US12141659B2
A quantum computing system, method and computer readable medium involve a vacuum chamber, an atom source input associated with the vacuum chamber, a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) having an interaction region configured to interact with an atom from the atom source, a coupling location for atom positioning, a trapping laser for trapping the atom in the coupling location, an excitation laser for manipulating an electronic state or a nuclear state of the atom, a waveguide for guiding input light to the coupling location, and an output channel for directing quantum light generated at the coupling location, out of the vacuum chamber as a resource for quantum computing. The coupling location is associated with the PIC, and the interaction region of the PIC is arranged for at least partial exposure to the vacuum.
US12141657B2
The disclosure describes various aspects related to enabling effective multi-qubit operations, and more specifically, to techniques for enabling parallel multi-qubit operations on a universal ion trap quantum computer. In an aspect, a method of performing quantum operations in an ion trap quantum computer or trapped-ion quantum system includes implementing at least two parallel gates of a quantum circuit, each of the at least two parallel gates is a multi-qubit gate, each of the at least two parallel gates is implemented using a different set of ions of a plurality of ions in a ion trap, and the plurality of ions includes four or more ions. The method further includes simultaneously performing operations on the at least two parallel gates as part of the quantum operations. A trapped-ion quantum system and a computer-readable storage medium corresponding to the method described above are also disclosed.
US12141640B2
A system for protecting personal data contained on an RFID-enabled device, suitable for use with an RFID system including an RFID reader configured to extract information from an RFID chip associated with the RFID-enabled device, includes a personal data protection system including a personal data protection device configured to prevent reading of the RFID chip associated with an RFID-enabled personal item.
US12141635B2
A method of manufacturing a smartcard inlay the method comprising: providing a dielectric sheet; depositing, on a first major surface of the dielectric sheet, an active matrix TFT array comprising at least one conductive layer; wherein the at least one conductive layer is deposited on regions of the dielectric sheet outside the active matrix TFT array to provide electrical connections of the inlay.
US12141630B2
Dot data for a boundary zone between metallic ink and color ink is changed to increase a time difference between a scan for applying the metallic ink and a scan for applying the color ink. With this change, a fusion time of the metallic ink is ensured, and the occurrence of an image defect is suppressed.
US12141629B2
A parametric constant resolves to different values in different contexts, but a single value within a particular context. An anchor constant is a parametric constant that allows for a degree of parametricity for an API point. The context for the anchor constant is provided by a caller to the API point. The anchor constant resolves to an anchor value that records specialization decisions for the API point within the provided context. Specialization decisions may include type restrictions, memory layout, and/or memory size. The anchor value together with an unspecialized type of the API point result in a specialized type of the API point. A class object representing the specialized type is created. The class object may be accessible to the caller, but the full value of the anchor value is not accessible to the caller. The API point is executed based on the specialization decisions embodied in the anchor value.
US12141624B2
A method of stabilizing performance of a processing device may include determining a maximum operational temperature of any number of cores of a processing device from a thermal control circuit of the processing device; setting a maximum power based on a maximum thermal capacity of the processing device to a power lower than the maximum operational temperature; increasing the power provided to the processing device when the maximum thermal capacity is below a set temperature; and placing the power provided to the processing device to an intermediate power level relative to the operational temperature and the maximum thermal capacity when operations of the processing device are to exceed the operational temperature of any of the cores of the processing device.
US12141618B1
A computer system may provide a plurality of load records for presentation in a user interface provided at a first plurality of user devices. The user interface may enable searching for a plurality of loads represented by the plurality of load records. The computer system may also determine, for a load record of the plurality of load records and based at least in part on inputting contextual information into a predictive model, an acceptance prediction indicating a probability that a load record of the plurality of load records will be accepted by a user. The computer system may also provide at least a portion of the plurality of load records for presentation in the user interface provided at a second plurality of user devices associated with a second plurality of users. The portion of the plurality of load records may include the load record including an updated value of an attribute of the load record that is dependent on the acceptance prediction.
US12141614B2
Embodiments relate to storing hierarchically structured sub-items of scene entities in a flattened list of sub-items and performing time-constrained tasks on the sub-items in the flattened list. By storing the sub-items in the flattened list, an approximate time for processing the sub-items can be estimated more accurately, and therefore, reduces the likelihood of making overly conservative estimate of time for processing the sub-items. One or more sub-items of updated scene entities are extracted by a plurality of collectors that are executed in parallel to store the one or more sub-items in the flattened list. The sub-items are then accessed by multiple tasks executed in parallel to determine priority information associated with inclusion and rendering in subsequent frames. Sub-items with higher priority according to the priority information is given higher priority for retrieving from secondary memory and saving in primary memory.
US12141612B2
In an aspect, an apparatus for resource enhancement is presented. An apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. A memory contains instructions configuring at least a processor to generate a host platform. A host platform is configured to receive resource data from a user. At least a processor is configured to compare resource data of a user to a resource enhancement metric. At least a processor is configured to calculate, as a function of a comparison, a resource variability. At least a processor is configured to execute, as a function of a resource variability, a resource enhancement process.
US12141607B2
A machine learning device is provided in a vehicle able to supply electric power to an outside, and includes a processor configured to perform processing relating to training a machine learning model used in the vehicle. The processor is configured to lower an electric power consumption amount in the processing relating to training when acquiring disaster information compared with when not acquiring the disaster information.
US12141597B2
Systems and methods for supporting efficient out of order request completion. In one implementation, a processing device may receive, at a device of a host computing system, a plurality of requests from a driver for the device, wherein each request of the plurality of requests causes the device to perform a corresponding operation, and wherein the plurality of requests are received in a receive order; complete a first request of the plurality of requests by performing a first operation specified by the first request; determine whether the first request has completed in the receive order in relation to one or more previously completed requests; and responsive to determining that the first request has completed in the receive order in relation to the one or more previously completed requests, generating a first response to the first request that indicates that the first request has completed in the receive order in relation to the one or more previously completed requests.
US12141593B2
A method for displaying a play screen and an electronic device relate to the field of terminal technologies to reduce power consumption of an electronic device. The method includes: determining, by the electronic device based on a preset condition, whether the screen element in the play screen includes a second dynamic element, where the second dynamic element has a second frame rate, and the preset condition includes that: an area proportion of the second dynamic element in the play screen is less than a preset threshold, and the second frame rate is greater than the first frame rate; and when the screen element in the play screen includes the second dynamic element, displaying, by the electronic device, the play screen of the foreground application at the first frame rate.
US12141587B2
Generalized boot operations for disaggregated, multiple (multi-) semiconductor die (“die”) computing system, and related methods and computer-readable media are disclosed. In exemplary aspects, to provide for generalized boot-up firmware/software for the computing system that does not have to be reconfigured for different configurations of dies in variations of IC packages, a CPU die (or other die) designated as a primary die is configured to perform a discoverable boot process over a side-band discovery bus to discover the other dies present in an IC package of the computing system and to then control their boot-up operations. In this manner, the boot-up firmware/software executed by the primary die to boot-up the computing system can be generalized irrespective of the number of dies and their particular configuration. In this manner, a generalized boot-up firmware/software can be provided to control boot-up operations of the computing system independent of specific dies included.
US12141586B2
A method for configuring and deploying execution environments for software applications includes receiving a bootstrap execution environment from a data store, the bootstrap execution environment including a software application, the software application including a manifest of dependencies. The method includes executing the bootstrap execution environment and determining whether an enhanced execution environment is available from the data store. When the enhanced execution environment is available from the data store, the method includes receiving the enhanced execution environment from the data store and enhancing the bootstrap execution environment based on the received enhanced execution environment. When the enhanced execution environment is not available from the data, the method includes enhancing the bootstrap execution environment based on the manifest of dependencies to create the enhanced execution environment and storing the enhanced execution environment in the data store. The method also includes executing the software application.
US12141581B2
Predictive dead store elimination is provided. The method comprises identifying, in a program, a first store operation and a second store operation in a program loop that comprise a store pair with a same loop-invariant base address and determining whether the store pair is a predictive dead store elimination candidate. Responsive to a determination that the store pair is a predictive dead store elimination candidate, the method eliminates the first store operation in each iteration of the program loop, except the last DSRC (dead store recurrence constant) iterations and sinks the first store operation in the last DSRC iterations to after the program loop.
US12141580B2
A processor includes an instruction issue unit that receives a first instruction, and issues the first instruction with a write time, which for a load instruction corresponds to a data cache latency time or to a non-cacheable latency time of a non-cacheable predictor. The non-cacheable predictor includes a tag array and data array with a plurality of entries to predict non-cacheable latency times of non-cacheable load instructions. The non-cacheable predictor can be implemented as a direct map, an N-way associative cache, or a fully associative cache.
US12141575B2
Provided are a method for upgrading the CPLD and a CPLD upgrading system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The system includes a baseboard management controller, a master CPLD and a slave CPLD, the master CPLD sends a power control signal to the controller through the slave CPLD, in response to determining that the master CPLD has completed upgrade preparation, the baseboard management controller setting the upgrade-effective signal to an enabled state, to make the slave CPLD lock a current power control signal, and use the current power control signal to control the controller (S101); controlling the master CPLD to perform CPLD upgrade (S102); and when the master CPLD has completed the CPLD upgrade, setting the upgrade-effective signal to a disabled state, to make the slave CPLD release the current power control signal, and use the power control signal sent by the master CPLD to control the controller (S103).
US12141574B2
A vehicle management server is configured to transmit, to a vehicle, an update program for updating an existing program of an electronic device mounted on the vehicle. The vehicle management server includes a communicator and a controller. The communicator is configured to communicate with the vehicle. The controller is configured to control an update process. The controller is configured to determine, depending on a type of the update program, whether to present, to a vehicle user, an indication related to the update process for the existing program using the update program, and transmit, when the controller determines to present the indication related to the update process to the vehicle user, information for causing a predetermined information terminal to display the indication related to the update process to the vehicle via the communicator.
US12141569B2
Provided is a redundant system capable of executing a start request received during update of a microcomputer control program even when an external nonvolatile memory is employed in a redundant system in which one load is controlled by a plurality of control circuits having a redundant configuration, the redundant system being low in cost and excellent in responsiveness. In the redundant system that controls one load by a plurality of control systems having a redundant configuration, when an update program signal for the plurality of control systems is received, update of a control program for each of the plurality of control systems in a predetermined order is individually executed, and when a start request of the load is received during the execution of the update of a control program of one predetermined system, the load is controlled by a system other than the one predetermined system, and during the control, the update of the control program of the one predetermined system is continued.
US12141564B2
A device which runs software applications includes a network interface, a non-transitory computer readable storage medium and at least one processor. The device identifies that a link for installation of a new software application is selected by user interaction with a software application that is running on the device. In response to the identification, an installation client is invoked to run in the background on the device without exiting the currently-running software application. The installation client is instructed to automatically download an installation file of the new software application over the network using the network interface. The new software application is installed on the device using the downloaded installation file.
US12141560B2
Various aspects of the disclosure relate to bi-directional hybrid-feedback driven self-healing and self-scaling language transpiler system may include bi-directional hopping to support multi language transpilation, automatic conversion of a mapping into a transformation specification, a hybrid feedback mechanism to update the transformation mappings, automatic scaling and/or creation of enterprise wide mapping and token (e.g., grammar) vocabulary, and/or a self-healing and/or corrective translation capability to perform automatic correction of any partial transpilations over time from a learned mapping.
US12141558B2
A method for tailoring a visual element customizer to a domain-specific language (DSL) may comprise executing custom-scripted code instructions for a visual element customizer to associate an action and an operation with a subset of custom-DSL code instructions for performing the action within an executable operation, and receiving, via a first graphical user interface (GUI), an administrator instruction to generate a second GUI that points a business user to select at least one action and an operation with the visual element customizer. The method may also include receiving selections of visual elements representing an integration process and a user instruction to customize one of the selected visual elements to perform the action, and the operation under a custom DSL, and transmitting an executable run-time engine and the subset of custom-DSL code instructions for execution of the integration process at a remote location.
US12141555B1
Systems and methods for providing a user interface that facilitates application development. The applications may utilize one or more underlying machine-learning models to perform application functions. Exemplary implementations may: effectuate presentation of an application development interface to developers through client computing platforms associated with the developers; receive, from client computing devices, input information indicating feature values entered and/or selected by the developers via the user interface fields; responsive to receipt of first input information, configure a first application in accordance with the feature values included in a first feature values set; provide the configured application for user by one or more users; and/or other exemplary implementations.
US12141549B2
The disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for determining code generation quality and efficiency evaluation values based on multiple indicators. The method includes that: an object code is acquired; an interactive data set is acquired; a multidimensional evaluation indicators is determined and characteristic values corresponding to each piece of data in the interactive data set are extracted; characteristic values corresponding to each piece of data in the interactive data set are determined as a characteristic data set; a multidimensional syntax tree is constructed; feature learning is performed on the multidimensional syntax tree to obtain feature parameters; the evaluation parameter model is controlled to output an evaluation value. According to the disclosure, the evaluation method in a related art is to evaluate a static automatic code generation result, ignoring the influence of code changes on the evaluation result, resulting in low reliability of the evaluation result is solved.
US12141540B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for automated agent intent detection enhancement are provided. A first message from a first user is received. The first message is generated during a first conversation between the first user and a first automated agent. A computer produces a second message that includes a same request as the first message but a different language modality than the first message. The second message and the first message are combined to form a combined message. The combined message is input into the first automated agent such that the first automated agent produces an intent classification for the first message.
US12141539B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for computing process flow control via determination of dialogue context between a user and an artificial intelligence assistant. Multiple defined computing process flows are received by the system. Each of the defined computing process flows describe one or more instructions to be performed. Information about the defined computing process flows and dialogue between the user and the artificial intelligence assistant are provided as a prompt to a large language model (LLM). The system receives from the LLM one or more selected commands for a defined computing process flow relating to the context of the received input from the user. The system performs the command as to the computing process flow.
US12141536B1
Techniques for chatbot utterance routing in a provider network include jointly training a service classifier and a plurality of auxiliary classifiers based on a mixed service set of labeled chatbot utterance training examples to yield a trained service classifier. When a particular chatbot user utterance is received, the trained service classifier can be used to determine if the utterance is in-scope or out-of-scope, and if in-scope, to determine which service of a set of services in the provider network to which to route the utterance for further processing. By jointly training the service classifier with the auxiliary classifiers, the accuracy of the in-scope/out-of-scope determination by the trained service classifier is improved as well as its accuracy in routing the utterance to the appropriate service for processing the utterance as intended by the user.
US12141532B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, systems and methods, for example, including receiving a user question data in a speech format or a text format, analyzing the user question data, selecting a plurality of documents from a plurality of domains corresponding to the user question data, searching for a plurality of passages including candidates for an answer value determined as being suitable for the user question data, in the plurality of documents, obtaining candidates by inputting the user question data and the plurality of passages into a plurality of MRC question and answer units, determining the answer value based on whether a reliability value of each of the candidates exceeds a threshold value, and providing the determined answer value to a user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12141524B2
Computer-implemented methods for allowing users to specify interactive graphical designs are provided. The graphical designs can comprise multiple dimension versions—such as a tablet dimension version or a phone dimension version. Some of the methods involve an inheritance structure that defines a first dimension version of the design as a child of a second dimension version of the design. Specifications for properties of widgets in the graphical design are applied to the design in accordance with the inheritance specification. Some of the methods involve an inheritance characterization that determines how properties of a widget are affected by the inheritance structure across different dimension versions. Some of the methods involve an existence property for the widgets.
US12141522B2
A computing system and a method remotely generate documents wherein a user establishes communication with the computing system from a user device and is instructed to enter the information in a document template displayed on the user device. The user device is enabled to select a document type and a document format. The document types include a conventional check and a cashier's check. The document formats include a printed hard copy and an electronic document.
US12141521B2
Disclosed is a method of correcting text information. The method can be performed by a computing device. The method includes obtaining the text information. The method includes determining problem text within the text information. The method includes generating alternative text to correct the problem text by utilizing expanded text associated with the problem text or non-text type information associated with the problem text. The method includes providing information about the alternative text for correcting the problem text.
US12141518B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing content item collections. For example, in embodiment, a client device may receive first user input selecting a content item collection. The client device may generate a graphical user interface for presenting the content item collection. The content item collection may include one or more tiles. Each tile may correspond to a content item embedded into the content item collection and stored by a content management system. The client device may present the content item collection including the one or more tiles. The client device may present, within each of the one or more tiles, an image representing the corresponding content item.
US12141515B2
Provided herein is a cell of a magnetic random access memory (MRAM) circuit. The cell includes a horizontal outer perimeter and an access transistor including a first terminal, a second terminal, and a gate terminal. The cell includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structure located in the horizontal outer perimeter and above the bottom electrode. The MTJ structure being centered within the horizontal outer perimeter. The cell includes a bottom electrode located entirely within the horizontal outer perimeter. The bottom electrode comprising a shape enabling the MTJ structure to be centered within the horizontal outer perimeter.
US12141509B2
A method can include receiving a stimulated rock volume dimension for a hydraulic fracture in a reservoir where the stimulated rock volume dimension defines a stimulated rock volume region: refining a grid cell model of the reservoir based on the stimulated rock volume dimension by selecting a refinement technique from a group of refinement techniques and generating new finer grid cells in the grid cell model based on the selected refinement technique: assigning a physical property value to each of the new finer grid cells using one or more physical property values selected from a group of existing physical property values; and performing a fluid flow simulation using the grid cell model with the new finer grid cells and their assigned physical property values, and the group of existing physical property values to generate fluid flow simulation results.
US12141500B2
A virtual reality system includes a network, a virtual reality server coupled to the network including a voice streaming server configured to stream audio data, a plurality of computing devices coupled to the network and the virtual reality server and each having a display assembly configured to render virtual reality spaces and objects. At least one of the computing devices is a virtual reality headset that includes one or more tracking cameras configured to sense positioning of a user's hands relative to the headset worn by the user, at least one microphone and at least one speaker. The voice streaming server is activated to stream microphone audio data from the microphone to speakers associated with other of the plurality of computing devices when one of the user's hands associated with the headset is located a threshold distance from the tracking camera of the headset.
US12141498B2
A device for managing sound playback includes one or more processors configured to receive an indication of a user-device interaction between a user and an audio interface device during a sound playback operation of a multi-speaker audio playback system. The one or more processors are also configured to, based on receiving the indication of the user-device interaction, initiate a selective adjustment of the sound playback operation to reduce a playback sound of the multi-speaker audio playback system based on a position of the user.
US12141497B2
Example techniques involve pre-caching media content. An example implementation involves a first playback device detecting, via at least one proximity sensor, motion in proximity to the proximity sensor. In response, the first playback device sends, to a second playback device, one or more first messages indicating that the first playback device detected motion. Afterwards, the first playback device receives, via the network interface from the second playback device in response to the one or more first messages, one or more second messages that instruct the first playback device to pre-cache, from a network source, a portion of audio content indicated in a playback queue associated with a playback device group including the first playback device and the second playback device. The first playback device receives a command to play back the playback queue and plays back the audio content indicated in the playback queue jointly with the second playback device.
US12141496B2
The present invention relates to an optical element capable of simultaneously outputting sound from the surface of a display device with an image, the optical element comprising: a first electrode member; a first dielectric elastomer layer disposed on the first electrode member; a second electrode member disposed on the first dielectric elastomer layer; and an optical crystal layer disposed on the second electrode member. Accordingly, in the present invention, image and sound are implemented simultaneously, and thus, it is possible to prevent defects due to mismatching of the image and the sound, and a separate sound system is not required when the display device is manufactured using the optical element, thereby making it possible to reduce components of an electronic product including the display device and reduce the manufacturing cost.
US12141495B2
Embodiments of this application are applied to the field of terminal technologies, and provide a screen mirroring method, an apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. A mirroring suspension operation of a user is received, and to-be-encoded data is discarded in response to the mirroring suspension operation, so that when the user needs to suspend the screen mirroring service between a screen casting device and a display device, the to-be-encoded data can be discarded by simply performing the mirroring suspension operation on the screen casting device.
US12141494B2
A foldable device with a folding portion comprises a processor, a first display, and a second display. When the device is closed, only one of the first display and the second display is capable of presenting information to a user. The processor is configured to perform, in response to a change in a folding angle of the folding portion within a predetermined time from a user operation received on one of the first display and the second display, second display control on an other one of the first display and the second display, wherein the second display control on the other one of the first display and the second display is in accordance with content displayed at a point that received the user operation.
US12141487B2
A terminal device may, in a case where a function executing operation is accepted, send, by using a target communication path, a function executing instruction for causing the function executing device. The terminal device may, in a case where a predetermined condition which includes a memory of the terminal device storing Virtual Private Network (VPN) communication information is satisfied, execute a related process related to switching the target communication path from a first communication path to a second communication path. The first communication path may be a communication path for communicating with the function executing device via a local area network without using the Internet. The second communication path may be a communication path for communicating with the function executing device via the Internet.
US12141473B2
Methods, systems, and devices for performance tuning for a memory device are described. In some examples, a memory system may receive a command (e.g., a read command or a write command) that includes an indicator. The indicator may instruct the memory system to suppress one or more portions of the command. For example, the command may be received by an interface of the memory system and the controller may instruct the memory system to suppress one or more operations performed by a processor of the memory system, a storage controller of the memory system, or both. Upon suppressing one or more operations associated with the command, the memory system may output a response to the test system, which may allow for the test system to tune one or more performance aspects of the memory system.
US12141467B2
Methods, systems, and devices for cross-temperature mitigation in a memory system are described. A memory system may determine a first temperature of the memory system. Based on the first temperature satisfying a first threshold, the memory system may write a set of data to a first block of the memory system that is configured with a first rate for performing scan operations to determine error information for the first block. The memory system may then determine a second temperature of the memory system after writing the set of data to the first block. Based on the second temperature satisfying a second threshold, the memory system may transfer the set of data to a second block of the memory system that is configured with a second rate for performing scan operations to determine error information for the second block.
US12141463B2
The disclosure provides a method for virtual volume snapshot creation by a storage array. The method generally includes receiving a request to generate a snapshot of a virtual volume associated with a virtual machine, in response to receiving the request, preparing a file system of the storage array to generate the snapshot, wherein preparing the file system comprises creating a delta storage structure to receive write input/output (I/O) requests directed for the virtual volume when generating the snapshot of the virtual volume, deactivating the virtual volume, activating the delta storage structure, generating the snapshot of the virtual volume, and during the generation of the snapshot of the virtual volume: receiving a write I/O directed for the virtual volume and committing the write I/O in the delta storage structure.
US12141457B1
A system and method stores a database file into Flash memory or other write-constrained storage.
US12141454B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to host identification for a memory system are described. A memory system may receive an index value from a host system that is associated with an identification of the host system. The memory system may identify one or more operating parameter associated with the index value based on receiving the index value. The memory system controller may configure the memory system to utilize one or more operating parameters associated with the index value based on identifying the operating parameters. The memory system may output an indication to the host system that the operating parameters associated with the index value are configured to be utilized by the memory system.
US12141453B2
In a method of organizing data during refresh cycles of a memory device, a read request is sent to a non-volatile flash memory including a plurality of source blocks and a plurality of destination blocks. Data of the plurality of source blocks are read upon sending the read request. The frequency of bit error rate (BER) for the data stored in the plurality of source blocks is identified. The data within the plurality of source blocks are grouped and segregated based on the frequency of BER and a threshold value. The plurality of source blocks and the plurality of destination blocks are refreshed by moving the data present in the plurality of source blocks to respective destination blocks based on the segregated data and moving data from the respective destination blocks to other respective destination blocks.
US12141447B2
A method is described. The method includes storing data extent replicas for each of a plurality of data extents, wherein, data extent replicas for a same one of the data extents are stored in different physical storage devices, and wherein, a same physical storage device is permitted to store respective data extent replicas of different ones of the data extents. The method includes writing to the respective data extent replicas for at least one of the data extents multiple times without calculating one or more parity extents for the plurality of data extents. The method includes upon a writing activity criteria having been met, calculating one or more parity extents for the data extents and storing the parity extents, and, preserving at least one of the data extent replicas for each of the plurality of data extents.
US12141446B2
A memory device includes a memory block including a first adjacent word line, a selected word line, and a second adjacent word line provided in a direction perpendicular to a substrate and an address decoding circuit. In a first setup period in which the selected word line is set up, the address decoding circuit is configured to apply a first pre-setup voltage to the first adjacent word line, apply a first setup voltage that is higher than the first pre-setup voltage to the first adjacent word line, apply a second pre-setup voltage to the second adjacent word line, and apply a second setup voltage that is higher than the second pre-setup voltage to the second adjacent word line. The first pre-setup voltage is higher than the second pre-setup voltage.
US12141442B2
An input/output (I/O) write request directed at memory devices is received by a processing device. The write request includes a data object. The memory devices include groups of memory cells corresponding to sequential logical addresses. The data object is appended to a compound data object associated with one of the memory devices. The compound data object is associated with the groups of memory cells. A first group of memory cells is in the not-full state, and one or more subsequent, in an order corresponding to the sequential logical addresses, groups of memory cells is identified as a free group of memory cells. The compound data object is caused to be written to the groups of memory cells, resulting in the full state of the first group of memory cells and resulting in the not-full state of at least one of the one or more subsequent groups of memory.
US12141435B2
A device includes a memory bank. The memory bank includes data portions of a first way group. The data portions of the first way group include a data portion of a first way of the first way group and a data portion of a second way of the first way group. The memory bank further includes data portions of a second way group. The device further includes a configuration register and a controller configured to individually allocate, based on one or more settings in the configuration register, the first way and the second way to one of an addressable memory space and a data cache.
US12141418B2
This disclosure relates to adaptive content control and display for internet media. A playback component provides for playback of media content. An input component detects user inputs during playback of the content. In response to the user inputs being detected, a menu component displays a level of a pivot menu during playback of the content. The pivot menu is displayed on top, or in front, of a portion of the content during playback, and the pivot menu can be at least partially transparent to enable consumption of the content to continue without complete obstruction.
US12141412B2
Provided is a mobile terminal including a display unit on which multiple divisional screen regions are output, and a controller that, when receiving an input for a division mode in which the display unit is divided into the multiple screen regions, generates a list region including an icon corresponding to an application and divides the displaying unit into a first and second screen regions with the list region in between, in which when a pair icon including a first icon corresponding to a first application and a second icon corresponding to a second application is selected from the list region, the controller executes the first and second applications on one of the first and second screen regions according to positions of the first and second icons arranged on the pair icon, respectively.
US12141409B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one housing, a display panel disposed to be visible at least in part from an outside in an inner space of the at least one housing, and a digitizer disposed under the display panel. The digitizer includes a dielectric sheet including a plurality of layers, a plurality of first conductive patterns disposed in a first layer of the dielectric sheet and arranged at a predetermined interval to have a length in a first direction, and a plurality of second conductive patterns disposed in a second layer of the dielectric sheet different from the first layer and arranged at a predetermined interval to have a length in a second direction different from the first direction. A thickness of the plurality of second conductive patterns may be thicker than that of the plurality of first conductive patterns.
US12141404B2
A display device includes a display panel and an input sensor on the display panel, the input sensor including sensing electrodes, signal lines connected to the sensing electrodes, an insulating layer on the signal lines, and inspection lines on the insulating layer and electrically connected to each other, each of the inspection lines respectively overlapping a corresponding one of the signal lines.
US12141401B2
The present invention involves replicating the existing state in a system to store in memory for detecting variations due to added factors. Based on the stored values in the memory, changes in the system are detected. A certain electronic circuit is used to extract these replicated values, and the values output from the electronic circuit are fed back. The adjusted input variables are then extracted and stored in memory.
US12141394B2
Disclosed is an input-sensing part which includes first sensing electrodes each receiving a driving signal every frame, and second sensing electrodes insulated from the first sensing electrodes and extending to intersect the first sensing electrodes. A cycle of the driving signal is defined by a period of a first signal and a period of a second signal, which is a signal following the first signal and is lower in level than the first signal. A frequency of the driving signal is variable. When the frequency of the driving signal changes, the first period is fixed, and the second period changes.
US12141391B2
A pairing method between a stylus and a position detecting apparatus that detects a position pointed to by the stylus includes: sharing, by the position detecting apparatus, a sensor identifier (ID) that is included in an uplink signal transmitted to the stylus while the stylus and the position detecting apparatus are proximate to each other at or within a predetermined distance, the sensor ID uniquely identifying the position detecting apparatus; and determining, by the position detecting apparatus using the sensor ID, whether information is transmitted from the stylus, the information being transmitted via a first wireless communication having a range that is longer than the predetermined distance.
US12141389B2
An electronic device according to an example embodiment includes: a touch panel configured to sense a touch input; a display panel configured to output an image; a touch and display driver integration (TDDI) configured to control the touch panel and the display panel; and an interface circuit for data interfacing with a host, wherein the TDDI is configured to receive touch firmware data from the host via the interface circuit, and manage the touch firmware data by using at least one of a first volatile memory included in the interface circuit and the TDDI.
US12141388B2
A touch interface includes a plate, at least one actuation transducer, at least one detector, and an amplification circuit. The plate defines a contact surface intended to be touched by an external body. The at least one actuation transducer is configured to make the plate vibrate as a function of an activation signal. The at least one detector is configured to detect an amplitude of a vibration of the plate and to generate a detection signal dependent on the detected vibration amplitude. The amplification circuit extends between an input and an output. The input is linked to the detector, and the output is linked to the actuation transducer. The interface also includes a processing unit configured to estimate an intensity of a pressing force exerted on the contact surface by the external body and to generate a force signal depending on the estimated intensity of the force.
US12141378B2
A system for managing anger during consumption of video content. The system includes a visual display device having a display screen displaying the video content; a computer hardware configured to interrupt, on the display screen, a de-escalation content over the video content via the visual display device, wherein the computer is embodied in a dongle electrically connected to a port of the visual display device; and a handheld actuator configured to emit an anger signal that causes the computer hardware to overlay the de-escalation content, wherein the actuator is configured to detect the computer hardware is operatively associated with the visual display device, and wherein the actuator is form factored to resemble an empowering object.
US12141371B2
A first electronic device controls a second electronic device to measure a position of the first electronic device. The first electronic device includes a motion sensor, a network interface circuit, a processor, and a memory. The motion sensor senses motion of the first electronic device. The network interface circuit communicates with the second electronic device. The memory stores program code that is executed by the processor to perform operations that include, responsive to determining that the first electronic device has a level of motion that satisfies a defined rule, transmitting a request for the second electronic device to measure a position of the first electronic device. The position of the first electronic device is sensed and then stored in the memory. An acknowledgement is received from the second electronic device indicating that it has stored sensor data that can be used to measure the position of the first electronic device.
US12141364B2
A wearable device for communicating with at least one counterpart device according to a trigger event and a control method are provided. The wearable device includes a display module and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to control the display module such that at least one graphical object is displayed in a display area, identify whether a user's body part is positioned in a first area, identify a group corresponding to the first area, based on a fact that the user's body part is positioned in the first area, identify whether a trigger event by the user is detected while the user's body part is positioned in the first area, and perform, based on the detection of the trigger event, a function corresponding to the trigger event with respect to at least one counterpart device included in the identified group.
US12141359B1
A vibration feedback device and control method thereof are provided. The vibration feedback device includes a substrate, a frame and a plurality of displacement restoration devices; one end of each displacement restoration device is connected to the frame, and the other end is connected to the substrate; one side of the substrate is the user operation surface, and the other side includes at least one driving coil, at least one induction coil, a controller and a driver; the frame also includes a first magnet set corresponding to the driving coil and a second magnet set corresponding to the induction coil; the controller processes the signal obtained by the induction coil to drive the vibration feedback device to achieve a reliable vibration suppression effect.
