane, and grout material applied to the exterior surface of the liner. The exterior surface includes a plurality of flared tips and grooves, and each groove is located between adjacent flared tips. The grout material is disposed on the flared tips and in the grooves of the liner. The method used to restore the damaged pipe includes clamping the liner with the grout material on a puller-sealer fixture having a U-shaped cross-section to prevent debris from entering the interior of the liner, and pulling the puller-sealer fixture and liner through the damaged pipe. The grout material expands in volume upon exposure to moisture, ultra violet radiation, heat, and/or ultrasonics, and fills cracks or other imperfections and voids along the interior surface of the conduit, caused by corrosion, erosion, or other circumstances.
US12123533B2
A resin tube is prepared. Further, a formation tool having a pressing surface and a projection that projects from the pressing surface and is insertable into the resin tube is prepared. The projection of the formation tool is inserted from an end of the resin tube into the resin tube. The pressing surface of the formation tool is pressed against an end surface of the resin tube. Thermal energy is applied to the end of the resin tube, whereby a shape of the pressing surface of the formation tool is transferred to the end surface of the resin tube, and the end of the resin tube is formed into a flange shape.
US12123530B2
A coupling bushing includes a bushing body and a retainer for locking a coupling plug into the bushing body. The bushing body has a connecting section and a coupling section, wherein the connecting section and the coupling section are fluidically connected with each other via an inner channel. A bushing valve is arranged in the inner channel (8), wherein the bushing valve (10a) comprises a valve holder, an axially movable valve body and a valve seat. The retainer has at least one latching element, wherein the at least one latching element has a resiliently elastic design. The at least one latching element is designed to engage with a coupling plug.
US12123521B2
A method of installing a subsea tie-in conduit comprises unspooling or manufacturing a steel rigid lined pipeline aboard an installation vessel and launching the pipeline progressively into water. A distal end of the tie-in conduit is coupled to a proximal end of the pipeline above the surface and is then launched into the water coupled to the pipeline. The suspended weight load of the pipeline is supported by an A&R wire connected to the proximal end of the pipeline, defining a load path that bypasses the tie-in conduit. A proximal end of the tie-in conduit may be suspended from that wire. The tie-in conduit is of composite or flexible pipe, hence being pliant relative to the lined rigid pipeline and maintaining its internal corrosion resistance. After landing on the seabed, the tie-in conduit may be deflected relative to the pipeline for connection to a subsea connection point.
US12123516B2
A hydraulic multi-way valve with independent oil-port control, includes a multi-way valve body, an A valve core and a B valve core. The multi-way valve body has an A oil port and a B oil port, and includes an A cavity and a B cavity independent from each other therein. The A oil port, a P high-pressure oil port and a T high-pressure oil port are all in communication with the A cavity, the B oil port, the P high-pressure oil port and the T high-pressure oil port are all in communication with the B cavity. The A valve core is arranged in the A cavity, and the B valve core is arranged in the B cavity.
US12123514B2
A solenoid valve is provided. The solenoid valve can include a valve body, a solenoid actuator, a valve insert, and first and second movable valve elements. The valve body can include a valve bore, a control port, a first port, and a second port, in which the control port is arranged in a nose of the valve body. The solenoid actuator is coupled to the valve body and configured to selectively move a pin between a first position and a second position to move first and second valve elements. Movement of the pin, by the solenoid actuator, between the first position and the second position selectively connects the control port to the first port or the second port.
US12123508B2
A valve assembly (300) comprising a valve body (302) and a plunger (304). The plunger (304) is movable through an opening (314) in the valve body from (i) a transit seal position in which an axial bias spring (316) is relatively uncompressed, to (ii) an operating configuration in which the plunger (304) is movable between an operational open position and an operational closed position by or against the axial bias spring (316). In addition, the valve assembly (300) is configured to provide a mechanical restriction to the plunger (304) moving from the transit seal position to the operating configuration.
US12123505B2
A multi-way valve having a housing with housing openings for flow-conductive connection to an external flow channel for a fluid, and a valve body arranged in the housing so as to be rotatable about a rotation axis, for flow-conductive connection of at least two of the housing openings of the housing. A seal arranged between the housing and the valve body. The valve body has a first plane having at least one first connection channel and a second plane, arranged parallel to the first plane, having at least one second connection channel, wherein the connection channels are separate from each other in respect of flow and can each be flow-conductively connected to at least two of the housing openings by a rotation of the valve body to a previously specified rotary position of the valve body.
US12123499B2
A method and system is provided for pressure balancing one or more seals in machines such as expanders and/or compressors using the process fluid which is being expanded or compressed to provide the pressure for pressure balancing the other side of the one or more seals. The one or more seals may be part of a pressure containing chamber which may comprise a seal, a bearing and/or a gear on a rotating shaft common to the seal. An amount of pressure to be supplied to housing(s) for a machine so as to create a pressure cascade, and thereby dropping the pressure in each subsequent chamber as pressure approaches atmosphere. Pressure differentials may be directed to leak process fluid to the chamber into the process. Pressurized lube oil systems may be employed for balancing pressure and delivering lubricant to the seals, bearings and gears.
US12123498B2
A sealing device for a sleeve of washing machines, comprising a first, stationary, annular screen, and a second, rotatable, annular screen. The first annular screen includes a first cylindrical mounting portion and a first flange portion; and the second annular screen includes a second cylindrical mounting portion and a second flange portion. The sealing device is characterized in that both the first and the second annular screens include the same number of non-contacting sealing lips, which are similar to each other and contained axially between the first and second flange portions, in radially alternating positions axially arranged one above the other, so as to define a sealing labyrinth (L). The first and second annular screens define between them a discharge chamber (C1) and an obstruction chamber (C2) which are arranged along the sealing labyrinth (L), substantially at opposite ends of the said sealing labyrinth (L).
US12123496B2
The disclosed principles provide for novel flange gaskets having a mesh filter and methods of manufacture thereof. Disclosed mesh flange gaskets provide a combination of quality seal, even at low clamp loads, with a filter for filtering out unwanted particulates, as well as manufacturing at a low cost. In one aspect, the disclosed principles utilize expanded PTFE, or other similar sealing material, on the outer section of a circular mesh positioned over the central bore of the flange and which is sandwiched between the two halves of a corrugated plastic gasket. The two halves of the flange gasket are then attached to each other with the ePTFE impregnated mesh therebetween. With this composition, the ePTFE impregnated mesh becomes part of the seal of the overall flange gasket. This provides low load sealing on the top and bottom of the gasket against the flanges, and prevents leakage through the middle barrier layer.
US12123493B2
An emergency release of a parking lock of a vehicle transmission arranged in a transmission housing 9 includes an actuating element of an actuator for actuating the parking lock is drivable so as to be linearly movable between an interlock position and a release position. The emergency release lever 3 is pivotable away from a normal position past an emergency release position into an installation position and, in a second end region, has two guide projections 15, 16, which are parallel to each other and extend radially toward the pivot pin 7, and between which a securing projection 10, which is fixedly connected to the transmission housing 9, projects when the emergency release lever 3 is in the normal position and in the emergency release position. In the installation position of the emergency release lever 3, the securing projection 10 is located outside the area between the two guide projections 15, 16 on the emergency release lever 3.
US12123487B2
A transmission includes a plurality of pneumatic actuators for gear shifting, wherein the pneumatic actuators are arranged to discharge compressed air via a common ventilation system including at least one ventilation opening arranged in a housing arrangement of the transmission. A method for controlling ventilation of the transmission includes determining that a predetermined flushing condition is fulfilled and, in response thereto, initiating a flushing action in which at least two of the pneumatic actuators are controlled to discharge compressed air simultaneously or substantially simultaneously to the common ventilation system so as to force air through the at least one ventilation opening.
US12123479B2
A planet carrier for a speed reducer of an aircraft turbomachine, the planet carrier including a cage carrier and a cage. The cage can have two parts: a first part having a wall and bridges, these bridges projecting axially from a face of this wall and including first axial ends connected to this face and second free axial ends; and a second part having another of the walls, this other wall including a face to which the free ends of the bridges are applied. The two parts of the cage can be attached together by screws.
US12123478B2
A V-ribbed belt which comprises core wires and a stretch rubber layer constituted of a vulcanizate of a rubber composition comprising a rubber ingredient and short is provided. The content of the short fibers in the rubber composition is 15-50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber ingredient and the rubber composition has a minimum Mooney scorch viscosity, as measured at 125° C., of 70-130.
US12123473B2
Systems, devices, and methods of protecting sensitive equipment against vibrations, mechanical shocks, and earthquakes. A support device includes a lower fixed or non-moving frame, and an upper movable frame. The two frames are connected via four dampers, at or near their four corners; and also by four generally-vertical cables or wires that together with the supported device operate as an inverted pendulum or an upside-down pendulum in response to incoming vibrations or applied forces. The dampers, as well as the inverted pendulum created by the cables, dissipate and absorb vibration energy and mechanical shocks. Optionally, the entirety of the support device has not more than four dampers. Optionally, the entirety of the support device has or not more than eight dampers, wherein four of the eight dampers are not connected to the vertical cables, and four other of the eight dampers are connected to lower ends of the four vertical cables.
US12123471B2
A mechanism for mounting in ground, foundation or structure, to provide road, port, railway or similar passive safety for protection of the respective vehicles or structures, having at least one rigid element arranged as a side of a triangle whose basal side rests on the ground, with its first end at the apex of the triangle, its midpoint pivoted to an intermediate element, and with its second end pivoted with respect to at least one friction element; a friction dissipation member; at least one elastic element arranged with its axis in the direction of the degree of freedom; the at least one friction element and at least one rigid element are attached by a coupling element allowing sliding of each friction element perpendicular to the impact load when it compresses the elastic element.
US12123459B1
A combinable multi-axis structure comprises: a first air-bearing track, and a plurality of second air-bearing tracks arranged in parallel and fitted with a plurality of air-bearing tables capable of moving in a length direction of the plurality of second air-bearing tracks, wherein, a plurality of mounting holes are arranged in the plurality of air-bearing tables, and the first air-bearing track is provided with a plurality of fasteners corresponding to and fitted with the plurality of mounting holes to connect the first air-bearing track and the plurality of air-bearing tables. An object of the present disclosure is to provide the combinable multi-axis structure having high stability, precision and impact absorptivity, and the linear motion platform having the structure.
US12123458B2
A drive shaft which includes a first tube body having one or more first body channels defined through a wall thickness thereof. The one or more channels are configured to increase bending and/or axial flexibility of the first tube body while only allowing for a less than proportional reduction in torsional stiffness of the first tube body. A second tube body can be concentrically disposed relative to the first tube body and connected to the first tube body at a first end portion and a second end portion. The second tube body can include one or more second body channels defined through a wall thickness thereof. The one or more channels are configured to increase bending and/or axial flexibility of the second tube body while only allowing for a less than proportional reduction in torsional stiffness of the second tube body.
US12123441B2
Composed element, wherein this composed element comprises at least two panel-shaped elements, which substantially are formed from a board material; wherein said panel-shaped elements are interconnected at an angle by means of coupling devices including a tongue and a groove, which coupling devices substantially are made as profiled parts in the board material; and wherein said coupling devices also include locking elements, which, in coupled condition, prevent the moving apart of the tongue and groove. The panel-shaped elements are formed on the basis of board material in the form of particle board consisting of two or more layers, which in respect to the average fineness of the particles, show a different degree of fineness, namely a basic layer with coarser particles, more particularly chips, and at least one outer layer, or at least a more outward-situated layer, which is of a finer composition than the composition of the basic layer, in other words, with particles, chips, respectively, which on average are finer.