US12141357B2
An information processor (10m) includes a control unit (104). On a basis of position information indicating a perceptual position that causes a haptic stimulus to be perceived in a haptic presentation device (2) and on a basis of haptic stimulus type information specifying a type of the haptic stimulus, and in accordance with an arrangement of one or more haptic stimulus units provided in the haptic presentation device (2), the control unit (104) generates a haptic control signal to each of the haptic stimulus units for presentation of the haptic stimulus of the type specified at the perceptual position, and a script in which time information on a reproduction content and one or more of the generated haptic control signals are associated with each other.
US12141353B1
Systems and methods for displaying dynamic closed-captioning content are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a user monitoring device for monitoring one or more characteristics of at least one user viewing display content produced by a display device, one or more processors, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more instructions to receive user data from the user monitoring device that corresponds to the one or more characteristics of the at least one user, determine a comprehension state of the at least one user based at least in part on the user data, and adjust a closed-captioning state of closed-captioning of the display content based on the comprehension state.
US12141349B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for indicating an attentiveness of a user of a head-mounted display (HMD) device. The HMD device may include a camera configured to capture images of the surrounding environment, an electronic display configured to display the images captured by the camera, and one or more sensors configured to track a direction of gaze of the user. In some aspects, the HMD device may output an attention cue based on the images displayed on the electronic display and the user's direction of gaze. The attention cue may indicate an attentiveness of the user to a person or object in the surrounding environment. In some implementations, the attention cue may be output via an attention indicator disposed on an outer surface of the HMD device. In some other implementations, the attention cue may be output via a communication interface that communicates with another HMD device.
US12141344B2
Methods and systems for providing augment reality overlay associated with a real-world object includes detecting a gaze target of a user viewing the real-world environment using a pair of AR glasses by tracking a gaze of the user. Position parameters affecting the gaze of the user are tracked and one or more attributes of the gaze target are selectively corrected to allow the user to maintain their gaze on the gaze target. An AR trigger element associated with the gaze target is triggered in response to the gaze of the user. The AR trigger element provides additional information related to the gaze target selected by the user.
US12141334B2
A method initializes a security bus in a security bus system. The method includes scanning the security bus in order to identify slave units connected to the security bus, and determining, for each identified slave unit, whether the slave unit is a standard slave unit or a slave unit that itself provides input data for the security controller. The method further includes assigning, for each identified slave unit, an address to the slave unit. If the slave unit is a standard slave unit, then the slave unit is automatically assigned a communication address. If the slave unit is a slave unit that itself provides input data for the security controller, then the slave unit is automatically assigned a communication address and additionally a security address. The method also includes storing the addresses assigned to the identified slave units in order to initialize the security bus.
US12141332B2
A computation procedure change unit (100) changes a computation procedure, each time a computation execution time arrives to execute computation that uses a learning parameter having a value to be adjusted by machine learning, irregularly to a computation procedure which is different from a pre-change computation procedure and with which the same computation result as a computation result obtained by executing computation in accordance with the pre-change computation procedure is obtained. A computation execution unit (101) executes computation that uses the learning parameter, each time the computation execution time arrives, in accordance with the computation procedure that has been changed by the computation procedure change unit (100).
US12141331B2
This document describes methods and systems that use an undefined lifecycle state identifier to manage security of a system-on-chip (SoC) integrated circuit (IC) device. As part of the described techniques, the SoC IC device may include a first set of logic integrated circuitry that determines that a first combination of bit values fails to correspond to a known lifecycle state identifier. The first set of logic integrated circuitry may then provide, to a second set of logic integrated circuitry, a second combination of bit values that corresponds to the undefined lifecycle state identifier. The second set of logic integrated circuitry may then place the SoC IC device into an undefined lifecycle state.
US12141329B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to use authentication information of a first user who is registered in plural electronic signature services and uses the electronic signature services, to acquire at least one of contract information regarding a contract using each electronic signature service or service information, from each electronic signature service, the authentication information being provided for each of the electronic signature services and used for using the electronic signature service, and the service information being information regarding each electronic signature service, display a check screen in association with the acquired at least one of the contract information or the service information and the electronic signature service as an acquisition source, the check screen being used for checking the plural electronic signature services, and receive selection of the electronic signature service used by the first user on the check screen.
US12141320B2
A system and method for secure permissioning of access to user accounts, including secure distribution of aggregated user account data can include generating a financial report based on account information associated with one or more user accounts; receiving a financial report request for the financial report of the user account, wherein the financial report request is identified as being received from a third-party system; generating an audit report token associated with the financial report; sharing the audit token with the first third-party system in response to the financial report request; and providing the first third-party system account access to the financial report through the report token, where the audit report token can be shared with a second third-party system and provided by the second third-party system in order to confirm authorization to the report and integrity of the report.
US12141314B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for an end-to-end system for detecting and responding to known secrets leaked on a computing platform. By securely retrieving secret data from a repository of known secrets, the platform can detect whether potential secrets are leaked in digital documents generated by applications or services of the platform, and compare the potential secrets with known secrets in the repository. The system deterministically and accurately identifies whether secrets were leaked in a digital document, and can also identify both the source of the leakage and the affected users, devices, or groups of users and devices on the platform.
US12141308B2
Systems, devices, and/or computer-implemented methods for secure offline data storage are provided herein. More particularly, a system is provided that permits access to a data storage device when offline from various components of the system. Furthermore, the disclosed system may permit the re-setting of authentication passwords/PINs for the data storage devices, even when such data storage devices are offline from other components of the system.
US12141307B2
Masking JavaScript in an embedded browser of an application display identifies areas within the embedded browser that are to be masked to a screensharing client, to enable the screensharing client to redact corresponding regions of the application display when the application display is transmitted on a screenshare session. A list of CSS selectors is provided to the masking script identifying HTML elements in the DOM that are to be masked. The masking script determines the locations and sizes of the HTML elements within the embedded browser and reports the masked areas to a screensharing client. The screensharing client correlates the masked areas within the embedded browser to regions of the application display containing the embedded browser. The screensharing client redacts the correlated regions from the screensharing data and does not transmit the redacted regions to prevent information appearing in the redacted regions from being transmitted on the screenshare session.
US12141304B1
Aspects herein relate to storing information concerning rights and liabilities or other records on distributed ledgers. A method disclosed can include identifying a transferor blockchain associated with rights and liabilities for transfer from a transferor to an acquirer, identifying an acquirer blockchain associated with the acquirer, creating an interim blockchain including the rights and liabilities, generating entries to the transferor blockchain removing the rights and liabilities, and generating entries to the acquirer blockchain adding the rights and liabilities. Another method disclosed can include identifying a critical record of a party, identifying a blockchain associated with the party, and generating an entry on the blockchain associated with the critical record, the entry having permissions related to at least the party.
US12141302B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for integrated data privacy services. An example method includes determining, by a data privacy integration service, a condition that indicates that all applications in a multiple-application landscape are to attempt a blocking operation on at least one object as part of a data privacy integration protocol. Blocking responder group configurations are identified that group applications in the multiple-application landscape into multiple blocking responder groups for performing blocking operations in response to requests from the data privacy integration service. A blocking command to perform a blocking operation on the at least one object is sent to applications in a first blocking responder group. Blocking statuses are received from each of the applications in the first blocking responder group and a determination is made as to whether all received blocking statuses indicate successful completion of the blocking command.
US12141301B2
Using entropy to prevent inclusion of pay load data in code execution log data. Embodiments determine that a payload data item associated with code execution log data has entropy exceeding a defined entropy threshold and identify a particular executable code that interacted with the payload data item. Embodiments then take a preventative action that excludes the pay load data item from inclusion with a record of execution of the particular executable code. Examples of preventative actions include preventing the pay load data item from being exported from the computer system, preventing the pay load data item from being included in the code execution log data, and adding the payload data item to a block list in reference to the particular executable code.
US12141290B2
A computer implemented method includes determining a first level of risk based on a context of source code as stored. A second level of risk is determined based on a change history of the source code. A third level of risk is determined by assessing a nature of changes to the source code. The first, second, and third levels of risk are combined to generate an indication of trust in the source code.
US12141286B2
Implementations described herein relate to establishing a chain of ownership of a device. In some implementations, the device may determine first ownership metadata based on first ownership data associated with the device. The device may split the first ownership metadata into a first portion of first ownership metadata and a second portion of first ownership metadata. The device may store, in the memory of the device, the first portion of first ownership metadata. The device may transmit, to a server, the second portion of first ownership metadata for storage in a blockchain ledger of a blockchain node. A chain of ownership associated with the device may be established based on a combination of the first portion of first ownership metadata stored in the memory of the device and the second portion of first ownership metadata stored in the blockchain ledger.
US12141285B2
A method for identifying malicious software includes receiving and executing a software application, identifying a plurality of uniform resource identifiers the software application interacts with during execution of the software application, and generating a vector representation for the software application using a feed-forward neural network configured to receive the plurality of uniform resource identifiers as feature inputs. The method also includes determining similarity scores for a pool of training applications, each similarity score associated with a corresponding training application and indicating a level of similarity between the vector representation for the software application and a respective vector representation for the corresponding training application. The method also includes flagging the software application as belonging to a potentially harmful application category when one or more of the training applications have similarity scores that satisfy a similarity threshold and include a potentially harmful application label.
US12141284B2
A method, system and computer program, implemented by a computer, for detecting anomalies in an information system (IS) including a detection phase for an entity of the IS and at a time window, called a current unitary window. The detection phase includes generating a digital signature, called a unitary signature, representative of a behavior of the entity during the current unitary window based on data relative to the entity and collected during the current unitary window. The detection phase also includes calculating an anomaly score, associated with the entity for the current unitary window, based on the unitary signature and a digital signature, called a reference. The reference is previously calculated for the entity and is representative of the activity of the entity over a period preceding the current unitary window. Each digital signature is generated using a generator based on previously trained deep learning Siamese neural networks.
US12141279B2
In a backdoor inspection apparatus, a static analysis unit executes static analysis processing for a backdoor on each code block included in target software to be inspected to thereby specify a first code block and a condition, the first code possibly being the backdoor and the first code block being executed under the condition. Next, the static analysis unit outputs the target software to which first information indicating the specified first code block is added and second information indicating the specified condition to a dynamic analysis unit. The dynamic analysis unit controls dynamic analysis processing for the backdoor performed on the target software to which the first information is added based on the first information and the second information.
US12141275B2
A system for configuring an intrusion detection system. The system includes an input device, a display device, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive input, via the input device. The input the electronic processor receives includes a previous configuration file, a databus configuration file, and user input. The electronic processor is also configured to run, with an intrusion detection system configuration tool, a simulation of communication on a vehicle communication system based on the input received and display, on the display device, results of running the simulation with the intrusion detection system configuration tool. The electronic processor is further configured to output a new configuration file and a file configured to be uploaded to a vehicle.
US12141270B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for comprehensive user-centric protection of digital assets are disclosed. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to identify digital assets associated with a protection threat surface, detect protection events corresponding to threats associated with the digital assets, and determine protection vectors associated with the digital assets based on the protection events, the protection vectors corresponding to protection capabilities associated with the digital assets.
US12141267B1
The disclosed technology teaches an implementation for leveraging self-sovereign credentials held on mobile devices to provision credentials that empower one party (“recipient” or “user”, used synonymously herein) to obtain credentialed access to information and resources on behalf of another party (“sender” or “administrator”, used synonymously herein), without either party exposing private key information to each other or to the cloud. The sender is able to revoke user credentials at any time. Parties are able to leverage commodity hardware to automatically mutually authenticate their credentials and access available relevant options and workflows.
US12141266B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating frictionless credential provisioning on a user computing device are provided. Special “frictionless tokens” (e.g. ownership tokens) may be generated for each existing credential in a user's digital wallet. Such tokens may be stored in a user's AE locker (e.g. iCloud keychain) and synchronized across the user's devices using any suitable security features (e.g. using any suitable secure enclave processor (“SEP”)-based encryption). Such a token, as may be stored in a device's SEP, may be configured only to be read on that physical device. In this manner, the user may no longer need provide further proof of ownership of a credential or be hassled by passing any other challenge, but, instead, the additional security may be achieved using the ownership token, which may use the user's AE or device passcode in association with the user's physical device (and its SEP).
US12141260B2
In an authentication device, an image conversion unit converts a visible light image obtained by capturing a region including an iris of a subject in visible light, and generates a converted image. For example, the image conversion unit converts the visible light image into a monochrome image. A feature value extraction unit extracts a feature value of the converted image. A collation unit performs authentication of the subject by collating the feature value extracted from the converted image with a feature value generated from an infrared image of an iris.
US12141258B2
A method controls access to at least one confidential data access to which by a function of a watch requires an identification of its wearer. The method includes authenticating the wearer of the watch to authorise access to the functions of this watch, selecting one of the functions of the watch requiring the use of at least one of the confidential or general data archived in the memory element, determining the category to which the at least one data required by the function belongs, verifying the identity of the wearer of the watch from at least one biometric information element comprised within a portion of the skin of this wearer when the at least one data is the confidential data, and authorizing use of the at least one confidential data by the function as soon as the identity of the wearer of the watch is verified.
US12141257B2
The disclosure relates to a vehicle and a fingerprint authentication method of the vehicle, and is aimed to enable a user to more conveniently perform user authentication through concretization of a fingerprint authentication process. The vehicle according to the disclosure includes a start button configured to start an engine; and a fingerprint recognition module including a fingerprint sensor provided in a portion of the start button and configured to recognize a user's fingerprint for fingerprint authentication, the fingerprint recognition module configured to perform service interworking authentication for using a service provided in the vehicle and fingerprint recognition starting authentication for starting the engine, and process the service interworking authentication when a request for the service interworking authentication and a request for the fingerprint recognition starting authentication are issued at the same time.
US12141246B2
A facility for retrieving content. The facility invokes an API, as part of the invocation passing to the API: (1) information identifying one or more units of content to return; and (2) an indication that an entity on behalf of which the invocation is performed attests that the entity is compliant with a license that applies to the identified units of content. The facility receives a response to the API invocation that contains the identified units of content.
US12141242B2
An image data classification method which includes distributing image data to n users is provided. N marks corresponding to the image data are collected by collecting the mark made by each of the n users on the image data. Once target marks are determined from the n marks and a rate of the target marks is calculated, a quality of the image data is determined according to the rate of the target marks.
US12141238B2
Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for classification using a clustering autoencoder. A method can include obtaining content to be classified by the DNN classifier, and operating the DNN classifier to determine a classification of the received content, the DNN classifier including a clustering classification layer that clusters based on a latent feature vector representation of the content, the classification corresponding to one or more clusters that are closest to the latent feature vector providing the classification and a corresponding confidence.
US12141236B1
Systems and methods for improving training processes for image and text applications are described. A first set of embeddings may be generated based on a text input, and a second set of embeddings may be generated via a convolutional neural network (CNN), based on an input image. The first set of embeddings and the second set of embeddings may be utilized to generate a third set of embeddings including one or more placeholder values to be replaced. The placeholder values may be replaced based on predicted values, to reconstruct the input text and image.
US12141228B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure propose a deep learning processing apparatus and method, device and storage medium, relating to the field of artificial intelligence. A deep learning processing apparatus includes: at least one matrix multiply-add module, configured to perform a matrix multiply-add operation of a convolution kernel parameter value matrix of a convolutional layer in a convolutional neural network and a first error gradient value matrix to obtain a plurality of intermediate matrices; a storage apparatus, configured to store the plurality of intermediate matrices without reshaping elements in the plurality of intermediate matrices; and a plurality of matrix accumulation modules, configured to read the plurality of intermediate matrices from the storage apparatus and perform a matrix accumulation operation based on the plurality of intermediate matrices according to a convolution scheme of the convolutional layer in parallel, to obtain a second error gradient value matrix for the convolutional layer.
US12141227B2
An adaptive matrix multiplier. In some embodiments, the matrix multiplier includes a first multiplying unit a second multiplying unit, a memory load circuit, and an outer buffer circuit. The first multiplying unit includes a first inner buffer circuit and a second inner buffer circuit, and the second multiplying unit includes a first inner buffer circuit and a second inner buffer circuit. The memory load circuit is configured to load data from memory, in a single burst of a burst memory access mode, into the first inner buffer circuit of the first multiplying unit; and into the first inner buffer circuit of the second multiplying unit.
US12141225B2
Neural networks, in many cases, include convolution layers that are configured to perform many convolution operations that require multiplication and addition operations. Compared with performing multiplication on integer, fixed-point, or floating-point format values, performing multiplication on logarithmic format values is straightforward and energy efficient as the exponents are simply added. However, performing addition on logarithmic format values is more complex. Conventionally, addition is performed by converting the logarithmic format values to integers, computing the sum, and then converting the sum back into the logarithmic format. Instead, logarithmic format values may be added by decomposing the exponents into separate quotient and remainder components, sorting the quotient components based on the remainder components, summing the sorted quotient components using an asynchronous accumulator to produce partial sums, and multiplying the partial sums by the remainder components to produce a sum. The sum may then be converted back into the logarithmic format.
US12141205B2
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform.
US12141204B2
A method of generating a unified graph is described. First graph data is received from a first data source, nodes within the first graph data including first, second, and third fields. Second graph data is received from a second data source, nodes within the second graph data including first, second, and fourth fields. The unified graph is generated from the first and second graph data using aggregated fields of the first field and the third field as a unique identifier of a unified schema for nodes within the unified graph having a first type and aggregated fields of the first field and the fourth field as a unique identifier of the unified schema for nodes within the unified graph having a second type, wherein nodes of the unified graph represent entities and edges of the unified graph represent relationships among the entities.
US12141189B1
A method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and system is disclosed for using context-based dictionaries to search through multimedia data using input that specifies tags, words, phrases, descriptions, environments, emotions, sentiments, multimedia objects or content, or other relevant attributes. The system retrieves original content, analyzes and processes it, and presents to the user synchronized multimedia content and text content that is automatically tagged for searching. The system creates dictionaries containing word definitions and information that have been customized according to context; in addition, the system creates textual and non-linguistic attributes that enable and enhance searching functions; moreover, it enables modification of the dictionary entries as well as its searching functions through a feedback loop that may include input from human users and artificial intelligence programs; furthermore, the system may be used to create or modify a linguistic or a multimedia instantiation of a story.
US12141185B2
Conventionally, text summarization has been rule-based method and neural network based which required large dataset for training and the summary delivered had to be assessed by user in terms of relevancy. System and method are provided by present disclosure that generate causal insight summaries wherein event of importance is detected, and it is determined why event is relevant to a user. Text description is processed for named entities recognition, polarities of sentences identified, extraction of causal effects sentences (CES) and causal relationship identification in text segments which correspond to impacting events. Named entities are then role labeled. A score is computed for named entities, polarities of sentences, causal effects sentences, causal relationships, and the impacting events. A causal insight summary is generated with overall polarity being computed/determined. A customized causal insight summary is delivered to target users based on user preferences associated with specific named entities and impacting events.
US12141183B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing and executing queries against one or more dataset sources, where the queries identify a set of data to be processed and a manner of processing the set of data. To query the dataset sources, a query coordinator generates a query processing scheme that includes a dynamic allocation of multiple layers of partitions. The query is then executed based on the query processing scheme.
US12141175B2
A method (and system) includes retrieving a dataset from a database creating a report including a graphical representation of the dataset, the graphical representation of the dataset including a freely positionable and scalable data container and displaying the report on a graphical user interface. The report has a free-form layout in which each container is freely positionable and is freely scalable such that a change in size and/or location of one container does not affect a size and/or location of any other container in the report.
US12141174B2
The example embodiments are directed to a system and method that applies knowledge developed by a subject matter expert with respect to a physical asset. In one example, the method includes receiving knowledge and issue resolution information developed of subject matter experts in association with historical issues for an asset, generating a plurality of data clusters for the asset based on the knowledge, wherein each historical issue of the asset is mapped to a cluster and includes a plurality of resolutions for the issue, receiving a new issue and new issue information, and processing the new issue by extracting keywords from the new issue information and assigning the new issue to a data cluster from among the plurality of data clusters based on the extracted keywords, and outputting, to a display, a cause of the new issue and potential solutions for the new issue.
US12141161B1
A data stream conversion service may crawl a non-relational database to determined database attributes that characterize the data structure of the non-relational database. The data stream conversion service may evaluate the one or more attributes of the non-relational database to generate a schema for a relational database, wherein the schema maps the non-relational database attributes to respective fields of a relational database. The data stream conversion service may generate a relational database using the determined schema and replicate a data stream for the non-relational database to the relational database.
US12141158B2
A search engine responding to a user query to find relevant data assets in a federation business data lake (FBDL) system by monitoring and recording all of the interactions of users interacting with data assets in the FBDL system, providing all of the user interactions to a recommendation engine, calculating relevance of information in the FBDL system to each user, and recommending one or more new data assets to a target user based on the relevance of the information. The relevance comprises the target user's past interactions with the data assets based and the cumulative interactions of other users with the data assets, such that if one or more of the other users has similar interaction behavior to the target user, then knowledge of the one or more other users can impact the relevance of the information with regard to the one or more new data assets suggested to the target user.
US12141151B2
A method and system operable for: receiving a search query including search terms; using a machine learning module, selecting features of the search terms and mapping an association between the search terms and a domain object, thereby generating a domain object classification; tagging the domain object with the domain object classification; and using the domain object tagged with the domain object classification to conduct a subsequent search. Conducting the subsequent search includes: receiving a subsequent search query including subsequent search terms; tokenizing the subsequent search terms; finding permutations of the tokenized subsequent search terms; matching the subsequent search terms to the domain object tagged with the domain object classification; and displaying subsequent search results via a user interface.
US12141134B1
Disclosed is method for guiding Large Language Models (LLMs) for task planning and execution, method comprising creating playbook database (302) comprising set of playbooks (SOP); obtaining user query (308) received by Large Language Model (LLM) (306, 208); determining whether or not given task (GT) matches corresponding descriptor of any playbook from amongst SOP; and wherein when it is determined that GT matches given descriptor of given playbook (GP) (314, 400) from amongst SOP, LLM selects one or more ET (212, 316); a software framework associated with the LLM tracks and executes the given set of sub-tasks in the given playbook, using the one or more external tools, in coordination with the LLM; and LLM generates query response including results of the execution of the given set of sub-tasks, and sends the query response to the user device.
US12141129B2
Some embodiments provide a program that receives a selection of a data object relationship definition. The data object relationship definition specifies a plurality of data objects managed by a plurality of applications and a set of relationships between data objects in the plurality of data objects. The program sends each application in a first subset of the plurality of applications a request for instances of data objects in the plurality of data objects managed by the application. The program receives, from each application in the first subset of the plurality of applications, a list of a set of candidate instances of data objects. Based on the list of the sets of candidate instances of data objects, the program further determines a set of groups of instances of data objects. The program deletes a group of instances of data objects in the set of groups of instances of data objects.
US12141127B2
This disclosure describes systems and methods for interlinking multiple independent and separately-scalable blockchains to provide transactional provenance. The disclosed systems and methods leverage a combination of blockchain and graph data structures to interoperate between blockchains without requiring a single data structure while still providing a single chain of custody and provenance for a particular set of actions.
US12141117B2
Embodiments relate to a method for training an index selection agent for iteratively determining an index set I to be used when running queries against a database, the method being implemented in a computer system. Preferably, the index selection agent is based on Reinforcement Learning.
US12141112B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for compliance lifecycle management for cloud-based resources are disclosed. A selection is received of a compliance pack from a plurality of compliance packs. The compliance pack comprises a plurality of rules associated with policy compliance. The compliance pack is selected from the plurality of compliance packs via a user interface. The selection is associated with one or more resources hosted in one or more provider networks. An evaluation is performed of compliance of the one or more resources with respect to the plurality of rules of the compliance pack. Data describing the evaluation is generated and displayed. The data comprises an aggregate compliance status for at least one of the one or more resources, and the aggregate compliance status represents an aggregate compliance with the plurality of rules.
US12141102B2
A container system is disclosed. The container system includes a host, a daemon and an API server running in the containers of the host, and a container manager running in the host. The host has a file system. The container manager creates a source directory in the file system and mounts the source directory to a share directory of the daemon. The API server receives a request command with respect to a target directory in the file system, and the container manager bind-mounts the target directory to a sub-directory of the source directory according to the request command. In addition, the container manager responds the API server the location of the target directory in the share directory for accessing the required data through the share directory in the containers.
US12141090B2
Embodiments herein provide more efficient, more flexible, and more cost-effective ways to provide additional and/or increased functionality to an information handling system. Presented herein are embodiments of an application acceleration port interface module (which embodiments may be referred to herein for convenience as “AAPIM”) into which pluggable I/O (input/output) modules may be inserted and the other ends inserted into ports of an information handling system to provide the information handling system with increase capabilities (e.g., increased resource, such as added processing, and increased services, such as new applications or accelerated services). AAPIM embodiments are versatile solutions to address application acceleration needs that can be quickly reprogrammed to address specific needs of a user.
US12141085B2
A transmitter includes a pull-down circuit coupled between an output of the transmitter and a first rail, a first pull-up circuit coupled between a second rail and the output of the transmitter, and a second pull-up circuit coupled between the second rail and the output of the transmitter. The transmitter also includes a control circuit coupled to a control input of the first pull-up circuit and a control input of the second pull-up circuit. The control circuit is configured to output a first control signal to the control input of the first pull-up circuit, wherein the first control signal controls a drive strength of the first pull-up circuit. The control circuit is also configured to output a second control signal to the control input of the second pull-up circuit, wherein the second control signal controls a drive strength of the second pull-up circuit.
US12141083B1
One example system for preventing data loss during memory blackout events comprises a memory device, a sensor, and a controller operably coupled to the memory device and the sensor. The controller is configured to perform one or more operations that coordinate at least one memory blackout event of the memory device and at least one data transmission of the sensor.
US12141078B2
A caching system including a first sub-cache, and a second sub-cache coupled in parallel with the first sub-cache; wherein the second sub-cache includes line type bits configured to store an indication that a corresponding line of the second sub-cache is configured to store write-miss data.
US12141075B2
In one example of the present technology, an input/output memory management unit (IOMMU) of a computing device is configured to: receive a prefetch message including a virtual address from a central processing unit (CPU) core of a processor of the computing device; perform a page walk on the virtual address through a page table stored in a main memory of the computing device to obtain a prefetched translation of the virtual address to a physical address; and store the prefetched translation of the virtual address to the physical address in a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) of the IOMMU.
US12141074B2
A method of managing data in a storage device is provided. The storage device includes a plurality of nonvolatile memory chips each including a plurality of pages. A first data object is received from an external host device. The first data object has an unfixed size and corresponds to a first logical address which is a single address. Based on determining that it is impossible to store the first data in a single page among the plurality of pages, a buffering policy for the first data object is set based on at least one selection parameter. While mapping the first logical address of the first data object and a first physical address of pages in which the first data object is stored, a first buffering direction representing the buffering policy for the first data object is stored with a mapping result.
US12141064B2
A container image can be used to determine a caching algorithm for a software application. For example, a storage system can receive a context tag indicating an input/output (IO) pattern associated with a software application of a container. The context tag can be determined based on a container image of the container. The storage system can determine a caching algorithm for the software application based on the context tag. The storage system can apply the caching algorithm to the software application.
US12141052B2
According to some embodiments, a system, method and non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided to protect a cyber-physical system having a plurality of monitoring nodes comprising: a normal space data source storing, for each of the plurality of monitoring nodes, a series of normal monitoring node values over time that represent normal operation of the cyber-physical system; a situational awareness module including an abnormal data generation platform, wherein the abnormal data generation platform is operative to generate abnormal data to represent abnormal operation of the cyber-physical system using values in the normal space data source and a generative model; a memory for storing program instructions; and a situational awareness processor, coupled to the memory, and in communication with the situational awareness module and operative to execute the program instructions to: receive a data signal, wherein the received data signal is an aggregation of data signals received from one or more of the plurality of monitoring nodes, wherein the data signal includes at least one real-time stream of data source signal values that represent a current operation of the cyber-physical system; determine, via a trained classifier, whether the received data signal is a normal signal or an abnormal signal, wherein the trained classifier is trained with the generated abnormal data and normal data; localize an origin of an anomaly when it is determined the received data signal is the abnormal signal; receive the determination and localization at a resilient estimator module; execute the resilient estimator module to generate a state estimation for the cyber-physical system. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12141046B2
An input regarding security characteristics of a project is received. For example, a security characteristic of a project may be insecure storage of data related to confidentiality. The project is scanned for one or more security requirements based on the received security characteristics. A list of security requirements is built for the project based on the received first input. A machine learning process is used to identify addition of one or more security requirements and/or removal of one or more security requirements from the list of security requirements. A first security vulnerability scan is run using the list of security requirements with the one or more additional security requirements and/or the removed one or more security requirements. Results for the first security vulnerability scan are generated and displayed to a user.
US12141044B2
A computer-implemented method for cloud-based testing of a payment network may include receiving a test configuration for testing a payment processing network, configuring a simulated worker generator for generating a plurality of simulated workers according to the received test configuration, reading commands to be executed by each simulated worker among the plurality of simulated workers from a command bank according to the received test configuration, configuring the plurality of simulated workers according to the commands and the received test configuration, starting a swarm test of the payment processing network by the plurality of simulated workers, reading results of the swarm test from the plurality of simulated workers, and saving the results to storage.
US12141039B2
Techniques for providing a fencing scheme for cluster systems without inherent hardware fencing. Storage nodes in an HA cluster communicate with one another over communication paths implemented through a variety of mechanisms, including drives and network connections. Each storage node in the HA cluster executes a fencing enforcer component operable to enforce actions or processes for initiating fencing of itself and/or initiating self-fencing of another storage node in the HA cluster determined to be malfunctioning. By providing for richer communications between storage nodes in an HA cluster and a richer set of actions or processes for fencing a malfunctioning storage node including self-fencing, the malfunctioning storage node can be made to exit the HA cluster in a more controlled fashion. In addition, a remaining storage node in the HA cluster can more safely take on the role of primary storage node with reduced risk of data corruption on shared resources.
US12141034B2
Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing pre-backup tasks. The method includes obtaining, by a proxy host, a snapshot request associated with a full backup of a file system stored in a network attached storage (NAS) from a backup manager; in response to obtaining the snapshot request: instantiating a NAS container to obtain a snapshot of the file system; providing the snapshot to the NAS container; after providing the snapshot to the NAS container: generating, using the snapshot, slices associated with the file system; sorting the slices based on average file sizes associated with each slice; grouping the slices based on the average file sizes and group criteria to generate slice groups; generating a slice list specifying the slices and the slice groups; and providing the slice list to the backup manager.
US12141028B2
Methods, systems, and devices for error status determination at a memory device are described. A memory device may generate, based on syndrome bits for a codeword read from a memory, an error detection signal for the codeword that indicates whether an error has been detected in the codeword. The memory device may generate, based on the syndrome bits, an error correction signal for the codeword that indicates whether an error has been corrected in the codeword. And the memory device may provide an indication of the error detection signal and an indication of the error correction signal to a host device.
US12141022B2
A semiconductor chip with functions implemented thereon in circuitry has a first region, in which a first group of safety-relevant base functions are implemented in circuitry, and a second region, which is separated from the first region using technological safety measures and in which a first group of monitoring functions that monitor the base functions are implemented in circuitry. It also contains a third region, which is formed on the semiconductor chip and is separated from the other regions using technological safety measures and in which a second group of monitoring functions that monitor the base functions are implemented in circuitry.