US12123440B2
An expansion connector connecting two furniture panels includes a bolt having a cylindrical bolt shaft with a bolt head opposite an expansion cone. A plastics expansion sleeve is mounted displaceably on the bolt having at least two expansion tabs, each of which has a radially outwardly protruding collar. The expansion sleeve can be transferred, by a displacement relative to the bolt, from a non-expanded starting position into an expanded end position where the expansion tabs are radially outwardly expanded. In the starting position, the expansion tabs bear against the bolt shaft by a guide portion and divides the expansion tabs into a first tab portion facing the bolt head and a second tab portion facing away from the bolt head. The first tab portions are radially spaced apart from the bolt shaft, and, in the end position, the expansion tabs are each pivoted about the edge of the guide portion.
US12123439B1
A counter-current apparatus uses solid blocks to carry mass or heat storage medium to opposite sides of mass and heat transfer operations. The blocks are pushed incrementally through two channels. The energy of sensible heat or mass of selected species from a first fluid stream transfers into the solid blocks in a first channel and is stored in the solid storage medium within. Those solid blocks loaded with energy or specific mass from the first channel are pushed to a second channel in which the energy or specific mass stored within is released to a second fluid stream. The solid blocks in the second channel are pushed back into the first channel, continuing the heat transfer or mass transfer cycle. Counter-current flows of the fluid phase and the solid phase are achieved in both channels, for a combined adsorption and desorption cycle, or a combined heating and cooling cycle.
US12123436B2
A control valve unit includes a pilot-operated first operation valve 21 that can be operated to a first closed position at which a first oil passage 41 and a tank port 24 are disconnected from each other and a first open position at which the first oil passage 41 and the tank port 24 are connected to each other; and a pilot-operated second operation valve 22 that can be operated to a second closed position at which a second oil passage 42 and the tank port 24 are disconnected from each other and a second open position at which the second oil passage 42 and the tank port 24 are connected to each other.
US12123434B2
A hydraulic system includes: a high-pressure line; a pump configured to supply pressurized hydraulic fluid to the high-pressure line; a variable displacement hydraulic machine connected by a fluid connection to the high-pressure line for rotationally driving the rotatable load; an electronic control unit; an energy storing device connected to the high-pressure line and configured to communicate with the high-pressure line by receiving energy from the high-pressure line and/or supplying energy to the high-pressure line; and a first detector configured to detect the amount of energy stored in the energy storing device and to transmit a signal indicating said amount of energy stored to the electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control the volume flow intake of the variable displacement hydraulic machine dependent on a target output of the variable displacement hydraulic machine and on the detected amount of energy stored in the energy storing device.
US12123428B2
A pumping system configured to recover wellbore fluids from a wellbore includes an electric motor that has a motor head, a pothead receiving bore within the motor head, a motor insulator block within the motor head, and a stator lead within the motor insulator block. The pumping system further includes a motor lead cable and a pothead connector connected between the motor head and the motor lead cable. The pumping system includes a hermetically fused pothead-to-motor connection at an interface between the pothead connector and the motor head that obviates the need for conventional elastomeric seals at the interface between the pothead connector and the motor head.
US12123422B2
A fan apparatus may include a frame, a fan, and a drive mechanism. The fan may be supported for rotation relative to the frame and may include a fan shaft and a plurality of blades extending outward from the fan shaft. The drive mechanism may include a driven wheel, a drive shaft, a first drive wheel, a second drive wheel, and a torque-transmission loop. The driven wheel may be mounted on the fan shaft. The drive shaft may be supported for rotation relative to the frame. The first drive wheel may be mounted on the drive shaft. The second drive wheel may be mounted on the drive shaft. The torque-transmission loop may be engaged with the driven wheel and a selected one of the first and second drive wheels.
US12123405B2
An arrangement including a transmission, a feedthrough tube, and a fixing means is disclosed. A fixing means is disclosed whereby the feedthrough tube is fixed in the transmission. The fixing means includes an electrical non-conductor. Arrangements are disclosed in which the feedthrough tube is fixed axially and immovably in the fixing means.
US12123394B2
A column with at least one photovoltaic element for converting radiation energy is disclosed. The at least one photovoltaic element converts radiation energy of light, such as sunlight, into electrical energy. The at least one photovoltaic element is arranged on the column, and at least one photovoltaic element is a flexible photovoltaic element.
US12123389B2
A system configured for producing electric power from sea waves. The system includes a buoyant body; an electric generator including an input shaft adapted to rotate with respect to the buoyant body; a first arm coupled to the electric generator; a second arm; and a pivot joint rotatably joining the second arm to the arm. The pivot joint is at a distance, along the first arm, from the input shaft. The first arm connects the second arm to the generator. The tandem arms form a double pendulum system powering an autonomous floating sea analysing station.
US12123385B2
The invention relates to an ignition device (1) for an internal combustion engine, more particularly for a hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine, comprising a primary circuit (2.1) and a secondary circuit (2.2), wherein—the primary circuit (2.1) has a primary coil (3), wherein—the secondary circuit (2.2) has a secondary coil (4) inductively coupled to the primary coil (3), a diode (5) for suppressing a start-up spark, and a high-voltage connector (6) for connection to a spark plug (7), characterized in that a parallel path (10) is formed electrically in parallel to the diode (5) of the secondary circuit (2.2), in which parallel path there is arranged an ohmic load resistor (11) or an electric switch (20) and by means of which parallel path residual energy, in particular residual voltage, which remains in the secondary circuit (2.2) following discharge of the ignition device (1), can be extinguished, in particular by feeding the residual energy in the secondary circuit (2.2) past the diode (5), bypassing the diode (5).
US12123383B2
The disclosure relates to a fuel injection and combustion system in an internal combustion engine, comprising: a main injector comprising at least one main injector outlet configurable to direct a volume of fuel therethrough; a side injector comprising a side injector outlet configurable to direct a volume of fuel therethrough and in a direction towards the main injector; a glow plug positioned between the main injector and the side injector outlet and configurable to provide an increase in temperature so as to ignite a volume of fuel from the side injector outlet and subsequently a volume of fuel from the at least one main injector outlet. The disclosure further relates to a method for injecting and combusting fuel in an internal combustion engine.
US12123382B2
A pressure damping device for a fluid circuit includes a lower body having a fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port. An upper cover attaches to the body. An elastically deformable membrane is interposed between the body and the cover, and a circular cup is arranged on the membrane. A spring is interposed between the cup and a bottom of the cover. The body includes a support member for supporting the membrane, with the support member projecting from the first bottom and including a free upper end on which the membrane is adapted to be supported.
US12123367B2
A method for operating an internal combustion engine based on a control of a supplied fresh air quantity, the method comprising the following steps: implementing an adjustment of a throttle valve for the control of the supplied fresh air quantity as a function of a setpoint mass flow via the throttle valve; determining the setpoint mass flow via the throttle valve according to a differential equation, which is a function of a control deviation ascertained as a function of a setpoint intake manifold pressure and an actual intake manifold pressure.
US12123358B2
A turbomachinery engine includes a fan assembly, a low-pressure turbine, and a gearbox. The fan assembly includes a plurality of fan blades. The low-pressure turbine includes 3-5 rotating stages. The low-pressure turbine includes an area ratio equal to the annular exit area of an aft-most rotating stage of the low-pressure turbine divided by the annular exit area of a forward-most rotating stage of the low-pressure turbine. In some instances, the area ratio is within a range of 3.1-5.1.
US12123352B2
A vibration damper for a fuel conduit of a gas turbine combustor includes a mounting portion and a damping portion. The mounting portion is secured to the fuel conduit, and the damping portion includes a stack of damping washers, a bushing on top of the stack of damping washers, a spring clip secured around the stack of damping washers and the bushing, and a shoulder bolt disposed through the bushing and the stack of damping washers and engaged to the mounting portion.
US12123349B2
The present invention discloses an internal-parallel inlet with mode conversion combined with variable geometry adjustment, which comprises a high-speed channel, a low-speed channel, a mode conversion component, a variable geometry component and a motor actuating component. When the inlet is in a low-speed mode, the variable geometry component adjusts the throat area and the internal contraction ratio of the inlet. When the flight Mach number is in a range of the mode conversion Mach number, the mode conversion component and the variable geometry component work simultaneously. When the inlet is in a high-speed mode, the mode conversion component is combined with the variable geometry component to adjust the throat area and the internal contraction ratio of the inlet. The present invention also provides a method for controlling the inlet.
US12123340B1
An internal combustion engine includes a solid ring having a central plane bisecting the ring into a first side and a second side. A first pair of diametrically opposed pistons is located on the first side. A second pair of diametrically opposed pistons are located on the second side. The first pair of diametrically opposed pistons are offset from the second pair of diametrically opposed pistons by 90 degrees.
US12123339B1
An assembly can include a turbine assembly that includes a wastegate; an actuator assembly that responds to a control signal to transition the wastegate from a closed position to an open position; a linkage assembly that includes a control coupling, a wastegate coupling, and a spring guide, where the wastegate coupling is operatively coupled to the wastegate and the control coupling is operatively coupled to the actuator assembly; and a spring assembly that includes a spring that includes an extension, where the extension forcibly contacts the spring guide at a closed angle of contact for the closed position of the wastegate and at an open angle of contact for the open position of the wastegate, where the open angle of contact is less than the closed angle of contact.
US12123318B2
A turbomachine blade that includes an airfoil that includes an intrados wall, an extrados wall, a leading edge, a trailing edge, an internal cavity and a plurality of cooling holes made in the walls and leading and trailing edges, each cooling hole connecting the internal cavity to the exterior, one end of each cooling hole opening up into the cavity, the other end of each cooling hole opening to the exterior through an outlet, wherein the cooling holes are distributed in at least one first alignment and a second alignment made in a wall of the airfoil, wherein this outlet of at least one of the cooling holes belonging to at least the second alignment is an oblong shape with its long dimension along the principal direction of said second alignment.
US12123317B2
A blade includes a root to be mounted in a slot of plural slots which opens out at an outer periphery of a rotor disk of a movable wheel of a low-pressure turbine of an aeronautical propulsion system, the rotor disk being centered on a longitudinal axis and the slots being circumferentially distributed about the longitudinal axis, the root including a first platform which has a radially outer surface; a shroud including a second platform which has a radially inner surface; and an airfoil extending from the root to the shroud, the airfoil having a leading edge and a trailing edge.
US12123315B2
A turbocharger includes: a bearing; a casing for accommodating the bearing; and a first thermometer including a first temperature sensor for measuring temperature of lubricant oil. The casing includes a lubricant oil discharge part having a lubricant oil outlet for discharging the lubricant oil from the turbocharger. The lubricant oil discharge part includes a lubricant oil storage part for storing the lubricant oil. The first temperature sensor is disposed in the lubricant oil storage part.
US12123314B2
A gas turbine engine has a service tube assembly including an adjustable joint having a flange axially movable along an end fitting having a male/female connection with a mating part. The flange is threadably engaged with the end fitting to provide for the adjustment of the position of the flange along the end fitting.
US12123293B2
A method for generating self-propped hydraulic fractures. In one embodiment, the method comprises injecting three fluid stages sequentially, each with successively higher viscosity, comprising a pad, a sealing slurry, and a displacement fluid which may be referred to as a sweep. Compositions of each of the three fluid stages are provided, each of which may be selected based upon characteristics of the formation being treated or upon one or more characteristics of the desired fracture.
US12123279B2
The invention relates to a cementing tool (1) and method for setting a cement plug. Instead of the conventional “balanced plug”, the technique involves pumping cement whilst pulling and rotating the tool. The cementing tool (1) includes nozzles (9) for jetting cement which are located in a relatively narrow region (8) of the tool and a larger diameter choke region (5) proximal of the nozzles (9). The end of the tool (11) is closed off and tapered. The tool is passed down the well to a location where it is desired to set a plug, then cement is injected whilst rotating and withdrawing the tool. The jets of cement help displace existing fluid in the well thereby reducing mixing of the existing fluid with the cement, The choke region (5) increases the flow energy, whilst the tapered end (11) helps prevent disruption to the cement as the tool is withdrawn. The choke region (5) may be expandable to allow the tool to pass through a cased part of the well and then set a plug in an under-reamed open hole part of the well.