US12141019B2
An expansion apparatus with a power management function includes a power supply device, an expansion module and a control module. The power supply device includes a controller and an output terminal, and provides a predetermined power through the output terminal. The expansion module includes an input port coupled to the output terminal, and multiple output ports operable to be coupled to multiple electronic apparatuses. The control module has a full-power output mode and a disabled mode, and receives a device identifier provided by the controller through the input port to learn the predetermined power, so as to selectively adjust the output ports to operate in the full-power output mode or the disabled mode based on the predetermined power, thereby limiting a total power consumed by the electronic apparatuses and the expansion module to be less than or equal to the predetermined power.
US12141016B2
In an embodiment, a system may include one or more processors forming central processing units (CPUs) in the system, a display controller configured to display frames on a display device, a memory controller configured to control a memory, and a power management circuit. The power management circuit may be configured to establish one of a plurality of power states in the system. In a first power state, the display controller and the memory controller are powered on while the CPUs are powered off. The display controller may be configured to read a plurality of prerendered frames from the memory and display the plurality of prerendered frames at times specified for each of the plurality of prerendered frames.
US12141009B2
Disclosed herein is a dynamic backup battery for updating the firmware of a media device. The media device includes a memory device that is electrically coupled to a port. The port of the media device is configured to receive a first power. The media device also includes a battery that is electrically coupled to the port and is configured to supply a second power to the port. The media device includes a processor electrically coupled to the battery and is configured to monitor the power level of the first power received and based on the power level of the first power received falling below a threshold value, the battery supplies a second power to the port of the media device. The processor is further configured to activate a low power mode, detect an event while in low power mode, deactivate low power mode, perform a task, and reactivate low power mode.
US12140998B2
Reconfigurable touch screen computing devices with folding configurations that include flexible displays made up of segments reconfigured from a folded state to an expanded state are described. The form factor of the folded state is the size of a handheld phone (including an integrated speaker and microphone). The form factor of the expanded state is the size of a tablet computer. Both states provide a configuration including a touch screen display on a front side and a protective housing on a back side. The computing devices include sensors indicating the state and mechanisms for folding, alignment, and structural support, and magnets for the devices to be locked in the folded or unfolded state. A module attached to at least one segment may contain substantially all processing and memory, and a communications system, all which may be used in either state.
US12140994B2
An accessory display device comprises a first hinge configured to engage a first side of a primary display device and a second hinge configured to engage a second side of the primary display device. The accessory display device further comprises a first display coupled to the first hinge. The first display is rotatable about the first hinge between a first use position and a first stowed position. The accessory display device further comprises a second display coupled to the second hinge. The second display is rotatable about the second hinge between a second use position and a second stowed position. The accessory display device further comprises a tensioning mechanism configured to provide tension between the first hinge and the second hinge.
US12140987B2
An electronic device for simulating load currents when testing a tow-vehicle brake controller is described. The electronic device utilizes current monitoring circuitry to measure a current of an input signal from the tow vehicle. The electronic device also includes a series of resistors that are arranged in parallel on the input signal as wells a series of switches (e.g., relays or transistors) that can activate and deactivate each one of the resistors. Microcontroller circuitry within the electronic device controls the series of switches based on the measured current of the input signal, and, by extension, controls the series of resistors applied to the input signal. In so doing, the electronic device is able to simulate a desired load current on the tow-vehicle brake controller being tested.
US12140982B2
Disclosed herein is a system including a power transistor having a first conduction terminal coupled to a supply node, a second conduction terminal coupled to an output node, and a control terminal controlled by a drive signal. The system further includes a driver configured to receive an input voltage from an external component and generate the drive signal based thereupon, and a sense circuit. The sense circuit is configured to, when the power transistor is powering a load coupled to the output node: detect whether the power transistor has entered an overload condition, and if so, determine a duration of time that the power transistor is in the overload condition; and assert a diagnostic signal in response to the duration of time being outside of a time window.
US12140976B2
Systems and techniques are described for monitoring energy use habits of consumers. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining temperature data from a monitored property. An energy model of the monitored property is generated based on the obtained temperature data. The current temperature data is obtained from the monitored property. The current temperature data is provided to the generated energy model to generate a duty-cycle for turning an HVAC system of the monitored property off an on during the on-peak hours. The HVAC system of the monitored property is instructed to cycle off and on during the on-peak hours based on the generated duty-cycle.
US12140974B1
The present disclosure relates to a method for stochastic inspections on power grid lines based on unmanned aerial vehicle-assisted edge computing. According to the method, a stochastic distributed inspection unmanned aerial vehicle is adopted to acquire video images on a target power grid area, which can reduce funds and time costs of inspections. With assistance of superior unmanned aerial vehicle, a goal is to minimize energy consumption of an unmanned aerial vehicle system and extend operation time of the unmanned aerial vehicles under same payload conditions, while processing video image data collected from the inspection unmanned aerial vehicles. The near-far effect generated by communications between mobile unmanned aerial vehicles is eliminated by introducing a NOMA, and position coordinates, system resource allocations and task offload decision schemes are solved by using a method of combining a DDPG algorithm in a Deep reinforcement learning with a genetic algorithm.
US12140972B2
In a vehicle remote instruction system, a remote commander issues a remote instruction relating to travel of an autonomous driving vehicle based on sensor information from an external sensor that detects an external environment of the autonomous driving vehicle. The vehicle remote instruction system sets a range of information to be transmitted to the remote commander among the sensor information detected by the external sensor, as a limited information range, based on the external situation or an external situation obtained based on map information and a trajectory of the autonomous driving vehicle.
US12140969B2
A watercraft running system includes a propulsion device, a steering device, a course changing operator, a port-side attitude control plate and a starboard-side attitude control plate, a port-side actuator and a starboard-side actuator, and a controller. The controller is operable in a first control mode in which the steering device is controlled according to the operation of the course changing operator and a second control mode in which the port-side actuator and the starboard-side actuator are controlled according to the operation of the course changing operator. The controller is configured or programmed to prohibit shifting from the first control mode to the second control mode if the steering position of the steering device is not a neutral position, and to permit the shift from the first control mode to the second control mode if the steering position is the neutral position.
US12140968B2
During a vertical landing state, it is decided whether to switch from the vertical landing state to a self adjusting state. The VTOL vehicle includes the flight controller, the rotor, and a fuselage where the rotor is coupled to the fuselage via a vertical connector. If it is so decided, there is a switch from the vertical landing state to the self adjusting state. During the self adjusting state, a control signal for a rotor is generated where the control signal causes: (1) the rotor to rotate during the self adjusting state and (2) the VTOL vehicle to remain in a fixed position during the self adjusting state, in response to the control signal, and independent of docking infrastructure. During a rotors off state, a rotor off control signal is generated for the rotor that causes the rotor to turn off.
US12140966B2
The invention relates to a method for a string comprising a plurality of vehicles, including a lead vehicle and at least one follower vehicle, comprising the follower vehicle following, by means of vehicle-to-vehicle communication, the lead vehicle in a follower trajectory. The method comprises generating surroundings data, regarding the surroundings of at least a part of the string, generating, using the surroundings data, a backup trajectory, which is different from the follower trajectory, wherein the generated backup trajectory, or the surroundings data, is received by at least one of the at least one follower vehicle, wherein the receiving follower vehicle follows the generated backup trajectory, upon a determination of a predetermined condition for following the generated backup trajectory.
US12140957B2
The present application is to provide a system for sensing and responding to a lateral blind spot of a mobile carrier and method thereof, which is applied for a mobile carrier during moving to a parking place. Firstly, a light scan unit and a depth image capture unit are used to scan a plurality of surrounding objects and capture a plurality of object depth images of the surrounding objects, and then a plurality of screened images are obtained according to a moving route of the mobile carrier for further obtaining correspondingly a plurality of forecasted lines to generate corresponded notice message for noting driver or ADAS. Due to the objects corresponding to the screened images and located on a blind position which is at one side of the mobile carrier, the notice message provides the driver preventing from the ignored danger by ignoring the blind position.
US12140951B2
The present disclosure provides a system, method and associated apparatus for autonomous vehicle transportation. The system includes: an operation system configured to generate a transportation plan for a vehicle and transmit the transportation plan to a vehicle controller of the vehicle; and the vehicle controller configured to control, in accordance with the transportation plan, the vehicle to autonomously move to a position of a checkpoint at an entrance to a target highway port, and interact with a checkpoint controller corresponding to the position of the checkpoint for autonomously passing the checkpoint; and control the vehicle to autonomously move from the position of the checkpoint to a specified loading/unloading position in the target highway port, and interact with a loading/unloading control apparatus for autonomous loading/unloading at the loading/unloading position. The system, method and associated apparatus can achieve fully autonomous goods transportation, save transportation costs and reduce driving security risks.
US12140950B2
Technologies and techniques for the at least the partially automated driving of a motor vehicle. A first application and at least one redundant second application provide output data depending on motor vehicle operating data and/or environmental data. Vehicle driving data for the at least partially automated driving of the motor vehicle are determined depending on the output data. Vehicle operating data from another vehicle are received, and, depending on the vehicle operating data, the at least one redundant second application switches from an active state to a standby state in which a computer instance of a computer unit used by the at least one redundant second application is at least executed at a lower frequency than in the active state.
US12140944B2
A vehicle includes an ADK that creates a driving plan, a VP that carries out vehicle control in accordance with various commands from the ADK, and a vehicle control interface that interfaces between the VP and the ADK. A power supply structure for the ADK is provided independently of a power supply structure for the VP.
US12140934B2
The apparatus includes: a storage unit configured to store a production instruction serving as an operation instruction for a production element including a production facility of a factory, a production resource, and an operator, production state information including an occurrence state of an abnormality of the production element, and facility-process relation information for identifying, for each process to be performed by the production element, another production element capable of alternatively performing the process; a planning change necessity determination unit configured to, when an abnormality in execution of the production instruction occurs in the production element, determine that planning change is unnecessary when the production instruction can be complied in consideration of a stop period of the production element that is caused by the abnormality; a distributed planning range calculation unit configured to include the another alternative production element in a re-planning target range; and a distributed planning generation unit.
US12140933B2
A system of communicating data over a high availability industrial control system is disclosed. The industrial control system includes a first data producer, a second data producer in communicative connection with the first data producer, a first data consumer, and a second data consumer in communicative connection with the first data consumer. The system further includes the first producer communicating the data over multiple connection paths from the first producer to the first consumer and the second consumer through intermediate modules, and the second producer communicating the data over multiple connection paths from the second producer to the first consumer and the second consumer through intermediate modules. Also disclosed is a method of communicating data over the high availability industrial control system.
US12140929B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device comprises: a communication unit connected to a network; and a processor for searching for, through the communication unit, a robot, which can perform an operation required for a service, among robots for providing different services, and providing the service by controlling an operation of the searched-for robot, when the service is requested from one of other electronic devices connected through the network.
US12140922B2
A PLC according to an embodiment of the present invention is disclosed. The PLC according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a master unit; and a plurality of interface units which access the master unit via a system bus. The master unit includes: a control unit for controlling input/output and processing commands; and a plurality of first RJ45 terminals for input/output of data, wherein a maximum of eight signals are arranged via each pin of each of the first RJ45 terminals. Each of the interface units includes a connection means for connecting a signal between a second RJ45 terminal for connecting a signal line from each of the first RJ45 terminals and an external device, wherein the interface units are configured to be expandable by the number of the first RJ45 terminals.
US12140913B2
A control device determines an operation scheme of an apparatus on a rule base on the basis of state information indicating the state of the apparatus or the state of an environment in which the apparatus operates, calculates a parameter for determining the content of an operation in the determined operation scheme on the basis of the state information and a learning model constructed on the basis of the operation of the apparatus based on the state information and evaluation of the operation, and commands the apparatus to execute the operation.
US12140910B2
Aspects of the technology provide a symbiotic graphical display on a client device such as a smartwatch. The system includes at least one emissive display element and at least one non-emissive display element. The display elements are arrayed in layers or other configurations such that content or other information is concurrently aligned across the respective display surfaces of the different elements. A first set of content is rendered using the non-emissive display element while a second set of content is rendered using the emissive display element. Depending on characteristics or features of a given content item, that item may be rendered by one or both of the display elements. Certain content may be transitioned from the emissive display element to the non-emissive display element according to a time threshold or other criteria.
US12140901B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body including an opening portion, and an opening-and-closing member, a process unit detachably attached to and supported by the apparatus body, the process unit including an image bearing member, a toner storage portion, and a supply portion, a sheet supporting portion, and a rotary feeding member. When viewed in a gravity direction, the supply portion is disposed on a same side as a side on which the sheet supporting portion is disposed with respect to the image bearing member, and the opening portion is disposed on a side opposite to the side on which the sheet supporting portion is disposed with respect to the image bearing member. In a case where the opening-and-closing member is positioned at an opening position, the process unit is configured to be attached to and detached from the apparatus body through the opening portion.
US12140895B2
An image forming apparatus includes a density detector that detects a density of a fog image formed on an image bearing member, a temporary determiner that determines a temporary fog margin which is a fog margin representing a difference between a developing bias to be applied to a toner bearing member and a charging bias to be applied to a charging device for charging the image bearing member based on a density detected by the density detector, and a corrector that corrects the temporary fog margin based on a change rate of a density detected by the density detector with respect to a change of a fog margin.
US12140893B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, a fixing unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit forms a toner image on a recording material. The fixing unit heats and fix the toner image formed on the recording material to the recording material in a fixing nip portion. The fixing unit includes a heater and a nip portion forming member that forms the fixing nip portion to pinch and convey the recording material. The control unit control the power to be supplied to the heater so as to change a temperature gradient at time of warm-up of the fixing unit to a target temperature in accordance with time from start of power supply to the heater until entry of the recording material into the fixing nip portion.
US12140885B2
A cartridge attachable to and detachable from an image forming apparatus forming an image on a recording material, the cartridge includes: an image bearing member; a developer container that contains therein a developer; a developing member that is rotatable and carries the developer supplied from the developer container and supplies the developer to the image bearing member; a developer supplying member that is rotatable and provided in the developer container and in contact with the developing member to supply the developer to a surface of the developing member; and a contact member provided in the developer container and in contact with a surface of the developer supplying member, wherein the developer remaining on the image bearing member after image formation is collected to the developing member, and the developer collected to the developing member is collected into the developer container.
US12140882B2
A developing cartridge includes: a casing; a developing roller rotatable about a developing axis extending in a first direction and positioned at one end portion of the casing in a second direction crossing the first direction; a developing electrode electrically connected to the developing roller and positioned at one end portion of the casing in the first direction; a supply roller rotatable about a supply axis extending in the first direction and configured to supply toner to the developing roller; a supply electrode electrically connected to the supply roller and positioned at one end portion of the casing in the first direction; and an IC chip having an electrical contact surface positioned at one end portion of the casing in the first direction. The electrical contact surface is positioned opposite the developing electrode in the second direction with respect to a part of the supply electrode.
US12140875B2
Methods and apparatus for determining a parameter of a structure fabricated in or on a substrate and compensated for a drift error. The methods comprising: illuminating, at a plurality of times, at least part of the structure with electromagnetic radiation, the at least part of the structure being at a first orientation; sensing, at the plurality of times, a plurality of average reflectances of the at least part of the structure; and determining, based on the plurality of average reflectances, an estimation of the parameter at one or more further times.
US12140873B2
A positioning device, including: a first positioning module arranged to support and position a first substrate, a second positioning module arranged to support and position a second substrate, a first positioning field in which the first and second positioning modules can be alternatingly positioned to carry out a first processing sequence, a second positioning field in which the first and second positioning modules can be alternatingly positioned to carry out a second processing sequence, wherein when one of the first and second positioning modules is carrying out or finishing the first processing sequence, the other of the first and second positioning modules has finished the second processing sequence and is positioned closer to the one of the first and second positioning modules.
US12140871B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to lithography systems. More particularly, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a system, and a software application for a lithography process to control transmittance rate of write beams and write gray tone patterns in a single exposure operation. In one embodiment, a plurality of shots are provided by an image projection system in a lithography system to a photoresist layer. The plurality of shots exposes the photoresist layer to an intensity of light emitted from the image projection system. The local transmittance rate of the plurality of shots within an exposure area is varied to form varying step heights in the exposure area of the photoresist layer.
US12140864B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to pattern replication, imprint lithography, and more particularly to methods and apparatuses for creating a large area imprint without a seam. Methods disclosed herein generally include filling seams between pairs of masters with a filler material such that the seams are flush with a surface of the masters having a plurality of features disposed thereon.
US12140857B2
A method of scanning a substrate and determining scratches of the substrate includes transmitting a converging beam of light that comprises multiple wavelengths to the substrate. Each wavelength of the multiple wavelengths focuses at a different distance in a focus interval around and including a surface of the substrate. The method also includes receiving reflected light from the surface of the substrate and determining a height or depth of the surface of the substrate based on a wavelength of the reflected light a highest intensity.
US12140855B2
Active areas of image sensors are determined by one or more parameters defining a mergeline or memory addresses where image data is stored. Image data generated by active areas of different image sensors are combined to create a panoramic image. Image distortion is detected in image data generated by an active area of an image sensor. Distortion in image data is addressed by configured image processing instructions. A group of one or more processors is assigned to at least each image sensor. At least one set of instructions assures that image data generated by different image sensors creates a combined image of a video with a substantially seamless transition between areas. Curved image sensors limit distortion. Cameras are fixedly held in a calibrated body.
US12140830B2
A display device can include a display panel, a frame at a rear of the display panel, a back cover at a rear of the frame, and a front cover coupled with the back cover, which includes a horizontal part covering an edge of a front surface of the display panel, and a vertical part rearwardly extending from the horizontal part and covering a side of the display panel. Also, the back cover includes a horizontal portion facing the rear, a vertical portion extending from the horizontal portion aligned with the vertical part, and a coupling portion protruding from an inside of the back cover and extending along an inner surface of the vertical portion with a gap between the inner surface of the vertical portion and the coupling portion, and the horizontal part includes a first horizontal part, and a second horizontal part positioned farther away from a center of the display panel.
US12140821B2
A progressive addition lens and the related technology, the 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 between the near portion and the distance portion and having a progressive refraction function, in which the transmission astigmatism is added to the near portion and the intermediate portion of the distance portion, the near portion, and the intermediate portion, and in the near portion and the intermediate portion to which the transmission astigmatism is added, the progressive addition lens further includes a portion where an amount of horizontal refractive power is greater than an amount of vertical refractive power after subtracting the refractive power for astigmatism correction.
US12140815B2
A fibre optic pulling grip assembly, comprising a sleeve, connection sleeve, swivel pulling eye unit, fitting, clamp, and a securing unit is provided. The sleeve has a sleeve coupling portion and sleeve body. The connection sleeve has a connection sleeve head and connection sleeve body. The swivel pulling eye unit has a pulling eye swivel portion and pulling eye body. The connection sleeve body is configured for fixed assembly of the pulling eye body therewithin, the sleeve coupling portion is configured for fixed assembly of the connection sleeve body therewithin, and the fitting is configured for fixed assembly of the sleeve coupling portion therewithin. The clamp has a clamp securing portion and clamping portion. The securing unit moves longitudinally toward the clamping portion, such that the fitting is moved to assemble to the sleeve coupling portion, applying pressure to the sleeve coupling portion supported by the connection sleeve body.
US12140812B2
A main fanout includes a plurality of intermediate fanout devices that are connected to one another. Each intermediate fanout device can be assembled separately and then connected together to form the main fanout. Each intermediate fanout device is connected to an intermediate cable of a main cable and a plurality of optical fibers of each intermediate cable is positioned within at least one furcation tube. The plurality of optical fibers and at least one furcation tube are secured to a main body of each intermediate fanout device. Each intermediate fanout device includes a mating feature to connect to adjacent intermediate fanout devices with a like mating feature. The mating feature reduces relative movement between adjacent intermediate fanout devices.
US12140810B2
The present disclosure relates to a monolithic waveguide substrate for enabling routing of at least one optical signal. The monolithic waveguide substrate has a monolithic engineered substrate having a uniform material composition throughout, with a first index of refraction, and with a plurality of three-dimensional waveguides each being formed fully within an interior volume thereof by a corresponding plurality of three-dimensional waveguide channels. The three-dimensional waveguide channels are formed by wall portions each having a second index of refraction different from the first index of refraction.
US12140808B2
An electrical communication system includes a plurality of cable connectors that are configured to mate with the same electrical connector or electrical connectors having substantially identical mating interfaces. The cable connectors can be configured as an electrical cable connector, an optical cable connector, and a hybrid cable connector that includes both optical and electrical communication.
US12140805B2
An optical fiber connector sub-assembly optical fiber connector sub-assembly for an optical fiber connector includes a ferrule holder carrier portion and a sleeve portion disposed rearward of the ferrule holder carrier portion along an axis of the connector. The sleeve portion is configured to be connected to the ferrule holder portion to permit relative articulating movement between the sleeve portion and the ferrule holder carrier portion, and the sleeve portion and the ferrule holder carrier portion are configured to be rotatingly fixed to one another.
US12140802B2
A grating coupler integrated in a photonically-enabled circuit and a method for fabricating the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the grating coupler includes a substrate comprising a silicon wafer, a first grating region etched into the substrate, wherein the first grating region comprises a first plurality of gratings having a first predetermined height, and a second grating region etched into the substrate, wherein the second grating region comprises a second plurality of gratings having a second predetermined height and wherein the first and second predetermined heights are not identical.
US12140797B2
A single photon source comprises a photon emitter (10), an excitation waveguide (30) arranged to direct excitation photons having a first polarisation direction into the photon emitter, and a collection waveguide (42) arranged to collect photons having a second polarisation direction from the photon emitter. The first polarisation direction is coupled to a first exciton state of the photon emitter and the second polarisation direction is non-parallel to the first polarisation direction and is coupled to a second exciton state of the photon emitter, and the first and second exciton states have substantially equal energies.
US12140795B2
An optical assembly for realizing horizontal and vertical spot-size conversion to couple light from a thin waveguide to a thick waveguide is disclosed. The assembly comprises at least one first thin waveguide with a first section having a first optical mode field and a horizontal spot-size expansion section providing spot-size conversion for a first horizontal dimension of said first optical mode field of a light beam propagating in said first waveguide, and at least one second thick waveguide with a second section having a second optical mode field and a horizontal spot-size reduction section providing spot-size conversion for a second horizontal dimension of said second optical mode field of a light beam propagating in said second waveguide. The expanded end of said first waveguide is aligned and rotated to interface with the reduced end of said second waveguide, so that the mode fields in said first and second waveguides are rotated 90 degrees with respect to each other, whereby the spot size of a light beam so coupled between the first and second waveguides is expanded or shrunk in both transverse dimensions, depending on the direction of the light beam.
US12140787B2
There is provided a resonator structure that obtains a highly accurate optical spectrum. The resonator structure includes a stacked structure that includes a semiconductor layer, a first resonator, a first reflection layer, a second resonator, a second reflection layer stacked in this order, allows light of a specific wavelength band to be transmitted therethrough, the semiconductor layer having a first average refractive index, the first resonator having a second average refractive index lower than the first average refractive index, and the first reflection layer having a third average refractive index higher than the second average refractive index.
US12140785B2
The purpose is to provide a wavelength conversion member, a method for producing the wavelength conversion member, and a light-emitting device, which are capable of reducing the temperature rise of the wavelength conversion member and thus reducing the decrease in luminescence intensity with time and deformation and discoloration of constituent materials. A wavelength conversion member 10 includes thermally conductive particles 1 and phosphor particles 4 and the thermally conductive particles 1 include two types of thermally conductive particles different in average particle diameter from each other.
US12140782B2
A projection processor includes a processing unit, and the processing unit obtains information concerning a first projected image which is projected by a projector to be formed on an image forming medium and corrects information concerning a second projected image which is formed on the image forming medium as projected light, which is to be refocused on an aerial space image forming section by a light guide optical system, based on the information concerning the first projected image obtained.
US12140776B2
A spectroscopic module includes M beam splitters that are arranged along an X direction, where M is a natural number of 2 or more; M bandpass filters disposed on one side in a Z direction with respect to the M beam splitters, each of the M bandpass filters facing each of the M beam splitters; a light detector disposed on the one side in the Z direction with respect to the M bandpass filters and includes M light receiving regions, each of the M light receiving regions facing each of the M bandpass filters; a first support body supporting the M beam splitters; and a second support body supporting the M bandpass filters. Each of N beam splitters among the M beam splitters has a plate shape and has a thickness of 1 mm or less, where N is a natural number of 2 to M.
US12140769B2
A method for adjusting a strap of a VR device is provided and includes a method for tightening the strap. The method for tightening the strap includes obtaining, by tightening trigger, a tightening trigger signal; controlling, by PCB, a driver to drive a transmission component according to the tightening trigger signal to drive first and second straps to be tightened synchronously; obtaining, by pressure sensor, a pressure value of a preset part; and when the pressure value reaches a first preset value, controlling, by PCB, the driver to stop driving the transmission component according to a first pressure sensor signal, such that first and second straps are synchronously tightened to an appropriate position. The method automatically adjusts the tightness of straps, reducing user's operation processes and making it convenient and faster for the user to wear the VR device. The method can ensure moderate tightness for all user head shapes.
US12140767B2
To accommodate variations in the interpupillary distances associated with different users, a head-mounted device may have left-eye and right-eye optical modules that move with respect to each other. Each optical module may have a display that creates an image and a corresponding lens that provides the image to an associated eye box for viewing by a user. The optical modules each include a lens barrel to which the display and lens of that optical module are mounted and a head-mounted optical module illumination system. The illumination system may have light-emitting devices such as light-emitting diodes that extend along some or all of a peripheral edge of the display. The light-emitting diodes may be mounted on a flexible printed circuit with a tail that extends a lens barrel opening. A stiffener for the flexible printed circuit may have openings that receive the light-emitting diodes.
US12140764B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing waveguide display devices utilizing overlapping integrated dual axis (IDA) waveguides. One embodiment includes a waveguide display device including: a first input image source providing first image light; a second input image source provide second image light; a first IDA waveguide; and a second IDA waveguide. The first IDA waveguide and the second IDA waveguide may include an overlapping region where a first two-dimensionally expanded first image light, a second two-dimensionally expanded first image light, a first two-dimensionally expanded second image light, and a second two-dimensionally expanded second image light is ejected towards an eyebox. Advantageously, resolution may be enhanced and field of view may be expanded through the use of overlapping IDA waveguides.
US12140763B1
A projector for illuminating a target area is presented. The projector includes an array of emitters positioned on a substrate according to a distribution. Each emitter in the array of emitters has a non-circular emission area. Operation of at least a portion of the array of emitters is controlled based in part on emission instructions to emit light. The light from the projector is configured to illuminate the target area. The projector can be part of a depth camera assembly for depth sensing of a local area, or part of an eye tracker for determining a gaze direction for an eye.
US12140762B2
A vision-control system comprises an electrochromic insert and at least two peripheral contacts. The electrochromic insert includes at least two transparent electrodes and is configured for arrangement on a side of a head-worn frame of a near-eye display system. The peripheral contacts extend to the transparent electrodes.
US12140761B2
A device for providing a 1D line of an image is disclosed. The device includes a wavelength-tunable light source for providing image light having the angular distribution encoded in optical spectrum. The device further includes a thin slab waveguide having an out-coupler in form of a diffraction grating for out-coupling the image light at an angle dependent on wavelength. The image may be formed by scanning a collimated beam propagating in the slab waveguide when using tunable monochromatic light sources, or by forming the 1D singular distribution of brightness at a same time when using a tunable-spectrum light sources. The device may be used in a near-eye display for forming a 2D image in angular domain.
US12140760B2
A head-mounted display according to an embodiment includes a reflective member configured to reflect display light for forming a display image toward a user, a beam splitter arranged between the reflective member and the user across a space in front of a left eye and a space in front of a right eye, a first divider plate arranged in front of the beam splitter between the space in front of the left eye of the user and the space in front of the right eye, and a second divider plate arranged behind the beam splitter between the space in front of the left eye of the user and the space in front of the right eye, and an end of the first divider plate proximate to the beam splitter is hidden from the user.
US12140757B2
A method and system for reducing the effects of glare in a system comprising a picture generating unit, such as a holographic projector. The system may be a head-up display (HUD), which is configured to display a picture to a viewer, without requiring the user to look away from their usual viewpoint. The HUD system may be comprised within a vehicle. The glare in the system may be caused by light being incident on a surface comprising a screen or a window, through which the user looks at their usual viewpoint. The surface may comprise a windshield in a vehicle. The light that causes the glare may be ambient light. The method and system are provided for reducing the effects of glare in a system that comprises a waveguide in conjunction with the picture generating unit. The waveguide may be operable to act as an exit pupil expander.
US12140746B1
The present disclosure provides a night vision device that includes a base, an outer screen installed on the base and configured to display images of the outside world, and two barrel members respectively hinged on both sides of the base, the two barrel members rotated to adjust a distance therebetween, the base including a main member and a receiving member arranged on a side of the main member, a width of the main member smaller than that of the receiving member, the main member including two arc-shaped recesses for respectively receiving the two barrel members therein; the two barrel members located on the same side of the receiving member, and the outer screen hinged on the receiving member. The present disclosure can simultaneously have functions of adjusting a pupil distance and observing from the outer screen.
US12140742B2
A light irradiation device includes: a light source configured to output light having coherence; a light focusing element having a focusing axis and a non-focusing axis intersecting with the focusing axis and configured to focus the light on a focusing line so as to generate planar light; and an aperture mask having an opening part that limits a part of luminous fluxes of the light transmitted from the light source to the light focusing element. The opening part of the aperture mask has opening edges disposed to extend in a direction along the focusing axis of the light focusing element, and, in a case in which the opening edges are projected onto the focusing line, corresponding projected portions have linear spreads.
US12140738B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side toward an image side. The fifth lens has a positive refractive power, a focal length of the fifth lens is smaller than an overall focal length of the optical imaging system, and −0.38≤R10/f≤−0.32, where R10 is a radius of curvature of an image-side surface of the fifth lens and f is the overall focal length of the optical imaging system.
US12140733B2
This optical device comprises an ophthalmic lens and a light source emitting in the deep red and near infrared region. The ophthalmic lens has front and rear faces coated with interferential coatings. The mean reflectance of the rear interferential coating is lower than or equal to 2.5% for wavelengths ranging from 700 nm to a predetermined maximum wavelength lower than or equal to 2500 nm, at an angle of incidence lower than or equal to 45°. At an angle of incidence lower than or equal to 45°, for wavelengths ranging from 700 nm to the predetermined maximum wavelength, the mean reflectance of the front interferential coating is either lower than or equal to 2.5% if the source is directed towards the front face of the ophthalmic lens, or higher than or equal to 25% if the source is directed towards the rear face of the ophthalmic lens.
US12140730B2
An optical film includes an organic solid crystal film formed of a contiguous organic solid crystal having a first dimension no less than 100 micrometer and a second dimension distinct from the first dimension no less than one centimeter. Methods for making the organic solid crystal film are also described.
US12140719B2
A correction method for a microseism interpretation fracturing fracture parameter result. The method includes classifying the communication modes of a block sampling fractured wells to be corrected according to the matching degree of micro seismic monitoring result and sand adding amount; correcting the volume coefficient of each said classified fractured well single well, and the volume correction coefficient Bv of each said fractured well is: B v = [ L 5 / 4 H ] T [ L 5 / 4 H ] W , wherein, [L5/4H]W is a calculation value of a micro seismic monitoring interpretation result; [L5/4H]T is a theoretical calculation value obtained by using field construction parameters; C, calculating the classification volume correction coefficient of each class of fractured wells according to the calculated single well volume correction coefficient of each said fractured well. The micro seismic interpretation result can be corrected in combination with the field construction parameters, so that the micro seismic monitoring data can be utilized to truly interpret the effective fracture morphology after fracturing.