US12123278B2
A plug with composite reinforced end(s) and a mostly-bismuth-alloy middle section. At least one end comprises a composite material. One end is a composite, with a bismuth alloy and a particulate material of greater strength than the bismuth material. A plug having both ends of the composite material.
US12123274B2
An apparatus is disclosed as including a first material volume with at least a hardened portion and a second material volume that includes at least two layers. The first material volume is composed of at least a hardenable alloy of steel. The at least two layers is located adjacent to a first surface comprising the hardened portion of the first material volume. The at least two layers includes a first layer composed of at least a ductile low-carbon alloy of steel and a second layer composed of at least a cobalt-based hardfacing over the first layer. The apparatus is applicable in preparing shear ram blocks and shear ram blades to provide a hardened blade edge with an adjacent hardfacing surface.
US12123273B1
A wireline release head system includes a housing, a cutter box situated within the housing, a fire control switch, and a wireline extending through the cutter box and in electrical communication with a control unit and the fire control switch. The cutter box includes a piston assembly operable to move within a first track and a cutter knife operable to move within a second track. The second track is angled relative to the first track. The fire control switch is in communication with a fire detonator, which is selectively activatable to detonate a power charge. An electrical signal selectively sent through the wireline from the control unit to the fire control switch detonates the power charge, which causes the piston assembly to move within the first track and contact the cutter knife causing the cutter knife to move within the second track, thereby severing the wireline.
US12123259B2
Herein disclosed is a platform apparatus which attaches to the top of a conventional ladder or extension ladder, and a wheeled apparatus which attaches to said ladder, thus forming a single composite apparatus. Said composite apparatus can then operate as a cart for transporting itself, equipment and other loads to and from usage locations, and said composite apparatus can operate as an elevated platform when attached to a tree or similar elevated surface.
US12123255B2
A dual-mode switchable liquid-crystal window can control both radiant energy flow and privacy. The modes are selected by using different voltage frequencies. A dichroic dye is doped to enable modulation of transmission of the window. In the absence of an applied voltage, the window is transparent without haze. When a high-frequency (e.g., 1 kHz) voltage is applied, the liquid crystal and doped dye molecules inside the window reorient uniformly under dielectric interactions. The material becomes optically absorbing. The transmittance decreases, but the haze does not change. In this mode, the window can control radiant energy flow through the window. When a low-frequency (50 Hz) voltage is applied, the liquid crystal and doped dye molecules are switched into a micron-sized polydomain structure under flexoelectric interactions. The material becomes optically scattering and absorbing. The scenery behind the window is blocked. In this mode, privacy can be controlled. This dual-mode switchable window is suitable for architectural and automobile windows.
US12123245B2
A method for operating a door system having a door leaf, which is movable by a door actuator, and having a sensor unit, which is arranged at a height above a floor of the door system and with which the approach of a person towards the door leaf is detected by a control unit, includes at least the following steps: determining a direct distance between the sensor unit and the person using the sensor unit; determining a horizontal distance between the sensor unit and the door leaf by a geometric relationship of the person, of the door leaf and of the height of the sensor unit; and determining the probable approach time of the person on the basis of the determined horizontal distance and opening the door leaf. A door system having a control unit may be used to carry out the method.
US12123242B2
A method for driving an electromechanical sliding door in a transportation vehicle, wherein the sliding door has an adjusting mechanism with a rolling carriage guided in a guide rail and a first electric drive motor. A fixing mechanism with a second electric drive motor and also a locking mechanism is also provided, which locking mechanism allows the rolling carriage to be arrested in any desired position. Here, the locking mechanism is driven by the second electric drive motor. The method may include driving the second electric drive motor with an input voltage which lies below a threshold voltage for tripping the locking mechanism, continuously increasing the input voltage for the second electric drive motor, and locking the locking mechanism when the input voltage for the second electric drive motor exceeds the threshold voltage for tripping the locking mechanism.
US12123234B1
A horizontally elongated rail is adapted to be mounted with respect to a door opening, and a door assembly is slideably mounted on the rail and is slideable along a generally vertical imaginary plane. The door assembly includes an upper section cooperating with the rail to provide for the slideable mounting of the door assembly on the rail, and a lower section pivotably attached to the upper section at an attached end thereof so as to be pivotable with respect to the upper section about a generally vertical axis from a closed position, in which the upper section and the lower section are generally co-planar, to an open position. A safety release has an engaged position, in which the lower section and the upper section are fixed in the closed position, and a disengaged position, in which the lower section is pivotable to the open position.
US12123230B2
A locking device for a vehicle door, in particular for a motor-vehicle bonnet, comprising a first inhibiting pawl prestressed into an inhibiting position, wherein a rotary latch can be arrested in a locking position by the first inhibiting pawl located in its inhibiting position, and a second inhibiting pawl prestressed into an inhibiting position, wherein the rotary latch can be arrested in a safety-catch position by the second inhibiting pawl located in its inhibiting position. The first and second inhibiting pawls can be transferred from their respective inhibiting position into a release position by a common actuating means.
US12123225B2
Aspects of the invention are directed towards a system and a method for locking an item. The item is locked in a housing comprising cavity for receiving the item. The housing comprises an electronic circuit for receiving a command from a user terminal to lock or unlock an item in the cavity of the housing. A motor resides in the housing which is actuated by the electronic circuit based on the command received from the user terminal. The housing further comprises a housing lock to lock or unlock the item on actuation of the motor.
US12123222B2
An electronic locking apparatus for an entryway, having a linkage coupled to an entryway frame case, and a solenoid associated with the case, the solenoid is configured to selectively engage with the linkage. The linkage is movable between a locked position blocking movement of a latch bolt from the latched position to the unlatched position and an unlocked position allowing movement of the bolt to the unlatched position.
US12123209B1
A repaired skylight having a damaged dome mounted in a metal frame on a commercial flat roof with an oversized sheet formed of PVC membrane which is 12 oz to 20 oz per yard in weight and reinforced with a mesh network of fibers. The sheet is secured to the metal frame with sticks of termination bar about 1 inch high with pre-punched holes spaced about 6″ to 8″ on center substantially filled with self-tapping metal screws with plastic washers through the termination bars. The sheet is folded at the corners and pleated along the sides of the metal frame with the termination bars coming within inches of the corners.