US12140717B2
A neutron beam detecting device according to the invention includes: a first solar cell-type detector that is provided with, on a surface thereof, a conversion film for converting neutrons into photons or any charged particle beam among alpha particles, protons, lithium nuclei, gamma rays or beta rays, and generates a current in response to incident radiation; a radiation detector that generates a current insensitive to neutrons as an output signal in response to the radiation incident; a current measuring device that detects, as signals, the current generated by the first solar cell-type detector and the current generated by the radiation detector in response to the incident radiation; and a flux calculating unit that compares the current signals from the detectors which are detected by the current measuring device. The flux calculating unit associates the detected current signals from the solar cell-type detector and the radiation detector with a relation between a flux of incident radiation of a predetermined type obtained in advance and the detected currents from the solar cell-type detector and the radiation detector, and calculates a flux of a neutron beam.
US12140715B2
A radiation detector includes a substrate including a first electrode portion, a radiation absorption layer disposed on one side with respect to the substrate and configured of a plurality of perovskite crystals, and a second electrode portion disposed on the one side with respect to the radiation absorption layer and being opposite to the first electrode portion with the radiation absorption layer interposed therebetween. Each of the plurality of perovskite crystals is formed to extend with a first direction in which the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion are opposite to each other as a longitudinal direction in a region between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion in the radiation absorption layer.
US12140712B2
A LIDAR system includes a light source configured to output light. A portion of the light is included in a LIDAR signal that travels a LIDAR path from the light source to an object located outside of the LIDAR system and from the object to a filter and from the filter to a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to convert optical signals that include the LIDAR signal to electrical signals. A portion of the light is also included in one or more misdirected signals. Each of the misdirected signals travels a different misdirected path from the light source to the filter. Each of the misdirected paths is a different path from the LIDAR path. The system also includes a filter being configured to filter out the LIDAR signal from the misdirected signals. The system also includes electronics that generate LIDAR data from the electrical signals.
US12140707B2
A single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) device is presented. The SPAD device comprising: a Si-based avalanche layer formed over an n-type semiconductor contact layer; a p-type charge sheet layer formed in or on the avalanche layer, the p-type charge sheet layer having an in-plane width; a Ge-based absorber layer, formed over the charge sheet layer and/or the avalanche layer, and overlapping the charge sheet layer, the Ge-based absorber layer having an in-plane width; wherein, at least in one in-plane direction, the in-plane width of the Ge-based absorber layer is greater than the in-plane width of the p-type charge sheet layer.
US12140695B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a radar control device and method. Specifically, a radar control device according to the present disclosure may include an antenna unit including one or more transmission antennas and one or more receiving antennas, a transmitter for transmitting a radar signal toward an object using the transmission antenna, a receiver for receiving a reception signal reflected from the object using the receiving antenna, and an object detector configured to determine a track for an detected object based on the reception signal, detect an object around a host vehicle based on the determined track, and, if a traveling speed of the host vehicle is less than or equal to a predetermined speed and the detected object is plural, classify a preceding vehicle and a clutter based on the reception signal.
US12140688B2
The embodiments relate to an apparatus and a method, where the apparatus includes circuitry configured for listening and receiving a positioning measurement request from a location server at a first point of time; circuitry configured for determining whether a set of positioning metrics need to be measured, wherein the determining is based on an output from a machine learning classifier to which channel metrics between two points of time is given as input; whether the output indicates a new measurement, circuitry configured for performing the measurement of positioning metrics from all transmission points; or if not, circuitry configured for determining which subset of transmission points needs to be measured and circuitry configured for performing the measurement of such subset of transmission points; and circuitry configured for reporting the measured positioning metrics to the location server.
US12140677B2
A distance image sensor includes a light source that generates pulsed light, a light source controller that controls the light source, a pixel circuit including a photoelectric conversion region, charge readout regions, and control electrodes, a charge transfer controller that sequentially applies control pulses to the control electrodes, a signal readout circuit that reads out detection signals of an amount of charge transferred to the charge readout regions and a distance calculator that repeatedly calculates a distance from a difference value between two amounts of charge on the basis of the signals, the light source controller changes generation timing of the pulsed light according to a pseudo random number, and the charge transfer controller changes timings of the application of two control pulses for transferring charge corresponding to the two amounts of charge according to the pseudo random number so that the timings are replaced with each other.
US12140673B2
A frequency shift light modulator includes a resonator and a diffraction grating including a plurality of grooves arranged in parallel in a displacement direction of the resonator, and the diffraction grating is provided on the resonator. By providing the diffraction grating on the resonator, it is easy to realize miniaturization and increase in accuracy of the frequency shift light modulator. Further, it is easy to realize application to a high frequency region in a MHz band, that is, high frequency modulation. It is possible to efficiently obtain an effect based on a combination of the resonator and the diffraction grating.
US12140662B2
Systems and methods of measuring distance between two wireless devices by combining phase shift and time-of-flight measurements. A first wireless devices sends a first packet to the second wireless device. After receiving the first packet, the second wireless device sending to the first wireless device a second packet. After sending the second packet, the second wireless device sends a first continuous wave signal to the first wireless device. After receiving the first continuous wave signal, the first wireless device sends to the second wireless device a second continuous wave signal. The first wireless device then calculates a time-of-flight measurement based on a time between the first wireless device sending the first packet and receiving the second packet, and calculates a second measurement based on a phase shift of the first continuous wave signal and the second continuous wave signal, and combines the two measurements.
US12140658B2
A method of target feature extraction and multi-target tracking based on 4D millimeter wave radar includes acquiring the point cloud data output from the radar and preprocess the point cloud data to eliminate the outlier value; processing the points acquired after preprocessing by Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) clustering; processing each of the acquired clusters for target feature extraction; predicting the existing trajectory is predicted, and the prediction results are globally correlated with the clustering results; based on the correlation clustering results, the corresponding multi-target tracking motion state processing is executed to obtain the transverse pendulum angular velocity; and based on the target motion state, the target size information as well as the heading angle information are updated.
US12140656B2
Method for producing a light-curable resin composition capable of producing a magnetic resonance imaging-signal, in particular for the lithography-based additive production of magnetic resonance imaging phantoms, the method comprising at least the following steps: providing particles at least partially filled with a magnetic resonance imaging-signal producing liquid, and mixing the at least partially filled particles with a light-curable resin.
US12140653B2
The invention relates to a method of Dixon-type MR imaging of an object (10) placed in an examination volume of a MR device (1). It is an object of the invention to provide a method that enables an improved Dixon water/fat separation in combination with a dual-acquisition gradient-echo imaging sequence. The method comprises the steps of: —subjecting the object (10) to a dual-acquisition gradient-echo imaging sequence comprising a series of temporally equidistant RF excitations, wherein one gradient echo is generated in each repetition time between successive RF excitations with the echo time alternating between a first and a second value (TE1, TE2), and wherein phase-encoding magnetic field gradients (P, S) are switched in each repetition time to sample a pre-defined region of k-space; —acquiring echo signals from the object (10), wherein each gradient echo associated with either the first or the second echo time value (TE1, TE2) is sampled as a partial echo, and —reconstructing an MR image from the acquired echo signals, whereby signal contributions from water and fat are separated. Moreover the invention relates to an MR device (1) and to a computer program to be run on an MR device (1).
US12140649B2
A method is for measuring phase currents of a device under test, in particular of an inverter, in which a sensor arrangement, which has a component including a crystal lattice with a defect, is arranged in a region of the device under test. The method includes using the sensor arrangement to detect a magnetic field formed by a vector of magnetic fields, the magnetic fields each in turn being brought about by one of the phase currents of the device under test, and calculating a vector of the phase currents from the vector of the magnetic fields based on a coefficient matrix.
US12140648B2
A magnetic resonance member 1 includes a diamond crystal including plural diamond nitrogen vacancy center, and a high-frequency magnetic field generator 2 applies magnetic field of microwave to the magnetic resonance member 1. The aforementioned plural diamond nitrogen vacancy centers include diamond nitrogen vacancy centers arranged in directions of predetermined plural axes among four axes that indicates four connection directions of carbon atoms in the diamond crystal; and the aforementioned magnetic resonance member 1 is arranged in a direction that provides a substantially largest sensitivity of the measurement target magnetic field in the diamond nitrogen vacancy centers arranged in the predetermined plural axes.
US12140643B2
A system for detecting an electrical grounding inter grid integrity between the earth grids includes a current injection device 108 that provides the low amplitude input current with off-grid frequency to the first earth grid 102 to detect the electrical grounding inter grid integrity between the first earth grid 102 and the second earth grid 104. The system includes a measuring device 106 that is connected to a first reference riser 112A and a second reference riser 112B to measure a drop in voltage or resistance between the first earth grid 102 and the second earth grid 104. The system includes a first bypass conductor 114 that is connected between the first earth grid 102 and the second earth grid 104 to transmit the input current with off-grid frequency to the second earth grid 104 when the electrical grounding inter grid connectivity is damaged.
US12140641B2
Methods and systems are provided for key predictors and machine learning for configuring cell performance. One or more parameters relating to the cell may be measured, via a measurement apparatus, with the cell including a cathode, a separator, and a silicon-dominant anode, and the cell may be managed, based on the one or more parameters, with the managing including predetermining cycle life of the cell based on the one or more parameters using a machine learning model. The cell may be within a battery pack that includes a plurality of cells. The battery pack may be in an electric vehicle. At least one parameter may be measured before a formation process of the cell. At least one parameter may be measured during the formation process. At least one parameter may be measured during cycling of the cell.
US12140634B2
A framework for continuously monitored remote power shutdown. In accordance with one aspect, a monitoring circuit (107, 207) is coupled to a power removal circuit (101). The monitoring circuit (107, 207) may generate an output signal indicative of circuit integrity based on one or more electrical characteristics of the power removal circuit (101). A notification system (110) may further be coupled to the monitoring circuit (107, 207). The notification system (110) may generate a notification (112) based on the output signal.
US12140621B2
A method is provided for generating a multi-carrier reflectometry signal intended to be injected into a transmission line in order to identify a presence of at least one possible fault on the transmission line. The method includes: generating, in the frequency domain, a phase-modulated multi-carrier digital signal by: generating a digital signal, phase-modulating the digital signal based on a constellation of symbols, rounding the obtained phase to the phase of the symbol of the constellation that is closest, and converting the generated signal into the time domain.
US12140611B2
A protection device protects an AC device, in particular an inductive voltage converter, electrically connected to an AC line, from damage caused by direct currents flowing in the AC line. In this case, at least one current transfer coil, which runs around a magnetic core section of a magnetic core, is connected to the AC line in parallel with the AC device.
US12140610B2
A test carrier carried in a state of accommodating a device under test (DUT) includes: a carrier body that holds the DUT; and a lid member that covers the DUT and is attached to the carrier body. The lid member includes a through-hole for sucking the DUT that is provided to face the DUT and penetrating through the lid member.
US12140598B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for the detection of biomarkers for cardiac diseases. Disclosed herein are sample collection devices comprising detection devices for heart failure. Disclosed herein are methods of detecting, monitoring, preventing, or treating heart failure.
US12140593B2
Described herein are novel fluorescent sensors for cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) that are based on single fluorescent proteins. These sensors use less visible spectrum than FRET-based sensors, produce robust changes in fluorescence, and can be combined with one another, or with other sensors, in a multiplex assay on standard fluorescent plate readers or live cell imaging systems.
US12140591B2
The invention provides barcode libraries and methods of making and using them including obtaining a plurality of nucleic acid constructs in which each construct comprises a unique N-mer and a functional N-mer and segregating the constructs into a fluid compartments such that each compartment contains one or more copies of a unique construct. The invention further provides methods for digital PCR and for use of barcode libraries in digital PCR.
US12140579B2
A controller of the gas sensor can perform diagnostic processing of diagnosing a situation of control to the gas sensor in a case that the gas sensor in an operation state is determined to satisfy a predetermined diagnostic condition and adjustment processing of adjusting a condition for controlling the gas sensor in accordance with a result of diagnosis. In the diagnostic processing, a main pump voltage and a diagnostic threshold as a value of a voltage not causing decomposition of NOx in the main pump cell are compared. In the adjustment processing, temperature adjustment processing to cause, in a case that the main pump voltage is diagnosed to be equal to the threshold or more, the main pump voltage to be less than the threshold, at least in a way that the heater part increases the element driving temperature in the operation state by a predetermined increase amount is performed.
US12140569B2
The system includes an ultrasonic measuring device including ultrasonic transmitters and ultrasonic receivers, the ultrasonic measuring device carrying out ultrasonic measurements on a zone of interest of the component divided according to a gridding including cells, and carrying out the measurements cell after cell with the generation, by all the ultrasonic transmitters, of an ultrasonic signal that is sent into the component, and the measurement, by all the ultrasonic receivers, of the amplitude of the ultrasonic signal reflected by the cell in question of the component, a unit for computing, for all of the cells of the gridding, the sum of the amplitudes of all the measurements carried out for that cell, and a processing part for deducing the presence or absence of one or more defects. The system detects all the defects existing in the zone of interest of the component, whatever their orientation may be.
US12140568B2
Ultrasonic probes are provided to abate unwanted signal noise. An ultrasonic probe includes a bundle of rods configured to sample data at a first end and propagate a signal encoding the sampled data to a second end. Each of the rods in the bundle of rods has a substantially similar length and a substantially similar diameter. The ultrasonic probe also includes a shell concentrically disposed around the bundle of rods. The shell is configured to pack the bundle of rods together. The shell includes a plurality of grooves configured to abate a prevailing bulk wave sampled by the first end.
US12140566B1
A piezoelectric sensor for sensing an ovalling mode in a cylindrical structure, a non-destructive testing system for determining the strength condition of the cylindrical structure, and a method for non-destructive testing of the cylindrical structure are provided. The piezoelectric sensor includes an H-shaped caliper with a first and second arm, connected by a crossbar, and has a caliper connector near first end of each arm and a wire connector near second end of each arm. A piezoelectric wire is connected and stretched between the wire connectors and is connected to an electrical terminal to provide electrical signal in response to expansion and contraction as a result of vibrations induced in the cylindrical structure. The system includes a measurement unit connected to the electrical terminal, to receive and perform a frequency analysis of the electrical signal based on the ovalling mode and output a stiffness value of the cylindrical structure.
US12140550B2
A photoluminescent material can be applied to part of a substrate as part of substrate inspection. The photoluminescent material includes a conjugated polymer having a coiled macroscopic molecular shape and a meta-linkage or an ortho-linkage. The substrate is imaged using an inspection system. The conjugated polymer can be, for example, poly(m-phenylene ethynylene) (PPE) or poly(para-phenylene vinylene) (PPV).
US12140547B2
The present disclosure relates to a surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy complex probe capable of effectively detecting a catecholamine compound even at extremely low concentrations. The complex probe includes a nanolaminate including a nanogap and metal nanoparticles. In this case, the nanolaminate and the metal nanoparticles are modified to a compound that may be bound to each functional group included in catecholamine, and thus, catecholamine included in an analyte is doubly recognized by the complex probe. In addition, since a hotspot emitting a strong SERS signal is formed by a nanogap included in a nanolaminate, it is possible to effectively detect a catecholamine compound even at extremely low concentrations.
US12140546B2
The present invention relates to a surface-enhanced Raman scattering patch and an attachable sensor using same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a surface-enhanced Raman scattering patch which allows continuous monitoring of drug administration and harmful substance detection to be accurately and easily performed, an attachable sensor using same, and a method for manufacturing same.
US12140544B2
A biological analysis system can include an excitation module and an emission module. The excitation module can include a collimator element for receiving excitation light from the excitation light source and transmitting collimated excitation light in a first direction, and a plurality of excitation mirrors arrayed along the excitation light path, each excitation mirror disposed at an acute angle relative to the first direction and configured to reflect collimated excitation light along a second direction. The emission module can be positioned to receive excitation light transmitted along the second direction and can include a sample block comprising a plurality of sample receptacles positioned to receive a beam of collimated excitation light, and a plurality of photodetectors configured to receive emission light transmitted from a respective sample receptacle in a direction transverse to the second direction of the excitation light path.
US12140542B2
An analysis tool for use in optical analysis, comprising a detection unit 10 having through-holes 10h penetrating through the surface and the rear side of a base material 11, the detection unit 10 comprising, inside of the base material 11, a plurality of voids 11h that allows a liquid to pass through by capillary action and that communicate with the through-holes 10h, and the through-holes 10h being formed with a size that enables a liquid to be held by surface tension. Therefore, by irradiating the detection unit 10 with light, it is possible to obtain transmitted light L2 that has been transmitted through a liquid film Lf. By analyzing the transmitted light L2, a target component in a sample L can be appropriately quantified.
US12140540B2
Exemplary computer-accessible medium, systems, and methods are described herein which can provide an excited fluorescence radiation. In accordance with certain exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, an excited fluorescence radiation can be provided using a beam of a probe so as to excite a molecule to an excited state for a fluorescence emission to effectuate the excited fluorescence radiation. The molecule can be detected based on the fluorescence emission. For example, the beam of the probe can be either the near-infrared spectrum or the visible light spectrum.
US12140536B2
A method for determining a measure of a gas concentration from a group of at least two non-dispersive infrared. NDIR. gas sensors (S1-SN) is described. The method comprises the steps of obtaining. at a processing unit (1), from each NDIR gas sensor (S1-SN) a measure of a gas concentration as a belief function Pi(x), which provides a probability as a function of the sensed light intensity at a specific wavelength, merging. in the processing unit, the belief functions Pi(x) to a merged belief function P(x). A computer program performing the method is also described.
US12140531B2
A detection apparatus and a detection method. The detection apparatus includes: a main body, a detection assembly, and a detection object receiving portion. The detection assembly includes: a signal transmitter, configured to transmit detection signals; a signal receiver, configured to receive at least part of the detection signals transmitted by the signal transmitter; and a detection connection portion, connected to the signal transmitter and the signal receiver and causing the signal transmitter and the signal receiver to be spaced from each other by the detection connection portion. The detection object receiving portion is configured to receive a detection object. The detection object receiving portion and the detection assembly are relatively movably arranged on the main body so as to allow the detection object received by the detection object receiving portion to be located in a transmission path of the detection signals between the signal transmitter and the signal receiver.
US12140510B2
Various implementations include a device for analyzing total organic carbon (TOC) within a fluid. The device includes a primary container, an input conduit, and an output conduit. The primary container is hollow and has a primary side wall and a primary end wall. The primary side wall has an inner surface defining a primary cavity and an outer surface opposite and spaced apart from the inner surface. The primary end wall includes a septum that is resiliently penetrable by an analyzer needle of a grab analysis port of a TOC analyzer. The input conduit has an input lumen. The input conduit extends through the primary container such that the input lumen is in fluid communication with the primary cavity. The output conduit has an output lumen.
US12140509B2
An automated computer-controlled sampling system and related methods for collecting, processing, and analyzing agricultural samples for various chemical properties such as plant available nutrients. The sampling system allows multiple samples to be processed and analyzed for different analytes or chemical properties in a simultaneous concurrent or semi-concurrent manner. Advantageously, the system can process soil samples in the “as collected” condition without drying or grinding. The system generally includes a sample preparation sub-system which receives soil samples collected by a probe collection sub-system and produces a slurry (i.e. mixture of soil, vegetation, and/or manure and water), and a chemical analysis sub-system which processes the prepared slurry samples for quantifying multiple analytes and/or chemical properties of the sample. The sample preparation and chemical analysis sub-systems can be used to analyze soil, vegetation, and/or manure samples.
US12140504B2
An intrinsically-safe sensor system, as well as a method for assembling the intrinsically-safe sensor system and a method for monitoring sound corresponding to a source using the intrinsically-safe sensor system, are provided herein. The intrinsically-safe sensor system includes a number of sensors, including a microphone, as well as a processor for processing sensor data obtained from the sensors. The intrinsically-safe sensor system also includes a memory component for storing the sensor data obtained from the sensors, a power source, a communication connection for communicably coupling the intrinsically-safe sensor system to a remote computing system, and a connector including internal and external connection regions for internally and/or externally connecting one or more additional devices to the intrinsically-safe sensor system on demand. The intrinsically-safe sensor system further includes an enclosure, as well as potting material for encapsulating an internal region of the intrinsically-safe sensor system that resides within the enclosure.
US12140491B2
Provided is a large high-speed rotary equipment gap stacking assembly apparatus and assembly method based on digital twin, and relates to the technical field of engine assembly measurement. The disclosure solves the problem of unbalanced rotation of the rotary parts caused by large assembly error during multi-stage rotary parts are stacked in a gap way. The disclosure includes the assembly apparatus entity and the assembly method; the assembly apparatus entity is configured to establish data communication with the upper computer through data acquisition apparatus, and upper computer is configured to establish a virtual assembly model; the virtual assembly model and optimal coaxiality of the multi-stage rotary parts in gap stacking can be obtained according to the assembly method, and the assembly process can be controlled by using the virtual assembly model and the optimal coaxiality. The disclosure is suitable for controlling the assembly process of the rotary parts.
US12140489B2
A pressure sensor comprises a polysilicon sensing membrane. The pressure sensor further includes one or more polysilicon electrodes disposed over a silicon substrate. The sensor also includes one or more polysilicon routing layers that electrically connects electrodes of the one or more polysilicon electrodes to one another, wherein the polysilicon sensing membrane deforms responsive to a stimuli and changes a capacitance between the polysilicon sensing membrane and the one or more polysilicon electrodes. The sensor also includes one or more vacuum cavities positioned between the polysilicon sensing membrane and the one or more polysilicon electrodes.
US12140479B2
Described herein is a computer-implemented method and a system for providing a match metric for quantifying a spectral similarity of a target coating and at least one sample coating, the system including a computing device that performs a computing process, the computing process including: receiving reflectance values of the target coating and the sample coating; normalizing each of the reflectance values; generating a normalized reflectance curve for the target coating and for the sample coating; producing derivative values of the normalized reflectance curve of the target coating and derivative values of the normalized reflectance curve of the sample coating with respect to the wavelength; producing difference values between the derivative values of the target coating and the derivative values of the sample coating; and producing a match metric for a similarity between the normalized reflectance curves of the target coating and the sample coating.
US12140478B2
The present invention is directed to a computer-implemented method of automatically identifying the presence of one or more elements in a sample via optical emission spectroscopy. The method includes the steps of obtaining sample spectrum data from the sample, obtaining a list of one or more predetermined emission wavelengths for each element in the periodic table quantifiable by optical emission spectroscopy, each predetermined emission wavelength being associated with a list of one or more potential interference emission wavelengths, determining a list of one or more analyte wavelengths corresponding to spectral peaks in the sample spectrum data based on the list of emission wavelengths, for each analyte wavelength, determining whether the corresponding spectral peak has a likelihood of being affected by an interference emission wavelength causing spectral interference based on the list of one or more potential interference emission wavelengths corresponding to the analyte wavelength, determining a revised list of one or more analyte wavelengths by removing from the list of analyte wavelengths, analyte wavelengths corresponding to spectral peaks having a likelihood of being affected by an interference emission wavelength, and determining a level of confidence that one or more elements are present in the sample based on a set of criteria applied to the revised list of analyte wavelengths.
US12140467B2
A weight sensor unit, comprises a weight sensor configured to output weight sensor readings indicative of the weight being supported thereby. A transmission device is configured to transmit wireless signals, and a processor, is coupled to the weight sensor and to the transmission device. The weight sensor unit includes a battery. The weight sensor, transmission device and processor are powered by the battery. In use, the processor is configured to receive one or more weight sensor readings output by the weight sensor, and transmit the weight sensor readings wirelessly using the transmission device. The weight sensor unit may include a wireless transceiver configured to wirelessly interact with devices placed in proximity thereto. In an embodiment, all electronic components of the weight sensor unit are powered by the battery. A dispensing unit incorporating the weight sensor unit is also disclosed.
US12140458B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods provide for technology that monitors a component. A monitoring apparatus includes a sensor to monitor a state of a component, a power circuit to convert an electromagnetic signal to electrical power, a capacitor bank coupled to the power circuit and to the sensor to receive electrical power from the power circuit and to supply electrical power to the sensor, and a wireless readout to convert data from the sensor into a wireless communication signal. A method of monitoring a component includes coupling a sensor to a component, the sensor configured to monitor a state of the component, applying power to the sensor from a capacitor bank, and storing data obtained from the sensor, where the data relates to a state of the component. The method can include charging the capacitor bank via a power circuit, where the power circuit converts an electromagnetic signal to electrical power.
US12140454B2
The present disclosure provides a water activated transmitter assembly configured to provide a signal to a wireless light assembly when the water activated transmitter assembly is exposed to water. A water emergency device system is also disclosed, which comprises the water activated transmitter assembly and the wireless light assembly coupled to a water flotation device. A method of manufacture of the water activated transmitter assembly is also disclosed.
US12140451B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for elevation tracking of devices are provided. Barometric pressure data points and elevation data points associated with a set of barometric measurement devices proximate a device are obtained. An interpolated field of barometric pressure is generated using the barometric pressure data points and the elevation data points. x, y location coordinates of the device are projected onto the interpolated field as a projected point within the interpolated field. Barometric leveling is executed upon a device barometric pressure value provided by the device and a barometric pressure data point at the projected point to determine a relative height difference between the device and the projected point. An elevation of the device is determined based upon the relative height difference.
US12140449B2
Aspects presented herein may improve the performance of positioning devices by enabling the positioning devices to utilize transformed map data with limited third party knowledge of the transformation. Aspects presented herein may enable a positioning device to make the map data from another coordinate system usable for positioning algorithms without knowledge of the transformation. In one aspect, a UE transmits a request for map data based on a first set of coordinates in a first coordinate system. The UE receives the map data based on a second set of coordinates in a second coordinate system, where the first set of coordinates in the first coordinate system is distinct from the second set of coordinates in the second coordinate system. The UE calculates a set of relative distances between the second set of coordinates and one or more objects corresponding to the map data.
US12140443B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to generating and utilizing three-dimensional terrain maps for vehicular control. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12140437B2
Provided are a transport management device and transport management method serving to change a travel plan of a vehicle in accordance with a malfunction occurring with the vehicle. This transport management device manages a transport system for carrying out transport of cargo, or the like, by causing a vehicle to travel by autonomous driving to a destination on the basis of a travel plan. The transport management device determines whether to change the destination of the vehicle in accordance with an event occurring with the vehicle during travel by autonomous driving, and changes the destination if it is determined that the destination should be changed or does not change the destination if it is determined that the destination should not be changed.
US12140435B2
A method of a control node, operable in a communication network and comprising controlling circuitry configured to estimate quality of service (QoS) for geographical locations in the network is disclosed. The method comprises receiving (210, 310, 410, 510) from a user operable in the network a request signal indicative of a starting point and a destination point, acceptable quality of service during transit of the user from the starting point to the destination point and transit time; determining (211, 311, 411, 512, 516, 517) one or more routes from the starting point to the destination point based on transit time and on estimated QoS for a plurality of geographical locations of the one or more routes in view of the accepted QoS; providing (212, 316, 413, 512, 516) information of the determined one or more routes to the user; and dynamically updating (214, 215, 216, 314, 317) the determined one or more routes based on received information pertaining to experienced QoS associated with geographical locations pertaining to the determined one or more routes during transit of the user. Corresponding computer program product, and control node are also disclosed.
US12140425B2
The invention discloses a four-quadrant interferometry system based on an integrated array wave plate. PBS splits an output laser light into two paths, the reflected light and the transmitted light are respectively transformed into reference light and measuring light, the reference light and the measuring light are converged in PBS, the converging light enters a signal receiving unit and is split into four beams, and the four beams irradiate on a four-quadrant interference signal detector with an integrated array wave plate. The invention solves the problems that the existing signal detection system occupies a large space, is not conducive to array integration, and cannot be used in scenes with high space and size requirements.
US12140423B2
The invention relates to a transport device (100), in particular for transporting product carriers in a plant for manufacturing food products. The transport device (100) comprises at least one chain (1) to which measuring marks (4) are attached, an electrical drive system (20) for driving the chain (1) with a servo motor (25) and an absolute encoder (21), a plant control unit (30) and a measuring sensor (11) for detecting the measuring marks (4) with a switching frequency of greater than 2000/s. The plant control unit (30) comprises a first input (34) for receiving measurement data from the measuring sensor (11) and a second input (35) for receiving position data from the position sensor (21) and is designed to receive data from the measuring sensor (11) and from the position sensor (21), to mutually correlate said data correctly with respect to time, to determine therefrom lengths between measurement marks (4), more particularly between two consecutive measurement marks, and to produce a signal which provides information about the quality of the chain. A servo position actual value is ascertained by means of oversampling. (FIG. 2)
US12140421B2
A displacement sensor includes a coil which is mounted on a board and which is formed to have less than one turn, an inverter electrically connected to the coil, the inverter being configured to generate an oscillation signal, and a frequency detector electrically connected to the inverter, the frequency detector being configured to detect an oscillation frequency of an oscillator circuit including the coil and the inverter in accordance with a distance between a measurement object and the coil.
US12140419B2
Systems and methods for three-dimensional computer modeling of buildings are disclosed, including a method comprising generating, with a computer processor, a 3D model of walls of a structure and a wall area measurement estimate report, using the 3D model of the walls, displaying multiple line drawings of a building having a roof.
US12140405B2
The invention relates to a device (01) for attaching a sight (03) to a mounting rail (07) of a handgun (02), the mounting rail (07) being disposed on the end of the grip (04) of the handgun (02) facing the barrel, and the device (01) comprising an annular body (09) which can be slid onto the mounting rail (07) in a form-fitting manner and which surrounds the slide (06), the barrel (05) and the mounting rail (07) on the grip (04) of the handgun (02), and a gap for movement being provided between the slide (06) and the inner circumference of the body (09) of the device (01), and the device (01) comprising a clamping device by means of which the body (09) can be clamped on the mounting rail (07) of the grip (04). The clamping device comprises a clamping jaw (10) movably mounted on an actuation means, the clamping jaw (10) being switchable between an open position, in which the clamping jaw (10) does not engage the mounting rail (07), and a clamping position, in which the clamping jaw (10) engages the mounting rail (07) in a fixing manner, by means of the actuation means.
US12140399B2
The invention is directed to a soap foam blaster device with a switch (or trigger) actuated pump to create soap foam using an aerator that is directed into a telescoping breech for pressurization thereof. A grip member with a nozzle on the free end thereof is attached to an inner member and actuated rearwardly to collapse the breech thereby launching the soap foam a substantial distance for targeted direction of soap foam for improved gameplay. For another blast of foam soap, the telescoping breech is expanded again by moving the grip member forwardly to slide out the inner member within the outer member whereby another volume of soap foam can be loaded into the breech for a subsequent launch. Alternatively, soap foam solution may be manually pumped from the soap solution reservoir by a manual telescoping pump configuration to create foam and then manually launched therefrom through the outer nozzle.
US12140398B2
An archery trigger adjuster includes, in an embodiment, a tool interface portion configured to interface with a portion of an adjustment tool. The archery trigger adjuster also includes a repositioning portion coupled to the tool interface portion. The repositioning portion includes an exterior surface configured to engage a trigger surface of a trigger of an archery release device. The exterior surface has an asymmetrical shape.
US12140393B2
The present invention relates to an active system configured to apply an active force to a portion of a firearm designed to contact a body of the firearm's operator, to reduce the perceived recoil of the firearm. The active system includes an actuation element capable of generating an active force, and systems for powering and selectively operating the actuation element.
US12140389B2
A heat exchanger is provided, including a heat exchanger core. The heat exchanger core at least includes a first core part, a second core part and a third core part which are stacked. The first core part, the second core part and the third core part are formed by stacking plates. The third core part is located between the first core part and the second core part. The first core part is in the form of unilateral flow. The second core part is in the form of diagonal flow. The third core part can realize transformation of flow channel forms of the first core part and the second core part, and is stacked with the first core part and the second core part, and thus the heat exchange efficiency is good.