US12123206B2
A system for mounting an anchor bolt to formwork or other structures associated with concrete construction includes a main body and latch coupled to the main body. The anchor bolt can pass through the main body and the latch can be moved so that threads formed in the latch engage threads formed in the anchor bolt to secure the anchor bolt in position as concrete is poured around the anchor bolt. The main body and the latch can have through holes for receiving a nail to lock the position of the latch with respect to the main body.
US12123199B1
An end cap for a panel support of a panel assembly comprising an exposed surface and a side surface. The exposed surface of the end cap has opposing edges, and the exposed surface forms a selected end effect. The side surface has at least one fastener hole. The edges of the exposed surface of the end cap are configured to mate with an end surface of the panel support.
US12123197B2
Disclosed is an invention that relates to a glass construction for balustrade glazing and/or railing glazing or glass supports, comprising a composite element, which is designed as a glass laminate and consists of at least two glass panes, which are connected by an adhesive intermediate layer made of plastic. According to the invention, in particular at least one edge of the composite element has an edge protector, which is connected at least in parts to the respective end faces of the at least two glass panes of the glass laminate in such a way that the intermediate layer is protected from the effects of moisture.
US12123196B2
A gutter protection system configured for engagement with a rain gutter is provided. The gutter protection system includes a bracket configured for attachment to a first portion of the rain gutter. The bracket has a first arm and a second arm, each forming a channel. A base member has a first end configured for insertion into the channel formed by the first arm or the second arm of the bracket. The base member has an opposing second end configured for engagement with a second portion of the rain gutter. The base member further includes an intermediate segment extending from the first end to the second end. The intermediate segment includes a plurality of apertures. A permeable member is seated against an upper surface of the base member and is configured to facilitate the flow of water through the gutter protection system and into the rain gutter.
US12123193B2
Disclosed are methods and devices for forming a combined polyester and fiberglass mat, in which separate polyester and fiberglass layers can be formed or polyester filaments and fiberglass threads can be mixed together by a disperser to form a polyester and fiberglass web. The polyester filaments and the fiberglass threads can be dispersed by separate dispersers on a web forming belt to form separate layers of polyester filaments and fiberglass threads, or can be dispersed by a single disperser to at least, somewhat evenly disperse, the fiberglass threads and polyester filaments.
US12123192B2
There is proposed a reinforced concrete structure comprising a reinforcement assembly embedded therein, the reinforcement assembly including first and second lengths of chain, wherein the first and second lengths of chain being pretensionable prior to forming the concrete structure. The reinforcement assembly includes pretensionable member/s and/or resiliently deformable member/s intermediate of at least one tetherable end of the lengths of chain and a mounting block or link member.
US12123184B2
An exemplary embodiment, among others, of the present disclosure is directed to a drain closure assembly. Such an assembly has a domed cap at a top portion of the drain closure assembly and a flange that is positioned below the domed cap. The assembly further includes a stem that extends from below the flange to a bottom portion of the drain closure assembly and a gasket seal that is positioned around the stem at a bottom of the drain closure assembly. The gasket seal has a frusto-conical shape, wherein a top portion of the gasket seal has a wider diameter than a bottom portion of the gasket seal, and the gasket seal has a central circular opening that fits closely around the stem.
US12123176B2
A ground engaging tip of a ground engaging tip assembly includes an adapter configured for attachment to the base edge of the implement and having a forwardly extending adapter nose. The ground engaging tip has a rear edge, a top outer surface, and a bottom outer surface. The top and bottom outer surfaces extend forward from the rear edge and converge at a front edge of the ground engaging tip. The tip has first and second side outer surfaces extending forward from the rear edge of the ground engaging tip to the front edge. The tip has a nose cavity for receiving the adapter nose therein. The tip has a support rib on at least one of the first or second side outer surfaces, the support rib being positioned at the rear edge and extending lengthwise from the bottom outer surface toward the top outer surface.
US12123175B2
A display mode of a picked-up image in a central image output device 2210 (specified image output device) is variably controlled so as to display all of respective specified portions PPL and PPR of a pair of pillars 4240L and 4240R configuring a cab 424 in the central image output device 2210 (specified image output device). The specified portions PPL and PPR are part of the pillars 4240L and 4240R overlapping a specified image region R that extends in a belt shape between left and right bezels 2210L and 2210R.
US12123171B2
Systems and techniques are described for implementing autonomous control of earth-moving construction and/or mining vehicles, including to automatically determine and control autonomous movement (e.g., of a vehicle's hydraulic arm(s), tool attachment(s), tracks/wheels, rotatable chassis, etc.) to move materials or perform other actions based at least in part on data about an environment around the vehicle(s). A perception system on a vehicle that includes at least a LiDAR component may be used to repeatedly map a surrounding environment and determine a 3D point cloud with 3D data points reflecting the surrounding ground and nearby objects, with the LiDAR component mounted on a component part of the vehicle that is moved independently of the vehicle chassis to gather additional data about the environment. GPS data from receivers on the vehicle may further be used to calculate absolute locations of the 3D data points.
US12123169B2
A left console device (11) disposed on an entrance (8A)-side of a cab (8) is provided with a gate lock device (19). The gate lock device (19) includes a gate lock lever (20) which has an operating part (20C) to be operated by an operator and is rotationally displaced between a lock position and an unlock position, and a spring member (22) which urges the gate lock lever (20) toward the lock position or the unlock position. The spring member (22) is configured to urge the gate lock lever (20) toward the unlock position when the operating part (20C) of the gate lock lever (20) is in a height position lower than an upper surface (16C) of the left console device (11) (an upper cover (16)) and urges the gate lock lever (20) toward the lock position when the operating part (20C) of the gate lock lever (20) is in a height position higher than the upper surface (16C) of the left console device (11).