US12140387B2
A plate heat exchanger (500) includes a plurality of heat exchanger plates (510, 520, 530, 540) provided with a pressed pattern adapted to provide contact points keeping the heat exchanger plates on a distance from one another such that interplate flow channels are formed between said plates, said heat exchanger being provided with interplate flow 5 channels (510-520, 530-540) for a first medium exchanging heat with a second medium in interplate flow channels (520-530) and a third medium in interplate flow channels (540-510), wherein the interplate flow channels are in selective fluid communication with port openings (550, 560, 570, 580, 630, 620) for the first medium, the second medium and the third medium. The heat exchanger (500) comprises first and second integrated suction gas heat exchanger sections (ISGHX1, ISGHX2) provided in the vicinity of port openings (550, 560, 570, 580) for the second medium and third medium. Every other heat exchanger plate is formed with a pressed first pattern of ridges and grooves, and the other heat exchanger plates are formed with a pressed second pattern of ridges and grooves, wherein the first pattern of ridges and grooves is different from 15 the second pattern of ridges and grooves.
US12140378B2
Disclosed is a heat exchanger, including: at least two heat exchange tube groups—wherein each heat exchange tube group includes at least two heat exchange tubes; and a connecting member, wherein the at least two heat exchange tubes are communicated with each other by the connecting member—the at least two heat exchange tube groups are connected by the connecting member, and the at least two heat exchange tube groups are not communicated with each other.
US12140366B2
A refrigerator includes a storage compartment having a front opening and an air sanitation device mounted on a top wall of the storage compartment. The air sanitation device includes: a housing, an air channel located in the housing, a fan, and an air detection device and/or an air purification device located in the air channel. The housing includes a front wall facing the front opening, a rear wall, an upper wall, a lower wall, and a pair of side walls. The air channel includes an air inlet and an air outlet. The fan is configured to force air to enter the air channel from the air inlet, and then be discharged out from the air outlet. The air inlet is located on at least one of the side walls, and the air outlet is located on the rear wall.
US12140356B2
A refrigeration system includes a compressor for compressing a gaseous refrigerant, such that the temperature and pressure thereof increases; a four-way valve controlling whether the refrigeration system is in a heating mode or a cooling mode; a condenser, in which the gaseous refrigerant from the compressor exchanges heat with a high temperature heat carrier, said heat exchange resulting in the refrigerant condensing; an expansion valve reducing the pressure of liquid refrigerant from the condenser, hence reducing the boiling point of the refrigerant; an evaporator, in which the low boiling point refrigerant exchanges heat with a low temperature heat carrier, such that the refrigerant vaporizes; and a suction gas heat exchanger exchanging heat between high temperature liquid refrigerant from the condenser and low temperature gaseous refrigerant from the evaporator. A balance valve is arranged for controlling the amount of heat exchange between the high temperature liquid refrigerant and the low temperature gaseous refrigerant in the suction gas heat exchanger by directing a flow of high temperature liquid refrigerant directly from the condenser to the expansion valve. Disclosed is also a method for controlling such a system.
US12140352B2
A dynamic receiver is included in parallel to an expander of a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) system. The dynamic receiver allows control of the refrigerant charge of the HVACR system to respond to different operating conditions. The dynamic receiver can be filled or emptied in response to the subcooling observed in the HVACR system compared to desired subcooling for various operating modes. The flow through an expander of the HVACR system can be controlled to account for the mass flow rate through an outlet valve of the dynamic receiver when the dynamic receiver is emptied, preventing or reducing instability or effects on system parameters such as the suction superheat.
US12140348B2
A refrigeration evaporator comprising fluidly connected liquid chambers disposed between first and second layers of material, and an inlet for receiving and introducing liquid refrigerant into one of the liquid chambers. Each of the chambers are interconnected by respective overflow inlets and outlets to allow flow of liquid refrigerant between the connected chambers under gravity such that, during influent flow of the liquid through the inlet, the chambers accumulate the liquid sequentially to impede the flow. The evaporator further comprises vapor circuit including respective draw off vapor channels for receiving flow of refrigerant vapor from corresponding chambers. The vapor channels are in fluid communication with peripheral vapor channels disposed along peripheral regions of the evaporator for reducing or preventing slugs of liquid refrigerant flowing into the circuit. The circuit and the overflow inlets and outlets are disposed between the first and second layers of material.
US12140347B2
A rotary compressor according to an embodiment includes a plurality of eccentric parts, a first balancer, and a second balancer. The plurality of eccentric parts include a first eccentric part, a second eccentric part, and a third eccentric part disposed to be aligned from one side to the other side. The second balancer is disposed on the other side of the first balancer. Angles between a direction of eccentricity of the first balancer and directions of eccentricity of the plurality of eccentric parts are configured to increase in an order of the third eccentric part, the second eccentric part, and the first eccentric part. Angles between a direction of eccentricity of the second balancer and directions of eccentricity of the plurality of eccentric parts are configured to increase in an order of the first eccentric part, the second eccentric part, and the third eccentric part.
US12140342B2
A semiconductor fabrication building is provided. The semiconductor fabrication building includes an ambient control surrounding and a makeup air handling unit configured to supply clean air to the ambient control surrounding. The makeup air handling unit includes a housing having an air inlet and an air outlet. The makeup air handling unit also includes a first filtration module positioned in the housing. The first filtration module includes a number of hollow fibers configured to guide air to flow from the air inlet to the air outlet. A porous layer is formed at an inner wall of each of the hollow fibers to filter airborne molecular contamination (AMC) having a selected size.
US12140338B2
Disclosed is a window air conditioner drain that includes a main body having a drain side and an interfacing side. The drain side includes a funnel structure that narrows to a tube attachment portion of the funnel structure. The window drain further includes a magnetic attachment mechanism configured for magnetically attaching the main body to a window air conditioner such that the main body covers a drainage hole of the window air conditioner. Further disclosed is a window air conditioner drain kit incorporating the window air conditioner drain, and a kit that includes the window air conditioner drain, magnets and/or a flexible tube.
US12140335B2
Disclosed is a ceiling type air conditioner that can implement a horizontal air flow to provide an indirect wind to a user with a simple structure. To this end, the ceiling type air conditioner according to the present disclosure includes an inner case in which a blower and a heat exchanger are built-in, and a blow passage for guiding air passed through the heat exchanger downward is formed; an inner flow path body which is disposed below the inner case and has a suction flow path for sucking air into the inner case so as to communicate vertically; and an outer flow path body which is spaced outward from the inner flow path body and disposed below the inner case, and forms a discharge flow path, between the inner flow path body, communicating with the blow passage; wherein an outer circumferential surface of the inner flow path body comprises a first concave portion formed to be concave, a first horizontal portion extended horizontally outwardly from a lower end of the first concave portion, and a vertical portion extended vertically downwardly from an outer end of the first horizontal portion.
US12140333B2
Control process of a thermal plant including a distribution circuit for a carrier fluid having a delivery line and a return line, a central thermal treatment group placed on the circuit, and channels, each of which is hydraulically interposed between the delivery line and the return line to serve respective environments. For each of the channels, the plant includes a respective exchange unit, a flow regulator to regulate a flow rate of carrier fluid through in the respective channel, an ambient temperature detector, a temperature detector of the carrier fluid for detecting a delivery temperature of the carrier fluid in each channel, and a return temperature of the carrier fluid in each channel. The process also includes a thermal optimization procedure as a function of ambient temperature, delivery temperature and return temperature of the carrier fluid.
US12140327B2
An air conditioner includes: an outer housing that contains therein one or more of a condenser, a compressor, coils, a fan, an enclosure air intake, and an enclosure air return; one or more rainwater drains configured to transmit rainwater that enters the housing through the outer housing to ambient; and one or more condenser drains configured to transmit condensation from within the outer housing to an exterior location via one or more conduits.
US12140321B2
The system is preferably used with a cooking appliance with a heating cavity and can include: a vessel and a temperature probe. The system can optionally include: a lid, a tray, and/or a circulator. However, the system can include any other suitable components. The system functions to monitor and/or control the temperature of a volume of working fluid in a cooking appliance with a heated cavity.
US12140320B2
An appliance is provided with a cavity wrapper defining a cooking chamber therein. An embossment is formed in a wall of the cavity wrapper and protrudes within the cooking chamber. The embossment has a leading sloped portion. A shroud is located adjacent the wall and includes an outer perimeter edge that is spaced from the embossment thereby defining an exhaust port therebetween. A bracket is disposed outside the cavity wrapper and includes a pair of mounting tabs affixed to an external surface of the wall of the cavity wrapper. The pair of mounting tabs straddling the embossment in a staggered formation.
US12140318B2
A knob assembly includes a front panel, a knob located at a front side of the front panel and configured to rotate based on operation by a user, a knob shaft that is coupled to the knob and that extends through the front panel, a supporting pipe that receives the knob shaft and that supports the knob shaft, the supporting pipe being configured to maintain a position relative to the front panel, a valve configured to control supply of gas to the appliance, a valve shaft connected to the valve and configured to control the valve to adjust a flow rate of gas based on rotation of the valve shaft, and a joint that couples the knob shaft to the valve shaft and that is configured to transfer at least one of a rotational motion or a linear motion of the knob shaft to the valve shaft.
US12140313B2
A stand is provided for elevating a portable stove above a surface. The stand includes a plurality of legs. Each leg includes an outer link connected by a hinge. The outer link is thus movable to a position extending radially outward. Each leg also includes a foot coupled to the outer link.
US12140301B1
A portable light up mirror includes a mirror element, a case element for installing the mirror element, a cover element which is coupled with the case element for covering the mirror element, and a light source which is arranged behind the mirror element within the case element for providing even and glare-free illumination, so that the adequate lighting minimizes shadows on a user's face and give the user a more accurate view when grooming or applying cosmetics.
US12140294B1
The present disclosure discloses an easily-assembled/disassembled lighting fixture. A power supply module includes a power supply body, a lifting ring, and a first connecting assembly. A female power connector in the power supply body protrudes out of a bottom of the power supply body, the lifting ring is connected to a top of the power supply body in a threaded manner, and the first connecting assembly is fastened to the bottom of the power supply body by using a screw. The power supply module is buckled to a first buckle assembly at a top of a lamp body by using the first connecting assembly, and the female power connector is inserted into a male power connector inside the lamp body. An optical lens is buckled to a second buckle assembly at a bottom of the lamp body by using a first buckling slot.
US12140288B2
A light guide designed to be mounted in a vehicle includes a coupling portion presenting an input face, a main portion adjacent to said coupling portion, and a light output surface extending at least along the main portion. The light guide is arranged in such a way that light rays that enter into the light guide through the input face are propagated by total internal reflection along the coupling portion and then along the main portion, before reaching out of the light guide trough the output surface. The light input face is flat and has a periphery that is formed by only five edges of substantially the same size, these edges joining together such that they form five angles with substantially the same value.
US12140287B1
A lamp assembly for a vehicle includes a housing. The lamp assembly also includes an outer lens operably coupled with the housing to define a chamber therebetween. A light source is disposed in a first portion of the chamber and is configured to emit visible light through the outer lens to a region exterior to the vehicle. The lamp assembly further includes a LiDAR module disposed in a second portion of the chamber and facing the outer lens. The LiDAR module is configured to capture distance information based on infrared light reflected from the region exterior. The second portion is vertically spaced from the first portion.
US12140285B2
Method for attaching a lens (100) for a motor vehicle headlight (10) to a motor vehicle headlight housing (200), comprising the following steps in chronological order: a. providing a motor vehicle headlight housing (200), wherein the following is arranged in the motor vehicle headlight housing (200): a first light module (210) and a second light module (220), a screen (230), wherein the first and second light module (210, 220) as well as the screen (230) form an assembly, and providing a lens (100), which has a first projection section (110) and a second projection section (120), wherein the first projection section (110) in combination with the first light module (210) is designed to produce a first light distribution, and wherein the second projection section (120) in combination with the second light module (220) is designed to produce a second light distribution, wherein the lens (100) has an opaque section (130), b. transferring the assembly into the mounting position (P1) with respect to the motor vehicle headlight housing (200), c. transferring the lens (100) onto the motor vehicle headlight housing (200) in a fixing position and subsequently fixing the lens (100) to the motor vehicle headlight housing (200) by means of vibration welding, d. transferring the assembly into the end position (P2).
US12140283B2
To allow light from one or one group of light sources to be used for a plurality of applications. A lens structure for a vehicle lamp includes a light transmitter and a reflective surface. The light transmitter is configured to transmit light in a predetermined horizontal direction. The reflective surface is provided at an upper portion of an end portion of the light transmitter in the predetermined horizontal direction. A direction perpendicular to the reflective surface is inclined toward a direction opposite to the predetermined horizontal direction from a direction directly downward. The reflective surface totally reflects the light travelling in the predetermined horizontal direction downward. The light transmitted from below the reflective surface in the light transmitter in the predetermined horizontal direction radiates in the predetermined horizontal direction, and the light reflected by the reflective surface illuminates a road surface.
US12140279B1
Disclosed herein are kerosene lantern conversion kits for converting kerosene lanterns to solar light devices. The kerosene lantern conversion kit may comprise a light unit configured to be inserted to the kerosene lantern, the light unit including a light source and a battery electrically coupled to the light source. The kerosene lantern conversion kit may comprise a switch unit configured to be inserted into a kerosene-filling opening of the kerosene lantern, the switch unit including a switch configured to electrically couple to the light source to control the light source. The kerosene lantern conversion kit may comprise a solar panel that can electrically couple to the battery to deliver energy generated by the solar panel to the battery. Using the conversion kits described herein, kerosene lanterns can easily be retrofitted to solar light devices using few tools and with limited basic training.
US12140278B2
Optical filters are used to compensate for changes in LED and pcLED performance resulting from technological advances in device design or manufacturing, with for example the filtered optical output from later generation devices matching or substantially matching the optical performance of earlier generation legacy devices. This can allow the advanced generation devices to be substituted in applications previously supported by the legacy devices, even if the optical performance of the unfiltered advanced generation devices does not satisfy the optical performance specifications required by the application. Somewhat paradoxically, the advantages of using the filters in combination with the advanced generation devices may arise from the filters making the optical performance of the devices worse according to one or more figures of merit.
US12140275B2
Method and an IoT system for gas gate station monitoring are provided. The method includes obtaining operation data of a gas gate station; obtaining a downstream user feature corresponding to the gas gate station and historical warning data corresponding to the gas gate station; determining, based on the downstream user feature and the historical warning data and in combination with the operation data, the associated node in a preset time period, the associated node including at least one of a gate station internal node and an external pipeline network node; obtaining monitoring data of the associated nodes, the monitoring data at least including node monitoring data of the gate station internal node and node monitoring data of the external pipeline network node; and issuing a warning notification in response to the monitoring data not satisfying a preset condition.
US12140262B2
A vacuum adiabatic body, a refrigerating or warming apparatus, and a method for manufacturing a vacuum adiabatic body are provided. The vacuum adiabatic body includes a first plate defining at least a portion of a wall for a first space, a second plate defining at least a portion of a wall for a second space having a second temperature different from a first temperature of the first space, and at least one conductive resistance sheet connecting the first and second plates to each other. At least one of a flange of the first plate coupled to the at least one conductive resistance sheet or a flange of the second plate coupled to the at least one conductive resistance sheet is bent.
US12140260B2
Seal assembly 100, useful for repairing an uncontrolled surface such as pipeline 110, comprises seal 102 which is subjected to pressure and temperature and remains operable under, e.g., subsea conditions. Seal assembly 100 is capable of sealing pipelines of diameters up to 48 inches. Seal assembly 100 is actuated/energized by axially compressing/loading seal assembly 100 between one or more controlled surfaces and an uncontrolled surface and can be used for repairing and providing sealing in flowline or pipelines of either subsea or other petrochemical industries where the pipelines. Spool assembly 700 comprising seal assembly 100 may be used to repair a damaged pipeline section after the damaged section is removed to provide a sealed replacement fluid path for the pipeline.
US12140259B2
A system that permits fracturing pumps such as, for example, at least first and second fracturing pumps, each carried on a truck, to be connected to, and disconnected from, respective connection points on a fracturing manifold while fracturing fluid in the fracturing manifold is at pressure, in certain instances at or near fracturing pressure, and/or while other(s) of the fracturing pumps are being operated to pump fracturing fluid.
US12140256B2
Some fluid coupling devices described herein are configured for use in fluid systems for purposes of providing a single-use, aseptic disconnection functionality that substantially prevents fluid spillage when being disconnected. In some embodiments, the coupling portions cannot be functionally reconnected to each other after being disconnected from each other.
US12140245B2
The invention relates to an electric field device (10) with an ignition protection-type pressure-tight encapsulation for use in explosion-prone regions for controlling and/or regulating a valve unit of a process system, comprising a housing (12), in which a control unit (48) that comprises electronic components and is used as a monitoring, control, and/or regulating unit is arranged, said control unit (48) having a releasable communication connection to an operating unit (62). The housing (12) can be connected to a drive housing of the valve unit via a mechanical interface (42), and the housing has at least one connection feedthrough (44), via which at least one line can be connected that is connected to the control unit (48) via a connection interface (46). The invention is characterized in that the housing (12) is designed as a housing assembly with a modular structure, having a first module (16) which is formed together with the mechanical interface (42) to the drive housing and the connection feedthrough (44). The control unit (48) is secured in the first module (16) and has an interface to a control center, wherein the first module (16) can be mechanically connected to a cover element (20) selectively either directly or indirectly in a releasable manner, and the indirect connection of the first module (16) to the cover element (20) is produced with the interposition of a second module (18). The operating unit (62) is arranged in a stationary manner in the second module (16), and the second module (18) can be fixed in different angular orientations about a longitudinal axis of the electric field device relative to the first module (16).
US12140239B2
A device for controlling the flow of a fluid through a conduit from an upstream side of the device to a downstream side of the device. The device includes a housing defining a valve aperture and a mounting member arranged on the downstream side of the valve aperture. A valve member is movably mounted on the mounting member and is arranged to selectively open and close the valve aperture to control the flow of fluid. A soft seal is arranged on the housing for substantially sealing the valve aperture when the valve member contacts the housing. The soft seal is located downstream of a convex curved surface of the housing which is shaped to separate the flow of fluid through the valve aperture away from the surface of the housing such that the fluid does not impinge directly on the soft seal.
US12140236B2
A dual union drain valve assembly has one or more reversible check valve inserts in the fitting(s) that are coupled to the drain valve body. The coupling of the fittings to the drain valve body is done using union couplings permitting the easy installation and/or reversal of the check valve insert(s). In addition, the union couplings permit removal of the dual union drain valve assembly from the surrounding plumbing system for service or replacement of the dual union drain valve assembly.
US12140229B2
An assembly is provided for rotational equipment. This assembly includes a plurality of seal shoes, a seal base and a spring system. The seal shoes are arranged about a centerline in an annular array. The seal shoes include a first seal shoe. The seal base circumscribes the seal shoes. The spring system connects the seal shoes to the seal base. The spring system includes a first spring element and a second spring element. The first spring element extends axially along the centerline in a first axial direction from the seal base to the first seal shoe. The second spring element extends axially along the centerline in a second axial direction from the seal base to the first seal shoe. The second axial direction is opposite the first axial direction.
US12140224B2
A control system (32, 33) for a vehicle (10), the control system (32, 33) comprising one or more controllers, the control system (32, 33) being configured to: receive a transmission speed signal that is indicative of an output speed of a transmission (24) of the vehicle (10) as the transmission (24) performs a gearshift; receive a driver demand signal that is indicative of a driver demand for acceleration of the vehicle (10) during the gearshift; and determine a torque demand signal for an engine (20) of the vehicle (10) in accordance with the transmission speed signal and the driver demand signal.
US12140223B2
A gear differential comprising a bell shaped housing having and open end and slide grooves extending from the open end. Planetary gears are adapted for being inserted into the slide grooves in the bell shaped housing via the open end.
US12140221B2
A lubrication assembly and operating method are provided herein. The lubrication assembly includes a rotating component an axial recess positioned on an axial side of the rotating component, and a lubricant conveyor that remains stationary relative to the rotating component and extends into the axial recess to form a gap between axial recess and the first lubricant conveyor. The lubricant conveyor directs a lubricant toward the axial recess during rotation to generate a lubricant spray focused in a targeted direction.
US12140219B2
A waterproof structure for a speed reducer according to one aspect of the disclosure includes: a speed reducer for decelerating a rotational driving force of an electric motor and transmitting the decelerated rotational driving force to a rotationally driven portion; a motor flange housing the speed reducer; a cover externally covering the speed reducer in a liquid-tight manner; and a holding plate and a first fixing bolt provided on an inner peripheral side of the cover to fix the cover to the motor flange.
US12140217B2
A method includes for each of the portions of a guide of the actuator, obtaining an operating signal measured when a movable element of the actuator travels over the guide portion in question, upon each of a plurality of successive activations of the actuator; for each of the guide portions, seeking wear of the actuator from the operating signals obtained for this guide portion; and locating the wear on the guide or on the motor according to the guide portions from which the wear has been found.
US12140203B2
A carriage for holding a clamping member in a clamping device, the carriage having a central portion and at least one holding portion for holding the clamping member, wherein the, or each, holding portion is foldable relative to the central portion between an open position of the, or each, holding portion and a closed position of the, or each, holding portion.
US12140202B2
A toothed belt including asymmetric tooth profiles. The teeth of the toothed belt include a vertical segment on the leading side of the tooth that allows the teeth to carry increased loads. This in turn helps prevent tooth jump. A sprocket configured to smoothly enter and exit the toothed belt is also described, and the toothed belt and sprocket may form part of a belt drive system.
US12140201B2
The present invention relates to a helical toothed belt including: a back portion; a tension member buried in the back portion; and a plurality of tooth portions arranged at a predetermined interval along a belt longitudinal direction on one surface of the back portion, in which the plurality of tooth portions have a tooth pitch of 1.5 mm or more and less than 2.0 mm, the back portion has a thickness of 0.4 mm or more and 1.2 mm or less, the tension member is formed of a twisted cord containing a high-strength glass fiber or a carbon fiber, and the ratio of the total value of an interval between the tension members adjacent to each other to the belt width is 20% or more and 60% or less.
US12140198B2
A vibration damper having a hydraulic compression stop includes: a cylinder filled with a damping medium; a piston rod guided in the cylinder the cylinder having a first piston fastened to the piston rod and slidable on an inner wall of the cylinder; and a second piston arranged on the piston rod at an axial distance from the first piston the second piston being slidable in a pressure cylinder. The pressure cylinder is formed with respect to the cylinder by a separate plastic pressure sleeve having a bottom, and the bottom of the pressure sleeve and a coating surface of the base on a side of the base facing away from the pressure sleeve are connected to each other via at least one web.
US12140197B2
There is provided a rotary damper of which size can be easily reduced. The rotary damper (100) includes a housing (101). The housing (101) includes a rotor (120) in a bottomed cylindrical housing body (102), and is closed by a lid (140). An inner chamber (103) in the housing body (102) is divided into three cells including a first cell R1, a second cell R2, and a third cell R3 by a fixed vane (104) and movable vanes (124, 125) of the rotor (120). At the rotor (120), a cylindrical tubular support portion (122) is formed inside the movable vanes (124, 125). The lid (140) is formed with a cylindrical first rotor support portion (141) turnably supporting the tubular support portion (122). The first rotor support portion (141) supports the tubular support portion (122) at a center portion of the length of each of the movable vanes (124, 125) in an axial direction of the rotor (120).
US12140193B2
A torsional vibration damper includes a common axis of rotation extending along an axial direction, an input part, an output part, rotatable relative to the input part in a limited manner with torque transmission, and a ramp system. The ramp system includes an axially displaceable component, a plurality of rolling elements for converting rotation of the input part relative to the output part into an axial shifting of the axially displaceable component, and a plurality of energy storage elements. The plurality of energy storage elements are arranged distributed along a circumferential direction, extend along the axial direction, and are elastically deformable in the axial direction.
US12140179B2
In an annular sliding component disposed at a relatively rotating position of a rotating machine and sliding relative to an opposed sliding component, a sliding surface is provided with a plurality of first dynamic pressure generation grooves disposed on a leakage side, having terminating ends, and generating a positive pressure and a plurality of second dynamic pressure generation grooves disposed on a sealing target fluid side, having terminating ends, and generating a positive pressure and a depth of the second dynamic pressure generation groove is shallower than a depth of the first dynamic pressure generation groove.
US12140178B1
A joint having a base portion, an upper portion, and an actuation portion. The base portion defines a socket. The upper portion has a spherical element at least partially located inside the socket, and the spherical element defines a locking portion. The actuation portion is at least partially located inside the base portion. The actuation portion has a button, a button spring, a pin, a pin spring. The button defines a pin receiving space. The pin has a pin projection, and the pin extends through the pin receiving space. The button is configured to move between a locked position, in which the pin is prevented from moving in an actuation direction, and an actuation position, in which the pin is capable of at least some movement in the actuation direction. The button spring biases the button to the locked position, and the pin spring biases the pin toward the spherical element and abuts the locking portion. In the actuation position, the upper portion is able to move within the socket while the pin projection abuts the spherical element, and the pin is able to move in the actuation direction. In the locked position, the button prevents the pin from moving in the actuation direction, and the pin projection is located inside the locking portion.
US12140153B2
A compressor device of a supercharging device for an internal combustion engine (1), having an inlet channel (21) with a side wall (23), an exhaust-gas inlet (25) in the side wall (23), at which exhaust-gas inlet an exhaust-gas recirculation channel (27) opens into the inlet channel (21), and a flow barrier (29) in the inlet channel (21), which flow barrier at least partially spans the exhaust-gas inlet (25), is spaced apart from the exhaust-gas inlet (25) and is suitable for diverting exhaust gas which flows from the exhaust-gas inlet (25) into the inlet channel (21) at an angle with respect to an axial direction of the inlet channel (21) or with respect to the axis of a compressor (3).
US12140152B1
A coupling for a fan hub including an auxiliary unit attached to the coupling; the fan hub attached to the coupling opposite the auxiliary unit, wherein the misalignment-tolerant coupling is configured to translate rotary motion along an axis from the fan hub to the auxiliary unit to provide rotational power from a gas turbine engine to the auxiliary unit.
US12140149B1
An outdoor ceiling fan includes a ceiling fan body, a lower tube fixedly connected to the ceiling fan body, and an upper tube insertedly connected to the lower tube. The upper tube is telescopic and adjustable relative to the lower tube through an adjustment seat. A hanger is fixedly connected to the upper tube. The hanger covers the top of the upper tube. A waterproof gasket is provided between the housing of the ceiling fan body and the lower tube. A waterproof ferrule is provided among the upper tube, the adjustment seat and the lower tube. The outdoor ceiling fan has the effects of blowing air over a large area, being waterproof, and having a retractable down rod, lighting function and good safety.
US12140148B1
A high-capacity pump fabricated with improved motor cooling and corrosion resistant components and powered by a variable-speed brushless DC motor suitable for use with a wide variety of applications. A brushless 12V DC motor is controlled by a manual and wireless variable speed control means to provide unparalleled flow control. The motor is contained within the housing in a sealed cavity in the housing, wherein the cavity is filled with mineral oil which maximizes heat transfer to facilitate motor cooling. A PVC impeller is contained within a PVC section of the housing thereby creating a corrosion resistant impeller section. The pump of the present invention has achieved improved performance over known pumps and is capable of delivering 4,500 gallons per hour (GPH) at 6 feet of head pressure, while only drawing 30 amps at 12 Volts DC. Wireless remote control of the pump is achieved via a wireless enabled device.
US12140141B1
The present application discloses a high-precision electric oil pump, which relates to the technical field of new energy vehicles. The electric oil pump includes a pump housing connected with an outer gear and an inner gear engaged with each other, the pump housing is internally connected to a fixed shaft concentrically arranged with the pump housing, the outer gear is connected to the fixed shaft and concentrically arranged with the pump housing, the fixed shaft includes a connecting section, an eccentric calibrator is provided on an outer circumferential wall of the connecting section, the eccentric calibrator and the connecting section form an eccentric assembly, the inner gear is rotated around a geometric central axis of the eccentric assembly, and the eccentric assembly is non-concentrically arranged with the pump housing.
US12140138B2
A reciprocating pump assembly that includes a power end, first and second stay rods coupled to the power end, and a fluid end that includes a mounting flange coupled to the first and second stay rods and a packing nut assembly. The packing nut assembly includes a packing nut threadably engaged with the mounting flange and comprising a gear pattern, and a retention assembly that includes a collar, an alignment arm, a pawl, and a biasing assembly. The collar extends around the first stay rod. The alignment arm is coupled to the collar and shaped to contact the second stay rod. The pawl is pivotally coupled to the alignment arm or the collar and positioned to engage the gear pattern to allow the packing nut thread into the mounting flange and prevent the packing nut from unthreading. The biasing assembly biases the pawl into engagement with the gear pattern.
US12140136B2
Systems to drive a downhole pump include an enclosure body with a magnetically transparent wall. A magnetic driver or a stationary member with coil windings in slots is disposed outside the enclosure body. A magnetic follower or a movable member with one or more permanent magnets is disposed inside the enclosure body such that the magnetic follower or movable member is exposed to a different environment compared to the magnetic driver or stationary member. The magnetic driver and magnetic follower, or the stationary member and movable member, are separated by a gap containing at least a portion of the magnetically transparent wall. A prime mover is operatively coupled to the magnetic driver. A rod couples the magnetic follower or the movable member to the downhole pump. Movement of the rod with the magnetic follower or the movable member operates the pump.
US12140131B2
Flange for a vacuum apparatus comprises a housing to be connected to the vacuum apparatus defining an opening wherein the opening has rectangular narrow shape. The flange further comprises a metal seal arranged around the opening to create a vacuum tight seal.
US12140124B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for generating power in the vicinity of a drilling rig are disclosed. During a drilling operation, heat generated by drilling fluid flowing from a borehole, exhaust from an engine, and/or fluid from an engine's water (or other fluid) jacket, for example, may be utilized by corresponding heat exchangers to facilitate heat transfer to a working fluid. The heated working fluid may cause an ORC unit to generate electrical power.
US12140117B2
A method of determining a blade clearance during operation of a wind turbine is provided, the blade clearance corresponding to a distance between a rotor blade and a tower of the wind turbine. The method includes (a) detecting a rotor blade velocity, (b) emitting a first signal from an observer location, the first signal having a first frequency, (c) receiving a second signal at the observer location, the second signal being reflected from the rotor blade when the first signal impinges on the rotor blade, (d) determining a Doppler shift of the second signal relative to the first signal, and (e) determining the blade clearance based on the first frequency, the Doppler shift, the observer location, and the rotor blade velocity, wherein the step of determining the blade clearance utilizes a mathematical model. A corre-sponding system and a wind turbine comprising such a system are also provided.
US12140116B2
A bi-level tank includes a transfer tank and a return tank containing a volume of water, including transfer and return components in the transfer and return tanks, respectively, and a transition component. A bellows couples an upper surface of a piston in the transfer tank to the return component that exerts pressure on the upper surface, while a lower surface of the piston is under pressure from a pressured fluid supplied by a source thereof, producing a pressure differential on the piston. Actuation of a force-applying mechanism on the piston sufficient to overcome the pressure differential displaces the piston for exchanging respective volumes of the return component and the fluid from the source. An extensible and retractable constant-volume boot holds the transition component around the bellows and has valves configured to open and close for equalizing pressure between the boot and the transfer tank.
US12140104B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a fuel injection system (1) for supplying a combustion engine of a vehicle with fuel, in which method the fuel is conveyed at high pressure with the aid of a high-pressure pump (2), fed to a high-pressure accumulator (3), and injected into a cylinder of the combustion engine with the aid of at least one injector connected to the high-pressure accumulator (3). In order to detect any damage to the drive of the high-pressure pump (3), according to the invention a) the pressure (P) in the high-pressure accumulator (3) is measured and, on the basis of the measured values, a pressure drop (ΔP) in the high-pressure accumulator (3) caused by an injection into a cylinder is determined, b) a maximum pressure gradient is determined during a pressure build-up phase following the injection, c) the determined pressure drop (ΔP) and the determined maximum pressure gradient are put into proportion. The invention further relates to an electronic control unit for carrying out the method.
US12140097B2
The invention concerns a method (200) for operating a motor vehicle (100) with a combustion engine (110), including the determination (210) of a current operating state of the vehicle (100), the determination (220) of an emission state of the vehicle (100) during the determined operating state, carrying out (230) at least one measure to reduce emissions depending on the emission state and evaluating (240) the at least one measure in connection with the operating state with regard to its success in reducing emissions. Furthermore, a computing unit (130) and a computer program product for carrying out such a method (200) are proposed.
US12140095B2
An internal combustion engine includes a fuel injection valve configured to inject hydrogen gas into the cylinder, a selective catalytic reduction catalyst located in an exhaust passage and configured to remove NOx, a urea water injection valve configured to inject urea water into the catalyst, a tank that stores urea water injected by the urea water injection valve, and a remaining amount detection sensor configured to detect a remaining amount of urea water stored in the tank. A controller for the internal combustion engine is configured to execute a restriction process that controls, when the remaining amount is less than a set value, an injection amount of hydrogen gas by the fuel injection valve such that an air excess ratio in the cylinder becomes greater than or equal to a specified excess ratio that is greater than 1.
US12140090B2
A gas turbine engine control system and a method for limiting turbine overspeed in case of a shaft failure. An overspeed protection system detects a shaft failure of the engine. A variable stator vane mechanism adjusts stator vanes of a compressor of the engine in their rotational position, and is activated to move at least one row of the stator vanes into a closed position which blocks air flow through the compressor in case a shaft failure is detected. Bleed valves in the compressor have closed and open positions and divert in the opened position airflow through the compressor to a bypass channel. A detection system detects directly or indirectly the position of the stator vanes, and the control system sets the bleed valves to the open position when the detection system detects that the stator vanes have moved into the closed position.
US12140083B2
A hybrid electric propulsion system includes a gas turbine engine having at least one compressor section and at least one turbine section operably coupled to a shaft. The hybrid electric propulsion system includes an electric motor configured to augment rotational power of the shaft of the gas turbine engine. A controller is operable to determine hybrid electric propulsion system parameters based on a composite system model and sensor data, determine a prediction based on the hybrid electric propulsion system parameters and the composite system model, determine a model predictive control optimization for a plurality of hybrid electric system control effectors based on the prediction using a plurality of reduced-order partitions of the composite system model, and actuate the hybrid electric system control effectors based on the model predictive control optimization.
US12140061B1
The disclosure relates to an exhaust gas sub-system for an internal combustion engine, having a catalytic converter with an inlet section for introducing an exhaust gas flow into the outer housing and having a feed line for secondary gas, the feed line having an inflow element at the end, which opens at the inlet section, the outer housing has an inlet opening for exhaust gas, an external heating element for heating the secondary gas and for generating hot gas being provided in the feed line upstream of the inflow element, at least one inflow opening in the outer housing being assigned to the inflow element, via which hot gas can be fed into the inlet section.
US12140056B2
A switchable rocker arm (1, 2, 3, 4) can comprise a main body (10, 11) configured to rotate around a rocker shaft. The main body can comprise a valve end (102), and a cam end (103) comprising a piston bore (135, 136). A second body (21, 22, 23, 24) can comprise a pivot portion (2140, 2240, 2340, 2440), a cam-receiving transfer portion (2130, 2230, 2330, 2430), and a latch bore (2132) through the transfer portion. A latch assembly (60) can be mounted in the latch bore. A piston assembly (50) can be mounted in the piston bore.
US12140044B2
The present disclosure relates to a blade and a gas turbine, and a blade may include: a body part; an injection hole comprising a communication part connected to an internal flow passage formed inside the body part; and an extension connecting the communication part and a surface of the blade to each other and having a width gradually increasing from the communication part the surface of the blade and configured to inject a cooling fluid to the surface of the blade; and an injection guide means disposed in the extension and configured to uniformly inject the cooling fluid in an expanding manner so as to form a cooling film on the surface of the blade. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to form the cooling film wider on the surface of the blade, by preventing a problem of a separation that occurs during when the cooling fluid flows through materialization of the uniform injection of the cooling fluid to the surface of the blade.
US12140038B2
An airfoil includes a plurality of cooling paths through which cooling air flows, and a first flow guide and a second flow guide disposed at a path connection part connecting the cooling paths to guide the flow of the cooling air, wherein the first flow guide is fixed to a pressure surface and the second flow guide is fixed to a suction surface.
US12140030B2
An apparatus for injecting grouting material, a mining machine and a method of reinforcing rock surfaces by a grouting material is provided. The apparatus includes an injector head provided with a mixing device, which are both insertable into a drilled hole. The apparatus is for feeding resin mixtures having two different setting times. The injector head is connected to a fluid inlet arrangement having a common first feed line for slow and fast resin base components and a second feed line for a resin catalyst.
US12140029B1
A high pressure fluid drill head system for boring holes in both residential and non-residential areas for geothermal energy shafts. The high pressure drill head system having a body sized for the intended borehole to be drilled and including a plurality of parts coupled together via one or more fastening methods. The plurality of parts including an outflow channel within the body, a piston, at least one high pressure flow channel disposed within the body, the high pressure flow channel disposed parallel to the outflow channel, a nozzle in fluid communication with the high pressure flow channel, the nozzle having at least one orifice configured for ejecting a fluid, and a return feed inlet disposed at the lower end of the body, the return feed inlet in fluid communication with the outflow channel.
US12140028B2
A method for drilling a geothermal well in a subterranean zone includes drilling, with a drill string, a wellbore of the geothermal well in the subterranean zone. An inherent temperature of the rock adjacent a rock face at a downhole end of the wellbore is at least 250 degrees Celsius. While drilling, a drilling fluid is flowed at a temperature at the rock face such that a difference between the inherent temperature of the rock adjacent the rock face and the temperature of the drilling fluid at the rock face is at least 100 degrees Celsius.
US12140023B2
Systems and methods for adaptively receiving telemetry data are disclosed. In one example embodiment of a method, mud pulse telemetry data is transmitted from a downhole location. The transmitted data may be received at a plurality of transducers. Each of the transducers may be positioned at a different location of a drilling operation. The received data from the plurality of transducers may be processed simultaneously. The data which most likely corresponds to the transmitted mud pulse telemetry data may be selected and output. In some embodiments received data from the plurality of transducers is processed with a plurality of different decoding chains. Parameters of individual ones of the decoding chains and/or the number of decoding chains may be autonomously varied.
US12140015B2
A downhole assembly includes a tubular body having a bore and a downhole tool connected to the tubular body. The downhole assembly also includes a sensor assembly having a carrier and a sensor. A sensor adapter is used to couple the sensor assembly to the tubular body. The sensor adapter includes an adapter body disposed in the bore of the tubular body; an adapter shaft for connection with the carrier; and a plurality of channels formed between the adapter shaft and the adapter body.
US12140011B2
An illustrative modular manifold disclosed herein includes, among other things, a low-pressure manifold comprising a frac fluid outlet valve, wherein a fracturing fluid is adapted to be supplied from the low-pressure manifold via the frac fluid outlet valve to a suction side of a frac pump, and a high-pressure manifold comprising at least one frac fluid inlet valve, wherein the high-pressure manifold is adapted to receive, via the frac fluid inlet valve, a fracturing fluid discharged from the frac pump. In this example, the modular manifold also includes a support structure for mechanically supporting the low- and high-pressure manifolds and a plurality of height-adjustable support legs operatively coupled to the support structure.
US12140004B2
A side pocket mandrel for use in a gas lift system is configured to improve the recovery of petroleum fluids from a well. The side pocket mandrel includes an upper assembly joint, a lower assembly joint, and a central portion that has a total length (LT). The side pocket mandrel further comprises a central bore extending through the side pocket mandrel along a central longitudinal axis that extends through the upper and lower assembly joints. The side pocket mandrel further includes a tool channel offset from the central bore and a side pocket tube linearly aligned with the tool channel and configured to receive a gas lift valve. The side pocket mandrel further includes a pair of primary flow blocks that each have a length (LFa) that is at least 35% of the total length (LT) of the central portion of the side pocket mandrel.
US12140000B1
Nuclear energy integrated hydrocarbon operation systems include a well site having a subsurface hydrocarbon well configured to produce a produced water output. The system further includes a deployable nuclear reactor system configured to produce a heat output. The system may further include a deployable desalination unit configured to produce a desalinated water output using the produced water output of the subsurface hydrocarbon well and the heat output of the deployable nuclear reactor. The system may further include a deployable off-gas processing system configured to produce an industrial chemical using the off-gas output of the subsurface hydrocarbon well and the heat output of the deployable nuclear reactor.
US12139995B2
A downhole tool having a mandrel and a slip. The mandrel has a mandrel body having a proximate end; a distal end; and an outer surface. The slip is a hybrid slip having a slip shell engaged with a slip core. When the slip shell is engaged with the slip core, at least one break point of the slip shell is aligned with a respective break point of the slip core.
US12139992B2
A plugging device launcher for use with a subterranean well can include a release mechanism. The release mechanism can include an actuator operative to displace at least one elongated member. The elongated member is engaged with at least one plugging device. A method of releasing plugging devices into a subterranean well can include placing a plugging device launcher in communication with a wellbore of the well, and operating an actuator of the plugging device launcher, thereby displacing at least one elongated member of the plugging device launcher. The displacing step can include disengaging the elongated member from at least one of the plugging devices.
US12139989B1
A system includes a spear hook for gripping into a compacted wireline, a spear that deploys the spear hook, and a hook hinge rotatably coupling the spear hook to the spear. The tool also includes a hook activator mounted in the spear to cause expansion and contraction of the spear hook. The spear hook expands and contracts along a path defined by the hook hinge in a radial direction from a spear outer surface of the spear. The tool also includes a compaction component, coupled to the spear, for compacting a wireline to form the compacted wireline.
US12139982B2
Methods and an apparatuses are for determining at least one property of a wellbore fluid system. A measurement apparatus having one or more pipe sections is provided, a drilling fluid is communicated through the pipe section, at least one density which is associated with at least one condition of pressure and temperature of the drilling fluid in the pipe section is measured, and the density of the drilling fluid is measured to determine the property of the wellbore fluid system.
US12139980B2
Deck assemblies for vibratory separators are provided. In accordance with an implementation, an upper deck assembly for use with a vibratory separator having a basket and a lower deck, the upper deck assembly includes a pair of side rails, a filter screen, and a support. The side rails are couplable to inward facing surfaces of the basket and the filter screen is supportable by the side rails. The support extends from the filter screen and is configured to engage the lower deck or a support surface of the vibratory separator and provide support for the filter screen across a width thereof.
US12139970B2
A module-based system for plug and abandonment operation of wells on an offshore installation, wherein the module-based system is installed at same level as main rig or on below decks, wherein the module-based system is adapted to operate independent of main drilling tower or external rigs on the offshore installation by comprising modules coupled to perform all plug and abandonment operations, including integrated material handling modules.
US12139969B2
A cutting element includes a body, a non-planar cutting face formed on a first end of the body, and an edge formed around a perimeter of the cutting face. The cutting face includes a central raised portion, and the edge has an edge angle defined between the cutting face and a side surface of the body. The edge angle varies around the perimeter of the cutting face and includes an acute edge angle defined by a portion of the cutting face extending downwardly from the edge to a depth from the cutting angle. The portion of the edge defining the acute edge angle may be directly adjacent: a side surface of the cutting element; a bevel of the cutting element; or a flat region at the perimeter of the cutting element or bevel.
US12139965B2
An insert for a sliding door including an insert door frame configured to be inserted into and coupled to a track of a sliding door. The insert for a sliding door also includes at least one hinge coupled to the insert door frame and a swinging door coupled to the hinge. The insert for a sliding door further includes a pet door section of the swinging door configured to have at least one pet door coupled to the pet door section allowing ingress and egress for a pet through the at least one pet door by a pet.
US12139964B2
The present sliding security door system includes a sliding security door extending between an upper track and a lower track. Separate motive and locking assemblies drive and secure the door, respectively. A control assembly in the system is capable of separately activating motive and locking effectors to allow for separate movement and locking/unlocking of the door. Because of this, the system is compact and capable of deployment in otherwise too-small spaces.
US12139962B2
The profiled element (1) comprises: one main portion (2) defining a holding surface (2a) for a central panel (3) of a door/window (4), the main portion (2) being adapted to form a perimeter frame (5) of the door/window (4); one retaining portion (6) which defines an abutment surface (6a) of the central panel (3) and is adapted to fasten the central panel (3) to the perimeter frame (5); and non-removable connection means (7) which connect the main portion (2) to the retaining portion (6) and are adapted to allow the movement of the retaining portion (6) between a raised configuration, wherein it frees superiorly the holding surface (2a), and a retaining configuration, wherein it faces the holding surface (2a).
US12139957B2
The present invention estimates a height of a user by using a rear camera to automatically adjust the opening amount of a tailgate, so as to increase the convenience of an electrically-powered tailgate.
US12139956B2
A vehicular door device causes a door to perform an opening-closing operation, based on an operation of a link mechanism formed of first and second link arms. Further, the first link arm is provided with a hand placement portion that rotates integrally with the first link arm. Then, the vehicular door device is configured in such a way that the first link arm supports a load applied to the hand placement portion.
US12139952B2
A bodywork part for a motor vehicle is provided. The bodywork part includes a main body made from a plastic material and an anti-pinching system. The latter comprises a capacitive sensor comprising at least a first conductive wire integrated into the thickness of the main body by welding, said capacitive sensor being able to detect the presence of an object or a hand of a user in said peripheral zone.
US12139951B2
An automotive door hinge comprises first and second brackets mountable selectively to one of the door and the body. A cam element, non-rotationally mounted to the second bracket, comprises a cam surface adapted to engage with a cam follower non-rotationally housed within a first housing of the first bracket. An energy storage means respectively stores and releases energy when the cam follower longitudinally translates within the first housing in a first direction and then in a second direction opposite the first direction. Relative rotation of the first bracket in relation to the second bracket within a predetermined angular range causes longitudinal translation of the cam follower, wherein as the door is closed, the cam follower engages the cam surface and translates longitudinally in the second direction whereby the energy stored by the energy storage means is released to assist door closure.
US12139945B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to hinge apparatus for supporting an aperture closure member. The hinge apparatus is configurable in at least first and second configurations. The hinge apparatus includes a first hinge bracket and a second hinge bracket. A first hinge linkage member is pivotally mounted to each of the first and second hinge brackets. A second hinge linkage member is pivotally mounted to each of the first and second hinge brackets. A latching mechanism is provided for selectively latching the hinge apparatus. The latching mechanism is operable to inhibit movement of the first and second hinge linkage members relative to each other to latch the hinge apparatus. The present invention also relates to a carrier assembly for carrying an aperture closure member; and a vehicle having a carrier assembly.
US12139939B2
A hasp bracket may include a shield wall and a mounting plate orthogonal to the shield wall. The mounting plate may include a bolt aperture member extending from an inward edge of the mounting plate. The mounting plate may include one or more apertures in a surface of the mounting plate. The one or more apertures may be located in an area bounded by the shield wall and the inward edge of the mounting plate.
US12139937B2
A latching assembly for releasably securing a first member to a second member, the latch assembly comprising a housing, at least two jaws pivotally mounted to the housing, the jaws pivotable between an open position and a closed position, the assembly comprising a locking member moveable between a locked position to lock the jaws in the closed position and an unlocked position to allow the jaws to revert to the open position.
US12139936B2
A lockset that includes a latch assembly, an interior assembly and an exterior assembly. The latch assembly includes a bolt movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The interior assembly is configured to electronically control movement of the bolt between the extended position and the retracted position. The exterior assembly includes a locking assembly configured to be mechanically coupled with the latch assembly. The interior assembly includes an interior wireless communication unit and the exterior assembly includes an exterior wireless communication unit that is configured to wirelessly communicate therebetween. In some embodiments, an exterior assembly includes a photovoltaic cell and the interior assembly includes a light source. The light source and the solar cell are configured for wirelessly communicating and for power transmission between the exterior and interior assemblies through a bore hole in the door.
US12139934B2
The strike assembly can have a strike with a strike face, a socket in the strike face for receiving a male locking member retractably mounted to a door, the socket having a shim-receiving wall integral to and normal to the strike face, the shim-receiving wall having a receiving aperture, an insert being securely engageable into the receiving aperture along an insert engagement path, and a shim plate held firmly in the socket, against the shim-receiving wall, by the insert, when the insert is engaged into the receiving aperture.
US12139926B2
A folding tent eave automatically-overhanging structure includes a leg pipe, a fixed base disposed at an upper part of the leg pipe, a slide base disposed on the leg pipe and capable of sliding up and down along the leg pipe, and an eave overhanging rod movably erected on the fixed base. The fixed base is hingedly connected to a lower tent top rod. The slide base is hingedly connected to a support rod. The other end of the support rod is hingedly connected to the lower tent top rod. A slider capable of sliding along the support rod is disposed on the support rod. The slider is hingedly connected to a connecting rod. The other end of the connecting rod is hingedly connected to the lower tent top rod. The folding tent eave automatically-overhanging structure further includes a push rod.
US12139921B2
A pole cover assembly for covering a pole including first sleeves or base sleeves, second sleeves or middle sleeves, and third sleeves or top sleeves or top cap. The pole cover assembly may also contain additional spacer sleeves. The pole cover assembly includes first sleeves, the second sleeves, and the third sleeves which come in front and rear semi-cylindrical tubes that snap together via inconspicuous tabs. Further, each of the first sleeves, the second sleeves, and the third sleeves include a series of disks that accommodate most type of poles i.e., square, round, and U-channel poles. The pole cover assembly acts as a cover for the poles and can snap around almost all types and sizes of poles. The pole cover assembly beautifies and brings visibility to any pole.
US12139919B2
A support tool for installing tiles onto a wall above a niche in the wall provides support for tiles being mounted above the niche. The tool includes a support plate configured to be secured to or braced against an upper surface of the niche. A tile support bar supporting lower edges of the tiles may be adjusted and held in a selected vertical position relative to the plate, so that lower edges of tiles may be placed in a desired vertical position relative to the upper surface of the niche. The tile support bar may be slidably supported on a support rod in a selected position by a nut threaded onto the support rod. The tool may be secured in position by screwing the support plate onto the upper surface of the niche, or by bracing the tool in place using a length-adjustable extender assembly.
US12139917B2
The invention relates to a tile panel which includes a support panel which is essentially flat and has a top side onto which one or more tiles are adhered by an adhesive, wherein the support panel is made from a material which is different than the material from which the one or more tiles are made, and the top side of the support panel includes a recessed structure in which the adhesive is present. The invention also relates to a surface covering, in particular for a floor, ceiling or wall surface, which is constructed by a multitude of neighbouring tile panels.
US12139916B2
A staircase handrail support device removably connected to a staircase to facilitate installation of a handrail, the staircase handrail support device including a telescopic pole, a base connected to at least a portion of a first end of the telescopic pole to stabilize the telescopic pole on the staircase, a first miter gauge pivotally disposed on at least a portion of the first end of the telescopic pole to indicate a first angle of the telescopic pole with respect to the base, and a second miter gauge pivotally disposed on at least a portion of a second end of the telescopic pole to receive the handrail thereon and indicate a second angle of the telescopic pole with respect to the second miter gauge.
US12139911B1
A method of making a metal frame that will be used to make metal panels that will be used to fabricate modular metal buildings. Currently, the metal frames are manufactured through forming processes, however, the steps adopted end up generating greater difficulty in the conformation of the metal sheet, and, consequently, increase in the manufacturing time; as well as, they cannot achieve a higher degree of quality, which reduces the added value of the metal frame and can lead to greater difficulty of assembly, lower productivity and higher labor cost. The ideal method, comprises of modular plates (1) that are formed by galvanized sheet frames (2), which are manufactured by the method with 22 forming steps through a roll forming machine (7) with profiling rolls (9) with specific frames (10), and each step has a roll (9) and a set of support rollers (12) for each forming step.
US12139906B2
A dual channel drainage seal for enclosing a joint between a slab and a foundation sidewall of a subterranean area. The drainage seal includes and lower channel and an upper channel stacked over the lower channel. The lower channel is affixed on top of the slab and against the sidewall to form and enclosed channel for retaining and routing radon and/or water seepage at the joint to a sump pit. The upper channel is open on top and configured to capture and route water seepage from the sidewall above to the sump for discharge, thereby protecting the interior portions of the slab from radon and water damage.
US12139900B2
A urinal screen having a frame and a plurality of protrusions extending from the frame. The frame can include a plurality of openings. The openings can be defined by a plurality of perimeter structures. The protrusions can extend from the perimeter structures. In some embodiments, protrusions extend from a first face and a second face of the frame.
US12139899B2
A tankless toilet includes a bowl, a trapway, and a jet. The bowl includes a rim at an upper portion of the bowl and a sump at a lower portion of the bowl. The trapway extends from the sump to a drain. The jet includes a main channel configured to receive a supply of water from a supply conduit, and a plurality of distribution channels configured to introduce water received from the main channel to at least one of the sump and the trapway. The jet is configured to receive the supply of water from the supply conduit at a first flow rate and induce a flow from the supply of water into the trapway at a second flow rate greater than the first flow rate to prime a siphon within the trapway. The second flow rate is greater than the first flow rate prior to priming the siphon.
US12139895B2
The present invention relates to technical field of faucet, specifically to an induction type pulling faucet, including a faucet body, a valve core, a handle, and a pulling shower head. A water inlet tube, a pulling tube, and an induction control valve are mounted in the faucet body. The pulling tube is connected to pulling shower head and valve core respectively. The valve core is connected to water inlet tube and the handle respectively. An infrared sensor and a magnetic sensor are mounted in faucet body, which are both electrically connected to the induction control valve via electric wire. A strong magnet is mounted in the pulling shower head. The present invention identifies magnetic field changes between the pulling tube and the pulling shower head by setting magnetic sensor to achieve induction control of water path switch, and increase convenience of using the induction type pulling faucet.
US12139891B2
The intelligent water network management system and method to intelligently monitor and/or control water parameters and identify and solve real time issues comprising theft, leakages, and quality of water, pressure change and related damages across water networks through an Internet-of-Things (IoT) Gateway connected to a cloud software/platform and components in a water distribution network including but not limited to water meters, water quality sensors, reservoir sensors and actuators connected wired or wirelessly to a local gateway that collects, processes/examines, aggregates, and transfers the real time data or information of sensors/meters at a predefined frequency and pushes it to a cloud platform that receives information from the gateways, analyzes it and identifies the occurrence of real time events (water leakage/theft/water quality issues/water running out) and thereafter alerts the relevant authorities for investigation of water leakage/theft/water quality issues at a specific location, the information displayed on the dashboard for user access.
US12139883B2
A ladder motor pump system comprises a hydraulic fluid tank that holds hydraulic fluid, a hydraulic pump that draws and pressurizes the hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic fluid tank, a one-way electric motor that drives the hydraulic pump, a hydraulic ladder actuator that actuates a ladder in first and second patterns, a hydraulic fluid circuit that routes the hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic ladder actuator to the hydraulic fluid tank, and a regulator that routes the pressurized hydraulic fluid from an outlet of the hydraulic pump to the hydraulic fluid tank when a pressure of the pressurized hydraulic fluid exceeds a preselected threshold pressure, mixing the pressurized hydraulic fluid with the unpressurized hydraulic fluid in the hydraulic fluid tank and reducing temperature of the pressurized hydraulic fluid. The electric motor and the pump include bosses providing increased ground connections to the electrical ground, thereby reducing electrical resistance and heat generated.
US12139880B2
A loading machine includes a swing body, work equipment provided on the swing body, a posture measuring device to measure a posture of the swing body, and a depth detecting device to detect a depth of at least part of a surrounding of the swing body in a detection range. A control device controls the loading machine. The control device includes a posture information acquisition unit that acquires posture information indicating the posture measured, a detection information acquisition unit that acquires depth information indicating the depth detected, a target azimuth direction determination unit, and an output unit. The target azimuth direction determination unit determines a target azimuth direction in swing control based on the posture information and the depth information acquired when the swing body is stopped swinging. The output unit outputs a swing operation signal based on the target azimuth direction.
US12139877B2
An adapter for a quick-change system for changing attachments on a construction machine contains coupling elements arranged at a stipulated spacing from each other between two side walls for connection of the adapter to a quick changer. In order to provide improved protection from damage, the rear ends of the two side walls project rearwardly with respect to a back cover arranged between the side walls.
US12139875B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of construction, and, more particularly, to the adjustment of the position of a floating manhole or the replacement of a manhole with a new manhole so that the manhole is aligned with the connecting surface, e.g., the roadway. The object of the disclosure is to make it quicker, easier, and cheaper to adjust the position of a floating manhole, or to replace the manhole with a new manhole by aligning the manhole surface with the connecting surface, e.g., the roadway.
US12139873B1
A tube joint apparatus for a double-tube floating tunnel and a construction method thereof are provided, the apparatus includes a joint device, a tunnel tube body, and an escape device. The escape device is provided in the joint device, the tunnel tube body is respectively connected to left and right ends of the joint device. A plurality of anchor yokes are connected to an outside of the joint device. The joint device includes a watertight locking structure section, a framework connection section, and a main functional section. The main functional section includes a joint inner road surface and a joint housing. The joint inner road surface is provided in the joint housing, and the watertight locking structure section is respectively connected to two ends of the framework connection section. The present disclosure improves a utilization rate of an internal space in the underwater floating tunnel.
US12139872B2
A foundation for a wind power plant includes a circular or polygonal pedestal divided into several ring sections for carrying a tower and support elements extending radially outward from the pedestal, wherein the ring sections and the support elements are designed as prefabricated concrete elements or are assembled from prefabricated concrete elements, and wherein adjacent support elements are spaced from one another in the circumferential direction, adjacent support elements are each connected with one another by a tangentially extending beam designed as a prefabricated concrete element.
US12139870B2
Multilayer integral geogrids having a cellular layer structure, and methods of making and using same
A multilayer integral geogrid, including one or more cellular layers, has a plurality of oriented multilayer strands interconnected by partially oriented multilayer junctions with an array of openings therein. The multilayer integral geogrid having one or more cellular layers is produced from a coextruded or laminated multilayer polymer starting sheet. The integral geogrid has a multilayer construction, with at least one outer layer thereof having the cellular structure. By virtue of the cellular layer structure, the multilayer integral geogrid provides for increased layer vertical compressibility under load, resulting in enhanced material properties that provide performance benefits to use of the multilayer integral geogrid to stabilize and strengthen soil, aggregates, or other particulate materials.
US12139869B1
In a method for reducing erosion on land where moving water has formed at least one rill or gully a plurality of rock-filled mesh bags are placed at selected spaced apart locations in a rill or gulley. The mesh bags have side walls in which there are openings, each opening having a major diameter of between ⅛ inches and ¼ inches and a minor diameter which is less than or equal to the major diameter. For most uses, the mesh bags contain rocks having a size in which a largest diameter of the rock is between ⅜ inch and 1 inch, and the mesh bags weigh between 3 pounds and 4 pounds. Water flowing in the gulley will pass through each mesh bag. The mesh bag reduces the flow rate of the moving water. Larger sizes of stones and bags are used for areas of greater flow.
US12139862B2
A floor cutting machine having a dust collection cover coupled thereto may comprise a main frame having a first dust collection cover fixing pin configured to attach the dust collection cover to the floor cutting machine; a plurality of front wheels located at a front of the main frame; at least one rear wheel located at a rear of the main frame; a cutting frame having one side fixed to a vicinity of the rear of the main frame and the other side configured to be moved upwards and downwards; a cutting blade fitted on opposite sides of a cutting shaft located in the vicinity of the other side of the cutting frame; and a front frame detachably connected to the front of the main frame, the front frame having a second dust collection cover fixing pin configured to attach the dust collection cover to the floor cutting machine.
US12139856B2
A forming machine for a pulp product includes a frame unit defining a forming zone, two hot pressing zones, and two demolding zones; a forming unit disposed in the forming zone and including a forming mold for scooping pulp from a pulp tank and forming a blank unit thereon for every scoop of the pulp; a lower mold unit including four lower molds movable relative to the frame unit along a vertical direction, and an upper mold unit movable between two positions along a moving direction in a repetitive manner and including two upper hot-pressing central molds and two upper hot-pressing transfer molds. The upper mold unit is engageable with the forming mold and a corresponding one of the lower molds in different positions.
US12139855B2
Belts and fibrous structures may include discrete cells including one or more legs and/or one or more concavities in certain patterns or Cell Groups. The cells may be discrete knuckles or pillows and the fibrous structures may further include an emboss.
US12139854B2
A plate segment for refining an aqueously suspended fibrous material in a refining gap delimited by two treatment surfaces rotating relative to each other and formed by a plurality of the plate segment, includes: a basic body including: a plurality of elongate treatment elements which face the refining gap and run radially at least with one directional component; a plurality of grooves running between the plurality of elongate treatment elements, the plurality of grooves including a groove base; and a plurality of channels running at least with one directional component radially and at least approximately parallel to the refining gap, being at different distances from the refining gap and arranged in the basic body, and at least partially overlapping one of one another and with the groove base in a direction of rotation.
US12139804B2
A system and method for generating arsine are disclosed. The system may include a shell having a top interior surface. The system may also include a cathode-anode assembly positioned in the shell and forming an elongated structure substantially parallel to the top surface. The cathode-anode assembly may include a first electrode and a second electrode surrounding the first electrode and forming a gap therebetween. The second electrode may include a plurality of channels along a length of the second electrode. The plurality of channels may allow circulation of electrolyte within and around at least a portion of the cathode-anode assembly and allow gases generated in response to current applied to the cathode-anode assembly to escape from the cathode-anode assembly. Such gases may be used as precursor gases for a high-volume metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) operation.
US12139803B2
The disclosure discloses a membrane electrode assembly (MEA) for electrochemically converting carbon monoxide (CO) into ethylene (C2H4) under applied current density, the MEA comprising: a cathode; an anode; an anion-exchange membrane (AEM) to separate the cathode from the anode; an anolyte; a reactant inlet in fluid communication with the cathode to provide a CO-enriched gas component; and a product outlet in fluid communication with the cathode to release a product mixture comprising C2H4; wherein the cathode comprises: a first layer including adsorption sites to adsorb CO as CO* intermediates; a second layer that facilitates stabilization of the CO* intermediates for adsorption onto the adsorption sites of the first layer; and a third layer that facilitates diffusion of CO to the adsorption sites of the first layer.
US12139801B2
Methods and systems related to oxocarbon electrolyzers are disclosed herein. A disclosed system includes an oxocarbon electrolysis reactor with an anode area with an oxidation substrate, cathode area with an oxocarbon species as a reduction substrate, and an electroneutral separator separating the anode area and the cathode area while allowing ionic migration between the anode area and cathode area. The electroneutral separator may be a porous electroneutral separator. The oxocarbon electrolyzer may also include a conductive electrolyte applied to the separator. Ionic migration between the anode area and the cathode area may be accomplished via the conductive electrolyte in the porous electroneutral separator.