US12123167B2
A working machine includes: a machine body; a prime mover that is mounted on the machine body; a fuel cylinder that contains a fuel; a vaporizer that vaporizes the fuel sent from the fuel cylinder and supplies the fuel to the prime mover; a temperature detector that detects a temperature correlating with a decrease in the temperature of the vaporizer; and a controller that imposes restraint on the flow rate of the fuel flowing from the vaporizer to the prime mover when the temperature detected by the temperature detector is lower than or equal to a first temperature.
US12123154B2
A portable temporary road sign structure comprises a sheet material substrate cut into a flat pattern having three interconnected panels: a display panel; a base panel; and a brace panel. The panels are formed to enable deployment into a self-supporting configuration in which the display panel is held upright when the base panel is placed on the ground. For transportation between sites the base and brace panels can be folded flat against the display panel whereby respective handle align for ease of carrying. Various apertures and formations are provided to enable the road sign structure to be held in place, when deployed, by roadside fixtures or weighted bollards.
US12123152B2
An apparatus for screeding concrete to produce a level finished surface includes a frame assembly having a pair of spaced vertically oriented stabilization legs secured to the front end thereof supporting a generally horizontal front member. An extendable boom assembly is secured to said frame assembly at a first end and to a screed head at a second end. A side-step assembly includes an actuator with an extendable arm secured to said boom assembly to impart generally lateral motion.
US12123143B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a nanocellulosic material based on the use of fractioning of cellulosic pulp stream from pre-treatment or mechanical defibrillation (partially refined/defibrillated pulp) in combination with stages of mechanical defibrillation, in which both the accept fraction and the reject fraction can be conveyed to stages of consistency adjustments so as to precede another distinct defibrillation stage. For example, if the accept is conveyed to a consistency adjustment preceding a second defibrillation stage while the reject is conveyed to the other independent stage of consistency adjustment to return to the first stage of mechanical defibrillation.
US12123141B2
The present invention relates to a screen cylinder that is particularly suitable for screening, filtering, fractionating, or sorting cellulose pulp or fibre suspensions of the pulp and paper industry or other similar suspensions. The present invention relates more particularly to screening devices, which are usually cylindrical though also conical shapes are known. Such screening devices have basically two optional constructions. A first one comprises a plurality of screen wires positioned substantially axially and at a small spacing parallel to each other. The plurality of screen wires forms a screening surface facing the pulp or fibre suspension to be screened and adjacent wires form screening openings therebetween allowing an accept portion of the pulp or fibre suspension to flow therethrough. The second construction comprises a drilled or slotted sheet metal plate bent to a circular, or in broader terms, rotationally symmetrical shape.
US12123140B2
The present invention relates a process to produce microfibrillated cellulose and a microfibrillated cellulose produced according to such process. The fibrillated microfibrillated cellulose is obtained subjecting a cellulose fiber in a slurry of cellulose pulp to multiple mechanical impacts. The cycle may be repeated several times. Non-cutting bars disposed in a ring formation is the preferred method. Two rings concentrically arranged facing each other in high rotation transmit the kinetic energy to the fibers to provide the highly defibrillated microfibrillated cellulose.
US12123133B2
A process for the production of a composite textile article which includes at least a biopolymer layer, comprising the following steps: providing at least one textile article, in particular selected from a fiber, a yarn, a fabric and a garment; providing at least part of the textile article with at least a biopolymer layer; providing at least part of the biopolymer layer with at least a textile softening agent, to provide a composite textile article; and to a composite textile article as obtainable therefrom.
US12123129B2
The carrying element (3) of the present invention is formed in relation to the ironing surface (1) of the ironing board. The carrying element (3) is in the form of a reservoir that allows additional material storage. The reservoir consists of at least one plate guide (4). Plate guides (4) define the mounting guides that allow movable plates (5) to be attached and detached.
US12123112B2
A method of manufacturing multi-ply separable textured yarn, the method comprising, passing a multi-ply separable interlaced filament yarn through a texturizing unit to form a multi-ply separable draw textured yarn, wherein the multi-ply separable interlaced filament yarn is separable in to at least two separable interlaced filament yarn, wherein the interlacing of the filaments within each separable interlaced filament yarn is retained during further processing of the yarn to fabric and in the fabric.
US12123111B2
A lifting system for inner yarn rails is provided. The system includes an in-air conveying rail, and a carrier unit, wherein the in-air conveying rail is configured to convey the carrier unit, and the carrier unit is configured to carry a winding package; an inner yarn-carrier-lifting section is arranged on the in-air conveying rail, the inner yarn-carrier-lifting section is positioned on both sides of a twisting machine; when the inner yarn-carrier-lifting section rises, it communicates with the in-air conveying rail; when the inner yarn-carrier-lifting section descends, it approaches the position of a spindle bucket of the twisting machine.
US12123078B2
New aluminum alloys having magnesium and zinc are disclosed. The new magnesium-zinc aluminum alloys may include from 2.5 to 4.0 wt. % Mg, from 2.25 to 4.0 wt. % Zn, wherein (wt. % Mg/wt. % Zn)≥1.0, and wherein (wt. % Mg/wt. % Zn)≤1.6, from 0.20 to 0.9 wt. % Mn, from 0.10 to 0.40 wt. % Cu, up to 1.0 wt. % Li, up to 0.50 wt. % Fe, up to 0.50 wt. % Si, and optional secondary element(s), the balance being aluminum, optional incidental elements and impurities.
US12123076B2
A nickel-based superalloy includes, in weight percent, 6 to 8% aluminum, 12 to 15% cobalt, 4 to 8% chromium, 0 to 0.2% hafnium, 0.5 to 4% molybdenum, 3.5 to 6% rhenium, 4 to 6% tantalum, 1 to 3% titanium, 0 to 2% tungsten, 0 to 0.1% silicon, the balance being nickel and unavoidable impurities.