US12139793B2
Information is communicated to a process control device by performing a process that includes the step of heating a component, the component having structured volumetric regions. When the component is heated, structures present in the volumetric regions radiate in the infrared spectrum, allowing the structures to be distinguished by an infrared sensor. The structures, formed by elevations or depressions, form a machine-readable identifier, which can be used as an originality identification means for the component. Since the identifier can be determined in situ during a heating process, the process control device can recognize whether correction values are to be used for the thermal treatment of a substrate.
US12139789B2
Disclosed is a process stop loss reduction system, in which in case that pressure in a trapping apparatus and pressure in a process chamber are increased because of space clogging or the like caused by reaction by-products while the trapping apparatus for trapping of a reaction by-product contained in exhaust gas discharged from the process chamber operates over a long period of time during a semiconductor process, only the trapping apparatus, in which an exhaust gas supply flow path is blocked, may be quickly replaced while inert gas, instead of the exhaust gas, is received in an idle state and continuously supplied to the vacuum pump through a bypass pipe without stopping an operation of (shutting down) a semiconductor manufacturing process chamber facility, and then the trapping apparatus may be supplied with the exhaust gas again as the flow path is changed.
US12139787B2
There is provided a technique that includes a reaction vessel including a first region in which a substrate is arranged and a second region in which no substrate is arranged; a heater configured to heat the first region; a gas supplier configured to supply a plurality of gases including cleaning gases; and a controller that controls at least one selected from the group of the gas supplier, the heater, and a cooler to clean the first region and the second region under different conditions by at least one method selected from the group of a method in which the gas supplier supplies two different kinds of cleaning gases, a method in which the gas supplier supplies one or more cleaning gases from two different locations, and a method in which the heater sets a temperature differently between the first region and the second region.
US12139785B2
The present invention relates to a method of forming a coating layer having plasma resistance, the method comprising steps of: preparing a substrate by placing the substrate in a substrate fixing device inside a process chamber; evaporating a Y2O3 deposition material provided in a solid form in an electron beam source by irradiating an electron beam on the Y2O3 deposition material; generating radical particles having activation energy by injecting a process gas containing oxygen for forming radicals into a RF energy beam source; irradiating an RF energy beam including the radical particles generated in the RF energy beam source, toward the substrate; depositing a thin film in which the evaporated deposition material is deposited on the substrate by being assisted by the RF energy beam, and densifying the thin film in which the deposition material deposited on the substrate forms a densified film by ion bombardment of the RF energy beam.
US12139783B2
A process for producing a copper-beryllium alloy product. The process comprises preparing a base alloy having 0.15 wt %-4.0 wt % beryllium and having grains and an initial cross section area. The process further comprises cold working the base alloy to a percentage of cold reduction of area (CRA) greater than 40%, based on the initial cross section area, and heat treating the cold worked alloy to produce the copper-beryllium alloy product. The grain structure of the copper-beryllium alloy product has an orientation angle of less than 45° when viewed along the direction of the cold working. The copper-beryllium alloy product demonstrates a fatigue strength of at least 385 MPa after 106 cycles of testing.
US12139780B2
Provided are a hot-rolled steel sheet for an electric resistance welded steel pipe and a method for manufacturing the same, an electric resistance welded steel pipe and a method for manufacturing the same, a line pipe, and a building structure. The hot-rolled steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.030% or more and 0.20% or less, Si: 0.02% or more and 1.0% or less, Mn: 0.40% or more and 3.0% or less, P: 0.050% or less, S: 0.020% or less, N: 0.0070% or more and 0.10% or less, and Al: 0.005% or more and 0.080% or less, the balance being Fe and incidental impurities, in which N dissolved in steel is contained in an amount of 0.0010% or more and 0.090% or less, and letting a sheet thickness be t, a steel microstructure at a ½t position has an average grain size of 20.0 μm or less.
US12139769B2
A method of diagnosing bacterial vaginosis in a woman, which involves determining an amount of each of more than one BV-associated bacterium in a vaginal sample obtained from the female and assessing a BV status of the female based on the amount of each of the more than one BV-associated bacterium in the sample.
US12139765B2
Methods and compositions are provided for determining a subtype of lung squamous cell carcinoma (SQ) of an individual by detecting the expression level of at least one classifier biomarker selected from a group of gene signatures for lung squamous cell carcinoma. Also provided herein are methods and compositions for determining the response of an individual with a squamous cell carcinoma subtype to a therapy such as immunotherapy.
US12139761B2
The invention relates to an in-vitro method for identifying a diabetic patient as responder or non-responder to a treatment of Proinsulin, Interleukin 10 and anti-CD3, based on the expression level of at least 1 microRNA, selected from the group consisting of miR-365, miR-34a, miR-193b and miR-125a, in a sample from the diabetic patient prior to said treatment.
US12139759B2
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are methods of detecting or sequencing circular template polynucleotides on a solid support and/or in cells and tissues.
US12139754B2
Provided herein are methods of making, amplifying, and sequencing tagged nucleic acid complements, compositions including interposing oligonucleotide barcodes, and kits useful in obtaining long-range sequence data.
US12139752B2
This invention provides methods for detecting RNAs in a biological sample while using only a small amount of sample input, e.g., less than or equal to 1 mL. The methods described herein are able to detect a large percentage of protein-coding genes having the ENSEMBL gene annotation HG38.
US12139751B2
The present disclosure relates in some aspects to methods and compositions for analysis of a target nucleic acid, such as in situ detection of a region of interest in a polynucleotide in a tissue sample. In some embodiments, provided herein are templated ligation probes (e.g., RNA-templated ligation probes) and selector probes for generation of a circularized ligated probe comprising an insertion sequence of a selector probe, wherein the circularized ligated probe is amplified in a rolling circle amplification reaction to generate a product that is detected in the sample.
US12139750B2
Methods and systems described herein involve using long cell-free DNA fragments to analyze a biological sample from a pregnant subject. The status of methylated CpG sites and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is often used to analyze DNA fragments of a biological sample. A CpG site and a SNP are typically separated from the nearest CpG site or SNP by hundreds or thousands of base pairs. Finding two or more consecutive CpG sites or SNPs on most cell-free DNA fragments is improbable or impossible. Cell-free DNA fragments longer than 600 bp may include multiple CpG sites and/or SNPs. The presence of multiple CpG sites and/or SNPs on long cell-free DNA fragments may allow for analysis than with short cell-free DNA fragments alone. The long cell-free DNA fragments can be used to identify a tissue of origin and/or to provide information on a fetus in a pregnant female.
US12139746B2
The present invention relates to a method of isolating a nucleic acid target region from a population of nucleic acid molecules, said method comprising the steps of a) contacting said population of nucleic acid molecules with a Class 2 Type V Cas protein-gRNA complex, wherein the gRNA comprises a guide segment that is complementary to a first site adjacent to said target region, thereby forming a Class 2 Type V Cas protein-gRNA-nucleic acid complex, b) contacting the population of nucleic acid molecules comprising said Class 2 Type V Cas protein-gRNA-nucleic acid complex with at least one enzyme having single-strand 3′ to 5′ exonuclease activity, thereby forming a 5′ single-stranded overhang in said first site, c) removing the Class 2 Type V Cas protein-gRNA complex from the population of step b), d) contacting the population of step c) with an oligonucleotide probe, said probe comprising a sequence that is at least partially complementary to said overhang, thereby forming a duplex between said probe and said overhang, and e) isolating said duplex from the population of nucleic acid molecules of step d), thereby isolating said nucleic acid target region.
US12139744B2
The present invention provides methods, compositions and devices for stabilizing the extracellular nucleic acid population in a cell-containing biological sample and for stabilizing the transcriptome of contained cells.
US12139737B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for producing milk proteins, which allow for safe, sustainable and humane production of milk proteins for commercial use, such as use in food compositions. The disclosure provides recombinant fusion proteins comprising at least first protein and a second protein, wherein at least one of the first protein and the second protein is a milk protein, or fragment thereof. The disclosure also provides methods for producing the recombinant fusions proteins, and food compositions comprising the same.
US12139732B1
Novel engineered non-natural deaminases are provided. Methods and compositions are provided for modifying the genome of a cell, including a plant cell. Genome modification through guided CRISPR polypeptides and multiple deaminases are provided. Engineered non-natural novel deaminases, including adenosine deaminases are provided. These novel deaminases have improved activity in cells including plant cells.
US12139728B2
The present invention provides a 2-OST mutant exhibiting a high activity. Specifically, the present invention provides a 2-O-sulfation enzyme mutant, having a substitution of a leucine residue at position 321 with a basic amino acid residue in any one amino acid sequence of: (a) the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (b) an amino acid sequence comprising one or several amino acid substitutions, deletions, insertions, or additions in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (c) an amino acid sequence having 90% or more identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (d) the amino acid sequence consisting of amino acid residues at positions 69 to 356 in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (e) an amino acid sequence comprising one or several amino acid substitutions, deletions, insertions, or additions in the amino acid sequence consisting of amino acid residues at positions 69 to 356 in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; (f) an amino acid sequence having 90% or more identity to the amino acid sequence consisting of amino acid residues at positions 69 to 356 in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2; and having a 2-O-sulfate transfer activity.
US12139725B2
Provided is a composition capable of promoting osteogenic differentiation of stem cells, comprising, as active ingredients, a bone and cartilage progenitor cell culture solution and a multilayer graphene film, which promotes the differentiation of stem cells into specific cells, and thus is expected to be variously applicable in the in vivo/in vitro stem cell application fields.
US12139722B2
This disclosure describes methods for organoid generation including, for example, for generation of a multi-tissue organoid. The multi-tissue organoid may include cartilage, bone, epithelium, and/or fibrous connective tissue. This disclosure further describes methods for isolating cells from the organoids and methods of using the organoids and cells of the organoids.
US12139721B2
Genetic circuits have been developed to regulate behaviors of replicon RNA in responses to small molecules, which has broader applications, such as for quantitative expression of cargo genes, temporary expression of immunomodulatory cytokines or antigens for better cancer immunotherapy or vaccination, and for increased safety in use of self-replicating vectors or in combination with other viral-delivery vectors. Described herein are genetic circuits suitable for systems that either require a tight off state or a slow off state, which can serve for instance where either a kill switch or prolonged protein expression (e.g., of vaccine antigens) are needed.
US12139712B2
The present application relates to the field of cancer, particularly that of cancers with high MDM4 protein levels (such as melanoma, breast, colon or lung cancers, glioblastoma, retinoblastoma, etc.). It is shown herein that direct and selective inhibition of MDM4, e.g., by antisense RNA, leads to growth inhibition of cancer cells and sensitization to chemo or targeted therapies. Also provided are simple ways of determining which patients are most amenable for such treatment by comparing specific transcript levels.
US12139709B2
The present disclosure relates to modified antisense oligonucleotides. The nucleotides described herein are of 10 to 40 nucleobases and include a targeting sequence complementary to a target region within intron 1 of a pre-mRNA of the human alpha glucosidase (GAA) gene. The target region includes at least one additional nucleobase compared to the targeting sequence, wherein the at least one additional nucleobase has no complementary nucleobase in the targeting sequence, and wherein the at least one additional nucleobase is internal to the target region.
US12139703B2
The present invention relates to a lysis, binding and/or wash reagent for isolating and/or purifying nucleic acids and a method for isolating and/or purifying nucleic acids.
US12139695B2
Disclosed herein is a process for the conditioning of wood barrels, in particular, a process for the rapid conditioning of wood barrels. The disclosed process may comprise one or more steps comprising: subjecting a wood barrel to heat to increase the temperature of the wood; contacting the heated internal surface of the wood barrel with a fluid additive; and then optionally: subjecting the interior of the wood barrel to a pressurised environment; and/or subjecting the wood barrel to further heating; repeating one or more steps; and allowing the wood barrel to cool, or cooling the wood barrel, to provide a conditioned wood barrel. Also disclosed is another process comprising the step of providing a bladder and a liquid additive within the interior of a wood barrel for a predetermined time to facilitate absorbing the additive into the wood, wherein the bladder reduces the interior volume of the wood barrel such that the liquid additive is in contact with the internal surface of the barrel. Also disclosed herein are conditioned wood barrels and uses thereof.
US12139692B2
A laundry scent additive having polyethylene glycol repeat units and perfume. The laundry scent additive enables consumers to control the amount of scent imparted to their laundry.
US12139688B2
This ball screw grease composition for a rack-assisted electric power steering contains a thickener, a base oil, and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a Ca sulfonates, fatty acids, and triglycerides, wherein the kinematic viscosity of the base oil at 40° C. is 4-100 mm2/s, and the worked penetration of the composition is 265-385.
US12139679B2
A lubricity modifier for fuels contain a dicarboxylic acid monoester compound represented by formula (I). In formula (I), R1 represents a single bond, a substituted or unsubstituted C2-6 divalent alkenyl group, or a group having a structure of —R3—R4—R5—; R2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted C1-40 hydrocarbyl group; R3 and R5 each independently represents a single bond, or a substituted or unsubstituted C1-3 divalent alkyl group; and R4 represents a substituted or unsubstituted C3-12 divalent alicyclic group.
US12139672B2
A multi-stage process for the production of an ISO 8217 compliant Product Heavy Marine Fuel Oil from ISO 8217 compliant Feedstock Heavy Marine Fuel Oil involving a Reaction System composed of one or more reactor vessels selected from a group reactor wherein said one or more reactor vessels contains one or more reaction sections configured to promote the transformation of the Feedstock Heavy Marine Fuel Oil to the Product Heavy Marine Fuel Oil. The Product Heavy Marine Fuel Oil has a Environmental Contaminate level has a maximum sulfur content (ISO 14596 or ISO 8754) between the range of 0.05 mass % to 1.0 mass. A process plant for conducting the process for conducting the process is disclosed that can utilize a modular reactor vessel.
US12139666B1
The effervescent tablet for enhanced oil recovery is made of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), sodium phosphate monobasic (NaH2PO4), and sodium carbonate (Na2CO3). To perform enhanced oil recovery, a suspension is first prepared by adding the effervescent tablet to water. This preparation may be performed at room temperature. Steam is then injected into the oil well, followed by flooding the oil well with the suspension. One-third of the pore volume of an oil reservoir of the oil well may be injected with the steam, and two-thirds of the pore volume of the oil reservoir may be flooded with the suspension.
US12139665B1
A method of recovering oil from a hydrocarbon-bearing subterranean geologic formation includes producing a first hydrocarbon composition and injecting a first injection fluid including a first viscoelastic polymer and a first brine solution. The first viscoelastic polymer has a shear viscosity from 500 to 700 cP at a shear rate of 0.5 to 2 s−1. A second hydrocarbon composition is produced and a second injection fluid including a viscous polymer and a second brine solution is injected. The viscous polymer has a shear viscosity greater than the first viscoelastic polymer. Further, a third hydrocarbon composition is produced and a third injection fluid including a second viscoelastic polymer and a third brine solution is injected. The second viscoelastic polymer has a shear viscosity less than the viscous polymer. The method further includes producing a fourth hydrocarbon composition.
US12139663B2
A method for sealing and/or consolidating a subterranean formation, the subterranean formation being traversed by at least one injection well, includes the steps of preparing a gelling aqueous solution comprising an alkaline solution of potassium silicate, acetic acid and an aluminate, and injecting from the injection well, into the subterranean formation, the gelling aqueous solution to seal and/or to consolidate the subterranean formation.
US12139660B2
A method, wellbore, and pill for treating a region of a subterranean formation adjacent a wellbore zone of the wellbore, including injecting a gellable treatment composition (e.g., as the pill) through the wellbore zone into the region of the subterranean formation adjacent the wellbore zone, allowing the gellable treatment composition to form nanoparticles in-situ in the region and gel in the region via heat provided by the region to prevent or reduce flow of an unwanted fluid from the region into the wellbore zone. The gellable treatment composition may include a zwitterionic gemini surfactant (ZGS).
US12139654B1
An upconversion phosphor having a formula of Li—R—Si—O—F:xPr3+, where R is yttrium (Y) or lutetium (Lu). The value of x is 0.001 to 5 and represents a mole percentage (%) based on the total number of moles of all elements in the upconversion phosphor. Following excitation with sunlight, the upconversion phosphor emits light with a wavelength in the range of 250 nanometers (nm) to 350 nm.
US12139653B2
The present invention relates to metal halide colloidal nanoparticles represented by a following Chemical Formula 1 and a method for producing the same: A3MX6 [Chemical Formula 1] wherein in the Chemical Formula 1, A is an alkali metal element, M is a rare-earth metal element, and X is a halogen element.
US12139652B2
A quantum dot includes: a nanoparticle; and a ligand represented by Formula 1 on a surface of the nanoparticle: A1 is an anchoring group linked to the surface of the nanoparticle, and A1 may be selected from groups represented by Formulae A-1 to A-4: wherein * in Formulae A-1 to A-4 indicates a binding site to a neighboring atom.
US12139644B2
A dual lap high strength adhesive for sheet membrane application, having reflectivity granular particle layer to fully bond to concrete/shotcrete, and a method of making, and using same. More particularly, the invention encompasses a below grade, blind side, waterproofing sheet membrane with an inventive high strength adhesive, and having at least one layer of reflectivity granular particle layer that are partly embedded into the adhesive layer, and where the average reflectivity of the exposed granular particles is below 55 percent reflectivity on a standard reflectivity scale. The innovative reflectivity granular particle layer system that is securely bonded to concrete or shotcrete can be used along a wall, a floor, a ceiling, or along any structure which requires water or moisture proofing. The inventive high strength adhesive is along at least one edge of the sheet membrane, and could also be used to embed the reflectivity granular particle.
US12139641B2
Described herein is a coating composition suitable for application to a building panel. The coating composition comprises inorganic pigment, liquid carrier, and a humectant comprising a first ester-containing compound. The liquid carrier may be present in an amount ranging from about 10 wt. % to about 30 wt. % based on the total weight of the coating composition. Described herein are also building panels coated with the coating composition and methods of their production.
US12139638B2
A material and method are disclosed such that the material can be used to form functional metal pieces by producing an easily sintered layered body of dried metal paste. On a microstructural level, when dried, the metal paste creates a matrix of porous metal scaffold particles with infiltrant metal particles, which are positioned interstitially in the porous scaffold's interstitial voids. For this material to realize mechanical and processing benefits, the infiltrant particles are chosen such that they pack in the porous scaffold piece in a manner which does not significantly degrade the packing of the scaffold particles and so that they can also infiltrate the porous scaffold on heating. The method of using this paste provides a technique with high rate and resolution of metal part production due to a hybrid deposition/removal process.
US12139635B2
A circuit board water-proofing coating composition is provided comprising: at least one passivating agent, preferably containing a molecule comprising a thio-functional group, desirably a thiol group, an azolic moiety, or an azole, and combinations thereof; at least one binder component comprising an organic or inorganic film-forming polymer, and/or one or more polymer pre-cursors polymerizable on a substrate surface; and optionally one or more additive(s); also provided are methods of making and using the coating composition and coated circuit boards.
US12139629B2
Described herein are optically transparent and semipermeable windows composed of at least one layer of an amorphous crosslinked fluorinated copolymer. Also disclosed are a process and apparatus for three-dimensional continuous liquid interface production (CLIP) printing using the windows described herein. The amorphous crosslinked fluorinated copolymers have improved mechanical properties, thereby reducing the susceptibility of the window to brittle failures such as cracking and crack propagation. The gas permeable windows have superior durability and reliability compared with other available structures and compositions.
US12139625B2
Methods can be used for producing three-dimensional objects by powder bed fusion, using inks containing superparamagnetic particles and solvents. Sintering is performed by a magnetic field having a frequency of 50 kHz to 5 GHz.
US12139624B2
This invention provides an ink for inkjet printers with both properties; i.e., good visibility of printing dots after heating and high dissolution stability. The ink for inkjet printers of the invention comprises a color material, a solvent, and resin, wherein the color material comprises a first metal complex and a second metal complex comprising metal ions selected from among iron ions, manganese ions, copper ions, cobalt ions, and chromium ions and ligands bound thereto, and the ligands comprise diketone structures incorporated in the chemical structures thereof.
US12139617B2
Described herein are polymeric fluorophores that include a dye, a polymer, and optionally a bioconjugate group. A polymeric fluorophore may have a structure represented by: A-B-C or C-A-B, wherein A is a dye; B is a polymer comprising one or more hydrophobic unit(s) and one or more hydrophilic unit(s); and optionally C, wherein C, when present, comprises a bioconjugate group. Also described herein are compositions comprising the polymeric fluorophores and methods of preparing and using the same.
US12139610B2
Disclosed is a thermoplastic polymer composition of polyamide including: A) polyamide composition comprising, a) 55-90 weight percent semi-crystalline, semi-aromatic co-polyamide, and b) 10-45 weight percent aliphatic homo-polyamide; B) 5-40 weight percent of co-grafted polymeric toughener; wherein the co-grafted polymeric toughener is a co-grafted blend of polyolefins with at least two glass transition temperatures and obtained from the blend of polyolefins and a reactive monomer; C) 0-15 weight percent one or more plasticizers; D) 0-2.5 weight percent one or more antioxidants and or a heat stabilizer; E) 0 to 5 weight percent of additives selected from the group consisting of flame retardant, UV stabilizer, light stabilizer, thermal stabilizer, lubricant, colorant or the like. Further disclosed herein is a process for providing the composition and its application.
US12139608B2
A non-halogenated flame retardant polyamide composition is disclosed which comprises a polyamide, a non-halogenated flame retardant, a PA-6 homopolymer, and at least one heat stabilizer comprising a copper-containing heat stabilizer, an amine-containing heat stabilizer, or a phenol-containing heat stabilizer. The polyamide may have a ratio of carboxylic acid to amine end groups of greater than 1.8:1. The polyamide composition may comprise less than 900 ppm of bromine. Products formed from the composition are also disclosed.
US12139596B2
The thermoplastic resin composition includes (A) a first polyolefin resin with a number average molecular weight of less than 350,000, (B) a second polyolefin resin with a number average molecular weight of 350,000 or more, (C) a polyamide resin having a structure in which a carbon number of a linear chain part of a hydrocarbon group sandwiched between adjacent amide bonds in its main chain is 5 or less, and (D) a modified elastomer having a reactive group with the polyamide resin (C). A total content ratio of the component (A) and (B) is 70% by mass or more, when a total amount of the component (A), (B), (C), and (D) is 100% by mass, and a content ratio of the component (A) is 50% by mass or more and 87% by mass or less, when a total amount of the component (A) and (B) is 100% by mass.
US12139593B2
Nanocomposites include metal oxide nanoparticles and (meth)acrylic acid polymers where the nanoparticles are surface modified with a carboxylic acid silane and where the (meth)acrylic acid polymer is at least partially neutralized. The compositions are transparent, with high transmission and low haze up to very high nanoparticle loading. The compositions also exhibit improved mechanical properties of impact resistance and tensile modulus.
US12139587B2
The invention relates to a method for creating a porous film through aqueous phase separation, the method comprising: i) providing an aqueous solution comprising a responsive copolymer, and optionally a charged polymer, wherein at least one of the monomers in the responsive copolymer is a responsive monomer; ii) forming the aqueous solution into a thin layer and contacting the thin layer of aqueous solution with an aqueous coagulation solution in which the responsive copolymer is not soluble, or contacting the thin layer of aqueous solution with an aqueous coagulation solution in which a complex comprising the responsive copolymer and the charged polymer is not soluble; and iii) allowing solvent exchange between the aqueous solution and the aqueous coagulation solution to produce a porous film. The invention further relates to porous films or membranes thus obtained.
US12139586B2
The disclosure provides a nanodispersion of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) in monoethylene glycol (MEG) as well as a method for dispersing CNCs in MEG and a process for preparing a polymer composites comprising a CNC nanodispersion in MEG comprising copolymerizing said nanodispersion of CNCs and at least one monomer polymerizable with said MEG and/or CNCs.
US12139583B2
A resin molded article having a microphase-separated structure, the resin molded article containing a polyimide resin (A) and a polyether ketone resin (B), the polyimide resin (A) containing repeating structural units of formulae (1) and (2): wherein R1 represents a divalent group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms containing at least one alicyclic hydrocarbon structure; R2 represents a divalent chain aliphatic group having from 5 to 16 carbon atoms; and X1 and X2 each independently represent a tetravalent group having from 6 to 22 carbon atoms containing at least one aromatic ring, a content ratio of the repeating structural unit of formula (1) with respect to the total of the repeating structural unit of formula (1) and the repeating structural unit of formula (2) is 20 to 70 mol %, and a weight average molecular weight Mw is 40,000 to 150,000.
US12139581B2
The present invention relates to a polyamic acid composition for packaging electronic components and a method for packaging electronic components using the same, wherein the polyamic acid composition comprises a dianhydride main component having a benzophenone structure as a dianhydride-based monomer in a high proportion and a diamine component having a benzene ring as a diamine-based monomer, whereby it is possible to improve a coefficient of thermal expansion, a glass transition temperature, an elongation, and the like of a polyimide thin film formed therefrom, and when the polyimide thin film is used as a packaging material for an inorganic material such as a silicon water, it exhibits excellent adhesion to the inorganic material and can be easily removed upon O2 plasma removal, as well as has a remarkably low residual ratio of organic residues on the surface of the inorganic material after the removal, so that it can be easily used as a packaging material for electronic components and the like.
US12139574B2
Methods, compositions, and kits for adhering polymers and other materials to another material, and in particular to bone or bone-like structures or surfaces. A composition of matter includes a urethane dimethacrylate-methyl methacrylate copolymer with a plurality of first polymer regions based on urethane dimethacrylate and a plurality of second polymer regions based on methyl methacrylate. The method includes placing an orthopedic joint implant having an attachment surface in a joint space, applying a first non-urethane-containing precursor, a second urethane-containing precursor, and a initiator to the attachment surface; contacting the first and second precursors and the initiator with the joint surface; and copolymerizing the first and second precursors and forming an adhesive copolymer and attaching the implant to the joint.
US12139572B2
A conjugated diene copolymer has a covalent bond reversibly dissociated and added by heat, and has at least two peaks in each of curves of molecular weight distributions measured at 40° C. and 60° C. by gel permeation chromatography, wherein a change rate of the proportion of the area of the peak having the lowest molecular weight in measurement at 60° C. to the proportion of the area of the peak having the lowest molecular weight in measurement at 40° C.
US12139571B2
Provided is an oxygen-curable silicone composition that cures at room temperature, the reaction being triggered by oxygen in the atmosphere, without requiring heat or UV irradiation at the time of use, and exhibits good mechanical strength after curing. A composition including (A) an organopolysiloxane (1) (R1 represents an alkyl group or the like but has at least one acryloyloxy group or the like in the molecule, R2 represents an oxygen atom or the like, and m and n represent numbers that satisfy 1≤m+n≤1,000.), (B) a silicone resin including (a) a unit of formula (2), (b) an R13SiO1/2 unit, and (c) an SiO4/2 unit, the molar ratio of [(a)+(b)]/(c) being 0.4-1.2, and the silicone resin having 0.005 mol/100 g or more Si—OH groups (R1 and R2 are the same as above. R3 represents an acryloyloxyalkyl group or the like, p represents 0-10, and 1 represents a number that satisfies 1-3.), and (C) an organoborane complex (3) (R4-R6 represent hydrocarbon groups.).
US12139559B2
This invention relates generally to covalently crosslinked colloidal cellulose nanocrystals (xCNC) and methods of preparation and use thereof. The colloidal cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are covalently crosslinked in aqueous suspension to generate a network showing tunable physicochemical properties. The xCNC structures are tunable in terms of their physicochemical properties and arrangement within the hydrogel network. The covalent crosslinking of solitary sulfonated (—OSO3) CNCs can be accomplished without prior hydroxyl replacement or functionalization.
US12139557B2
A synthetic peptide sp2 has the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID No: 1. sp2 has obvious anti-tumor growth activity on xenograft tumours such as subcutaneous human pancreatic cancer, human cervical cancer, and human ovarian cancer in nude mice, with a dose-effect and time-effect relation; and has the effect of delaying metastasis and prolonging the survival time of nude mouse having in situ transplantation of human pancreatic cancer and lung adenocarcinoma. After the animals were given intravenous injection of sp2 at a dose of 2000 mg/kgBW, no toxicity reaction and death were observed. The applications of sp2 also include: (1) preventing and/or treating of tumor; (2) inhibiting proliferation and/or growth and/or invasion of tumor cells; (3) enhancing the anti-tumor immune response; (4) inducing tumor cell differentiation; (5) preparing anti-tumor drugs; (6) inhibiting tumor telomerase activity; and (7) regulating the tumor cell cycle.
US12139554B2
Compounds for targeting and agents for imaging, prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) are disclosed. Methods of synthesizing compounds and imaging agents, as well as methods for imaging PSMA are also disclosed. The imaging agents disclosed are suitable for PET and SPECT imaging.
US12139553B2
The present invention generally relates to novel bispecific antigen binding molecules for T cell activation and re-direction to specific target 511cells. In addition, the present invention relates to polynucleotides encoding such bispecific antigen binding molecules, and vectors and host cells comprising such polynucleotides. The invention further relates to methods for producing the bispecific antigen binding molecules of the invention, and to methods of using these bispecific antigen binding molecules in the treatment of disease.
US12139552B2
Disclosed is a method for improving affinity of an antibody for an antigen, comprising, in an unmodified antibody, improving affinity for an antigen as compared to the unmodified antibody, by changing 17th, 18th and 20th amino acid residues of a light chain defined by Kabat method to charged amino acid residues.
US12139549B2
Described herein are materials and methods for treating subjects having a HER-3 associated disease, by administering a first agent that binds to HER-3, in combination with a second agent that binds and/or inhibits another member of the HER family. The first and the second agent may be a biologic, such as an antigen-binding protein, or a small molecular tyrosine kinase inhibitor, for example.
US12139541B2
The receptor killer cell lectin-like receptor G1 (KLRG1) is expressed on T and NK cells, which binds to ligands on epithelial and mesenchymal cells. The ligand for KLRG1 has been described to be E-cadherin, N-cadherin, and R-cadherin. The present disclosure relates to and results from the discovery and characterization of antibodies that bind the extracellular domain (ECD) of KLRG1 but do not interfere with its interaction with the ligands E-cadherin, N-cadherin, and R-cadherin. The antibodies described have been derived by mouse hybridoma technology, and can be humanized by grafting their complementary determining regions (CDRs) into a human framework. The antibodies described can be used as effective therapeutic agents. Various antibodies, or antigen-binding fragments of such antibodies, along with various therapeutic and/or diagnostic methods, among other features, are provided for in the present disclosure.
US12139536B2
The present invention relates to multi-specific antibodies comprising fine tuned combination of low affinity single binding domain fragments to selectively target double targets on cancer cell, and use thereof for therapy, such as for guided immunotherapy.
US12139530B2
A bispecific antibody according to an embodiment of the present disclosure specifically binds to IL-17A and TNF-α. The bispecific antibody according to the present invention or an antigen binding fragment thereof exhibits high specificity for IL-17A and TNF-α and more favorable neutralization property compared to monospecific antibody of a prior art, and, by quickly suppressing inflammation and an immune response by inhibiting simultaneously IL-17 and TNF-α, it has an advantage of improving the treatment effect with lower dose.
US12139526B2
Provided are chimeric receptors for engineering cells for adoptive therapy, including T cells, and the genetically engineered cells. In some embodiments, the chimeric receptors, such as chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) are modified in a junction region by one or more amino acid modifications such that peptide fragments of such region exhibit a lower binding affinity for a human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and/or the region exhibits reduced immunogenicity, including following administration to a subject. In some aspects, also provided are methods and compositions for engineering and producing cells expressing such chimeric receptors, compositions containing the cells, and method for their administration to subjects. In some embodiments, features of the chimeric receptors and engineered cells containing the chimeric receptors result in methods that provide for increased or improved activity, efficacy and/or persistence.
US12139525B2
The present invention is directed to a novel targeted heterodimeric Fc fusion proteins comprising an IL-15/IL-15Rα Fc fusion protein and an antigen binding domain Fc fusion proteins. In some instances, the antigen binding domain binds to CD8, NKG2A, or NKG2D.
US12139522B2
The present invention provides T-cells modified to express at least two chimeric antigen receptors, wherein one of the CARs binds specifically to an antigen selected from CD138, HER2 and CD24 and another CAR binds specifically a different antigen selected from CD 138, HER2 and CD24. Further, the invention provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising these CAR T-cells and their use in treatment of cancer, in particular, ovarian cancer, DNA constructs encoding said CARs and methods for preparation of T-cells expressing said CARs.
US12139513B2
The present invention relates to an mRNA sequence, comprising a coding region, encoding at least one antigenic peptide or protein of RSV infections Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) or a fragment, variant or derivative thereof. Additionally the present invention relates to a composition comprising a plurality of mRNA sequences comprising a coding region, encoding at least one antigenic peptide or protein of RSV infections Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) or a fragment, variant or derivative thereof. Furthermore it also discloses the use of the mRNA sequence or the composition comprising a plurality of mRNA sequences for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition, especially a vaccine, e.g. for use in the prophylaxis or treatment of RSV infections Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections. The present invention further describes a method of treatment or prophylaxis of RSV infections using the mRNA sequence.
US12139509B2
Fc glycan remodeling platform method for site-specific antibody conjugation and applications thereof
The present disclosure provides a one-pot chemoenzymatic method for site-specific modification and conjugation of antibodies at their Fc glycan site to produce structurally well-defined antibody conjugates carrying defined drugs and other entities. The method is enabled by the discovery that certain endoglycosidases have the ability to both deglycosylate an antibody and to recognize selectively modified small disaccharide oxazolines for transglycosylation on antibodies without hydrolysis of the resulting products.
US12139507B2
A segment for use in synthesis of an oligonucleotide, represented by the following formula (I), a method for producing the same, and a method for synthesizing an oligonucleotide therefrom are provided. In formula (I), B is a protected/unprotected nucleoside base; R1 is a protecting group; R2, R3 and R4 are OCH2CH2CN, OCH2CH═CH2, etc.; R5 is a substituted/unsubstituted aliphatic group/aromatic group; X is a lone pair, O or S; Y is NHR6, a halogen, CN, etc., or a hydroxyl group protected with an acyl, ether or silyl protecting group; R6 is H, an aliphatic group or an aromatic group; Z is H, an alkyl, an O- or N-alkyl or a halogen, or forms a Z-Y bond with Y; and (m+n) is an integer of 2 or more and 23 or less.
US12139506B2
The invention comprises a process for the preparation of a GalNAc phosphoramidite epimer of the formula (I), wherein R1 is a hydroxy protecting group, n is an integer from 0 to 10 and m is an integer from 0 to 20, corresponding enantiomers and/or optical isomers thereof and the use of the process for the preparation of GalNAc-cluster oligonucleotide conjugates.
US12139499B2
The present description relates to compounds, forms, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods of using such compounds, forms, or compositions thereof for treating or ameliorating Huntington's disease. In particular, the present description relates to substituted benzothiazole compounds of Formula (I), forms and pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods of using such compounds, forms, or compositions thereof for treating or ameliorating Huntington's disease.
US12139490B2
The present invention provides methods for the preparation of substituted heterocycle fused gamma-carbolines, such as the compound of Formula 2J, as shown below, intermediates useful in producing them and methods for producing such intermediates and such heterocycle fused gamma-carbolines, and as further defined herein.
US12139483B2
Amine compounds having activity against inflammation, fungi, unicellular parasitic microorganisms, and cancer are described. The compounds contain a monocyclic, bicyclic, or tricyclic aromatic ring having one, two, or three ring nitrogen atoms.
US12139478B2
The present disclosure relates generally to eukaryotic initiation factor 2B modulators, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, stereoisomer, mixture of stereoisomers, or prodrug thereof, and methods of making and using thereof.
US12139473B2
Activators of Kv3.1 and/or Kv3.2 channels which are therapeutically useful in the treatment of cognitive dysfunction and the negative symptoms which are associated with central nervous system disorders such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease, Tourette's syndrome, autism, dementia, epilepsy and other disorders where gamma oscillations are dysfunctional are provided. The activators include substituted N-heteroaryl compounds.
US12139468B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing a compound of formula (I). In the compound of formula (I), n may be 0 to 5 and each of R1, R2, R3, and R4 may be independently selected from the group consisting of H, —O-Alkyl, halo, alkyl, —CN, or —NO3.
US12139466B2
A method is provided of preparing a compound of formula II: where: R1 and R2 are independently selected from —CH2OR′, —CHO, —COOR′ and —H, provided that R1 and R2 are not both —H; and R′ is selected from —H and C1-6 hydrocarbyl groups, from a compound of formula I: the compounds of formulas I and II being optionally in the form of a salt. The method comprises dehydrating the compound of formula I at: a pH in the range of from 0 to 6 or 8 to 11.5; and a temperature in the range of from 10 to 80° C. The method is particularly useful for synthesizing substituted furans from compounds derived from sugars.
US12139465B2
The present invention relates to a non-fullerene acceptor compound containing benzoselenadiazole, and organic optoelectronic devices comprising the same.
US12139464B2
Compounds provided are racemic, non-racemic or substantially enantiomerically pure dimers or salts or solvates thereof of formula: where: W and W′ are S or NR1, or —W—CO— or —W—CO— is —CH═CH—, where each R1 is hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 carbon atoms; R and R′ are hydrogen or an straight-chain or branched alkyl group having 1-3 carbon atoms; R3 and R′3 are hydrogen or a C1-C3 alkyl; X1, X′1, X2 and X′2 are optionally-substituted straight-chain or branched alkyl groups having 3-8 carbon atoms, optionally-substituted cycloalkyl groups having 3-12 carbon atoms; optionally-substituted aryl, optionally-substituted heteroaryl, optionally-substituted heterocycyl, optionally-substituted cycloalkylalkyl, optionally-substituted arylalkyl, optionally-substituted heteroarylalkyl and optionally-substituted heterocycylalkyl groups and L1, L′1 and L2 are divalent chemical moieties. Dimers are employed to modulate quorum sensing and to thus inhibit virulence in Staphylococcus bacteria. Dimers are useful in treating infections of Staphylococcus bacteria. Methods for treating such bacterial infections are also provided.
US12139462B2
Described herein are MK2 inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said inhibitors. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of autoimmune disorders, chronic inflammatory disorders, acute inflammatory disorders, auto-inflammatory disorders, fibrotic disorders, metabolic disorders, neoplastic disorders, and cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disorders.
US12139455B2
Polyethylene glycol derivatives of the following formula I and uses thereof are disclosed. A method for manufacturing the polyethylene glycol derivatives is also disclosed.
US12139446B2
To provide a novel arylamine compound with a low refractive index. The provided arylamine compound includes at least one aromatic group. The aromatic group includes a first benzene ring, a second benzene ring, a third benzene ring, and at least three alkyl groups. The first benzene ring, the second benzene ring, and the third benzene ring are directly bonded in this order. The first benzene ring is bonded to nitrogen of amine. The first benzene ring may further include a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group. The second benzene ring or the third benzene ring may further include an alkylated phenyl group. Each of first positions and third positions of two or more of the first to third benzene rings is independently bonded to another benzene ring, a benzene ring of the alkylated phenyl group, any of the at least three alkyl groups, or the nitrogen of the amine.
US12139444B2
A method for manufacturing a hydrocarbon compound from carbon dioxide, said method including: (a) a step of preparing an absorption-conversion catalyst that includes an oxide carrier, a first component supported on the oxide carrier and including at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of alkali metals and alkaline earth metals, and a second component supported on the oxide carrier and including at least one type of metal selected from the group consisting of Ni, Fe, Co, Cu, and Ru; (b) a step of bringing the absorption-conversion catalyst and a carbon dioxide-including gas into contact under higher pressure than atmospheric pressure, and causing the carbon dioxide to be stored in the absorption-conversion catalyst; and (c) a step of bringing the absorption-conversion catalyst that has the carbon dioxide stored therein and a reducing gas into contact under higher pressure than atmospheric pressure, and obtaining the hydrocarbon compound.
US12139436B2
A method of manufacturing a nozzle for a droplet generator for a laser-produced plasma radiation source is disclosed. The method comprises disposing a glass capillary in a throughbore of a metal fitting, heating the metal fitting; and applying a pressure to the glass capillary such that the glass capillary conforms to the shape of, and forms a direct glass-to-metal seal with, the throughbore. Also disclosed is a nozzle for a droplet generator for a laser-produced plasma radiation source, and the radiation source itself, wherein the nozzle comprises the glass capillary for emitting fuel as droplets and the metal fitting for coupling the glass capillary to a body of the droplet generator, the glass capillary being conformed to a shape of a throughbore of the metal fitting, and wherein the glass capillary forms a direct glass-to-metal seal with the throughbore.
US12139433B2
Provided herein are processes for preparing glass powder product, the process including steps of: providing a crushing waste glass: sorting the crushed waste glass in a primary air classifier to provide a first stream and a reject stream, the first stream comprising a pulverized glass within a predetermined first particle size range and the reject stream comprising crushed waste glass excluded from the first stream: separating the reject stream based on size to provide a coarse stream and a fine stream, the fine stream having a predetermined second particle size range; and milling the first and fine streams to provide the glass powder product. Glass powder products, as well as systems for producing such glass powder products, are also provided.
US12139423B2
A vehicle including: (a) a water generator configured to generate water; (b) a water storage container configured to store the water that the water generator generates; (c) an ultraviolet light emitter configured to emit ultraviolet light into the water storage container; (d) a sensor configured to detect the ultraviolet light that the ultraviolet light emitter has emitted; and (e) a human-machine interface configured to issue a notification to a user of the vehicle regarding the ultraviolet light emitter. The sensor can detect a wavelength range of the ultraviolet light that the ultraviolet light emitter has emitted. The sensor can detect an intensity of the ultraviolet light at a predetermined wavelength or wavelength range that the ultraviolet light emitter has emitted. The vehicle further comprises a controller in communication with the ultraviolet light emitter, the sensor, and the human-machine interface.
US12139421B2
A process for preparing a granular composite adsorbent, that includes combining poly(diallyl dimethyl ammonium halide) and a clay mineral in water, maintaining the mixture under stirring, recovering a wet mass, forming the wet mass into granules and drying the granules to obtain the granular adsorbent having surface layer with positive zeta potential. The granular material and methods using the granular material in water treatment are also disclosed.
US12139416B2
The present invention relates to the new process of preparation of a Li-rich layered oxide based on Mn and optionally on Ni and/or Co in which F is incorporated within the crystal of the oxide (or “fluorinated oxide”). It also relates to the new fluorinated oxide its use as a component in a cathode of a battery.
US12139411B2
A method for forming hollow silica spheres by dissolving a hydrolyzable aryl silane in an aqueous solution of water and an acid to form a hydrolyzed silane solution, mixing the hydrolyzed silane solution with a hydroxide base to form a precipitate, and calcining the precipitate in a multi-stage calcination procedure that includes (a) heating to a first temperature of 180 to 240° C. with a first ramp rate of 3 to 10° C./min and holding the first temperature for 2 minutes to 2 hours, then (b) heating to a second temperature of 600 to 740° C. at a second ramp rate of 0.1 to 4° C./min, and holding the second temperature for 2 to 24 hours.
US12139406B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a substance with a modified carbon allotrope surface that can suppress or prevent uneven distribution, uneven orientation, and the like of a structural analysis target substance in a structural analysis by cryo-electron microscopy. A method for producing a substance with a modified carbon allotrope surface of the present invention includes: the step of surface-treating by reacting a carbon allotrope surface with a halogen oxide radical, wherein the carbon allotrope surface is modified by the surface-treating.
US12139405B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for hydrogen production as well as apparatuses useful in such systems and methods. Hydrogen is produced by steam reforming of a hydrocarbon in a gas heated reformer that is heated using one or more streams comprising combustion products of a fuel in an oxidant, preferably in the presence of a carbon dioxide circulating stream.
US12139402B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions of nitrites such as inorganic nitrites, or any pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, or prodrugs thereof, and the medical use of these compositions. The pharmaceutical compositions, which can be formulated for oral administration, can provide immediate release or extended release of the nitrite ion (NO2−). The pharmaceutical compositions of the invention are useful, for example, for treating or reducing pain, improving symptoms of a microvascular disease, and improving nerve conduction velocity.
US12139393B2
An arrangement with a container (3) having a container opening via which a storage medium (3) can be supplied to or removed from the container (3). The container opening can be sealed with a closure means and secured with a tamper-evident safeguard (9). The tamper-evident safeguard (9) has a safeguard body (10) with a lower part (13), and an upper part (12) that is displaceably mounted on the lower part (13), and a security seal (11). The latter is mounted on the safeguard body (10) fastened to the immersion pipe (4). When the tamper-evident safeguard (9) is released, there is relative movement between the upper part (12) and the lower part (13), by which a segment of the security seal (11) is separated and is guided into a receiving chamber (21) of the lower part (13).
US12139386B2
A container-handling apparatus, in particular a filling machine for filling cans or similar containers with liquid contents, has a first transporter for a container infeed, a downstream rotor with a plurality of handling positions for handling the containers, and a second transporter downstream of the rotor and forming a container outfeed. The second transporter is a chain conveyor with at least one guide finger having first and second guide portion, which receives the as yet unsealed containers and guides them by the first guide portion initially along a first, at least partially curved transport path portion, continuously in contact with a guide rail, before the second guide portion of the guide finger then conveys the container on a straight, second transport path portion along the container treatment path.
US12139385B2
Method to move containers (C) in a processing line (10) that comprises a station (11) for storing and picking up said containers (C) and a station (12) at least for filling said containers (C), said method providing, in said storage and pick-up station (11), to supply a container-holding tray (15) containing a plurality of said containers (C) disposed upended in said container-holding tray (15) with respect to their mouth (43), and subsequently to upend said containers (C) with the aid of upending means (20) so as to invert the orientation of said containers (C) and make them available with the side of the mouth (43) facing upward so that they can be picked up by extraction means (22).
US12139382B2
The aerial lift comprises a working platform 130 and a lifting structure 120 supporting the platform 130 on one side. At least three, preferably four, force sensors 41, 42 are interposed between the lifting structure 120 and the platform 130. The support interfaces for the force sensors 41, 42 are all situated on a side of the floor 131 of the platform 130 that is situated towards the side of the working platform on which it is supported by the lifting structure 120. Each of the force sensors 41, 42 is provided to measure the force exerted only in the vertical direction by the platform 130 on the support interface thereof when the floor of the working platform extends horizontally.
US12139377B2
A control unit performs a travel stop process for stopping travel of a travel unit in response to an indicator detection unit detecting a stop notice indicator section and then detecting a stop position indicator section. After the travel of the travel unit is stopped as a result of the travel stop process, the control unit performs a transfer process for causing a transfer unit to transfer an article. The control unit performs, instead of the transfer process, anomaly notification processing for providing a notification of an occurrence of an anomaly to a superordinate control unit, after the travel of the travel unit is stopped by the travel stop process, in response to: (i) a travel distance, from a position at which the indicator detection unit has detected the stop notice indicator section, being smaller than a determination distance smaller than a notice distance, and (ii) the indicator detection unit detecting the stop position indicator section.
US12139376B2
Based upon the identification of a structural member, a projective path and final attachment location for the structural member is presented to the crane operator. Further, the dimensions of each structural member are determined and compared against a construction site database. Structural members not conforming to the dimensions listed in the construction site database are identified and the crane operator alerted.
US12139368B2
The present disclosure describes a cable reel. The cable reel may include a hollow core having a width; a first wall coupled to an end of the core and extending radially outward a distance from the core, the first wall comprising an opening aligned with the hollow core and at least one support member extending across the opening; and a second wall coupled to an opposing end of the core and extending radially outwardly a distance from the core, the second wall comprising an opening aligned with the hollow core; wherein the first wall and the second wall form a gap therebetween equal to the width of the core, the gap being configured to hold a length of excess cable wrapped around the core. Cable reel covers are also described.
US12139364B2
A conveying system and a battery production system are provided. The conveying system is used for sheet conveying, and includes: a driving roller making contact with a sheet; and a press roller arranged correspondingly to the driving roller, the press roller abutting against at least part of the surface of the sheet facing away from the driving roller and pressing the sheet against the driving roller. The press roller includes: a main shaft with a central axis; at least one hollow rubber roller detachably sleeving the main shaft; and at least one pair of fixing clamp rings arranged on two sides of the hollow rubber roller along the central axis so as to fix the position of the hollow rubber roller on the main shaft along the central axis, where an outer diameter of the fixing clamp ring is less than that of the hollow rubber roller.
US12139359B1
A dump gate system having a pair of belts configured for rotation in opposite directions and spaced apart to define a gap between the belts. Fins extend outward from the belts. The fins may support an item in the gap when the belts are in a loading position. Each belt may have a tapered section extending from the top of the belt to a lower section of the belt. Each belt may taper toward the other belt in the tapered section to gradually reduce the width of a gap between the belts from the top of each belt to the lower section. The lower sections of the belts may be generally parallel to each other. A drive system may be configured to rotate the belts to move the fins from an initial loading position to a final loading position while items are fed into the gap for support by the fins.
US12139354B2
A de-stacking device includes a de-stacking element, a supporting element for supporting a lid stack, and a groove for receiving and discharging a separated lid. The groove is arranged on the de-stacking element and the supporting element. The de-stacking device further includes a separating element, which is arranged on a first end of the groove such that the lid can be separated from the lid stack and can be received by the groove.
US12139349B2
A product order fulfillment system including a multi-level transport system and a lifting transport system. Each level of the multi-level transport system having a corresponding independent asynchronous level transport system separate and distinct from the asynchronous level transport system corresponding to each other level of the multi-level transport system. Each independent lift axis of the lifting transport system being configured to independently hold at least one case and being communicably coupled to each asynchronous level transport system so as to provide for exchange of the at least one case between each asynchronous level transport system and each independent lift axis. Each independent lift axis is communicably coupled to each other independent lift axis of the more than one lift axis and forms a common output of mixed cases so as to create an ordered sequence of mixed cases in accordance to a predetermined case out ordered sequence.
US12139339B2
Disclosed are an unmanned distribution system and method. By means of the system, a temporary storage facility can be arranged at a preset location of a closed distribution area, for example, a corresponding temporary storage facility is arranged near a closed housing estate, community or unit; an external item to be distributed that needs to be distributed is received and temporarily stored by the arranged temporary storage facility; and a robot arranged inside the closed distribution area can obtain the item to be distributed from the temporary storage facility and distribute the item to be distributed within the closed distribution area.
US12139330B2
Throughout several portions of a refuse collection system, coupling between hydraulic cylinders to related mechanical components are achieved using bolt-in bushings. The bolt-in bushings allow for improved efficiency in the manufacturing process and allow for repairs to be easily carried out by having a cylindrical opening configured to receive an attachment pin and a main body that is configured to be inserted into openings within portions of related mechanical components. The main body has a flange that will support connection holes, thereby allowing for attachment to the operating components of the refuse collection vehicle.
US12139326B2
A waste container monitoring system may include a monitoring device configured to be positioned in a waste container, a remote processing system, and sensors to monitor conditions of the container. A communication connection communicates the one or more conditions to the remote processing system. A waste compactor monitoring system may include a monitoring assembly having a hub device and one or more sensors connected to the hub device and distributed around the waste compactor system, the one or more sensors being configured to monitor one or more conditions of the waste compactor system. A sensor assembly for a waste container monitoring system may connect to a hydraulic reservoir in a waste compactor. The sensor assembly may include a breather cap, a sensing element for detecting a level and/or a temperature of fluid in the hydraulic reservoir, and a dip tube to support the sensing element inside the hydraulic reservoir.
US12139312B2
The present disclosure is directed to various packaging devices or arrangements and the blanks configured to form the inner and outer packages that make up the devices. The blanks typically include a plurality of panels that are folded and bonded together to define a compartment when formed into a package. The compartment may be employed to store a consumable product, such as cartridges for an aerosol delivery device. Related methods for forming the blanks into the packages are also provided.
US12139301B2
A segmented shortwise container volume apparatus that includes a primary base, a primary surrounding sidewall with an interior, a primary cap with an aperture and a sealing plug, a secondary base, a secondary surrounding sidewall with an interior, a secondary cap with an aperture and a sealing plug, and a sleeve element having a first end portion and an opposing second end portion, the sleeve element having a sleeve outer surface and an opposing sleeve inner surface, wherein the sleeve inner surface is slid over the primary and secondary surrounding sidewalls to hold the primary and secondary bases adjacent to one another, creating a single container with two separate interiors, being the primary and secondary interiors.
US12139289B2
The invention relates to a system and a method for manufacturing a medical package, in particular a foil bag made of plastic. A print image with variable information is first applied by means of a thermal transfer printer which is formed as a negative print image and comprises blank spaces. The blank spaces are filled by means of a hot stamp printing process.
US12139286B2
Example embodiments relate to a system for filling a stand-up pouch. The system includes a pouch fill injector having a pouch fill spout, a seal jaw assembly having a first jaw and second jaw with receiving areas to interface with the pouch fill tube, and a pouch opening device to open an end of a pouch. Unlike prior art systems, the system of example embodiments does not require a vacuum assist to fill a stand-up pouch.
US12139285B2
A system for evacuating and sealing containers filled with product, for example, food product, includes an enclosed, sealed housing wherein the pressure level and the atmospheric content can be controlled. A vacuum shroud is positioned in registry with a container entrance opening in the housing, the shroud connectible to a vacuum source and to a source of replaceable gas to replace the ambient air to be removed from the container. The shroud is advanceable to seal the container entrance opening and is retractable from the container entrance opening. A container transport system inserts the container through the housing entrance opening and into the shroud. Thereupon, a sealing system seals the housing from the ambient after the container has been inserted into the shroud. After the air in the container has been replaced with an inert gas and then the shroud retracted, a closure subsystem applies a cover to the evacuated container. Thereafter, an out feed subsystem removes the closed container from the housing while maintaining the atmospheric content and pressure level within the housing.
US12139284B2
The present invention involves a rotary peristaltic pump and associated method employing the relaxation of pressure on flexible tubing between the rotor and stator of the pump to restore the rotor to a start angle while a valve on the output of the pump is closed to avoid progress of fluid through the system. Three different implementations of the pump and method are presented including reciprocating the stator, reciprocating the rotor, and retracting the idler rollers of the rotor into the rotor to relieve the pressure on the flexible tubing. A controller ensures the appropriate switching and timing of the valve and rotor of the pump. The pump and associated method are directed to the precision dispensing of pharmaceutical fluids into containers, including containers held in container nests.
US12139279B1
A visual inspection posable invertebrate robot (VIPIR) borescope camera system can inspect components in difficult to reach locations. The system enables dexterous robotic inspection of worksites and areas that were heretofore impossible to inspect via extravehicular activities (EVA) and fixed situational awareness cameras. VIPIR may include: (1) a main drive assembly; (2) a reel system; (3) a video borescope assembly (VBA); (4) an enhanced motorized zoom lens (EMZL); (5) a fixed camera assembly (FCA); (6) a support structure; and/or (7) a main electronics box (MEB).
US12139271B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide fuel receptacle and boom tip position and pose estimation for aerial refueling. A video frame is received and within the video frame, aircraft keypoints for an aircraft to be refueled are determined. Based on at least the aircraft keypoints, a position and pose of a fuel receptacle on the aircraft is determined. Within the video frame, a boom tip keypoint for a boom tip of an aerial refueling boom is also determined. Based on at least the boom tip keypoint, a position and pose of the boom tip is determined. Based on at least the position and pose of the fuel receptacle and the position and pose of the boom tip, the aerial refueling boom is controlled to engage the fuel receptacle. Some examples overlay projections of an aircraft model on displayed video for a human observer.
US12139261B2
According to one implementation, a propulsion system includes a rotor, a motor and an anti-icing mechanism. The rotor has blades. The motor rotates the rotor. The anti-icing mechanism deices the blades using heat generated by driving of the motor. Further, according to one implementation, an aircraft includes the above-mentioned propulsion system. Further, according to one implementation, an anti-icing method of a rotor having blades includes deicing the blades using heat generated by driving of a motor for rotating the rotor.
US12139260B2
An environmental control system includes a plurality of inlets for receiving a plurality of mediums including a first medium and a second medium and an outlet for delivering a conditioned flow of the second medium to one or more loads of the aircraft. A ram air circuit includes a ram air shell having at least one heat exchanger positioned therein and a compressing device is arranged in fluid communication with the ram air circuit and the outlet. The compressing device includes a compressor and at least one turbine operably coupled via a shaft. The environmental control system is operable in a first mode and a second mode. In the second mode, a pressure of the second medium output from the compressor is equal to the pressure of the second medium provided to the outlet.
US12139253B1
Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for controlling a tiltrotor aircraft using a flight control system. A flight control computer is configured to control aircraft effectors in response to inputs from inceptors. The flight control computer stores instructions for controlling aircraft effectors. The instructions cause the flight control computer to perform the steps of converting a signal representing longitudinal motion of a first inceptor into a fore-and-aft translational rate command for the tiltrotor aircraft; converting a signal representing lateral motion of the first inceptor into a side-to-side translational rate command for the tiltrotor aircraft; converting a signal representing longitudinal motion of a second inceptor into a height rate command for the tiltrotor aircraft; and converting a signal representing lateral motion of the second inceptor to a yaw rate command for the tiltrotor aircraft.
US12139245B1
A trolling motor secondary mount for mounting a trolling motor to the squared off bow of a boat such as a pontoon. The secondary mount allows the trolling motor to be stored in a travelling or stowed position wherein the lengthwise shaft of the trolling motor aligns parallel with the squared off end of the bow, while the primary trolling motor mount allows the trolling motor to be rotated into the water at a mid portion of the bow of the boat.
US12139240B2
An outboard motor that has an actuator and a gear change mechanism. The outboard motor also comprises an operation position sensor that detects the operation position of an operation part, a shift position detection unit that detects the actual shift position of the gear shift mechanism, an actuator detection unit that detects the state of the actuator, and a control device. The control device performs failure determination or drive control of the actuator on the basis of at least two pieces of the detected information.
US12139237B2
Disclosed is an air supply system for supplying air to an outside of a hull of a vessel, the vessel holding a combustion engine. The air supply system comprises one or more air discharge units (ADUs) for releasing compressed air to an outside of the hull below a waterline of the vessel. The air supply system comprises a plurality of turbocharger(s) for supplying a compressed air flow to the combustion engine of the vessel via a first flow path. The plurality of turbochargers each comprises a turbine configured to be driven by an exhaust gas flow of the combustion engine and a compressor connected to the turbine and comprising an inlet for receiving air and an outlet for providing the compressed air flow to the first flow path. The plurality of turbochargers comprises a first turbocharger and a second turbocharger arranged in series with the compressor of the second turbocharger being downstream of the compressor of the first turbocharger in the first flow path. The air supply system comprises a first sub-path and a second sub-path branching off the first flow path and supplying the sub-flow of air to the ADUs. The first sub-path branches off from the first flow path downstream of the first turbocharger and upstream of the second turbocharger and wherein the second sub-path branches off from the first flow path downstream of both the first turbocharger and the second turbocharger.
US12139236B1
A foil displacement system includes one or more foils that can be deployed and stowed. When deployed, each foil can exert downforce or uplift depending on its orientation. For example, each foil may be positioned to have an angle of attack that creates a downward force effectively transmitted to the hull to pull the hull deeper within the water to, for example, create a larger wake. Use of the foil displacement system can enhance or replace the use of a ballast tank system, can be integrated into a new boat or retrofitted to existing boats, can be electronically or manually positioned, can enhance activities such as wake surfing, wake boarding, water skiing or other similar or related water sports.
US12139231B2
A hydraulic shock absorber includes: a cylinder that has an opening portion in a side wall surface on an axle side thereof; a reservoir that stores oil; a control unit that generates a damping force; and a movement prevention member at least a part of which is disposed outside the cylinder and on a vehicle body side of the opening portion, and that obstructs the oil from moving from the axle side to the vehicle body side.
US12139224B2
An arrangement of the column (1) neutralising transient forces (C1, EA1) generated by a jolt to which the column (1) is subjected, by an automatic decoupling between two coaxial sections (1a, 1b) of the column (1). This decoupling is caused by angular movement of a coupling link (5) between the sections (1a, 1b), preventing transmission of the forces (C1, EA1) by a distal section (1a) to a proximal section (1b) of the column (1). Simultaneously with the decoupling, a compression is also caused of a prestressed elastic mounting region (6a) between the sections (1a, 1b), the jolt then no longer being absorbed by the driver but by the compression of the elastic region. The decoupling is followed by an automatic re-coupling between the two sections (1a, 1b) under the effect of the relaxing of the elastic region (6a).
US12139222B2
A torque sensor can measure torque introduced into an upper shaft that is rotatable around a longitudinal axis and is connectable to a lower shaft via a torsion rod. A first component is connectable to the upper shaft, and a second component is connectable to the lower shaft. The components have surfaces that protrude in a longitudinal direction and at least partially overlap. A sensor coil that can generate a high-frequency alternating magnetic field is arranged on one of the surfaces of one component, and a metallic element is arranged on one of the surfaces of the other component. A torque introduced into the upper shaft causes a change in distance between the sensor coil and the metallic element. A device can measure a frequency change of the alternating magnetic field caused by the change in distance and determine the torque introduced into the upper shaft.
US12139220B2
A method is for operating a steering system, more particularly a steer-by-wire steering system. The steering system includes at least one wheel steering angle control element which is provided to influence and/or change a wheel steering angle of at least one vehicle wheel depending on a target specification signal correlated with a steering specification. The wheel steering angle control element has a limited maximum wheel steering angle control range for changing the wheel steering angle, and the target specification signal is limited by a saturation to the maximum wheel steering angle control range. The target specification signal is modified in such a manner that the, more particularly modified, target specification signal has a constant and differentiable curve at least in an edge range of the wheel steering angle control range.
US12139212B2
The present disclosure relates to a power assist control apparatus and a power assist control method. The power assist control apparatus according to the present disclosure comprises: a main motor driven at a first rotation speed; a sub-motor driven at a second rotation speed; and a controller which receives steering information from a steering wheel to calculate a target rotation speed value of an output shaft, and controls the main motor and the sub-motor such that the output shaft is rotated at the target rotation speed.
US12139206B2
Described is a rotation limitation module for a steer-by-wire steering system. Said rotation limitation module comprises a housing in which a shaft portion that is rotatable about a central axis and is able to be rotatably coupled to a steering wheel shaft or is configured as a portion of the steering wheel shaft is received. Furthermore provided is a limiter disk which by way of a sliding guide is coupled in a rotationally fixed and axially displaceable manner to the shaft portion and has an external thread which is driven into an internal thread of the housing. Moreover, the rotation limitation module comprises a first detent ring having a first detent wing, and a second detent ring having a second detent wing, both detent wings for limiting a rotation of the shaft portion being able to cooperate with the limiter disk. A steering wheel module for a steer-by-wire steering system is also disclosed, which comprises such a rotation limitation module.
US12139204B2
A work vehicle is provided with a body, a driver section and an air conditioner, and the air conditioner is supported by the body and located on a side of the body.
US12139194B2
The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for automatically detecting internally blocked rear and side view mirrors. An example method to detect an obstruction may include detecting via sensors in the vehicle an obstruction preventing a driver from viewing a region of interest associated with a mirror, determining a permanence associated with the obstruction, and switching to a camera mode in lieu of the mirror when the obstruction has a permanence beyond a threshold.