US12123075B2
A copper/molybdenum separation processor is provide featuring a slurry/media mixture stage configured to receive a conditioned pulp containing hydrophobic molybdenite and hydrophilic copper, iron and other minerals that is conditioned with sodium hydrosulfide together with an engineered polymeric hydrophobic media, and provide a slurry/media mixture; and a slurry/media separation stage configured to receive the slurry/media mixture, and provide a slurry product having a copper concentrate and a polymerized hydrophobic media product having a molybdenum concentrate that are separately directed for further processing. The slurry/media mixture stage include a molybdenum loading stage configured to contact the conditioned pulp with the engineered polymeric hydrophobic media in an agitated reaction chamber, and load the hydrophobic molybdenite on the engineered polymeric hydrophobic media.
US12123072B2
In alternative embodiments, provided are methods and processes for the removal of cadmium (Cd) from wet-process phosphoric acid that may contain Cd, including excessive amounts of Cd. The process developed is based on the application of commercially available ion exchange resins with the application of Continuous Ion Exchange (CIX) technology. In alternative embodiments, provided are processes and methods for the recovery and/or the removal of cadmium from wet-process phosphoric acid using a continuous ion exchange approach. In alternative embodiments, use of processes and methods as provided herein allows for the reduction of cadmium metal contaminants with minimal phosphate losses and dilution in order to produce a phosphoric acid that is suitable for the production of fertilizers and phosphoric acid products, such as world-class diammonium phosphate fertilizer (DAP), merchant-grade phosphoric acid, super-phosphoric acid, and other phosphoric acid products.
US12123061B2
This invention relates to the detection of Legionella, more specifically Legionella pneumophila, more specifically Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1, in a sample. Methods of detection, and assays and kits useful for detection, are also disclosed. The invention provides a method for identifying the presence, absence, or quantity of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 in a sample, the method comprising the steps of detecting the presence, absence, or quantity of at least part of the nucleic acid sequence of the lpg0768 gene or an expression product thereof, and correlating the presence, absence, or quantity of the at least part of the nucleic acid sequence of the lpg0768 gene or an expression product thereof, to the presence, absence, or quantity of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 in the sample.
US12123054B2
Provided herein are methods including alternating series of sequencing cycles and dark extension cycles allowing longer read lengths and addressing disadvantages of traditional nucleic acid sequencing protocols.
US12123050B2
Provided herein is probe system comprising: a population of nucleic acid molecules that have an extendible end, a first set of barcoded particles that each have a nucleotide sequence comprising: (i) a binding sequence that is complementary to the extendible end of the nucleic acid molecules, (ii) a unique particle identifier sequence, and (iii) a first template sequence, and a second set of barcoded particles that each have a nucleotide sequence comprising: (i) the first template sequence and (ii) a unique particle identifier sequence. In use, extension of the nucleic acid molecules using the first set of barcoded particles of as a template produces extensions products that contain the complement of a unique particle identifier sequence of a particle and the complement of the first template sequence. Methods of using the probe system to map binding events in or on a cellular sample are also provided.
US12123049B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for cell lysis in a microfluidic device. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for rapid continuous flow pathogen cell lysis. In one embodiment, the microfluidic device comprises a microfluidic channel, a microporous structure within the channel, and an enzyme immobilized on the surface of the microporous structure configured to lyse pathogen cells in fluid flowing through the microfluidic channel.
US12123045B2
Genes encoding mutant 3-ketoacyl-CoA synthases are introduced into host cells. Certain of the mutants enhance the production of shorter-chain fatty acids and derivatives by the cell than do the wild-type (unmutated) enzymes. In other cases, the chain length is not significantly affected, but productivity is enhanced. In specific cases, both a shift toward lower chain length and higher productivity is seen. Cells producing the mutant 3-ketoacyl-CoA synthases are especially suitable for producing C6-C10 fatty acids and derivatives.
US12123044B2
The present invention is in the field of recombinant biotechnology, in particular in the field of protein expression. The invention generally relates to a method of expressing a protein of interest (POI) from a host cell. The invention relates particularly to improving a host cell's capacity to express and/or secrete a protein of interest and use of the host cell for protein expression. The invention also relates to cell culture technology, and more specifically to culturing cells to produce desired molecules for medical purposes or food products.
US12123025B2
The invention is directed to a method for producing an edible composition, comprising incubating a three-dimensional porous scaffold and a plurality of cell types comprising: myoblasts or progenitor cells thereof, at least one type of extracellular (ECM)-secreting cell and endothelial cells or progenitor cells thereof, and inducing myoblasts differentiation into myotubes.
US12123013B2
The present invention provides a mutated woodchuck post-transcriptional regulatory element (WPRE). In particular, the present invention relates to a mutated WPRE sequence that can efficiently express nucleotides of interest in a retroviral vector system. The present invention also relates to methods of delivering and expressing nucleotides of interest to a target cell.
US12123007B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for constructing an efficient Bacillus subtilis promoter, and belongs to the technical field of gene engineering. According to the present disclosure, natural promoters identified by different sigma subunits are connected in series to obtain some double-series and triple-series promoters, the lengths of intervening sequences between core areas of the promoters are optimized on the basis of series connection of the promoters to further improve the activity of the promoters, finally, different RBS designs are performed on the promoters, and it is verified that this strategy can not only improve the compatibility between the promoters and other gene expression regulating and controlling elements, but also controllably regulate the expression of exogenous genes. Through the method provided by the present disclosure, people can obtain the promoters with higher activity and stronger designability and compatibility through simple and convenient promoter design and modification methods. The method is simple and easy to implement and has wide application prospects in the construction of an exogenous protein efficient expression system and synthetic biology research.
US12123005B2
The invention discloses oncogenic fusion proteins. The invention provides methods for treating gene-fusion based cancers.
US12122994B2
A culture for the fermentative production of Massoia lactone comprising an Aureobasidium melanogenum species in a culture medium, wherein the Aureobasidium melanogenum species expresses no functional Aureobasidin A synthase gene mRNA when cultured, the culture medium including KH2PO4, Na2HPO4, (NH4)2SO4, MgSO4·7H2O and CaCl2·2H2O; at least two trace elements selected from the group consisting of Fe2+, Cu2+, Zn2+ and MoO42−; urea; and a carbon source selected from the group consisting of glucose, mannose, xylose and mixtures thereof, wherein the culture medium has a pH from 5.5 to 6.5.
